SEC Company Response from GeoVax Labs, Inc. (GOVX) (CIK 0000832489) (GOVX) — Jan 26, 2007
GeoVax Labs, Inc. (GOVX) (CIK 0000832489)
Date: Jan. 26, 2007 · CIK: 0000832489 · Accession: 0001096906-07-000185
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File numbers found in text: 000-52091
Referenced dates: January 16, 2007
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Geovax Labs, Inc. Correspondence
January
26, 2007
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 January 16, 2007, which GeoVax
Labs,
Inc. (the “Company”) received by fascimile.
Form
10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2006
Notes
to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements
Note
2. Stock-Based Compensation, page 6
1. We
note from your response to prior comment number 2 that you are restating
your
financial statements for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2006 to
adopt
SFAS 123(R) using the prospective method instead of the modified-prospective
method. We further note your disclosure of the restatement on pages 5 and
6 of
your Form 10-Q/A for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2006. Please
revise to disclose the effect of the correction on each financial statement
line
item for each prior period presented pursuant to paragraph 26a of SFAS 154.
In
addition, please consider disclosing the periods that have been restated
on the
face of your financial statements. This can be accomplished by identifying
the
financial statement columns that have been restated on the face of your
financial statements.
In
response to your comment number 1, we have amended our Form 10-Q to add the
additional disclosures required by paragraph 26a of SFAS 154. Pursuant to
your
suggestion, we have also identified the restated periods on the face of our
financial statements.
2. Your
response to prior comment number 2 also indicates that you have concluded
your
previously issued financial statements for the nine-month period ended September
30, 2006 can be relied upon and therefore you do not believe you are required
to
file an Item 4.02 Form 8-K. Please provide us with your analysis supporting
this
conclusion. If it is not already included in your prepared analysis, please
tell
us how you considered the fact that your net loss for the nine-months ended
September 30, 2006 was overstated by approximately 18% in your previously
issued
financial statements when arriving at this conclusion. That is, clarify how
you
determined that your previously issued financial statements can be relied
upon
when they contain a material error that has to be corrected by restating
the
financial statements. If you conclude that your financial statements for
the
nine-month period ended September 30, 2006 cannot be relied upon due to the
existence of this material error, please file an Item 4.02 Form
8-K.
GeoVax Labs Inc. –
1256 Briarcliff Road –
Atlanta Georgia 30306 USA –
404.727.0971 tel –
404.712.9357 fax –
www.geovax.com
We
reached the conclusion that our financial statements for the nine months
ended
September 30, 2006 prior to our restatement can be relied upon, and therefore
we
are not required to file an Item 4.02 Form 8-K, based primarily on the following
considerations:
(a)
The
error correction had no impact on our financial position as reflected
on
our Balance Sheet. On the Balance Sheet the correction was confined
to the
equity section, so that there was no change to Assets, Liabilities
or
Total Stockholders’ Equity.
(b)
The
correction had no impact on our total cash flows from operating
activities, investing activities, or financing activities as reported
in
our Statements of Cash Flows
(c)
The
correction did not change basic or diluted loss per
share.
To
summarize, our overriding consideration in reaching our conclusion was the
non-cash nature of the expense item affected by the correction, which give
rise
to the observations mentioned in (a) and (b) above. Our conclusion is also
driven by recognition of the nature of our company - the fact that we are
a
research and development biotechnology company which is currently not generating
revenues, that we are incurring substantial losses and will continue to do
so
for the foreseeable future. Investors in companies’ such as GeoVax are typically
focused more on financial condition and cash flow (or cash “burn”), and not on
net profit or loss. We should mention here also that, in response to a portion
of your comment, we did recognize the size of the change in proportion to
our
previously provided net loss (18%); but that in light of our previous
assessments, and the fact that the correction decreased our net loss rather
than
increased it, we have reached the same conclusion.
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. Additional correspondence may be faxed to 404-712-9357
Very
truly yours,
GEOVAX
LABS, INC.
By:
/s/ Mark W.
Reynolds
Mark
W. Reynolds
Chief
Financial Officer