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are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting:
−Removed: The Company has implemented a robust check disbursement policy that includes the following key control points:
−Removed: first, the controller who handles check disbursements is not an authorized signer on any bank account and cannot sign checks;
−Removed: second, any disbursement amount less than $5,000.00 requires written approval from one (1) member of the leadership team;
−Removed: third, any disbursement amount of more than $5,000.00 and equal to or less than $24,999.99 requires written approval of two (2) members of the leadership team;
−Removed: fourth, any disbursement amount of $25,000.00 or more requires approval by the Board of Directors;
−Removed: and fifth, all disbursements are reviewed and approved by the Chief Operating Officer.
−Removed: As an additional control, all disbursement checks are signed by the CEO when available, and if the CEO is unable to sign, disbursement checks are signed by a member of the leadership team.
−Removed: All disbursements are controlled through a formal check disbursement process that includes an official check disbursement request form.
−Removed: This form is reviewed and signed by the appropriate parties as referenced above.
+Added: The Company has implemented a check disbursement policy that includes the following key control points:
+Added: first, all disbursements are generated out of a payment system, e.g., Bill.com, after approval of non-recurring items by the controller and one member of the leadership team;
+Added: second, any disbursement amount of $25,000.00 or more requires approval by the Board of Directors.
+Added: As an additional control, all disbursements are reviewed with the end of the month review of financial statements by one member of the leadership team.
+Added: All disbursements controlled through the payment system require approval of invoices by the department that controls the vendor relationship.
The leadership team currently comprises the following members:
−Removed: The Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Tax Strategist, the Chief Sales Officer, and the Director of Operations.
+Added: The Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Legal Officer (the head of accounting services).
OTHER INFORMATION.
−Removed: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS,
−Removed: AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
+Added: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
Directors and Executive Officers
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Scott Winters
−Removed: Co-Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: Co-Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President - Sales
+Added: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
+Added: Executive Vice President –
+Added: CEO and Board Member
Paul Williams
−Removed: Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer
+Added: Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Jennifer Winters
−Removed: Secretary, Executive Vice President
−Removed: Former Chief Sales Officer
−Removed: Chief Tax Strategist and Board Member
−Removed: George Crumley
−Removed: Former Assistant Secretary, former Assistant Treasurer and former Board Member
−Removed: Michael Ashby
−Removed: Todd Bourgeois
−Removed: Debbie Buckner
−Removed: Former President, former Chief Operating Officer, and former Board Member
−Removed: Scott Winters,
−Removed: 49, August 15, 2019, Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
+Added: Secretary, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member
+Added: Chief Tax Strategist, TMN CEO and Board
+Added: William Nelson, Jr.
+Added: Chief Investment Officer, Sofos CEO and Board Member
+Added: Chief Legal Counsel, Head of Accounting Services
+Added: Scott Winters, August 15, 2019, Financial
+Added: Gravity Companies, Inc.
(the “Company”) appointed Mr.
−Removed: Scott Winters, age 49,
−Removed: to serve as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of the Board for the Company.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, from 2016 to present,
−Removed: Winters has served as Owner of Presidential Wealth Management, an investment advisory and wealth management firm.
−Removed: Winters was CEO, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of Eqis Capital Management, also an investment advisory, and
−Removed: wealth management firm.
−Removed: John Pollock , 52, was
−Removed: CEO/Founder of Business Legacy, Inc.
−Removed: from 2002, Pollock Advisory Group from 2007, was the former CEO and Chairman of
−Removed: Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: (the Company), and is currently Co-Chairman of the Board and Executive Vice President
−Removed: Pollock’s specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the conclusion that
−Removed: he should serve as a director for the Company:
−Removed: Has served as CEO and Chairman of Financial Gravity since its inception until August 2019.
−Removed: A seasoned manager
−Removed: Williams, 63, has
−Removed: served on the Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: FGCO) Board of Directors and as Vice Chairman of the Board since 2015, and
−Removed: has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary –
+Added: Scott Winters to serve as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman
+Added: of the Board for the Company.
+Added: Prior to joining the Company, from 2016 to present, Mr.
+Added: Winters was a major stockholder of Presidential
+Added: Brokerage, Inc., a broker dealer and investment advisory firm.
+Added: From 2003 to 2017 Mr.
+Added: Winters was CEO, Chairman of the Board and
+Added: Co-Founder of Eqis Capital Management, an investment advisory and wealth management firm.
+Added: John Pollock was CEO/Founder of
+Added: Business Legacy, Inc.
+Added: from 2002, Pollock Advisory Group from 2007, was the former CEO and Chairman of Financial Gravity
+Added: Companies, Inc.
+Added: (the Company), and is currently Co-Chairman of the Board and Executive Vice President –
+Added: Pollock served as CEO and Chairman of Financial Gravity since its inception until August 2019 and has been a major
+Added: shareholder of the Company.
+Added: Williams, 64, has served on
+Added: the Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
+Added: FGCO) Board of Directors and as Vice Chairman since 2015, and has served as our
+Added: Chief Financial Officer & Secretary –
Treasurer from 2016 until August 2019.
−Removed: He currently still serves
−Removed: as Vice-Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.
−Removed: He graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas in 1978 and the Institute
−Removed: for Organization Management in Washington, DC in 1982.
+Added: He currently still serves as
+Added: Vice-Chairman, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer.
+Added: He graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas in 1978 and the
+Added: Institute for Organization Management in Washington, DC in 1982.
Since 2007, Mr.
−Removed: Williams has served as Chief Executive Officer of Bison
−Removed: Financial Group, Inc., a corporate financial advisory and business development firm serving middle market growth companies.
+Added: Williams has served as Chief Executive
+Added: Officer of Bison Financial Group, Inc., a corporate financial advisory and business development firm serving middle market
+Added: growth companies.
Williams also serves as an officer
and director of two other public companies.
−Removed: On behalf of Worldwide Specialty Chemicals, Inc.
−Removed: based in Dallas, TX, Mr.
−Removed: has served as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer since 2019.
−Removed: On behalf of Light Engine Design Corp.
−Removed: based in Phoenix, AZ, Mr.
−Removed: Williams has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer since 2018.
+Added: On behalf of Curtis Mathes Corporation (OTC:
+Added: TLED) based in Frisco, TX since 2013,
+Added: Williams currently serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: On behalf of Lux Amber Corp.
+Added: LXAM) based in Frisco, TX since 2017, Mr.
+Added: Williams currently serves as Vice Chairman, President & Chief Financial Officer.
Williams also serves as an officer
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Williams currently serves as:
−Removed: Vice Chairman of the Board of Dynamic Chemical
−Removed: Solutions, Inc.
−Removed: in Frisco, Texas since 2016;
−Removed: Chairman of the Board & Chief Financial Officer of Curtis Mathes, Inc.
−Removed: Texas since 2013.
−Removed: Within the last five years, on behalf of
−Removed: Halo Companies, Inc.
−Removed: Williams previously served as Vice Chairman of the Board, Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary
−Removed: from 2009 to 2018, and served as Chief Financial Officer from 2009 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2018.
−Removed: The breadth of Mr.
−Removed: Williams’
−Removed: entrepreneurial
−Removed: and financial services experience led the Board of Directors to the conclusion that he is qualified to serve as a director for
−Removed: Williams’
−Removed: specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the conclusion that he should
−Removed: serve as a director for the Company:
−Removed: Over 40 years of business experience, primarily in capital markets, mergers, and acquisitions
−Removed: Has served as both officer and director of other public companies
−Removed: Financial Gravity is the fourth public company for which Mr.
−Removed: Williams has served as Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: Within the last 5 years, Mr.
−Removed: Williams served as Vice-Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer at Halo Companies, Inc., a public company, and Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer of Light Engine Design Corp., a public company
−Removed: Dan Sundby , 56 served as
−Removed: Chief Sales Officer for Financial Gravity until March 2019.
−Removed: Lyon , 54, has been the Company’s Chief Tax Strategist and a Director since October 2015.
−Removed: From 2005 until 2015, he
−Removed: was Partner-in-Charge of Content at Tax Coach Software, which he founded in 2005.
+Added: Vice Chairman of Dynamic Chemical Solutions,
+Added: in Frisco, TX since 2016;
+Added: Chairman, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Platinum BioSciences, Inc.
+Added: in Prosper, TX since 2019;
+Added: and Chairman & Chief Financial Officer of Pruven Industries, Inc.
+Added: in Plano, TX since 2020.
+Added: Lyon has been the Company’s
+Added: Chief Tax Strategist and a Director since October 2015.
+Added: From 2005 until 2015, he was Partner-in-Charge of Content at Tax Coach
+Added: Software, which he founded in 2005.
Lyon received a B.A.
−Removed: in History from Hamilton
−Removed: College in 1986 and a J.D.
−Removed: from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1991.
−Removed: Lyon’s specific experience, qualifications,
−Removed: attributes or skills that led to the conclusion that he should serve as a director for the Company:
−Removed: The founder of Tax Coach Software, managing the company for 11 years
−Removed: A deep knowledge of accounting and financial services industries
−Removed: A nationally-recognized expert on tax planning
−Removed: The author of 8 books, and has appeared on over 500 radio and television broadcasts to speak about his areas of expertise
−Removed: Winters, 47, August 27 th , the Board
+Added: in History from Hamilton College in 1986 and a J.D.
+Added: from the University
+Added: of Cincinnati College of Law in 1991.
+Added: Lyon’s specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the
+Added: conclusion that he should serve as a director for the Company.
+Added: Jennifer Winters August 27th, the Board
appointed Jennifer Winters to serve as Corporate Secretary.
She will also serve as Executive Vice President.
−Removed: In order for Jennifer
−Removed: Winters to assume the role of Corporate Secretary, Mr.
−Removed: Paul Williams relinquished that role.
−Removed: Williams will continue to serve
−Removed: the Company as Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.
−Removed: Winters is an accomplished executive, having
−Removed: served as a Co-Founder of Eqis Holdings, Inc.
+Added: Winters served
+Added: as a Co-Founder of Eqis Holdings, Inc.
from 2007 to 2017.
She also served on their Board of Directors from 2010 to 2017.
−Removed: In addition, she served as Chief Compliance Officer of Eqis Captial Management, Inc.
+Added: she served as Chief Compliance Officer of Eqis Capital Management, Inc.
from 2007 to 2015.
−Removed: She also served as their
−Removed: Executive Vice President from 2015 to 2017.
−Removed: Jennifer Winters is the spouse of Scott Winters, the Chief Executive Officer of the
−Removed: Crumley , 51, was
−Removed: on the Board of Directors from January 2015 until March of 2019.
−Removed: Gary Nemer, 73, From 2016
−Removed: to present, Mr.
−Removed: Nemer has served as a Board Member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Presidential Brokerage, Inc., an investment
−Removed: advisory and wealth management firm.
−Removed: Nemer also serves on the Board of Directors of Eqis Capital Management, also an investment
−Removed: advisory and wealth management firm.
−Removed: Nemer graduated from the USC Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California
−Removed: and is a practicing attorney in the San Francisco area.
−Removed: David Myers , 67, has been
−Removed: on the Board of Directors since August 28, 2019.
−Removed: From 2013 to March 2019, he served as Vice President, Strategy & Analytics
−Removed: for McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company and one of the “big three”
−Removed: educational publishers that provide customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
−Removed: At McGraw-Hill, he was responsible for market analytics, market research, pricing strategy, business and competitive intelligence,
−Removed: state adoption planning and strategic planning.
+Added: She also served as their Executive
+Added: Vice President from 2015 to 2017.
