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financial statements following the signature page of this report, which are incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: Management’s Discussion
−Removed: and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
+Added: Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion
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those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.
−Removed: We are a company with
−Removed: limited liability incorporated in 2007 under the laws of the Cayman Islands.
−Removed: Headquartered in Beijing, we provide products and
−Removed: services to oil and gas companies and their affiliates through our Domestic Companies.
−Removed: As the company contractually controlling
−Removed: the Domestic Companies, we are the center of strategic management, financial control and human resources allocation.
+Added: company with limited liability incorporated in 2007 under the laws of the Cayman Islands.
+Added: Headquartered in Beijing, we
+Added: provide products and services to oil and gas companies and their affiliates through Nanjing Recon and BHD, our Domestic
+Added: Companies we control through certain contractual arrangement.
+Added: As the company contractually controlling the Domestic Companies, we are
+Added: the center of strategic management, financial control and human resources allocation.
Our business is mainly
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and production of oil and gas, and include automation systems, equipment, tools and on-site technical services.
−Removed: Our VIEs provide the
−Removed: oil and gas industry with equipment, production technologies, automation and services.
+Added: Our Domestic Companies provide the oil and
+Added: gas industry with equipment, production technologies, automation and services.
Nanjing Recon:
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with the major oilfields in China.
+Added: Recent Developments
+Added: During this quarter, we mainly focused on automation projects
+Added: and furnaces sales for China National Petroleum Corporation (“CNPC”) oilfields including Jidong Oilfield, Huabei Oilfield,
+Added: Jilin Oilfield, Qinghai Oilfield and northwest branch of China Petroleum &Chemical Corporation Limited (“SINOPEC”).
+Added: In the last six months, CNPC and SINOPEC, our two largest customers, both reduced their capitalized exploration and production
+Added: expenditure while CNPC’s expenditure reduction is more significant than that of SINOPEC.
+Added: As a result, the number of projects
+Added: we provided to CNPC during this quarter decreased compared to same period last year.
+Added: Since the overall production construction
+Added: process of our clients were delayed, our finished projects also decreased compared to same period last year.
+Added: While we actively
+Added: procure new contracts with existing CNPC oilfields, we will also develop new projects from SINOPEC’s domestic and overseas
+Added: Management expects the volume of finished projects will recover and thus revenue will keep increasing during fiscal
+Added: year ending June 30, 2015.
Products and Services
−Removed: We provide the following three types of
−Removed: integrated products and services for our customers.
+Added: We currently provide products and services
+Added: to oil and gas field companies, which focus on the development and production of oil and natural gas.
+Added: Our products and services
+Added: described below correlate to the numbered stages of the oilfield production system graphical expression shown below.
+Added: Our products and services include:
Equipment for Oil and Gas Production
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High-Efficiency Heating
−Removed: Crude petroleum contains certain impurities that must be removed before it can be sold, including water and natural gas.
−Removed: To remove the impurities and to prevent solidification and blockage in transport pipes, companies employ heating furnaces.
−Removed: researched, developed and implemented a new oilfield furnace that is advanced, highly automated, reliable, easily operable, safe
−Removed: and highly heat-efficient (90% efficiency).
−Removed: an agent for the Unigas Burner, which is designed and manufactured by UNIGAS, a European burning equipment production company.
−Removed: The burner we provide has the following characteristics:
−Removed: high degree of automation, energy conservation, high turn-down ratio,
−Removed: high security and environmental safety.
+Added: Furnaces (as shown above) .
+Added: Crude petroleum contains certain impurities that must be removed before it can be sold, including
+Added: water and natural gas.
+Added: To remove the impurities and to prevent solidification and blockage in transport pipes, companies employ
+Added: heating furnaces.
+Added: BHD researched, developed and implemented a new oilfield furnace that is advanced, highly automated, reliable,
+Added: easily operable, safe and highly heat-efficient (90% efficiency).
+Added: Burner (as shown
+Added: We serve as an agent for the Unigas Burner, which is designed and manufactured by UNIGAS, a European burning equipment
+Added: production company.
+Added: The burner has the following characteristics:
+Added: high degree of automation, energy conservation, high
+Added: turn-down ratio, high security and environmental safety.
Oil and Gas Production Improvement Techniques
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Fissure Shaper.
−Removed: is our proprietary product that is used along with a perforating gun to effectively increase perforation depth by between 46% and
−Removed: 80%, shape stratum fissures, improve stratum diversion capability and, as a result, improve our ability to locate oilfields and
−Removed: increase the output of oil wells.
+Added: This is our proprietary
+Added: product that is used along with a perforating gun to effectively increase perforation depth by between 46% and 80%, shape stratum
+Added: fissures, improve stratum diversion capability and, as a result, improve our ability to locate oilfields and increase the output
+Added: of oil wells.
Fracture Acidizing.
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Pumping Unit Controller.
−Removed: This controller functions as a monitor to the pumping unit and also collects data for load, pressure, voltage, and startup and
−Removed: shutdown control.
+Added: This controller
+Added: functions as a monitor to the pumping unit and also collects data for load, pressure, voltage, and startup and shutdown control.
This monitor collects gas
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It facilitates the electronic control of the connection of the oil lead pipeline with the separator.
−Removed: Natural Gas Flow Computer
−Removed: The flow computer system is used in natural gas stations and gas distribution stations to measure flow.
+Added: Natural Gas Flow Computer System.
+Added: computer system is used in natural gas stations and gas distribution stations to measure flow.
Recon Supervisory
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Management anticipates great opportunities both in new markets and our existing markets.
−Removed: We believe that many existing wells and oilfields need to improve or renew their equipment and service to maintain production and
−Removed: techniques and services like ours will be needed as new oil and gas fields are developed.
−Removed: In the next three years, we will focus
+Added: We also believe that many existing wells and oilfields need to improve or renew their equipment and service to maintain production
+Added: and techniques and services like ours will be needed as new oil and gas fields are developed.
+Added: In the next three years, we will
Measuring Equipment
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strong needs in the short term.
−Removed: In addition, through early cooperation with CNPC in Turkmenistan, we have developed our experience
−Removed: in this market.
−Removed: Although bidding has not yet commenced , we
−Removed: will continue pursuing overseas business projects in the coming second phase construction, which we expect to occur in 2014.
+Added: Through early cooperation with CNPC in Turkmenistan, we have developed our experience in this market.
+Added: Although bidding has not yet commenced, we will continue pursuing overseas business projects in the coming second phase construction.
Gathering and
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With more new wells developed, our management anticipates that demand for our furnaces and burners
−Removed: will grow more compared to last year, especially in the Jilin
−Removed: Oilfield and Zhongyuan oilfield.
−Removed: Fracturing service .
