SEC Company Response from CervoMed Inc. (CRVO) (CIK 0001053691) (CRVO) — Jul 6, 2009
CervoMed Inc. (CRVO) (CIK 0001053691)
Date: July 6, 2009 · CIK: 0001053691 · Accession: 0001157523-09-004747
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July 6, 2009
John Reynolds
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
RE: Responses to Comments in Your Letter to Stratus Media Group Inc. of
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May 22, 2009
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Dear Mr. Reynolds
This letter is in response to the above and supplements the amended Annual
Report on Form 10K ("Amended 10K") and amended Report on Form 8-K that the
Company intends to file as soon as possible, but no later than Friday, July 17,
2009, to address the comments in the above letter.
The following responses are numbered to correspond to the comments made in the
letter of May 22, 2009, which appear in italics.
1. We note that the amendment to your Annual Report on Form 10K was filed to
reflect the restatement of your fiscal year 2007 and 2008 financial
statements. Please tell us how you considered the requirements of Item 4.02
of Form 8-K in your decision to not report the non-reliance on previously
issued financial statements or a related audit report or complete interim
review, on a Form 8-K
The original filing of the Annual Report on Form 10-K ("10K") was made at 5:25
pm EDT on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 and the amendment was accepted by the
Commission at 8:26 pm EDT on Friday, April 17, 2009 and effective April 20,
2009. Since so many sections of the report changed, we elected to file all
sections of the report with the amendment to allow investors to have a complete
amended document for review. Given that there were two trading days in which the
original document was effective and the retail orientation of most of our
investors, we felt that our investors would be confused as to which report they
should rely on if we filed an 8-K within the five-day window pursuant to Item
4.02 of Form 8-K.
As the result of damage caused by a computer virus on the computer used by the
Company to prepare and file the report, the report that was filed at 5:25pm on
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 was rushed, filed in error and did not contain the
financial statements updated for a $65,316 legal accrual in 2007 and $1,015,000
in impairment charges in 2008, as set forth in the "Why this Report is Being
Filed" section of the amendment filed on April 17, 2009.
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2. We note, on page 3, that you restated your fiscal year 2007 and 2008
financial statements. Please revise your Selected Financial Data table to
label the columns "restated," as applicable.
This change will be made on the Amended 10K.
3. We note that you present condensed summary financial information for 2004
and that you did not provide an audit report covering such period in your
Form 8-K filed March 14, 2008. Please label the 2004 financial information
as "unaudited."
While an audit was performed for the twelve months ended December 31, 2004 for
Pro Sports & Entertainment, Inc. (the surviving entity for accounting purposes
in the "reverse merger" with Feris International Inc. on March 14, 2008), we
understand the comment and will so marked the 2004 data as "unaudited" in the
Amended 10K.
4. We note that after the net goodwill impairment of $1,015,000 you recorded
for the fiscal year 2008, in accordance with SFAS 142, the remaining
goodwill and indefinite lived intangible assets accounted for approximately
90% of your total assets at December 31, 2008. In light of the 2008
goodwill impairment and the significance of your remaining goodwill and
indefinite lived intangible assets balance, we expect robust and
comprehensive disclosure in your Critical Accounting Policies regarding
your impairment testing policy. Specifically, we believe you should provide
the following information (remainder of comment not included here for
brevity)
The Amended 10K will contain the following disclosure to address this comment as
follows
The Company has purchased several events that have been valued on the Company's
balance sheet as intangible assets with a value equal to the consideration paid
for such assets, which generally include licensing rights, naming rights,
merchandising rights and the right to hold such event in particular geographic
locations. There was no goodwill assigned to any of these events and the value
of the consideration paid for each event is considered to be the value for each
related intangible asset. Each event has separate accounts for tracking revenues
and expenses per event and a separate account to track the asset valuation.
A portion of the consideration used to purchase the Stratus Rewards Visa card
program was allocated to specific assets, as disclosed in the footnotes to the
financial statements, with the difference between the specific assets and the
total consideration paid for the program being allocated to goodwill.
The Company reviews the value of intangible assets and related goodwill as part
of its annual reporting process, which generally occurs in February or March of
each calendar year. In between valuations, the Company is prepared to conduct
additional tests if circumstances warrant such testing. For example, if the
Company was unable to secure the services of any sponsoring banks, the Company
would then undergo a thorough valuation of the intangible assets related to its
Stratus Rewards program.
To review the value of intangible assets and related goodwill, the Company
compares discounted cash flow forecasts with the stated value of the assets on
the balance sheet.
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The events are forecasted based on historical results for those events, adjusted
over time for the assumed synergies expected from discounts from purchases of
goods and services from a number of events rather than from each event on its
own, and for synergies resulting from the expected ability to provide sponsors
with benefits from sponsoring multiple events with a single point of contact.
These forecasts are discounted at a range of discount rates determined by taking
the risk-free interest rate at the time of valuation, plus a premium for equity
risk, plus a premium related to small companies in general, plus a risk premium
for factors specific to the Company and the business that range from 9.5% for
events to 55% for the Stratus Rewards Visa card. The total discount rates ranged
from 27% for events, to 69% for athlete management to 79% for the Stratus
Rewards program. Terminal values are determined by taking cash flows in year
five of the forecast, then applying an annual growth of 2.0% to 2.4% for twenty
years and discounting that stream of cash flows by the discount rate used for
that section of the business.