+Added: Jennifer Winters is the spouse of Scott Winters, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
+Added: William Nelson, Jr.
+Added: appointed to serve
+Added: as Chief Executive Officer of Sofos Investment, Inc., Company’s money management subsidiary.
+Added: Prior to joining the Company,
+Added: from 2016 to present, Mr.
+Added: Nelson was a major stockholder of Presidential Brokerage, Inc., a broker dealer and investment advisory
From 2003 to 2017 Mr.
−Removed: Myers served as Senior Manager, Business Development for
−Removed: Mimio Interactive Teaching Technologies, which provides i nnovative, engaging, and affordable educational
−Removed: technology and solutions that provide a better way to learn.
−Removed: At Mimio, he was responsible for developing a team
−Removed: and implementing a suite of business intelligence programs (market research, competitive intelligence, global market share and
−Removed: financial scenario models).
−Removed: specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the conclusion
−Removed: that he should serve as a director for the Company:
−Removed: A deep understanding of the role technology plays as an enabler of competitive business advantage
−Removed: Deep experience building and leading skilled teams
−Removed: Adept at applying marketing analytics, market research, pricing strategy and competitive intelligence to the strategic planning for enterprises
−Removed: Skills in team-building, analytics, operations and organizational optimization
−Removed: Michael Ashby , 66, has been
−Removed: on the Board of Directors since August 28, 2019.
−Removed: Since March 2015, he has managed a variety of consulting engagements -- both domestic
−Removed: and internationally –
−Removed: through his personal consulting company.
−Removed: In January 2015, he served as a consultant for Ashby OpsComm,
−Removed: an industrial consulting and engineering firm.
−Removed: In that role, Mr.
−Removed: Ashby as Startup
−Removed: Manager for the Al Hosn super sour gas plant startup in the UAE –
−Removed: and successfully brought on line the largest sour gas processing
−Removed: plant in the world with no major incidents .
−Removed: Ashby also spent over a decade with Occidental
−Removed: Petroleum in a series of management roles with ever-growing responsibility, most recently as World Wide Engineering Chief
−Removed: of Surface Operations and Engineering responsible for operations and technical support of all business units across the globe .
−Removed: Ashby’s specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that led to the conclusion that he should serve
−Removed: as a director for the Company:
−Removed: Decades of experience working in complex project management
−Removed: Strong people skills at all levels of an organization, from front-line workers to senior management
−Removed: Superior planning and execution skills
−Removed: Todd Bourgeois , 58, has been
−Removed: on the Board of Directors since August 28, 2019.
−Removed: Bourgeois has had a long career with Coca-Cola Bottlers, Inc.
−Removed: (from 1982 forward),
−Removed: most recently as Vice President of Business Integration for Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages.
−Removed: In his most recent role, Mr.
−Removed: was responsible for leading a team that spearheaded all Critical Business Transformation Projects throughout Coca Cola Southwest
−Removed: Beverages, Inc.
−Removed: including formulation of ROI Synergy initiatives as well as Operational Plans for execution of these projects.
−Removed: He reported directly to the CEO of Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages and managed a Team of Project Coordinators, Analysts and multiple
−Removed: external consultant teams (McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture).
−Removed: Bourgeois’
−Removed: specific experience, qualifications, attributes
−Removed: or skills that led to the conclusion that he should serve as a director for the Company:
−Removed: Over 30 years of experience managing diverse teams for a broad range of business improvement projects
−Removed: Experience managing large sales and marketing organizations
−Removed: Debbie Buckner , 56, was on
−Removed: the Board of Directors from August 28, 2018 through August 22, 2019.
+Added: Winters was the Chief Investment Officer, Board Member and Co-Founder of Eqis Capital Management,
+Added: an investment advisory and wealth management firm.
+Added: Gary Nemer, 74,
+Added: Nemer serves as Chief Legal Counsel of Company and as a Board Member of Forta.
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
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Name and Principal Position
−Removed: Option Awards
−Removed: Scott Winters
−Removed: CEO, Principal Executive Officer***
−Removed: Executive Vice President –
−Removed: Debbie Buckner
−Removed: President and Chief Operating
−Removed: Paul Williams
−Removed: CFO, Principal Financial Officer
−Removed: Former CSO****
−Removed: Former Principal Advisor****
−Removed: ***Current salary is $250,000 annually, with no other
−Removed: compensation.
−Removed: ****Separated in March 2019.
−Removed: (1) The Company recognizes the fair value of the stock-based compensation
−Removed: awards as wages in the accompanying statements of operations on a straight-line basis over the vesting period based on the Black-Scholes
−Removed: option pricing model based on a risk-free rate from 1.50% to 2.89% in 2019 and 1.49% to 2.55% in 2018, dividend yield of 0%, expected
−Removed: life of 10 years and volatility of 25.32% to 34.05%.
−Removed: The aggregate grant date fair value of the option award is $232,596, to be
−Removed: recognized over the term of the option award.
−Removed: Except as described below, none of the Named Executive Officers
−Removed: has an employment agreement.
−Removed: Lyon, a member of the Board of
−Removed: Directors, is party to an employment agreement.
−Removed: which provides for base salary of $42,000 per year, plus management fees of $198,000
−Removed: annually, paid semi-monthly.
−Removed: Lyon serves as the General Manager, responsible for supervising the business and affairs of Tax
−Removed: Master Network.
−Removed: Pollock, the amount shown in the Summary Compensation
−Removed: Table under the heading All Other Compensation represents amounts paid by the Company to a consulting firm owned and controlled
−Removed: Pollock, in compensation for services not related to his roles as an officer and director of the Company.
−Removed: Lyon, the amount shown in the Summary Compensation
−Removed: Table under the heading All Other Compensation represents amounts paid by the Company to a consulting firm owned and controlled
−Removed: Lyon, in compensation for services not related to his roles as an officer and director of the Company.
+Added: Option/SAR Awards (1)
+Added: Scott Winters, CEO
+Added: John Pollock, EVP - Sales
+Added: Paul Williams, CFO
+Added: Lyon, CEO TMN
+Added: Jennifer Winters, COO
+Added: William Nelson, CEO Sofos
+Added: __________________________
+Added: (1) The Company recognizes the fair value of stock-based compensation
+Added: awards as wages in the accompanying statements of operations for employee grants, commissions for non-employee grants, and stock
+Added: appreciation rights grants, on a straight-line basis over the vesting period, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which
+Added: is based on risk-free rate of 1.32% in the quarter ended June 30, 2020 and 1.50% to 2.89% in 2019, dividend yield of 0%, expected
+Added: life of 10 years and volatility of 159% in 2020 and volatility of 25% to 34.05% in 2019.
+Added: Each of the Named Executive Officers has an employment agreement.
+Added: Lyon, a member of the Board of Directors, is party to an employment agreement.
+Added: which provides for base salary of $42,000
+Added: per year, plus management fees of $198,000 annually, paid semi-monthly.
+Added: Lyon serves as the General Manager, responsible for
+Added: supervising the business and affairs of Tax Master Network.
Summary Compensation
−Removed: Except as described above, the Company
−Removed: has no employment agreements with any of its Directors or executive officers.
For the fiscal year ended September 30,
2020, no outstanding stock options or other equity-based awards were re-priced or otherwise materially modified.
−Removed: No stock appreciation
−Removed: rights have been granted to any of the Directors or executive officers and none of the Directors or executive officers exercised
−Removed: any stock options or stock appreciation rights.
−Removed: There are no non-equity incentive plan agreements with any of the Directors or
−Removed: executive officers.
+Added: There are no non-equity
+Added: incentive plan agreements with any of the Directors or executive officers.
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-end
−Removed: Dan Sundby has options currently vesting
−Removed: and the options are fully vested.
+Added: The following stock option and stock appreciation rights granted
+Added: to executive officers are outstanding:
+Added: Current Strike Price
+Added: Issued Awards
+Added: Jennifer Winters
+Added: Jennifer Winters
+Added: Jennifer Winters
+Added: Paul Williams
+Added: Scott Winters
+Added: Scott Winters
+Added: William Nelson
+Added: William Nelson
+Added: William Nelson
Compensation of Directors
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described in the stock option grant agreement and plan.
−Removed: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN
−Removed: BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
+Added: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
+Added: AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
The following table sets forth certain
−Removed: information with respect to the beneficial ownership, as of September 30, 2019, of the Company’s common stock, which is
−Removed: the Company’s only outstanding class of voting securities, and the voting power resulting from such beneficial ownership,
+Added: information with respect to the beneficial ownership, as of September 30, 2020, of the Company’s common stock, which is the
+Added: Company’s only outstanding class of voting securities, and the voting power resulting from such beneficial ownership, by
Beneficial Owner (1)
−Removed: Ownership (1)
−Removed: Percentage of
−Removed: John Pollock (2)
−Removed: Dave Crowley (2, 4)
−Removed: Keith VandeStadt (2, 4, 5)
+Added: Amount of Beneficial Ownership (1)
+Added: Percentage of Shares
+Added: Scott Winters (3)
+Added: William Nelson, Jr.
Paul Williams
−Removed: Michael Ashby (2, 6)
−Removed: Dan Sundby (2, 3)
−Removed: Todd Bourgeois (2, 7)
−Removed: George Crumley (2, 5)
−Removed: David Myers (2, 5)
−Removed: Debbie Buckner (2)
−Removed: Directors and executive officers as group (nine persons)
+Added: Gary Nemer (2)
+Added: Directors and executive officers as group (six persons)
+Added: ___________________________
Each beneficial owner has sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares attributable to that owner.
−Removed: The address for each such beneficial owner is 800 N.
−Removed: Watters Road, Suite 150, Allen, Texas 75013.
−Removed: Includes 291,667 shares subject to options that are currently vested, plus an additional 208,333 shares subject to options that vest within 10 months not used.
Non-director or executive officer with more than 5% ownership.
−Removed: Represents shares subject to options that are currently vested.
−Removed: Includes 150,000 shares subject to options that are currently vested, and 1,196,806 shares of common stock.
−Removed: Includes 175,000 shares subject to options that are
−Removed: currently vested, and 150,000 shares of common stock.
Scott Winters has 75,000 fully vested stock options.
−Removed: indicates an ownership percentage of less than one percent.
Changes in Control
−Removed: On September 30, 2019, the Company
−Removed: entered into a merger agreement with Forta Financial Group, Inc.
−Removed: (formerly Presidential Brokerage, Inc.) (“Forta”),
−Removed: to acquire Forta in exchange for Company stock.
−Removed: The merger is awaiting FINRA approval.
−Removed: When approved, the Forta shareholders will
−Removed: own more than 50% of the Company.
−Removed: John Pollock will remain the largest shareholder.
+Added: On May 21, 2020, the Company merged with
+Added: The Forta shareholders will own more than 50% of the Company.
+Added: John Pollock is currently the largest shareholder.
Securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation
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Plan Category
−Removed: Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights
−Removed: Weighted average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights
−Removed: Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plan (excluding securities reflected in Column A)
−Removed: Equity compensation plans approved by security holders (2015 Stock Option Plan)
+Added: of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights
+Added: average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights
+Added: of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plan (excluding securities reflected in Column
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders (2015 Stock Option Plan)
−Removed: As consequence of the Merger, outstanding options of the 2015 Plan in the amount of 2,200,346 of the Company’s shares have vested.
−Removed: Shares subject to stock options under 2015 Stock Option Plan.
+Added: Equity compensation plans approved by security holders (2016 Stock Option Plan)
+Added: _____________________
Shares subject to stock options under 2016 Stock Option Plan.