−Removed: We believe we cooperated well with Zhongyuan Oilfield in fiscal year 2013 and expect to continue growing revenue from fracturing
−Removed: and related stimulation services for fiscal year 2014, from Zhongyuan oilfield and also some other oilfields clients.
+Added: will grow more compared to last year, especially in the Jilin Oilfield and Zhongyuan oilfield.
+Added: We believe we cooperated well with Zhongyuan Oilfield on the open-hole fracturing for horizontal wells in
+Added: fiscal years 2013 and 2014.
+Added: In addition, we succeeded in the design and development of our own open-hole horizontal
+Added: well fracturing tool used for exploration of convential resources and unconventional gas.
+Added: As such, we expect to continue
+Added: growing revenue from fracturing and related stimulation services in the coming year.
+Added: New business .
Design and development of down-hole tools has always been an important technique for oilfield companies.
−Removed: this market has developed very rapidly.
−Removed: After a year test project for our customers, we have developed experience with this technology
+Added: Recently, this market
+Added: has developed very rapidly.
+Added: After a year long test project for our customers, we have developed experience with this technology
and our customers have accepted our products and services.
−Removed: We expect revenue from this business in fiscal year 2014.
+Added: We expect revenue from this business in the coming year.
Growth Strategy
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company, it is our basic strategy to focus on developing our onshore oilfield business, that is, the upstream of the industry.
−Removed: Due to the remote location and difficult environments of China’s oil and gas fields, foreign competitors rarely enter
+Added: Due to the remote location and difficult environments of China’s oil and gas fields, foreign competitors rarely enter those
Large domestic oil
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our business and to increase our earning capability.
−Removed: Industry and Recent Developments
+Added: Recent Industry Developments
Despite uncertainty
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believes there are still many factors to support our long-term development:
−Removed: The opening of the
−Removed: Chinese oil industry to participation by non-state owned service providers and vendors played an increasingly important role in
−Removed: the high-end oilfield service segment to allow competition based on efficiency and price.
−Removed: As oil and gas fields are depleted, it
−Removed: becomes more challenging to find and convert reserves into usable energy sources.
−Removed: As the industry has permitted competition by
−Removed: private companies and oil companies have formed separate service companies, high-tech service has gradually opened up to private
−Removed: Overseas assets of
−Removed: Chinese oilfield companies increased gradually, and they will provide more opportunity for domestic service companies to participate
+Added: (1) The opening of
+Added: the Chinese oil industry to participation by non-state owned service providers and vendors played an increasingly important role
+Added: in the high-end oilfield service segment to allow competition based on efficiency and price.
+Added: As oil and gas fields are depleted,
+Added: it becomes more challenging to find and convert reserves into usable energy sources.
+Added: As the industry has permitted competition
+Added: by private companies and oil companies have formed separate service companies, high-tech service has gradually opened up to private
+Added: (2) Speeding up the
+Added: development of unconventional hydrocarbon resources such as shale gas and coal bed methane will bring more requirements of related
+Added: production-increasing technology and services.
+Added: China is rich in unconventional hydrocarbon resources, but new exploration and development
+Added: technology breakthroughs are urgently needed;
+Added: (3) Overseas assets
+Added: of Chinese oilfield companies increased gradually, and they will provide more opportunity for domestic service companies to participate
in foreign projects.
−Removed: Management is focused
−Removed: on these factors and will seek to extend our business on the industrial chain, like providing more integrated services and incremental
−Removed: measures and growing our business from a predominantly up-ground business to include some down-hole services as well.
+Added: Management is focused on these factors
+Added: and will seek to extend our business on the industrial chain, like providing more integrated services and incremental measures
+Added: and growing our business from a predominantly up-ground business to include some down-hole services as well.
Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations
−Removed: Our operating results
−Removed: in any period are subject to general conditions typically affecting the Chinese oilfield service industry including:
+Added: Our operating results in any period are
+Added: subject to general conditions typically affecting the Chinese oilfield service industry including:
the amount of spending by our customers, primarily those in the oil and gas industry;
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Significant accounting estimates reflected in our Company’s
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, and useful lives of property and
+Added: consolidated financial statements include revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, deferred income tax, stock based
+Added: compensation, warrants liability and useful lives of property and equipment.
Consolidation of VIEs
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that affect the customer’s final acceptance of the arrangement.
+Added: The Company sells self-developed software.
+Added: For software sales, the Company recognizes revenues in accordance with the provisions of Accounting Standards Codification, Topic
+Added: 985-605, “Software Revenue Recognition,”
+Added: and related interpretations.
+Added: Revenue from software is recognized according
+Added: to project contracts.
+Added: Contract costs are accumulated during the periods of installation and testing or commissioning.
+Added: is short term.
+Added: Revenue is not recognized until completion of the contracts and receipt of acceptance statements.
The Company provides
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charged to operations.
−Removed: Trade receivables
−Removed: are carried at original invoiced amount less a provision for any potential uncollectible amounts.
−Removed: Provisions are applied to trade
−Removed: receivables where events or changes in circumstances indicate that the balance may not be collectible.
−Removed: The identification of doubtful
−Removed: accounts requires the use of judgment and estimates of management.
−Removed: Our management must make estimates of the collectability of
−Removed: our accounts receivable.
−Removed: Management specifically analyzes accounts receivable, historical bad debts, customer creditworthiness,
−Removed: current economic trends and changes in our customer payment terms when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts.
−Removed: We believe based on the current economic condition and our history of collections on accounts and notes receivable, our allowance
−Removed: for doubtful accounts was adequate at March 31, 2014.
+Added: Long-term investment is measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis at September 30, 2014, since the
+Added: Company recorded an impairment loss during the year ended June 30, 2014.
+Added: The fair value was determined to be zero using Level 2
+Added: Trade receivables are carried at original
+Added: invoiced amount less a provision for any potential uncollectible amounts.
+Added: Provisions are applied to trade receivables where events
+Added: or changes in circumstances indicate that the balance may not be collectible.
+Added: The identification of doubtful accounts requires
+Added: the use of judgment and estimates of management.
+Added: Our management must make estimates of the collectability of our accounts receivable.
+Added: Management specifically analyzes accounts receivable, historical bad debts, customer creditworthiness, current economic trends
+Added: and changes in our customer payment terms when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts.
+Added: We believe based
+Added: on the current economic condition and our history of collections on accounts and notes receivable, our allowance for doubtful accounts
+Added: was adequate at September 30, 2014.
+Added: Deferred Tax Estimates
+Added: As part of the process
+Added: of preparing our consolidated financial statements, we are required to estimate our income taxes in each of the tax jurisdictions
+Added: in which we operate.
+Added: This process involves using an asset and liability approach whereby deferred tax assets and liabilities are
+Added: recorded for differences in the financial reporting bases and tax bases of our assets and liabilities.
