SEC Comment Letter for MTS MEDICATION TECHNOLOGIES, — Aug 11, 2005
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Mail Stop 6010
August 11, 2005
Mr. Michael Branca
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
MTS Medication Technologies, Inc.
2003 Gandy Boulevard North, Suite 800
St. Petersburg, Florida 33702
RE: MTS Medication Technologies, Inc.
Form 10-K for the period ending March 31, 2005
Form 8-K dated July 27, 2005
Filed July 27, 2005
File No. 1-31578
Dear Mr.Branca:
We have reviewed your filings and have the following
comments.
We have limited our review of your filings to those issues we have
addressed in our comments. Where indicated, we think you should
revise your document in future filings in response to these
comments.
If you disagree, 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 information so we may better
understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we
may
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-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures, page 21
1. We note your disclosure that your "CEO and CFO concluded that
the
(y)our disclosure controls and procedures are designed, and are
effective, to ensure that information required to be disclosed in
reports we file and submit under the Exchange Act is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported as when required." Revise
future
filings to clarify, if true, that your officers concluded that
your
disclosure controls and procedures are also effective to ensure
that
information required to be disclosed in the reports that you file
or
submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to
your
management, including your chief executive officer and chief
financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure. See Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e).
Form 8-K filed July 27, 2005
2. We note that you present your non-GAAP measures in the form of
pro
forma statements of operations. That format may be confusing to
investors as it also reflects several non-GAAP measures, including
pro forma operating profit, pro forma cost and expenses, pro forma
income (loss) before income taxes and pro forma net income (loss),
which have not been identified and described to investors. In
addition, you have not explained your purpose for presenting non-
GAAP
operational measures that are the same as the GAAP amounts. Please
note that Instruction 2 to Item 2.02 of Form 8-K requires that
when
furnishing information under this item you must provide all the
disclosures required by paragraph (e)(1)(i) of Item 10 of
Regulation
S-K and Question 8 of the FAQ Regarding the Use of Non-GAAP
Financial
Measures dated June 13, 2003 , including a reconciliation to the
directly comparable GAAP measure for each non-GAAP measure
presented.
a) To eliminate investor confusion, please remove the non-GAAP
statements of operation format from future filings and instead
only
disclose those non-GAAP measures used by management with the
appropriate reconciliations.
b) Otherwise, confirm that you will revise your Forms 8-K in
future
periods to provide all the disclosures required by Item
10(e)(1)(i)
of Regulation S-K for each non-GAAP measure presented in the
statement, and provide us with a sample
3. In addition, we note that you refer to your non-GAAP
information
as "pro forma" results. The pro forma terminology has very
specific
meaning in accounting literature, as indicated by Article 11 of
Regulation S-X. In future filings, please revise your presentation
to
omit the pro forma terminology when referring to your non-GAAP
information.
* * * *
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that they
have
provided all information investors require. 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 the filings;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments in the filings reviewed by the staff 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.
As appropriate, please respond to these comments within 10
business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response.
Please furnish a cover letter with your response that keys your
responses to our comments and provides any requested information.
Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. Please file
your cover letter on EDGAR. Please understand that we may have
additional comments after reviewing your responses to our
comments.
You may contact Dennis Hult, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-
3618 or myself if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact me at
(202)
551-3554 with any other questions. In this regard, do not
hesitate
to contact Martin James, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant, at
(202)
551-3671.
Sincerely,
Angela J. Crane
Branch Chief
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Michael Branca
MTS Medication Technologies, Inc.
August 11, 2005
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