The 2015 Stock Option Plan was replaced by the 2016 Stock Option Plan.
−Removed: Shares available for grant of
−Removed: stock options to employees, directors and consultants under the 2016 Stock Option Plan.
−Removed: Subsequent to the fiscal year end,
−Removed: the 2016 Stock Option has been amended to the 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan, adding Stock Appreciation Rights (“SAR”)
−Removed: as incentive offerings.
−Removed: Since the amendment, SAR grants have been issued as incentive offerings to advisors for affiliating with
−Removed: Following is a brief description of the
−Removed: material features of each compensation plan under which equity securities of the Company are authorized for issuance.
−Removed: Stock Option Plan and the 2016 Stock Option Plan were adopted without approval of Company security holders.
+Added: Shares available for grant of stock options to employees, directors and consultants under the 2016 Stock Option Plan.
+Added: The 2015 Stock Option Plan was adopted
+Added: without approval of Company security holders, the 2016 Stock Option, as amended and restated, was adopted with approval of Company
+Added: security holders.
The Company has granted stock options to
2 unchanged sentences
The Company is authorized to issue an aggregate of 20,000,000 options, of which 13,027,304 remain available
−Removed: for issuance at September 30, 2019, as non- statutory (non-qualified) stock options, under the 2016 Stock Option Plan.
−Removed: outstanding options under the 2015 and 2016 Stock Option Plans vest over a period of no greater than two years and expire ten years
−Removed: from the grant date.
−Removed: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED
−Removed: TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.
+Added: for issuance at September 30, 2020 under the 2016 Stock Option Plan.
+Added: Currently outstanding options under the 2015 and 2016 Stock
+Added: Option Plans vest over a period of no greater than five years and expire ten years from the grant date.
+Added: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS,
+Added: AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.
Transactions with Related Persons, Promoters and Certain Control Persons
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two completed fiscal years.
−Removed: Company entered into an agreement
−Removed: to purchase 100% of the stock of Forta.
−Removed: Scott Winters, Gary Nemer and William Nelson, Jr.
−Removed: own, in aggregate, in excess of 80%
−Removed: of the shares of stock of Forta.
−Removed: Winters nor Mr.
−Removed: Nemer voted as Board Members on the approval of the acquisition of
+Added: The following Directors of Financial Gravity
+Added: received shares in the merger transaction:
+Added: Scott Winters 13,705,176 and William Nelson, Jr.
+Added: 13,705,176 shares.
TaxTuneup, LLC, which is an entity owned
−Removed: Lyon, a current director of the Company, received approximately 43% of the shares of Financial Gravity Holdings
−Removed: issued in the Tax Coach Software Transaction, then having an approximate value of $864,500.
−Removed: As a consequence of such issuance,
−Removed: Lyon is the beneficial owner of 6.8% of the Company’s common stock as of September 30, 2019 (after giving effect to the
−Removed: Additionally, Van Data, LLC, which is an
−Removed: entity owned Keith VandeStadt, a greater than 5% beneficial shareholder of the Company, received approximately 47% of the shares
−Removed: of Financial Gravity Holdings issued in the Tax Coach Software Transaction, then having an approximate value of $940,500.
−Removed: consequence of such issuance, Mr.
−Removed: VandeStadt is the beneficial owner of 7.4% of the Company’s common stock as of September
−Removed: 30, 2019 (after giving effect to the Merger).
−Removed: In the Tax Coach Software Transaction,
−Removed: the shares of Financial Gravity Holdings common stock received by TaxTuneup, LLC (owned by Mr.
−Removed: Lyon), do not include any of the
−Removed: shares of Financial Gravity Holdings common stock received by Van Data, LLC (owned by Mr.
−Removed: Their respective holdings
−Removed: of Company common stock are completely separated.
−Removed: During fiscal 2019 and 2018, TaxTuneup,
+Added: Lyon, a current director of the Company, received shares of Financial Gravity Holdings issued in the transaction
+Added: by which Financial Gravity acquired TMN, then having an approximate value of $864,500.
+Added: As a consequence of such issuance, Mr.
+Added: is the beneficial owner of 3.1% of the Company’s common stock as of September 30, 2020.
+Added: During fiscal year 2020 and 2019, TaxTuneup,
LLC, an entity owned by Mr.
Lyon, received the sums of $198,000 and $198,000, respectively, from the Company, in compensation
−Removed: for strategic tax planning recommendations and research, business consulting and writing of books and tax planning and Tax Master
−Removed: related content.
−Removed: During fiscal year 2019 and 2018, the Company
−Removed: paid $60,000 and $138,980, respectively, to Van Data, LLC, a consulting firm owned and controlled
−Removed: by Keith VandeStadt, in compensation for maintaining the Tax Coach Software application and data, making enhancements and modifications
−Removed: to software as needed, maintaining server platform and web environment, applying updates to licensed content, and other services
−Removed: agreed upon in writing.
−Removed: During fiscal 2019 and 2018, a company
−Removed: owned and controlled by Mr.
−Removed: John Pollock (Fourly Enterprises, LLC) received the sum of $152,500 and $203,000, respectively, from
−Removed: the Company, in compensation for strategic business planning and consulting, business development, process and technology development.
+Added: for strategic tax planning recommendations and research, business consulting and writing of books and tax planning and TMN related
Director Independence;
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entire Board serves as its Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees.
−Removed: The Company’s Board of Directors has determined
−Removed: that, of the Company’s present directors, each of Gary Nemer, David Myers, Michael Ashby, and Todd Bourgeois, constituting
−Removed: four of the eight members of the Board, is an “independent director,”
−Removed: as defined under NASDAQ’s Marketplace Rules,
−Removed: for purposes of qualifying as independent members of the Board and an Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committee of the Board,
−Removed: but that Scott Winters, John Pollock, Paul Williams and Edward A.
−Removed: Lyon are not “independent directors”
−Removed: since they currently
−Removed: serve as executive officers of the Company.
+Added: The Company’s Board of Directors does not have
+Added: any independent members for purposes of qualifying as independent members of the Board and an Audit, Compensation and Nominating
+Added: Committee of the Board as defined under NASDAQ’s Marketplace Rules.
The Company’s Board of Directors
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not a significant division of oversight and operational responsibilities in managing the material risks facing the Company.
−Removed: PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND
−Removed: The following information summarizes the
−Removed: fees billed to us by Whitley Penn LLP for professional services rendered for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: Fees billed for
−Removed: services by Whitley Penn LLP were $76,177 for fiscal year 2019 and $103,238 for fiscal year 2018.
−Removed: Audit fees include fees associated
−Removed: with the annual audit and the reviews of the Company’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other SEC filings.
−Removed: Audit-Related Fees.
−Removed: Fees billed or remainder to be billed
−Removed: for tax services by Whitley Penn LLP were $13,500 for fiscal year 2019 and $13,500 for fiscal year 2018
+Added: PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES.
+Added: The following information summarizes
+Added: amounts expensed for services provided us by Whitley Penn LLP for assurance and tax services, and Weaver Tidwell, LLP assurance
+Added: services for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Assurance Services.
+Added: Fees expensed for services by Whitley Penn LLP were $83,035 for fiscal year 2020
+Added: and $76,177 for fiscal year 2019.
+Added: Assurance fees include fees associated with the annual audit and the reviews of the Company’s
+Added: quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other SEC filings.
+Added: Fees expensed for service by Weaver Tidwell, LLP related to the 2020 Forta
+Added: FINRA audit and the audit, third quarter 10-Q and the 8-K filings of the Company and its subsidiaries were $102,000.
+Added: Fees expensed for tax services
+Added: by Whitley Penn LLP were $28,500 in fiscal year 2020 and $13,500 for fiscal year 2019.
All Other Fees.
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The Board of Directors serves as the audit committee for the Company.
−Removed: EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT
−Removed: (a) Financial
−Removed: Statements and financial statement schedules
+Added: EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
+Added: (a) Financial Statements and financial statement
and (2) The financial statements and financial statement schedules required to be filed as part of this report are set forth in Item 8 of Part II of this report.
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See Item 15(b) below.
−Removed: (b) Exhibits required by Item
−Removed: 601 of Regulation S-K
+Added: (b) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K
Code of Ethics
+Added: Consent of Whitley Penn LLP
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302(a) Certification of John Pollock
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and on the dates indicated.
+Added: January 11, 2021
/s/ Scott Winters
−Removed: Co-Chairman, CEO
+Added: Scott Winters
+Added: Chief Executive Officer
+Added: (Principal Executive Officer)
January 11, 2021
+Added: /s/ Paul Williams
+Added: Paul Williams
+Added: Chief Financial Officer
+Added: (Principal Financial Officer)
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act
+Added: of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the
+Added: dates indicated.
+Added: /s/ Scott Winters
+Added: CEO, Chairman of the Board
+Added: January 11, 2021
Scott Winters
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(principal financial officer)
+Added: /s/ Edward A.
+Added: January 11, 2021
/s/ John Pollock
−Removed: Co-Chairman, EVP
January 11, 2021
/s/ Jennifer Winters
−Removed: Secretary, EVP, Director
January 11, 2021
Jennifer Winters
−Removed: /s/ Edward A.
−Removed: January 13, 2020
+Added: /s/ William Nelson
January 11, 2021
+Added: William Nelson, Jr.
FINANCIAL GRAVITY COMPANIES, INC.
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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
−Removed: ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
+Added: ACCOUNTING FIRMS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 AND 2019
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMS
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
−Removed: PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
+Added: ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
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We have audited the accompanying consolidated
+Added: balance sheet of Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
+Added: (the “Company”), as of September 30, 2020, and the related consolidated
+Added: statements of operations, stockholders’
+Added: equity, and cash flows for the year then ended, and the related notes (collectively
+Added: referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in
+Added: all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2020 and the results of their operations and their
+Added: cash flows for the year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Emphasis of Matter
+Added: accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company incurred a net loss and a net use of operating cash
+Added: in the current year and currently has a retained deficit that raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going
+Added: Management's plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 1.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements do
+Added: not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: These financial statements are the responsibility
+Added: of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
+Added: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable
+Added: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audit in accordance with
+Added: the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
+Added: the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have,
+Added: nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audit we are required
+Added: to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
+Added: effectiveness of the entity’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures
+Added: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the 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
+Added: in the financial statements.
+Added: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
+Added: basis for our opinion.
+Added: We have served as the Company's auditor
+Added: Fort Worth, Texas
+Added: January 11, 2021
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
+Added: ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
+Added: Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
+Added: Opinion on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
balance sheets of Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: (the “Company”), as of September 30, 2019 and 2018, and the related
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’
−Removed: equity, and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes
−Removed: (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2019 and
−Removed: 2018, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles
−Removed: generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: (the “Company”), as of September 30, 2019, and the related consolidated
+Added: statements of operations, stockholders’
+Added: equity, and cash flows for the year then ended, and the related notes (collectively
+Added: referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in
+Added: all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2019, and the results of their operations and
+Added: their cash flows for the year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Emphasis of Matter
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of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
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rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with
+Added: We conducted our audit in accordance with
the standards of the PCAOB.
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nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits we are required
+Added: As part of our audit we are required
to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
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Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures
to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
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in the financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
−Removed: by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a
−Removed: reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: We have served as the Company's auditor
−Removed: /s/ Whitley Penn LLP
+Added: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
+Added: basis for our opinion.
+Added: We served as the Company's auditor from
+Added: 2016 through 2019.
