SEC Company Response from PICK UPS PLUS INC (CIK 0001074961) — Sep 21, 2005
PICK UPS PLUS INC (CIK 0001074961)
Date: Sept. 21, 2005 · CIK: 0001074961 · Accession: 0001144204-05-029507
AI Filing Summary & Sentiment
Referenced dates: August 18, 2005
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United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549
Attn Scott Ruggiero, Staff Accountant
Division of Corporation Finance
Re: Response to comments on Pickups Plus, Inc. form 10-KSB for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2004.
Dear Mr. Ruggiero,
Please find below our responses to your comments regarding the above referenced
form 10-KSB in your letter dated August 18, 2005. Your comment numbers lists
each of the responses.
Exhibits, Page 22
1. We will file Exhibit 21 listing our subsidiaries in accordance with item
601 (b)(21) of Regulation S-B.
2. We will file, as Exhibit 23, the consent from our independent accountants
to incorporate by reference our financial statements into our previously
filed registration statements in accordance with item 601(b)(23)(ii) of
Regulation S-B.
Statement of Cash Flows, page F-6
3. We concur that the 2004 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows should be
revised to remove $175,000 from the Compensatory shares in the cash flows
from operating activities section and reflected in the Net Proceeds from
Credit line and demand loan line item. This will be reflected in an
amended 2004 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.
4. The 2004 Statement of Cash Flows has been revised to correctly present all
line items net of assets acquired with the purchase of Auto Preservation.
$25,500 of the fixed assets acquired was reported incorrectly on the
Statement of Cash Flows. Please note that no liabilities were assumed in
this transaction.
Notes to Financial Statements, page F-7
Notes 3 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-9
(h) Earnings (loss) Per Share
5. In preparing our response to this comment we verified that there were no
common stock warrants issued or outstanding. In our amended filing we will
change the language in the footnote to remove the reference to the
warrants.
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Note 4 - Acquisition, page F-12
6. The Company's primary reason for completing the acquisition of AP was to
leverage the goodwill that was generated over the 15 years of operating
the business and to expand it on a national basis. The Company is
utilizing the AP operating, sales, training and marketing plans to enhance
its existing national Franchise and distribution offerings. Therefore we
do believe that the acquisition price is goodwill except for actual fair
market value of the physical assets we received.
The customer lists and customer relationships, were all related to the AP
business that operated within Cincinnati OH only. That business operated
on a very small operating profit basis and had no customer contracts. The
fixed assets portion of the acquisition was allocated to the Cincinnati
part of the business. Therefore, the Company put no additional value to
the existing customer lists or relationships. As for the royalty-free
license, our due diligence of other distribution agreements that AI had
and continues to have in place shows that every distributor they secured
for a country got the license to use the ValuGard name at no charge. For
that reason we put no value on the license itself.
Note 11 - Income Taxes, page F-15
7. The Footnote will be changed as follows:
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2004 2003
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Deferred tax assets and liabilities:
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Net operating loss carry forwards 2,100,000 1,650,000
Provision for doubtful accounts 12,908 2,372
Amortization of Goodwill 11,751 0
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2,124,659 1,652,372
Less: Valuation allowance (2,124,659) (1,652,372)
Net deferred income tax asset 0 0
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For the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 the income tax benefit
difference from the amount computed by applying a federal tax rate of
34% is as follows:
2004 2003
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Benefit at federal Statutory rate $(401,444) $(298,712)
State income taxes, net of federal (70,843) (52,714)
Change in valuation allowance 472,287 351,426
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Income Tax Benefit $0 $0
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Note 12 - Commitments and Contingencies, page F-15
(a) Lease Obligations, page F-15
8. The After reviewing your comment, we concur with your comment and will
change Note 12 to reflect the following future minimum lease payments:
On October 6, 2004 the Company entered into a lease for a commercial
building that calls for a rent payment of $2,950 per month and $316.06 for
real estate taxes monthly. The lease expires October 30, 2006.
There is also a remaining balance due under capital leases of $22,804 all
of which is currently due.
The Future minimum lease payments are as follows:
2005 $61,996
2006 32,660
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Total $99,656
Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2
9. Please find attached the revised certifications that we have integrated
into our amended filings.
We acknowledge that the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of
the disclosure in the filing; staff comments or changes to disclosure in
response to staff comments 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.
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Merritt Jesson
Chief Executive Officer
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Robert White
Chief Financial Officer
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Exhibit 21
List of Subsidiaries
Auto Preservation, Inc. (an Ohio Corporation) 100% owned
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Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Board of Directors
Pickups Plus, Inc.
We consent to the incorporation by reference of our Report of Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm dated March 25, 2005 on the consolidated
balance sheet as of December 31, 2004 and the related consolidated statements of
operations, stockholders' equity (deficit) and cash flows for the years ended
December 31, 2004 and 2003 included in this Form 10-KSB/A, into the Company's
previously filed Registration Statements.
Lazar Levine & Felix LLP
Certified Public Accounts
New York, New York
September 21, 2005
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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Merritt Jesson, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this form 10-KSB/A for the year ended December 31,
2004 of Pick-Ups Plus, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances
under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to
the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other
financial information included in this report, fairly present in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods
presented in this report;
4. The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e))
for the small business issuer and have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and
procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be
designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information
relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,
particularly during the period in which this report is being
prepared;
(b) Omitted;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small
business issuer's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in
this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this
report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the small
business issuer's internal control over financial reporting that
occurred during the small business issuer's most recent fiscal
quarter (the small business issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the
case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is
reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer's
internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have
disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control
over financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and
the audit committee of the small business issuer's board of directors
(or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material
weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over
financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect
the small business issuer's ability to record, process, summarize and
report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that
involves management or other employees who have a significant role in
the small business issuer's internal control over financial
reporting.
Date: September 21, 2005 By:_______________________________
Name: Merritt Jesson
Title: Chief Executive Officer
*The introductory portion of paragraph 4 of the Section 302 certification that
refers to the certifying officers' responsibility for establishing and
maintaining internal control over financial reporting for the company, as well
as paragraph 4(b), have been omitted in accordance with Release No. 33-8545
(March 2, 2005) because the compliance period has been extended for small
business issuers until the first fiscal year ending on or after July 15, 2006.
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Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Robert White, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this form 10-KSB/A for the year ended December 31,
2004 of Pick-Ups Plus, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances
under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to
the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other
financial information included in this report, fairly present in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods
presented in this report;
4. The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e))
for the small business issuer and have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and
procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be
designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information
relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,
particularly during the period in which this report is being
prepared;
(b) Omitted;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small
business issuer's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in
this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this
report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the small
business issuer's internal control over financial reporting that
occurred during the small business issuer's most recent fiscal
quarter (the small business issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the
case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is
reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer's
internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have
disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control
over financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and
the audit committee of the small business issuer's board of directors
(or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material
weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over
financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect
the small business issuer's ability to record, process, summarize and
report financial information; and