CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Under the supervision and with the participation
−Removed: of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness
−Removed: of our disclosure controls and procedures, which is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act, as of July 31, 2023.
−Removed: Based on that evaluation, our management has concluded that, as of July 31, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were not
−Removed: effective in ensuring that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file and furnish under the Exchange Act
−Removed: was recorded, processed, summarized, and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that
−Removed: the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated
−Removed: to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding
−Removed: required disclosure.
−Removed: Our conclusion is based on the fact that we do not have sufficient full-time accounting and financial reporting personnel
−Removed: with appropriate levels of accounting knowledge and experience to monitor the daily recording of transactions, to address complex U.S.
+Added: Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we carried
+Added: out an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, which is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) of the
+Added: Exchange Act, as of July 31, 2024.
+Added: Based on that evaluation, our management has concluded that, as of July 31, 2024, our disclosure
+Added: controls and procedures were not effective in ensuring that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file
+Added: and furnish under the Exchange Act was recorded, processed, summarized, and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s
+Added: rules and forms, and that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange
+Added: Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate,
+Added: to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Our conclusion is based on the fact that we do not have sufficient full-time
+Added: accounting and financial reporting personnel with appropriate levels of accounting knowledge and experience to monitor the daily recording
+Added: of transactions, to address complex U.S.
GAAP accounting issues and the related disclosures under U.S.
−Removed: In addition, there was a lack of sufficient documented financial closing
−Removed: procedure and a lack of risk assessment in accordance with COSCO 2013 framework.
−Removed: Our management is currently in the process of evaluating
−Removed: the steps necessary to remediate the ineffectiveness, such as (i) hiring more qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
−Removed: and SEC reporting experience and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting function and to set up a financial and system control
−Removed: framework, and (ii) implementing regular and continuous U.S.
−Removed: GAAP accounting and financial reporting training programs for our accounting
−Removed: and financial reporting personnel, and (iii) establishing an internal audit function and standardizing the Company’s semi-annual
−Removed: and year-end closing and financial reporting processes.
+Added: In addition, there was a
+Added: lack of sufficient documented financial closing procedure and a lack of risk assessment in accordance with COSCO 2013 framework.
+Added: Our management
+Added: is currently in the process of evaluating the steps necessary to remediate the ineffectiveness, such as (i) hiring more qualified
+Added: accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
+Added: GAAP and SEC reporting experience and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting function
+Added: and to set up a financial and system control framework, and (ii) implementing regular and continuous U.S.
+Added: GAAP accounting and financial
+Added: reporting training programs for our accounting and financial reporting personnel, and (iii) establishing an internal audit function and
+Added: standardizing the Company’s semi-annual and year-end closing and financial reporting processes.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial
−Removed: Our management is responsible for establishing
−Removed: and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under
−Removed: the Exchange Act.
−Removed: In assessing our internal control over financial reporting, prior to the offering in April 2019, we have been a
−Removed: private company with limited accounting personnel and other resources to address our internal controls and procedures.
−Removed: Our independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm, has not conducted an audit of our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: However, in connection
−Removed: with the audits of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended July 31, 2023, we identified four “material weaknesses”
−Removed: in our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined
+Added: in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: In assessing our internal control over financial reporting, prior
+Added: to the offering in April 2019, we have been a private company with limited accounting personnel and other resources to address our
+Added: internal controls and procedures.
+Added: Our independent registered public accounting firm, has not conducted an audit of our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting.
+Added: However, in connection with the audits of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended July 31,
+Added: 2024, we identified four “material weaknesses” in our internal control over financial reporting.
We did not have sufficient personnel with appropriate levels of accounting knowledge and experience to address complex U.S.
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We have not established sufficient risk assessment in accordance with the requirement of COSCO 2013 Framework;
−Removed: We did not have sufficient documented financial closing policies and procedures.
−Removed: A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination
−Removed: of deficiencies, within the meaning of PCAOB Auditing Standard AS 2201, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there
−Removed: is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected
−Removed: on a timely basis.
−Removed: We have hired additional accounting staffs and are in the progress of improving our system security environment and
−Removed: conducting regular backup plan and penetration testing to ensure the network and information security.
−Removed: In addition, we plan to address
−Removed: the weaknesses identified above by implementing the following measures:
−Removed: Furthermore, we are in the process of implementing
−Removed: a number of measures to address the first to third material weakness that has been identified, including:
+Added: We did not have sufficient documentations and
+Added: descriptions on journal entries;
+Added: material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, within the meaning of PCAOB Auditing Standard AS 2201, in internal
+Added: control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial
+Added: statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
+Added: We have hired additional accounting staffs and are in the progress of
+Added: improving our system security environment and conducting regular backup plan and penetration testing to ensure the network and information
+Added: In addition, we plan to address the weaknesses identified above by implementing the following measures:
+Added: we are in the process of implementing a number of measures to address the first to third material weakness that has been identified, including:
hiring more qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
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with the establishment of our internal audit function.
−Removed: However, we cannot assure you that we will remediate
−Removed: our material weaknesses in a timely manner.
+Added: we cannot assure you that we will remediate our material weaknesses in a timely manner.
Attestation Report of the Registered Public
Accounting Firm
−Removed: This annual report on Form 10-K does not
−Removed: include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting, as such report is not required due to the Company’s status as a smaller reporting company.
+Added: annual report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding the effectiveness
+Added: of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, as such report is not required due to the Company’s status as
+Added: a smaller reporting company.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial
−Removed: Except as disclosed above, there have been no
−Removed: changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2023 that have materially
−Removed: affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: as disclosed above, there have been no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during fiscal year ended
+Added: July 31, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
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THAT PREVENTS INSPECTIONS
−Removed: Not applicable.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND
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Directors, Executive Officers and Significant Employees
−Removed: The following table and text
−Removed: set forth the names and ages of our current directors, executive officers and significant employees as of the date of this annual report.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors is comprised of five (5) members.
+Added: following table and text set forth the names and ages of our current directors, executive officers and significant employees as of the
+Added: date of this annual report.
+Added: Our Board of Directors is comprised
+Added: of five (5) members.
President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
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Business Experience
−Removed: Jun Liu has been our director since June 2019,
−Removed: our President and Chairman since July 2020 and our Chief Executive Officer since August 2021, also having previously served as our
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer from June 2019 to July 2020.
+Added: Jun Liu has been
+Added: our director since June 2019, our President and Chairman since July 2020 and our Chief Executive Officer since August 2021,
+Added: also having previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from June 2019 to July 2020.
Since November 2015, Mr.
−Removed: Liu has served as the President and Director of Asian
−Removed: Equity Exchange Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of a U.S.
−Removed: public company Asia Equity Exchange Group, Inc.
−Removed: a corporation that develops and manufactures software solutions for equity market.
−Removed: Liu served as the Chairman of the Board of
−Removed: Directors, President, and CEO of AEEX from July 2015 to September 2017.
−Removed: From December 2000 to December 2001, he served as the
−Removed: head of marketing for the South China Branch of Alibaba.
+Added: Liu has served
+Added: as the President and Director of Asian Equity Exchange Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of a U.S.
+Added: public company Asia Equity Exchange
+Added: (“AEEX”), a corporation that develops and manufactures software solutions for equity market.
+Added: served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and CEO of AEEX from July 2015 to September 2017.
+Added: From December
+Added: 2000 to December 2001, he served as the head of marketing for the South China Branch of Alibaba.
Liu received his Ph.D.
−Removed: in International Finance from Camden University
−Removed: in 2015 and his bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1998.
−Removed: Liu has over 20
−Removed: years of enterprise management experience and served in management positions at Fortune 500 companies.
−Removed: Liu is well qualified to serve
−Removed: on our board of directors based on his management experience and prior executive experience serving in public and private companies.
−Removed: Yue Ming has been our Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer (“CFO”) and director since August 2021.
+Added: in International
+Added: Finance from Camden University U.S.A.
+Added: in 2015 and his bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the Harbin Institute of Technology
+Added: Liu has over 20 years of enterprise management experience and served in management positions at Fortune 500 companies.
+Added: Liu is well qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his management experience and prior executive experience serving in
+Added: public and private companies.
+Added: Yue Ming has been
+Added: our Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and director since August 2021.
She has served as our accountant since August 1, 2018.
−Removed: Prior to joining the
−Removed: Company, she was employed by Asia Equity Exchange Group, Inc.
−Removed: and acted as financial manager from December 1, 2014 to July 31, 2018.
−Removed: Ming started her accounting career at Shenzhen Huitian Accounting Firm on July 1, 2009 after she graduated from Central China Normal University
−Removed: where she majored in international trade.
−Removed: Ming has more than 10 years of corporate finance and accounting experience.
−Removed: above and Ms.
+Added: Prior to joining the Company, she was employed by Asia Equity Exchange Group, Inc.
+Added: and acted as financial manager from December 1, 2014
+Added: to July 31, 2018.
+Added: Ming started her accounting career at Shenzhen Huitian Accounting Firm on July 1, 2009 after she graduated from
+Added: Central China Normal University where she majored in international trade.
+Added: Ming has more than 10 years of corporate finance and accounting
+Added: Based on the above and Ms.
Ming’s experience in finance and accounting, we believe that Ms.
−Removed: Ming is well qualified to serve on our board of directors.
−Removed: Kwong Sang Liu has served as our independent
−Removed: director since April 2019.
+Added: Ming is well qualified to
+Added: serve on our board of directors.
+Added: Kwong Sang Liu has
+Added: served as our independent director since April 2019.
Since May 1997, Mr.
Liu has managed K.S.
−Removed: Liu & Company, CPA Limited, a company he founded.
+Added: Liu & Company, CPA
+Added: Limited, a company he founded.
He is currently a non-executive director in a number of Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed companies.
−Removed: Liu graduated with honors
−Removed: from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy in 1997 and obtained a Master of Business Administration
−Removed: degree from the University of Lincoln, England in 2002.
−Removed: He is a chartered tax advisor of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England
−Removed: and Wales, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Institute of Financial Accountants of the United Kingdom, the Institute
−Removed: of Public Accountants of Australia, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Hong Kong, the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong, and
−Removed: the Society of Registered Financial Planners.
−Removed: Liu has been a practicing accountant in Hong Kong for over 20 years specializing in
−Removed: audit, taxation and corporate financial advisory.
+Added: graduated with honors from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy in 1997 and obtained a Master
+Added: of Business Administration degree from the University of Lincoln, England in 2002.
+Added: He is a chartered tax advisor of the Institute of Chartered
+Added: Accountants in England and Wales, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Institute of Financial Accountants of the United
+Added: Kingdom, the Institute of Public Accountants of Australia, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Hong Kong, the Taxation Institute
+Added: of Hong Kong, and the Society of Registered Financial Planners.
+Added: Liu has been a practicing accountant in Hong Kong for over 20 years
+Added: specializing in audit, taxation and corporate financial advisory.
Based on the above qualifications and Mr.
−Removed: Liu’s experience in finance and accountancy,
−Removed: the Company believes Mr.
+Added: Liu’s experience in
+Added: finance and accountancy, the Company believes Mr.
Liu is qualified to be on the Board.
−Removed: Yongyuan Chen has served as our independent
−Removed: director since April 2019.
+Added: Yongyuan Chen has
+Added: served as our independent director since April 2019.
He is currently the director of China Commercial Law Co.
−Removed: Australia Pty Limited specializing in foreign
−Removed: investment, merger, and acquisition and intellectual property laws.
−Removed: He received a bachelor’s degree in international law from Jilin
−Removed: University of China in 1986, a Master’s degree in international economic law from Renmin University of China in 1988, and a Doctor’s
−Removed: degree in law from the University of Sydney in 2002.
−Removed: He formerly served as legal counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations
−Removed: and Trade, China National Technology Import and Export Corporation, and chief of the Policy and Regulation Division of Shenzhen Science
−Removed: and Technology Bureau.
+Added: Australia Pty Limited
+Added: specializing in foreign investment, merger, and acquisition and intellectual property laws.
+Added: He received a bachelor’s degree in international
+Added: law from Jilin University of China in 1986, a Master’s degree in international economic law from Renmin University of China in 1988,
+Added: and a Doctor’s degree in law from the University of Sydney in 2002.
+Added: He formerly served as legal counsel of the Ministry of Foreign
+Added: Economic Relations and Trade, China National Technology Import and Export Corporation, and chief of the Policy and Regulation Division
+Added: of Shenzhen Science and Technology Bureau.
From April 2011, Mr.
−Removed: Chen has worked as senior partner at Guangdong Huashang Law Firm, Sydney Branch.
+Added: Chen has worked as senior partner at Guangdong Huashang Law
+Added: Firm, Sydney Branch.
Chen has been a practicing lawyer in China and Australia for over 20 years.
The Board believes that Mr.
−Removed: Chen’s extensive experience
−Removed: and legal background qualifies him to serve on the Board.
−Removed: Lei Yang has served as our independent
−Removed: director since August 2021.
−Removed: She received her first master’s degree in Information Management from Nanjing University in 2004, and
−Removed: her second master’s degree in Accounting from Bentley University in 2010.
−Removed: Yang is certified by the American Institute of Certified
−Removed: Public Accountants.
−Removed: Yang has 17 years working experience in several Fortune 500 companies, engaged in business analysis, internal
−Removed: audit, and financial management, etc.
−Removed: She received her first master’s degree in Information Management from Nanjing University in
−Removed: 2004, and her second master’s degree in Accounting from Bentley University in 2010.
−Removed: Yang is an American Institute of Certified
−Removed: Public Accountants Certified and an economist.
+Added: extensive experience and legal background qualifies him to serve on the Board.
+Added: Yang has served as our independent director since August 2021.
+Added: She received her first master’s degree in Information Management
+Added: from Nanjing University in 2004, and her second master’s degree in Accounting from Bentley University in 2010.
+Added: Yang is certified
+Added: by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
+Added: Yang has 17 years working experience in several Fortune 500 companies,
+Added: engaged in business analysis, internal audit, and financial management, etc.
+Added: She received her first master’s degree in Information
+Added: Management from Nanjing University in 2004, and her second master’s degree in Accounting from Bentley University in 2010.
+Added: is an American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Certified and an economist.
Based on the above qualifications and Ms.
−Removed: Yang’s experience in management, the Board
+Added: experience in management, the Board believes Ms.
Yang is well qualified to serve on the Board.
Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings
−Removed: To the best of our knowledge, during the past
−Removed: ten years, none of our directors or executive officers were involved in any of the following:
−Removed: (1) any bankruptcy petition filed by or
−Removed: against any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two
−Removed: years prior to that time;
−Removed: (2) any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic
−Removed: violations and other minor offenses);
−Removed: (3) being subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated,
−Removed: of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement
−Removed: in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
−Removed: and (4) being found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action),
−Removed: the SEC or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment
−Removed: has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.
+Added: the best of our knowledge, during the past ten years, none of our directors or executive officers were involved in any of the following:
+Added: (1) any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at
+Added: the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time;
+Added: (2) any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being subject to a pending
+Added: criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
+Added: (3) being subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not
+Added: subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending
+Added: or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
+Added: and (4) being found by a court of competent
+Added: jurisdiction (in a civil action), the SEC or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities
+Added: or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.
Family Relationships and Arrangements
−Removed: None of the directors or executive officers have
−Removed: a family relationship as defined in Item 401 of Regulation S-K.
+Added: of the directors or executive officers have a family relationship as defined in Item 401 of Regulation S-K.
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for
Employees, Executive Officers, and Directors
−Removed: We adopted a code of business conduct and ethics
−Removed: (the “Code of Conduct”) on December 11, 2018, which is applicable to all of our employees, executive officers and directors.
−Removed: The Code of Conduct is available at the Investors Relations section of our website at https://ir.atifchina.com/.
−Removed: Information contained
−Removed: on or accessible through this website is not a part of this Annual Report, and the inclusion of such website address in this Annual Report
−Removed: is an inactive textual reference only.
−Removed: Any amendments to the Code of Conduct, or any waivers of its requirements, are expected to be
−Removed: disclosed on its website to the extent required by applicable rules and exchange requirements.
+Added: adopted a code of business conduct and ethics (the “Code of Conduct”) on December 11, 2018, which is applicable to all of
+Added: our employees, executive officers and directors.
+Added: The Code of Conduct is available at the Investors Relations section of our website at
+Added: https://ir.atifchina.com/.
+Added: Information contained on or accessible through this website is not a part of this Annual Report, and the inclusion
+Added: of such website address in this Annual Report is an inactive textual reference only.
+Added: Any amendments to the Code of Conduct, or any waivers
+Added: of its requirements, are expected to be disclosed on its website to the extent required by applicable rules and exchange requirements.
Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
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Board Practices
−Removed: Pursuant to our amended and restated articles
−Removed: of association, the minimum number of directors shall consist of not less than one person unless otherwise determined by resolution of
−Removed: directors or resolution or shareholders and by filing an amended version of the articles of association at the BVI Registry of Corporate
−Removed: affairs approving such change.
−Removed: Unless removed or re-appointed, each director shall be appointed for a term fixed by the resolution of
−Removed: members or resolution of directors appointing the director.
+Added: to our amended and restated articles of association, the minimum number of directors shall consist of not less than one person unless
+Added: otherwise determined by resolution of directors or resolution or shareholders and by filing an amended version of the articles of association
+Added: at the BVI Registry of Corporate affairs approving such change.
+Added: Unless removed or re-appointed, each director shall be appointed for a
+Added: term fixed by the resolution of members or resolution of directors appointing the director.
Controlled Company
−Removed: Jun Liu beneficially owns approximately 54.7%
−Removed: of the aggregate voting power of our outstanding ordinary shares.
−Removed: As a result, we are deemed a “controlled company” for the
−Removed: purpose of the Nasdaq listing rules and are permitted to elect to rely on certain exemptions from the obligations to comply with
−Removed: certain corporate governance requirements, including:
+Added: Jun Liu beneficially owns approximately 47.4% of the aggregate voting power of our outstanding ordinary shares.
+Added: As a result, we are deemed
+Added: a “controlled company” for the purpose of the Nasdaq listing rules and are permitted to elect to rely on certain exemptions
+Added: from the obligations to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including:
the requirement that our director nominees be selected or recommended solely by independent directors;
the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee and a compensation committee that are composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the purposes and responsibilities of the committees.
−Removed: Although we do not intend to rely on the controlled
−Removed: company exemptions under the Nasdaq listing rules even though we are deemed a controlled company, we could elect to rely on these
−Removed: exemptions in the future, and if so, you would not have the same protection afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to
−Removed: all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.
+Added: we do not intend to rely on the controlled company exemptions under the Nasdaq listing rules even though we are deemed a controlled
+Added: company, we could elect to rely on these exemptions in the future, and if so, you would not have the same protection afforded to shareholders
+Added: of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.
Board of Directors
−Removed: Our board of directors consist of five directors
−Removed: as of the date of this annual report.
−Removed: Our board of directors is responsible for establishing broad corporate policies and for overseeing
−Removed: our overall performance.
−Removed: Our board of directors reviews significant developments affecting us and acts on other matters requiring its
+Added: board of directors consist of five directors as of the date of this annual report.
+Added: Our board of directors is responsible for establishing
+Added: broad corporate policies and for overseeing our overall performance.
+Added: Our board of directors reviews significant developments affecting
+Added: us and acts on other matters requiring its approval.
Duties of Directors
−Removed: Under British Virgin Islands law, our directors
−Removed: owe fiduciary duties both at common law and under statute, including a statutory duty to act honestly, in good faith and with a view to
−Removed: our best interests.
−Removed: When exercising powers or performing duties as a director, our directors also have a duty to exercise the care, diligence
−Removed: and skills that a reasonable director would exercise in comparable circumstances, taking into account without limitation the nature of
−Removed: the company, the nature of the decision and the position of the director and the nature of the responsibilities undertaken by him.
−Removed: exercising the powers of a director, the directors must exercise their powers for a proper purpose and shall not act or agree to the company
−Removed: acting in a manner that contravenes our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or the BVI Act.
−Removed: In fulfilling their
−Removed: duty of care to us, our directors must ensure compliance with our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
−Removed: the right to seek damages if a duty owed by our directors is breached.
+Added: British Virgin Islands law, our directors owe fiduciary duties both at common law and under statute, including a statutory duty to act
+Added: honestly, in good faith and with a view to our best interests.
+Added: When exercising powers or performing duties as a director, our directors
+Added: also have a duty to exercise the care, diligence and skills that a reasonable director would exercise in comparable circumstances, taking
+Added: into account without limitation the nature of the company, the nature of the decision and the position of the director and the nature
+Added: of the responsibilities undertaken by him.
+Added: In exercising the powers of a director, the directors must exercise their powers for a proper
+Added: purpose and shall not act or agree to the company acting in a manner that contravenes our amended and restated memorandum and articles
+Added: of association or the BVI Act.
+Added: In fulfilling their duty of care to us, our directors must ensure compliance with our amended and restated
+Added: memorandum and articles of association.
+Added: We have the right to seek damages if a duty owed by our directors is breached.
The functions and powers of
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Terms of Directors and Executive Officers
−Removed: Each of our directors holds office until a successor
−Removed: has been duly elected and qualified unless the director was appointed by the board of directors, in which case such director holds office
−Removed: until the next following annual meeting of shareholders at which time such director is eligible for reelection.
−Removed: All of our executive officers
−Removed: are appointed by and serve at the discretion of our board of directors.
−Removed: Our current directors were re-elected by our shareholders at our
−Removed: 2023 Annual General Meeting, which was held on July 28, 2023, until the next shareholders meeting and until their successors are duly
−Removed: elected and qualified.
+Added: of our directors holds office until a successor has been duly elected and qualified unless the director was appointed by the board of
+Added: directors, in which case such director holds office until the next following annual meeting of shareholders at which time such director
+Added: is eligible for reelection.
+Added: All of our executive officers are appointed by and serve at the discretion of our board of directors.
+Added: current directors were re-elected by our shareholders at our 2024 Annual General Meeting, which was held on July 26, 2024, until the next
+Added: shareholders meeting and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
Qualification
−Removed: There is currently no shareholding qualification
−Removed: for directors.
+Added: is currently no shareholding qualification for directors.
Board Composition, Committees and Independence
−Removed: Under the rules of NASDAQ, “independent”
−Removed: directors must make up a majority of a listed company’s Board of Directors.
−Removed: In addition, applicable NASDAQ rules require that, subject
−Removed: to specified exceptions, each member of a listed company’s audit and compensation committees be independent within the meaning of
−Removed: the applicable NASDAQ rules.
−Removed: Audit committee members must also satisfy the independence criteria set forth in Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange
−Removed: Our Board has undertaken a review of the independence
−Removed: of each director and considered whether any director has a material relationship with us that could compromise the director’s ability
−Removed: to exercise independent judgment in carrying out his or her responsibilities.
−Removed: As a result of this review, our Board determined that Messrs.
+Added: Under the rules of NASDAQ,
+Added: “independent” directors must make up a majority of a listed company’s Board of Directors.
+Added: In addition, applicable NASDAQ
+Added: rules require that, subject to specified exceptions, each member of a listed company’s audit and compensation committees be independent
+Added: within the meaning of the applicable NASDAQ rules.
+Added: Audit committee members must also satisfy the independence criteria set forth in Rule
+Added: 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Our Board has undertaken a
+Added: review of the independence of each director and considered whether any director has a material relationship with us that could compromise
+Added: the director’s ability to exercise independent judgment in carrying out his or her responsibilities.
+Added: As a result of this review,
+Added: our Board determined that Messrs.
Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
−Removed: Lei Yang are independent directors as defined in the listing standards of NASDAQ and SEC rules
−Removed: and regulations.
+Added: Lei Yang are independent directors as defined in the listing
+Added: standards of NASDAQ and SEC rules and regulations.
A majority of our directors are independent, as required under applicable NASDAQ rules.
−Removed: As required under applicable
−Removed: NASDAQ rules, our independent directors will meet in regularly scheduled executive sessions at which only independent directors are present.
+Added: As required under applicable NASDAQ rules, our independent directors will meet in regularly scheduled executive sessions at which only
+Added: independent directors are present.
Committees of the Board of Directors
−Removed: We have established three committees under the
−Removed: board of directors:
+Added: We have established three
+Added: committees under the board of directors:
an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and corporate governance committee.
−Removed: We have adopted
−Removed: a charter for each of the three committees.
+Added: We have adopted a charter for each of the three committees.
Copies of the charters for each committee are available at http://ir.atifchina.com.
−Removed: Each committee’s
−Removed: members and functions are described below.
+Added: Each committee’s members and functions are described below.
Audit Committee .
−Removed: Our audit committee consists
+Added: audit committee consists of Messrs.
Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
−Removed: Kwong Sang Liu is the chairman of our audit committee.
−Removed: We have determined
+Added: Kwong Sang Liu is the chairman of our audit
+Added: We have determined that Messrs.
Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
−Removed: Lei Yang satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of
−Removed: the Nasdaq Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act.
−Removed: Our board also has determined that Mr.
−Removed: Liu qualifies as an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of the SEC rules or possesses financial sophistication within
−Removed: the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
−Removed: The audit committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits
−Removed: of the financial statements of our company.
+Added: Lei Yang satisfy the “independence” requirements
+Added: of Section 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act.
+Added: Our board also
+Added: has determined that Mr.
+Added: Kwong Sang Liu qualifies as an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of the SEC rules or possesses
+Added: financial sophistication within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
+Added: The audit committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting
+Added: processes and the audits of the financial statements of our company.
The audit committee is responsible for, among other things:
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monitoring compliance with our code of business conduct and ethics, including reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our procedures to ensure proper compliance.
−Removed: Compensation Committee.
−Removed: Our compensation
−Removed: committee consists of Messrs.
+Added: Our compensation committee consists of Messrs.
Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
−Removed: Lei Yang is the chairman of our compensation committee.
+Added: Lei Yang is the
+Added: chairman of our compensation committee.
We have determined that Messrs.
Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
−Removed: Lei Yang satisfy the “independence” requirements
−Removed: of Section 5605(a)(2) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act.
−Removed: The compensation
−Removed: committee assists the board in reviewing and approving the compensation structure, including all forms of compensation, relating to our
−Removed: directors and executive officers.
−Removed: Our chief executive officer may not be present at any committee meeting during which his compensation
−Removed: is deliberated.
+Added: Lei Yang satisfy the
+Added: “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the
+Added: Securities Exchange Act.
+Added: The compensation committee assists the board in reviewing and approving the compensation structure, including
+Added: all forms of compensation, relating to our directors and executive officers.
+Added: Our chief executive officer may not be present at any committee
+Added: meeting during which his compensation is deliberated.
The compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:
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programs or similar arrangements, annual bonuses, employee pension and welfare benefit plans.
−Removed: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
+Added: and Corporate Governance Committee.
Our nominating and corporate governance committee currently consists of Messrs.
−Removed: Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
+Added: Kwong Sang Liu
+Added: and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
Yongyuan Chen is the chairman of our nominating and corporate governance committee.
−Removed: Kwong Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and
−Removed: Lei Yang satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules and
−Removed: Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act.
−Removed: The nominating and corporate governance committee assists the board of directors in
−Removed: selecting individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the board and its committees.
−Removed: The nominating
−Removed: and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:
+Added: Sang Liu and Yongyuan Chen, and Ms.
+Added: Lei Yang satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the
+Added: NASDAQ Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act.
+Added: The nominating and corporate governance committee assists
+Added: the board of directors in selecting individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the board and
+Added: its committees.
+Added: The nominating and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:
identifying and recommending nominees for election or re-election to our board of directors or for appointment to fill any vacancy;
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Director Qualifications
−Removed: In accordance with its charter, our nominating
−Removed: and corporate governance committee develops and recommends to our board of directors appropriate criteria, including desired qualifications,
−Removed: expertise, skills and characteristics, for selection of new directors and periodically reviews the criteria adopted by our board of directors
−Removed: and, if appropriate, recommends changes to such criteria.
+Added: accordance with its charter, our nominating and corporate governance committee develops and recommends to our board of directors appropriate
+Added: criteria, including desired qualifications, expertise, skills and characteristics, for selection of new directors and periodically reviews
+Added: the criteria adopted by our board of directors and, if appropriate, recommends changes to such criteria.
Board Diversity
−Removed: Our board of directors desires to seek members
−Removed: from diverse professional backgrounds who combine a strong professional reputation and knowledge of our business and industry with a reputation
−Removed: for integrity.
−Removed: Our board of directors does not have a formal policy with respect to diversity and inclusion but is in process of establishing
−Removed: a policy on diversity.
−Removed: Diversity of experience, expertise and viewpoints is one of many factors the nominating and corporate governance
−Removed: committee considers when recommending director nominees to our board of directors.
−Removed: Further, our board of directors is committed to actively
−Removed: seeking highly qualified women and individuals from minority groups to include in the pool from which new candidates are selected.
−Removed: board of directors also seeks members that have experience in positions with a high degree of responsibility or are, or have been, leaders
−Removed: in the companies or institutions with which they are, or were, affiliated, but may seek other members with different backgrounds, based
−Removed: upon the contributions they can make to our company.
−Removed: We believe that our current board composition
−Removed: reflects our commitment to diversity in the areas of gender and professional background.
+Added: Our board of directors desires
+Added: to seek members from diverse professional backgrounds who combine a strong professional reputation and knowledge of our business and industry
+Added: with a reputation for integrity.
+Added: Our board of directors does not have a formal policy with respect to diversity and inclusion but is in
+Added: process of establishing a policy on diversity.
+Added: Diversity of experience, expertise and viewpoints is one of many factors the nominating
+Added: and corporate governance committee considers when recommending director nominees to our board of directors.
+Added: Further, our board of directors
+Added: is committed to actively seeking highly qualified women and individuals from minority groups to include in the pool from which new candidates
+Added: are selected.
+Added: Our board of directors also seeks members that have experience in positions with a high degree of responsibility or are,
+Added: or have been, leaders in the companies or institutions with which they are, or were, affiliated, but may seek other members with different
+Added: backgrounds, based upon the contributions they can make to our company.
+Added: We believe that our current
+Added: board composition reflects our commitment to diversity in the areas of gender and professional background.
Board Diversity Matrix (as of November 1,
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Indemnification Agreements
−Removed: We executed a standard form of indemnification
−Removed: agreement (“Indemnification Agreement”) with each of our Board members and executive officers (each, an “Indemnitee”).
−Removed: Pursuant to and subject to the terms, conditions
−Removed: and limitations set forth in the Indemnification Agreement, we agreed to indemnify each Indemnitee, against any and all expenses incurred
−Removed: in connection with proceedings relating to the Indemnitee’s service as our officer and or director, or is or was serving at our
−Removed: request as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, or other entity or enterprise but only if the Indemnitee
−Removed: acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to our best interest, and in the case of a criminal
−Removed: proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
−Removed: In addition, the indemnification provided in the indemnification
−Removed: agreement is applicable whether or not negligence or gross negligence of the Indemnitee is alleged or proven.
−Removed: Additionally, the Indemnification
−Removed: Agreement establishes processes and procedures for indemnification claims, advancement of expenses and costs and contribution obligations.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023, we had approximately 13 full-time employees,
−Removed: including 1 in China and 12 in America.
−Removed: The table below sets forth the numbers of employees by functions as of July 31, 2023
+Added: We executed a standard form
+Added: of indemnification agreement (“Indemnification Agreement”) with each of our Board members and executive officers (each, an
+Added: “Indemnitee”).
+Added: Pursuant to and subject to
+Added: the terms, conditions and limitations set forth in the Indemnification Agreement, we agreed to indemnify each Indemnitee, against any
+Added: and all expenses incurred in connection with proceedings relating to the Indemnitee’s service as our officer and or director, or
+Added: is or was serving at our request as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, or other entity or enterprise
+Added: but only if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to our best interest, and
+Added: in the case of a criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
+Added: In addition, the indemnification
+Added: provided in the indemnification agreement is applicable whether or not negligence or gross negligence of the Indemnitee is alleged or
+Added: Additionally, the Indemnification Agreement establishes processes and procedures for indemnification claims, advancement of expenses
+Added: and costs and contribution obligations.
+Added: of July 31, 2024, we had approximately 8 full-time employees, including 1 in China and 7 in America.
+Added: The table below sets forth
+Added: the numbers of employees by functions as of July 31, 2024:
Executive Office
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Marketing Department
−Removed: There is no labor union.
−Removed: We believe our relations with our employees
+Added: is no labor union.
+Added: We believe our relations with our employees are good.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Compensation for our Named Executive Officers
−Removed: The following table sets forth certain information
−Removed: with respect to compensation for the fiscal years ended July 31, 2023 and July 31, 2022 earned by or paid to our chief executive
−Removed: officer and principal executive officer, our principal financial officer, and our other most highly compensated executive officer.
