SEC Company Response from CarbonMeta Technologies, Inc. (CIK 0001156784) — Oct 17, 2005
CarbonMeta Technologies, Inc. (CIK 0001156784)
Date: Oct. 17, 2005 · CIK: 0001156784 · Accession: 0001144204-05-031868
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File numbers found in text: 333-127368
Referenced dates: June 22, 2005, October 12, 2005, September 2, 2005, September 2, 2005
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Innova Holdings, Inc.
17105 San Carlos Boulevard, Suite A1651
Fort Myers, Florida 33931
October 17, 2005
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Innova Holdings, Inc. (the "Company")
Registration Statement on form SB-2 - Amendment No. 1
Filed September 30, 2005
File No. 333-127368
Form 10-KSB/A for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004 Filed on July 29, 2005
Form 10-QSB/A for Fiscal Quarter Ended March 31, 2005 Filed on July 29, 2005
Form 10-QSB for Fiscal Quarter Ended June 30, 2005 Filed on August 22, 2005
File No. 0-33231
Gentlemen:
In response to your comment letter dated October 12, 2005, we have the following
responses that are keyed to your numbered comments:
Registration Statement on Form SB-2, as amended
Prospectus Cover Page
Comment
1. We refer you to comment 2 of our letter dated September 2, 2005. We
note disclosure in this section that states "[w]ith the exception of
Cornell Capital Partners, Monitor and the other selling shareholders,
which are each an "underwriter" within the meaning of the Securities Act
of 1933, no other underwriter or person has been engaged to facilitate the
sale of shares of common stock in this offering." However, only Cornell
Capital Partners is named as an underwriter in the "Plan of Distribution"
section. Please advise or revise accordingly.
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Response
1. In response to your comment, we have determined that Cornell Capital
Partners, Monitor and all other selling shareholders are "underwriters"
within the meaning of the Securities Act. We will change the text in the
Plan of Distribution to read as follows:
"In offering the shares covered by this prospectus, Monitor Capital,
Inc. and the other selling stockholders and any broker-dealers who
execute sales for the selling stockholders are deemed to be
"underwriters" within the meaning of the Securities Act in
connection with such sales. Any profits realized by the selling
stockholders and the compensation of any broker-dealer are deemed to
be underwriting discounts and commissions."
Risk Factors page 5
Comment
2. Consider whether risk factor disclosure is appropriate to address the
ineffective [disclosure] controls and procedures and internal controls
over financial reporting you describe in the proposed revisions to your
periodic reports.
Response
2. In response to the comment we will add the following risk disclosure
regarding the Company's ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and
ineffective internal controls over financial reporting to the RISK FACTORS
section of the amendment to the SB-2 when it is filed:
THE COMPANY'S DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES AND ITS INTERNAL CONTROLS
OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING WERE INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE OF NOT PROPERLY
ACCOUNTING FOR BENEFICIAL CONVERSION FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH CONVERTIBLE
PREFERRED STOCK SOLD IN 2004 AND 2005.
As of December 31, 2004, March 31, 2005 and June 30, 2005 our principal
executive officer and principal financial officer evaluated the
effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures and the
effectiveness of the Company's internal controls over financial reporting
and concluded that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures and
its internal controls over financial reporting were ineffective because
the Company had not properly accounted for certain beneficial conversion
features associated with its Series A Preferred Stock and Series B
Preferred Stock issued in 2004 and 2005 and the accounting guidance
provided by Emerging Issues Task Force Issue Numbers 98-5 and 00-27.
Management concluded that the failure to properly account for and disclose
the beneficial conversion features was a material weakness in its
disclosure controls and procedures and its internal controls over
financial reporting.
