SEC Company Response from CHINA ENERGY SAVINGS TECHNOLOGY, INC. (CIK 0001119601) — Jul 28, 2005
CHINA ENERGY SAVINGS TECHNOLOGY, INC. (CIK 0001119601)
Date: July 28, 2005 · CIK: 0001119601 · Accession: 0001076542-05-000176
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File numbers found in text: 000-31047
Referenced dates: July 12, 2005
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RICHARDSON
& PATEL LLP
10900
Wilshire Boulevard
Suite
500
Los
Angeles, CA 90024
Telephone
(310) 208-1182
Facsimile
(310) 208-1154
July
28,
2005
VIA
EDGAR AND FEDERAL EXPRESS
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
450
Fifth
Street, N.W.
Washington
DC, 20549
Attn.:
Patrick
Enunwaonye
Gary
Todd
Re:
China
Energy Savings Technology, Inc.
Form
10-KSB for the fiscal year ended
September 30, 2004
Form
10-QSB for the quarter ended December
31, 2004
File
No.
000-31047
Messrs.
Enunwaonye and Todd:
On
behalf
of China Energy Savings Technology, Inc. (the "Company"), set
forth
below are the Company’s responses to the Staff’s comment letter dated July 12,
2005, with respect to the above-referenced periodic reports of the Company.
We
have reproduced the Staff’s comments and have followed each comment with the
Company’s response. References in this letter to “we,”“our” or “us” mean the
Company or its advisors, as the context may require.
Form
10-KSB for the fiscal year September 30, 2004
Liquidity
and Capital Resources, page 20
1.
Your
response to prior comment 4 states that you analyze accounts and
notes
receivable for potential bad debts on an annual basis. As a public
company
you are required to file financial statements on a quarterly basis.
Tell
us why you should not analyze notes and accounts receivable for
bad debts
on at least a quarterly basis. If you, in fact, analyze accounts
and notes
for bad debts only on an annual basis, tell us why this matter
is not a
weakness in internal control that should be disclosed in the
filing.
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
July
28,
2005
Page
2
Response:
The
notes
and accounts receivable for bad debts are reviewed both monthly and quarterly
on
a more general basis. The annual review relates to a much more in depth review
done by the Company in conjunction with preparing for the annual audits.
Thus,
the Company does complete general reviews of its accounts and notes receivable
for potential bad debts on a monthly and quarterly basis and does not believe
that there is a weakness in internal control that is required to be disclosed
in
the filing.
Financial
Statements
Reports
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms, pages F-2 and
F-3
2.
Your
response to comment 7 indicates that the CFO is familiar with
International Accounting Standards. Your response does not describe
any
internal expertise in US GAAP. Accordingly, it appears that the
company
does not have an employee with knowledge of US GAAP. As you are
a US
public company presenting financial statements under US GAAP, tell
us why
this matter is not a material weakness in internal controls that
should be
disclosed in filing.
Response:
As
mentioned in the Company’s response to your last set of comments, the Company’s
prior Chief Financial Officer is a qualified accountant and with the assistance
from the Company’s US Auditors, the financial statements of the Company can
comply with the disclosure requirements under US GAAP. There are no significant
reporting and accounting differences when the Company converts its financial
statements to US GAAP to comply with US reporting standards. Thus, the
assistance that the US Auditors provided to the Company is relatively minimal
in
the reporting process. Additionally, effective July 1, 2005, the Company
hired
Mr. Lawrence Lok Yuen-Min as CFO of the Company. Mr. Lok has a Master’s Degree
in Economics (with a major in professional accounting) from Macquarie
University, Sydney NSW Australia. Mr. Lok is an Australian chartered accountant
and has over 20 years experience in the areas of accounting and finance.
Mr. Lok
has knowledge and experience in accounting and reporting under US GAAP
standards. Whenever there is a difference between US GAAP standards and
International Accounting Standards, Mr. Lok will search and study the difference
in order to comply with US GAAP standards. As a result, the Company does
not
believe that it has a material weakness in internal controls that needs to
be
disclosed in its filings.
3.
As
a related matter, as required by Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 your
officers
certified that the financial statements fairly present your company's
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Those
financial
statements are prepared according to US GAAP. In light of your
response to
comment 7 and the apparent absence of internal expertise in US
GAAP, tell
us how your officers satisfied themselves that the financial statements
were, in fact, appropriately presented under US GAAP. Your response
should
be detailed and specific.
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
July
28,
2005
Page
3
Response:
The
Company believes that there are no significant reporting and accounting
differences between US GAAP and the conversion of the Company’s financial
statements to comply with US GAAP and US reporting standards. With the hiring
of
the Company’s new CFO, Mr. Lok, the Company believes that it has added to its
expertise in US reporting and believes that the certifications under section
302
of SOX are appropriate.
4.
You
also indicate that your underlying records are maintained in Chinese
GAAP
and that those records were translated to US GAAP with assistance
from the
US-based auditors. Describe to us, in detail, the nature and extent
of
participation of the auditors in translation of accounting records
from
Chinese GAAP to US GAAP.
