SEC Comment Letter for NOFIRE TECHNOLOGIES INC (CIK 0000823070) — Feb 8, 2005
NOFIRE TECHNOLOGIES INC (CIK 0000823070)
Date: Feb. 8, 2005 · CIK: 0000823070 · Accession: 0000000000-05-006314
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Mail Stop 0510
February 8, 2005
via U.S. mail and facsimile
Mr. Sam Oolie
Chief Financial Officer
NoFire Technologies, Inc.
21 Industrial Avenue
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
RE: Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2004
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended November 30, 2004
File No. 1-11061
Dear Mr. Oolie:
We have reviewed these filings and have the following
comments.
If you disagree with a comment, we will consider your explanation
as
to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary.
Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some
of
our comments, we may ask you to provide us with supplemental
information so we may better understand your disclosure. After
reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional
comments.
Please understand that the purpose of our review process is
to
assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure
requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing.
We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome
any questions you may have about our comments or on any other
aspect
of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers
listed
at the end of this letter.
FORM 10-KSB FOR THE YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 2004
Comments applicable to your overall filing
1. Where a comment below requests additional disclosures or other
revisions to be made, please show us in your supplemental response
what the revisions will look like. With the exception of the
comments below that specifically request an amendment, all other
revisions may be included in your future filings.
Item 6 - Management`s Discussion and Analysis
Results of Operations for Fiscal Years Ended August 31, 2004 and
2003, page 11
2. Please discuss the business reasons for the changes between
periods in your income (loss) from operations. In doing so,
please
disclose the amount of each significant change in line items
between
periods and the business reasons for it. In circumstances where
there is more than one business reason for the change, attempt to
quantify the incremental impact of each individual business reason
discussed on the overall change in the line item. Please show us
what your revised MD&A for the year ended August 31, 2004 as
compared
to the year ended August 31, 2003 will look like. See Item
303(b)(1)
of Regulation S-B and Financial Reporting Codification 501.04.
Item 9 - Directors and Executive Officers, page 14
3. Please disclose whether you have adopted a code of ethics. If
you
have not adopted a code of ethics, please disclose why you have
not
done so. See Item 406 of Regulation S-B.
4. You state on page 22 that you did not have an audit committee
during fiscal 2004 or 2003. However, on page 15 you state that
your
audit committee is comprised of Mr. Litwin and Mr. Koster. Please
clarify this apparent discrepancy.
5. Please disclose if you have designated a person as a financial
expert. See Item 401(e) of Regulation S-B.
Item 10 - Executive Compensation, page 16
6. Please help us understand why the 2004 salary paid and salary
deferred amounts for Samuel Gottfried and Sam Oolie do not total
$213,000, the annual compensation amounts disclosed on page 17.
7. You disclose on page 20 that officers deferred a total of
$814,015
of their salaries. This deferral, in addition to accrued interest
of
$79,973, was converted to a debenture on August 30, 2004.
However,
deferred salary amounts are still presented in the Summary
Compensation Table, and you state that deferred salaries are
payable
when revenues or financings permit payment. Are these deferred
salaries separate from the deferred salaries that were converted
to a
debenture? Please revise your disclosures to clarify.
Item 11 - Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and
Management, page 18
8. Please disclose your equity plan information in the format
required by Item 201(d) of Regulation S-B.
Item 14 - Principal Accountant Fees and Services, page 22
9. Please disclose, under the captions Audit Fees and Audit-
Related
Fees, the aggregate fees billed in each of the last two fiscal
years.
Also, please describe the nature of the services comprising the
fees
disclosed under these categories.
10. You currently have a caption titled Tax and Other Fees.
Please
present, for the last two fiscal years, fees billed for tax-
related
services under a caption titled Tax Fees, and present fees billed
for
all other services under a caption titled All Other Fees. Also,
please describe the nature of the services comprising the fees
disclosed under these categories.
