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financial statements following the signature page of this report, which are incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
−Removed: and Results of Operations.
−Removed: The following
−Removed: discussion and analysis of our company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with
−Removed: our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this report.
−Removed: This discussion
−Removed: contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: Actual results and the timing of selected events could
−Removed: differ materially from 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 Nanjing Recon Technology Co.
−Removed: Ltd (“Nanjing Recon”) and
−Removed: Beijing BHD Petroleum Technology Co, Ltd (“BHD”), our Domestic Companies.
−Removed: As the Company contractually is controlling
−Removed: the Domestic Companies, we are the center of strategic management, financial control and human resources allocation.
−Removed: Nanjing Recon and
−Removed: BHD, our business is mainly focused on the upstream sectors of the oil and gas industry.
−Removed: We derive our revenues from the sales
−Removed: and provision of (1) hardware products, (2) software products, and (3) services.
−Removed: Our products and services involve most of the
−Removed: key procedures of the extraction and production of oil and gas, and include automation systems, equipment, tools and on-site technical
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
+Added: Condition and Results of Operations.
+Added: The following discussion
+Added: and analysis of our company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our unaudited
+Added: condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this report.
+Added: This discussion contains forward-looking
+Added: statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
+Added: Actual results and the timing of selected events could differ materially from
+Added: those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.
+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 Technology Co.
+Added: (“Nanjing Recon”) and Beijing BHD Petroleum Technology Co, Ltd (“BHD”), our Domestic Companies.
+Added: the Company contractually is controlling the Domestic Companies, we serve as the center of strategic management, financial
+Added: control and human resources allocation for the Domestic Companies.
+Added: Through Nanjing
+Added: Recon and BHD, our business is mainly focused on the upstream sectors of the oil and gas industry.
+Added: We derive our revenues
+Added: from the sales and provision of (1) hardware products, (2) software products, and (3) services.
+Added: Our products and services
+Added: involve most of the key procedures of the extraction and production of oil and gas, and include automation systems,
+Added: equipment, tools and on-site technical services.
Our Variable Interest
Entities (“VIEs”) provide the oil and gas industry with equipment, production technologies, automation and services.
+Added: Nanjing Recon:
Nanjing Recon is a high-tech company that specializes in automation services for
oilfield companies.
−Removed: It mainly focuses on providing automation solutions to the oil exploration
−Removed: industry, including monitoring wells, automatic metering to the joint station production,
−Removed: process monitor, and a variety of oilfield equipment and control systems.
−Removed: BHD is a high-tech company that specializes in transportation equipment and stimulation
−Removed: productions and services.
−Removed: Possessing proprietary patents and substantial industry experience,
−Removed: BHD has built up stable and strong working relationships with the major oilfields in
+Added: It mainly focuses on providing automation solutions to the oil exploration industry, including monitoring wells,
+Added: automatic metering to the joint station production, process monitoring, and a variety of oilfield equipment and control systems.
+Added: BHD is a high-tech company that specializes in transportation equipment and stimulation productions
+Added: and services.
+Added: Possessing proprietary patents and substantial industry experience, BHD has built up stable and strong working relationships
+Added: with the major oilfields in China.
Recent Developments
−Removed: During this nine-month period, affected by
−Removed: decreased oil prices and CAPEX expenditures of our clients, our finished projects were maintained at a lower level compared to
−Removed: the same period of last year.
−Removed: Although management expects the volume of finished projects will recover and thus revenue increase
−Removed: during the balance of fiscal year ending June 30, 2015.
−Removed: During this period, we achieved some major accomplishment on our self-developed
−Removed: down-hole equipment and oversea business development.
−Removed: On January 29, 2015, the shareholders of the Company approved the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum
−Removed: of Association and Articles of Association which, among other things, include the increase of the authorized ordinary shares from
−Removed: 25,000,000 to 100,000,000.
+Added: During this three-month period, we have been
+Added: affected by a decrease in oil prices and lowered CAPEX expenditures of our clients, so our business remained at a lower level as
+Added: compared to the circumstance with higher oil price .
+Added: On September 22, 2015, the Company entered into an amendment to the Letter Agreement (the “Agreement”)
+Added: with Maxim Group LLC dated January 28, 2015, pursuant to which Maxim would serve as the Company’s exclusive agent in connection
+Added: with a proposed at-the-market offering program by the Company of up to $10,000,000.
+Added: The , amendment extends the term of the Agreement
+Added: for an additional six months, or until February 29, 2016.
+Added: As of November
+Added: 13, 2015, a total 313,071 shares have been issued under this Agreement.
Products and Services
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turn-down ratio, high security and environmental safety.
−Removed: Oil and Gas Production Improvement
+Added: Oil and Gas Production Improvement Techniques
Packers of Fracturing.
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It is used for easy seat sealing and sand uptake prevention.
−Removed: The utility model reduces desilting volume and prevents sand-up,
−Removed: which makes the deblocking processes easier to realize.
+Added: The utility model reduces desilting volume and prevents sand-up, which
+Added: makes the deblocking processes easier to realize.
The back flushing is sand-stick proof.
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The “resin sand”
−Removed: goes through the borehole, pilling
+Added: goes through the borehole, piling
up and compacting at the borehole and oil vacancy layer.
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sand prevention.
−Removed: This sand prevention technique has been adapted to more than 100 wells, including heavy oil wells, light oil
−Removed: wells, water wells and gas wells, with a 100% success rate and a 98% effective rate.
+Added: This sand prevention technique has been adapted to more than 100 wells, including heavy oil wells, light oil wells,
+Added: water wells and gas wells, with a 100% success rate and a 98% effective rate.
Water Locating and
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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%
−Removed: and 80%, shape stratum fissures, improve stratum diversion capability and, as a result, improve our ability to locate oilfields
−Removed: and increase the output of oil wells.
+Added: is our proprietary product that is used along with a perforating gun to effectively increase perforation depth by between 46% and
+Added: 80%, shape stratum fissures, improve stratum diversion capability and, as a result, improve our ability to locate oilfields and
+Added: increase the output of oil wells.
Fracture Acidizing.
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It facilitates the electronic control of the connection of the oil lead pipeline with the separator.
−Removed: Natural Gas Flow
−Removed: Computer System.
+Added: Natural Gas Flow Computer
The flow computer system is used in natural gas stations and gas distribution stations to measure flow.
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Control and Data Acquisition System (“SCADA”).
−Removed: Recon SCADA is a system which applies to the oil well, measurement
−Removed: station, and the union station for supervision and data collection.
+Added: Recon SCADA is a system which applies to the oil well, measurement station,
+Added: and the union station for supervision and data collection.
EPC Service of Pipeline
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new businesses quickly for the coming years.
−Removed: Management anticipates opportunities both in new markets and our existing markets.
−Removed: We also believe that many existing wells and oilfields need to improve or renew their equipment and service to maintain production
−Removed: and techniques and services like ours will be needed as new oil and gas fields are developed.