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The Company issued its Series A Preferred Stock in June 2004 and its
Series B Preferred Stock in September 2004 through March 2005. In its
financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2004, and the quarter
ended March 31, 2005, the Company did not allocate any portion of the
proceeds of these stock issuances to any beneficial conversion features of
the preferred stock. After filing its annual report on Form 10-KSB and its
quarterly report for the three months ended March 31, 2005 on Form 10-QSB,
the Company received a comment letter from the staff of the Securities and
Exchange Commission dated June 22, 2005 that requested, among other
things, confirmation that management of the Company considered the
guidance of certain accounting pronouncements in determining whether a
portion of the proceeds of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock issued
in June 2004 and Series B Preferred Stock issued in September 2004 through
March 2005 should be allocated to the beneficial conversion feature. After
receipt of the SEC's comment letter, the Company reevaluated its
disclosure controls and procedures and its internal controls over
financial reporting and responded to the SEC letter regarding the material
weakness identified in their letter and the remedial actions planned by
the Company, and the Company amended its periodic reports for the year
ended December 31, 2004 and the quarters ended March 31, 2005 and June 30,
2005.
Selling Stockholders, page 13
Comment
3. Please advice as to any affiliation between Monitor Capital, Inc. and
Cornell Capital Partners.
Response
3. In response to the comment, we have been advised by Cornell Capital
Partners that there is no affiliation between Monitor Capital, Inc. and
Cornell Capital Partners. We will add the following comment:
"There is no affiliation between Cornell capital Partners and Monitor
Capital, Inc."
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Signatures, page II-11
Comment
4. Please revise, if true to indicate that Mr. Gartlan is also signing as
Principal Accounting Officer or Controller, See Instruction to Signatures
to Form SB-2.
Response
4. In response to the comment, we will change the Signatures page to add
to Mr. Gartlan's title of Chief Financial Officer the additional title of
Principal Accounting Officer.
Supplemental response with proposed revisions to your Form 10-KSB/A for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 filed on July 29, 2005
Comment
5. We note that in your first paragraph, after defining disclosure
controls and procedures you state your officers concluded your "controls
and procedures were ineffective." Please revise or indicate, if true, that
your disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective. In responding to
this comment and the following comments please also revise disclosure in
all the above-referenced periodic reports.
Response
5. We have revised to indicate that our disclosure controls and procedures
were ineffective. Additionally, we have attached to this letter as Exhibit
A revised disclosures of the "Controls and Procedures" section in our Form
10-KSB/A for the year ended December 31, 2004, Form 10-QSB/A for the
quarter ended March 31, 2005 and Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended June
30, 2005.
Comment
6. Please disclose here, or elsewhere as appropriate, such as your
"Management's Discussion and Analysis" section, whether there are any
material costs associated with the "corrective" measures discussed in your
response to comment 4 of our letter dated September 2, 2005.
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Response
6. All of the costs to implement the remedial actions disclosed in the
attached Exhibit A were costs previously planned to be incurred by the
Company or were insignificant in amount. Accordingly, management has
determined that disclosure of these costs will be made in the
"Management's Discussion and Analysis" section of the Company's periodic
reports as these costs are incurred and if they are material.
Additionally, we have attached to this letter as Exhibit A revised
disclosures of the "Controls and Procedures" section in our Form 10-KSB/A
for the year ended December 31, 2004, Form 10-QSB/A for the quarter ended
March 31, 2005 and Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended June 30, 2005,
wherein we state that "There are no additional material costs expected to
be incurred as a result of the implementation of these remedial actions,
since all of these actions were previously planned by the Company for
implementation in 2005 and 2006 or were insignificant in amount.
Comment
7. We re-issue comment 5 of our letter dated September 2, 2005, in part.
Please revise to expressly identify all material weaknesses and any
significant deficiency that, when combined with other significant
deficiencies, is determined to be a material weakness.
Response
7. We have revised the reports to expressly identify the material
weakness. We have attached to this letter as Exhibit A revised disclosures
of the "Controls and Procedures" section in our Form 10-KSB/A for the year
ended December 31, 2004, Form 10-QSB/A for the quarter ended March 31,
2005 and Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended June 30, 2005.
