SEC Company Response from ELEPHANT TALK COMMUNICATIONS INC (CIK 0001084384) — Jun 30, 2005
ELEPHANT TALK COMMUNICATIONS INC (CIK 0001084384)
Date: June 30, 2005 · CIK: 0001084384 · Accession: 0001017386-05-000079
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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 28, 2005
Via fax: (202) 772-9205
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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 June 20, 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,
Manu Ohri
Chief Financial Officer
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Response to June 20, 2005 Comment Letter
General
Comment 1
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The Company acknowledges that
o the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosures in the filings;
o the SEC staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with
respect to the filings;
o 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.
Comment 2
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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.
The Company agrees to comply with the above provisions in our future periodic
reports.
Comment 3
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During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, 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 made an error in properly stating a
change in operating liabilities in its cash flows from operating activities. The
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Company stated on the cash flow statement that it recorded $500,000 in provision
for bad debts whereas it should have been reflected as a change in operating
liabilities in cash overdraft. Attached please review a revised Consolidated
Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended December 31, 2004. The Company
believes that this will not have a material affect on its financial statements
for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Comment No. 4
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The Company records its revenues and cost of revenues in the gross amounts
billed to its customers in accordance with EITF Issue No. 99-19 due to the
following:
o The Company is the primary obligor in the transaction
o The Company has the ability to establish selling price to its customers
o The Company uses several carriers to fulfill its transactions to its
customers
o The Company determines the amount of time sold and the price of those
transactions.
The Company derives its 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.
Comment No. 5
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We agree to improve our disclosure to make it further clear the relationship
between the note payable by the Company and the notes payable that are
guaranteed by the Company.
Comment No. 6
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During 2003, the Company obtained three installment loans amounting to $808,975
and recorded them as Notes payable upon obtaining the 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. As of December 31, 2004, the Company had a
balance payable to the bank in the amount of $626,566 against the three
installment notes that was guaranteed by the Company and the three shareholders.
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