−Removed: In the next three years, we will
−Removed: Measuring Equipment
−Removed: and Service .
+Added: Management anticipates there will be opportunities in new markets and our existing
+Added: We also believe that many existing wells and oilfields need to improve or renew their equipment and service to maintain
+Added: production and techniques and services like ours will be needed as new oil and gas fields are developed.
+Added: In the next three years,
+Added: we plan to focus on:
+Added: Equipment and Service .
“Digital oil field”
−Removed: and the management of oil companies are highly regarded.
−Removed: We believe our oilfield
−Removed: SCADA and related technical support services will address the needs of the oil well automation system market, for which we forecast
−Removed: increasing demand in short term and strong needs in the long term.
+Added: technology and the management of oil companies are highly regarded in
+Added: the industry.
+Added: We believe our oilfield SCADA and related technical support services will address the needs of the oil well
+Added: automation system market, for which we believe there will be increasing demand over the short term and strong needs in the
Gathering and
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With more new wells developed, our management anticipates that demand for our furnaces and burners
−Removed: will grow compared to last year, especially in the Jilin Oilfield and Xinjiiang oilfield.
−Removed: We believe we cooperated well with Zhongyuan Oilfield in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 and expect to continue growing
−Removed: revenue from fracturing and related stimulation services in the coming years.
+Added: will grow as compared to last year, especially in the Jilin Oilfield and Xinjiiang Oilfield.
+Added: We see great demand for fracturing in China and we are focused on the development and upgrade of current
+Added: down-hole tools which can be used in this sector.
New business .
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Recently, this market
−Removed: has developed very rapidly.
−Removed: After a year long test project for our customers, we have developed experience with this technology
−Removed: and our customers have accepted our products and services.
−Removed: We expect revenue from this business in the coming year.
+Added: has developed rapidly.
+Added: After a yearlong test project for our customers, we have developed experience with this technology and it
+Added: appears our customers have accepted our products and services.
+Added: We expect to generate revenue from this business in the coming year.
Growth Strategy
As a smaller China-focused
−Removed: 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 those
+Added: company, it is our basic strategy to focus on developing our onshore oilfield business in the upstream sector of the industry.
+Added: Due to the remote location and difficult environments of China’s oil and gas fields, historically foreign competitors have
+Added: rarely entered those areas directly.
Large domestic oil
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Thus, the market for technical support and project service is still in its early stage.
−Removed: Our management insists on providing high quality products and service in oilfields in which we have a geographical advantage.
−Removed: This will allow us to avoid conflicts of interest with bigger suppliers of drilling equipment and protect our position within
+Added: management insists on providing high quality products and service in oilfields in which we have a geographical advantage.
+Added: will allow us to avoid conflicts of interest with bigger suppliers of drilling equipment and help us protect our position within
the market segment.
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Despite uncertainty
−Removed: in the energy industry related to such matters as fluctuating prices and future opportunities for oil companies, our management
−Removed: believes there are still many factors to support our long-term development:
+Added: in the energy sector related to such matters as fluctuating prices and future opportunities for oil companies, our management believes
+Added: there are still many factors to support our long-term development:
(1) The opening of the Chinese oil industry
−Removed: to participation by non-state owned service providers and vendors played an increasingly important role in the high-end oilfield
+Added: to participation by non-state owned service providers and vendors has played an increasingly important role in the high-end oilfield
service segment to allow competition based on efficiency and price.
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(2) As worldwide oil and gas prices decreased,
−Removed: development transform and strict management haven been recent subject of domestic oil companies.
+Added: development transformed and strict management has been a frequent subject of domestic oil companies.
Technology reforms have been
−Removed: their first choice to achieve their goals about quality and efficiency upgrade.
−Removed: Furthermore, the construction of digital oilfield
−Removed: have also been one of oil companies’
−Removed: long term development strategies.
−Removed: Even though total capital expenditure is expected
−Removed: to be reduced, we believe investment in technology reform will maintain at a higher level.
−Removed: We believe the Company will benefit
−Removed: from this trend.
−Removed: Management is focused on these factors and will seek to extend
−Removed: our business on the industrial chain, such as providing more integrated services and incremental measures and growing our business
−Removed: from a predominantly up-ground business to include some down-hole services as well.
+Added: their first choice to achieve their goals about quality and efficiency upgrades.
+Added: Furthermore, the construction of digital oilfields
+Added: also is often a long-term development strategy for domestic oil companies.
+Added: Even though total capital expenditure is expected to
+Added: be reduced, we believe investment in technology reform will remain at a high level.
+Added: We believe the Company will benefit from this
+Added: Management is focused on these factors and will seek to extend our business on the industrial chain, such
+Added: as through providing more integrated services, incremental measures and growing our business from a predominantly up-ground business
+Added: to include some down-hole services as well.
Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations
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in any period are subject to general conditions typically affecting the Chinese oilfield service industry including:
−Removed: and gas price;
−Removed: amount of spending by our customers, primarily those in the oil and gas industry;
−Removed: demand from large corporations for improved management and software designed to achieve
−Removed: such corporate performance;
−Removed: procurement processes of our customers, especially those in the oil and gas industry;
−Removed: and related pricing pressure from other oilfield service solution providers, especially
−Removed: those targeting the Chinese oil and gas industry;
−Removed: ongoing development of the oilfield service market in China;
−Removed: and other macroeconomic factors.
+Added: Oil and gas price;
+Added: the amount of spending by our customers, primarily those in the oil and gas industry;
+Added: growing demand from large corporations for improved management and software designed to achieve such corporate performance;
+Added: the procurement processes of our customers, especially those in the oil and gas industry;
+Added: competition and related pricing pressure from other oilfield service solution providers, especially those targeting the Chinese
+Added: oil and gas industry;
+Added: the ongoing development of the oilfield service market in China;
+Added: inflation and other macroeconomic factors.
Unfavorable changes
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in any period are more directly affected by company-specific factors including:
−Removed: revenue growth, in terms of the proportion of our business dedicated to large companies
−Removed: and our ability to successfully develop, introduce and market new solutions and services;
−Removed: ability to increase our revenues from both old and new customers in the oil and gas industry
−Removed: ability to effectively manage our operating costs and expenses;
−Removed: ability to effectively implement any targeted acquisitions and/or strategic alliances
−Removed: so as to provide efficient access to markets and industries in the oil and gas industry
+Added: our revenue growth, in terms of the proportion of our business dedicated to large companies and
+Added: our ability to successfully develop, introduce and market new solutions and services;
+Added: our ability to increase our revenues from both old and new customers in the oil and gas industry
+Added: our ability to effectively manage our operating costs and expenses;
+Added: our ability to effectively implement any targeted acquisitions and/or strategic alliances so as
+Added: to provide efficient access to markets and industries in the oil and gas industry in China.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
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Significant accounting estimates reflected in our Company’s
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory valuation, warrants
−Removed: liability, fair value of share based payments, and useful lives of property and equipment.
+Added: consolidated financial statements include revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory valuation, warrants liability,
+Added: fair value of share based payments, and useful lives of property and equipment.
