SEC Comment Letter for ATTUNITY LTD (CIK 0000893821) — Jul 11, 2005
ATTUNITY LTD (CIK 0000893821)
Date: July 11, 2005 · CIK: 0000893821 · Accession: 0000000000-05-035199
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File numbers found in text: 333-119157
Referenced dates: April 28, 2005
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July 8, 2005
Ofer Segev
Chief Financial Officer
Attunity Inc.
40 Audubon Road
Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880
Re: Attunity Ltd.
Amendment No. 4 to Form F-3
Filed April 20, 2005
File No. 333-119157
Amendment No. 1 to Form 20-F Annual Report
For the Period Ended December 31, 2003
Filed on November 22, 2004
File No. 0-20892
Dear Mr. Segev:
This is to advise you that we have limited our review to the
matters identified below and have the following accounting
comments.
Where indicated, we think you should revise your documents in
response to these comments. With respect to the comments on the
periodic reports your response should be provided as soon as
possible
and not later than July 18, 2005.
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 20-F/A
Financial Statements
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 2:- Significant Accounting Policies, page F-12
Research and Development Costs
1. We note your response to prior comment number four from our
letter
dated April 28, 2005. Your response indicates that the "vintage
method" of amortizing costs pertaining to superseded software
versions is "prevalent industry practice" and is "widely used by
most
companies" in the industry. We believe the method described in Q-
23
in the FASB Implementation Guide is clear and should be followed
by
registrants in filings with the Commission. However, if you
provide
us with objective and compelling evidence that the vintage method
is
in fact "prevalent industry practice and is widely used by most
companies in the industry," as you assert in your response, we
will
not object to your use of that treatment.
2. In connection with this, if your auditors obtain supporting
evidence from surveying other national accounting firms, provide
us
the results of the survey along with the names of the individuals
from those firms from whom the data was obtained.
* * *
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filings to be certain that they
have provided all information investors require for an informed
decision. 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.
Notwithstanding our comments, in the event the company
requests
acceleration of the effective date of the pending registration
statement, it should furnish a letter, at the time of such
request,
acknowledging that:
? should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to
delegated
authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing;
? the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to
delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not
relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy
and
accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
? the company may not assert this action 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 connection with our review of
your
filing or in response to our comments on your filing.
We will consider a written request for acceleration of the
effective date of the registration statement as a confirmation of
the
fact that those requesting acceleration are aware of their
respective
responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the
Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 as they relate to the proposed public
offering
of the securities specified in the above registration statement.
We
will act on the request and, pursuant to delegated authority,
grant
acceleration of the effective date.
You may contact David Edgar at (202) 551-3459 or the
undersigned
at (202) 551-3489 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters.
Sincerely,
Brad Skinner
Branch Chief - Accounting
cc: Steven J. Glusband, Esq. (via facsimile)
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
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Attunity Ltd.
File No. 333-119157
April 8, 2005
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