Dallas, Texas
−Removed: December 30, 2019
+Added: January 13, 2020
Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE
+Added: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
As of September 30,
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Trade accounts receivable, net
−Removed: Accounts receivable - related party
+Added: Current right to use lease
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
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Property and equipment, net
−Removed: Customer relationships, net
Proprietary content, net
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CURRENT LIABILITIES
−Removed: Accounts payable - trade
+Added: Accounts payable –
Accrued expenses
−Removed: Deferred revenue
+Added: Related Party Payables
+Added: Contract Liabilities
Line of credit
+Added: Capital Lease Payable
Notes payable
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TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part
−Removed: of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
−Removed: OF OPERATIONS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Years Ended September 30,
Investment management fees
−Removed: and Service income
+Added: Service income
Total revenue
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Net operating loss
−Removed: OTHER EXPENSE
Interest Expense
−Removed: $ (1,520,632 )
+Added: NET OTHER INCOME/EXPENSE
LOSS PER SHARE - Basic and Diluted
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Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
−Removed: OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN
+Added: STOCKHOLDERS’
For the years ended September 30, 2020
−Removed: Number of Shares Issued and Outstanding
−Removed: Common Stock Par Value Amount
−Removed: Additional Paid-In-Capital
−Removed: Accumulated Deficit
+Added: Shares Issued
Balance at September 30, 2018
$ (5,575,630 )
−Removed: Common stock issued under a private placement memorandum
Stock based employee compensation expense
+Added: Stock options in lieu of marketing expenses
+Added: Common stock issued upon conversion of debt
Balance at September 30, 2019
−Removed: $ (5,575,630 )
Stock based employee compensation expense
−Removed: Stock options in lieu of expenses, as marketing expenses
−Removed: Common stock issued upon conversion of debt
+Added: Stock options exercised
+Added: Private Placement stock issue
+Added: Stock issued in exchange for services
+Added: Forta acquisition
Balance at September 30, 2020
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Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
−Removed: OF CASH FLOWS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Years Ended September 30,
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: $ (1,520,632 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
+Added: Loss on disposal of equipment
Depreciation and amortization
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Stock based compensation
−Removed: Bad debt expense
Changes in operating assets and liabilities
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Accounts payable - trade
+Added: Related party payables
Accrued expenses
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Cash paid for purchase of property and equipment
−Removed: Purchases of trademarks
−Removed: Net cash used in investing activities
+Added: Net cash Forta
+Added: Net cash provided by investing activities
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
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Proceeds from the sale of common stock
−Removed: (used in) provided by financing activities
+Added: Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities
TOTAL CHANGE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
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Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
−Removed: Cash paid during the year for:
+Added: Interest Paid
Accrued interest converted to equity
+Added: Noncash investing and financing activities
+Added: Common stock issued for acquisition
+Added: Common stock to be issued for acquisition
+Added: Note payable issued related to acquisition
+Added: Note payable assumed in acquisition
Notes payable converted to equity
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and Subsidiaries
−Removed: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NATURE OF BUSINESS
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The wholly-owned subsidiaries of the organization include:
−Removed: Financial Gravity
−Removed: Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: (dissolved February 13, 2019), Financial Gravity Operations, Inc.
−Removed: (dissolved February 12, 2019), Financial Gravity
−Removed: Tax, Inc (sold October 31, 2019)., Sofos, Inc.
−Removed: (formerly Financial Gravity Wealth, Inc.), MPath Advisor Resources, LLC.
−Removed: Financial Gravity Business, LLC), Financial Gravity Ventures, LLC., Tax Master Network, LLC, and SASH Corporation (inactive and
−Removed: awaiting dissolution).
−Removed: Financial Gravity Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: (“FGH”)
−Removed: was established on September 29, 2014 to engage in the acquisition and integration of financial and other businesses which will
−Removed: deliver a wide range of accounting, tax planning and management services to high net worth individuals and businesses in the Dallas/Fort
−Removed: Worth region, with further expansion into other markets in accordance with its long-term growth rate and strategic business plan.
−Removed: FGH was merged into the Company, February 13, 2019 and subsequently dissolved.
−Removed: Financial Gravity Operations, Inc.
−Removed: (“FGO”)
−Removed: was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of FGH in Texas on September 29, 2014.
−Removed: FGO did not have any activity through September
−Removed: Activity commenced in 2015 for FGO related to the management of operational expenses for the shared services of the subsidiaries.
−Removed: FGO was merged into the FGH, February 12, 2019 and subsequently dissolved.
+Added: Financial Gravity Wealth, Inc.), MPath Advisor Resources, LLC.
+Added: (formerly Financial Gravity Business, LLC), TMN, LLC, Forta Financial
+Added: and SASH Corporation (inactive and awaiting dissolution).
MPath Advisor Resources, LLC.
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and services to insurance agents or agencies.
−Removed: Financial Gravity Ventures, LLC.
−Removed: (“FGV”)
−Removed: formerly Cloud9 Accelerator, LLC was acquired by Cloud9 Holdings Company (Cloud9) effective December 31, 2014 and holds acquired
−Removed: companies and business assets until they are integrated into the main stream Financial Gravity business structure.
−Removed: have any financial activity through September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Financial Gravity Tax, Inc.
−Removed: Tax”) formerly Business Legacy, Inc., (“BLI”) was acquired by FGO for no cost effective December 1, 2015 and
−Removed: is located in Allen, Texas.
−Removed: BLI is a bookkeeping, tax planning, tax preparation, and payroll service provider to small companies
−Removed: and individuals.
−Removed: FG Tax was sold October 31, 2019.
(formerly Financial Gravity
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Sofos provides asset management
−Removed: SASH Corporation, an Oklahoma corporation
−Removed: doing business as Metro Data Processing (“MDP”) was acquired August 12, 2015.
−Removed: The purchase was made by Cloud9Accelerator,
−Removed: MDP was located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and provided payroll services, software, and support solutions to business owners.
−Removed: business was sold during fiscal 2019 for a net gain of $28,585.
−Removed: MDP is inactive and awaiting dissolution.
−Removed: Tax Master Network, LLC (“TMN”),
−Removed: was acquired effective October 1, 2015, and is an Ohio limited liability company.
+Added: TMN was acquired effective October 1, 2015
+Added: and is an Ohio limited liability company.
The purchase was made by FGH.
−Removed: TMN, located in
−Removed: Cincinnati, Ohio, provides three primary services including monthly subscriptions to the “Tax Coach”
−Removed: software system,
−Removed: coaching and email marketing services.
+Added: TMN, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, provides three primary
+Added: services including monthly subscriptions to the “Tax Coach”
+Added: software system, coaching and email marketing services.
+Added: Forta Financial Group, Inc.
+Added: effective May 21, 2020 and is a securities broker dealer, a registered investment advisor and a licensed insurance agency.
+Added: Company is a registered broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (''SEC") and with the Financial Industry
+Added: Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").
+Added: The Company is also a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation ("SIPC").
+Added: The Company's securities activities is limited to introducing and forwarding securities on a fully disclosed basis to a carrying
+Added: broker-dealer.
+Added: The Company as a matter of policy does not hold funds or securities for customers or owe money or securities to
+Added: Pursuant to Rule 15c3-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company is required to maintain minimum net capital
+Added: of $100,000 and ratio of aggregate indebtedness to net capital shall not exceed 15 to 1.
+Added: On September 30, 2020, the Company's net
+Added: capital was $427,728 and the aggregate indebtedness to net capital was 86.77%.
+Added: The Company is exempt from certain provisions of
+Added: Rule 15c3-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
+Added: Such exemption is in accordance with paragraph (k) (2) (ii) of the Rule.
+Added: SEGMENT REPORTING
+Added: We manage our business in four reportable
+Added: Each of our subsidiaries is treated as a segment.
+Added: We evaluate the performance of our operating segments based on a segment’s
+Added: share of consolidated operating income Therefore, for instance, the tax unit was sold for $150,000 in October of 2019 (for $150,000)
+Added: because the Company did not see growth potential in the unit’s accounting and direct tax advice operations.
+Added: Certain growth
+Added: operations of the tax unit, including the tax operating system, have been taken over by TMN.
+Added: CONSOLIDATING STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: Year Ended September 30, 2019
+Added: Ordinary Income/Expense
+Added: Service Income
+Added: Investment Management Fees
+Added: Compensation Expense
+Added: Cost of services
+Added: Depreciation & Amortization
+Added: General and Administrative
+Added: Professional Services
+Added: Total Expense
+Added: Net Ordinary Income
+Added: Total Other Expense
+Added: Net Other Income
+Added: CONSOLIDATING STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: Year Ended September 30, 2020
+Added: Ordinary Income/Expense
+Added: Broker Dealer
+Added: Service Income
+Added: Investment Management Fees
+Added: Income from Inv in Subsidiaries
+Added: Compensation Expense
+Added: Cost of services
+Added: Depreciation & Amortization
+Added: General and Administrative
+Added: Professional Services
+Added: Total Expense
+Added: Net Ordinary Income
+Added: Other Income/Expense
+Added: Other Income ©
+Added: Other Expense
+Added: Net Other Income
+Added: $ (2,150,939 )
+Added: (A) Discontinued Operation
+Added: (B) Starting from May 21, 2020
+Added: (C) Includes sale of tax unit
+Added: BUSINESS ACQUISITION
+Added: On September 30, 2019, the Company entered
+Added: into a merger agreement with Forta Financial Group, Inc.
+Added: (“Forta”
+Added: or “FFGI”, formerly, Presidential Brokerage,
+Added: Inc.), to acquire 100% of the stock of Forta in exchange for 45,785,879 shares of Company common stock.
+Added: Forta is a broker dealer,
+Added: registered investment advisor and an insurance brokerage, subject to FINRA, SEC and insurance regulation.
+Added: The acquisition transaction
+Added: closed on May 21, 2020.
+Added: Forta’s financial performance is included in Company’s consolidated statements starting as
+Added: of May 21, 2020.
+Added: Company acquired Forta in May of 2020 in exchange for stock.
+Added: A liability of $699,117 has been recorded for 4,178,564 shares of
+Added: common stock related to the acquisition remaining to be issued as of September 30, 2020.
+Added: Forta is a broker dealer, and its acquisition
+Added: presented the Company with an opportunity to compete in the broker dealer market, and to try to grow in this area of financial
+Added: Forta also has key employees who assumed vital executive leadership roles within the Company, including key executives
+Added: who will focus on improving operations and growth opportunity.
+Added: Forta also contributed key operating assets, including in excess
+Added: of $700,000 in cash, and annual revenues in excess of $3,000,000.
+Added: Identification of Company as the Acquirer
+Added: The acquisition was primarily effected
+Added: by a merger and an exchange of Company’s common stock as the consideration paid to Forta stockholders by Company for their
+Added: equity interests in Forta.
+Added: We looked at all pertinent facts and circumstances identified in ASC 805-10-25-1, ASC 805-10-05-4 to
+Added: be considered in identifying the acquirer in a business combination effected by exchanging equity interests.
+Added: The standard recognizes
+Added: that the acquirer usually is the entity that issues its equity interests, but that in some business combinations the issuing entity
+Added: is the acquiree.
+Added: In these situations, the accounting acquiror is different than the legal acquiror.
+Added: The guidance provides the following factors
+Added: to consider in identifying the accounting acquiror in a business combination like the acquisition that is effected by exchanging
+Added: equity interests:
+Added: The majority shares ended up being held
+Added: by Forta shareholders.
+Added: The original calculation was to be an even 50% for Forta and Company shareholders.