+Added: The following table sets forth
+Added: certain information with respect to compensation for the fiscal years ended July 31, 2024 and July 31, 2023 earned by or paid to
+Added: our chief executive officer and principal executive officer, our principal financial officer, and our other most highly compensated executive
Name and Principal Position
−Removed: Nonqualified Deferred
President and Chairman of ATIF, CEO of ATIF
−Removed: Yue Ming ****
−Removed: Liu was appointed as our president and chairman of our Board on July 10, 2020, and appointed as our CEO on August 4, 2021.
−Removed: Chi was appointed as our CEO on July 10, 2020 ceased to be our CEO on August 4, 2021.
−Removed: Cheng ceased to be our CFO on August 4, 2021.
−Removed: Ming was appointed as our CFO On August 4, 2021.
−Removed: We are required by PRC laws and regulations to
−Removed: make contributions equal to certain percentages of each employee’s salary for his or her retirement benefit, medical insurance benefits,
−Removed: housing funds, unemployment, and other statutory benefits.
−Removed: We paid retirement and similar benefits for our executive officers for the
−Removed: fiscal years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: Jun Liu was appointed as our president and chairman of our Board on July 10, 2020, and appointed as our CEO on August 4, 2021.
+Added: Yue Ming was appointed as our CFO On August 4, 2021.
+Added: We are required by PRC laws
+Added: and regulations to make contributions equal to certain percentages of each employee’s salary for his or her retirement benefit,
+Added: medical insurance benefits, housing funds, unemployment, and other statutory benefits.
+Added: We paid retirement and similar benefits for our
+Added: executive officers for the fiscal years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023.
Benefit Plans
−Removed: We do not have any profit sharing plan or similar
−Removed: plans for the benefit of our officers, directors or employees.
+Added: We do not have any profit
+Added: sharing plan or similar plans for the benefit of our officers, directors or employees.
However, we may establish such plan in the future.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
−Removed: We do not have any equity compensation plan or
−Removed: similar plans for the benefit of our officers, directors or employees.
−Removed: However, we may establish such plan in the future.
+Added: We do not have any equity
+Added: compensation plan or similar plans for the benefit of our officers, directors or employees.
+Added: However, we may establish such plan in the
Outstanding Equity Awards as of July 31, 2024
−Removed: We had no outstanding equity awards as of July
+Added: We had no outstanding equity
+Added: awards as of July 31, 2024.
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
−Removed: named executive officers did not participate in, nor earn any benefits under, a nonqualified deferred compensation plan during the fiscal
−Removed: year ended July 31, 2023.
+Added: Our named executive officers
+Added: did not participate in, nor earn any benefits under, a nonqualified deferred compensation plan during the fiscal year ended July 31, 2024.
Hedging or Offsetting Against Compensatory
−Removed: have adopted a policy that our employees (including officers) and directors shall not purchase securities or other financial instruments,
−Removed: or otherwise engage in transactions, that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of equity
−Removed: securities granted as compensation to, or held directly or indirectly by, those persons.
−Removed: also have adopted a formal claw-back policy for the recovery of incentive-based executive compensation erroneously awarded to executive
−Removed: officers based on misstated financial reporting measures once Nasdaq’s listing standards .
+Added: We have adopted a policy that
+Added: our employees (including officers) and directors shall not purchase securities or other financial instruments, or otherwise engage in
+Added: transactions, that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of equity securities granted
+Added: as compensation to, or held directly or indirectly by, those persons.
+Added: We also have adopted a formal
+Added: claw-back policy for the recovery of incentive-based executive compensation erroneously awarded to executive officers based on misstated
+Added: financial reporting measures once Nasdaq’s listing standards.
Employment Agreements and Arrangements
−Removed: Pursuant to employment agreements, the form of
−Removed: which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to our F-1 registration statement filed with the SEC on December 11, 2018, we agree to employ
−Removed: each of our executive officers for a specified time period, which will be renewed upon both parties’ agreement thirty days before
−Removed: the end of the current employment term, and payment of cash compensation and benefits became payable when we became a public reporting
−Removed: company in the US.
−Removed: We may terminate the employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration, for certain acts of the executive
−Removed: officer, including but not limited to the commitments of any serious or persistent breach or non-observance of the terms and conditions
−Removed: of the employment, conviction of a criminal offense, willful disobedience of a lawful and reasonable order, fraud or dishonesty, receipt
−Removed: of bribery, or severe neglect of his or her duties.
−Removed: An executive officer may terminate his or her employment at any time with a one-month
−Removed: prior written notice.
−Removed: Each executive officer has agreed to hold, both during and after the employment agreement expires, in strict confidence
−Removed: and not to use or disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without written consent, any confidential information.
−Removed: Our employment agreement with Fang Cheng, our
−Removed: former CFO, was for a term of three years beginning on October 1, 2018, and provided for an annual salary of $27,700, the payment
−Removed: of which commenced when we became a public reporting company in the US.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2021, we paid salary and welfare expenses
−Removed: of $32,900 with Fang Cheng.
−Removed: On August 4, 2021, Fang Cheng resigned as our CFO, her employment agreement was terminated with immediate
−Removed: Our employment agreement with Jun Liu, our President
−Removed: and Former CEO, is for a term of three years beginning on June 6, 2019, and provides for an annual salary of $240,000.
−Removed: 2020, we amended our employment agreement with Jun Liu to clarify that he had ceased to be employed as our CEO and had been appointed
−Removed: as our president.
−Removed: On August 4, 2021, we amended our employment agreement with Jun Liu to include his appointment as the chief executive
−Removed: Our employment agreement with Pishan Chi, our
−Removed: former CEO, was for a term of three years beginning on July 10, 2020, and provides for an annual salary of US$30,700.
−Removed: ended July 31, 2021, we paid salary and welfare expenses of $36,400 with Pishan Chi.
−Removed: On August 4, 2021, Pishan Chi resigned as our CEO.
−Removed: Our employment agreement with Yue Ming, our CFO,
−Removed: is for a term of three years beginning on August 9,2021, and provides for an annual salary of US$30,240.
+Added: Pursuant to employment agreements,
+Added: the form of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to our F-1 registration statement filed with the SEC on December 11, 2018, we agree
+Added: to employ each of our executive officers for a specified time period, which will be renewed upon both parties’ agreement thirty
+Added: days before the end of the current employment term, and payment of cash compensation and benefits became payable when we became a public
+Added: reporting company in the US.
+Added: We may terminate the employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration, for certain acts
+Added: of the executive officer, including but not limited to the commitments of any serious or persistent breach or non-observance of the terms
+Added: and conditions of the employment, conviction of a criminal offense, willful disobedience of a lawful and reasonable order, fraud or dishonesty,
+Added: receipt of bribery, or severe neglect of his or her duties.
+Added: An executive officer may terminate his or her employment at any time with
+Added: a one-month prior written notice.
+Added: Each executive officer has agreed to hold, both during and after the employment agreement expires, in
+Added: strict confidence and not to use or disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without written consent, any confidential information.
+Added: Our employment agreement with
+Added: Jun Liu, our President and Former CEO, is for a term of three years beginning on June 6, 2019, and provides for an annual salary
+Added: On July 10, 2020, we amended our employment agreement with Jun Liu to clarify that he had ceased to be employed as our
+Added: CEO and had been appointed as our president.
+Added: On August 4, 2021, we amended our employment agreement with Jun Liu to include his appointment
+Added: as the chief executive officer.
+Added: On February 29, 2024, we entered into a new employment agreement for
+Added: a term of three years beginning on February 1, 2024 with Jun Liu which provides for a monthly salary of $1.
+Added: On April 29, 2024, the Company
+Added: entered into a deferred salary conversion agreement (“Deferred Salary Conversion Agreement”) with Mr.
+Added: Jun Liu, the president,
+Added: chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of the Company.
+Added: Pursuant to the Agreement,
+Added: the Company agreed to issue and Mr.
+Added: Liu agreed to accept 384,478 ordinary shares (“Deferred Salary Debt Shares”), $0.001 par
+Added: value in lieu of an unpaid salary of $349,875 owed to Mr.
+Added: Liu at a per share price of $0.91 which was the Nasdaq consolidated closing
+Added: bid price per share of the Company’s ordinary shares on April 29, 2024.
+Added: Our employment agreement with
+Added: Yue Ming, our CFO, is for a term of three years beginning on August 9,2021, and provides for an annual salary of US$36,566.
Other Benefits
−Removed: Our employees are eligible to participate in various
−Removed: employee benefit plans, including medical, dental, and vision care plans, flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care, life,
−Removed: accidental death and dismemberment, disability, and paid time off.
−Removed: Director Compensation
−Removed: The following table sets forth information concerning
−Removed: the compensation of non-employee directors for services rendered for the year ended July 31, 2023.
−Removed: Jun Liu and Yue Ming are our executive
−Removed: officers and employees and are not included in the table.
+Added: Our employees are eligible
+Added: to participate in various employee benefit plans, including medical, dental, and vision care plans, flexible spending accounts for health
+Added: and dependent care, life, accidental death and dismemberment, disability, and paid time off.
+Added: Non-Employee Director Compensation
+Added: The following table sets forth
+Added: information concerning the compensation of non-employee directors for services rendered for the year ended July 31, 2024.
+Added: Yue Ming are our executive officers and employees and are not included in the table.
All compensation earned by Mr.
−Removed: Ming for services rendered in their
−Removed: capacity as our executive officers and employees, is included under the heading in this section titled “Compensation for our Named
−Removed: Executive Officers.” Mr.
+Added: services rendered in their capacity as our executive officers and employees, is included under the heading in this section titled “Compensation
+Added: for our Named Executive Officers.” Mr.
Ming received no compensation for their service as a director.
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Yongyuan Chen
−Removed: Emerging Growth Company Status
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: as defined in the JOBS Act.
−Removed: As an emerging growth company we are exempt from certain requirements related to executive compensation, including
−Removed: the requirements to hold a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and to provide information relating to the ratio of total
−Removed: compensation of our President and Chief Executive Officer to the median of the annual total compensation of all of our employees, each
−Removed: as required by the Investor Protection and Securities Reform Act of 2010, which is part of the Dodd-Frank Act.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL
OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The following table sets forth information with
−Removed: respect to the beneficial ownership, within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of our Ordinary Shares as of the date
−Removed: of this annual report.
+Added: The following table sets forth
+Added: information with respect to the beneficial ownership, within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of our Ordinary Shares
+Added: as of the date of this annual report.
each of our directors and executive officers who beneficially own our Ordinary Shares;
each person known to us to own beneficially more than 5.0% of our Ordinary Shares.
−Removed: Beneficial ownership includes
−Removed: voting or investment power with respect to the securities.
−Removed: Except as indicated below, and subject to applicable community property laws,
−Removed: the persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all Ordinary Shares shown as beneficially owned by
−Removed: Percentage of beneficial ownership of each listed person is based on 9,627,452 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of November 13, 2023.
−Removed: Information with respect to beneficial ownership
−Removed: has been furnished by each director, officer, or beneficial owner of 5% or more of our Ordinary Shares.
−Removed: Beneficial ownership is determined
−Removed: in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally requires that such person have voting or investment power with respect to securities.
−Removed: In computing the number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by a person listed below and the percentage ownership of such person, Ordinary
−Removed: Shares underlying options, warrants, or convertible securities held by each such person that are exercisable or convertible within 60
−Removed: days of the date of this annual report are deemed outstanding, but are not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage ownership of
−Removed: any other person.
−Removed: Except as otherwise indicated in the footnotes to this table, or as required by applicable community property laws,
−Removed: all persons listed have sole voting and investment power for all Ordinary Shares shown as beneficially owned by them.
+Added: Beneficial ownership includes voting or investment power with respect
+Added: to the securities.
+Added: Except as indicated below, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons named in the table have sole
+Added: voting and investment power with respect to all Ordinary Shares shown as beneficially owned by them.
+Added: Percentage of beneficial ownership
+Added: of each listed person is based on 11,917,452 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of November 12, 2024.
+Added: Information with respect to
+Added: beneficial ownership has been furnished by each director, officer, or beneficial owner of 5% or more of our Ordinary Shares.
+Added: ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally requires that such person have voting or investment
+Added: power with respect to securities.
+Added: In computing the number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by a person listed below and the percentage
+Added: ownership of such person, Ordinary Shares underlying options, warrants, or convertible securities held by each such person that are exercisable
+Added: or convertible within 60 days of the date of this annual report are deemed outstanding, but are not deemed outstanding for computing the
+Added: percentage ownership of any other person.
+Added: Except as otherwise indicated in the footnotes to this table, or as required by applicable community
+Added: property laws, all persons listed have sole voting and investment power for all Ordinary Shares shown as beneficially owned by them.
Ordinary Shares
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Eno Group Limited
−Removed: otherwise indicated, the business address of each of the individuals is 25391 Commercentre Dr., Ste 200, Lake Forest, CA.
−Removed: Liu, our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, may be deemed to beneficially own 5,268,330 ordinary shares (as adjusted to
−Removed: reflect the Reverse Split), which consists of (i) 3,440,860 ordinary shares, or approximately 35.7%, through his 100% ownership
−Removed: of Tianzhen Investments Limited, (ii) 1,820,000 ordinary shares, or approximately 18.9%, which are held indirectly through a voting rights
−Removed: proxy agreement with Eno Group Limited, which was assigned to Tianzhen Investments Limited.
−Removed: And (iii) 7,470 ordinary shares directly
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, the business address of each of the individuals is 25391 Commercentre Dr., Ste 120, Lake Forest, CA.
+Added: (2) Jun Liu, our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, may be
+Added: deemed to beneficially own 5,693,972 ordinary shares (as adjusted to reflect the Reverse Split), which consists of (i) 3,472,024ordinary
+Added: shares, or approximately 29.14%, through his 100% ownership of Tianzhen Investments Limited, (ii) 1,820,000 ordinary shares, or approximately
+Added: 15.3%, which are held indirectly through a voting rights proxy agreement with Eno Group Limited, which was assigned to Tianzhen Investments
+Added: And (iii) 391,948 ordinary shares directly held by Mr.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED
TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
−Removed: with related parties
−Removed: The following includes a summary of certain relationships
−Removed: and transactions, including transactions since August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2022 and any currently proposed transactions, to which we were
−Removed: or are to be a participant, in which (1) the amount involved exceeded or will exceed the lesser of (i) $120,000 or (ii) one percent (1%)
−Removed: of the average of our total assets for the last two completed fiscal years, and (2) any of our directors, executive officers or holders
−Removed: of more than five percent (5%) of our capital stock, or any affiliate or member of the immediate family of the foregoing persons, had
−Removed: or will have a direct or indirect material interest other than compensation and other arrangements that are described under the section
+Added: Transaction with related parties
+Added: The following includes a summary
+Added: of certain relationships and transactions, including transactions since August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024 and any currently proposed transactions,
+Added: to which we were or are to be a participant, in which (1) the amount involved exceeded or will exceed the lesser of (i) $120,000 or (ii)
+Added: one percent (1%) of the average of our total assets for the last two completed fiscal years, and (2) any of our directors, executive officers
+Added: or holders of more than five percent (5%) of our capital stock, or any affiliate or member of the immediate family of the foregoing persons,
+Added: had or will have a direct or indirect material interest other than compensation and other arrangements that are described under the section
titled “Executive Compensation.”
−Removed: We had no transactions with Huaya, which is owned
−Removed: Pishan Chi, our employee and former CEO during the fiscal year 2023.
−Removed: In May 2022, we were engaged by Huaya to provide consulting
−Removed: services, which amounted to revenues of $762,000 from Huaya.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, we had account receivable of $nil and $762,000
−Removed: due from Huaya.
−Removed: From September 16, 2022 to March 15, 2024, we
−Removed: lended a total of $100,000 loans to Huaya with interest-free and unsecured.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, we had a loan receivable of
−Removed: $40,539 and $nil from Huaya.
−Removed: In November 2022, we were engaged by Asia International
−Removed: Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.(“AISE”), which is wholly owned by Mr.
−Removed: Jun Liu, our Chief Executive Officer, which amounted to
−Removed: revenues of $1,300,000 from AISE.
−Removed: During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, we had no transactions with AISE.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and
−Removed: 2022, we had account receivable of $600,000 and $nil due from AISE.
−Removed: During fiscal year 2023, we borrowed a total of
−Removed: $1,950,285 loans from AISE with interest-free and unsecured.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, we had a loan payable of $729,968 and $nil
+Added: Nature of relationships with related parties
+Added: The table below sets forth the major related parties
+Added: and their relationships with the Company, with which the Company entered into transactions during the years ended July 31, 2024 and
+Added: 2023, or recorded balances as of July 31, 2024 and 2023:
+Added: Relationship with the Company
+Added: The Chief Executive Officer of the Company
+Added: Wholly owned by Mr.
+Added: Pishan Chi, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Company
+Added: Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
+Added: Wholly owned by Mr.