+Added: Deferred tax accounting
+Added: requires that we evaluate net deferred tax assets by jurisdiction to determine if these assets will more likely than not be realized.
+Added: This analysis requires considerable judgment and is subject to change to reflect future events and changes in the tax laws.
Valuation of Long-Lived Assets
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There were no impairments at June 30, 2014
−Removed: and March 31, 2014.
+Added: and September 30, 2014.
Share-Based Compensation
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on the award’s fair value.
+Added: Recently enacted accounting pronouncements
+Added: In June 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-12,
+Added: “Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718):
+Added: Accounting for Share-Based Payments When the Terms of an Award Provide That
+Added: a Performance Target Could Be Achieved after the Requisite Service Period,”
+Added: (“ASU 2014-12”).
+Added: ASU 2014-12 requires
+Added: that a performance target that affects vesting and that could be achieved after the requisite service period be treated as a performance
+Added: As such, the performance target should not be reflected in estimating the grant-date fair value of the award.
+Added: the issuance of ASU 2014-12, U.S.
+Added: GAAP did not contain explicit guidance on how to account for those share-based payments.
+Added: reporting entities accounted for performance targets that could be achieved after the requisite service period as performance conditions
+Added: that affect the vesting of the award and, therefore, did not reflect the performance target in the estimate of the grant-date fair
+Added: value of the award.
+Added: Other reporting entities treated those performance targets as non-vesting conditions that affected the grant-date
+Added: fair value of the award.
+Added: We currently treat performance targets that affect vesting as a performance condition and as such, it
+Added: is not included in the grant-date fair value.
+Added: Therefore, the impact upon adoption would not be material to our consolidated financial
+Added: position or results of operations.
+Added: The amendments in ASU 2014-12 are effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those
+Added: years, beginning after December 15, 2015.
+Added: Earlier application is permitted.
+Added: The Company does not expect the adoption of his
+Added: guidance will have a significant impact on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: 2014, The FASB issued ASU 2014-15, “'Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a
+Added: Going Concern”
+Added: (“ASU 2014-15”).
+Added: ASU 2014-15 requires management to perform interim and annual assessments
+Added: of an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date of issuance of the entity’s
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: Further, an entity must provide certain disclosures if "conditions or events raise substantial
+Added: doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern."
+Added: The amendments in ASU 2014-15 are effective for
+Added: annual periods beginning after 15 December 2015, and interim periods thereafter, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: does not expect the adoption of this guidance will have a significant impact on the Company’s unaudited condensed
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Management believes this ASU 2014-15 does not have any significant impact on the
+Added: Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In November 2014, The
+Added: FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No.
+Added: 2014-16, “Determining Whether the Host Contract in a Hybrid Financial Instrument
+Added: Issued in the Form of a Share Is More Akin to Debt or to Equity,”
+Added: in response to the EITF’s final consensus on Issue
+Added: The ASU requires an entity to “determine the nature of the host contract by considering all stated and implied substantive
+Added: terms and features of the hybrid financial instrument, weighing each term and feature on the basis of the relevant facts and circumstances”
+Added: (commonly referred to as the whole-instrument approach).
+Added: The ASU applies to all entities and is effective for annual periods
+Added: beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods thereafter.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently in
+Added: the process of evaluating the impact of this new standard update.
Results of Operations
−Removed: Three Months Ended March 31, 2014 Compared to Three Months
−Removed: Ended March 31, 2013
+Added: The following consolidated results of operations
+Added: include the results of operations of the Company and its variable interest entities (“VIEs”), BHD and Nanjing Recon.
+Added: Our historical reporting results are not
+Added: necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period.
+Added: Three Months Ended September 30, 2014 Compared to Three
+Added: Months Ended September 30, 2013
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Hardware - non-related parties
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Total revenues
−Removed: Our revenues increased by 143%, or approximately ¥10.7 million ($1.7 million), from approximately ¥7.5 million for the
−Removed: three months ended March 31, 2013 to ¥18.2 million ($3 million) for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: The changes in our revenues for
−Removed: the three-month period were due to the following factors:
+Added: total revenues decreased by 62.6%, or approximately ¥7.2 million ($1.2 million), from approximately ¥11.5 million for the
+Added: three months ended September 30, 2013 to ¥4.3 million ($0.7 million) for the same period of 2014.
+Added: The changes in our revenues
+Added: for the three-month period were due to the following factors:
(1) Hardware business.
−Removed: During the three-month ended March 31, 2014, the increase in hardware revenue
−Removed: was mainly caused by higher sales of automation business from the Southwest branch of Sinopec and sales of furnaces to the Jilin
+Added: The decrease in hardware revenue during the three-month ended September 30, 2014 was
+Added: mainly due to lower sales of automation system and furnaces, which are the majority of our hardware sales.
+Added: In the last six months,
+Added: CNPC and SINOPEC, our two largest customers, both reduced their capitalized exploration and production expenditure while CNPC’s
+Added: expenditure reduction is more significant than that of SINOPEC.
+Added: As a result, the number of projects we provided to CNPC during
+Added: this quarter decreased compared to the same period last year.
+Added: In addition, we were not able to finish a number of our projects
+Added: with CNPC subsidiaries as our customers or its general contractors were not able to finish the overall projects which our projects
+Added: are a part of.
+Added: Therefore, finished projects also decreased compared to same period last year.
(2) Hardware –
related parties.
−Removed: Sales of hardware to related parties decreased due to the reclassification of revenue from
−Removed: related party hardware revenue to non-related party hardware revenue.
−Removed: After we achieved business entrance certification in the
−Removed: name of Recon and could cooperate with oilfield customers directly two years ago, we no longer required the services of a related
−Removed: party with such certification and, accordingly, revenue from related-parties decreased.
−Removed: So long as the local agency still purchases
−Removed: automation products from Recon, we will continue to recognize revenue from related parties, but we anticipate that such hardware
−Removed: and software related party revenue is likely to fluctuate from year to year.
+Added: Sales of hardware to
+Added: related parties decreased because we used to sell our products to oilfield customers through our related parties.
+Added: After we obtained
+Added: our own entrance certification, Recon now can sell to oilfield customers directly.
+Added: As a result, sales to related-parties decreased.
(3) Service business.
−Removed: Service revenue
−Removed: for three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon request
−Removed: by customers.
−Removed: (4) Software business.
−Removed: The software sales to non-related parties increased approximately ¥0.2 million
−Removed: We record revenue as software sales if (1) the customer signs a separate software contract with us, or (2) the customer
−Removed: accepts VAT invoices for software.
−Removed: The amount of our revenues categorized as software sales may fluctuate because certain software
−Removed: may be sold with hardware at times as a whole product and not separately priced.
+Added: Service revenue for three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2014 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon request by customers.
+Added: (4) Software business non-related parties.
