SEC Company Response from INTERACTIVE MOTORSPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT CORP (CIK 0001115551) — Nov 29, 2005
INTERACTIVE MOTORSPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT CORP (CIK 0001115551)
Date: Nov. 29, 2005 · CIK: 0001115551 · Accession: 0001178858-05-000101
AI Filing Summary & Sentiment
File numbers found in text: 000-30771
Referenced dates: July 6, 2005, July 6, 2005, October 25, 2005
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November 29, 2005
Mr. Steven Jacobs
Accounting Branch Chief
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C, 20549
Re: Interactive Motorsports and Entertainment Corp.
Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2004
File No. 000-30771
Dear Mr. Jacobs,
I am in receipt of your letter dated October 25, 2005. I have once again
authorized David Smith of our company to prepare the company's response to your
inquiries in the space below.
Question:
1. We note your response to comment 1 in your letters dated July 6, 2005
and October 25, 2005. As indicated in Exhibit E of EOTF 01-9,
consideration given by a vendor to a customer may take a variety of
forms including equity instruments of the vendor. Example 3 in Exhibit
B and Exhibit D provide examples of the accounting treatment for
consideration in the form of equity instruments. Paragraph 13 of EITF
00-21 prescribes that any separate unit of accounting which is
required to be recorded at fair value under GAAP should be recorded at
fair value with the remainder of the arrangement consideration
allocated to the other units of accounting in accordance with
paragraph 12 of EITF 00-21. Accordingly, please summarize the impact
on your historical financial statements if you had applied EITF 01-9
and paragraph 13 of EITF 00-21 to the common stock warrants thereby
reducing the amount attributable to your management service agreement
and simulators prior to any relative fair value allocation under
paragraph 12.
Response
The impact for the year ending December 31, 2004 would be to reduce
revenue and net income by $127,271, resulting in revenue of $6,944,563
and a net loss of $118,402 for the twelve month period. The balance
sheet would also be impacted, with Additional Paid in Capital
increasing by $135,185, Retained Earnings decreasing by $127,271, and
Liabilities decreasing by $7,914.
For the three month period ending March 31, 2005, the impact would
reduce revenue and net income by $7,550 resulting in revenue of
$1,667,884 and a net loss of $46,276 for the three month period. The
balance sheet would also be impacted, with Additional Paid in Capital
decreasing by $8,110, Retained Earnings increasing by $7,550, and
Liabilities increasing by $560.
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There would be no impact for the three month period ending June 30,
2005 since the final transaction with Race Car Simulation Corp.,
completed in April, 2005, was recorded with the warrants valued at
their full value.
Question:
2. We read your response to comments 3 and 2 in your letters dated July
6, 2005 and October 25, 2005, respectively, and continue to believe
that you have not demonstrated how you meet the criteria for
entity-specific or VSOE of fair value. We understand that your
historical cost of providing maintenance services would be a component
of the consideration to establishing the standalone price for your
management service agreement; however, you have not demonstrated why
you believe this price will be accepted in the marketplace on a
standalone basis. Since your management service agreement is not
currently being sold separately, please support how you determined
that your historical cost to maintain your existing simulator fleet is
equal to the fair value of your management service agreement to a
third party, which includes other deliverables in addition to
maintenance services. Please also tell us how you determined that it
is probable that this price, which is limited to the historical cost
for only some of the services in your management service agreement,
will not change before the separate introduction of this service into
the market place. Lastly, please explain to us when and if you plan to
introduce your management service agreement into the market on a
standalone basis.
3. If you consider your performance obligation under the management
service agreement to be inconsequential or perfunctory, please explain
to us how you considered each of the factors in SAB Topic 13(A)(3)(c)
in reaching this conclusion.
Response to Comment 2 and 3
We read Comment 2, and do not understand how we have not met the
criteria for entity specific or VSOE of fair value. Paragraph 16 of
EITF 00-21, with reference to SOP 97-2, states that VSOE of fair value
is limited to: (a) the price of the deliverable when it is regularly
sold on a standalone basis, or (b) if the deliverable has yet to be
sold separately, the price established by management having the
relevant authority (it must be probable that the price, once
established, will not change before the separate introduction of the
deliverable into the marketplace). As we have stated previously, the
management of the Company, having the relevant authority, established
the price of the management service agreements. The Company believes
it receives a fair return from the sale of its simulators to its
customers, and its customers are the sole prospects for engaging in a
management service agreement. With this in mind, and given that it has
the relevant authority, management has chosen to price the management
service agreement in such a way that it covers the cost the Company
believes it will bear for providing the maintenance services entailed
in the agreement. EITF 00-21 does not require the Company to show that
the price established would be accepted in the marketplace.
Additionally, as you have alluded in comment 2, the management service
agreement does have the potential to require the company to provide
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deliverables other than maintenance services on the simulators, such
services to be delivered on an "as needed" basis. These services
include collection services and relocation services. The Company
believes that these "as needed" services are inconsequential or
perfunctory per the context in SAB Topic 13(A)(3)(c). These additional
services are not essential to the functionality of the simulators, and
our customer does not have the right of returning the simulators, nor
do they have the right to reject all other services performed under
the management service agreement in the event the Company fails to
complete these "as needed" services. Furthermore, the skills and
equipment required to complete most of the activities related to these
services are readily available, the cost and time required to perform
these services has not varied significantly for one instance to
another, and the cost to complete the "as needed" services incumbent
in the agreement are insignificant when compared to the revenue
associated with the management service agreement.
Management believes it will sell its first management service
agreement on a stand alone basis sometime in the first half of 2006,
although there can be no assurance. Management is confident that the
price will not change before the management service agreement's
introduction into the marketplace, since it is management itself that
would make that determination.
In closing, the Company continues to believe that its recording of the December
31, 2004 transaction not only conforms to GAAP, but also meets the standard of
fair presentation of our financial statements that we discussed in our prior
correspondence with you. The Company strongly believes that if we were to
incorporate the treatment of the December 31, 2004 transaction as you have
suggested, we would not be fairly presenting the transaction or its impact on
our financial statements. The interpretation of the individual accounting and
financial reporting standards that you have proposed would lead to misleading
financial statements and therefore preclude fair presentation. We would then be
placed in the precarious position of having to consider certifying financial
statements that we feel the do not fairly present the financial condition of the
Company. As such, we once again ask that you please reconsider your
interpretation of EITF 00-21 and your proposed treatment of the December 31,
2004 transaction.
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Thank you in advance for your assistance in ensuring our compliance with the
applicable disclosure requirements and in our efforts to fulfill our
responsibility of fair presentation of our financial information to the
investment community. Please feel free to call me or David Smith if you should
have further questions. Our corporate office number is (317) 295-3500. My
extension is 107, and David's is 102.
Sincerely,
/s/ William R. Donaldson
William R. Donaldson
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
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