+Added: Zachary Group LLC (“Zachary Group”)
+Added: Wholly owned by Mr.
+Added: Transactions with related parties
+Added: As of July 31,
+Added: Provision of consulting services to related parties
+Added: Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
+Added: In June 2022, the Company entered into an office
+Added: lease agreement with Zachary Group.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, the Company would lease the office space for a lease term of 5 years,
+Added: matured in May 2027.
+Added: The monthly rental fee was $20,000, payable on a monthly basis.
+Added: On March 1, 2024, the Company and Zachary Group modified
+Added: the lease agreement to reduce the lease term and office space.
+Added: The modified agreement was for a lease term of 2 years through February
+Added: 2026, and monthly rental fee was $3,000, payable on a monthly basis.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded rental
+Added: expenses of $95,000 and $240,000, respectively.
+Added: In April 2024, the Company made a three-month
+Added: loan of $300,000 to Mr.
+Added: The loan was interest free and was fully repaid in July 2024.
+Added: On April 29, 2024, the Company entered into a
+Added: deferred salary conversion agreement (“Deferred Salary Conversion Agreement”) with Mr.
+Added: Jun Liu, the president, chief executive
+Added: officer and chairman of the board of directors of the Company.
+Added: Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company agreed to issue and Mr.
+Added: to accept 384,478 ordinary shares (“Deferred Salary Debt Shares”), $0.001 par value in lieu of an unpaid salary
+Added: of $349,875 owed to Mr.
+Added: Liu at a per share price of $0.91 which was the Nasdaq consolidated closing bid price per share of the
+Added: Company’s ordinary shares on April 29, 2024.
+Added: During the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: also made a prepayment of $900,000 to Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
+Added: for security purchase.
+Added: However the transaction
+Added: was subsequently canceled.
+Added: The Company expected to collect the prepayments before November 30, 2024.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company
+Added: make a loan of $100,000 to Huaya to support its operations.
+Added: The loan was interest free and was repayable on demand.
+Added: year ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, Huaya made repayments of $40,539 and $59,461 to the Company.
Related Person Transactions Policy
−Removed: We plan to adopt a new written related person
−Removed: transactions policy that sets forth our policies and procedures regarding the identification, review, consideration, and oversight of
−Removed: “related person transactions.” For purposes of policy only, a “related person transaction” is a transaction, arrangement,
−Removed: or relationship (or any series of similar transactions, arrangements or relationships) in which we or any of our subsidiaries are participants
−Removed: involving an amount, as long as we are a SEC smaller reporting company, that exceeds the lesser of (a) $120,000 or (b) 1% of the average
−Removed: of our total assets for the last two completed fiscal years, in which any “related person” has a material interest.
+Added: We plan to adopt a new written
+Added: related person transactions policy that sets forth our policies and procedures regarding the identification, review, consideration, and
+Added: oversight of “related person transactions.” For purposes of policy only, a “related person transaction” is a transaction,
+Added: arrangement, or relationship (or any series of similar transactions, arrangements or relationships) in which we or any of our subsidiaries
+Added: are participants involving an amount, as long as we are a SEC smaller reporting company, that exceeds the lesser of (a) $120,000 or (b)
+Added: 1% of the average of our total assets for the last two completed fiscal years, in which any “related person” has a material
Transactions involving compensation
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controlled by such persons.
−Removed: Under the policy, the related person in question
−Removed: or, in the case of transactions with a holder of more than 5% of any class of our voting securities, an officer with knowledge of a proposed
−Removed: transaction, must present information regarding the proposed related person transaction to our audit committee (or, where review by our
−Removed: audit committee would be inappropriate, to another independent body of our board of directors) for review.
−Removed: To identify related person
−Removed: transactions in advance, we will rely on information supplied by our executive officers, directors and certain significant shareholders.
−Removed: In considering related person transactions, our audit committee will take into account the relevant available facts and circumstances,
−Removed: which may include, but are not limited to:
+Added: Under the policy, the related
+Added: person in question or, in the case of transactions with a holder of more than 5% of any class of our voting securities, an officer with
+Added: knowledge of a proposed transaction, must present information regarding the proposed related person transaction to our audit committee
+Added: (or, where review by our audit committee would be inappropriate, to another independent body of our board of directors) for review.
+Added: identify related person transactions in advance, we will rely on information supplied by our executive officers, directors and certain
+Added: significant shareholders.
+Added: In considering related person transactions, our audit committee will take into account the relevant available
+Added: facts and circumstances, which may include, but are not limited to:
the risks, costs, and benefits to us;
−Removed: impact on a director’s independence in the event the related person is a director, immediate family member of a director or an
−Removed: entity with which a director is affiliated;
+Added: the impact on a director’s independence in the event the related person is a director, immediate family member of a director or an entity with which a director is affiliated;
the terms of the transaction;
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Director Independence
−Removed: A majority of our Board of Directors are independent
−Removed: directors, see the discussion above under the section “Item 10.
−Removed: Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance–Board
−Removed: Composition, Committees and Independence.”
+Added: A majority of our Board of
+Added: Directors are independent directors, see the discussion above under the section “Item 10.
+Added: Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate
+Added: Governance–Board Composition, Committees and Independence.”
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
Independent Auditor
−Removed: For the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022, the
−Removed: Company’s independent public accounting firm was ZH CPA, LLC (“ZH CPA”).
+Added: For the years ended July 31,
+Added: 2024 and 2023, the Company’s independent public accounting firm was ZH CPA, LLC (“ZH CPA”).
Fees Paid to Principal Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: The aggregate fees billed by our Independent Registered
−Removed: Public Accounting Firm, for the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
+Added: The aggregate fees billed
+Added: by our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, for the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:
For the Fiscal Years Ended
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All Other Fees(4)
−Removed: fees represent fees for professional services provided in connection with the audit of our annual financial statements and the review
−Removed: of our quarterly financial statements and those services normally provided in connection with statutory or regulatory filings or engagements
−Removed: including comfort letters, consents and other services related to SEC matters.
−Removed: This information is presented as of the latest practicable
−Removed: date for this annual report.
+Added: Audit fees represent fees for professional services provided in connection with the audit of our annual financial statements and the review of our quarterly financial statements and those services normally provided in connection with statutory or regulatory filings or engagements including comfort letters, consents and other services related to SEC matters.
+Added: This information is presented as of the latest practicable date for this annual report.
Audit-related fees represent fees for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and not reported above under “Audit Fees.”
−Removed: ZH CPA did not provide us with tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning services.
−Removed: All other fees include fees billed by our independent auditors for products or services other than as described in the immediately preceding three categories.
−Removed: No such fees were incurred during the fiscal years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: CPA did not provide us with tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning services.
+Added: (4) All other fees include fees billed by our independent
+Added: auditors for products or services other than as described in the immediately preceding three categories.
+Added: No such fees were incurred during
+Added: the fiscal years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023.
Policy on Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Audit
and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: The policy of our audit committee is to pre-approve
−Removed: all audit and non-audit services provided by ZH CPA, LLC, our independent registered public accounting firm, including audit services,
−Removed: audit-related services, tax services and other services as described above.
−Removed: Our independent registered public accounting firm
−Removed: and management are required to periodically report to the audit committee regarding the extent of services provided by our independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm in accordance with this preapproval, and the fees for the services performed to date.
−Removed: All of the services relating to the fees described
−Removed: in the table above were approved by our audit committee.
+Added: The policy of our audit committee
+Added: is to pre-approve all audit and non-audit services provided by ZH CPA, LLC, our independent registered public accounting firm, including
+Added: audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services as described above.
+Added: Our independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm and management are required to periodically report to the audit committee regarding the extent of services provided
+Added: by our independent registered public accounting firm in accordance with this preapproval, and the fees for the services performed to date.
+Added: All of the services relating
+Added: to the fees described in the table above were approved by our audit committee.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
(a) (1) Financial Statements
−Removed: Financial Statements and Report of Independent
−Removed: Registered Public Accounting Firms are set forth on pages F-1 through F-28 of this report.
+Added: Financial Statements and Report
+Added: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms are set forth on pages F-1 through F-28 of this report.
(2) Financial Statement Schedules
−Removed: All schedules have been omitted because the required information is
−Removed: included in the financial statements or notes thereto or because they are not required.
+Added: All schedules have been omitted because the required
+Added: information is included in the financial statements or notes thereto or because they are not required.
(3) Exhibits:
−Removed: The exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed in subparagraph
−Removed: (b) The following exhibits are filed as part of this Annual Report.
+Added: The exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation
+Added: S-K are listed in subparagraph (b) below.
+Added: (b) The following exhibits are filed as part of
+Added: this Annual Report.
of Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1
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of subsidiaries of the Registrant
−Removed: Consent of ZH CPA, LLC
Certification
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Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
−Removed: of Claw Back Policy
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
+Added: Form of Claw Back Policy
XBRL Instance Document
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Form 10-K Summary
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or
−Removed: 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
−Removed: thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements
+Added: of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
+Added: by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
November 13, 2024
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( Principal Financial Officer )
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and
−Removed: on the dates indicated.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements
+Added: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in
+Added: the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
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of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
+Added: To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
ATIF Holdings Limited
Opinion on the Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying
−Removed: consolidated balance sheets of ATIF Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of July 31, 2023 and 2022, and
−Removed: the related consolidated statements of income(loss), comprehensive income(loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each
−Removed: of the years in the two-year period ended July 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the financial statements).
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company
−Removed: as of July 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended
−Removed: July 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: The Company’s ability to Continue
−Removed: as a Going Concern
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated
−Removed: financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements, the Company has incurred significant losses and negative cash flows from operating activities.
−Removed: These conditions
−Removed: raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Management’s evaluation of the events and conditions
−Removed: and plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 2.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments
−Removed: that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
+Added: balance sheets of ATIF Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of July 31, 2024 and 2023, and the related
+Added: consolidated statements of income(loss), comprehensive income(loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years
+Added: in the two-year period ended July 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the financial statements).
+Added: In our opinion,
+Added: the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of July 31, 2024
+Added: and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended July 31, 2024, in conformity
+Added: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: The Company’s ability to Continue as a Going Concern
+Added: The accompanying
+Added: consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in
+Added: Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has incurred significant losses and negative cash flows from operating
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Management’s evaluation
+Added: of the events and conditions and plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 2.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements
+Added: do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial
−Removed: statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting
−Removed: Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits
−Removed: in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance
−Removed: about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is
−Removed: not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits,
−Removed: we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
−Removed: on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: These consolidated financial statements
+Added: are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated
+Added: financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
+Added: (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities
+Added: laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the
+Added: standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated
+Added: financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we
+Added: engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding
+Added: of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
+Added: internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing
−Removed: procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and
−Removed: performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts
−Removed: and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant
−Removed: estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that
−Removed: our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures
+Added: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
+Added: that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide
+Added: a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Critical Audit Matters
+Added: The critical audit matters are matters
+Added: arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging,
+Added: subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: We determined that there are no critical audit matters.
/s/ ZH CPA, LLC
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November 13, 2024
−Removed: 1600 Broadway, Suite 1600, Denver, CO, 80202,
−Removed: 1.303.386.7224 Fax:
−Removed: 1.303.386.7101 Email:
−Removed: admin@zhcpa.us
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: BALANCE SHEETS
As of July 31,
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Due from a related party
−Removed: Due from buyers of Leaping Group Corporation (“LGC”) (Note 6)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Total current assets
−Removed: Long-term investment
Property and equipment, net
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Right-of- use assets, net
−Removed: LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
+Added: LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES
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Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent
+Added: Long-term payable
TOTAL LIABILITIES
+Added: SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Ordinary shares, $ 0.001 par value, 100,000,000,000 shares authorized, 11,917,452 shares and 9,627,452 shares issued and outstanding as of July 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively
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( 27,666,624 )
−Removed: Total ATIF Holdings Limited Stockholders’ equity
−Removed: Noncontrolling interest
−Removed: TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
−Removed: * Retrospectively restated due to five for one reverse stock split, see Note 17.
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part
−Removed: of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE
+Added: Total Shareholders’ Equity
+Added: TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
For the Years Ended
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Revenues – a related party
−Removed: Cost of revenues
Operating expenses:
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General and administrative expenses
−Removed: Provision against accounts receivable due from a related party
+Added: (Reversal of provision) provision against accounts receivable due from a related party
Total operating expenses
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Interest income, net
−Removed: Other income (expenses), net
+Added: Other (expenses) income, net
Provision against due from buyers of LGC
( 2,654,767 )
−Removed: Gain (loss) from investment in trading securities
−Removed: ( 2,432,107 )
+Added: (Loss) gain from investment in trading securities
Gain from disposal of subsidiaries and VIE
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Income tax provision
−Removed: ( 2,882,299 )
−Removed: ( 3,371,099 )
−Removed: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests
−Removed: Net loss attributable to ATIF Holdings Limited
−Removed: ( 2,882,299 )
−Removed: ( 2,910,394 )
−Removed: Other comprehensive income (loss):
−Removed: Total foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Comprehensive loss
−Removed: ( 2,882,299 )
−Removed: ( 3,370,289 )
−Removed: comprehensive loss attributable to non-controlling interests
−Removed: Comprehensive loss attributable to ATIF Holdings Limited
+Added: Net loss and comprehensive loss
$ ( 3,191,524 )
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Loss Per share – basic and diluted
−Removed: Weighted Average Shares Outstanding*
−Removed: Basic and diluted
−Removed: Retrospectively restated due to five for one reverse stock split, see Note 17.
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part
−Removed: of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
−Removed: FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, 2023 AND 2022
+Added: Weighted Average Shares Outstanding – Basic and diluted
+Added: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
+Added: THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, 2024 AND 2023
Ordinary Share
−Removed: Comprehensive
+Added: Additional Paid in
Noncontrolling
Balance at July 31, 2022
−Removed: $ ( 22,055,433 )
−Removed: $ ( 175,220 )
−Removed: Issuance of ordinary shares pursuant to exercise of warrants
−Removed: Issuance of ordinary shares as fractional shares of reverse stock split*
−Removed: Withdrawal of investment by a limited partner of ATIF LP (Note 1)
−Removed: ( 3,000,000 )
−Removed: ( 3,000,000 )
−Removed: Appropriation of investment gain to the limited partner of ATIF LP (Note 1)
Net loss for the year
−Removed: ( 2,910,394 )
−Removed: ( 3,371,099 )
−Removed: Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Reclassification of statutory reserve and accumulated other comprehensive loss
+Added: Disposal of ATIF GP
Balance at July 31, 2023
−Removed: $ ( 24,784,325 )
−Removed: $ ( 369,045 )
Net loss for the year
−Removed: ( 2,882,299 )
−Removed: ( 2,882,299 )
−Removed: Disposal of ATIF GP
+Added: Issuance of ordinary shares pursuant to a private placement
+Added: Issuance of ordinary shares to settle payroll payable due to a management
+Added: Waive of liabilities by a related party
Balance at July 31, 2024
−Removed: $ ( 27,666,624 )
−Removed: * Retrospectively restated due to five for one reverse stock split, see Note 17.
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part
−Removed: of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
+Added: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
For the Years Ended
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Amortization of right-of-use assets
+Added: Loss from early termination of an operating lease
Provision against due from buyers of LGC
−Removed: Provision against accounts receivable due from a related party
+Added: (Reversal of provision) provision against accounts receivable due from a related party
Loss from disposal of property and equipment
−Removed: (Gain) loss from investment in trading securities
+Added: Loss (gain) from investment in trading securities
Loss from disposal of a subsidiary
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Accounts receivable – a related party
−Removed: Due from buyers of Leaping Group Corporation
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
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Payment for investment in trading securities
−Removed: ( 1,437,944 )
Proceeds from redemption of trading securities
−Removed: Investment in an equity investee
Proceeds from disposal of investment in an equity investee
Loans to a related party
+Added: Prepayment made to a related party
Collection of loans from a related party
−Removed: Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
+Added: Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
( 1,579,955 )
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Borrowings from a related party
−Removed: Withdrawal of capital contribution limited partners of ATIF LP
−Removed: ( 3,000,000 )
−Removed: Payment of investment gains to the limited partner of ATIF LP
−Removed: Proceeds from exercise of warrants
−Removed: Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
−Removed: ( 1,960,946 )
−Removed: Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
−Removed: Net decrease in cash
−Removed: ( 1,144,115 )
+Added: Proceeds from issuance of ordinary shares pursuant to a private placement
+Added: Net cash provided by financing activities
+Added: Net increase (decrease) in cash
( 1,144,115 )
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Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease obligations
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part
−Removed: of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION
−Removed: ATIF Holdings Limited (“ATIF” or the
−Removed: “Company”), formerly known as Eternal Fairy International Limited and Asia Times Holdings Limited, was incorporated under
−Removed: the laws of the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) on January 5, 2015, as a holding company to develop business opportunities
−Removed: in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC” or “China”).