+Added: The software sales to non-related parties decreased
+Added: approximately ¥0.7 million ($0.1
+Added: The amount of our revenues categorized as software sales may fluctuate because certain
+Added: software may be sold with hardware at times as a whole product and not separately priced.
(5) Software business –
related parties.
−Removed: the quarter ended March 31, 2014, we recorded software revenue of ¥59,400 ($9,640) to a related party.
−Removed: As mentioned above,
−Removed: we used to develop our Ji Dong oilfield business through a local agent that is a related party.
−Removed: Since we achieved business entrance
−Removed: certification by ourselves and could thus directly compete for projects, revenue through this related party decreased overall.
−Removed: So Software revenue from related party also decreased during this period.
+Added: During the quarter ended September 30, 2013, we
+Added: recorded software revenue of ¥0.3 million to a related party.
+Added: We used to develop our Ji Dong oilfield business through a
+Added: local agent that is a related party.
+Added: Since we achieved business entrance certification by ourselves and could thus directly
+Added: bid for projects, revenue through this related party decreased overall and decreased to zero during this period.
Cost and Margin
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Total revenues
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Our cost of revenues includes raw materials and costs related to design, implementation, delivery and maintenance of products and
−Removed: All materials and components we need can be purchased or manufactured by subcontracts.
+Added: All materials and components we need can be purchased or manufactured by subcontractors.
Usually the prices of electronic
components do not fluctuate dramatically due to market competition and will not significantly affect our cost of revenues.
−Removed: specialized equipment and incentive chemical products may
−Removed: be directly influenced by metal and oil price fluctuations.
−Removed: Additionally, the prices of some imported accessories mandated by our
−Removed: customers can also impact our cost.
+Added: specialized equipment and incentive chemical products may be directly influenced by metal and oil price fluctuations.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: the prices of some imported accessories mandated by our customers can also impact our cost.
Our cost of revenues
−Removed: increased from approximately ¥3.3 million in the three months ended March 31, 2013 to approximately ¥13.0 million ($2.1
−Removed: million) for the same period of 2014, an increase of approximately ¥9.6 million ($1.6 million), or 288.1%.
−Removed: This increase was
−Removed: mainly caused by higher revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2014 compared to the same period of 2013.
+Added: decreased from approximately ¥6.2 million in the three months ended September 30, 2013 to approximately ¥3.7 million ($0.6
+Added: million) for the same period of 2014, a decrease of approximately ¥2.5 million ($0.4 million), or 40.7%.
+Added: This decrease was
+Added: mainly caused by lower revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2014 compared to the same period of 2013.
As a percentage
−Removed: of revenues, our cost of revenues increased from 44.6% in 2013 to 71.2% in 2014, largely due to increased hardware sales, which
−Removed: feature higher cost of revenues, than service or software revenues.
+Added: of revenues, our cost of revenues increased from 54.0% in 2013 to 85.7% in 2014, largely due to decreased hardware sales.
Gross profit .
−Removed: Our gross profit increased to approximately ¥5.2 million ($0.9 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2014 from approximately
−Removed: ¥4.2 million for the same period in 2013.
−Removed: Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue decreased to 28.8% for the three months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2014 from 55.4% for the same period in 2013.
−Removed: This was mainly due to increased hardware revenue with lower gross
−Removed: profit margins during the three months ended March 31, 2014 as compared to the same period last year where we had higher software
−Removed: revenue with higher gross margins during the three months ended March 31, 2013.
+Added: Our gross profit decreased to approximately ¥0.6 million ($0.1 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2014 from
+Added: approximately ¥5.3 million for the same period in 2013.
+Added: Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue decreased to 14.3% for
+Added: the three months ended September 30, 2014 from 46.0% for the same period in 2013.
+Added: This was mainly due to decreased hardware revenue
+Added: during the three months ended September 30, 2014 as compared to the same period last year when we had higher software revenue with
+Added: higher gross margins during the three months ended September 30, 2013.
In more detail:
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Total revenues-hardware and software- non related parties
Cost of revenues -hardware and software- non related parties
−Removed: The revenue increase from hardware and
−Removed: software to non-related parties of ¥13.8 million was mainly due to the increase from the furnaces sales and automation business
−Removed: in the three months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: The gross profit from the hardware and software sales to non-related parties increased
+Added: The revenue decrease from
+Added: hardware and software to non-related parties of ¥6.9 million from 2013 to 2014 was mainly due to the decrease from the
+Added: furnaces sales and automation business in the three months ended September 30, 2014.
+Added: The gross profit from the hardware and
+Added: software sales to non-related parties decreased ¥
4.4million ($0.7 million) compared to the same period of last year.
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Total revenues-hardware and software - related parties
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While gross profit decreased was mainly because revenue decreased as we developed business
−Removed: directly with oilfield, rather than cooperation with some parties.
+Added: directly with oilfield, rather than cooperation with related parties.
+Added: There was no activity with our related parties during the
+Added: quarter ended September 30, 2014.
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Total revenues-service
Cost of revenues -service
−Removed: revenue for three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon
−Removed: request by customers.
−Removed: There was no fracturing project completed for this period, so no revenue from fracturing service was recorded.
+Added: revenue for three months ended September 30, 2014 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon request
+Added: by customers.
Operating Expenses
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Selling and distribution expenses
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facilities and depreciation expenses.
−Removed: Selling expenses decreased
−Removed: by 38.7%, from approximately ¥1.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 to approximately ¥1.1 million ($0.2
+Added: Selling expenses decreased by 48.2%, from approximately ¥1.4 million for the three months
+Added: ended September 30, 2013 to approximately ¥0.7 million ($0.1 million) for the same period of 2014.
+Added: This decrease was primarily
+Added: from decreased service fee, shipping fee, traveling expenses, heating fee and rent expenses.
+Added: Selling expenses were 11.8% of total
+Added: revenues in the three months ended September 30, 2013 and 16.3% of total revenues in the same period of 2014.
+Added: and administrative expenses .
+Added: General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in human resources, facilities
+Added: costs, depreciation expenses, professional advisor fees, audit fees, option expenses stock based comprehensive expense and other
+Added: expenses incurred in connection with general operations.
+Added: General and administrative expenses increased by 35.1%, or ¥1.0
+Added: million ($0.2 million), from approximately ¥2.7 million in the three months
+Added: ended September 30, 2013 to approximately ¥3.7 million ($0.6 million) in the same
+Added: period of 2014.
+Added: General and administrative expenses were 23.8% of total revenues in 2013 and 86.0% of total revenues in 2014.
+Added: increase in general and administrative expenses was mainly due to increase in consulting fee, salaries, share-based compensation
+Added: and traveling expenses.
+Added: and development (“R&D”) expenses .
+Added: Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and
+Added: related expenditures of our research and development projects.
