SEC Company Response from PRACTICEXPERT INC (CIK 0001113679) — Nov 10, 2005
PRACTICEXPERT INC (CIK 0001113679)
Date: Nov. 10, 2005 · CIK: 0001113679 · Accession: 0001144204-05-034945
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LAW OFFICES OF MICHAEL H. HOFFMAN, P.A.
1953 NW 22ND STREET
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33142
TEL: (786) 280-7575
FAX: (786) 276-6848
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November 10, 2005
United States Securities
and Exchange Commission
Mail Stop 3561
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: PracticeXpert, Inc.
Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2004
Filed April 15, 2005
File No. 000-30583
Dear Sir or Madam:
On behalf of PracticeXpert, Inc. (the "Company"), we are responding to
the staff comments, as set forth in the letter from the staff of August 29, 2005
to Mr. Michael Manahan, Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
As set forth in the letter from the staff, the Company acknowledges and
agrees as follows: (A) the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy
of the disclosures in the filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission"); (B) the staff comments, or changes to disclosures in
response to staff comments, do not foreclose the Commission from taking any
action with respect to the filings; and (C) 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.
The Company acknowledges the staff comment that the Division of
Enforcement has access to all information provided to the staff of the Division
of Corporation Finance in its review of the filings or in response to the staff
comments on the filings.
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United States Securities
and Exchange Commission
November 10, 2005
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The following captions and numbered paragraphs set forth herein
correspond to the captions and numbered paragraphs contained in the staff's
letter to the Company:
Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2004
Item 6 - Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition, page 10
1. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that the Company has been
requested to clarify whether the Company's revenues from medical
billing and accounts receivable management services are presented on a
net or gross basis in the income statement, as referenced in EITF
99-19. The revenues that the Company receives as fees for its medical
billing and account receivable management services are presented on a
net basis in the income statement, as the Company recognizes revenue as
a percentage of the net amount collected by its customers.
Client Lists and Client Account Amortization, page 10
2. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to inform the staff about the Company's determination that the maximum
life is the appropriate useful life for amortization of its client
lists and accounts, rather than the expected useful life, as required
by paragraph 11 of SFAS 142. The Company believes that management's
evaluation of the expected period over which the client lists and
accounts will generate cash flow, which includes the historical
collection experience of such client lists and accounts, is the
estimated useful life of the client lists and accounts, as required by
SFAS 142. The Company has used the term, "maximum useful life" to
identify the appropriate amortization period.
Note 6 - Intangible Assets, page 23
3. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it disclose the
accounting treatment when a customer is added to a customer list,
whether or not these customers are considered when the customer lists
are reviewed for impairment, and the accounting treatment when a
customer is lost. The Company does not increase the carrying value of a
customer list when it adds a new customer. The customer lists are
reviewed periodically for impairment, and at the time a client is lost.
Any activity which materially adversely affects the carrying value on a
customer list is recorded as impaired.
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United States Securities
and Exchange Commission
November 10, 2005
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4. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to inform the staff about the Company's consideration given to
adjusting the amortization periods of the customer lists when
performing impairment tests, as referenced in paragraph 9 of SFAS 144.
The Company handles client list impairment by removing the client which
has been impaired from the list, and the remaining carrying values on
the list are amortized over their remaining useful life.
5. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to inform the staff about the Company's method for determining fair
value and the amount of impairment of a client list, as referenced is
paragraph in 46 of SFAS 142. The Company's initial determination of
fair value of the client list being acquired is based on discounted
cash flows, as calculated by management or through an independent
appraiser. Impairment is measured as the difference between the
discounted cash flow and the carrying value of the client list.
Note 17 - Discontinued Operations, page 28
6. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to provide details regarding the Company's disposition of its three (3)
inactive subsidiaries on September 23, 2003, the realization of a gain
upon such disposition, and to clarify whether or not it performed an
impairment test on the long-lived assets of these subsidiaries, if any,
prior to or at the time of the transfer. These subsidiaries had
negligible assets and no long-lived assets on the Company's books.
Accordingly, no asset impairment test was performed. In addition, the
three (3) inactive subsidiaries each had a stockholders' deficit. A
gain was realized because each of these subsidiaries had debt on the
books, and upon disposition of the subsidiaries the Company was
relieved of those debt obligations. These subsidiaries were all in
various stages of liquidation due to their insolvency and inactivity.
Note 19 - Acquisition, page 28
7. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to inform the staff whether the transactions contained in Note 19 were
recognized as business combinations in accordance with EITF 98-3. The
Company treated each of these transactions as a business combination,
and these transactions were presented in the consolidated financial
statements of the Company during 2004. Audited and pro forma
consolidated financial statements were also included in the Company's
Form 8-K/A dated September 7, 2004.
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United States Securities
and Exchange Commission
November 10, 2005
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8. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to advise the staff of the methodology that the Company used to
allocate the purchase price to the assets acquired from Cancer Care
Network, Inc., specifically to the client lists. The Company allocated
the purchase price based on the fair value of the assets and
liabilities acquired. The methodology used for valuing the client
lists was based on discounted cash flows.