Consolidation of VIEs
−Removed: We recognize an entity
−Removed: as a VIE if it either (i) has insufficient equity to permit the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated
−Removed: financial support or (ii) has equity investors who lack the characteristics of a controlling financial interest.
−Removed: We consolidate
−Removed: a VIE as its primary beneficiary when we have both the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s
−Removed: economic performance and the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially
−Removed: be significant to the VIE.
−Removed: We perform ongoing assessments to determine whether an entity should be considered a VIE and whether
−Removed: an entity previous identified as a VIE continues to be a VIE and whether we continue to be the primary beneficiary.
+Added: We recognize an entity as a VIE if it either (i) has insufficient equity to permit the entity to finance
+Added: its activities without additional subordinated financial support or (ii) has equity investors who lack the characteristics of a
+Added: controlling financial interest.
+Added: We consolidate a VIE as our primary beneficiary
+Added: when we have both the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance and
+Added: the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially be significant to the VIE.
+Added: We perform ongoing assessments to determine whether an entity should be considered a VIE and whether an entity previously identified
+Added: as a VIE continues to be a VIE and whether we continue to be the primary beneficiary.
Assets recognized
−Removed: as a result of consolidating VIEs do not represent additional assets that could be used to satisfy claims against our general
−Removed: Conversely, liabilities recognized as a result of consolidating these VIEs do not represent additional claims on our general
+Added: as a result of consolidating VIEs do not represent additional assets that could be used to satisfy claims against our general assets.
+Added: Conversely, liabilities recognized as a result of consolidating these VIEs do not represent additional claims on our general assets;
rather, they represent claims against the specific assets of the consolidated VIEs.
Revenue Recognition
−Removed: We recognize revenue
−Removed: when the following four criteria are met:
−Removed: (1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, (2) delivery has occurred
−Removed: or services have been provided, (3) the sales price is fixed or determinable, and (4) collectability is reasonably assured.
−Removed: Delivery does not occur until products have been shipped or services have been provided to the customers and the customers have
−Removed: signed a completion and acceptance report, risk of loss has transferred to the customers, customer- acceptance-provisions have
−Removed: lapsed, or the Company has objective evidence that the criteria specified in customers’
−Removed: acceptance provisions have been
−Removed: The sales price is not considered to be fixed or determinable until all contingencies related to the sale have been
+Added: We recognize revenue when the following four criteria are met:
+Added: (1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement
+Added: exists, (2) delivery has occurred or services have been provided, (3) the sales price is fixed or determinable, and (4) collectability
+Added: is reasonably assured.
+Added: Delivery does not occur until products have been shipped or services have been provided to the customers
+Added: and the customers have signed a completion and acceptance report, risk of loss has transferred to the customers, customer acceptance
+Added: provisions have lapsed, or the Company has objective evidence that the criteria specified in customers’
+Added: acceptance provisions
+Added: have been satisfied.
+Added: The sales price is not considered to be fixed or determinable until all contingencies related to the sale
+Added: have been resolved.
Revenue from hardware
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Contract costs are accumulated during the periods of installation and testing or commissioning.
−Removed: this is short term.
+Added: is short term.
Revenue is not recognized until completion of the contracts and receipt of acceptance statements.
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services to improve software functions and system requirements on separated fixed-price contracts.
−Removed: Revenue is recognized when
−Removed: services are completed and acceptance is determined by a completion report signed by the customer.
+Added: Revenue is recognized when services
+Added: are completed and acceptance is determined by a completion report signed by the customer.
Deferred income represents
unearned amounts billed to customers related to sales contracts.
+Added: Cost of Revenues
+Added: When the criteria for revenue recognition
+Added: have been met, costs incurred are recognized as cost of revenue.
+Added: Cost of revenues includes wages, materials, handling charges,
+Added: the cost of purchased equipment and pipes, other expenses associated with manufactured products and services provided to customers,
+Added: and inventory reserve.
+Added: We expect cost of revenues to grow as our revenues grow.
+Added: It is possible that we could incur development
+Added: costs with little revenue recognition, but based upon our past history, we expect our revenues to grow.
Fair Values of Financial Instruments
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when measuring fair value.
−Removed: The three levels
−Removed: of inputs are defined as follows:
+Added: The three levels of
+Added: inputs are defined as follows:
Level 1 inputs to the valuation
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Black-Scholes Model may increase or decrease the warrants liability from quarter to quarter.
−Removed: Any change in adjustment would be
−Removed: charged to operations.
−Removed: Long-term investment is measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis at March 31, 2015, since the Company
−Removed: recorded an impairment loss during the year ended June 30, 2014.
−Removed: The fair value was determined to be zero using Level 2 inputs.
+Added: Any change in the estimate of the
+Added: fair value of the warrants liability would be charged to operations.
Trade receivables
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current economic trends and changes in our customer payment terms when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts.
−Removed: Increase in our allowance for doubtful accounts would lower our net income and earnings per share.
+Added: Increases in our allowance for doubtful accounts would lower our net income and earnings per share.
Deferred Tax Estimates
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and earnings per share would decrease.
+Added: Valuation of Long-Lived Assets
+Added: We review the carrying
+Added: values of our long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that they may not be recoverable.
+Added: When such an event occurs, we project undiscounted cash flows to be generated from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition
+Added: over the remaining life of the asset.
+Added: If projections indicate that the carrying value of the long-lived asset will not be recovered,
+Added: we reduce the carrying value of the long-lived asset by the estimated excess of the carrying value over the projected discounted
+Added: In the past, we have not had to make significant adjustments to the carrying values of our long-lived assets, and we
+Added: do not anticipate a need to do so in the future.
+Added: However, circumstances could cause us to have to reduce the value of our capitalized
+Added: assets more rapidly than we have in the past if our revenues were to significantly decline.
+Added: Estimated cash flows from the use of
+Added: the long-lived assets are highly uncertain and therefore the estimation of the need to impair these assets is reasonably likely
+Added: to change in the future.
+Added: Should the economy or acceptance of our assets change in the future, it is likely that our estimate of
+Added: the future cash flows from the use of these assets will change by a material amount.
+Added: There were no impairments at June 30, 2015
+Added: and September 30, 2015.
+Added: However, if impairment were required, our net income and earnings per share would decrease accordingly.
Share-Based Compensation
−Removed: The Company accounts
−Removed: for share-based compensation in accordance with ASC Topic 718, Share-Based Payment.
−Removed: Under the fair value recognition provisions
−Removed: of this topic, share-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized
−Removed: as expense with graded vesting on a straight–line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.
−Removed: has elected to recognize compensation expenses mainly using the Black-Scholes valuation model estimated at the grant date based
−Removed: on the award’s fair value.
+Added: The Company accounts for share-based compensation
+Added: in accordance with ASC Topic 718, Share-Based Payment.
+Added: Under the fair value recognition provisions of this topic, share-based compensation
+Added: cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as expense with graded vesting on a straight–line
+Added: basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.