+Added: Research and development expenses decreased by 5.2%,
+Added: from approximately ¥0.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2013 to approximately ¥0.6 million ($0.1
million) for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: This decrease was primarily from decreased traveling expenses, bidding fees, salaries and
−Removed: maintenance expenses.
−Removed: Selling expenses were 23.9% of total revenues in the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 6% of total revenues
−Removed: in the same period of 2014.
−Removed: General and administrative
−Removed: General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in human resources, facilities costs, depreciation
−Removed: expenses, professional advisor fees, audit fees, option expenses stock based comprehensive expense and other misc.
−Removed: expenses incurred
−Removed: in connection with general operations.
−Removed: General and administrative expenses were flat at ¥4.0 million ($0.6 million) for the
−Removed: three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2014.
−Removed: Research and development
−Removed: (“R&D”) expenses .
−Removed: Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenditures
−Removed: of our research and development projects.
−Removed: Research and development expenses increased by 30.5%, from approximately ¥0.6 million
−Removed: for the three months ended March 31, 2013 to approximately ¥0.7 million ($0.1 million) for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: This increase
−Removed: was primarily due to higher input of materials and equipment of R&D on our furnace services.
+Added: This decrease was primarily due to reduced spending on materials and equipment
+Added: for R&D on our furnace, because we didn’t have new improvement project of our furnace.
For the Three Months Ended
−Removed: Loss from operations
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Income (loss) from operations
Interest and other income (expense)
−Removed: Loss before income tax
−Removed: Provision (benefit) for income tax
+Added: Income (loss) before income tax
+Added: Provision for income tax
+Added: Net income (loss)
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders
−Removed: Loss from operations .
−Removed: Loss from operations was approximately ¥0.6 million ($0.1 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2014, compared to loss
−Removed: of ¥2.2 million for the same period of 2013.
−Removed: This decrease in loss from operations can be attributed primarily to the increased
−Removed: revenue, gross margins and decreases in research and development expenses.
+Added: Net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders
+Added: Income (loss) from
+Added: Loss from operations was approximately ¥4.4 million ($0.7 million) for the three months ended September 30,
+Added: 2014, compared to income of ¥0.5 million for the same period of 2013.
+Added: This decrease in income from operations can be attributed
+Added: primarily to the decreased revenue and gross margins and increases in general and administrative expenses.
Interest and other
income (expense).
−Removed: Interest and other expense was approximately ¥1.1 million ($0.2 million) for the three months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2014, compared to interest and other income of ¥0.8 million for the same period of 2013.
+Added: Interest and other income was approximately ¥0.3 million ($0.05 million) for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2014, compared to interest and other expense of ¥0.1 million for the same period of 2013.
The ¥0.4 million ($0.07 million)
−Removed: decrease in interest and other income was primarily due to changes in the fair value of warrant liability ,,
−Removed: a decrease in subsidy income and an increase in loss from investment, offset by a decrease in interest expense.
−Removed: Investment loss.
−Removed: The Company held approximately 24.4% interest of Avalon
−Removed: at March 31, 2014.
−Removed: Since Avalon’s operating results for three months ended March 31, 2014 will not be available as of the
−Removed: filing date, the Company used Avalon’s last quarter’s operating results as the best estimate for the three months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2014, which was a loss of approximately ¥0.1 million ($22,000).
−Removed: Provision (benefit)
+Added: increase in interest and other income was primarily due to changes in the fair value of warrant liability and a decrease in loss
+Added: from investment, offset by a decrease in subsidy income, interest income, gain from foreign currency exchange and an increase in
+Added: interest expense.
for income tax .
−Removed: Benefit for income tax for the three months ended March 31, 2013 was approximately ¥0.2 million and provision
−Removed: for income tax was ¥0.2 million ($24,000) for the three months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: This increase of provision for income
−Removed: tax was mainly due to the pre-consolidation income from operations in subsidiaries in China on which we must pay income tax notwithstanding
−Removed: consolidated losses from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: a result of the factors described above, net loss was approximately ¥1.8 million ($0.3 million) for the three months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2014, an increase of approximately ¥0.6 million ($0.1 million) from net loss of ¥1.2 million for the same period
−Removed: Net loss attributable
−Removed: to ordinary shareholders .
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above, net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders was approximately
−Removed: ¥1.9 million ($0.3 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2014, an increase of approximately ¥0.7 million ($0.1
−Removed: million) from net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders of ¥1.2 million for same period of 2013.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended March 31, 2014 Compared to Nine Months
−Removed: Ended March 31, 2013
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Hardware -non-related parties
−Removed: Hardware - related parties
−Removed: (20,089,868 )
−Removed: Software –
−Removed: non-related parties
−Removed: Software - related parties
−Removed: Total revenues
−Removed: revenues increased by 21.5%, or approximately ¥13.5 million ($2.2 million), from ¥62.5 million for the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2013 to ¥76.0 million ($12.3 million) for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: The changes in our revenues for the nine-month
−Removed: period were due to the following factors:
−Removed: (1) Hardware business.
−Removed: During the nine-month ended March 31, 2014, the increase in hardware revenue
−Removed: was mainly due to higher sales of furnaces and automation products .
−Removed: (2) Hardware –
−Removed: related parties.
−Removed: Sales of hardware from related parties decreased because we used
−Removed: to develop business on Ji Dong oilfield through some local agent companies.
−Removed: After we achieved business entrance certification in
−Removed: the name of Recon and could cooperate with oilfield customers directly two years ago, revenue from related-parties decreased, while
−Removed: the local agency might still purchase automation products from Recon, there would be always revenue from related parties and the
−Removed: revenue of both hardware and software from related parties might fluctuate from year to year.
−Removed: (3) Service business.
−Removed: Service revenue for nine months ended March 31, 2014 consisted mainly of minor
−Removed: maintenance services, which were provided upon request by customers.
−Removed: Our fracturing business is still proceeding, and we also obtained
−Removed: new contracts of this business.
−Removed: In addition, we successfully achieved access certification of other oilfield branches, which means
−Removed: we can provide our fracturing services to a broader customer base.
−Removed: The ¥20.6 million
−Removed: service revenue in the nine months ended March 31, 2013 was mainly due to several fracturing service contracts signed
−Removed: with Sinopec Zhongyuan oilfield.
−Removed: (4) Software business.
−Removed: The software sales increased approximately ¥0.5 million ($0.1 million).
−Removed: We record revenue as software sales if (1) the customer signs a separate software contract with us, or (2) the customer accepts
−Removed: VAT invoices for software.
−Removed: The amount of our revenues categorized as software sales may fluctuate because certain software may
−Removed: be sold with hardware at times as a whole product and not separately priced
−Removed: (5) Software business –
−Removed: related parties.
