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been included, and all such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature.
−Removed: Operating results for the three and nine months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results that can be expected for the year ending September 30, 2020 or any
−Removed: future period.
−Removed: CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: Operating results for the three months ended December
+Added: 31, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results that can be expected for the year ending September 30, 2021.
September 30,
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Operating lease ROU asset
−Removed: Fixed assets, net
LIABILITIES & STOCKHOLDERS’
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Accrued compensation
−Removed: Operating lease liability
−Removed: Paycheck Protection Program loan
+Added: Operating lease liability –
+Added: current portion
+Added: Paycheck protection program loan –
+Added: current portion
Deferred revenue
Total current liabilities
+Added: Paycheck protection program loan –
Operating lease liability –
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Total liabilities
−Removed: Commitments and contingencies
Series A convertible preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019
+Added: nil and 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2020, respectively
Common stock, $0.01 par value, 681,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 40,642,953 and 40,792,510 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, respectively
−Removed: Treasury stock, at cost 149,557 shares
+Added: 27,377,696 and 27,505,196 shares outstanding;
+Added: and 40,792,510 and 40,792,510 issued as of December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2020, respectively
+Added: Treasury stock, at cost 13,414,814 and 13,287,314 shares as of December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2020, respectively
Additional paid-in capital
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accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.
−Removed: CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
OF OPERATIONS
Three Months Ended
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
Cost of revenues
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General and administrative
−Removed: Selling and marketing
+Added: Sales and marketing
Research and development
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Operating loss
−Removed: Other income (expense)
−Removed: Loss on disposal of asset
−Removed: Interest income
−Removed: $ (1,157,743 )
−Removed: $ (2,123,227 )
−Removed: $ (6,334,079 )
+Added: Other income (expenses)
+Added: Interest income (expense), net
$ (2,108,089 )
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accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.
−Removed: CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
+Added: Three Months Ended
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
$ (2,108,089 )
−Removed: $ (4,633,027 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash flows used in operating activities:
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Net loss on disposal of asset
−Removed: Impairment loss
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
−Removed: Prepaid expenses and other
+Added: Prepaid expenses and other assets
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
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CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Purchases of fixed assets
+Added: Purchase of fixed assets
Net cash used in investing activities
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
+Added: Purchase of preferred stock
Purchase of treasury stock
−Removed: Proceeds from PPA loan
−Removed: Refund of over subscription
−Removed: Net cash provided (used) in financing activities
+Added: Net cash used in financing activities
DECREASE IN CASH
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NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Capitalization of ROU asset
−Removed: ST operating lease liability recorded
−Removed: LT operating lease liability recorded
+Added: ST operating lease liability
+Added: LT operating lease liability
accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited financial statements.
−Removed: CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
OF STOCKHOLDERS’
Stockholders’
−Removed: For the Nine Months ended June
−Removed: Balance at September 30, 2019
−Removed: $ (61,456,533 )
−Removed: Options issued to directors & employees
−Removed: Purchase of treasury stock
−Removed: $ (6,334,079 )
−Removed: Balance at June 30, 2020
−Removed: $ (67,790,612 )
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: For the Three Months ended June
−Removed: Balance at March 31,2020
−Removed: $ (66,632,869 )
−Removed: Options issued to directors & employees
−Removed: Purchase of treasury stock
+Added: the Three Months ended December 31, 2020
+Added: at September 30, 2020
$ (68,426,608 )
−Removed: Balance at June 30, 2020
+Added: Preferred and treasury
+Added: shares acquired
+Added: Stock option expense
+Added: issued to directors & employees
+Added: at December 31, 2020
$ (69,226,343 )
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended June
+Added: the Three Months Ended December 31, 2019
Balance at September 30, 2019
$ (61,456,533 )
−Removed: Common stock issued for services
−Removed: Correction of common stock outstanding
−Removed: Common stock issued to employee
−Removed: Refund oversubscription
−Removed: Balance at June 30, 2019
−Removed: $ (59,255,540 )
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
−Removed: Balance at March 31, 2019
−Removed: $ (57,132,313 )
−Removed: Balance at June 30, 2019
+Added: Stock option expense issued to directors & employees
+Added: Balance at December 30, 2019
$ (63,564,622 )
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TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: THE THREE MONTHS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020 AND 2019
+Added: 1 - DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Corporation (the “Company”
−Removed: or “Cipherloc”) was incorporated in Texas on June 22, 1953 as American Mortgage
−Removed: Effective August 27, 2014, the Company changed its name to Cipherloc Corporation.