+Added: However, the calculations
+Added: included shares that were granted through the option plan at Company, and it was assumed that each of the option share grants would
+Added: be exercised.
+Added: As it turned out, the vast majority of the option shares were not exercised, so that ended up skewing the majority
+Added: calculation in favor of the Forta shareholders.
+Added: There were no other special or unusual voting arrangements, convertible securities
+Added: or other financial instruments of the combined Company immediately after the acquisition.
+Added: After the acquisition, the largest single
+Added: minority interest would be held by a Company shareholder, John Pollock, and members of the Board of Directors and management of
+Added: Company, some of whom were shareholders of Forta, would end up owning in excess of 40% of the voting shares of Company.
+Added: There is no agreement on the election of
+Added: Board members, and neither Forta nor Financial Gravity shareholders have any agreement to elect a majority of the Board.
+Added: The composition of the senior management
+Added: of the combined entity.
+Added: Senior management is from Financial Gravity.
+Added: Based upon the above, the Company has concluded that Financial
+Added: Gravity will be treated as the acquirer.
+Added: Purchase Price Allocation
+Added: The purchase price of $7,652,415 was
+Added: based upon the share price of Company’s stock as of May 21, 2020 and $52,000 note payable.
+Added: We have used preliminary
+Added: fair value estimates for the assets acquired and liabilities assumed for the acquisition.
+Added: We believe significant
+Added: synergies may arise from this acquisition, as a result of which the purchase price was in excess of the fair value of the net
+Added: assets acquired and, as a result, we have preliminarily recorded goodwill of $7,380,603, which is based upon book value, to
+Added: account for adjustments made.
+Added: We have not yet finalized estimates that relate to certain tangible and intangible assets,
+Added: including customer relationships, trade names, contracts.
+Added: Our estimates and assumptions for these acquisitions are subject to
+Added: change as we obtain additional information for our estimates during the respective measurement periods (up to one year from
+Added: the acquisition date).
+Added: Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed
+Added: Forta Financial Group, Inc.
+Added: Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed
+Added: As of May 21, 2020
+Added: PURCHASE PRICE
+Added: Current Assets
+Added: Accounts Receivable
+Added: Other Current Assets
+Added: Total Current Assets
+Added: Current Liabilities
+Added: Total Accounts Payable
+Added: Total Other Current Liabilities
+Added: Total Current Liabilities
+Added: Long-Term Liabilities
+Added: Total Long-Term Liabilities
+Added: Total Liabilities
+Added: The accompanying unaudited pro forma condensed
+Added: combined financial statement of Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
+Added: (“Financial Gravity”, “FGCO”
+Added: or the “Company”)
+Added: is presented to illustrate the estimated effects of the acquisition of 100% of the stock of Forta Financial Group, Inc.
+Added: (“Forta”
+Added: or “FFGI”), which closed on May 21, 2020 (the “acquisition”
+Added: or the “transaction”) on the historical
+Added: financial position and results of operations of the Company.
+Added: The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations
+Added: is based upon and derived from and should be read in conjunction with Company’s and Forta’s historical audited financial
+Added: statements for the year ended September 30, 2020
+Added: UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL
+Added: Forta’s results of operations
+Added: have been included in the following financial statement for the twelve months ending September 30, 2020 prospectively
+Added: from the assumed date of acquisition of October 1, 2019.
+Added: Pro forma results have been prepared by adjusting historical results
+Added: to include Forta’s results of operations.
+Added: The unaudited pro forma results presented do not necessarily reflect the
+Added: results of operations that would have resulted had the acquisition been completed at the beginning of October 1, 2019, nor
+Added: does it indicate the results of operations in future periods.
+Added: Additionally, the unaudited pro forma results do not include
+Added: the impact of possible business model changes, nor does it consider any potential impacts of current market conditions on
+Added: revenues, reduction of expenses, asset dispositions, or other factors.
+Added: The impact of these items could alter the following
+Added: pro forma results:
+Added: FINANCIAL GRAVITY COMPANIES, INC.
+Added: UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED
+Added: STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
+Added: FOR YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
+Added: Financial Gravity (A)
+Added: Investment management fees
+Added: Service income
+Added: Total revenue
+Added: OPERATING EXPENSES
+Added: Cost of services
+Added: Professional services
+Added: Depreciation and amortization
+Added: General and administrative
+Added: Salaries and wages
+Added: Total operating expenses
+Added: Net operating loss
+Added: Interest Expense
+Added: LOSS PER SHARE - Basic and Diluted
+Added: ____________________
+Added: A Derived from unaudited statement of operations
+Added: of Company for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020.
+Added: B Based upon anticipated operations for
+Added: the period prior to the May 21, 2020 taking into account synergies that would have been provided by Company, Sofos and MPath.
+Added: BUSINESS DISPOSITION
+Added: The tax unit provided Company’s proprietary
+Added: the tax operating system, but that could be run more effectively by TMN, so the decision was made to transfer that activity to
+Added: The tax unit was left with minor tax and accounting operations, and those activities did not present a significant upside
+Added: to the Company.
+Added: As a result, the Company disposed of its tax unit.
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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Basis of Consolidation
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements
−Removed: include the accounts of Financial Gravity Companies, FGW, FGT, and TMN , (collectively referred to as the
−Removed: “Company”).
+Added: The consolidated financial statements include
+Added: the accounts of Financial Gravity Companies, Sofos, MPath, TMN and Forta (collectively referred to as the “Company”).
All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.
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The customer relationships are being amortized on a straight-line basis over a four- year estimated life.
−Removed: During the years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded amortization expense of $11,225 on this intangible asset,
−Removed: which is included in depreciation and amortization expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: amortization at September 30, 2019 and 2018 was $44,900, and $33,675 respectively.
−Removed: This has been fully amortized as of September
+Added: During the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company recorded amortization expense of $0 and $11,225 respectively on
+Added: this intangible asset, which is included in depreciation and amortization expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of
+Added: Accumulated amortization at September 30, 2020 and 2019 was $44,900.
+Added: This has been fully
+Added: amortized as of September 30, 2019.
Proprietary Content
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The proprietary content is being amortized on a straight-line basis over an eight- year estimated
−Removed: During the years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded amortization expense of $65,638 on this intangible
−Removed: asset, which is included in depreciation and amortization expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: amortization at September 30, 2019 and 2018 was $262,550 and $196,912, respectively.
+Added: During the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company recorded amortization expense of $114,955 and $65,638, respectively,
+Added: on this intangible asset, which is included in depreciation and amortization expense in the accompanying consolidated statements
+Added: of operations.
+Added: Accumulated amortization at September 30, 2020 and 2019 was $377,505 and $262,550, respectively.
Future amortization of proprietary content
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Accordingly, this asset was fully
−Removed: written off in 2019.
Non-compete Agreements
Non-compete agreements established as a
−Removed: part of the TMN purchase have been recognized in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at $26,300, the value attributed
−Removed: to them on the date of the purchase.
−Removed: The non-compete agreements are being amortized on a straight-line basis over the five-year
−Removed: term of the non-compete clause of the agreement.
−Removed: During the years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded amortization
−Removed: expense of $5,260 on this intangible asset, which is included in depreciation and amortization expense in the accompanying consolidated
−Removed: statements of operations.
−Removed: Accumulated amortization at September 30, 2019 and 2018 was $21,040 and $15,780, respectively.
−Removed: Future amortization of the non-compete
−Removed: agreements is estimated to be as follows for the years ended September 30:
+Added: part of the TMN purchase have been recognized in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at $26,300, and amortization of the
+Added: non-compete agreements was $5,260 for each of the years ending September 30, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: The non-compete agreements were fully
+Added: amortized as of September 30, 2020.
Intellectual Property
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Goodwill consists of the following:
−Removed: Goodwill at September 30, 2018
−Removed: Goodwill at September 30, 2019
+Added: Net TMN Goodwill
+Added: Forta Goodwill
+Added: Total Goodwill
The Company accounts for Federal and state
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For the years ended September 30, 2020
−Removed: and 2018, approximately 2,788,476 and 3,361,538 common stock options, respectively, and 25,000 and 200,000 warrants, respectively,
−Removed: were not added to the diluted average shares because inclusion of such shares would be antidilutive.
+Added: and 2019, approximately 6,972,696 and 2,788,476 common stock options, respectively, and 0 and 25,000 warrants, respectively, were
+Added: not added to the diluted average shares because inclusion of such shares would be antidilutive.
Revenue Recognition
−Removed: The Company adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board
−Removed: ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers October
−Removed: 1, 2018 on a modified basis.
−Removed: As the initial adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on the Company's financial
−Removed: condition or results of operations, no cumulative effect was recognized at the date of initial application.
−Removed: The Company also had
−Removed: no significant changes to systems, processes, or controls.
−Removed: The Company derives its revenues primarily from six components:
−Removed: Investment Management Fees, Tax Master Network subscriptions, Tax Operating System subscriptions, Financial Advisor subscriptions,
−Removed: Tax BluePrint sales, and Insurance Sales.
−Removed: FG Wealth generates investment management fees for services
−Removed: provided by the Company.
−Removed: Investment management fees include fees earned from assets under management by providing professional
−Removed: services to manage client investments.
−Removed: Revenue is recognized as earned, at the end of each period.
−Removed: FG Tax generates service income from its consulting and other
−Removed: professional services performed.
−Removed: Revenue recognized as service is provided.
−Removed: Commission revenue is derived from the
−Removed: sale of annuities and premiums on life insurance policies held by third parties.
−Removed: The revenue is recognized when commissions are
−Removed: received from insurers and issuers of the products.
+Added: The Company adopted the Financial Accounting
+Added: Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts
+Added: with Customers October 1, 2019 on a modified basis.
+Added: As the initial adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on the
+Added: Company's financial condition or results of operations, no cumulative effect was recognized at the date of initial application.
+Added: The Company also had no significant changes to systems, processes, or controls.
+Added: The Company derives its revenues primarily
+Added: from the following activities:
+Added: Investment Management Fees, Securities Brokerage Commissions, Tax Master Network subscriptions,
+Added: Tax Operating System subscriptions, Financial Advisor subscriptions, Tax BluePrint sales, and Insurance Sales.
+Added: Investment management fees are recognized
+Added: as services are provided by the Company.
+Added: Investment management fees include fees earned from assets under management by providing
+Added: professional services to manage clients’
+Added: Fees are generally paid quarterly, in advance, for each quarter or
+Added: monthly in arrears.
+Added: Revenues are earned over the period in which the service is provided, which is typically monthly.
+Added: The Company generates services income which
+Added: is recognized when consulting and other professional services are performed by the Company (primarily from TMN and MPath).
+Added: is recognized as services are delivered.
Revenue represents gross billings less
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in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: Tax Master Network has five levels of services
−Removed: that are charged and collected on a month to month subscription basis.
+Added: Trade accounts receivable are carried only
+Added: for investment management fees that are paid in arrears.
+Added: The allowance for doubtful accounts was $0 and $0 as of September 30,
+Added: 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: In the normal course of business, the Company
+Added: extends credit on an unsecured basis to its customers, substantially all of whom are located in the United States of America.
+Added: Company does not believe that it is exposed to any significant risk of loss on accounts receivable.
+Added: Sofos generates investment management fees
+Added: for services provided by the Company.
+Added: Investment management fees include fees earned from assets under management by providing
+Added: professional services to manage client investments.
+Added: Revenue is recognized as earned, at the end of each period.
+Added: Forta generates commission revenue from
+Added: the sale of annuities and premiums on life insurance policies held by third parties.