−Removed: In the nine months ended March 31, 2014, we recorded
−Removed: software revenue of ¥1.4 million ($0.2 million) to a related party, a decrease of ¥2.3 million ($0.4 million) from the
−Removed: same period of last year.
−Removed: Cost and Margin
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues
−Removed: Cost of revenues
−Removed: Cost of revenues .
−Removed: Our cost of revenues includes raw materials and costs related to design, implementation, delivery and maintenance of products and
−Removed: All materials and components we need can be purchased or manufactured by subcontracts.
−Removed: Usually the prices of electronic
−Removed: components do not fluctuate dramatically due to market competition and will not significantly affect our cost of revenues.
−Removed: specialized equipment and incentive chemical products may be directly influenced by metal and oil price fluctuations.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: the prices of some imported accessories mandated by our customers can also impact our cost.
−Removed: Our cost of revenues
−Removed: increased from approximately ¥41.9 million in the nine months ended March 31, 2013 to approximately ¥49.0 million ($7.9
−Removed: million) for the same period of 2014, an increase of approximately ¥7.0 million ($1.1 million), or 16.8%.
−Removed: As a percentage of
−Removed: revenues, our cost of revenues decreased from 67.0% in 2013 to 64.4% in 2014.
−Removed: This decrease was mainly caused by lower service
−Removed: Gross profit .
−Removed: Our gross profit increased to approximately ¥27.1 million ($4.4 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2014 from approximately
−Removed: ¥20.6 million for the same period in 2013.
−Removed: Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased to 35.6% for the nine months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2014 from 33.0% for the same period in 2013.
−Removed: This was mainly because fracturing services, which feature lower margins,
−Removed: accounted for a major part of our revenue during the nine months ended March 31, 2013.
−Removed: As to our automation business and furnaces
−Removed: business, our margins were both improved because our products and services were well received by our clients, especially our newly
−Removed: developed clients.
−Removed: In more detail :
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues-hardware and software- non-related parties
−Removed: Cost of revenues -hardware and software- non-related parties
−Removed: Revenue from hardware and software to non-related
−Removed: parties increased ¥37.4 million was mainly due to the hardware revenue increase from the furnaces sales and automation products
−Removed: in the nine months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: The gross profit from the hardware and software sales to non-related parties increased
−Removed: ¥12.0 million ($2.0 million) compared to the same period of last year.
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues - hardware and software - related parties
−Removed: Cost of revenues - hardware and software - related parties
−Removed: Cost of revenue from hardware and software-related
−Removed: parties decreased as revenue decreased.
−Removed: While gross margin increased was mainly because software business with higher margin accounted
−Removed: for a larger percentage this period.
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues - service
−Removed: (20,089,868 )
−Removed: Cost of revenues -service
−Removed: (15,666,127 )
−Removed: ¥20.6 million service revenue for the nine months ended March 31, 2013 was mainly due to several fracturing service contracts
−Removed: signed with Sinopec Zhongyuan oilfield.
−Removed: We generated 23.5% gross profit margin from these service contracts.
−Removed: Operating Expenses
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Selling and distribution expenses
−Removed: General and administrative expenses
−Removed: Research and development expenses
−Removed: Operating expenses
−Removed: Selling and distribution
−Removed: Selling and distribution expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenditures of our sales and marketing
−Removed: organization, sales commissions, costs of our marketing programs including advertising and trade shows, and an allocation of our
−Removed: facilities and depreciation expenses.
−Removed: Selling expenses were flat at ¥4.7 million ($0.8 million) for nine months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2013 and 2014.
−Removed: Selling expenses were 7.5% of total revenues in the nine months ended March 31, 2013 and 6.2% of total revenues
−Removed: in the same period of 2014.
−Removed: General and administrative
−Removed: General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in human resources, facilities costs, depreciation
−Removed: expenses, professional advisor fees, audit fees, option expenses and other expenses incurred in connection with general operations.
−Removed: General and administrative expenses increased by 23.6%, or ¥2.0 million ($0.3 million), from approximately ¥8.5 million
−Removed: in the nine months ended March 31, 2013 to approximately ¥10.5 million ($1.7 million) in the same period of 2014.
−Removed: administrative expenses were 13.5% of total revenues in 2013 and 13.7% of total revenues in 2014.
−Removed: The increase in general and administrative
−Removed: expenses was mainly due to an increase in consulting fees related to IR services, salary, an increase in the allowance for doubtful
−Removed: accounts, share-based compensation and traveling expenses.
−Removed: Research and development
−Removed: (“R&D”) expenses .
−Removed: Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenditures
−Removed: of our research and development projects.
−Removed: Research and development expenses decreased by 35.2%, from approximately ¥6.3 million
−Removed: for the nine months ended March 31, 2013 to approximately ¥4.1 million ($0.7 million) for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: This decrease
−Removed: was primarily due to the lower investment of R&D materials and equipment into our furnaces and fracturing services in 2014.
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Income from operations
−Removed: Interest and other income (expense)
−Removed: Income before income taxes
−Removed: Provision for income taxes
−Removed: Net income attributable to non-controlling interest
−Removed: Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders
−Removed: Income from operations .
−Removed: Income from operations was approximately ¥7.8 million ($1.3 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2014, compared to
−Removed: income of ¥1.2 million for the same period of 2013.
−Removed: This increase in income from operations can be attributed primarily to
−Removed: the increased revenue, gross margins and decreases in research and development expenses.
−Removed: Investment loss.
−Removed: Investment loss was ¥0.9 million ($0.1 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: The Company held approximately
−Removed: 24.4% interest of Avalon at March 31, 2014.
−Removed: Since Avalon’s operating results for three months ended March 31, 2014 is not
−Removed: available as of the filing date, the Company used Avalon’s last quarter’s operating results as the best estimate for
−Removed: Interest and other
−Removed: income (expense).
−Removed: Interest and other expense was approximately ¥1.2 million ($0.2 million) for the nine months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2014, compared to interest and other income of ¥1.4 million for the same period of 2013.
−Removed: The ¥2.6 million ($0.4 million)
−Removed: decrease in interest and other income was primarily due to change in fair value of warrant liability ,
−Removed: increase in loss from investment and decrease in interest income and foreign currency exchange gain, increase in loss from investment
−Removed: and offset by increase in subsidy income and decrease in interest expense.
−Removed: Provision for income
−Removed: Provision for income tax for the nine months ended March 31, 2013 was approximately ¥0.3 million and ¥1.6 million
−Removed: ($0.3 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: This increase of provision for income tax was mainly due to the income
−Removed: from operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above, net income was approximately ¥5.0 million ($0.8 million) for the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2014, an increase of approximately ¥2.7 million ($0.4 million) from net income of ¥2.3 million for the same period
−Removed: Net income attributable
−Removed: to ordinary shareholders .