−Removed: The Company adopted its current name on March 7,
−Removed: The Company is primarily engaged in providing business advisory and financial consulting services to small and medium-sized enterprise
−Removed: On October 6 and October 7, 2022, ATIF Inc., a
−Removed: wholly owned subsidiary of ATIF, established ATIF Business Consulting LLC (“ATIF BC”) and ATIF Business Management LLC (“ATIF
−Removed: BM”) under the laws of the State of California of the United States, respectively.
−Removed: On April 25, 2022, the Company established ATIF
−Removed: Investment Limited (“ATIF Investment”) under the laws of BVI.
−Removed: On December 22, 2021, ATIF Inc.
−Removed: established ATIF BD LLC (“ATIF
−Removed: BD”) under the laws of California of the United States.
−Removed: Enter into a sales agreement of ATIF GP
−Removed: 21, 2021, the Company incorporated ATIF-1 GP, LLC (“ATIF GP”) under the laws of Delaware of the United States.
−Removed: a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and focuses on fund management business.
−Removed: 16, 2021, ATIF-1, LP (“ATIF LP”) was established as a private equity fund through our indirectly-wholly owned subsidiary,
+Added: Issuance of ordinary shares to settle payroll payable due to a management
+Added: Waive of liabilities by a related party
+Added: Disposal of right-of-use assets with decrease of operating lease obligations
+Added: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: 1 – ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
+Added: Holdings Limited (“ATIF” or the “Company”), formerly known as Eternal Fairy International Limited and Asia Times
+Added: Holdings Limited, was incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) on January 5, 2015, as a holding
+Added: company to develop business opportunities in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC” or “China”).
+Added: Company adopted its current name on March 7, 2019.
+Added: The Company is primarily engaged in providing business advisory and financial
+Added: consulting services to small and medium-sized enterprise customers.
+Added: October 6 and October 7, 2022, ATIF Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ATIF, established ATIF Business Consulting LLC (“ATIF BC”)
+Added: and ATIF Business Management LLC (“ATIF BM”) under the laws of the State of California of the United States, respectively.
+Added: On April 25, 2022, the Company established ATIF Investment Limited (“ATIF Investment”) under the laws of BVI.
+Added: 22, 2021, ATIF Inc.
+Added: established ATIF BD LLC (“ATIF BD”) under the laws of California of the United States.
+Added: into a sales agreement of ATIF GP
+Added: January 21, 2021, the Company incorporated ATIF-1 GP, LLC (“ATIF GP”) under the laws of Delaware of the United States.
+Added: GP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and focuses on fund management business.
+Added: February 16, 2021, ATIF-1, LP (“ATIF LP”) was established as a private equity fund through our indirectly-wholly owned subsidiary,
ATIF-1 GP, LLC (“ATIF GP”), a Delaware limited liability company, as the general partner.
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The investment manager for the fund is ATIF Inc.
−Removed: On August 1, 2022, the
−Removed: Company entered into a sales agreement with a third party, pursuant to which the Company sold all of its equity interest in ATIF GP at
−Removed: the cost of $ 50,000 .
−Removed: The management believed the disposition does not represent a strategic shift because it is not changing the way it
−Removed: is running its consulting business.
+Added: August 1, 2022, the Company entered into a sales agreement with a third party, pursuant to which the Company sold all of its equity interest
+Added: in ATIF GP at the cost of $ 50,000 .
+Added: The management believed the disposition does not represent a strategic shift because it is not changing
+Added: the way it is running its consulting business.
The Company has not shifted the nature of its operations.
+Added: The termination is not accounted
+Added: as discontinued operations in accordance with ASC 205-20.
+Added: Upon the closing of the Agreement, ATIF GP is no longer our subsidiary and
+Added: ATIF USA ceased to be the investment manager of ATIF LP.
+Added: of ATIF HK and Huaya
+Added: May 20, 2022, the Company entered into a share transfer agreement with Mr.
+Added: Pishan Chi, pursuant to which the Company transferred all
+Added: of its equity interest in ATIF HK and its wholly owned subsidiary, Huaya to Mr.
+Added: Chi at $nil consideration.
+Added: Chi was the Company’s
+Added: former Chief Executive Officer for the period from July 10, 2020 through August 4, 2021.
+Added: The transfer of equity interest was closed on
+Added: May 31, 2022.
+Added: transfer of equity interest in ATIF HK and Huaya was for the purpose of mitigation of restrictions on China-based companies raising capital
+Added: offshore by the PRC government.
+Added: Upon the transfer of ATIF HK and Huaya, the Company would continue its effort to provide financial consulting
+Added: services to clients from North America and other areas.
+Added: The management believed the disposition does not represent a strategic shift
+Added: because it is not changing the way it is running its business.
+Added: The Company has not shifted the nature of its operations, not is it exiting
+Added: the North America market, which is the Company’s major geographic market area.
The termination is not accounted as discontinued
operations in accordance with ASC 205-20.
−Removed: Upon the closing of the Agreement, ATIF GP is no longer our subsidiary and ATIF USA ceased to
−Removed: be the investment manager of ATIF LP.
−Removed: Disposal of ATIF HK and Huaya
−Removed: On May 20, 2022, the Company entered into a share
−Removed: transfer agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Pishan Chi, pursuant to which the Company transferred all of its equity interest in ATIF HK and its wholly
−Removed: owned subsidiary, Huaya to Mr.
−Removed: Chi at $ nil consideration.
−Removed: Chi was the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer for the period
−Removed: from July 10, 2020 through August 4, 2021.
−Removed: The transfer of equity interest was closed on May 31, 2022.
−Removed: The transfer of equity interest in ATIF HK and
−Removed: Huaya was for the purpose of mitigation of restrictions on China-based companies raising capital offshore by the PRC government.
−Removed: the transfer of ATIF HK and Huaya, the Company would continue its effort to provide financial consulting services to clients from North
−Removed: America and other areas.
−Removed: The management believed the disposition does not represent a strategic shift because it is not changing the way
−Removed: it is running its business.
−Removed: The Company has not shifted the nature of its operations, not is it exiting the North America market, which
−Removed: is the Company’s major geographic market area.
−Removed: The termination is not accounted as discontinued operations in accordance with ASC
−Removed: 205-20 (see Note 5).
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023, the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: financial statements reflect the operating results of the following entities:
−Removed: Name of Entity
−Removed: Incorporation
−Removed: Incorporation
−Removed: Principal Activities
+Added: of July 31, 2024, the Company’s consolidated financial statements reflect the operating results of the following entities:
+Added: Name of Entity Date of
+Added: Incorporation Place of
+Added: Incorporation % of
+Added: Ownership Principal Activities
Parent company:
−Removed: ATIF Holdings Limited (“ATIF”)
−Removed: January 5, 2015
−Removed: British Virgin Islands
−Removed: Investment holding
+Added: ATIF Holdings Limited (“ATIF”) January 5, 2015 British Virgin Islands Parent Investment holding
Wholly owned subsidiaries of ATIF
−Removed: October 26, 2020
−Removed: Consultancy and information technology support
−Removed: ATIF Investment LLC (“ATIF Investment”)
−Removed: April 25, 2022
−Removed: Consultancy and information technology support
−Removed: December 22, 2021
−Removed: 100% owned by ATIF USA
−Removed: Consultancy and information technology support
−Removed: October 6, 2022
−Removed: 100% owned by ATIF USA
−Removed: Consultancy and information technology support
−Removed: October 6, 2022
−Removed: 100% owned by ATIF USA
−Removed: Consultancy and information technology support
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 2 – LIQUIDITY and GOING CONCERN
−Removed: For the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022, the
−Removed: Company reported a net loss of approximately $ 2.9 million and $ 3.4 million, respectively, and operating cash outflows approximately $ 2.3
−Removed: million and $ 0.1 million.
−Removed: In assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, the Company monitors and analyzes its
−Removed: cash and its ability to generate sufficient cash flow in the future to support its operating and capital expenditure commitments.
+Added: (“ATIF USA”) October 26, 2020 USA 100% Consultancy and information technology support
+Added: ATIF Investment LLC (“ATIF Investment”) April 25, 2022 BVI 100% Consultancy and information technology support
+Added: ATIF BD December 22, 2021 USA 100% owned by ATIF USA Consultancy and information technology support
+Added: ATIF BC October 6, 2022 USA 100% owned by ATIF USA Consultancy and information technology support
+Added: ATIF BM October 6, 2022 USA 100% owned by ATIF USA Consultancy and information technology support
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: 2 – LIQUIDITY and GOING CONCERN
+Added: the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company reported a net loss of approximately $ 3.2 million and $ 2.9 million, respectively,
+Added: and operating cash outflows approximately $ 0.1 million and $ 2.3 million.
+Added: In assessing the Company’s ability to continue as a going
+Added: concern, the Company monitors and analyzes its cash and its ability to generate sufficient cash flow in the future to support its operating
+Added: and capital expenditure commitments.
+Added: Because of losses from operations, cash out from operating activities, and the requirement of additional
+Added: capital to fund our current operating plan at July 31, 2024, these factors indicate the existence of an uncertainty that raises substantial
+Added: doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
As of July 31, 2024, the Company had cash of $ 1.2
−Removed: million and accounts receivables of $ 0.6 million due from a related party, which were highly liquid.
−Removed: On the other hand, the Company had
−Removed: current liabilities of $ 1.5 million, among which $ 0.7 million was due to related parties.
−Removed: The balance due to related parties are payable
−Removed: on demand and may be extended.
−Removed: The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on management’s ability to
−Removed: successfully execute its business plan, which includes increasing revenue while controlling operating cost and expenses to generate positive
−Removed: operating cash flows and obtain financing from outside sources.
−Removed: Because of losses from operations, working capital
−Removed: deficit, and the requirement of additional capital to fund our current operating plan at July 31, 2023, these factors indicate the existence
−Removed: of an uncertainty that raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have
−Removed: been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the ordinary course
−Removed: The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset
−Removed: amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of the uncertainties described above.
−Removed: NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
−Removed: Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
−Removed: have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S.
−Removed: and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
−Removed: The consolidated
−Removed: financial statements of the Company include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: All intercompany balances and transactions
−Removed: have been eliminated upon consolidation.
−Removed: Noncontrolling Interests
−Removed: As of July 31, 2022, the non-controlling interest
−Removed: represent minority shareholders’ 76.6 % ownership interest in ATIF LP, over which the Company had 23.4 % and acted as an investment
−Removed: manager through ATIF GP, its wholly owned subsidiary.
−Removed: The Company had non-controlling interest of $( 369,045 ) as of July 31, 2022.
−Removed: On August 1, 2022, the Company sold all of its
−Removed: equity interest in ATIF GP.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023, the Company had no noncontrolling interests.
−Removed: Use of Estimates
−Removed: In preparing the consolidated financial statements
−Removed: in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP, management makes estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
−Removed: disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses
−Removed: during the reporting period.
−Removed: These estimates are based on information as of the date of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: estimates required to be made by management include, but are not limited to, the valuation of accounts receivable, useful lives of property
−Removed: and equipment and intangible assets, the recoverability of long-lived assets, revenue recognition, provision necessary for contingent
−Removed: liabilities and realization of deferred tax assets.
−Removed: Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
−Removed: POLICIES (continued)
−Removed: Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Cash includes cash on hand and demand deposits
−Removed: in accounts maintained with commercial banks.
−Removed: The Company considers all highly liquid investment instruments with an original maturity
−Removed: of three months or less from the date of purchase to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: The Company maintains all of its bank accounts in the United
−Removed: Accounts Receivable, net
−Removed: Accounts receivable are presented net of allowance
−Removed: for doubtful accounts.
−Removed: The Company usually determines the adequacy of reserves for doubtful accounts based on individual account analysis
−Removed: and historical collection trends.
−Removed: The Company establishes a provision for doubtful receivables when there is objective evidence that the
−Removed: Company may not be able to collect amounts due.
−Removed: The allowance is based on management’s best estimates of specific losses on individual
−Removed: exposures, as well as a provision on historical trends of collections.
−Removed: The provision is recorded against accounts receivables balances,
−Removed: with a corresponding charge recorded in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
−Removed: Delinquent account balances
−Removed: are written off against the allowance for doubtful accounts after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had no allowance against doubtful accounts receivable.
−Removed: Investment in Trading Securities
+Added: million, short-term investment in trading securities of $ 0.4 million, due from a related party of $ 0.9 million and accounts receivables
+Added: of $ 0.2 million due from a related party, which were highly liquid.
+Added: On the other hand, the Company had current liabilities of $ 1.0 million.
+Added: The Company’s cash on hand could well cover the current liabilities.
+Added: The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern
+Added: is dependent on management’s ability to successfully execute its business plan, which includes increasing revenue while controlling
+Added: operating cost and expenses to generate positive operating cash flows and obtain financing from outside sources.
+Added: accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of
+Added: assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating
+Added: to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result
+Added: from the outcome of the uncertainties described above.
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
+Added: of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
+Added: accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the
+Added: United States of America (“U.S.
+Added: GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission
+Added: consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries.
+Added: All intercompany balances
+Added: and transactions have been eliminated upon consolidation.
+Added: preparing the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S.
+Added: GAAP, management makes estimates and assumptions that affect
+Added: the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements
+Added: and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: These estimates are based on information as of the date
+Added: of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Significant estimates required to be made by management include, but are not limited to, the
+Added: valuation of accounts receivable, useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, the recoverability of long-lived assets,
+Added: revenue recognition, provision necessary for contingent liabilities and realization of deferred tax assets.
+Added: Actual results could differ
+Added: from those estimates.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
+Added: and Cash Equivalents
+Added: includes cash on hand and demand deposits in accounts maintained with commercial banks.
+Added: The Company considers all highly liquid investment
+Added: instruments with an original maturity of three months or less from the date of purchase to be cash equivalents.
+Added: The Company maintains
+Added: all of its bank accounts in the United States.
+Added: Receivable, net
+Added: August 1, 2023, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
+Added: 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses
+Added: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”), using the modified retrospective
+Added: transition method.
+Added: ASU 2016-13 replaces the existing incurred loss impairment model with an expected loss methodology, which will result
+Added: in more timely recognition of credit losses.
+Added: Upon adoption, the Company changed the impairment model to utilize a forward-looking current
+Added: expected credit losses (CECL) model in place of the incurred loss methodology for financial instruments measured at amortized cost and
+Added: receivables resulting from the application of ASC 606, including contract assets.
+Added: The adoption of the guidance had no impact on the allowance
+Added: for credit losses for accounts receivable.
+Added: to the Company’s adoption of ASU 2016-13, accounts receivable are presented net of allowance for doubtful accounts.
+Added: usually determines the adequacy of reserves for doubtful accounts based on individual account analysis and historical collection trends.
+Added: The Company establishes a provision for doubtful receivables when there is objective evidence that the Company may not be able to collect
+Added: The allowance is based on management’s best estimates of specific losses on individual exposures, as well as a provision
+Added: on historical trends of collections.
+Added: The provision is recorded against accounts receivables balances, with a corresponding charge recorded
+Added: in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
+Added: Delinquent account balances are written off against the
+Added: allowance for doubtful accounts after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.
+Added: the adoption of ASU 2016-13, The Company maintains an allowance for credit losses and records the allowance for credit losses as an offset
+Added: to accounts receivable and the estimated credit losses charged to the allowance is classified as “General and administrative expenses”
+Added: in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
+Added: The Company uses loss-rate methods to estimate allowance
+Added: for credit loss.
+Added: The Company assesses collectability by reviewing accounts receivable on an individual basis because the Company had
+Added: limited customers and each of them has difference characteristics, primarily based on business line and geographical area.
+Added: In determining
+Added: the amount of the allowance for credit losses, the Company multiplied the loss rate with the amortized cost of accounts receivable.
+Added: loss rate refers to the corporate default rate published by credit rating companies, which considers current economic conditions, reasonable
+Added: and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions.
+Added: Delinquent account balances are written-off against the allowance for credit
+Added: losses after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2024, the
+Added: Company did not provide allowance for credit losses.
+Added: in Trading Securities
Equity securities not accounted for using the
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in trading securities” and subsequently measure the investments at fair value.
−Removed: The Company made a gain of $ 192,102 and a loss of
−Removed: $ 2,432,107 from investment in trading securities for the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: Property and Equipment, net
−Removed: Property and equipment are stated at cost.