+Added: or “Cipherloc”) was incorporated in the State of Texas on June 22, 1953 under
+Added: the name “American Mortgage Company.”
+Added: Effective August 27, 2014, we changed our name to “Cipherloc Corporation.”
+Added: Our headquarters are located at 6836 Bee Cave Road, Building 1, S#279, Austin, TX 78746.
+Added: Our website is www.cipherloc.net .
+Added: 2 - GOING CONCERN
+Added: do not believe that our existing cash balances are sufficient to fund future operations for the next 12 months.
+Added: We are considering
+Added: options to issue additional equity as a means to increase liquidity sufficient to fund operations into the start of calendar year
+Added: If we are unsuccessful doing so, then the Company will cease operations.
+Added: December 31, 2020, the Company had not yet achieved profitable operations.
+Added: We had a net loss of approximately $7.0 million for
+Added: the year ended September 30, 2020 and had an accumulated deficit in aggregate of approximately $69.2 million from our inception
+Added: through December 31, 2020.
+Added: We expect to incur further losses in the development of our business.
+Added: These conditions raise substantial
+Added: doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on its ability to generate future profitable operations and/or
+Added: to obtain the necessary financing to meet its obligations and repay its liabilities arising from normal business operations when
+Added: they come due.
+Added: Management’s plan to address the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern includes:
+Added: (1) obtaining
+Added: debt or equity funding from private placement or institutional sources;
+Added: (2) generating cash flow from operations.
+Added: Although management
+Added: believes that it will be able to obtain the necessary funding to allow the Company to remain a going concern through the methods
+Added: discussed above, there can be no assurances that such methods will prove successful.
+Added: financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern and therefore, the financial
+Added: statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets
+Added: or the amount and classifications of liabilities that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
3 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION OF INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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principles for interim financial information in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X.
−Removed: In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation
−Removed: have been included.
−Removed: results for the three and nine months ended June 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for
−Removed: the year ending September 30, 2020 or any future period.
−Removed: Notes to the unaudited interim financial statements that would substantially
−Removed: duplicate the disclosures contained in the audited financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2019 have been omitted;
−Removed: this report should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the footnotes thereto for the fiscal year
−Removed: ended September 30, 2019 included within the Company’s Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
+Added: In our opinion, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation have
+Added: been included.
+Added: results for the three months ended December 31, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the
+Added: year ending September 30, 2021.
+Added: Notes to the unaudited interim financial statements that would substantially duplicate the disclosures
+Added: contained in the audited financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2020 have been omitted; this report should
+Added: be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the footnotes thereto for the fiscal year ended September 30,
+Added: 2020 included within the Company’s Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
4 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity at the time of purchase of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: At June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, cash includes cash on hand and cash in the bank.
−Removed: The Company maintains its cash in accounts
−Removed: held by a large, globally recognized bank, and the balance of such accounts, at times, may exceed federally insured limits, as
−Removed: guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”).
−Removed: The FDIC insures these deposits up to $250,000.
−Removed: At June 30, 2020, $1,977,830 of the Company’s cash balance was uninsured.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2020, cash includes cash on hand and cash in the bank.
+Added: The balance of such accounts, at
+Added: times, may exceed federally insured limits, as guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”).
+Added: FDIC insures these deposits up to $250,000.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, $149,876 of the Company’s cash balance was uninsured.
and Diluted Net Loss per Common Share
−Removed: net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss for the period by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding
−Removed: during the reporting period.
−Removed: The weighted-average number of shares is calculated by taking the number of shares outstanding and
−Removed: weighting them by the amount of time that they were outstanding.
−Removed: Diluted net loss per share reflects the potential dilution that
−Removed: could occur if stock options, warrants, and other commitments to issue common stock were exercised or equity awards vest, resulting
−Removed: in the issuance of common stock that could share in the earnings of the Company.
−Removed: net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share during periods where net losses are incurred because the inclusion
−Removed: of the potential common stock equivalents would be anti-dilutive as a result of the net loss.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2020, and September
+Added: loss per share is computed by dividing net loss available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares
+Added: outstanding during the reporting period.
+Added: The weighted average number of shares is calculated by taking the number of shares outstanding
+Added: and weighting them by the amount of time that they were outstanding.