+Added: The revenue is recognized when commissions
+Added: are received from insurers and issuers of the products.
+Added: MPath generates revenue from insurance
+Added: marketing services for insurance agents, including sourcing of insurance policies through selling agreements.
+Added: Tax Master Network has five levels of network
+Added: subscription services that are charged and collected on a month-to-month.
None of these programs come with a long-term commitment
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After an initial assessment, the customers pay half of the year one tax savings.
−Removed: Revenue is deferred
−Removed: until the customer reviews and accepts the final Tax Blueprint®
+Added: A contract liability
+Added: is recognized when the customer payment is received.
+Added: Revenue is deferred until the customer reviews and accepts the final Tax Blueprint®
document and returns an executed delivery agreement.
−Removed: Advertising costs are charged to operations
−Removed: when incurred.
−Removed: Advertising and marketing expense were $131,529 and $266,930 for the years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: The Company received revenue from Sofos’
+Added: operations that are primarily from investment management fees, including
+Added: money management fees.
+Added: investment management fees are based upon a percentage of assets under management and totaled $1,352,975
+Added: (or, $1,255,457 after inter-company eliminations of $140,420)) for the fiscal year.
+Added: The Company received revenue from
+Added: Forta’s operations from (the date of the merger) from the following sources from May 21, 2020 through fiscal year
+Added: ending September 30,2020 including:
+Added: Investment Advisory fees
+Added: Commission-based transactions
+Added: Insurance and Other Service Revenue
+Added: Total Revenue
+Added: The Company received revenue from TMN’s
+Added: operations from the following sources during the fiscal year ending September 30,2020 including:
+Added: TMN membership subscriptions
+Added: Tax Blueprints
+Added: Commissions/Referrals
+Added: The Company received revenue from MPath’s
+Added: operations from insurance sales of $73,882 during the fiscal year ending September 30,2020.
+Added: In addition, there was revenue from
+Added: discontinued operations and minor non-recurring revenue (~$70,000)
+Added: Marketing costs are charged to
+Added: operations when incurred.
+Added: Marketing expenses were $125,161 and $131,529 for the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
+Added: respectively.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company recognizes the fair value of
−Removed: the stock-based compensation awards as wages in the accompanying statements of operations on a straight-line basis over the vesting
−Removed: period based on the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on a risk-free rate of 1.50% to 2.89% in 2019 and 1.49% to 2.55% in
−Removed: 2018, dividend yield of 0%, expected life of 10 years and volatility of 25.32% to 34.05%.
+Added: stock-based compensation awards as wages in the accompanying statements of operations for employee grants, commissions for non-employee
+Added: grants, and stock appreciation rights grants, on a straight-line basis over the vesting period, using the Black-Scholes option
+Added: pricing model, which is based on risk-free rate of 1.3171% in the year ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 of 1.49% to 2.55% in 2019,
+Added: dividend yield of 0%, expected life of 10 years and volatility of 159% and 35% to 40% in 2020 and 2019 respectively.
+Added: are new this year and are being treated as a liability award while the options are being treated as equity awards.
+Added: While the fair
+Added: value of the options are based on the Black Scholes assumptions included here, the SAR awards are based on assumptions at year
+Added: Forfeitures are recorded as they occur.”
Use of Estimates
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growth and establishment of a stronger brand.
−Removed: On May 23, 2017, the Company and GHS Investments,
−Removed: LLC (“GHS Investments”) entered into an Equity Financing Agreement (the “Agreement”).
−Removed: The Agreement was
−Removed: filed as an exhibit to a registration statement on Form S-1, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)
−Removed: on September 18, 2017.
−Removed: The agreement was approved by the SEC November 13, 2018.
−Removed: The Agreement contemplates a series of transactions,
−Removed: pursuant to which the Company will “put”
−Removed: shares of its common stock to GHS in consideration of the payment to the Company
−Removed: of eighty percent (80%) of the “Market Price”
−Removed: of such shares.
−Removed: “Market Price”
−Removed: shall mean the average of
−Removed: the two lowest trading prices of the Company’s Common Stock during the ten (10) consecutive trading days preceding the receipt
−Removed: of the applicable put notice.
−Removed: Accordingly, on each instance the Company exercises a put option, the Company will know in advance,
−Removed: both the number of shares issuable upon exercise of the put option, and the dollar amount of the purchase price for such shares.
−Removed: The maximum purchase price for shares to be purchased by GHS Investments under the Agreement is $11,000,000.
−Removed: To facilitate the
−Removed: sale of the shares so purchased by GHS Investments, the Company agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and
−Removed: Exchange Commission.
−Removed: The Company also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with GHS Investments, pursuant to which the
−Removed: Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights under the Securities Act of 1933, the rules and regulations promulgated
−Removed: thereunder, and applicable state securities laws.
−Removed: The Agreement will terminate (i) when GHS Investments has purchased an aggregate
−Removed: of $11,000,000 of the common stock of the Company, or (ii) 36 months after the effective date of the Agreement, or (iii) at such
−Removed: time that the registration statement is no longer in effect.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company is also actively
−Removed: seeking growth of its service offerings, both organically and via new client relationships.
−Removed: Management, in the ordinary course
−Removed: of business, is trying to raise additional capital through sales of common stock as well as seeking financing via equity or debt,
−Removed: or both from third parties.
−Removed: There are no assurances that additional financing will be available on favorable terms, or at all.
−Removed: If additional financing is not available, the Company will need to reduce, defer or cancel development programs, planned initiatives
−Removed: and overhead expenditures.
−Removed: The failure to adequately fund its capital requirements could have a material adverse effect on the
−Removed: Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Moreover, the sale of additional equity securities to
−Removed: raise financing will result in additional dilution to the Company’s stockholders and incurring additional indebtedness could
−Removed: involve an increased debt service cash obligation, the imposition of covenants that restrict the Company’s operations or
−Removed: the Company’s ability to perform on its current debt service requirements.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not include
−Removed: any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
+Added: For the year ended September 30, 2020,
+Added: the Company reported $3,687,480 in revenue, a net loss of $791,675, use of cash in operations of $549,491, and an accumulated deficit
+Added: of $6,990,790.
+Added: These operating results raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The financial
+Added: statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets
+Added: or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the outcome of these uncertainties.
+Added: On May 8, 2020, the Company received a PPP loan in the amount
+Added: Additionally, on May 15, 2020, Forta received a PPP loan in the amount of $377,700.
+Added: PPP loans bear a fixed interest
+Added: rate of 1% over a two-year term, are guaranteed by the federal government, and do not require collateral.
+Added: The loans may be forgiven,
+Added: in part or whole, if the proceeds are used to retain and pay employees and for other qualifying expenditures.
+Added: The Company expects
+Added: that the full proceeds of the PPP loans will be eligible for forgiveness, which would result in an increase in capital of $661,045.
+Added: Company’s plans for expansion include attracting additional clients
+Added: through marketing efforts with its current and future brokerage, investment management and insurance agent representatives, as
+Added: well as increasing the TMN membership and the investment advisory activity of the members to increase assets under management
+Added: and Company’s revenue.
+Added: Future growth plans will include efforts to increase advisory headcount through recruiting of individuals
+Added: advisors and groups of advisors.
+Added: There is no guaranty that the Company will achieve these objectives.
+Added: From time to time, the Company is a party
+Added: to or otherwise involved in legal proceedings, claims and other legal matters, arising in the ordinary course of its business or
+Added: It is management’s opinion that there are no legal proceedings the outcome of which will be material to its ability
+Added: to operate or market its services, its consolidated financial position, operating results or cash flows.
Future Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13 Financial Instruments-Credit
−Removed: Losses, which amends how entities will measure credit losses for most financial assets and certain other instruments that are not
−Removed: measured at fair value through net income, which applies to trade accounts receivable and the calculation of the allowance for
−Removed: uncollectible accounts receivable.
−Removed: The new standard will become effective for the Company for annual and interim periods beginning
−Removed: after December 31, 2019, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this
−Removed: accounting guidance will have on the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Since the Company currently uses an expected losses from
−Removed: customers method, the Company does not anticipate the adoption of ASU 2016-13 will have a material impact on the Company's financial
−Removed: condition or results of operations.
+Added: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13
+Added: Financial Instruments-Credit Losses, which amends how entities will measure credit losses for most financial assets and certain
+Added: other instruments that are not measured at fair value through net income, which applies to trade accounts receivable and the calculation
+Added: of the allowance for uncollectible accounts receivable.
+Added: The new standard will become effective for the Company for fiscal years
+Added: beginning after December 31, 2019, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: In November of 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-10 Financial Instruments—Credit
+Added: Losses (Topic 326), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815), and Leases (Topic 842):
+Added: Effective Dates, which deferred the effective
+Added: date of ASU Topic No.
+Added: 2016-13 to fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact
+Added: of the adoption of this accounting guidance will have on the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Since the Company currently uses
+Added: an expected loss from customers method, the Company does not anticipate the adoption of ASU 2016-13 will have a material impact
+Added: on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.
In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2017-04 Intangibles-Goodwill
−Removed: and Other Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, which provides guidance to simplify the subsequent measurement of goodwill
−Removed: by eliminating the Step 2 procedure from the goodwill impairment test.
−Removed: The new guidance is effective for the Company beginning
−Removed: with the fourth quarter of 2020.
−Removed: The Company does not anticipate the adoption of ASU 2017-04 will have a material impact on the
−Removed: Company's financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU Update No.
−Removed: 2018-02 Leases
−Removed: Under the new guidance, a lessee will be required to recognize assets and liabilities for leases with lease terms
−Removed: of more than 12 months.
−Removed: Consistent with current GAAP, the recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows
−Removed: arising from a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classification as a finance or operating lease.
−Removed: However, unlike current
−Removed: GAAP - which requires only capital leases to be recognized on the balance sheet - the new ASU will require both types of leases
−Removed: to be recognized on the balance sheet.
−Removed: ASU 2018-02 is effective for the years beginning after December 31, 2019 and for all periods
−Removed: Early application of the amendments in this ASU is permitted.
−Removed: The Company does not expect any significant financial
−Removed: impact to the financial statements upon adoption of this standard.
−Removed: In March 2018, the FASB issued ASU Update
−Removed: 2018-07, Investments –
−Removed: Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323).
−Removed: The amendments in this Update eliminate the requirement
−Removed: that when an investment qualifies for use of the equity method as a result of an increase in the level of ownership interest or
−Removed: degree of influence, an investor must adjust the investment, results of operations, and retained earnings retroactively on a step-by-step
−Removed: basis as if the equity method had been in effect during all previous periods that the investment had been held.
−Removed: ASU 2018-07 is
−Removed: effective for the years beginning after December 31, 2018.
−Removed: Early application of the amendments in this ASU is permitted.
−Removed: does not expect any significant financial impact to the financial statements upon adoption of this standard.
−Removed: In March 2018, the FASB issued ASU Update No.
−Removed: 2018-09, Compensation
−Removed: Stock Compensation (Topic 718).
−Removed: The amendments in this Update are to simplify several aspects of the accounting for share-based
−Removed: payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification
−Removed: on the statement of cash flows.
−Removed: ASU 2018-09 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 31, 2018, and interim periods
−Removed: within those annual periods.
−Removed: The Company has yet to do a full analysis on the impact this will have but will do during the next
−Removed: The Company does not expect any significant financial impact to the financial statements upon adoption of this standard.
+Added: 2017-04 Intangibles-Goodwill and Other Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, which provides guidance to simplify the subsequent
+Added: measurement of goodwill by eliminating the Step 2 procedure from the goodwill impairment test.