Respond separately for each audit firm. Your response should fully
describe the involvement of each audit firm in this
process.
Response:
In
the
case of both audit firms, the Company’s accounting personnel converts and
arrives at the proposed journal entries to convert the Company’s books from
Chinese GAAP to US GAAP based upon the direction and supervision of the
Company’s CFO. The US audit firms will audit the account balances and proposed
journal entries to ensure that the accounts are recorded and presented in
accordance with US GAAP. Any adjustments proposed by the US audit firms during
the regular course of the audit are discussed with management to ensure that
the
Company’s financial statements are presented in accordance with US
GAAP.
5.
With
respect to the Webb & Company audit, please identify the correspondent
firm used to translate Company's records to English. Also tell
us whether
the Webb & Company employees speak Chinese. If they do not, tell us
how those auditors were able to communicate with your Chinese
employees.
Response:
Certain
employees and the senior management including the CFO of both the Company
and
its subsidiaries in Shenzhen can communicate in English and have helped the
Company translate the relevant documents that are written in Chinese into
English. Moreover, most of the Board members could provide assistance in
oral
communication as well as translation of all relevant documents from Chinese
into
English.
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
July
28,
2005
Page
4
Consolidated
Statements of Shareholders' Equity, page F
6
6.
We
see your responses to comments 10 and 11; however, disclosure about
the
share transactions continues to be unclear. The statement of shareholders'
equity shows 12,338,301 shares issued in the recapitalization.
Yet,
financial statement footnote 1 indicates that you issued 11,153,669
shares
in the transaction. As well, it is not clear how the statement
of
shareholders' equity reflects the shares redeemed tram Ms. Strauch.
Provide us a clear reconciliation between the footnote and the
statement
of shareholders' equity. We may have comment on disclosure upon
review of
your response.
Response:
In
response to your comment, the Company proposes the following changes to its
disclosure:
Following
footnote number 1 the Company proposes to revise the portions
underlined:
On
June
30, 2004 (“the Closing Date”) Rim Holdings Inc., a Nevada corporation (Rim) and
Eurofaith Holdings, Inc., a British Virgin Islands Corporation (“Eurofaith),
entered a Stock Purchase Agreement (the Eurofaith Stock Purchase Agreement).
Pursuant to the Stock purchase agreement, Rim acquired 50% of the outstanding
shares of Starway Management Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (“Starway”)
from Eurofaith (the “Acquisition”). The purchase price for such stock was
$120,000,000 payable by Rim’s issuance of a convertible promissory note on the
Closing Date. The note may be convertible into 223,073,380 shares of the
Rim’s
common stock upon maturity at the discretion of Rim. Eurofaith may also convert
at any time prior to the maturity. On June 30, 2004, the fair value of the
convertible note payable was discounted to the fair value of the equity interest
acquired of $6,633,440 which is 50% of the net book value of Starway as December
31, 2003. On August 26, 2004 this note was converted into 11,153,669 shares
post-split of 20 to 1 (223,073,380 pre split). New Solomon Consultants Limited
acquired 6.9 million shares of common stock from Eurofaith Holdings upon
conversion. (see Note 15).
Immediately
after the closing of this transaction, Rim redeemed 1,000,000 pre
split shares
(50,000
shares post split) of
its
common stock from Christina M. Strauch in exchange for all of the shares
of
Rimmer Computer, Inc., an Arizona corporation (“Rimmer”).
In
addition, the Company proposes to add the following table:
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
July
28,
2005
Page
5
The
following is a summary of the shares issued due to the
recapitalization:
No.
of Shares
Issued
Shares
issued to current stock holders in connection with
recapitalization
$
1,234,632
Shares
issued to Eurofaith due to note conversion
11,153,669
Shares
redeemed from Christina Strauch
(50,000
)
Net
shares issued due to recapitalization
$
12,338,301
Revenue
and Deferred Revenue Recognition, page F-12
7.
Your
responses to comments 14 and 15 indicate that you have post-shipment
obligations for training, seminars and three years of free maintenance.
You indicate that you believe that these items need not be separately
accounted for because the cost of these services is minimal.
In general,
under EITF 00-21, the fair value of each element is separately
recognized
in revenue as those elements are delivered. The cost of delivery
is not
the sole consideration or driver of the accounting. In a detailed
response, demonstrate that the application of EITF 00-21 would
not be
material. Your response should fully demonstrate how you evaluated
the
requirements of the EITF and should fully explain the basis for
your
conclusion that the impact of guidance is not material. We may
have
further comment upon review of your
response.
Response:
The
Company has post-shipment obligations for training, seminars and three
years of
free maintenance to its customers. Under EITF 00-21, revenue arrangements
with
multiple deliverables should be divided into separate units of accounting:
(1)
if the deliverables in the arrangement meet that the delivered items have
value
to the customer on a stand-alone basis, (2) there is objective and reliable
evidence of the fair value of the undelivered items, (3) the arrangement
includes a general right of return relative to the delivered item, delivery
or
performance of the undelivered item(s) is considered probable and substantially
in the control of the vendor.
Securities
and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
July
28,
2005
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