SEC Company Response from GeoVax Labs, Inc. (GOVX) (CIK 0000832489) (GOVX) — Dec 19, 2006
GeoVax Labs, Inc. (GOVX) (CIK 0000832489)
Date: Dec. 19, 2006 · CIK: 0000832489 · Accession: 0001096906-06-001615
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File numbers found in text: 000-52091
Referenced dates: November 24, 2006
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Correspondence
December
19, 2006
VIA
EDGAR AND OVERNIGHT COURIER
Stephen
Krikorian, Accounting Branch Chief
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
100
F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
GeoVax
Labs, Inc.
Form
10-Q
for the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2006
Your
File
No.: 000-52091
Dear
Mr.
Krikorian,
This
letter is in response to your letter dated November 24, 2006, which GeoVax
Labs,
Inc. (the “Company”) received on December 5, 2006.
Notes
to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements.
We
note that you have provided a portion of the footnote disclosures required
by
paragraph 30 of APB 28 in your critical accounting policies and estimates
discussion contained within Item 2 of your report. Please tell us your
consideration of providing the disclosure required by paragraph 30 of APB
28 in
the footnotes to your financial statements. In addition, please ensure to
provide all the disclosures required by paragraph 30 of APB 28 in all future
filings.
In
response to comment number 1, we have reviewed our disclosures in both the
critical accounting policies and estimates discussion contained within Item
2 of
the report, as well as in the financial statement footnotes. Although we
believe
that our footnote disclosures are in compliance in all material respects
with
paragraph 30 of APB 28, in response to your comment we have added a short
paragraph to Note 1 disclosing the adoption of SFAS123R, and directing the
reader to Note 2 for further discussion.
In
future
filings, we will continue to ensure that all disclosures required by paragraph
30 of APB 28 will be made in our interim financial statements and footnotes
thereto.
Note
2. Stock-Based Compensation, page 6
Your
disclosure indicates you have adopted SFAS 123R utilizing the
modified-prospective transition method. However, it appears that prior to
adopting SFAS 123R, you used the minimum value method of measuring equity
share
options for purposes of complying with SFAS 123. Therefore, it appears you
are
required to adopt SFAS 123R using the prospective method pursuant to paragraph
83 of SFAS 123R. In addition, clarify how your pro forma disclosure for
outstanding awards accounted for under the intrinsic value method of APB
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complies with paragraph 85 of SFAS 123R. Please advise or revise as
appropriate.
Stephen
Krikorian, Accounting Branch Chief
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
December
19, 2006
Page
2
In
response to comment number 2, we have examined our accounting practices with
regard to adoption of SFAS 123R and determined that the prospective application
method is the proper transition method. We are therefore amending our Form
10-Q
to reflect the adoption of SFAS 123R using the prospective transition method
rather than the modified-prospective method.
Following
up on our recent telephone conversation about this comment, we have also
considered the requirements of Item 4.02 of Form 8-K. The changes to the
financial statements in our amended filing are not of the type that have
led us
to conclude that any previously issued financial statements should no longer
be
relied upon because of an error of the kind contemplated under Item 4.02.
We
would be happy to provide the Staff with our analysis of this issue upon
request.
In
making
this response to your comments, the Company acknowledges that:
(1) it
is
responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in its
filings;
(2) staff
comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose
the Securities and Exchange Commission from taking any action with respect
to
the filing; and
(3) the
Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated
by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any person under the federal
securities laws of the United States.
Please
do
not hesitate to contact the undersigned with any additional comments you
may
have.
Very
truly yours,
GEOVAX
LABS, INC.
By:
/s/ Mark W.
Reynolds
Mark
W. Reynolds
Chief
Financial Officer