−Removed: straight-line depreciation method is used to compute depreciation over the estimated useful lives of the assets, as follows:
+Added: The Company recognized a loss of $ 381,370 and a gain
+Added: of $ 192,102 from investment in trading securities for the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
+Added: and Equipment, net
+Added: and equipment are stated at cost.
+Added: The straight-line depreciation method is used to compute depreciation over the estimated useful lives
+Added: of the assets, as follows:
Furniture, fixtures and equipment
Transportation vehicles
−Removed: Expenditures for maintenance and repairs, which
−Removed: do not materially extend the useful lives of the assets, are charged to expense as incurred.
−Removed: Expenditures for major renewals and betterments
−Removed: which substantially extend the useful life of assets are capitalized.
−Removed: The cost and related accumulated depreciation of assets retired
−Removed: or sold are removed from the respective accounts, and any gain or loss is recognized in the consolidated statements of operations and
−Removed: comprehensive loss as other income or expenses.
−Removed: Intangible assets, net
−Removed: The Company capitalizes certain platform and software
−Removed: development costs related to the consulting services during the application development stage.
−Removed: The costs related to preliminary project
−Removed: activities and post-implementation activities are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: Capitalized software development costs are depreciated on a straight-line
−Removed: basis over the estimated useful life of 4 years.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
−Removed: POLICIES (continued)
−Removed: Long-term investments
−Removed: In accordance with ASC 321-10 “Investments
−Removed: – Equity Securities”, the Company elects to record equity investments in a privately held company, over which the Company
−Removed: did not have control or exercise significant influence, using the measurement alternative at cost, less impairment, with subsequent adjustments
−Removed: for observable price changes resulting from orderly transactions for identical or similar investments of the same issuer.
−Removed: Equity investment in a privately held company
−Removed: accounted for using the measurement alternative is subject to periodic impairment reviews.
−Removed: The Company’s impairment analysis considers
−Removed: both qualitative and quantitative factors that may have a significant effect on the fair value of these equity securities, including consideration
−Removed: of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2022, the Company did not record
−Removed: impairment loss against the long-term investments.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company sold its long-term investments and had
−Removed: no long-term investments as of July 31, 2023.
−Removed: Impairment of Long-lived Assets
−Removed: Long-lived assets, including plant and equipment
−Removed: and intangible with finite lives are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse
−Removed: change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable.
−Removed: The Company assesses the recoverability of the assets based on the undiscounted future cash flows the assets are expected to generate
−Removed: and recognize an impairment loss when estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset plus net proceeds
−Removed: expected from disposition of the asset, if any, are less than the carrying value of the asset.
−Removed: If an impairment is identified, the Company
−Removed: would reduce the carrying amount of the asset to its estimated fair value based on a discounted cash flows approach or, when available
−Removed: and appropriate, to comparable market values.
−Removed: For the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022,
−Removed: the Company did not record impairment against long-lived assets, respectively.
−Removed: Fair Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: ASC 825-10 requires certain disclosures regarding
−Removed: the fair value of financial instruments.
−Removed: Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer
−Removed: a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
−Removed: A three-level fair value hierarchy prioritizes
−Removed: the inputs used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The hierarchy requires entities to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of
−Removed: unobservable inputs.
−Removed: The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as follows:
−Removed: Level 1 – inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.
−Removed: Level 2 – inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, quoted market prices for identical or similar assets in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable and inputs derived from or corroborated by observable market data.
−Removed: Level 3 – inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable.
−Removed: value of investment in trading securities are based on quoted prices in active markets.
−Removed: The carrying amounts of the Company’s other
−Removed: financial instruments including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, deposits, due from buyers of LGC and other current assets,
−Removed: accounts payable, and accrued expenses and other current liabilities approximate their fair values because of the short-term nature of
−Removed: these assets and liabilities.
−Removed: For lease liabilities, fair value approximates their carrying value at the year-end as the interest rates
−Removed: used to discount the host contracts approximate market rates.
−Removed: For the year end July 31, 2023, there are no transfers between different
−Removed: levels of inputs used to measure fair value
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
−Removed: POLICIES (continued)
−Removed: Revenue Recognition
−Removed: The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with
−Removed: ASC 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”).
−Removed: To determine revenue recognition for contracts
−Removed: with customers, the Company performs the following five steps:
−Removed: (i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the
−Removed: performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, including variable consideration to the extent that
−Removed: it is probable that a significant future reversal will not occur, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the respective performance
−Removed: obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies the performance obligation.
−Removed: The Company recognizes revenue when it transfers
−Removed: its goods and services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in such exchange.
+Added: for maintenance and repairs, which do not materially extend the useful lives of the assets, are charged to expense as incurred.
+Added: for major renewals and betterments which substantially extend the useful life of assets are capitalized.
+Added: The cost and related accumulated
+Added: depreciation of assets retired or sold are removed from the respective accounts, and any gain or loss is recognized in the consolidated
+Added: statements of operations and comprehensive loss as other income or expenses.
+Added: Company capitalizes certain platform and software development costs related to the consulting services during the application development
+Added: The costs related to preliminary project activities and post-implementation activities are expensed as incurred.
+Added: Capitalized software
+Added: development costs are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of 4 years .
+Added: of Long-lived Assets
+Added: assets, including plant and equipment and intangible with finite lives are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances
+Added: (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying
+Added: value of an asset may not be recoverable.
+Added: The Company assesses the recoverability of the assets based on the undiscounted future cash
+Added: flows the assets are expected to generate and recognize an impairment loss when estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to
+Added: result from the use of the asset plus net proceeds expected from disposition of the asset, if any, are less than the carrying value of
+Added: If an impairment is identified, the Company would reduce the carrying amount of the asset to its estimated fair value based
+Added: on a discounted cash flows approach or, when available and appropriate, to comparable market values.
+Added: the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company did not record impairment against long-lived assets, respectively.
+Added: HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
+Added: Value of Financial Instruments
+Added: 825-10 requires certain disclosures regarding the fair value of financial instruments.
+Added: Fair value is defined as the price that would
+Added: be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement
+Added: A three-level fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value.
+Added: The hierarchy requires entities to maximize
+Added: the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.
+Added: The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as
+Added: Level 1 – inputs
+Added: to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.
+Added: Level 2 – inputs
+Added: to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, quoted market prices for
+Added: identical or similar assets in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable and inputs derived
+Added: from or corroborated by observable market data.
+Added: Level 3 – inputs
+Added: to the valuation methodology are unobservable.
+Added: Fair value of investment in trading securities are based on quoted
+Added: prices in active markets.
+Added: The carrying amounts of the Company’s other financial instruments including cash and cash equivalents,
+Added: accounts receivable, deposits, due from and due to related parties, other current assets, accounts payable, and accrued expenses and other
+Added: current liabilities approximate their fair values because of the short-term nature of these assets and liabilities.
+Added: For lease liabilities
+Added: and long-term payable, fair value approximates their carrying value at the year-end as the interest rates used to discount the host contracts
+Added: approximate market rates.
+Added: For the year end July 31, 2024 and 2023, there are no transfers between different levels of inputs used to measure
+Added: Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”).
+Added: determine revenue recognition for contracts with customers, the Company performs the following five steps:
+Added: (i) identify the contract
+Added: with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, including
+Added: variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that a significant future reversal will not occur, (iv) allocate the transaction
+Added: price to the respective performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies the
+Added: performance obligation.
+Added: Company recognizes revenue when it transfers its goods and services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which
+Added: the Company expects to be entitled in such exchange.
For the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the
Company primarily generated revenues from consulting services to customers who would like to go public.
−Removed: The Company provides various consulting services
−Removed: to its members, especially to those who have the intention to be publicly listed in the stock exchanges in the United States and other
+Added: As of July 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: had uncompleted performance obligation s of $ 400,000 .
+Added: Company provides various consulting services to its members, especially to those who have the intention to be publicly listed in the
+Added: stock exchanges in the United States and other countries.
The Company categorizes its consulting services into three Phases:
−Removed: Phase I consulting services primarily include
−Removed: due diligence review, market research and feasibility study, business plan drafting, accounting record review, and business analysis and
−Removed: recommendations.
−Removed: Management estimates that Phase I normally takes about three months to complete based on its past experience.
−Removed: Phase II consulting services primarily include
−Removed: reorganization, pre-listing education and tutoring, talent search, legal and audit firm recommendation and coordination, VIE contracts
−Removed: and other public-listing related documents review, merger and acquisition planning, investor referral and pre-listing equity financing
−Removed: source identification and recommendations, and independent directors and audit committee candidate’s recommendation.
−Removed: estimates that Phase II normally takes about eight months to complete based on its past experience.
−Removed: III consulting services primarily include shell company identification and recommendation for customers expecting to become publicly listed
−Removed: through reverse merger transaction;
+Added: I consulting services primarily include due diligence review, market research and feasibility study, business plan drafting, accounting
+Added: record review, and business analysis and recommendations.
+Added: Management estimates that Phase I normally takes about three months to complete
+Added: based on its past experience.
+Added: II consulting services primarily include reorganization, pre-listing education and tutoring, talent search, legal and audit firm recommendation
+Added: and coordination, VIE contracts and other public-listing related documents review, merger and acquisition planning, investor referral
+Added: and pre-listing equity financing source identification and recommendations, and independent directors and audit committee candidate’s
+Added: recommendation.
+Added: Management estimates that Phase II normally takes about eight months to complete based on its past experience.
+Added: III consulting services primarily include shell company identification and recommendation for customers expecting to become publicly
+Added: listed through reverse merger transaction;
assistance in preparation of customers’ public filings for IPO or reverse merger transactions;
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POLICIES (continued)
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation
−Removed: The functional currency for ATIF is the U.S Dollar
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company operates its business through ATIF Inc, and no foreign currency translation
−Removed: was recorded for the year ended July 31, 2023.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2022, the Company
−Removed: primarily operates its business through ATIF Inc, ATIF HK and Huaya, and the latter two entities were disposed of on May 31, 2022.
−Removed: Company’s consolidated financial statements have been translated into US$.
−Removed: Assets and liabilities accounts are translated
−Removed: using the exchange rate at each reporting period end date.
−Removed: Equity accounts are translated at historical rates.
−Removed: Income and expense accounts
−Removed: are translated at the average rate of exchange during the reporting period.
−Removed: The resulting translation adjustments are reported under other
−Removed: comprehensive income (loss).
−Removed: Gains and losses resulting from the translations of foreign currency transactions and balances are reflected
−Removed: in the results of operations.
−Removed: The RMB is not freely convertible into foreign
−Removed: currency and all foreign exchange transactions must take place through authorized institutions.
−Removed: No representation is made that the RMB
−Removed: amounts could have been, or could be, converted into US$ at the rates used in translation.
−Removed: The following table outlines the currency exchange
−Removed: rates that were used in creating the consolidated financial statements in this report:
−Removed: Foreign currency
−Removed: Comprehensive loss
−Removed: Comprehensive loss consists of two components,
−Removed: net loss and other comprehensive income.
−Removed: The foreign currency translation gain or loss
−Removed: resulting from translation of the financial statements expressed in RMB to US$ is reported in other comprehensive income in the consolidated
−Removed: statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Operating Leases
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basis over the lease term.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
−Removed: POLICIES (continued)
+Added: Government grants
+Added: Government grants include
+Added: cash subsidies from various government agencies received by the subsidiaries of the Company.
+Added: Government grants are recognized as other
+Added: income when all conditions attached to the grants are fulfilled and recorded in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations
+Added: and comprehensive loss.
+Added: For the fiscal years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company received Employee Retention Tax Credit of
+Added: $ 51,896 and $ nil from Internal Review Service (“IRS”) of the United States.
Statement of Cash Flows
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Cash Flows,” cash flows from the Company’s operations are formulated based upon the local currencies.
−Removed: As a result, amounts
−Removed: related to assets and liabilities reported on the consolidated statements of cash flows will not necessarily agree with changes
−Removed: in the corresponding balances on the balance sheets.
Segment reporting
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service business.
−Removed: Reclassification
−Removed: items in the financial statements of comparative period have been reclassified to conform to the financial statements for the current
−Removed: period, primarily for the effects of reverse split of the Company’s ordinary shares (see Note 17 for detail) and reclassification
−Removed: of both statutory reserve and accumulated other comprehensive loss to accumulated losses.
Commitments and Contingencies
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Risks and Uncertainty
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023, the Company held cash and
−Removed: cash equivalents of $ 346,903 deposited in the banks located in the U.S., which were insured by FDIC up to $ 250,000 , and held cash and
−Removed: cash equivalents of $ 259,119 deposited in the investment bank accounts located in the U.S.
−Removed: which are not insured by FDIC.
+Added: of July 31, 2024, the Company held cash and cash equivalents of $ 395,506 deposited in the banks located in the U.S., which were insured
+Added: by FDIC up to $ 250,000 , and held cash and cash equivalents of $ 841,409 deposited
+Added: in the investment bank accounts located in the U.S.
+Added: and cash and cash equivalents of $ 12,461 deposited in an investment bank accounts
+Added: located in Singapore, which are not insured by FDIC.
Concentration risk
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its customers’ creditworthiness and its ongoing monitoring of outstanding balances.
−Removed: Company has a concentration of its revenues and receivables with
−Removed: specific customers.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2023, three customers accounted for 53 %, 24 % and 22 % of the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: revenue, respectively.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2022, three customers accounted for 46 %, 30 % and 22 % of the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: revenue, respectively.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023, two customers accounted for
−Removed: 54 % and 46 % of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, respectively.
+Added: The Company has a concentration of its revenues
+Added: and receivables with specific customers.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2024, two customers accounted for 40 % and 32 % of the Company’s
+Added: consolidated revenue, respectively.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2023, three customers accounted for 53 %, 25 % and 22 % of the Company’s
+Added: consolidated revenue, respectively.
+Added: As of July 31, 2024, one related party customer
+Added: accounted for 100 % of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, respectively.
+Added: As of July 31, 2023, two customers accounted
+Added: for 54 % and 46 % of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable, respectively.
For the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, substantially
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13,
−Removed: Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326), which requires entities to measure all expected credit losses for financial assets held
−Removed: at the reporting date based on historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts.
−Removed: This replaces the
−Removed: existing incurred loss model and is applicable to the measurement of credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost.
−Removed: 2016-13 was subsequently amended by Accounting Standards Update 2018-19, Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit
−Removed: Losses, Accounting Standards Update 2019-04 Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses,
−Removed: Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and Topic 825, Financial Instruments , and Accounting Standards Update 2019-05, Targeted Transition
−Removed: For public entities, ASU 2016-13 and its amendments are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal
−Removed: years, beginning after December 15, 2019.
−Removed: For all other entities, this guidance and its amendments will be effective for fiscal years
+Added: In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09,
+Added: which is an update to Topic 740, Income Taxes.
+Added: The amendments in this update related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes
+Added: paid disclosures improve the transparency of income tax disclosures by requiring (1) adding disclosures of pretax income (or loss)
+Added: and income tax expense (or benefit) to be consistent with U.S.
+Added: Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) Regulation S-X
+Added: 210.4-08(h), Rules of General Application — General Notes to Financial Statements:
+Added: Income Tax Expense, and (2) removing
+Added: disclosures that no longer are considered cost beneficial or relevant.
+Added: For public business entities, the amendments in this Update are
+Added: effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
+Added: For entities other than public business entities, the amendments
+Added: are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2025.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted for annual financial statements that
+Added: have not yet been issued or made available for issuance.
+Added: The amendments in this update should be applied on a prospective basis.
+Added: Retrospective
+Added: application is permitted.
+Added: The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of ASU 2023-09 on the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In October 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-06,
+Added: Disclosure Improvements — Codification Amendments in Response to SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative
+Added: which amend the disclosure or presentation requirements of codification subtopic 230-10 Statement of Cash Flows — Overall, 250-10
+Added: Accounting Changes and Error Corrections — Overall, 260-10 Earnings Per Share — Overall, 270-10
+Added: Interim Reporting — Overall, 440-10 Commitments — Overall, 470-10 Debt — Overall, 505-10
+Added: Equity — Overall, 815-10 Derivatives and Hedging — Overall, 860-30 Transfers and Servicing — Secured
+Added: Borrowing and Collateral, 932-235 Extractive Activities — Oil and Gas — Notes to Financial Statements, 946-20
+Added: Financial Services — Investment Companies — Investment Company Activities, and 974-10 Real Estate — Real
+Added: Estate Investment Trusts — Overall.
+Added: The amendments represent changes to clarify or improve disclosure and presentation
+Added: requirements of the above subtopics.
+Added: Many of the amendments allow users to more easily compare entities subject to the SEC’s existing
+Added: disclosures with those entities that were not previously subject to the SEC’s requirements.