+Added: The new guidance is effective for
+Added: the Company beginning October 1, 2020.
+Added: The Company does not anticipate the adoption of ASU 2017-04 will have a material impact
+Added: on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property and equipment consist of the following at September
+Added: Estimated Service Lives
Furniture, fixtures and equipment
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Trademarks at September 30, 2019
−Removed: Trademarks purchased at cost
Trademarks at September 30, 2020
−Removed: Trademarks purchased at cost
−Removed: Trademarks at September 30, 2019
+Added: LINE OF CREDIT
The Company has a revolving line of credit
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30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: On August 9, 2017 the Company entered
−Removed: into a Promissory Note Payable with Elmer Fink (Fink) in the amount of $100,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the note is 10%.
−Removed: payment is equal to 10% of the loan value.
−Removed: A second-year payment equal to 10% of the loan was issued on December 1, 2019 with
−Removed: monthly principal and interest of $4,614 starting on year three.
−Removed: The remaining principal and accrued interest of this note is
−Removed: due on the maturity date, July 15, 2021.
−Removed: On December 1, 2019, the original note payable was amended.
−Removed: Payments from December 2019,
−Removed: through July 2019 to be interest only.
−Removed: Full principal and interest payments to commence August 9, 2019 until maturity, when all
−Removed: remaining principal and interest will be due and payable.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Fink and the Company entered into an agreement to
−Removed: convert the note into common shares of the Company and the note and accrued interest were settled in full as of that date.
−Removed: outstanding balance was $0 and $100,000 at September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On August 9, 2017 the Company entered into
−Removed: a Promissory Note Payable with Mike and Terri Ashby (Ashby) in the amount of $100,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the note was 10%.
−Removed: year payment was equal to 10% of the loan value with monthly principal and interest of $4,614 starting on year two.
−Removed: The remaining
−Removed: principal and accrued interest of this note was due on the maturity date, August 15, 2020.
−Removed: On December 31, 2019, the original note
−Removed: payable was amended.
−Removed: The new interest rate on the note is 15%.
−Removed: The remaining principal and accrued interest of this note is now
−Removed: due on the maturity date, July 15, 2022.
−Removed: A second-year payment equal to 15% of the loan was issued on February 6, 2019 with monthly
−Removed: principal and interest of $4,614 starting on year three.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Ashby and the Company entered into an agreement to convert
−Removed: the note into common shares of the Company and the note and accrued interest were settled in full as of that date.
−Removed: The outstanding
−Removed: balance was $0 and $92,406 at September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On September 5, 2017 the Company entered
−Removed: into a Promissory Note Payable with Heleon Investment Company, Ltd.
−Removed: (Heleon) in the amount of $100,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the
−Removed: First year payment is equal to 10% of the loan value with monthly principal and interest of $4,614 starting on year
−Removed: The remaining principal and accrued interest of this note is due on the maturity date, August 15, 2020.
−Removed: On December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the original note payable was amended.
−Removed: The new interest rate on the note is 15%.
−Removed: Payment on the note is deferred until December
−Removed: Interest for the deferment period will be capitalized into the amount due, December 31, 2020, resulting in a new Amount
−Removed: The New Amount Due plus interest will amortize over the following 24 months, with the first payment due December 31, 2020.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Heleon and the Company entered into an agreement to convert the note into common shares of the Company and the
−Removed: note and accrued interest were settled in full as of that date.
−Removed: The outstanding balance was $0 and $100,000 at September 30, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On October 2, 2017 the Company entered
−Removed: into a Promissory Note Payable with Indy and Sybil Bally (Bally) in the amount of $100,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the note was 10%.
−Removed: First year payment was equal to 10% of the loan value with monthly principal and interest of $4,614 starting on year two.
−Removed: The remaining
−Removed: principal and accrued interest of this note is due on the maturity date, October 2, 2020.
−Removed: On December 20, 2019, the original note
−Removed: payable was amended.
−Removed: The new interest rate on the note is 15%.
−Removed: Payment on the note is deferred until February 2, 2020.
−Removed: for the deferment period will be capitalized into the amount due, February 2, 2020, resulting in a new Amount Due.
−Removed: The New Amount
−Removed: Due plus interest will amortize over the following 24 months, with the first payment due February 2, 2020.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Bally
−Removed: and the Company entered into an agreement to convert the note into common shares of the Company and the note and accrued interest
−Removed: were settled in full as of that date.
−Removed: The outstanding balance was $0 and $100,000 at September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On October 2, 2017 the Company entered
−Removed: into a Promissory Note Payable with Paul Frueh (Frueh) in the amount of $100,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the note is 10%.
−Removed: payment is equal to 10% of the loan value with monthly principal and interest of $4,614 starting on year two.
−Removed: The remaining principal
−Removed: and accrued interest of this note is due on the maturity date, October 20, 2020.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Frueh and the Company entered
−Removed: into an agreement to convert the note into common shares of the Company and the note and accrued interest were settled in full
−Removed: as of that date.
−Removed: The outstanding balance was $0 and $100,000 at September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On November 2, 2017 the Company entered
−Removed: into a Promissory Note Payable with Michael and Donna Dade (Dade) in the amount of $340,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the note was
−Removed: First year payment was equal to 10% of the loan value with monthly principal and interest of $15,689 starting on year two.
−Removed: The remaining principal and accrued interest of this note is due on the maturity date, October 20, 2020.
−Removed: On December 20, 2019,
−Removed: the original note payable was amended.
−Removed: The new interest rate on the note is 15%.
−Removed: Payment on the note is deferred until February
−Removed: Interest for the deferment period will be capitalized into the amount due, February 20, 2020, resulting in a new Amount
−Removed: The New Amount Due plus interest will amortize over the following 24 months, with the first payment due February 20, 2020.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Dade and the Company entered into an agreement to convert the note into common shares of the Company and the
−Removed: note and accrued interest were settled in full as of that date.
−Removed: The outstanding balance was $0 and $340,000 at September 30, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On March 15, 2018 the Company entered into
−Removed: a Promissory Note Payable with Helen Janssen (Janssen) in the amount of $200,000.
−Removed: The interest rate on the note is 10%.
−Removed: payment is equal to 10% of the loan value with monthly principal and interest of $9,229 starting on year two.
−Removed: The remaining principal
−Removed: and accrued interest of this note is due on the maturity date, February 15, 2021.
−Removed: On December 31, 2019, the original note payable
−Removed: The new interest rate on the note is 15%.
−Removed: Payment on the note is deferred until February 15, 2020.
−Removed: Interest for the
−Removed: deferment period will be capitalized into the amount due, February 15, 2020, resulting in a new Amount Due.
−Removed: The New Amount Due
−Removed: plus interest will amortize over the following 24 months, with the first payment due February 15, 2020.
−Removed: On June 15, 2019, Janssen
−Removed: and the Company entered into an agreement to convert the note into common shares of the Company and the note and accrued interest
−Removed: were settled in full as of that date.
−Removed: The outstanding balance was $0 and $200,000 at September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On November 29, 2018 the Company entered
−Removed: into a Promissory Note Payable with Knight Capital in the amount of $155,000.
−Removed: There is no interest rate associated with this note.
−Removed: The repayment streams for this are calculated from a factoring of the receivables sold, and are payable in daily payments of $1,504
−Removed: and is due on the maturity date, July 11, 2019.
−Removed: The outstanding balance was $0 at September 30, 2019.
−Removed: On April 19, 2019 the Company entered into
−Removed: a Promissory Note Payable with Charles O’Banon (“O’Banon”), a customer, in the amount of $32,205.
−Removed: is in settlement of tax penalties and interest he incurred, that were proximately caused by the Company’s actions.
−Removed: principal and interest payments are $623, with a balloon payment of $14,048 in April 2022.
−Removed: The note is being repaid over 36 months
−Removed: and bears an interest rate of 6%.
−Removed: The Company has instituted abatement efforts on O’Banon’s behalf, with the taxing
−Removed: Should the abatement efforts be successful, all monies paid O’Banon by the Company shall be returned.
−Removed: abatement efforts result in mitigation, any monies paid by the Company, in excess of the mitigated amounts, shall be returned.
−Removed: The outstanding balance on September 30, 2019 and 2018, was $29,401 and $0 respectively.
+Added: NOTES PAYABLE
On April 19, 2019, the Company entered
−Removed: into a promissory note payable with a related party, John Pollock, the current EVP, in the amount of $15,000, and bears interest
−Removed: The note is scheduled to be repaid in full by December 1, 2019.
−Removed: The outstanding balance on September 30, 2019 and 2018,
−Removed: was $7,526 and $0 respectively.
+Added: into an unsecured Promissory Note Payable with Charles O’Banon (“O’Banon”), a customer, in the amount of
+Added: The note is in settlement of tax penalties and interest he incurred, that were proximately caused by the Company’s
+Added: The monthly principal and interest payments are $623, with a balloon payment of $14,048 in April 2022.
+Added: The note is being
+Added: repaid over 36 months and bears an interest rate of 6%.
+Added: The Company has instituted abatement efforts on O’Banon’s behalf,
+Added: with the taxing authority, however the abatement was denied.
+Added: The outstanding balance on September 30, 2020 and 2019, was $23,534
+Added: and $29,401 respectively.
+Added: On August 31, 2020, the Company entered
+Added: into an agreement with John DuPriest (DuPriest), a former officer of Forta, in settlement pursuant to employment termination.
+Added: parties entered into an unsecured promissory note to DuPriest in the amount of $52,000.00, bearing interest of 5%, payable over
+Added: 26 months beginning with January 15, 2021 through February 15, 2023.
+Added: On May 8, 2020, the Company received a
+Added: Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan in the amount of $283,345.
+Added: Additionally, on May 15, 2020, Forta received a
+Added: PPP loan in the amount of $377,700.
+Added: PPP loans bear a fixed interest rate of 1% over a two-year term, are guaranteed by the federal
+Added: government, and do not require collateral.
+Added: The loans may be forgiven, in part or whole,
+Added: if the proceeds are used to retain and pay employees and for other qualifying expenditures.
+Added: The Company expects that the full proceeds
+Added: of the PPP loans will be eligible for forgiveness, which would result in an increase in capital of $661,045.
+Added: Forta submitted its
+Added: forgiveness application to the SBA in December of 2020, and Company is awaiting the SBA’s follow-up on its application for
The Company’s maturities of debt
subsequent to September 30, 2020 are as follows:
+Added: ACCRUED EXPENSES
Accrued expenses consist of the following
at September 30:
+Added: SAR Liability
Accrued payroll
+Added: Commissions payable
+Added: State Tax liability
+Added: Federal Tax liability
+Added: Other Accounts payable
Accrued operating expenses
Deferred rent
−Removed: The Company elected C Corporation tax
−Removed: status from inception.
−Removed: Net operating losses (“NOL”) since that date total $5,624,574 as of September 30, 2019 and
−Removed: may be carried forward to offset future taxable income;
−Removed: accordingly, no current provision for income tax has been recorded in
−Removed: the accompanying statements of operations.
+Added: Deferred revenue
+Added: The Company elected C Corporation tax status
+Added: from inception.
+Added: Net operating losses (“NOL”) since that date total $6,259,594 as of September 30, 2020 and may be carried
+Added: forward to offset future taxable income;
+Added: accordingly, no current provision for income tax has been recorded in the accompanying
+Added: statements of operations.
NOL carry-forward benefits begin to expire in 2035.
