SEC Company Response from ELEPHANT TALK COMMUNICATIONS INC (CIK 0001084384) — Jun 7, 2005
ELEPHANT TALK COMMUNICATIONS INC (CIK 0001084384)
Date: June 7, 2005 · CIK: 0001084384 · Accession: 0001017386-05-000070
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438 East Katella Ave, Suite 217
Elephant Talk Orange, California 92867
Communications, Inc. Tel: (714) 288 1570
OTC: ETLK Fax: (714) 288 2045
June 6, 2005
Mr. Dave Walz
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N. W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Elephant Talk Communications, Inc.
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004
Filed April 1, 2005
File No. 0-30061
Dear Mr. Walz:
We received your correspondence dated May 5, 2005 requesting additional
information or explanations to certain items contained in the above referenced
filing.
Attached please find the Company's responses to your queries. Please let me know
if you need any further clarifications.
Sincerely,
/s/ Manu Ohri
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Manu Ohri
Chief Financial Officer
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Item 8a. Controls and Procedures, page 29.
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Comments 1, 2 and 3.
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Our Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Financial Officer (the
"Certifying Officers") are responsible for establishing and maintaining
disclosure controls and procedures for the Company. The Certifying Officers have
designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material
information is made known to them, particularly during the period in which this
report was prepared. The Certifying Officers have evaluated the effectiveness of
the Company's disclosure controls and procedures were as of the end of the
period covered by the filing of this report, and believe that the Company's
disclosure controls and procedures are effective in ensuring that information
required to be disclosed is accumulated and communicated to management including
our CEO and CFO to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. There
have been no changes in Company's internal control over financial reporting,
that occurred during the fiscal year that has materially affected, or is
reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over
financial reporting.
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, Page F-5
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4. In April 1999, the Company issued 5,500,000 common shares for $991,581 under
a Rule 504 Regulation D offering. The Company received $529,500 in cash and
$51,300 in services rendered. The remaining $410,781 in stock issued remained
unpaid and was offset against the share capital in the financial statements as
of December 31, 2002. These subscribed and issued, but unpaid shares were
covered by the promissory notes payable to the Company. The promissory notes are
secured with recourse in corporate stock of an unrelated corporation, and were
due and payable on or before March 28, 2002. The Company has been unable to
collect on the promissory notes, and has recorded $410,781 in expense as a
provision for uncollectible stock subscriptions during the year ended December
31, 2004.
5. The Company recorded a bad debt expense of $0 against trade receivables
during the year ended December 31, 2004.
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, Page F-6
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6. The Company disposed off its marketable securities and recorded a loss as a
result of its settlement in January 2003. In connection with its disposition of
marketable securities, the company eliminated the comprehensive loss of $553,187
at December 31, 2003 as the Company did not have the marketable securities as of
December 31, 2003.
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, Page F-7
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7. The Company provided an allowance for bad debts of $400,000 against the
amount receivable from an entity for which the Company had guaranteed the debt
payable to a bank. The entity was in default in making monthly loan payments.
Therefore, the Company reserved the entire amount of loan as uncollectible for
the year ended December 31, 2003.
The Company recorded $0 in provision for bad debts for the period ended December
31, 2004. Upon review of our statement of cash flows for the year ended December
31, 2004, we discovered that the Company should have recorded a non-cash item of
$500,000 in accrued expenses instead of as a provision for bad debts. The
Company believes that this will not have a material affect on its financial
statements for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Organization,
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Revenue Recognition, page F-8
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8. The Company derives revenues from the sale of minutes of calling time via
sale of its prepaid calling cards. Revenue is deferred upon activation of the
calling cards and is recognized as the prepaid calling card balances are reduced
based upon minute usage, imposition of administrative fees, or no further
obligations exist with respect to a calling card.
Deferred revenues represent amounts received from its customers for the unused
minutes of the prepaid calling cards sold to its customers since the Company
recognizes revenues only on the usage of the minutes.
Note 6: Due from Related Parties, page F-16
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9. The Company recorded the debt associated with the personal guarantees under
the footnote disclosure Note 7 Notes payable.
Note 11: Commitments and Contingencies, Guarantees, page F-22
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10. The Company recorded the three installment loans of $628,566 as Note Payable
when the Company obtained funding from the bank. The Company recorded the debit
to "Bank account" when cash received by the Company from the bank. The Company
recorded a debit to "Due from related parties" when the funds obtained by
related parties were guaranteed by the Company with an offsetting credit to Note
Payable.
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Note 16: Subsequent Events, page F-24
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11. Please review the attached supporting information with respect to this
subsequent event footnote disclosure:
On April 3, 2004, the Company signed a Share Exchange Agreement with Keen
Solution Group Limited (Keen Solution), a company incorporated in British Virgin
Island ("BVI"), to acquire from Keen Solution, 60% equity ownership interest in
Urumqui General System Technology Company Ltd. ("General System"), a company
registered in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). As a consideration for the
acquisition, on July 26, 2004, the Company issued 4,000,000 restricted common
shares valued at $480,000 as the earnest deposit to Keen Solution. The
transaction could not be completed due to the rules and regulations relating to
telecommunication companies enforced by the Ministry of Information Industry in
China for foreign companies.
The parties restructured the Share Exchange Agreement whereby, Keen Solution
formed True Precise Technology Limited ("True Precise"), a limited liability
company registered in BVI, as a vehicle to complete the transaction. On January
5, 2005, the Company and Keen Solution completed the transaction whereby the
Company through its 60% equity ownership interest in True Precise, agreed to
issue an additional 19,137,500 restricted common shares to Keen Solution in
exchange for an exclusive technical services agreement for providing technical
consulting and advisory services to General System for a service fee of
RMB10,000,000 (US$1,204,820) per year. Since the Company was unable to acquire
General System, earning the technical service fees did not give effect to the
acquisition on Form 8-K. Therefore, the Company did not file the pro-forma
financial statements of the Company giving effect to the acquisition of General
Systems.
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