Note 22 - Subsequent Event
Acquisition, page 31
9. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to revise the pro forma information disclosed for the acquisition of
PracticeOne in the above Form 10-KSB and Form 8-K/A dated May 31, 2005
to only include information for the year ended December 31, 2004, and
that the information be presented in columnar form showing pro forma
adjustments and results, as required by Item 310(d) of Regulation S-B.
The Company has complied with the staff comment and revised the pro
forma information disclosed for the acquisition of PracticeOne in those
reports in the manner being requested by the staff. Attached as
Schedule 1 to this letter is the pro forma financial information, which
will be included in the amendments to such reports to be filed with the
Commission.
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended March 31, 2005
Note 7 - Acquisition, page 9
10. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that the Company has been
requested to provide the staff with a description of the factors that
contributed to the purchase prices that resulted in the recognition of
goodwill, including the valuation methodology used to allocate the
purchase prices to the acquired assets, specifically the intangible
assets, as referenced in paragraphs 51 and 58 of SFAS 141. The amount
of the purchase prices allocated to assets acquired, including the
intangible assets, was based upon the fair values of those assets, as
determined primarily by way of an independent appraisal of those
assets, which utilized a discounted cash flow valuation method.
Goodwill is the residual amount after allocation of the purchase price
to identifiable assets, and equals the difference between the total
consideration paid for the assets minus the fair value of the assets.
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United States Securities
and Exchange Commission
November 10, 2005
Page 5
11. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to inform the staff about the Company's accounting for the issuance of
the warrants ("Warrants") to PI (Cayman) Limited to purchase six
million shares of common stock of the Company, when determining the
purchase price of the acquired entity and the basis for determining the
value of the Warrants. As set forth in Section 1.3.8 of the Agreement
of Purchase and Sale of Stock dated as of December 20, 2004, which was
an exhibit to the Company's Form 8-K filed with the Commission on
January 7, 2005, the Warrants were issued as a fee to PI (Cayman)
Limited in connection with obtaining the $2 million revolving line of
credit from Citibank, N.A. The Warrants were recorded at fair value on
the Company's books at the inception of the $2 million revolving line
of credit from Citibank, N.A.
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended June 30, 2005
Note 11- Convertible Note Payable and Extraordinary Gain, page 12
12. The Company acknowledges the staff comment that it has been requested
to inform the staff about the accounting guidance used by the Company
in determining the proper accounting treatment for the conversion of $4
million of convertible debt into common stock on June 30, 2005. The
Company relied on the guidance set forth in FAS 145, "Rescission of
FASB Statements No. 4, 44 and 64, Amendment of FASB Statement No. 13,
and Technical Corrections", which refers to APB 30, "Reporting the
Results of Operations - Reporting the Effects of Disposal of a Segment
of a Business and Extraordinary and Unusual and Infrequently Occurring
Events and Transactions." APB 30, paragraph 19 states that for a
transaction to be classified as an extraordinary item, it must be both
unusual and infrequent. The Company considered the conversion of $4
million of convertible debt into common stock to be unusual because of
the magnitude of the amount of the transaction, and that this
transaction it is not related to an activity in the ordinary course of
business of the Company. The Company considered the conversion event to
be infrequent, because the transaction arose from acquisition
indebtedness, which is also an activity not in the ordinary course of
business of the Company. The Company does not anticipate another such
conversion event to occur at any time in the foreseeable future.
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United States Securities
and Exchange Commission
November 10, 2005
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Please feel free to contact the undersigned should you have any
comments or questions regarding the foregoing.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Michael H. Hoffman, Esq.
Michael H. Hoffman, Esq.
Enclosure
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PRO FORMA STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2004
(Unaudited)
The following unaudited Pro Forma Statement of Operations has been derived from
the historical audited financial statements of PracticeXpert, Inc. (A) for the
year ended December 31, 2004 and the historical audited financial statements of
Physician Informatics, Inc. (B) for the year ended December 31, 2004. The Pro
Forma Statement of Operations reflects the stock purchase of B by A on January
3, 2005, and presents the information for the year ended December 31, 2004,
assuming that the stock purchase transaction was consummated as of January 1,
2004.
The Pro Forma Statement of Operations should be read in conjunction with the
financial statements of A and the notes thereto and the financial statements of
B and the notes thereto. The Pro Forma Statement of Operations does not purport
to represent what A's results of operations and financial condition would
actually have been if the stock purchase of B had occurred on the date indicated
or to project A's results of operations for any future period or date. The pro
forma adjustments, as described in the accompanying data, are based on available
information and the assumptions set forth in the footnotes below.
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Physician
PracticeXpert Informatics Pro Forma Pro Forma
(Historical) (Historical) Adjustment Combined
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Net revenue $ 11,096,512 $ 3,983,627 $ -- $ 15,080,139
Operating expenses 15,040,965 6,635,751 900,000(1) 22,576,716
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Loss from operations (3,944,453) (2,652,124) (900,000) (7,496,577)
Non-operating expenses (182,755) (3,615,621) -- (3,798,376)
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Income loss before provision for income taxes (4,127,208) (6,267,745) (900,000) (11,294,9