Certifications
11. Disclosure controls and procedures are now defined in Exchange
Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). See SEC Release 33-8238, which
became effective August 14, 2003. Please file an amendment to
your
Form 10-KSB to include recently dated certifications that conform
to
the format provided in Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-B and refer
to
the appropriate locations for the definitions. In doing so,
please
refile the Form 10-KSB in its entirety. Please also ensure that
you
actually file these certifications as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to
the
Form 10-KSB, rather than just including them in the body of the
Form
itself.
Item 7 - Financial Statements
12. Please amend your Form 10-KSB to include audited statements of
income, cash flows, and changes in stockholders` equity for the
year
ended August 31, 2003. See Item 310(a) of Regulation S-B.
13. Please disclose the amount of research and development costs
you
have incurred for the fiscal years ended August 31, 2004 and 2003.
See paragraph 13 of SFAS 2. Also see paragraph 11 of SFAS 2 for
examples of elements that should be identified with research and
development activities.
Statement of Cash Flows, page F-6
14. Please clarify, if true, that you had no cash flows from
investing activities during the years ended August 31, 2004 and
2003.
See paragraphs 15-17 of SFAS 95.
Note 1 - Nature of the Business and Summary of Significant
Accounting
Policies, page F-7
15. Please disclose your revenue recognition policy. In doing so,
please also disclose whether your stated shipping terms are FOB
shipping point or FOB destination pursuant to your sales
agreements
with customers. In addition, please disclose whether your sales
agreements contain right of inspection or acceptance provisions
and
whether you replace goods damaged or lost in transit. Even if
your
sales agreements state that title passes upon shipment, customer
acceptance provisions or a history of your replacing goods damaged
or
lost in transit may also make the recognition of revenue upon
delivery to and acceptance by the customer more appropriate. See
the
Interpretive Response to Question 3 of SAB Topic 13:A.3.b.
16. Please disclose the types of expenses that you include in the
cost of sales line item and the types of expenses that you include
in
the general and administrative expenses line item. Please also
disclose whether you include inbound freight charges, purchasing
and
receiving costs, inspection costs, warehousing costs, internal
transfer costs, and the other costs of your distribution network
in
the cost of sales line item. With the exception of warehousing
costs, if you currently exclude a portion of these costs from cost
of
sales, please disclose:
* in a footnote the line items that these excluded costs are
included
in and the amounts included in each line item for each period
presented, and
* in MD&A that your gross margins may not be comparable to those
of
other entities, since some entities include all of the costs
related
to their distribution network in cost of sales and others like you
exclude a portion of them from gross margin, including them
instead
in a line item, such as general and administrative expenses.
Note 5 - Loans Payable, page F-11
17. For each issuance of debt with warrants, please provide us
with
the assumptions you used in determining your accounting treatment,
as
well as the related computations. Please also tell us what
accounting literature you referenced in supporting your
conclusion.
Note 7 - Convertible Debentures, page F-13
18. For each issuance of convertible debentures, please provide us
with the assumptions you used in determining your accounting
treatment, as well as the related computations. Please also tell
us
what accounting literature you referenced in supporting your
conclusion. Please also disclose the day one accounting related
to
these issuances, any additional amortization related to the
beneficial conversion feature, and any discounts that resulted
from
the allocation of the proceeds between the debt and the warrants.
19. Please show us your calculations for computing the beneficial
conversion feature related to the 8% convertible debenture you
issued
on August 30, 2004.
20. Please disclose how you accounted for the warrants that were
issued as part of the conversion of debt agreement. Please also
provide us supplementally with the related computations.
Note 8 - Commitments and Contingencies, page F-14
21. In relation to the consulting agreement with Admiral Retz,
please
disclose how you accounted for the warrants to purchase 100,000
shares of common stock.
Note 10 - Income Taxes, page F-15
22. Please disclose how you accounted for the sales of a portion
of
your state net operating loss carry forwards. Please also tell us
what accounting literature you referenced in supporting your
conclusion.
Note 12 - Warrants, page F-15
23. You present a table that summarizes warrant data such as
number
of outstanding warrants and weighted-average remaining life in
years.
However, you state that the data is as of August 31, 2003. Please
clarify that this information is as of August 31, 2004.
