SEC Company Response from MAGNITUDE INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC (CIK 0000838796) — Oct 7, 2005
MAGNITUDE INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC (CIK 0000838796)
Date: Oct. 7, 2005 · CIK: 0000838796 · Accession: 0001144204-05-031218
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Joseph J. Tomasek, Esq.
77 North Bridge Street
Somerville, New Jersey 08876
October 7, 2005
FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE
OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ONLY
VIA EDGAR, TELECOPY AND OVERNIGHT DELIVERY
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Mail Stop 4561
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20005
Attention: Ms. Kathleen Collins
Accounting Branch Chief
RE: Magnitude Information Systems, Inc.
Form 10-KSB for the Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, 2004
Filed March 30, 2005
File No. 000-32485
Dear Ms. Collins:
I serve as General Counsel to Magnitude Information Systems, Inc. (the
"Company"). After meetings with management of the Company and its auditors, the
Company has prepared responses to the Staff's comment letter to the Company,
dated September 8, 2005. We are filing this correspondence via EDGAR as required
by Rule 101 of Regulation S-T as well as mailing three (3) hard copies together
with the Staff's September 8, 2005 comment letter by overnight delivery and
telecopying one (1) copy for the Staff's convenience. Please note the Company's
following responses, keyed to the Staff's comments in its September 8, 2005
letter:
Consolidated Statements of Operations, page 3
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1. We note your inclusion of stock-based compensation in total operating
expenses in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Stock-based
compensation must be allocated to the appropriate expense category
to which it relates. For example, stock compensation relating to
employees whose salaries are otherwise reflected as cost of goods
sold must be reflected as cost of revenue. The amount may be shown
parenthetically within the category or as a separate line item of
the category. Stock-based compensation relating to other operating
expenses such as research and development or selling, general and
administrative can continue to be shown as one line item with
footnote disclosures indicating the breakdown or you can revise to
include parenthetical disclosures similar to cost of revenues.
Conforming changes should be made to selected financial data and all
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Ms. Kathleen Collins
October 7, 2005
Page 2
other relevant sections of the filing. Tell us how you considered
this guidance when preparing your financial statements..
Please be advised that the Company did not reflect any stock based
compensation issued during fiscal year 2004 as costs of goods sold and
that such compensation was exclusively reflected in selling, general
and administrative expenses for this period and is shown as a one line
item in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Please see the
Company's response to Staff comment two below in connection with its
intended revisions to the applicable footnote disclosures. The Company
believes, therefore, that it has properly reflected the stock based
compensation paid during fiscal/calendar year 2004 as a one line item
under selling, general and administrative expense in its Consolidated
Statements of Operations contained in the audited financial statements
and filed with the Commission as part of its Form 10-KSB for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2004.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
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Securities Issued for Services, page 10
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2. We note you apply a 50% discount when determining the fair value of
options/warrants (using the Black Scholes pricing model) issued to
non-employees for services due to the trading nature of your stock.
Tell us why you believe this discount is appropriate and tell us how
you determined the amount of such discount. Also, provide the specific
accounting literature that supports your conclusions with regards to
the discount applied.
Please be advised that the Company shall undertake to amend its Form
10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 and the applicable
Forms 10-QSB filed thereafter, including the content and disclosures in
the footnotes relating thereto, including all footnotes covering the
payment of stock based compensation, within these periods and, in
connection therewith, the Company shall determine the fair value of
options/warrants issued to non-employees for services at one hundred
(100%) percent of the then public market price of the Company's common
shares.
3. We also note you use a similar discount in valuing stock issued to
employees for services. Tell us why you believe this discount is
appropriate and how you considered paragraph 10 of APB 25 to record an
expense based on the quoted market price of the stock less any money
that the company receives in exchange.
Please be advised that as stated in the Company's response to Staff's
comment No. 2 above, the Company shall undertake to amend its Form
10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 and the applicable
Forms 10-QSB filed thereafter, and in connection therewith, the Company
shall determine the fair value of options/warrants issued to employees
for services at one hundred (100%) percent of the then public market
price of the Company's common shares.
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Ms. Kathleen Collins
October 7, 2005
Page 3
4. For each period in which an income statement is presented, including
the interim period through which the date of your response, provide a
schedule of options/warrants granted in exchange for services to both
employees and non-employees that includes (a) the date of grant, (b)
the number of option granted, (c) the name of the recipient, and (d)
the fair value of the options/warrants and the assumptions and method
used to determine such value.
Please be advised that in response to the Staff's comment, the Company
shall prepare a schedule of options/warrants granted in exchange for
services to both employees and non-employees that includes (a) the date
of grant, (b) the number of options granted, (c) the name of the
recipient, and (d) the fair value of the options/warrants and the
assumptions and method used to determine such value and include such
schedule in the footnotes to the income statements of the financial
statements to be included in the amended Form 10-KSB for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2004 and for the applicable the quarterly
interim periods thereafter.
Please be advised that Company management and its auditors are
currently preparing the above identified amendments to the subject Form 10-KSB
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 and for the applicable Forms 10-QSB
filed thereafter. The Company anticipates preparing and filing these amendments
via EDGAR on or before October 31, 2005. Please do not hesitate to contact the
undersigned if you require any further information or documents.
Very truly yours,
/s/Joseph J. Tomasek
Joseph J. Tomasek, Esq.
Encl.
cc: Patrick Gilmore
Division of Corporation Finance
Steve D. Rudnik, President
Magnitude Information Systems, Inc.
Joerg Klaube, Chief Financial Officer
Magnitude Information Systems, Inc.
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