+Added: Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential dilution
+Added: that could occur if stock options, warrants, and other commitments to issue common stock were exercised or equity awards vest,
+Added: resulting in the issuance of common stock that could share in the earnings of the Company.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, and December
31, 2019, the Company had 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding, which are convertible into 1,500,000 shares of common
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended June 30, 2020, 24,146,866 warrants and 1,000,000 as converted shares of convertible
−Removed: preferred stock were excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share because their effect would be anti-dilutive.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended June 30, 2019, 25,015,866 warrants to purchase common stock and 1,500,000 as converted
−Removed: shares of convertible preferred stock were excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share because their effect would
−Removed: be anti-dilutive.
+Added: loss per share is the same as basic loss per share during periods where net losses are incurred since the inclusion of the potential
+Added: common stock equivalents would be anti-dilutive as a result of the net loss.
+Added: During the three months ended December 31, 2020,
+Added: 23,746,866 warrants, 800,000 stock options and 1,000,000 shares of convertible preferred stock were excluded from the calculation
+Added: of diluted loss per share because their effect would be anti-dilutive.
+Added: During the three months ended December 31, 2019, 24,216,866
+Added: warrants and 1,000,000 shares of convertible preferred stock were excluded from the calculation of diluted loss per share because
+Added: their effect would be anti-dilutive.
and Development and Software Development Costs
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Our research and development
−Removed: costs incurred for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 were $1,544,205 and $1,303,680, respectively.
+Added: costs incurred for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 were $121,793 and $566,015, respectively.
Company recognizes revenues in accordance with the provisions of Accounting Standards Update 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts
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and a series of amendments which together we identify as “ASC Topic 606”.
−Removed: This new accounting
−Removed: standard, which we adopted on October 1, 2018 using the permitted modified retrospective method, outlines a single comprehensive
−Removed: model for entities to use in accounting for revenues arising from contracts with customers.
−Removed: The new standard supersedes most previous
−Removed: revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance.
−Removed: The effect of the adoption of ASC Topic 606 on retained earnings
−Removed: as of October 1, 2018 was not material.
−Removed: The differences between our reported operating results for the nine months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2020, which reflect the application of the new standard on our contracts, and the results that would have been reported if
−Removed: the accounting was performed pursuant to the accounting standards previously in effect, also were not material.
to the new revenue recognition guidance is a five-step revenue recognition model that requires reporting entities to:
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performance of providing access to its intellectual property as the performance occurs.
−Removed: Software License Agreement
−Removed: Company entered into a one-year agreement renewable for up to 4 years for an annual $50,000 Shield license fee and $25,000 watermark
−Removed: base license fee with SoundFi LLC (“SoundFi”).
−Removed: Residual income to the Company is earned based on the number of audio
−Removed: files downloaded per year with residual earnings of $.012 per download exceeding 3,000,001 and scaling up to $.00075 per download
−Removed: exceeding 100,000,000.
−Removed: In February 2020, the company received $25,000 for the watermark base license fee.
−Removed: In May 2020, the company
−Removed: received $10,000 for Shield license fee.
−Removed: During the nine months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recognized $39,233 in licensing
−Removed: The Company has determined the best method for measuring licensing revenue to be the passage of time and more specifically
−Removed: on a monthly basis.
−Removed: The recognition of residual income occurs on an annual basis based on download volume provided by SoundFi.
−Removed: A download is defined as an audio file downloaded to a mobile device from the SoundFi servers.
+Added: License Agreements
+Added: fiscal the fiscal year ended September 30, 2019, the Company entered into a one-year agreement with SoundFi LLC (“SoundFi”)
+Added: which automatically renews for subsequent one-year periods unless otherwise terminated by either party.
+Added: Cipherloc received $25,000
+Added: from SoundFi during the year ended September 30, 2020.
+Added: Company executed an annual software licensing agreement with Castle Shield during the year ended September 30, 2020 which also
+Added: include auto-renewing terms.
+Added: Castle Shield made a $10,000 payment to the Company based on the terms of their agreement with Cipherloc.
+Added: the three-months ended December 31, 2020, the Company recognized $8,750 in licensing revenue from the SoundFi and Castle Shield
Accounting Pronouncements
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corrections, (iii) are not applicable to the Company or (iv) are not expected to have a significant impact on the Company.
+Added: December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740):
+Added: Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes.
+Added: guidance removes certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740 and enhances and simplifies various aspects of the
+Added: income tax accounting guidance, including requirements such as tax basis step-up in goodwill obtained in a transaction that is
+Added: not a business combination, ownership changes in investments, and interim-period accounting for enacted changes in tax law.
+Added: standard is effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020.
+Added: adoption is permitted.
+Added: The Company are currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2019-12 on its financial statements, which is effective
+Added: for the Company in its fiscal year and interim periods beginning on October 1, 2021.