24. You recorded the $90,000 gain on repricing of certain warrants
as
a reduction of the related interest expense from the original
issuance of these warrants. Please tell us what accounting
literature you referenced to support this accounting treatment.
25. For each issuance of warrants, please disclose the fair value
of
the warrants at the date of issuance, and the reason for issuance.
Please also disclose whether you used the Black-Scholes model for
your issuances of warrants to non-employees, including the
assumptions you used.
26. In relation to the receipt of $54,652 in exchange for a note
and
warrants, please disclose how you accounted for the warrants,
including the literature you cited. In addition, please disclose
what accounting literature you cited to support your accounting
for
the value of the shares of $14,000.
27. Please clarify whether the number of warrants that expired in
the
year ended August 31, 2004 was 7,489,705, as disclosed in your
table
on page F-15, or 5,542,156, as disclosed in your narrative on page
F-
17. Please revise your disclosure, as necessary.
28. For the following issuances of warrants, please tell us your
accounting treatment, related computations, and the literature
that
you referenced to support your accounting treatment:
* July 2003 issuance of warrants to purchase a total of 1,475,000
shares of common stock
* August 2004 issuance of warrants to purchase 1,650,000 shares of
common stock for the receipt of $100,000 in debt
In addition, please disclose the fair value of the warrants at the
date of issuance, and the reason for issuance.
Exhibit 1
29. Your certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-
Oxley
Act of 2002 should be listed as Exhibit 32 and not Exhibit 1. See
Item 601 of Regulation S-B. Please also ensure that you actually
file these certifications as Exhibit 32 to the Form 10-KSB, rather
than just including them in the body of the Form itself.
FORM 10-QSB FOR THE PERIOD ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 2004
Comments applicable to your overall filing
30. Please address the above comments in your interim filings as
well.
Item 1 - Financial Statements
Note 5 - Convertible Debentures, page 12
31. For the issuance of convertible debentures, please provide us
with the assumptions you used in determining your accounting
treatment, as well as the related computations. Please also tell
us
what accounting literature you referenced in supporting your
conclusion. Please also disclose the day one accounting related
to
these issuances and any discounts that resulted from the
allocation
of the proceeds between the debt and the warrants.
Item 8A - Controls and Procedures, page 14
32. In the Form 10-QSB, this information should be presented in
Item
3 and not Item 8A. In addition, you state that you conducted an
evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of
your
disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period
covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB. Please amend your
Form
10-QSB to state that the evaluation was conducted as of the end of
the period covered by your report on Form 10-QSB.
Certifications
33. Disclosure controls and procedures are now defined in Exchange
Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). See SEC Release 33-8238, which
became effective August 14, 2003. Please file an amendment to
your
Form 10-QSB to include recently dated certifications that conform
to
the format provided in Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-B and refer
to
the appropriate locations for the definitions. In doing so,
please
refile the Form 10-QSB in its entirety. Please also ensure that
you
actually file these certifications as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to
the
Form 10-QSB, rather than just including them in the body of the
Form
itself.
* * * *
Please respond to these comments within 10 business days, or
tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please provide
us
with a supplemental response letter that keys your responses to
our
comments and provides any requested supplemental information.
Detailed letters greatly facilitate our review. Please file your
supplemental response on EDGAR as a correspondence file. Please
understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing
your
responses to our comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to
be
certain that they have provided all information investors require
for
an informed decision. Since the company and its management are in
possession of all facts relating to a company`s disclosure, they
are
responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they
have made.
In connection with responding to our comments, please
provide,
in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that:
* the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in their filings;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action
with
respect to the filing; and
* the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any
proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the
federal securities laws of the United States.
In addition, please be advised that the Division of
Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff
of
the Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filing
or
in response to our comments on your filing.
If you have any questions regarding these comments, please
direct them to Jeffrey Gordon, Staff Accountant, at (202) 824-5685
or, in his absence, to the undersigned at (202) 942-1774.
Sincerely,
Rufus Decker
Accounting Branch Chief
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Mr. Sam Oolie
February 8, 2005
Page 1 of 8
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-0510
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
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