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SEC Comment Letter for GLOBAL AXCESS CORP (CIK 0000852570) — Sep 22, 2005

GLOBAL AXCESS CORP (CIK 0000852570)
Date: Sept. 22, 2005 · CIK: 0000852570 · Accession: 0000000000-05-048956

AI Filing Summary & Sentiment

Referenced dates: August 8, 2005, August 8, 2005

Date
August 31, 2005
Author
William Choi
Form
UPLOAD
Company
GLOBAL AXCESS CORP (CIK 0000852570)

Letter

Mail Stop 3561 August 31, 2005 Mr. Michael J. Dodak Chief Executive Officer Global Axcess Corp. 224 Ponte Vedra Park Drive Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

RE: Global Axcess Corp. Form 10-KSB for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004 Filed March 31, 2005 File No. 0-17874

Dear Mr. Dodak:

We have reviewed your response filed on August 23, 2005 to our comment letter dated August 8, 2005 and have the following additional comments. Please provide a written response to our comments. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments.

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 Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004

Consolidated Statements of Income, page F-4 1. We note your response to comment 2 in our letter dated August 8, 2005 and reissue the comment. Please tell us the circumstances that led to the modification of the note. Please also tell us the authoritative literature you applied in your determination that the debt extinguishment gain should be recorded as income as opposed to a capital contribution. In addition, tell us how you calculated the gain of $261,023 reflected in your statements of income. In doing so, tell us how you determined the fair value of the new debt instrument. Please refer to EITF 96-19. Please provide us a copy of the agreement referred to in your response.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, page F-9

Note 1 - Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-9

Revenue Recognition, page F-9

2. We note your response to comment 4 in our letter dated August 8, 2005. It appears that your response is inconsistent with disclosures throughout your Form 10-K. For example, you state that you only record the contractual revenue due to you. However, you disclose on pages 17, 25, 26 and F-9 that you record all surcharge and interchange fees you receive as revenue for both your owned and managed ATMs. In addition, you state that surcharge and/or interchange fees passed through to merchants are not recorded as revenue or costs while your disclosure on page 26 indicates that you record as a commission all monies paid to the owners of managed ATMs. Please clarify these apparent discrepancies and revise your disclosures in future filings to clearly indicate which revenues you record on a gross basis and net basis. Please show us what your revised disclosure in future filings will look like. Please also confirm to us that interchange and surcharge fees not remitted to ATM owners are recorded in your balance sheets.

Please respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Detailed response letters greatly facilitate our review. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your responses to our comments.

You may contact Andrew Blume (Staff Accountant) at (202) 551- 3254 or William Thompson (Staff Accountant) at (202) 551-3344 or in their absence the undersigned at (202) 551-3716 if you have any questions regarding these comments.

Sincerely,
William Choi
Branch Chief

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Mail Stop 3561

									August 31, 2005

Mr. Michael J. Dodak
Chief Executive Officer
Global Axcess Corp.
224 Ponte Vedra Park Drive
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

      RE:	Global Axcess Corp.
      Form 10-KSB for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004
      Filed March 31, 2005
      File No. 0-17874

Dear Mr. Dodak:

	We have reviewed your response filed on August 23, 2005 to
our
comment letter dated August 8, 2005 and have the following
additional
comments.  Please provide a written response to our comments.
Please
be as detailed as necessary in your explanation.  After reviewing
this information, we may raise additional comments.

	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 Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004

Consolidated Statements of Income, page F-4
1. We note your response to comment 2 in our letter dated August
8,
2005 and reissue the comment.  Please tell us the circumstances
that
led to the modification of the note.  Please also tell us the
authoritative literature you applied in your determination that
the
debt extinguishment gain should be recorded as income as opposed
to a
capital contribution.  In addition, tell us how you calculated the
gain of $261,023 reflected in your statements of income.  In doing
so, tell us how you determined the fair value of the new debt
instrument.  Please refer to EITF 96-19.  Please provide us a copy
of
the agreement referred to in your response.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, page F-9

Note 1 - Description of Business and Summary of Significant
Accounting Policies, page F-9

Revenue Recognition, page F-9

2. We note your response to comment 4 in our letter dated August
8,
2005.  It appears that your response is inconsistent with
disclosures
throughout your Form 10-K.  For example, you state that you only
record the contractual revenue due to you.  However, you disclose
on
pages 17, 25, 26 and F-9 that you record all surcharge and
interchange fees you receive as revenue for both your owned and
managed ATMs.  In addition, you state that surcharge and/or
interchange fees passed through to merchants are not recorded as
revenue or costs while your disclosure on page 26 indicates that
you
record as a commission all monies paid to the owners of managed
ATMs.
Please clarify these apparent discrepancies and revise your
disclosures in future filings to clearly indicate which revenues
you
record on a gross basis and net basis.  Please show us what your
revised disclosure in future filings will look like.  Please also
confirm to us that interchange and surcharge fees not remitted to
ATM
owners are recorded in your balance sheets.

		Please respond to these comments within 10 business days
or
tell us when you will provide us with a response.  Detailed
response
letters greatly facilitate our review.  Please understand that we
may
have additional comments after reviewing your responses to our
comments.

      You may contact Andrew Blume (Staff Accountant) at (202)
551-
3254 or William Thompson (Staff Accountant) at (202) 551-3344 or
in
their absence the undersigned at (202) 551-3716 if you have any
questions regarding these comments.

								Sincerely,

									William Choi
									Branch Chief

Mr. Michael J. Dodak
Global Axcess Corp.
August 31, 2005
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