+Added: The Company has elected mainly utilize the Black-Scholes valuation
+Added: model to estimate an award’s fair value.
Recently enacted accounting pronouncements
−Removed: In January 2015,
−Removed: the FASB issued ASU 2015-02, "Consolidation (Topic 810) –
−Removed: Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis".
−Removed: The ASU concludes
−Removed: the FASB’s project to rescind the indefinite deferral of the VIE guidance in ASU 2009-17 (FAS 1672) for reporting entities
−Removed: with variable interests in legal entities that have the attributes of an investment company that meet certain criteria (ASU 2010-103).
−Removed: The ASU also makes changes to the VOE consolidation model.
−Removed: The ASU does not change the general order in which the consolidation
−Removed: models are applied.
−Removed: A reporting entity that holds an economic interest in, or is otherwise involved with, another legal entity
−Removed: (has a “variable interest”) should first determine if the VIE model applies, and if so, whether it holds a controlling
−Removed: financial interest under that model.
−Removed: If the entity being evaluated for consolidation is not a VIE, then the VOE model should be
−Removed: applied to determine whether the entity should be consolidated by the reporting entity.
−Removed: Since consolidation is only assessed for
−Removed: legal entities, the determination of whether there is a legal entity is important.
−Removed: It is often clear when the entity is incorporated,
−Removed: but unincorporated structures can also be legal entities and judgment may be required to make that determination.
−Removed: The amendments
−Removed: in this Update are effective for public business entities for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years,
−Removed: beginning after December 15, 2015.
−Removed: For all other entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for fiscal years beginning
−Removed: after December 15, 2016, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted,
−Removed: including adoption in an interim period.
−Removed: Management is evaluating the impact, if any, of this ASU on the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
+Added: In August 2015, the FASB issued Accounting
+Added: Standards Update No.
+Added: 2015-14, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606):
+Added: Deferral of the Effective Date, or ASU 2015-14.
+Added: This amendment defers the effective date of the previously issued Accounting Standards Update No.
+Added: 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts
+Added: with Customers (Topic 606), or ASU 2014-09, until the interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017.
+Added: application is permitted for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016.
+Added: The Company does not expect
+Added: this update will have a material impact on the presentation of the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In August 2015, the FASB issued
+Added: Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No.
+Added: 2015-15, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30):
+Added: Presentation and
+Added: Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with Line-of-Credit Arrangements - Amendments to SEC Paragraphs
+Added: Pursuant to Staff Announcement at June 18, 2015 EITF Meeting.
+Added: This ASU adds SEC paragraphs pursuant to the SEC Staff
+Added: Announcement at the June 18, 2015, Emerging Issues Task Force meeting about the presentation and subsequent measurement of
+Added: debt issuance costs associated with line-of-credit arrangements.
+Added: Given the absence of authoritative guidance within ASU
+Added: 2015-03 for debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements, the SEC staff would not object to an entity deferring
+Added: and presenting debt issuance costs as an asset and subsequently amortizing the deferred debt issuance costs ratably over the
+Added: term of the line-of-credit arrangement, regardless of whether there are any outstanding borrowings on the line-of-credit
+Added: The Company does not expect this update will have a material impact on the presentation of the Company's
+Added: condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In September 2015, the FASB issued ASU
+Added: 2015-16, Business Combinations (Topic 805):
+Added: Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments, which eliminates the
+Added: requirement to retrospectively account for changes to provisional amounts initially recorded in a business acquisition opening
+Added: balance sheet.
+Added: Prior to the issuance of ASU 2015-16, an acquirer was required to restate prior period financial statements as
+Added: of the acquisition date for adjustments to provisional amounts.
+Added: This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December
+Added: 15, 2015, including interim periods within fiscal years.
+Added: The Company does not expect this update will have a material impact on
+Added: the presentation of the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
Results of Operations
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necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period.
−Removed: Three Months Ended March 31, 2015 Compared to Three Months
−Removed: Ended March 31, 2014
−Removed: three months ended March 31, 2015, we encountered a worldwide decline of oil and gas prices and decreased CAPEX expense of
−Removed: our major clients.
−Removed: As a result, our projects were slowed and/or cancelled.
−Removed: Our operations and revenue were affected
−Removed: For the Three
+Added: Three Months Ended September 30, 2015 Compared to Three
+Added: Months Ended September 30, 2014
+Added: During this three-month period ended September 30, 2015, our operations and revenue continued to be unfavorably
+Added: affected by industry conditions and thus remained at a lower level than the period ended September 30, 2014.
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Hardware - non-related parties
−Removed: Hardware - related parties
Software - non-related parties
−Removed: Software - related parties
Total revenues
−Removed: total revenues increased by 9.8%, or approximately ¥1.8 million ($0.3 million), from approximately ¥18.2 million for the
−Removed: three months ended March 31, 2014 to ¥20.0 million ($3.3 million) for the same period of 2015.
−Removed: The changes in our revenues
−Removed: for the three-month period was due to the following factors:
−Removed: (1) Hardware business - non related parties.
−Removed: During the three-month ended March 31, 2015, a slight decrease of ¥0.5 million ($0.1
−Removed: million) in hardware revenue was mainly caused by lower sales of furnaces.
−Removed: (2) Hardware –
−Removed: related parties.
−Removed: The majority of our
−Removed: hardware revenue with related parties of this period was from increased requirement of system upgrading and remote guidance related
−Removed: (3) Service business - non related parties.
−Removed: Service revenue
−Removed: for three months ended March 31, 2014 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon request by customers.
−Removed: (4) Software business.
−Removed: The software sales to non-related
−Removed: parties increased approximately ¥0.9 million ($0.1 million).
−Removed: We record revenue as software sales when (1) the customer signs
−Removed: a separate software contract with us, or (2) the customer accepts VAT invoices for software.
−Removed: The amount of our revenues categorized
−Removed: as software sales may fluctuate because certain software may be sold with hardware at times as a whole product and not separately
−Removed: (5) Software business –
−Removed: related parties.
−Removed: The increase of software revenue was mainly due to increased
−Removed: demand of our clients, which were also software companies.
+Added: total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2015 were approximately ¥3.6 million ($0.6 million), a decrease of
+Added: approximately ¥0.71 million or 16.5% from ¥4.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2014.
+Added: This was mainly caused
+Added: by a major decrease of sales of our automation software products.
Cost and Margin
−Removed: For the Three
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Total revenues
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the prices of some imported accessories mandated by our customers can also impact our cost.
+Added: Inventory reserve for changes in price
+Added: level, impairment of inventory, slow moving or other causes will also affect our cost.
Our cost of revenues
−Removed: increased from approximately ¥13.0 million in the three months ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥13.8 million ($2.3
−Removed: million) for the same period of 2015, an increase of approximately ¥0.8 million ($0.1 million), or 6.0%.
−Removed: This increase was
−Removed: mainly caused by higher revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2015 compared to the same period of 2014.