+Added: Also, the amendments align the requirements
+Added: in the codification with the SEC’s regulations.
+Added: For entities subject to existing SEC disclosure requirements or those that must
+Added: provide financial statements to the SEC for securities purposes without contractual transfer restrictions, the effective date aligns with
+Added: the date when the SEC removes the related disclosure from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K.
+Added: Early adoption is not allowed.
+Added: For all other entities, the amendments will be effective two years later from the date of the SEC’s removal.
+Added: The Company is
+Added: in the process of evaluating the impact of ASU 2023-06 on the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In March 2023, the FASB issued new accounting
+Added: guidance, ASU 2023-01, for leasehold improvements associated with common control leases, which is effective for fiscal years
beginning after December 15, 2023, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: Early application will be permitted for all
−Removed: entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018.
−Removed: As an emerging growth
−Removed: company, the Company plans to adopt this guidance effective August 1, 2023.
−Removed: The Company does not expect the adoption of ASU 2016-13
−Removed: will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-10,
−Removed: “Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815), and Leases (Topic 842)” (“ASU
−Removed: ASU 2019-10 (i) provides a framework to stagger effective dates for future major accounting standards and (ii) amends
−Removed: the effective dates for certain major new accounting standards to give implementation relief to certain types of entities.
−Removed: Specifically,
−Removed: ASU 2019-10 changes some effective dates for certain new standards on the following topics in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification
−Removed: (a) Derivatives and Hedging (ASC 815) – now effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020 and interim
−Removed: periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021;
−Removed: (b) Leases (ASC 842) – now effective for fiscal years beginning
−Removed: after December 15, 2020 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021;
−Removed: (c) Financial Instruments
−Removed: — Credit Losses (ASC 326) – now effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods
−Removed: within those fiscal years;
−Removed: and (d) Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (ASC 350) – now effective for fiscal years beginning
−Removed: after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: The Company does not expect the cumulative effect resulting
−Removed: from the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted for both
+Added: interim and annual financial statements that have not yet been made available for issuance.
+Added: The new guidance introduced two issues:
+Added: and conditions to be considered with leases between related parties under common control and accounting for leasehold improvements.
+Added: goals for the new issues are to reduce the cost associated with implementing and applying Topic 842 and to promote diversity in practice
+Added: by entities within the scope when applying lease accounting requirements.
+Added: The Company assessed that the adoption of ASU 2023-01 had
+Added: no significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
Recently issued ASUs by the FASB, except for the
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 4 – TRANSFER OF EQUITY INTEREST
−Removed: August 1, 2022, the Company entered into a sales agreement with a third party, pursuant to which the Company sold all of its equity interest
−Removed: in ATIF GP at cash consideration of $ 50,000 .
−Removed: Because the transfer
−Removed: of equity of interest occurred on the first day of the year of 2023, ATIF GP did not contribute any revenues or net income (loss) to the
−Removed: The Company determines that the transfer of equity
−Removed: interest in ATIF GP did not have a major effect on its operations and financial results.
−Removed: The Company also determines the transfer of equity
−Removed: interest does not represent a strategic shift because it is not changing the way the Company operates its consulting services.
−Removed: The termination
−Removed: is not accounted as discontinued operations in accordance with ASC 205-20.
−Removed: Upon the closing of the Agreement, ATIF GP is no longer our
−Removed: subsidiary and ATIF USA ceased to be the investment manager of ATIF LP.
−Removed: the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company recorded a gain of $ 56,038 from
−Removed: the transfer of equity interest as a component of “other income (expenses), net” in the consolidated statements of operations and
−Removed: comprehensive loss.
−Removed: NOTE 5 – TRANSFER OF EQUITY INTEREST
−Removed: IN ATIF HK AND HUAYA
−Removed: To mitigate the potential risks arising from the
−Removed: PRC government provision of new guidance to and restrictions on China-based companies raising capital offshore, the Company closed transfer
−Removed: of equity interest in ATIF HK and Huaya with Mr.
−Removed: Pishan Chi for nil consideration on May 31, 2022.
−Removed: The disposition of ATIF HK and Huaya
−Removed: did not discontinue the Company’s public listing related consulting service business, as the Company would focus it continuous efforts
−Removed: on provision consulting service business to clients based in North America and other areas.
−Removed: There were no penalties or non-compete agreements
−Removed: derived from the disposition.
−Removed: For the period from August 1, 2021 through May
−Removed: 31, 2022, operating revenue generated through ATIF HK and Huaya amounted to $ 864,102 , and net loss amounted to $( 871,958 ), respectively.
−Removed: The revenues and net loss accounted for 52 % and 26 %, respectively, of consolidated revenue and net loss for the year ended July 31, 2022.
−Removed: As of May 31, 2022, net asset deficits of ATIF HK and Huaya amounted to $( 1,050,745 ), the abstract amount accounted for 24 % of the
−Removed: consolidated net assets of the Company as of July 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Company determines that the transfer of equity
−Removed: interest in ATIF HK and Huaya did not have a major effect on its operations and financial results.
−Removed: The Company also determines the transfer
−Removed: of equity interest does not represent a strategic shift because it is not changing the way the Company operates its consulting services.
−Removed: The Company does not shift the nature of its business, not does it exit North America market, which is the major geographic market area
−Removed: of the Company’s business.
−Removed: The termination is not accounted as discontinued operations in accordance with ASC 205-20.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2022, the Company
−Removed: recorded a gain of $ 1,043,052 from the transfer of equity interest as a component of “other income (expenses), net” in the
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 6 – DUE FROM BUYERS OF LGC
−Removed: 29, 2021, the Company completed a disposition of 51.2 % of the equity interest of LGC.
−Removed: The Company sold all of its shares of LGC to
−Removed: Jiang Bo, Jiang Tao and Wang Di (collectively, the “Buyers”) in exchange for (i) 5,555,548 ordinary shares ( 1,111,110 ordinary
−Removed: shares retrospectively restated for accounting purposes for effect of reverse stock split on August 30, 2021) of the Company owned by
−Removed: the Buyers and (ii) payment by the Buyers in the amount of $ 2,300,000 plus interest at an interest rate of 10 % per annum on
−Removed: the unpaid amount if the principal amount of $ 2,300,000 is not paid by January 14, 2022.
−Removed: 31, 2022, the principal and accrued and unpaid interest amounted to $ 2,654,767 .
−Removed: All principal and accrued and unpaid interest shall be
−Removed: due on January 14, 2023.
−Removed: However the buyers of LGC failed to make payments to the Company.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the
−Removed: Company provided full provision of $ 2,654,767 against the balances due from buyers of LGC as the management assessed it is remote to collect
−Removed: the outstanding balance.
NOTE 4 – PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT
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These prepayments are typically expensed over the period when the services are performed.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 5 – PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT,
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For the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company
−Removed: disposed vehicles with original value of $ 132,670 and net book value of $ 111,940 , and other equipment with original value of $ 15,471 and
−Removed: net book value of $ 9,762 .
−Removed: The Company received proceeds of $ 72,000 , and recognized loss of $ 49,702 on disposal of property and equipment.
+Added: did not dispose of property and equipment.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company disposed vehicles with original value of $ 132,670
+Added: and net book value of $ 111,940 , and other equipment with original value of $ 15,471 and net book value of $ 9,762 .
+Added: The Company received
+Added: proceeds of $ 72,000 , and recognized loss of $ 49,702 on disposal of property and equipment.
Depreciation expense was $ 38,677 and $ 58,805 for
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As of July 31,
−Removed: Financial and lease platform
accumulated amortization
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NOTE 7 – INVESTMENTS IN TRADING SECURITIES
−Removed: of July 31, 2023 and 2022, the balance of investments in trading securities represented certain equity securities of listed companies
−Removed: purchased through various open market transactions by the Company during the relevant periods.
−Removed: The investments are initially recorded
−Removed: at cost, and subsequently measured at fair value with the changes in fair value recorded in other income (expenses), net in the consolidated
−Removed: statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
−Removed: For the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded an increase in fair value
−Removed: of $ 192,102 and a decrease in fair value of $ 2,432,107 , respectively.
−Removed: Investments in trading securities consisted of
−Removed: the following:
−Removed: As of July 31,
−Removed: Trading securities invested by ATIF
−Removed: Trading securities invested by ATIF LP
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 11 – LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
−Removed: For the years ended July 31, 2022, the long-term
−Removed: investment represented equity investment without readily determinable fair value measured at measurement alternative.
−Removed: For the year ended
−Removed: July 31, 2023, the Company sold the long-term investments at cost, and the Company had no long-term investments as of July 31, 2023.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, the long-term investments
−Removed: consisted of the following:
−Removed: As of July 31,
−Removed: Solarever Tecnologia de America S.A.
−Removed: (“Solarever”) (a)
−Removed: Armstrong Logistic Inc.
−Removed: (“Armstrong”) (b)
−Removed: (a) In April 2022, ATIF Investment entered into an equity investment agreement with Solarever, pursuant to which the Company would make investment of $ 2 million in exchange of 5.25 % equity interest in Solarever.
−Removed: The investment was solely used to cover professional and legal fees during going public by Solarever.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2022, ATIF Investment made investment of $ 185,000 and acquired 0.49 % equity interest in Solarever.
−Removed: The Company accounted for the investment
−Removed: in privately held company using the measurement alternative at cost, less impairment, with subsequent adjustments for observable price
−Removed: changes resulting from orderly transactions for identical or similar investments of the same issuer.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2022, the Company
−Removed: did not identify orderly transactions for similar investments of the investee, or any impairment indicators, and the Company did not record
−Removed: upward or downward adjustments or impairment against the investment.
−Removed: (b) In May 2022, ATIF Investment entered into an equity investment agreement with Armstrong, pursuant to which the Company would make investment of $ 2 million in exchange of 12 % equity interest in Armstrong.
−Removed: The investment was solely used to cover professional and legal fees during going public by Armstrong.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2022, ATIF Investment made investment of $ 150,000 and acquired 0.90 % equity interest in Armstrong.
−Removed: The Company accounted for the investment
−Removed: in privately held company using the measurement alternative at cost, less impairment, with subsequent adjustments for observable price
−Removed: changes resulting from orderly transactions for identical or similar investments of the same issuer.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2022, the Company
−Removed: did not identify orderly transactions for similar investments of the investee, or any impairment indicators, and the Company did not record
−Removed: upward or downward adjustments or impairment against the investment.
+Added: As of July 31, 2024 and 2023, the balance of investments
+Added: in trading securities represented certain equity securities of listed companies purchased through various open market transactions by
+Added: the Company during the relevant periods.
+Added: The investments are initially recorded at cost, and subsequently measured at fair value with
+Added: the changes in fair value recorded in other income (expenses), net in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
+Added: For the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded a decrease in fair value of $ 381,370 and an increase in fair value of
+Added: $ 192,102 , respectively.
ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
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NOTE 8 – OPERATING LEASES
−Removed: Company leases offices space under non-cancelable operating leases, with lease terms ranging between 14 months to 60 months.
−Removed: year ended July 31, 2023, the Company entered into a car lease arrangement with a third party lessor with lease term of 48 months.
−Removed: Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees
−Removed: or material restrictive covenants.
−Removed: Rent expense for the years ended July 31, 2023 and 2022 was $ 497,746 and $ 460,649 , respectively.
+Added: of July 31, 2024, the Company leases offices space under one non-cancelable operating lease with a related party lessor (Note 11).
+Added: During the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company modified the office lease arrangement, pursuant to which the remaining lease term
+Added: was modified from 38 months to 24 months, and the office space
+Added: During the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: early terminated a car lease arrangement, and recognized losses of $ 62,282 arising from early termination in the consolidated statements
+Added: of operations comprehensive loss.
+Added: The losses of $ 62,282 was comprised of $ 7,690 arising from the derecognition of operating
+Added: right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities, and $ 54,592 arising from penalties.
+Added: During the year ended July 31, 2023, the
+Added: Company entered into a car lease arrangement with a third party lessor with lease term of 48 months.
+Added: The Company’s lease agreements do not
+Added: contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
+Added: Rent expenses for the years ended July 31, 2024
+Added: and 2023 were $ 240,771 and $ 497,746 , respectively.
Effective August 1, 2019, the Company adopted
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Weighted average discount rate 8.50 % 4.90 %
+Added: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTE 8 – OPERATING LEASES (continued )
The following is a schedule of maturities of lease
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Present value of lease liabilities
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 13 – ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER
−Removed: CURRENT LIABILITIES
−Removed: Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:
+Added: NOTE 9 – ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, ACCRUED EXPENSES
+Added: AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES, AND OTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
+Added: Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted
+Added: of the following:
As of July 31,
+Added: Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities:
+Added: Accrued litigation fee, current (a)
Investment securities payable
−Removed: Due to a third party
−Removed: Accrued legal consulting expenses
Accrued payroll expenses
+Added: Other long-term liabilities:
+Added: Accrued litigation fee, noncurrent (a)
+Added: September 24, 2024, the Company and Boustead Securities, LLC (“Boustead”) entered into a settlement agreement, pursuant to
+Added: which the Company would compensate Boustead in the amount of $ 1,000,000 (Note 14).
+Added: The compensation is payable in three instalments,
+Added: with first instalment of $ 250,000 payable with execution of settlement agreement, the second instalment of $ 500,000 payable before March
+Added: 1, 2025, and the final instalment of $ 250,000 payable before December 31, 2025.
+Added: Accordingly, the Company recorded accrued litigation
+Added: fees of $ 750,000 as current liabilities, and the remaining $ 250,000 as noncurrent liabilities.
NOTE 10 – DEFERRED REVENUE
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As of July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had deferred
−Removed: revenues of $ 70,000 and $ 90,785 , respectively.
+Added: revenues of $ nil and $ 70,000 , respectively.
For the years ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, $ 70,000
−Removed: and $ nil of advance from customer balance as of July 31, 2022 and 2021 were recognized as revenues in the year ended July 31, 2023 and
−Removed: 2022, respectively.
+Added: and $ 20,785 of advance from customer balance as of July 31, 2023 and 2022 were recognized as revenues in the year ended July 31, 2024
+Added: and 2023, respectively.
+Added: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 11 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
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2023, or recorded balances as of July 31, 2024 and 2023:
−Removed: Relationship with the Company
−Removed: Wholly owned by Mr.
+Added: Name Relationship with the Company
+Added: Jun Liu The Chief Executive Officer of the Company
+Added: Huaya Wholly owned by Mr.
Pishan Chi, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Company
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Wholly owned by Mr.
−Removed: Jun Liu, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company
+Added: Zachary Group LLC (“Zachary Group”) Wholly owned by Mr.
2) Transactions with related parties
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Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 15 – RELATED PARTY
−Removed: TRANSACTIONS (CONTINUED)
+Added: June 2022, the Company entered into an office lease agreement with Zachary Group.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, the Company would lease
+Added: the office space for a lease term of 5 years , matured in May 2027.
+Added: The monthly rental fee was $ 20,000 , payable on a monthly
+Added: On March 1, 2024, the Company and Zachary Group modified the lease agreement to reduce the lease term and office space.
+Added: agreement was for a lease term of 2 years through February 2026, and monthly rental fee was $ 3,000 , payable on a monthly basis.
+Added: year ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded rental expenses of $ 95,000 and $ 240,000 , respectively.
+Added: In April 2024, the Company made a three-month
+Added: loan of $ 300,000 to Mr.
+Added: The loan was interest free and was fully repaid in July 2024.
+Added: On April 29, 2024, the Company entered into a
+Added: deferred salary conversion agreement (“Deferred Salary Conversion Agreement”) with Mr.
+Added: Jun Liu, the president, chief executive
+Added: officer and chairman of the board of directors of the Company.
+Added: Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company agreed to issue and Mr.
+Added: to accept 384,478 ordinary shares (“Deferred Salary Debt Shares”), $ 0.001 par value in lieu of an unpaid salary
+Added: of $ 349,875 owed to Mr.
+Added: Liu at a per share price of $ 0.91 which was the Nasdaq consolidated closing bid price per share of the
+Added: Company’s ordinary shares on April 29, 2024.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company
+Added: make a loan of $ 100,000 to Huaya to support its operations.
+Added: The loan was interest free and was repayable on demand.
+Added: year ended July 31, 2024 and 2023, Huaya made repayments of $ 40,539 and $ 59,461 to the Company.
Balances with related parties
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Other receivable:
−Removed: * As of July 31, 2023, the balance due from related parties
−Removed: were repayable on demand.
−Removed: The Company expected to collect the outstanding receivables from related parties before July 31, 2024.
