SEC Company Response from SUNRISE REAL ESTATE GROUP INC (SRRE) (CIK 0001083490) (SRRE) — Oct 5, 2018
SUNRISE REAL ESTATE GROUP INC (SRRE) (CIK 0001083490)
Date: Oct. 5, 2018 · CIK: 0001083490 · Accession: 0001144204-18-052722
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McLaughlin
& Stern,
llp
Founded
1898
STEVEN
W. SCHUSTER
Partner
sschsuter@mclaughlinstern.com
(212) 448-6216
260
Madison Avenue
New
York, New York 10016
(212)
448–1100
Fax
(212) 448–0066
www.mclaughlinstern.com
Millbrook,
New York
Great
Neck, New York
West
Palm Beach, florida
Ft.
Lauderdale, florida
October 5, 2018
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE Mail Stop 5973
Washington, DC 20549-5973
Attn: Kevin Woody, Branch Chief
Office of Real Estate and Commodities
Re: Sunrise Real Estate Group, Inc.
Form 10-K
Filed May 15,
2018
Form 10-Q
Filed August
14, 2018
File No. 000-32585
Dear Mr. Woody,
On behalf of Sunrise Real Estate Group,
Inc. (“Sunrise” or the “Company”), we are responding to the September 14, 2018 SEC comments directed to
Sunrise.
Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2017
Report of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm, page 27
1. Please have your auditor revise their report to comply with AS 3101, The Auditor’s Report
on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion, which was effective for all audits of fiscal
years ending on or after December 15, 2017.
Response to Comment 1:
Your comments are noted, we have revised
our Form 10-K to include our auditor’s revised Auditor’s Report on Financial Statements.
McLaughlin & Stern, LLP
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows,
page 32
2. We note your disclosure on page 38 that for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company
did not recognize any impairment for real estate property under development. Please explain why you have included adjustments of
$427 thousand and $288 thousand, respectively, for impairment loss on real estate property under development for the years ended
December 31, 2017 and 2016 on the consolidated statements of cash flows.
Response to Comment 2:
The reason we have included adjustments
of $427 thousand and $288 thousand, respectively, for impairment loss on real estate property under development for the years ended
December 31, 2017 and 2016 on the consolidated statements of cash flows is because we used the wrong item name in the cash flow
statements, which should be Impairment in Long Term Investment rather than Impairment loss on Real estate property under development.
We have revised our Form 10-K accordingly.
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
30, 2018
Revenue Recognition, page 9
3.
Please tell us if you adopted ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts
with Customers, and if so, the impact it had on your revenue recognition policy and consolidated financial statements. Please
also provide to us, supplementally and in future filings, the disclosures required by ASC 606-10-50.
Response to Comment 3:
The Company adopted Topic 606, Revenue
from Contracts with Customers using the modified retrospective method effective December 31, 2017. The adoption did not result
in a significant impact on opening retained earnings.
ASC 606 did not have a material impact
on the amount or timing of its revenue recognition in our condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company generates revenue
through property agency commissions, property management and house sales. Given the nature of the Company’s business, sales
transactions with customers are generally comprised of a single performance obligation that involves property sales transaction
in the contracts with customers. Performance obligations are generally satisfied at the time of successful one-time property sales
transactions. Also, there were no significant impairment losses recognized on any receivables or contract assets arising from the
customers.
For the above reason, no significant adjustments
were made in the application of the guidance in ASC 606, and there were no material contract assets, contract liabilities, or deferred
contract costs as of June 30, 2018. Therefore, the Company has determined that the disclosure required by ASC 606 is not material
to its business and the Company did not believe additional disclosure regarding these revenues would be meaningful to readers of
its financial statements.
McLaughlin & Stern, LLP
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In the future fillings, the Company will
enhance the disclosures to explicitly address considerations of disclosures set forth in ASC 606-10-50. These enhanced disclosures
will include the following:
Recently Adopted Accounting In May 2014,
the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2014-09, Revenue
from Contracts with Customers, which replaces most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP and is intended to improve
and converge with international standards the financial reporting requirements for revenue from contracts with customers. ASU 2014-09
and its amendments were included primarily in ASC 606. The core principle of ASC 606 is that an entity should recognize revenue
for the transfer of goods or services equal to the amount that it expects to be entitled to receive for those goods or services.
ASC 606 also requires additional disclosures about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising
from customer contracts, including significant judgments and changes in judgments. We adopted ASC 606 effective January 1, 2018,
using the modified retrospective method. There was no significant impact to the opening balance of reinvested earnings as of January
1, 2018.
Please contact me if you have further questions.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Steven Schuster
Steven W. Schuster
SWS/kmh