SEC Comment Letter for GENETHERA INC (CIK 0001017110) — Apr 25, 2005
GENETHERA INC (CIK 0001017110)
Date: April 25, 2005 · CIK: 0001017110 · Accession: 0000000000-05-020016
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Via Facsimile and U.S. Mail
Mail Stop 03-09
April 25, 2005
Mr. Steven M. Grubner
Chief Financial Officer
3930 Youngfield Street
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Re: GeneThera, Inc.
Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004
File No. 000-27237
Dear Mr. Grubner:
We have reviewed your filing and have the following
comments.
We have limited our review to only your financial statements and
related disclosures. Where our comments call for disclosure, we
think
you should amend your document in response to these comments. In
some of our comments, we ask you to provide us with supplemental
information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please
amend your Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004
and respond to these comments within 15 business days or tell us
when
you will provide us with a response prior to the expiration of the
15-day period. If we have requested additional information as
well
as an amendment or if you disagree with any comment that calls for
disclosure, please provide this letter prior to your amendment.
You
may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to
expedite our review. Your letter should key your responses to our
comments. Detailed letters greatly facilitate our review. Please
file your letter on EDGAR under the form type label CORRESP.
Please
understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing
your
amendment and responses to our 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 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 Financial Statements
Independent Auditors` Report
1. Please revise paragraph one of the auditors` report to
reference
the consolidated statements of operations, stockholders` equity
(deficit) and comprehensive loss and cash flows periods that were
audited. In addition, the third paragraph of the auditors` report
should also reference the period from inception through December
31,
2004.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
2. In accordance with paragraph 13 of SFAS 2, please disclose the
total research and development costs charged to expense in each
period for which an income statement is presented. In addition,
disclose your accounting policy for research and development
expenditures. Please include the types of costs included in R&D
costs.
3. We note significant beneficial conversion expense for which
there
is no disclosure in the notes to the financial statements. Please
tell us and disclose your accounting policy in regards to your
instruments with beneficial conversion features and the
significant
terms of such instruments.
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders` Equity
(Deficit)
4. Please tell us why accumulated deficit is increased by
$1,116,054
in the recapitalization on February 25, 2002 transaction and by
$11,587,500 in the 2004 shares issued to founder for
recapitalization
transaction. Please cite the authoritative literature you used to
support your accounting treatment.
Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization and Nature of Operations, page 11
5. It appears that your acquisition of VDx was material. Please
tell
us and amend your filing to include the disclosure required by
paragraph 51, 52, 54 and 55 of SFAS 141, as applicable. Please
provide us your significance analysis to determine if an Item 2.01
Form 8-K should be furnished with audited financial statements of
the
business acquired and related pro forma financial information.
Refer
to Item 310 section (c) and section (d) of Regulation S-B.
Note 11. Consolidation and Divestiture of Subsidiaries, page 25
6. We noted that you disposed of your wholly owned subsidiary
Family
Health News, Inc (FHNI) in 2003. In accordance with paragraphs
41-43
of SFAS 144, it would appear that the results of operations of
FHNI
should be reported as discontinued operations. In addition, it
appears that the restatement of the consolidated financial
statements
to include FHNI should have been accounted for as a correction of
an
error. Refer to APB 20 and APB 9 for the accounting method and
required disclosure. Please amend your filing accordingly or tell
us
why you believe your current accounting is appropriate.
Exhibit 31.1 and 31.2 to the Form 10-KSB
7. It appears that your Section 302 certifications are improperly
worded. Please refer to Item 601, Certifications of Regulation S-
B
and SEC Release No. 33-8238, Management`s Report on Internal
Control
Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in
Exchange
Act Periodic Reports. Please file the correct certifications with
your amended 2004 Form 10-KSB.
* * * *
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to
be
certain that they have provided all information investors require.
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 in the filings reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 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 filing or in
response to our comments on your filing.
You may contact Dana Hartz, Staff Accountant, at (202) 942-
2976
or Joel Parker, Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 824-5487 if you
have questions regarding the comments. In this regard, do not
hesitate to contact me, at (202) 942-1803.
Sincerely,
Jim B. Rosenberg
Senior Assistant Chief
Accountant
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Mr. Grubner
GeneThera, Inc.
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