August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820) –
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periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2018-13 on October 1, 2019 and the
−Removed: adoption of this update did not have a material impact on the Company’s notes to the financial statements.
+Added: Company adopted ASU 2018-13 on October 1, 2020 and the adoption of this update did not have a material impact on the Company’s
+Added: financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07, Compensation –
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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
−Removed: Company is currently not involved in any litigation that it believes could have a material adverse effect on its financial condition
−Removed: or results of operations.
−Removed: disgruntled former consultant has brought an action in Texas state court against the Company and its former chief executive officer,
−Removed: alleging fraud and misrepresentation pertaining to stock and payments alleged to be owed to the consultant.
−Removed: The Company believes
−Removed: it has made all required payments and delivered the stock to the consultant.
−Removed: The consultant has also included a claim of partial
−Removed: ownership of certain of the Company’s patents, which management believes is without merit.
−Removed: The case is currently being defended
−Removed: by the Company and costs relating thereto have been submitted to the Company’s insurance carrier.
+Added: than as set forth below, the Company is not currently involved in any litigation that it believes could have a material adverse
+Added: effect on its financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: December 2017, a disgruntled former consultant brought an action
+Added: in Texas state court against the Company and its former chief executive officer, alleging fraud and misrepresentation pertaining
+Added: to stock and payments alleged to be owed to the consultant.
+Added: The Company believes it has made all required payments and delivered
+Added: the stock to the consultant.
+Added: The consultant also included a claim of partial ownership of certain of the Company’s patents,
+Added: which the Company believes is without merit.
+Added: The case is currently being defended by the Company.
August 2019, the Board of Directors formed a special committee of independent directors (the “Special Committee”)
to investigate certain activities of Michael De La Garza (“De La Garza”), our former chief executive officer.
−Removed: Special Committee has retained legal counsel, and is authorized to retain forensic accountants, to assist the investigation.
−Removed: August 2019, the Company initiated litigation against De La Garza in the District Court of Travis Country, Texas (the “Court”)
−Removed: in order to stop him from misappropriating the company’s trade secrets, depleting its monies and other assets, damaging
−Removed: the value of the company in the marketplace, and holding himself out as the company’s CEO.
−Removed: On September 25, 2019, the Court
−Removed: entered a temporary injunction against De La Garza enjoining him from numerous acts including representing himself as the Company’s
−Removed: CEO and from interfering with the current CEO’s management of the company.
−Removed: This litigation is ongoing, and its resolution
−Removed: The Special Committee is investigating certain activities of De La Garza, including the Ageos, LLC Operating Agreement,
−Removed: the QHCI/Noun note receivable, an advance/bonus, personal expenditures, and other items.
−Removed: All amounts expended have been expensed
−Removed: as of September 30, 2019.
−Removed: No amounts have been recorded in these financial statements as expected recoveries.
−Removed: The Company is seeking to invalidate the
−Removed: issuance of 10 million shares of Cipherloc preferred stock and the associated conversion of 9 million preferred shares into 13.5
−Removed: million shares of common stock.
−Removed: Specifically, the Company is asking the court to invalidate the unauthorized issuance of 3 million
−Removed: shares of preferred stock to De La Garza and 1 million preferred shares to former director and chief financial officer, Pamela
−Removed: Thompson, which stock is now being held by the Carmel Trust II, in or around 2011.
−Removed: The Company is also seeking to invalidate the
−Removed: subsequent issuance of 6 million preferred shares to De La Garza in 2015 and the conversion of the combined 9 million preferred
−Removed: shares allegedly held by De La Garza into 13.5 million shares of common stock in 2018.
−Removed: As such, the Company has sued both De La
−Removed: Garza and James LaGanke, as Trustee of Carmel Trust II, in federal court as part of its efforts to invalidate those shares.
−Removed: Company alleges that both De La Garza and Thompson failed to comply with both state law and Company bylaws when they caused the
−Removed: Company to issue the preferred stock to themselves as purported compensation.
−Removed: The lawsuit is ongoing, and its resolution is unknown.
−Removed: March 2019, the Company guaranteed a lease on behalf of Ageos, LLC in McLean, Virginia.
−Removed: The lease has a term of three years for
−Removed: 4,359 square feet of space in McClean, Virginia.
−Removed: The initial rent cost is $7,991 per month and the lease agreement provides for
−Removed: annual rent increases of approximately 4.0%.
−Removed: The amount of future payments guaranteed is $267,389.
−Removed: The agreement with Ageos was
−Removed: terminated in August 2019 and the Company has made an unwritten offer to assume the lease.