Supplemental resonse with proposed revisions to your Form 10-QSB for the fiscal
quarter ended June 30, 2005 filed August 22, 2005.
Comment
8. We note you only reevaluated your internal controls over financial
reporting and disclosure controls and procedures after receipt of a letter
from the SEC staff dated June 22, 2005. Please advise why you believe that
your disclosure controls and procedures were effective on June 30, 2005.
Response
8. We have revised the report to indicate that our disclosure controls and
procedures were ineffective on June 30, 2005 since the Company was still
in the process of implementing remedial actions to address this material
weakness. We have attached to this letter as Exhibit A revised disclosures
of the "Controls and Procedures" section in our Form 10-QSB for the
quarter ended June 30, 2005.
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Comment
9. We reissue comment 7 of our letter dated September 2, 2005 in part. It
appears from the timeline provided in the proposed disclosure that there
may have been changes to your internal controls over financial reporting
that occurred during the last fiscal quarter that materially affected, or
is reasonably likely to materially affect your internal controls over
financial reporting. Please revise to provide the disclosure pursuant to
Item 308 (c) of Regulation S-B or advise why there were no such changes.
Response
9. In response to your comment, we have revised our report to reflect an
identification of the changes to the internal controls over financial
reporting that occurred during the quarter ended June 30, 2005 that
materially affected our internal controls over financial reporting. We
have attached to this letter as Exhibit A revised disclosures of the
"Controls and Procedures" section in our Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended
June 30, 2005.
Sincerely,
By: /s/ Walter Weisel
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Walter Weisel
Chief Executive Officer
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EXHIBIT A
Form 10-KSB/A for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004 filed on July 29, 2005
ITEM 8A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
As of December 31, 2004, our principal executive officer and principal
financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure
controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended). This evaluation of the disclosure
controls and procedures included controls and procedures designed to ensure that
information required to be disclosed by the Company in its reports that it files
or submits under the Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within
the time periods specified in the Security and Exchange Commission's rules and
forms. Such disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in
the reports that it files or submits under the Act is accumulated and
communicated to the Company's management, including its principal executive and
principal financial officers, to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure. Based on this evaluation, the Company's principal executive officer
and principal financial officer concluded that the Company's disclosure controls
and procedures were ineffective because the Company had not properly accounted
for certain beneficial conversion features associated with its Series A
Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock issued in 2004 and the accounting
guidance provided by Emerging Issues Task Force Issue Numbers 98-5 and 00-27.
Management concluded that the failure to properly account for and disclose the
beneficial conversion features was a material weakness in its disclosure
controls and procedures.
The Company issued its Series A Preferred Stock in June 2004 and its
Series B Preferred Stock in September 2004. In its financial statements for the
year ended December 31, 2004, the Company did not allocate any portion of the
proceeds of these stock issuances to any beneficial conversion features of the
preferred stock. After filing its annual report on Form 10-KSB, the Company
received a comment letter from the staff of the Securities and Exchange
Commission dated June 22, 2005 that requested, among other things, confirmation
that management of the Company considered the guidance of certain accounting
pronouncements in determining whether a portion of the proceeds of the Company's
Series A Preferred Stock issued in June 2004 and Series B Preferred Stock issued
in September 2004 should be allocated to the beneficial conversion feature.
After receipt of the SEC's comment letter, the Company's Chief Executive
Officer and Chief Financial Officer reevaluated the Company's disclosure
controls and procedures regarding the proper accounting treatment of the
preferred stock issuances in 2004 and presented to the Company's independent
certified public accountants its plan to institute remedial actions to address
this material weakness in its disclosure controls and procedures regarding the
issuance of convertible securities and any associated beneficial conversion
features and the accounting guidance provided by Emerging Issues Task Force
Issue Numbers 98-5 and 00-27. These r