Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
ITEM
3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK
Foreign
Exchange Risk
We
currently do not hold or use any derivative or other financial instruments that
expose us to substantial market risk and we have no foreign exchange
contracts.
We are
exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from fluctuations in the exchange rate
between U.S. Dollars and Renminbi. Our operations are located in the People’s
Republic of China and substantially all of our revenues and assets are
denominated in Renminbi. However our reporting currency is the U.S. Dollar and
some of our expenses are denominated in U.S. Dollars. As a result, our financial
results are potentially subject to the impact of changes in value between U.S.
Dollars and Renminbi. If the Renminbi depreciates relative to the U.S. Dollar,
the value of our revenues, earnings and assets as reported in our financial
statements will decline.
Credit
Risk
We have
not experienced significant credit risk, as most of our customers are long-term
customers with excellent payment records. We review our accounts receivable on a
regular basis to determine if the allowance for doubtful accounts is adequate at
each quarter-end. We extend 270 to 300 day trade credit to our largest
customers, which tend to be well-established and large businesses, and we have
not seen any major customer’s accounts receivable go uncollected beyond 365 days
or experienced any material write-off of accounts receivable in the
past.
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Inflation
Risk
In recent
years, China has not experienced significant inflation, and thus inflation has
not had a material impact on our results of operations. According to the
National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) (www.stats.gov.cn), the change in
Consumer Price Index (CPI) in China was 1.5%, 4.7% and 5.9% in 2006, 2007 and
2008, respectively. Inflationary factors, such as increases in the cost of our
products and overhead costs, could impair our operating results. Although we do
not believe that inflation has had a material impact on our financial position
or results of operations to date, a high rate of inflation may have an adverse
effect on our ability to maintain current levels of gross margin and selling,
general and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales revenue if the
selling prices of our products do not increase with these increased
costs.
ITEM
4T. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
Disclosure
Controls and Procedures
The
Securities and Exchange Commission defines the term “disclosure controls and
procedures” to mean controls and other procedures of an issuer that are designed
to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that it files
or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed,
summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and
Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures
include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that
information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files
or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is accumulated and
communicated to the issuer’s management, including its principal executive and
principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as
appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The
Company maintains such a system of controls and procedures in an effort to
ensure that all information which it is required to disclose in the reports it
files under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed,
summarized and reported within the time periods specified under the SEC's rules
and forms and that information required to be disclosed is accumulated and
communicated to principal executive and principal financial officers to allow
timely decisions regarding disclosure.
As of the
end of the period covered by this report, we carried out an evaluation, under
the supervision and with the participation of our chief executive officer and
chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our
disclosure controls and procedures. Based on this evaluation, our chief
executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure
controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the period covered
by this report.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There was
no change in the Company's internal control over financial reporting during the
period ended November 30, 2009, that has materially affected, or is reasonably
likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial
reporting.
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