+Added: decreased from approximately ¥3.7 million in the three months ended September 30, 2014 to approximately ¥3.2 million ($0.5
+Added: million) for the same period in 2015, a decrease of approximately ¥0.5 million ($0.08 million), or 13.5%.
+Added: This decrease was
+Added: mainly caused by lower revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2015 as compared to the same period of 2014.
As a percentage
−Removed: of revenues, our cost of revenues decreased from 71.2% in 2014 to 68.8% in 2015, mainly due to some contracts with lower cost during
+Added: of revenues, our cost of revenues increased from 85.7% in 2014 to 88.8% in 2015, mainly due to the increased cost of some contracts
+Added: during period.
Gross profit .
−Removed: Our gross profit increased to approximately ¥1.0 million ($0.2 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2015 from approximately
−Removed: ¥5.2 million for the same period in 2014 to approximately ¥6.5 million ($1.0 million) for the same period of 2015.
−Removed: gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased to 31.2% for the three months ended March 31, 2015 from 28.8% for the same period
−Removed: This was mainly because we seized some system updating service related contracts with higher margin.
−Removed: In more detail:
+Added: Our gross profit decreased to approximately ¥0.4 million ($0.06 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2015 from
+Added: approximately ¥0.6 million for the same period in 2014.
+Added: Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue decreased to 11.2% for
+Added: the three months ended September 30, 2015 from 14.3% for the same period in 2014.
+Added: This was mainly due to the decrease of higher
+Added: margin software sales compared with hardware revenues during this period.
+Added: Our software and hardware revenues are detailed as below:
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 ¥0.4 million was mainly due to the increase from the furnaces sales and automation business
−Removed: in the three months ended March 31, 2015.
−Removed: The gross profit from the hardware and software sales to non-related parties decreased
−Removed: ¥0.6 million ($0.1 million) compared to the same period of last year, because gross margin from burner business were lower
−Removed: compared to same period last year.
−Removed: For the Three Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues-hardware and software- related parties
−Removed: Cost of revenues -hardware and software - related parties
−Removed: Revenue from related parties increased
−Removed: mainly due to increased sales of automation metering system increased during the three months ended March 31, 2015.
−Removed: kind of business was minor because there were only some software upgrading and online debugging cost, which were much lower than
−Removed: general hardware business sales.
+Added: Revenue from hardware and software to non-related parties decreased by approximately ¥0.8 million
+Added: mainly due to the decrease of automation software products sold in the three months ended September 30, 2015 as compared to the
+Added: three months ended September 30, 2014.
+Added: The gross profit from hardware and software sales to non-related parties decreased ¥0.3
+Added: million ($0.04 million) as compared to the same period during the prior year.
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Total revenues-service
Cost of revenues -service
−Removed: revenue for three months ended March 31, 2014 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon request
−Removed: by customers.
+Added: revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2014 and 2015 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided
+Added: upon request by customers.
Operating Expenses
For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Selling and distribution expenses
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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 remained flat at approximately ¥1.1 million for each of the three months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2014 and 2015.
−Removed: Selling expenses were 6.0% of total revenues in the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 5.5% of
−Removed: total revenues in the same period of 2015.
+Added: Selling and distribution expenses consist primarily of salaries
+Added: and related expenditures of our sales and marketing organization, sales commissions, costs of our marketing programs including
+Added: travelling charges, advertising and trade shows, and an allocation of our facilities, depreciation expenses and rental expense,
+Added: as well as shipping charges and so on.
+Added: Selling expenses increased approximately ¥0.4 million for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2015 as compared to the same period in 2014.
+Added: This increase was primarily due to an increase in shipping charges and rental
+Added: Selling expenses were 16.3% of total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2014 and 31.0% of total revenues
+Added: in the same period of 2015.
+Added: This increase was mainly the result of our expansion into new markets.
and administrative expenses .
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in human resources, facilities
−Removed: costs, depreciation expenses, professional advisor fees, audit fees, option expenses stock based comprehensive expense and other
−Removed: miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with general operations.
−Removed: General and administrative expenses increased by 5.0% or
−Removed: ¥0.2 million ($32,000), from approximately ¥4.0 million in the three months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥4.2 million ($0.7 million) in the same period
−Removed: General and administrative expenses were 21.9% of total revenues in 2014 and 20.9% of total revenues in 2015.
−Removed: in general and administrative expenses was mainly due to an increase in share-based compensation.
+Added: costs, depreciation expenses, professional advisor fees, audit fees, option expenses stock based comprehensive expense, bad debts
+Added: allowance and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with general operations.
+Added: General and administrative expenses
+Added: increased by 66.8% or ¥2.5 million ($0.4
+Added: million), from approximately ¥3.7 million during the three months ended September 30, 2014 to approximately ¥6.2 million ($1.0million)
+Added: in the same period of 2015.
+Added: General and administrative expenses were 86.0% of total revenues in the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2014 and 171.9 % of total
+Added: revenues in the same period of 2015.
+Added: The increase in general and administrative expenses was mainly due to an increase in bad debts
+Added: allowance and share-based compensation, offset by a decrease in consulting fees.
Research and development
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of our research and development projects.
−Removed: Research and development expenses decreased from approximately ¥0.7 million for
−Removed: the three months ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥0.5 million ($0.1 million) for the same period of 2015.
−Removed: This decrease
−Removed: was primarily due to less research and development expense on furnaces.
−Removed: We will continue to strengthen R&D project management
−Removed: and control spending.
+Added: Research and development expenses increased from approximately ¥0.7 million for the
+Added: three months ended September 30, 2014 to approximately ¥1.8 million ($0.3 million) for the same period of 2015.
+Added: This increase
+Added: was primarily due to more research and development expenditures related to on downhole service tools.
For the Three Months Ended
−Removed: Income (loss) from operations
−Removed: Interest and other expense
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Loss from operations
+Added: Interest and other income (expense)
Loss before income tax
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Net loss attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
−Removed: Income (loss)
−Removed: from operations .
−Removed: Income from operations was approximately ¥0.4 million ($0.1 million) for the three months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2015, compared to a loss of ¥0.6 million for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: This increase in income from operations can be attributed
−Removed: primarily to the increased revenue and higher gross profit.
+Added: Loss from operations .
+Added: Loss from operations was approximately ¥8.7 million ($1.4 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2015, as compared
+Added: to a loss of ¥4.4 million for the same period of 2014.
+Added: This increase in loss from operations was primary due to a decrease
+Added: in revenues and increased bad debt allowances and share-based compensation.
Interest and other
−Removed: Interest and other expense was approximately ¥2.0 million ($0.3 million) for the three months ended March 31,
−Removed: 2015, compared to interest and other expense of ¥1.1 million for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: The ¥0.9 million ($0.1 million)
−Removed: increase in interest and other expense was primarily due to a loss from warrant redemptions and an increase in interest expense .
+Added: income (expense).
+Added: Interest and other expense was approximately ¥0.2 million ($0.03 million) for the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2015, as compared to interest and other income of ¥0.3 million for the same period of 2014.