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above, net income attributable to ordinary shareholders was
−Removed: approximately ¥3.9 million ($0.6 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2014, an increase of approximately ¥2.2
−Removed: million ($0.4 million) from net income attributable to ordinary shareholders of ¥1.7 million for same period of 2013.
−Removed: Adjusted EBITDA
+Added: Provision for income tax for the three months ended September 30, 2013 was approximately ¥0.2 million
+Added: and ¥30,000 ($5,000) for the three months ended September 30, 2014 because we had a loss for the period ended September
+Added: This decrease of provision for income tax was mainly due to the pre-consolidation income from our
+Added: subsidiaries in China where we must pay income tax decreased for the three months ended September 30, 2014.
+Added: Net income (loss) .
+Added: As a result of the factors described above, net loss was approximately ¥4.2 million ($0.7 million) for the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2014, a decrease of approximately ¥4.4 million ($0.7 million) from net income of ¥0.2 million for the same
+Added: period of 2013.
+Added: Net income (loss)
+Added: attributable to ordinary shareholders .
+Added: As a result of the factors described above, net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders
+Added: was approximately ¥4.2 million ($0.7 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2014, a decrease of approximately ¥4.2
+Added: million ($0.7 million) from net income attributable to ordinary shareholders of approximately ¥46,000 for same period of 2013.
+Added: Adjusted EBITDA (Non GAAP)
Adjusted EBITDA.
−Removed: We define adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) adjusted for income tax expense, interest expense, loss from investment, non-cash
−Removed: stock compensation expense, depreciation and amortization.
−Removed: We think it is useful to an equity investor in evaluating our operating
−Removed: performance because:
−Removed: (1) it is widely used by investors in our industry to measure a company’s operating performance without
−Removed: regard to items such as interest expense, depreciation and amortization, which can vary substantially from company to company
−Removed: depending upon accounting methods and book value of assets, capital structure and the method by which the assets were acquired;
−Removed: and (2) it helps investors more meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing
−Removed: the impact of our capital structure and asset base from our operating results.
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA
−Removed: to Net Income
+Added: define adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) adjusted for income tax expense, interest expense, loss from investment, non-cash stock
+Added: compensation expense, depreciation and amortization.
+Added: We think it is useful to an equity investor in evaluating our operating performance
+Added: (1) it is widely used by investors in our industry to measure a company’s operating performance without regard to
+Added: items such as interest expense, depreciation and amortization, which can vary substantially from company to company depending upon
+Added: accounting methods and book value of assets, capital structure and the method by which the assets were acquired;
+Added: and (2) it helps
+Added: investors more meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the impact of
+Added: our capital structure and asset base from our operating results.
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income (loss)
+Added: Net income (loss)
Provision for income taxes
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Adjusted EBITDA
−Removed: Adjusted EBITDA improved
−Removed: by approximately ¥6.1 million ($1.0 million) to approximately ¥11.7 million ($1.9 million) for the nine months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2014 compared to approximately ¥
−Removed: 5.6 million income for
−Removed: the same period in 2013.
−Removed: This was due to improved operations.
−Removed: Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted
−Removed: Earnings (Loss) Per Share
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Reconciliation of Net Income attributable to ordinary shareholders
−Removed: to Adjusted Net Income attributable to ordinary shareholders
−Removed: Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders
−Removed: Special items (A) :
+Added: Adjusted EBITDA decreased
+Added: by approximately ¥3.7 million ($0.6 million) to approximately loss of ¥2.3 million ($0.4 million) for the three months
+Added: ended September 30, 2014 compared to approximately income of ¥1.5 million for the same period in 2013.
+Added: This decrease
+Added: was due to decreased revenue and increased professional service consulting expense.
+Added: Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Reconciliation of Net Income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd to
+Added: Adjusted Net Income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: Net income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: Noncash items (A) :
Change in fair value of warrants liability
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Stock compensation expense
−Removed: Adjusted net income attributable to ordinary shareholders
+Added: Adjusted net income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
Reconciliation of U.S.
−Removed: GAAP Earnings Per Share
−Removed: GAAP Adjusted Earnings Per Share
−Removed: GAAP earnings per share
+Added: GAAP Earnings (Loss) Per Share to Non U.S.
+Added: GAAP Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share
+Added: GAAP earnings (loss) per share
Impact of special items on earnings per share
−Removed: GAAP adjusted earnings per share
+Added: GAAP adjusted earnings (loss) per share
Weighted - average shares -diluted
−Removed: (A) Special items are certain non-cash expenses that are
−Removed: included in our U.S.
+Added: (A) Noncash items are certain expenses that are included in
GAAP reported results.
−Removed: There was no income tax benefit associated with the special items.
−Removed: The non-GAAP financial
−Removed: measures are provided to enhance investors' overall understanding of Recon's current financial performance.
+Added: There was no income tax benefit associated with the noncash items.
+Added: The non-GAAP financial measures
+Added: are provided to enhance investors' overall understanding of Recon's current financial performance.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
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Cash and cash equivalents are comprised of cash on hand, demand deposits and highly liquid short-term debt investments with stated
−Removed: maturities of no more than six months.
−Removed: As of March 31 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately ¥8.9
−Removed: million ($1.4 million).
+Added: maturities of no more than three months.
+Added: As of September 30 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately
+Added: ¥6.0 million ($1.0 million).
Indebtedness .
−Removed: As of March 31, 2014, except for approximately
−Removed: ¥0.2 million ($32,000) of short-term borrowings from related parties, and ¥15.63 million ($2.5 million) in commercial loans
−Removed: from local banks, we did not have any finance leases or purchase commitments, guarantees or other material contingent liabilities.
+Added: As of September 30, 2014, except for approximately ¥5.2 million ($0.8 million) of short-term borrowings from related parties,
+Added: and ¥8.0 million ($1.3 million) in commercial loans from local banks, we did not have any finance leases or purchase commitments,
+Added: guarantees or other material contingent liabilities.
Holding Company
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To date we have financed our operations primarily through cash flows from operations, bank loans, short-term borrowings and stock
−Removed: As of March 31, 2014, we had total assets of approximately ¥156.6 million ($25.4 million), which includes cash of
−Removed: approximately ¥8.9 million ($1.4 million), net accounts receivable from third parties of approximately ¥55.8 million ($9.1
+Added: As of September 30, 2014, we had total assets of approximately ¥145.6 million ($23.7 million), which includes cash
+Added: of approximately ¥6.0 million ($1.0 million), net accounts receivable from third parties of approximately ¥38.4 million
($6.2 million), and net accounts receivable from related parties of approximately ¥7.9 million ($1.3 million).
−Removed: Working capital amounted
−Removed: to approximately ¥94.9 million ($15.4 million), and shareholders’
−Removed: equity amounted to approximately ¥102.9 million
−Removed: ($16.7 million).