−Removed: (a) During the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company provided full provision of $ 762,000 against accounts
−Removed: receivable due from Huaya because the management assessed the collection was remote.
+Added: Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
+Added: (a) During the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company also made a prepayment of $ 900,000 to Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
+Added: for security purchase.
+Added: However the transaction was subsequently canceled.
+Added: The Company expected to collect the prepayments before November 30, 2024.
+Added: (b) During the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company provided full provision of $ 762,000 against accounts receivable due from Huaya because the management assessed the collection was remote.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2024, Huaya paid salaries of $ 19,103 on behalf of the Company, and the Company reversed provision of $ 19,103 against accounts receivable due from Huaya.
+Added: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTE 11 – RELATED PARTY
+Added: TRANSACTIONS ( continued )
As of July 31, 2024 and 2023, the balances due
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Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: In April 2024, Asia International Securities
+Added: Exchange Co., Ltd.
+Added: waived debts of $ 712,258 due from the Company.
+Added: The forgiveness of liabilities was considered as a contribution
+Added: from the principal shareholder and recorded as additional paid-in capital.
NOTE 12 – TAXES
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of dividends to the shareholders, no British Virgin Islands withholding tax will be imposed.
−Removed: ATIF HK is incorporated in Hong Kong and is subject
−Removed: to Hong Kong Profits Tax on the taxable income as reported in its statutory financial statements adjusted in accordance with relevant
−Removed: Hong Kong tax laws.
−Removed: The applicable tax rate for the first HKD$ 2 million of assessable profits is 8.25 % and assessable profits above HKD$ 2
−Removed: million will continue to be subject to the rate of 16.5 % for corporations in Hong Kong, effective from the year of assessment 2018/2019.
−Removed: ATIF HK did not generate any assessable profits
−Removed: arising in or derived from Hong Kong for the period from August 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022 when the Company transferred its equity interests
−Removed: Accordingly no provision for Hong Kong profits tax has been made in the period.
−Removed: The PRC Corporate Income Tax (“CIT”)
−Removed: is calculated based on the taxable income determined under the applicable CIT Law and its implementation rules, which became effective
−Removed: on January 1, 2008.
−Removed: CIT Law imposes a unified income tax rate of 25 % for all resident enterprises in China, including both domestic
−Removed: and foreign invested enterprises.
−Removed: Huaya qualifies as a Small and Low Profit Enterprise, and is subject to a preferential EIT of 10 % for
−Removed: the period from August 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022 when the Company transferred its equity interests in Huaya.
For the US jurisdiction, ATIF Inc., ATIF BC, ATIF
−Removed: BM, ATIF GP, ATIF LP and ATIF BD are subject to federal and state income taxes on its business operations.
−Removed: The federal tax rate is 21 %
−Removed: and state tax rate is 8.84 %.
−Removed: The Company also evaluated the impact from the recent tax reforms in the United States, including the Coronavirus
−Removed: Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) and Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (“HERO
−Removed: Act”), which both were passed in 2020, no material impact on the Company is expected based on the analysis.
−Removed: The Company will
−Removed: continue to monitor the potential impact going forward.
+Added: BM, ATIF BD are subject to federal and state income taxes on its business operations.
+Added: The federal tax rate is 21 % and state tax rate is
+Added: The Company also evaluated the impact from the recent tax reforms in the United States, including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
+Added: and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) and Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (“HERO Act”),
+Added: which both were passed in 2020, no material impact on the Company is expected based on the analysis.
+Added: The Company will continue to
+Added: monitor the potential impact going forward.
For the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: incurred current income tax expenses of $ 3,300 , all of which was state income tax expenses.
+Added: For the year ended July 31, 2023, the Company
incurred current income tax expenses of $ 31,200 , including federal income tax expenses of $ 22,800 and state income tax expenses of $ 8,400 ,
respectively.
−Removed: For the year ended July 31, 2022, the Company did not incur income tax expenses.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 16 – TAXES (continued)
The following table reconciles the statutory federal
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Permanent difference on non-deductible expenses
+Added: Permanent difference on non-taxable income
Utilization of net operation losses brought forward
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Effective tax rate
−Removed: Deferred tax assets
−Removed: The Company’s deferred tax assets (liabilities)
−Removed: are comprised of the following:
+Added: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTE 12 – TAXES (continued)
+Added: tax assets and liabilities
+Added: The Company’s deferred tax assets and
+Added: liabilities are comprised of the following:
As of July 31,
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Gross deferred tax assets
+Added: Operating lease
+Added: Property, equipment and others
+Added: Gross deferred tax liabilities
+Added: Gross deferred tax assets, net of gross deferred tax liabilities
valuation allowance
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Uncertain tax positions
−Removed: Company accounts for uncertainty in income taxes using a two-step approach to recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions.
−Removed: step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely
−Removed: than not that the position will be sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any.
−Removed: step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50 % likely of being realized upon settlement.
−Removed: penalties related to uncertain tax positions are recognized and recorded as necessary in the provision for income taxes.
−Removed: the case of transfer pricing issues, the statute of limitation is ten years.
+Added: The Company accounts for uncertainty in income
+Added: taxes using a two-step approach to recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions.
+Added: The first step is to evaluate the tax position for
+Added: recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained
+Added: on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any.
+Added: The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the
+Added: largest amount that is more than 50 % likely of being realized upon settlement.
+Added: Interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions
+Added: are recognized and recorded as necessary in the provision for income taxes.
+Added: In the case of transfer pricing issues, the statute of limitation
+Added: is ten years.
There is no statute of limitation in the case of tax evasion.
−Removed: There were no uncertain tax positions as of July 31, 2023 and 2022 and the Company does not believe that its unrecognized tax benefits
−Removed: will change over the next twelve months.
+Added: There were no uncertain tax positions as of July 31, 2024
+Added: and 2023 and the Company does not believe that its unrecognized tax benefits will change over the next twelve months.
ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Ordinary shares
−Removed: The Company was incorporated under the laws of
−Removed: the British Virgin Islands on January 5, 2015.
−Removed: Prior to the Reorganization, the Company was authorized to issue up to 100,000,000
−Removed: ordinary shares with par value of $ 0.0004 per share and 50,000,000 shares were issued at par value.
−Removed: On August 21, 2018, the Company
−Removed: amended its Memorandum of Association and passed corporate authorizations to redeem and cancel the 50,000,000 issued shares and simultaneously
−Removed: increased the number of the authorized shares to 100,000,000,000 and increased the par value of each share to $ 0.001 .
−Removed: In connection with
−Removed: the cancellation of the 50,000,000 shares, the Company issued 50,000 shares to the controlling shareholders at $0.001 per share.
−Removed: Reverse stock split
−Removed: On August 23, 2021, we completed a five (5) for
−Removed: one (1) reverse stock split (the “Reverse Split”) of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares, par value $ 0.001 per share.
−Removed: From a BVI legal perspective, the Reverse Split applied to the issued shares of the Company on the date of the Reverse Split and does
−Removed: not have any retroactive effect on the Company’s shares prior that date.
−Removed: However, for accounting purposes only (with no BVI legal
−Removed: effect), references to our ordinary shares in this annual report are stated as having been retroactively adjusted and restated to give
−Removed: effect to the Reverse Split, as if the Reverse Split had occurred by the relevant earlier date.
−Removed: From a BVI legal perspective, the Reverse Split
−Removed: applied to the issued shares of the Company on the date of the Reverse Split and does not have any retroactive effect on the Company’s
−Removed: shares prior that date.
−Removed: However, for accounting purposes only (with no BVI legal effect), references to our ordinary shares in this annual
−Removed: report are stated as having been retroactively adjusted and restated to give effect to the Reverse Split, as if the Reverse Split had
−Removed: occurred by the relevant earlier date.
−Removed: In connection with the Reverse Split, the Company
−Removed: issued 6,076 ordinary shares as fractional shares in September 2021.
−Removed: In October 2021, the investors, who subscribed
−Removed: for ordinary shares in the registered direct offering closed in November 2020, exercised warrants to purchase 389,855 ordinary shares
−Removed: at cash consideration of $ 1,068,203 .
−Removed: In January 2022, these investors also cashlessly exercised warrants to purchase 70,131 ordinary shares.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had
−Removed: a total of 9,627,452 and 9,627,452 ordinary shares issued and outstanding.
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: NOTE 17 – EQUITY (continued)
−Removed: Statutory reserve and restricted net assets
−Removed: Huaya, the Company’s subsidiary incorporated
−Removed: the PRC, is required to make appropriations to certain reserve funds, comprising the statutory surplus reserve and the discretionary surplus
−Removed: reserve, based on after-tax net income determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles of the PRC (“PRC GAAP”).
−Removed: Appropriations to the statutory surplus reserve are required to be at least 10 % of the after-tax net income determined in accordance with
−Removed: PRC GAAP until the reserve is equal to 50 % of the entity’s registered capital.
−Removed: Appropriations to the discretionary surplus reserve
−Removed: are made at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
−Removed: The statutory reserve may be applied against prior year losses, if any, and may
−Removed: be used for general business expansion and production or increase in registered capital, but are not distributable as cash dividends.
−Removed: The payment of dividends by entities organized
−Removed: in China is subject to limitations, procedures and formalities.
−Removed: Regulations in the PRC currently permit payment of dividends only out
−Removed: of accumulated profits as determined in accordance with accounting standards and regulations in China.
−Removed: The results of operations reflected
−Removed: in the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S GAAP may differ from those in the statutory financial statements
−Removed: of the WFOEs and VIEs.
−Removed: Remittance of dividends by a wholly foreign-owned company out of China is subject to examination by the banks designated
−Removed: by State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
−Removed: In light of the foregoing restrictions, Huaya
−Removed: is restricted in its ability to transfer their net assets to the Company.
−Removed: Foreign exchange and other regulations in the PRC may further
−Removed: restrict its subsidiary in the PRC from transferring funds to the Company in the form of dividends, loans and advances.
−Removed: As of July 31, 2023 and 2022, the statutory
−Removed: reserve balance of $ 355,912 were reclassified to accumulated losses, and total restricted net assets of the Company was $ nil due to the
−Removed: disposal of Huaya in May 2022 (Note 5).
−Removed: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: As of July 31, 2023, the Company had a total of
+Added: 9,627,452 ordinary shares issued and outstanding.
+Added: On April 23, 2024, the Company issued an aggregate
+Added: 1,905,522 ordinary shares to three investors, at the purchase price of $ 1.23 per ordinary share.
+Added: The Company raised gross proceeds
+Added: of $ 2,343,792 from the private placements.
+Added: The difference of $ 2,341,886 between the par value of ordinary shares and the gross proceeds
+Added: were recorded as additional paid-in capital.
+Added: On April 30, 2024, the Company issued and Mr.
+Added: Jun Liu agreed to accept 384,478 ordinary shares to settle accrued payroll expenses due to Mr.
+Added: Liu (Note 11).
+Added: The difference
+Added: of $ 349,491 between the par value of ordinary shares and carrying amount of accrued payables is recorded as additional paid in capital.
+Added: As of July 31, 2024, the Company had a total of
+Added: 11,917,452 ordinary shares issued and outstanding.
+Added: Additional paid-in capital
+Added: As of July 31, 2023, the Company had additional
+Added: paid-in capital of $ 29,196,350 .
+Added: As mentioned in Note 13 – Equity - ordinary
+Added: shares , the Company had an increase in additional paid-in capital $ 2,341,886 and $ 349,491 , respectively, from issuance of shares in
+Added: private placements and to settle accrued payable due to Mr.
+Added: the year ended July 31, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Asia International Securities Exchange Co., Ltd., which waived
+Added: debts of $ 712,258 due from the Company.
+Added: The forgiveness of liabilities was considered as a contribution from the principal shareholder
+Added: and recorded as additional paid-in capital.
+Added: As of July 31, 2024, the Company had additional paid-in
+Added: capital of $ 32,599,985 .
NOTE 14 – CONTIGENCIES
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Legal costs incurred in connection with loss contingencies are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: Pending Legal Proceeding with Boustead Securities, LLC (“Boustead”)
+Added: Legal Proceeding with Boustead Securities,
+Added: LLC (“Boustead”)
On May 14, 2020, Boustead filed a lawsuit
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was separately engaged as the exclusive financial advisor to provide financial advisory services to the Company and LGC.
−Removed: In April 2020, the Company acquired 51.2 % equity interest in LGC
−Removed: after LGC terminated its efforts to launch an IPO on its own.
−Removed: Boustead alleged that the acquisition transaction between the Company and
−Removed: LGC was entered into during the tail period of the exclusive agreement between Boustead and the Company, and therefore deprived Boustead
−Removed: of compensation that Boustead would otherwise have been entitled to receive under its exclusive agreement with the Company and LGC.
−Removed: Boustead is attempting to recover from the Company an amount equal to a percentage of the value of the transaction it conducted with LGC.
+Added: In April 2020, the Company acquired 51.2 %
+Added: equity interest in LGC after LGC terminated its efforts to launch an IPO on its own.
+Added: Boustead alleged that the acquisition transaction
+Added: between the Company and LGC was entered into during the tail period of the exclusive agreement between Boustead and the Company, and therefore
+Added: deprived Boustead of compensation that Boustead would otherwise have been entitled to receive under its exclusive agreement with the Company
+Added: Therefore, Boustead is attempting to recover from the Company an amount equal to a percentage of the value of the transaction
+Added: it conducted with LGC.
+Added: ATIF HOLDINGS LIMITED
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTE 14 – CONTIGENCIES (continued)
Boustead’s Complaint alleges four causes
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ATIF filed its opposition to that Motion on October
−Removed: The hearing on the motion was held on November 8, 2023, during which
−Removed: the arbitrator extended the hearing to February 29, 2024.
−Removed: The arbitrator also established December 15, 2023, as the deadline for Boustead
−Removed: to submit its reply regarding the contract interpretation issues raised by the Company.
−Removed: Simultaneously, the Company was granted until
−Removed: February 12, 2024, to present its response brief.
−Removed: Our management believes it is premature to assess
−Removed: and predict the outcome of this pending arbitration.
+Added: The hearing on the motion was held on November 8, 2023, during which the arbitrator extended the hearing to February 29, 2024.
+Added: The arbitrator also established December 15, 2023, as the deadline for Boustead to submit its reply regarding the contract interpretation
+Added: issues raised by the Company.
+Added: Simultaneously, the Company was granted until February 12, 2024, to present its response brief.
+Added: September 24, 2024, the Company and Boustead entered into a settlement agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall pay a total amount
+Added: of $ 1,000,000 to Boustead.
+Added: The payment is made in three instalments, the first instalment of $ 250,000 is payable upon execution of the
+Added: settlement agreement, the second instalment of $ 500,000 is payable before March 1, 2025, and the final instalment of $ 250,000 is payable
+Added: before December 31, 2025.
+Added: Pending Legal Proceeding with J.P Morgan Securities
+Added: On December 22, 2023, J.P Morgan Securities LLC
+Added: (“JPMS”) filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California, County of Orange, bearing Case Number 30-2023-01369978-CU-FR-CJC
+Added: against ATIF Holdings Limited (“Holdings”), ATIF Inc., ATIF-1 GP, LLC (ATIF-1 GP”), and two officers of Holdings and
+Added: ATIF Inc., Jun Liu and Zhiliang “Ian” Zhou, alleging and asserting that it is entitled to recover $ 5,064,160 in damages
+Added: plus interest and attorneys’ fees relating to a stock transaction by ATIF-1 GP.
+Added: The parties have agreed to attempt to mediate the dispute before proceeding
+Added: to litigation.
+Added: A mediation was held on May 6, 2024, but the parties could not come to a resolution.
+Added: The Defendants’ time to
+Added: respond to the lawsuit was May 20, 2024.
+Added: On May 15, 2024, the Defendants filed a Petition with the Superior Court of California seeking
+Added: to compel arbitration under the operative agreements and stay the underlying State Court action.
+Added: On or about August 16, 2024, the parties
+Added: agreed that JPMS and ATIF-1 GP, LLC would submit any disputes between the two of them only, to FINRA arbitration, and stay the California
+Added: state court case pending such arbitration.
+Added: At this time, the management is still in the process of evaluating the claims and defenses.
+Added: NOTE 15 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
+Added: In connection with the legal proceeding with Boustead
+Added: (Note 14), on September 24, 2024, the Company and Boustead entered into a settlement agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall pay
+Added: a total amount of $ 1,000,000 to Boustead.
+Added: The payment is made in three instalments, the first instalment of $ 250,000 is payable upon execution
+Added: of the settlement agreement, the second instalment of $ 500,000 is payable before March 1, 2025, and the final instalment of $ 250,000 is
+Added: payable before December 31, 2025.
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