+Added: The ¥0.5 million
+Added: ($0.08 million) decrease in interest and other income was primarily due to the decreased subsidy income and the gain as a result
+Added: of a change in the fair value of warrants liability.
Provision (benefit)
for income tax .
−Removed: Provision for income tax for the three months ended March 31, 2014 was approximately ¥0.2 million.
−Removed: for income tax was ¥0.2 million ($30,000) for the three months ended March 31, 2015.
−Removed: This decrease in 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, decreased
−Removed: for the three months ended March 31, 2015.
+Added: Provision for income tax for the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2014 was approximately ¥0.03 million.
+Added: Benefit for income tax was ¥0.02 million ($2.6 thousand) for the three
+Added: months ended September 30, 2015.
+Added: This increase in benefit for income tax was mainly due to the increased deferred tax assets as
+Added: a result of an increase in bad debts allowances during the three months ended September 30, 2015.
a result of the factors described above, net loss was approximately ¥8.8 million ($1.4 million) for the three months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2015, a decrease of approximately ¥0.4 million ($0.1 million) from net loss of ¥1.8 million for the same period
+Added: September 30, 2015, or an increase of approximately ¥4.7 million ($0.7 million) from net loss of ¥4.2 million for the same
+Added: period of 2014.
Net loss attributable
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As a result of the factors described above, net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders was approximately
−Removed: ¥1.5 million ($0.2 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2015, a decrease of approximately ¥0.4 million ($0.1
+Added: ¥8.8 million ($1.4 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2015, or an increase of approximately ¥4.7 million
($0.7 million) from net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders of approximately ¥4.2 million for same period of 2014.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended March 31, 2015 Compared to Nine Months
−Removed: Ended March 31, 2014
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Hardware - non-related parties
−Removed: (27,651,775 )
−Removed: Hardware - related parties
−Removed: Software - non-related parties
−Removed: Software - related parties
−Removed: Total revenues
−Removed: (30,359,644 )
−Removed: total revenues decreased by 39.9%, or approximately ¥30.4 million ($5.0 million), from approximately ¥76.0 million for
−Removed: the nine months ended March 31, 2014 to ¥45.7 million ($7.5 million) for the same period of 2015.
−Removed: The change in our revenues
−Removed: for the nine-month period was due to the following factors:
−Removed: 1) Hardware business - non related parties.
−Removed: During the nine-months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2015, the decrease in hardware revenue was mainly caused by lower sales
−Removed: of furnaces and automation system.
−Removed: 2) Hardware –
−Removed: related parties.
−Removed: After we achieved
−Removed: business entrance certification in the name of Recon and could cooperate with oilfield customers directly two years ago, we no
−Removed: longer required the services of a related party with such certification and, accordingly, revenue from related-parties would decrease.
−Removed: As long as the local agency still purchases automation products from Recon through our related parties, we will continue to recognize
−Removed: revenue from related parties, but we anticipate that such hardware and software related party revenue is likely to fluctuate from
−Removed: year to year.
−Removed: Major part of related party hardware revenue of this period was from increased requirement of system upgrading and
−Removed: remote guidance related service from some other related clients other than those of same period last year.
−Removed: 3) Service business - non related parties.
−Removed: Service revenue for nine
−Removed: months ended March 31, 2015 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were
−Removed: provided upon request by customers.
−Removed: 4) Software business.
−Removed: The software sales to non-related parties decreased
−Removed: approximately ¥2.6 million ($0.4 million), mainly caused by reclassification of some
−Removed: company sales to non-related.
−Removed: 5) Software business –
−Removed: During the nine months ended March 31, 2014 and 2015, we recorded software revenue
−Removed: of ¥1.4 million and ¥1.1 million ($0.2 million) to a related party, respectively.
−Removed: We record revenue as software sales if (1) the customer signs a separate software contract
−Removed: with us, or (2) the customer accepts VAT invoices for software.
−Removed: The amount of our revenues
−Removed: categorized as software sales may fluctuate because certain software may be sold with
−Removed: hardware at times as a whole product and not separately priced.
−Removed: Cost and Margin
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues
−Removed: (30,359,644 )
−Removed: Cost of revenues
−Removed: (19,141,260 )
−Removed: (11,218,384 )
−Removed: Cost of revenues .
−Removed: Our cost of revenues includes raw materials and costs related to design, implementation, delivery and maintenance of products
−Removed: and services.
−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: decreased from approximately ¥49.0 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥29.8 million ($4.9
−Removed: million) for the same period of 2015, a decrease of approximately ¥19.1 million ($3.1 million), or 39.1%.
−Removed: This decrease was
−Removed: mainly caused by lower revenue during the nine months ended March 31, 2015 compared to the same period of 2014.
−Removed: As a percentage
−Removed: of revenues, our cost of revenues changed slightly from 64.4% in 2014 to 65.3% in 2015.
−Removed: Our gross profit decreased to approximately ¥15.8 million ($2.6 million) for the nine months ended March 31,
−Removed: 2015 from approximately ¥27.1 million for the same period in 2014.
−Removed: Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue decreased
−Removed: to 34.7% for the nine months ended March 31, 2015 from 35.6% for the same period in 2014.
−Removed: This was mainly due to decreased
−Removed: hardware revenue during the nine months ended March 31, 2015 as compared to the same period last year and also had higher
−Removed: software revenue with higher gross margins during the nine months ended March 31, 2014.
−Removed: In more detail:
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues-hardware and software- non related parties
−Removed: (30,217,670 )
−Removed: Cost of revenues -hardware and software- non related parties
−Removed: (18,665,175 )
−Removed: (11,552,495 )
−Removed: The revenue from hardware and software
−Removed: to non-related parties decreased by approximately ¥30.2 million was mainly due to the decrease from the furnaces sales and
−Removed: automation business in the nine months ended March 31, 2015.
−Removed: The gross profit from the hardware and software sales to non-related
−Removed: parties decreased by approximately ¥11.6 million ($1.9 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 increased.
−Removed: Gross profit increased mainly due to most of the revenues to related parties were automation
−Removed: upgrad and maintaining service sales with higher gross profit.
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Total revenues-service
−Removed: Cost of revenues -service
−Removed: revenue for nine months ended March 31, 2014 and 2015 consisted mainly of minor maintenance services, which were provided upon
−Removed: request by customers.
−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 decreased by 34.8%, from approximately ¥4.7 million for the nine months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥3.1 million ($0.5 million) for the same period of 2015.
−Removed: This decrease was primarily
−Removed: from decreased shipping fees, service fees and traveling expenses.
−Removed: Selling expenses were 6.2% of total revenues in the nine months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2014 and 6.7% of total revenues in the same period of 2015.
−Removed: and administrative expenses .
−Removed: General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in human resources,
−Removed: facilities costs, depreciation expenses, professional advisor fees, audit fees, option expenses stock based comprehensive
−Removed: expense and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with general operations.