+Added: Working capital
+Added: amounted to approximately ¥81.2 million ($13.2 million), and shareholders’
+Added: equity amounted to approximately ¥100.8
+Added: million ($16.4 million).
Cash from Operating
−Removed: Net cash used in operating activities was approximately ¥15.3 million ($2.5 million) for the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2014.
−Removed: This was a decrease of approximately ¥32.6 million ($5.3 million) compared to net cash provided by operating
−Removed: activities of approximately ¥17.3 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2013.
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities was approximately ¥10.0 million ($1.6 million) for the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2014.
+Added: This was an increase of approximately ¥2.0 million ($0.3 million) compared to net cash used in operating
+Added: activities of approximately ¥8.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2013.
In more detail:
Net cash used in operating
−Removed: activities totaled approximately ¥15.3 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2014, are primarily attributable to net
−Removed: income adjusted to reconcile to net cash provided by operating activities of ¥5.0 million, which primarily included an adjustment
−Removed: for a $0.9 million change in fair value of warrant liability ,
−Removed: a ¥0.5 million of depreciation, a ¥0.7 million of provision for doubtful accounts, a ¥1.7 million of share based compensation,
−Removed: a ¥0.4 million of restricted shares issued to consulting
−Removed: firm and a ¥0.9 million of loss from investment.
−Removed: Net cash used in changes in operating assets and liabilities resulted in a
−Removed: net cash use of ¥25.2 million, which mainly due to a ¥12.3 million change in accounts receivable, notes receivable and
−Removed: other receivable, a ¥8.8 million change in inventory, a ¥5.3 million change in purchase advance, a ¥1.0 million change
−Removed: in other payable, a ¥1.6 million change in accrued payroll and employees’
−Removed: welfare, offset by a ¥2.2 million change
−Removed: in accounts payable, a ¥1.2 million change in taxes payable and a ¥0.9 million change in deferred income.
−Removed: used in operating activities were primarily for purchase of inventories for projects in the upcoming quarters.
−Removed: In addition, accounts
−Removed: receivable increased due to our operating seasonality.
−Removed: Most of our projects were finished by end of calendar year, and we believe
−Removed: these receivables will be recovered based on contractual payment schedules.
+Added: activities are primarily attributable to net loss adjusted to reconcile to net cash used in operating activities of ¥1.5 million,
+Added: which primarily included a ¥1.2 million of restricted shares issued to consulting firm,, a ¥0.6 million of share based
+Added: compensation, an adjustment for a $0.3 million change in fair value of warrant liability, a ¥0.1 million of depreciation and
+Added: a ¥0.07 million of recovery for doubtful accounts.
+Added: Net cash used in changes in operating assets and liabilities resulted in
+Added: a net cash use of ¥7.7 million, which mainly due to a ¥2.9 million change in inventory, a ¥2.4 million change in other
+Added: receivable, a ¥2.8 million change in purchase advance, a ¥1.5 million change in prepaid expense, a ¥1.8 million change
+Added: in trade payable and other payable, a ¥0.8 million change in taxes payable and ¥0.5 million change in advances from customers,
+Added: offset by a ¥5.6 million change in accounts receivable.
+Added: Our net cash used in operating activities were primarily for purchase
+Added: of inventories for projects in the upcoming quarters and short-term funding support to some of our suppliers.
Cash from Investing
−Removed: Net cash used in investing activities was approximately ¥0.2 million ($26,000) for the nine months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2014, a decrease of ¥0.3 million ($58,000) from ¥0.5 million for the same period of 2013.
−Removed: The decrease was due to a
−Removed: decrease in the purchase of property and equipment.
+Added: Net cash used in investing activities was approximately ¥96,000 ($16,000) for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2014, an increase of ¥89,000 ($15,000) from ¥7,000 for the same period of 2013.
+Added: The increase was due to a increase
+Added: in the purchase of property and equipment.
Cash from Financing
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing activities amounted to approximately ¥11.9 million ($1.9 million) for the nine
−Removed: months ended March 31, 2014, compared to cash flows used in financing activities of approximately ¥14.1 million for the same
−Removed: period in 2013.
−Removed: During the nine-month period ended March 31, 2014, we received net proceeds of ¥12.1 million ($2.0 million)
−Removed: from a common stock sale of 546,500 shares with institutional investors in November 2013.
−Removed: In addition, we repaid ¥12.87 million
−Removed: ($2.1 million) in short term borrowings to related parties and received ¥18.5 million ($3.0 million) of net loan proceeds from
−Removed: a commercial bank, which was guaranteed by one of our shareholders.
+Added: Net cash used in financing activities amounted to ¥2.0 million ($0.3 million) for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2014, compared to cash flows provided by financing activities of approximately ¥2.3 million for the same period in 2013.
+Added: During the three-month period ended September 30, 2014, we repaid ¥2.0 million ($0.3 million) in short term bank loans.
Working Capital .
−Removed: Total working capital as of March 31, 2014 amounted to approximately ¥94.9 million ($15.4 million), compared to approximately
+Added: Total working capital as of September 30, 2014 amounted to approximately ¥81.2 million ($13.2 million), compared to approximately
¥83.1 million as of June 30, 2014.
−Removed: Total current assets as of March 31, 2014 amounted to approximately ¥148.6 million ($24.1
−Removed: million), an increase of approximately ¥19.9 million ($3.2 million) compared to approximately ¥128.7 million at June 30,
−Removed: The increase in total current assets at March 31, 2014 compared to June 30, 2013 was mainly due to an increase in trade accounts
−Removed: receivable, inventory and purchase advances.
+Added: Total current assets as of September 30, 2014 amounted to approximately ¥126.0 million
+Added: ($20.5 million), a decrease of approximately ¥7.4 million ($1.2 million) compared to approximately ¥133.4 million at June
+Added: The decrease in total current assets at September 30, 2014 compared to June 30, 2014 was mainly due to a decrease in
+Added: cash and cash equivalents, and trade accounts receivable.
Current liabilities
−Removed: amounted to approximately ¥53.7 million ($8.7 million) at March 31, 2014, in comparison to approximately ¥46.7 million
+Added: amounted to approximately ¥44.8 million ($7.3 million) at September 30, 2014, in comparison to approximately ¥50.3 million
at June 30, 2014.
−Removed: This increase of liabilities was attributable mainly to an increase in short-term bank loans, trade accounts
−Removed: payable, taxes payable and warrant liability.
−Removed: Quantitative and Qualitative
−Removed: Disclosures about Market Risk.
+Added: This decrease of liabilities was attributable mainly to a decrease in short-term bank loans, trade accounts payable,
+Added: taxes payable and warrant liability.
+Added: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market
Not applicable.
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