By reporting unit, the assumptions are as follows:
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Compound Annual
Annual Growth in
Growth in Cash Flows
Year Revenues Revenues For Terminal Annual
Begin in Forecast Through 2013 Value in 2014 Discount Rate
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Long Beach Marathon 2011 10.0% 2.0% 27.0%
Freedom Bowl 2011 10.0% 2.0% 27.0%
Athlete management 2011 41.4% 2.0% 69.0%
Santa Barbara Concours 2009 10.0% 2.0% 27.0%
Concours on Rodeo 2010 17.8% 2.0% 27.0%
Core Tour 2010 10.0% 2.4% 27.0%
Maui Music Restival 2010 9.5% 2.0% 27.0%
Stratus Rewards program 2010 45.7% 2.0% 79.0%
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If the Company determines that the discount factor for cash flows should be
substantially increased, or the event will not be able to being operations when
planned, it is possible that the values for the intangible assets currently on
the balance sheet could be substantially reduced or eliminated, which could
result in a maximum charge to operations equal to the current carrying value of
the intangible assets of $5,129,348.
The Company believes that the reporting units most at risk for a potential
impairment charge in the future are those units with a discounted cash flow that
is less than twice the asset value on the Company's balance sheet:
As of December 31, 2008
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Discounted
Balance Sheet Value Cash Flows Ratio
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Long Beach Marathon 300,000 412,284 1.4
Concours on Rodeo 600,000 802,367 1.3
Core Tour 1,067,069 1,397,676 1.3
Stratus Rewards program 1,845,594 3,578,747 1.9
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Pursuant to your request, we confirm that the sellers of Stratus Rewards, LLC
were unrelated third parties.
5. Taking into consideration the circumstances that caused you to recognize
the $1.0 million impairment charge on the Stratus Rewards goodwill and the
fact that a sponsoring bank for the Stratus Rewards program has not been
obtained, tell us whether you first tested your Stratus Rewards long-lived
assets subject to amortization pursuant to SFAS 144 {remainder omitted for
brevity}.
Before responding, it should be noted that although the prior sponsoring bank
has withdrawn from the program, this bank continues to process payments and
maintain accounts for a number of customers who were in the program when it was
run by the Company. The number of customers and the amounts processed since that
time have been withheld by this bank, but court documents filed by this bank as
part of a legal dispute show that the reserve fund for redemptions has grown
from approximately $163,000 to approximately $190,000 during the first fifteen
months that the Company was not supplied with statements by this bank. This
growth indicates charge activity by customers of approximately $3.1 million
during this period (0.85% of all transactions are deposited into this account).
Accordingly, while the Company has not received the benefits of this activity
during this perioid, the program is still active.
Further, the Company has received several expressions of strong interest from
large international banks to sponsor the Stratus Rewards program. While there is
a possibility that the Company may not be able to obtain a new sponsoring bank
or banks, the Company believes that it is likely to be able to do so. The
$1,000,000 impairment charge was taken to reflect the current lack of a
sponsoring bank. Since there is still activity in the program, the Company feels
that other than goodwill, the other long-lived assets related to the Stratus
Rewards program are not impaired.
Accordingly, the Company does not believe that the "events or changes in
circumstances indicate that its (value of long lived asset) carrying amount may
not be recoverable" test in paragraph 8 of SFAS 144 was met and the Company did
not perform specific tests of long-lived assets.
6. Please revise your contractual obligations table here and in Note 16 to
include the future maturities of all your known contractual obligations,
including any estimated future interest payable on such obligations, as of
December 31, 2008.
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Total 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 After 2013
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Debt obligations* $ 1,000,000 $ 375,000 $ 500,000 $ 125,000 $ - $ - $ -
Other debt obligations 1,370,426 1,370,426 - - - - -
Event acquisition liabilities 913,760 913,760 - - - - -
Legal judgment 65,316 65,316 - - - - -
Rent obligations 301,200 184,800 116,400 - - - -
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Total $ 3,650,702 $ 2,909,302 $ 616,400 $ 125,000 $ - $ - $ -
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* Debt incurred in connection with acquisition of Stratus. Repayment is
triggered by first funding of at least $3,000,000. For purposes of this
schedule such funding is assumed to occur during 2009.
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7. We note your $1.0 million debt obligation, of which you disclose in your
contractual table that $375,000 is due in 2009. Please tell us if this
obligation is the $1.0 million non-current portion of notes payable-related
parties that is shown on your balance sheet (page 26) and Note 10 (page
37). If so, please revise your contractual obligations table on pages 23
and 40, or your balance sheet and Note 10, to reflect the appropriate
current portion of this obligation due in 2009
The balance sheet will be revised to reflect the $375,000 portion of the
$1,000,000 liability as current rather than long term.
8. Please tell us how you considered paragraphs 25-26 of SFAS 154 for the
correction of an error in previously issued financial statements.
The Amended 10K will reflect the disclosures required by paragraphs 25-26 of
SFAS 154.
9. Please have your registered public accounting firm explain to us how they
considered AU Section 530.07 in the reissuance of their April 13, 2009
audit report with your restated financial statements.
To be provided separately by Goldman Parks Kurland Mohidin LLP, our registered
public accounting firm.
10. Please expand your footnotes to describe the nature of the following line
items...Deferred Salary...Accrued Expense...Line of Credit...Other
(income)/expense.
The footnotes in the Amended 10K will include the following
Deferred Salary - our President has an employment contract that stipulates
an annual salary of $240,000 per year. He has not received cash payments for
salary since prior to 2006 and the $240,000 per year is accrued on a quarterly
basis.
Accrued Expense - Legal Jud