−Removed: General and administrative expenses
−Removed: increased by 14.7%, or approximately ¥1.5 million ($0.3 million), from
−Removed: approximately ¥10.5 million in the nine months ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥12.0
−Removed: million ($2.0 million) in the same period of 2015.
−Removed: General and administrative
−Removed: expenses were 13.7% of total revenues in 2014 and 26.3% of total revenues in 2015.
−Removed: The increase in general and administrative
−Removed: expenses was mainly due to an increase in consulting fees, salaries, and share-based compensation.
−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 40.0%, from approximately ¥4.1 million
−Removed: for the nine months ended March 31, 2014 to approximately ¥2.4 million ($0.4 million) for the same period of 2015.
−Removed: This decrease
−Removed: was primarily due to lower research activities on our furnaces products.
−Removed: We enhanced our cost/expense control this year and may
−Removed: continue to be strict on our R&D project selection and implementation.
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Income (loss) 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 (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
−Removed: Income (loss)
−Removed: from operations .
−Removed: Loss from operations was approximately ¥1.7 million ($0.3 million) for the nine months ended March 31,
−Removed: 2015, compared to income of ¥7.8 million for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: This decrease in income from operations can be attributed
−Removed: primarily to the decreased revenue and increases in general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: other income (expense).
−Removed: Interest and other income was approximately ¥2.3 million ($0.4 million) for the nine months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2015, compared to interest and other expense of ¥1.2 million for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: million ($0.6 million) increase in interest and other income was primarily due to changes in the fair value of our warrant
−Removed: liability and a decrease in loss from an investment, offset by a decrease in subsidy income and loss on warrants
−Removed: Provision for
−Removed: Provision for income tax for the nine months ended March 31, 2014 was approximately ¥1.6 million and ¥0.5
−Removed: million ($0.1 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2015.
−Removed: This decrease of provision for income tax was mainly due to the
−Removed: pre-consolidation income from operations in subsidiaries in China on which we must pay income tax, decreased for the nine months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2015.
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above, net income was approximately ¥0.2 million ($30,000) for the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2015, a decrease of approximately ¥4.8 million ($0.8 million) from net income of approximately ¥5.0 million
−Removed: for the same period of 2014.
−Removed: Net income (loss)
−Removed: attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd .
−Removed: As a result of the factors described above, net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders
−Removed: was approximately ¥0.4 million ($0.1 million) for the nine months ended March 31, 2015, a decrease of approximately ¥4.3
−Removed: million ($0.7 million) from net income attributable to ordinary shareholders of approximately ¥3.9 million for same period
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA.
−Removed: 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 to Net Income
−Removed: Provision for income taxes
+Added: define adjusted EBITDA as net loss adjusted for income tax expense (benefit), interest expense, change in fair value of warrants
+Added: liability, non-cash stock compensation expense, depreciation and amortization.
+Added: We think it is useful to an equity investor in
+Added: evaluating our operating performance because:
+Added: (1) it is widely used by investors in our industry to measure a company’s
+Added: operating performance without regard to items such as interest expense, depreciation and amortization, which can vary substantially
+Added: from company to company depending upon accounting methods and book value of assets, capital structure and the method by which
+Added: the assets were acquired;
+Added: and (2) it helps investors more meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from
+Added: period to period by removing the impact of 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 Loss
+Added: $ (1,392,648 )
+Added: Provision for income taxes (benefit)
Interest expense and foreign currency adjustment
Change in fair value of warrants liability
−Removed: Loss from investment
Restricted shares issued for consulting services
−Removed: Loss from warrant redemptions
Stock compensation expense
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Adjusted EBITDA
−Removed: Adjusted EBITDA decreased
−Removed: by approximately ¥8.8 million ($1.4 million) to income of approximately ¥2.9 million ($0.5 million) for the nine months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2015 compared to income of approximately ¥11.7 million income for the same period in 2014.
−Removed: This was mainly
−Removed: due to decreased revenue, non-operation income related to warrant and warrant redemptions and increased share-based expenses.
−Removed: Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Reconciliation of Net Income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd to Adjusted Net Income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
−Removed: Net income (loss) attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: $ (1,101,311 )
+Added: Adjusted EBITDA decreased by approximately ¥
+Added: million ($0.7 million) representing a loss of approximately ¥7.0 million ($1.1 million) for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2015 as compared to an approximately ¥2.3 million loss for the same period in 2014.
+Added: This was mainly due to decreased revenues
+Added: and increased research and development expenses as well as bad debt allowances.
+Added: Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Loss Per Share
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Reconciliation of Net Loss attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd to Adjusted
+Added: Net Loss attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: Net loss attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: $ (1,392,648 )
Noncash items (A) :
Change in fair value of warrants liability
−Removed: Loss from investment
Restricted shares issued for consulting services
−Removed: Loss from warrants redemption
Stock compensation expense
−Removed: Adjusted net income attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: Adjusted net loss attributable to Recon Technology, Ltd
+Added: $ (1,183,477 )
Reconciliation of U.S.
GAAP Earnings (Loss) Per Share to Non U.S.
−Removed: GAAP Adjusted Earnings Per Share
+Added: Adjusted Earnings Per Share
GAAP earnings (loss) per share
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Weighted - average shares -diluted
−Removed: (A) Noncash items are certain non-cash expenses that are included
+Added: (A) Noncash items are certain non-cash expenses
+Added: that are included in our U.S.
GAAP reported results.
−Removed: There was no income tax benefit associated with the special items.
−Removed: The non-GAAP financial measures
−Removed: are provided to enhance investors' overall understanding of Recon's current financial performance.
+Added: The non-GAAP financial measures are provided to enhance investors' overall
+Added: understanding of Recon's current financial performance.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
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maturities of no more than six months.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2015, we had cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately ¥4.7
−Removed: million ($0.8 million).
−Removed: As of June 30, 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately ¥18.1 million
−Removed: ($2.9 million).
+Added: As of September 30, 2015, we had cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately
+Added: ¥3.9 million ($0.6 million).
+Added: As of June 30, 2015, we had cash and cash equivalents in the amount of approximately ¥12.3
Indebtedness .
−Removed: As of March 31, 2015, except for approximately ¥10.2 million ($1.7 million) of short-term borrowings from related parties,
+Added: As of September 30, 2015, except for approximately ¥9.4 million ($1.5 million) of short-term borrowings from related parties,
and ¥7.0 million ($1.1 million) in commercial loans from local banks, we did not have any finance leases or purchase commitments,
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Under Chinese law, our Domestic Companies are required to set aside a portion (at least 10%)
−Removed: 10%) of their after-tax net income (after discharging all cumulated loss), if any, each year for compulsory statutory reserve
−Removed: until the amount of the reserve reaches 50% of our Domestic Companies’
+Added: of their after-tax net income (after discharging all cumulated loss), if any, each year for compulsory statutory reserve until
+Added: the amount of the reserve reaches 50% of our Domestic Companies’
registered capital.
−Removed: These funds may be distributed
−Removed: to shareholders at the time of each Domestic Company’s wind up.
