SEC Comment Letter for VIEWCAST COM INC (CIK 0000921313) — Jun 30, 2005
VIEWCAST COM INC (CIK 0000921313)
Date: June 30, 2005 · CIK: 0000921313 · Accession: 0000000000-05-033673
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Mail Stop 3561
CF/AD11
100 F St. NE
Washington, DC 20549-3561
Date June 30, 2005
Mr. George C. Platt
President and Chief Executive Officer
ViewCast.com, Inc.
17300 Dallas Parkway
Suite 2000
Dallas, TX 75248
Re: ViewCast.com, Inc.
Form 10-KSB/Aor Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004
Filed May 2, 2005
File No. 0-29020
Dear Mr. Platt:
We have reviewed your filing and have the following
comments.
We have limited our review to only your financial statements and
related disclosures and do not intend to expand our review to
other
portions of your documents. Please address the following
comments
in which ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your disclosure. Please be as detailed as necessary
in
your explanation. After reviewing this information, we may or
may
not raise additional comments.
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 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/A
Financial Statements, page F-1
Intangible Assets and Amortization, page 29
1. It is unclear to us why you have not recognized an impairment
in
the value of goodwill. We note your going concern issues and
the
issues described on page 28, that management has concluded that
it
is more likely than not that ViewCast.com will not realize its
deferred tax assets, and that your IT Services, Products
segment,
which includes all of your goodwill and customer contracts,
reported a material decrease in sales revenue from 2003 to 2004
and
also reported a significant decline in segment operating income
over the same period, resulting in an operating loss for the
year
ended December 31, 2004. With a view towards expanded disclosure
in
future filings, please explain to us in detail how you have
applied
the guidance in SFAS No. 142 to your operations and the basis
for
your conclusions. In your response please identify your SFAS 142
reporting units and explain how you determined these reporting
units under SFAS 142. Also explain how assets and liabilities
were
assigned to these reporting units. Describe how you determined
that no impairment charges were necessary in 2004. Please
provide
us your calculations and describe for us your assumptions to the
extent necessary so that we may clearly understand management`s
analysis and the basis for its conclusions.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets, page 30
2. Similarly, please explain to us why none of your long-lived
assets were impaired under SFAS 144 for the year 2004. Identify
your SFAS 144 asset groups and explain how you assigned assets
and
liabilities to these groups. Explain how you determined that no
impairment charges were necessary. Also, please provide us your
calculations and describe for us your assumptions to the extent
necessary so that we may clearly understand management`s
analysis
and the basis for its conclusions.
* * * *
Please respond to these comments within 10 business days
or
tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please
furnish a
letter that keys your responses to our comments and provides any
requested information. Detailed letters greatly facilitate our
review. Please understand that we may have additional comments
after reviewing your responses to our comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy
and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the
filing includes all information required under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and that they have provided all information
investors require for an informed investment 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.
In connection with responding to our comments, please
provide,
in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that:
* the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of
the
disclosure in the filings;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action
with respect to the filings; and
* the company may not assert staff comments 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 our review of your
filings or in response to our comments on your filings.
You may contact Joseph M. Kempf, Senior Staff Accountant,
at
(202) 551-3352 or Robert S. Littlepage, Accountant Branch Chief,
at
(202) 551-3361 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact me at
(202) 551-3810 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Larry Spirgel
Assistant Director
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Mr. George C. Platt
President and Chief Executive Officer
ViewCast.com, Inc.
June 30, 2005
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