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Net deferred taxes
−Removed: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”), which
−Removed: was enacted December 22, 2018, reduced the corporate income tax rate effective December 1, 2019 from 35% to 21%.
−Removed: Among the other
−Removed: significant tax law changes that potentially affect the Company are the limitations on the deduction for interest incurred in 2019
−Removed: or later of up to 70% of its taxable income for the carryforward year and the limitation of the utilization of post 2018 net operating
−Removed: loss carryforwards.
−Removed: The Company does not anticipate material changes to its income tax provision as a result of the passage of
−Removed: the Tax Act until pretax law change net operating losses are fully utilized or expire in 2026.
−Removed: The Company has remeasured certain
−Removed: deferred federal tax assets and liabilities based on the rates at which they are expected to reverse in the future, which is generally
−Removed: The deferred tax assets of the Company were reduced by $408,041 as a result of this remeasurement.
−Removed: This change was fully offset
−Removed: by the corresponding change in the valuation allowance.
−Removed: The Company is still analyzing certain aspects of the Tax Act, and refining
−Removed: its calculations, which could potentially affect the measurement of those balances or potentially give rise to new deferred tax
−Removed: The Company’s estimates may also be affected in the future as the Company gains a more thorough understanding of
−Removed: the Tax Act, and how the individual states are implementing this new law.
−Removed: COMMITMENTS, CONTINGENCIES AND CONCENTRATIONS
−Removed: The Company conducts operations from leased
−Removed: premises leased through 2024.
−Removed: Some of these leases provide for payment of taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance.
−Removed: also leases certain equipment under operating leases.
−Removed: Total rent expense for the years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 was $135,041
−Removed: and $118,126, respectively.
+Added: COMMITMENTS, CONTINGENCIES AND
+Added: CONCENTRATIONS
+Added: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02
+Added: Leases, which changed financial reporting as it relates to leasing transactions to recognize a lease liability, measured on a discounted
+Added: and a right-of-use asset, for the lease term.
+Added: In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2018-10 Codification Improvements to
+Added: Topic 842, Leases and ASU No.
+Added: 2018-11 Leases (Topic 842):
+Added: Targeted Improvements.
+Added: In March 2019, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases.
+Added: The Company adopted these ASUs on October 1, 2019 on a modified retrospective basis.
+Added: The Company did not elect the hindsight practical expedient and did elect the package of practical expedients to not reassess prior
+Added: conclusions related to contracts containing leases, lease classification and initial direct costs for all leases.
+Added: The initial adoption
+Added: of the standard recognized right-of-use assets of $323,097 and lease liabilities of $337,454 on the Company’s statement of
+Added: financial position with no impact on the Company's results of operations.
+Added: The Company had no significant changes to processes or
+Added: The Company leases their office space through
+Added: an operating lease in Denver Colorado, which would have expired at May 31, 2021, but has been restructures (see Subsequent Events)
+Added: and non-material offices leases in Cincinnati, Ohio and Loveland, Colorado.
+Added: Company’s lease agreements obligate the Company
+Added: to pay real estate taxes, insurance, and certain maintenance costs, which are accounted for separately.
+Added: The Company’s lease
+Added: agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
+Added: The Company determines if an
+Added: arrangement is an operating lease at inception.
+Added: Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance
+Added: All other leases are recorded on the balance sheet as right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for the lease term.
+Added: assets and lease liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term
+Added: and include options to extend or terminate the lease when they are reasonably certain to be exercised.
+Added: The present value of lease
+Added: payments is determined primarily using the incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at lease commencement
+Added: The Company’s operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term and is recorded in
+Added: general and administrative expenses.
+Added: The Company terminated its lease in Allen
+Added: Texas with the consent of the landlord.
+Added: The termination agreement including a contingent stock issuance, but the landlord did not
+Added: claim that the contingency conditions were met, and no stock had to be issued.
+Added: The Company also leases certain equipment
+Added: under operating leases.
+Added: Total rent expense for the year ended September
+Added: 30, 2020 was $117,344 for Forta’s the Denver Lease (Greenwood Village –
+Added: the lease ends in May 2021) from June through
+Added: September 30, 2020, and Forta had small spaces in Loveland and Colorado Springs during 2020.
+Added: In 2019, rent expense for Financial
+Added: Gravity was $135,041.
Rent expense is recorded on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.
−Removed: The difference between
−Removed: rental expense and rental payments is recorded as deferred rent within accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance
+Added: The difference between rental
+Added: expense and rental payments is recorded as deferred rent within accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
Management expects that in the normal course of business, leases will be renewed or replaced by other leases.
Minimum future annual rental payments under
−Removed: non-cancelable operating leases having original terms in excess of one year are as follows:
+Added: non-cancelable operating leases having original terms in excess of one year are as follows (however, the Leases have been restructured
+Added: see Subsequent Events):
Legal Proceedings
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Holdings, its subsidiary, there were no preferred shares issued or outstanding as of September 30, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: In the three months ended December 31,
−Removed: 2017, an aggregate of 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock had been sold for $100,000 for which the Company issued
−Removed: warrants for the purchase of 25,000 shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $1.25 per share for a 1 year
−Removed: term and an additional 25,000 shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $1.50 for a 2-year term.
−Removed: The Company follows the provisions
−Removed: of ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”.
−Removed: ASC 815 requires freestanding contracts that are settled in a company’s
−Removed: own stock to be designated as an equity instrument, assets or liability.
−Removed: Under the provisions of ASC 815, a contract designated
−Removed: as an asset, or liability must be initially recorded and carried at fair value until the contract meets the requirements for classification
+Added: The Company follows the provisions of ASC
+Added: 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”.
+Added: ASC 815 requires freestanding contracts that are settled in a company’s own stock
+Added: to be designated as an equity instrument, assets or liability.
+Added: Under the provisions of ASC 815, a contract designated as an asset,
+Added: or liability must be initially recorded and carried at fair value until the contract meets the requirements for classification
as equity, until the contract is exercised or until the contract expires.
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During the years ended September 30, 2020
−Removed: 30, 2019 and 2018, 0 and 100,000 shares were issued, for $0 and $100,000 respectively.
+Added: 382,932 shares were issued for services rendered, 75,757 in a private placement, 116,375 shares in stock option exercises, for
+Added: $75,182 and 5,598,133 shares were issued in 2019 in exchange for debt, for $1,007,664.
+Added: 41,607,315 have been issued in the Forta
+Added: merger to Forta Shareholders.
STOCK OPTION PLAN
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The maximum number of shares of stock that may be issued and exercised under the Plan is 20,000,000
−Removed: Eligible individuals include any employee of the Company or any director, consultant, or other person providing services to the
−Removed: The expiration date and exercise price are as established by the Board of Directors of the Company.
−Removed: The first date any
−Removed: options were granted under the 2016 Plan was December 19, 2016.
+Added: and the maximum term of an award is 10 years.
+Added: Eligible individuals include any employee of the Company or any director, consultant,
+Added: or other person providing services to the Company.
+Added: The expiration date and exercise price are as established by the Board of Directors
+Added: of the Company.
+Added: The first date any options were granted under the 2016 Plan was December 19, 2016.
Stock option activity is summarized as follows:
+Added: Shares under Option
+Added: Value of Shares under Option
+Added: Weighted Average Exercise Price
+Added: Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life
Outstanding - September 30, 2018
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at September 30, 2016 became immediately vested upon the completion of the reverse merger with Pacific Oil Company.
−Removed: stock options granted under the 2016 Plan have 2-year vesting periods but there were 650,000 and 20,000 options that vested at
−Removed: issuance during fiscal 2018 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Total compensation expense included in salaries and wages of previously unamortized
−Removed: stock compensation was $364,814 and $206,484 for the years ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Unamortized share-based
−Removed: compensation expense as of September 30, 2019 amounted to $12,871 which is expected to recognize over the next 1.84 years.
+Added: The stock options
+Added: granted under the 2016 Plan have 2 to 5 -year vesting periods.
+Added: Total compensation expense included in salaries and wages of previously
+Added: unamortized stock compensation was $80,275 and $364,814 for the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: share-based compensation expense as of September 30, 2020 amounted to $187,000 which is expected to recognize over the next 4.81
+Added: Stock appreciation rights representing
+Added: 2.9 million shares included in the table above are recorded as liability with an accrual of $31,793 included in accrued expenses
+Added: at September 30, 2020.
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
−Removed: Accounts receivable due from the largest
−Removed: stockholder of the entity, included in accounts receivable –
−Removed: related party in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets
−Removed: was $0 and $1,791 as of September 30, 2019 and September 30, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Management fees paid to the majority stockholder
−Removed: of the entity, included in salaries and wages in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations were $152,500 and $203,000
−Removed: for fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Included in salaries and wages were consulting
−Removed: fees paid to a related party as a condition to the TMN acquisition.
−Removed: The agreement requires payments each month totaling $21,500.
−Removed: The total paid under this agreement in fiscal 2019 and 2018 respectively, were $258,000 and $403,160.
+Added: Included in compensation expenses for TMN
+Added: were consulting fees paid to a related party as a condition to the TMN acquisition.
+Added: The agreement is with Tax Tuneup, LLC which
+Added: is owned by Ed Lyon, the CEO of TMN.
+Added: Through this arrangement, Tax Tuneup, LLC provides consulting services to TMN, including updating
+Added: of the tax strategies to comply with tax law and rules.
+Added: The payments each month are $17,000.
+Added: The total paid under this agreement
+Added: in fiscal 2020 and 2019 respectively, were $204,000 and $258,000.
On April 12, 2019 the Company entered into
a loan agreement with John Pollock, Executive Vice President of the Company.
−Removed: The note bears interest at 2.76%, and will be repaid
+Added: The note bears interest at 2.76%, and to be repaid
in six equal installments of $2,520, beginning July 1, 2019.
−Removed: The balance of the loan at September 30, 2019 was $7,526.
+Added: The last two payments have been deferred, with the balance still accruing
+Added: The balance of the loan at September 30, 2020 and 2019 was $5,152 and $7,526, respectively.
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
−Removed: September 30, 2019, the Company
−Removed: entered into a merger agreement with Forta Financial Group, Inc.
−Removed: (formerly Presidential Brokerage, Inc.) (“Forta”),
−Removed: to acquire Forta in exchange for Company stock.
−Removed: 45,797,684 shares of Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
−Removed: will be issued in exchange
−Removed: for the stock of Forta.
−Removed: Companies will assume approximately $860,000 of Forta debt and receive approximately $1,220,000 in Forta
−Removed: Subsequent to September 30, 2019, the Company applied to FINRA for approval of the merger.
−Removed: The merger is subject to FINRA
−Removed: approval and will be finalized upon such approval.
+Added: In December 2020, with an effective date
+Added: of August 30, 2020, the Company entered into an agreement with its landlord in Denver to reduce the size of its leased space.
+Added: will result in a reduction of Lease expenses of approximately $100,000 per year through the end of the tenancy.
+Added: The current lease
+Added: runs through 2024.
+Added: On December 23, 2020, the rent for the lease in Loveland was reduced to $2500 per month, resulting is a reduction
+Added: of costs of approximately $4000 per month.
+Added: In December 2020 Company entered into a non-binding term sheet
+Added: for the acquisition of two related companies with investment advisory practices.
+Added: The term sheet contemplates that Company will
+Added: be issuing shares 8,000,000 shares of its common stock in exchange for 100% ownership of the two companies.
+Added: The owners of the two
+Added: companies and some staff will become employees of one of Forta.
+Added: The term sheet provides for a close of the transaction in
+Added: January 2021.
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