+Added: These funds may be distributed to shareholders
+Added: at the time of each Domestic Company’s wind up.
Off-Balance Sheet
Arrangements .
−Removed: We have not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations
−Removed: of any third parties.
+Added: We have not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of
+Added: any third parties.
In addition, we have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our own shares and classified
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market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.
−Removed: To date we have financed our operations primarily through cash flows from operations, bank loans and
−Removed: short-term borrowings and loans from related parties including our Chief Technology Officer.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2015, we had total
−Removed: assets of approximately ¥161.0 million ($26.4 million), which includes cash of approximately ¥4.7 million ($0.8
−Removed: million), net accounts receivable from third parties of approximately ¥56.4 million ($9.2 million), and net accounts
−Removed: receivable from related parties of approximately ¥4.9 million ($0.8 million).
−Removed: Working capital amounted to approximately
−Removed: ¥90.0 million ($14.7 million), and shareholders’
−Removed: equity amounted to approximately ¥100.5 million ($16.4
+Added: Capital Resources .
+Added: To date we have financed our operations primarily through cash flows from operations, bank loans and short-term borrowings and
+Added: loans from related parties.
+Added: As of September 30, 2015, we had total assets of approximately ¥117.7 million ($18.5 million),
+Added: which includes cash of approximately ¥3.9 million ($0.6 million), net accounts receivable due from third parties of approximately
+Added: ¥51.5 million ($8.1 million), Working capital amounted to approximately ¥66.5 million ($10.5 million), and shareholders’
+Added: equity amounted to approximately ¥66.6 million ($10.5 million).
Cash from Operating
−Removed: Net cash used in operating activities was approximately ¥16.2 million ($2.7 million) for the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2015.
−Removed: This was an increase of approximately ¥0.9 million ($0.2 million) compared to net cash used in operating activities
−Removed: of approximately ¥15.3 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2014.
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities was approximately ¥1.0 million ($0.15 million) for the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2015.
+Added: This was an decrease of approximately ¥9.0 million ($1.4 million) compared to net cash used in operating
+Added: activities of approximately ¥10.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2014.
In more detail:
−Removed: Net cash used in operating
−Removed: activities totaled approximately ¥16.2 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2015, and was primarily attributable to
−Removed: net income adjusted to reconcile to net cash used in operating activities of ¥0.2 million, which primarily included ¥2.0
−Removed: million of share based compensation, an adjustment for a ¥4.1 million change in fair value of a warrant liability and a ¥1.9
−Removed: million loss from warrant redemptions.
−Removed: Net cash used in changes in operating assets and liabilities resulted in a net cash used
−Removed: of ¥17.9 million, which was mainly due to a ¥10.4 million change in accounts receivable, a ¥4.8 million change in inventory,
−Removed: a ¥5.6 million change in other receivable, a ¥1.6 million change in prepaid expense, and a ¥1.6 million change in deferred
−Removed: income, offset by a ¥1.8 million change in purchase advance and a ¥6.0 million change in trade payable and other payable.
−Removed: Our net cash used in operating activities were primarily for purchases of inventories for projects in the upcoming quarters.
+Added: The decrease in net
+Added: cash used in operating activities for the three months ended September 30, 2015, is primarily attributable to the decrease in net
+Added: income and other payables to related parties offset by a ¥4.6 million ($0.7 million) change in accounts receivable due from
+Added: related parties, ¥1.7 million ($0.3 million) change in accounts receivable due from third parties, and ¥1.5 million ($0.2
+Added: million) change in taxes payable.
+Added: The reason of the decrease in accounts receivable is due to more timely payment from our customers.
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, 2015, which remained flat as compared to the same period of 2014.
−Removed: A ¥0.3 million increase in the purchase of property and
−Removed: equipment was offset by the proceeds from disposal of equipment.
+Added: Net cash used in investing activities was approximately ¥0.5 million ($0.1million) for the three months ended
+Added: September 30, 2015, representing an increase of approximately ¥0.4 million ($0.1 million) as compared to the same period in
+Added: This was due to an increase in the Company’s purchase of additional property and equipment.
Cash from Financing
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing activities amounted to ¥3.0 million ($0.5 million) for the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2015, as compared to cash flows provided by financing activities of approximately ¥11.9 million for the same period
−Removed: During the nine-month period ended March 31, 2015, we repaid ¥2.0 million ($0.3 million) in short term bank loans
−Removed: and received ¥5.0 million ($0.9 million) of net proceeds from a related party.
+Added: Net cash used in financing activities amounted to ¥7.1 million ($1.1 million) for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2015, as compared to cash flows used in financing activities of 2.0 million for the same period in 2014.
+Added: During the three-month
+Added: period ended September 30, 2015, we repaid ¥9.1 million ($1.4 million) in short-term borrowings to two related parties and
+Added: received ¥1.8 million ($0.3 million) in loans from one related party.
Working Capital .
−Removed: Total working capital as of March 31, 2015 amounted to approximately ¥90.0 million ($14.7 million), compared to approximately
+Added: Total working capital as of September 30, 2015 amounted to approximately ¥66.5 million ($10.5 million), compared to approximately
¥72.4 million as of June 30, 2015.
−Removed: Total current assets as of March 31, 2015 amounted to approximately ¥141.8 million ($23.2
−Removed: million), an increase of approximately ¥8.4 million ($1.5 million) compared to approximately ¥133.4 million at June 30,
−Removed: The increase in total current assets at March 31, 2015 compared to June 30, 2014 was mainly due to an increase in trade accounts
−Removed: receivable, inventory and other receivables.
+Added: Total current assets as of September 30, 2015 amounted to approximately ¥109.4 million
+Added: ($17.2 million), a decrease of approximately ¥15.1 million ($2.4 million) compared to approximately ¥124.5 million at June
+Added: The decrease in total current assets at September 30, 2015 compared to June 30, 2015 was mainly due to a decrease in
+Added: cash and cash equivalents and related party trade accounts.
Current liabilities
−Removed: amounted to approximately ¥51.7 million ($8.5 million) at March 31, 2015, in comparison to approximately ¥50.3 million
+Added: amounted to approximately ¥42.9 million ($6.8 million) at September 30, 2015, in comparison to approximately ¥52.1 million
at June 30, 2015.
−Removed: This decrease of liabilities was attributable mainly to a decrease in warrant liability and short-term bank loans,
−Removed: offset by an increase in trade accounts payable and short-term borrowings –
−Removed: related party.
+Added: This decrease of liabilities was attributable mainly to a decrease in short-term borrowings - related parties
+Added: and other payable-related parties, offset by an increase in taxes payable.
+Added: Capital Needs.
Our management believes that our current operations can satisfy our daily working capital needs.
−Removed: We may also raise
−Removed: capital through public offering or private placement to finance further expansion of our business and to consummate any
−Removed: possible merge and acquisition, if necessary.
−Removed: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.
+Added: We may also raise capital through
+Added: public offering or private placement to finance the development of our business and to consummate a merger and acquisition, if
+Added: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market
Not applicable.
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