−Removed: No amounts have been accrued for this
−Removed: commitment as of June 30, 2020.
−Removed: February 2019, the Company and the landlord for its leased office space in Buda, Texas entered into a new lease agreement, and
−Removed: the Company reduced its rented space from approximately 3,900 to 1,302 square feet.
−Removed: The new lease was effective February 1, 2019
−Removed: and has a three-year term.
−Removed: The initial monthly rent is $2,566, and the lease agreement provides for annual rent increases of approximately
−Removed: The lease automatically renews for a three-year term, unless either party to the lease agreement notifies the other of the
−Removed: intent to terminate the lease in writing at least 180 days prior to the expiration of the current term.
−Removed: In July 2020, the Company
−Removed: executed a lease termination agreement with the landlord for an early termination fee of $10,546.20 and forfeited the existing
−Removed: security deposit of $2,566.03.
−Removed: There are no future payments related to this lease.
−Removed: October 2018, the Company leased approximately 3,900 square feet of office space on North Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale, Arizona.
−Removed: The lease for this facility began on October 4, 2018 and continues until October 31, 2021.
−Removed: Annual rent of $77,180 was prepaid
−Removed: for the first year from November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019, and the lease agreement provides for annual rent increases of approximately
−Removed: In June 2020, the Company executed a lease termination agreement with the landlord for an early termination fee of $27,013
−Removed: and forfeited the existing security deposit of $9,796.03.
−Removed: There are no future payments related to this lease.
+Added: in that same month, the Company initiated litigation against De La Garza in the District Court of Travis Country, Texas (the “Court”).
+Added: On September 25, 2019, the Court entered a temporary injunction against De La Garza enjoining him from numerous acts.
+Added: Committee investigated certain activities of De La Garza, including the Ageos, LLC Operating Agreement, the QHCI/Noun note receivable,
+Added: an advance/bonus, personal expenditures, and other items.
+Added: All amounts expended have been expensed as of September 30, 2019.
+Added: Company also sued De La Garza, among others, in federal district court seeking to invalidate the issuance of Series A preferred
+Added: stock to him in 2015.
+Added: The preferred shares were converted to 13.5 million shares of common stock by De La Garza during 2018.
+Added: litigation with De La Garza was settled on August 28, 2020 with De La Garza and the Company entering into a Settlement Agreement,
+Added: whereby De La Garza agreed to return 13.1 million shares of common stock to the Company and the Company agreed to pay De La Garza
+Added: $400,000 between September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2021.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, Cipherloc owed $75,000 in settlement payments
+Added: which will be made in $25,000 equal payments on March 1, 2021, June 1, 2021, and September 1, 2021, respectively.
+Added: Company also sought to invalidate the issuance of 1 million shares of the Company’s Series A preferred stock in or around
+Added: 2011 to former director and chief financial officer, Pamela Thompson, which stock was being held by the Carmel Trust II.
+Added: the Company initiated an action against James LeGanke, as Trustee of Carmel Trust II, in federal district court as part of its
+Added: efforts to invalidate those shares.
+Added: The Company alleged that Thompson failed to comply with both state law and the Company bylaws
+Added: when she De La Garza caused the Company to issue the preferred stock to themselves as purported compensation.
+Added: The action was settled
+Added: on January 11, 2021, for $50,000 in exchange for the return of the 1,000,000 shares of Series A preferred stock and 127,500 shares
+Added: of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: The settlement payment was included in the December 31, 2020 balance sheet as an accrued
+Added: October, 2020, Ageos, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company
+Added: (“Ageos”), filed a Third Party Complaint against the Company (Third Party Case No.
+Added: GV20015643-00) in connection with
+Added: the pending action titled Scandium, LLC v.
+Added: Ageos, LLC (Case No.
+Added: GV20014313-00) in the General District Court for Fairfax County
+Added: in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
+Added: The action relates to an operating agreement, by and between the Company and Ageos, whereby the
+Added: Company agreed to guarantee Ageos’s lease in order to enable the leasing of space in Fairfax County, VA.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: subsequently terminated the agreement with Ageos and offered to take over the space as an accommodation.
+Added: Ageos declined.
+Added: Ageos’s
+Added: third party complaint demands from the Company, among other things, all damages obtained by Scandium, LLC against Ageos;
+Added: other compensatory damages in connection with certain lease payments under the lease discussed above;
+Added: and (iii) pre-judgment interest.
+Added: This lawsuit is ongoing, and its resolution is unknown.
+Added: of December 31, 2020, the Company had one lease agreement for facilities.
February 2020, the Company leased approximately 3,666 square feet of office space on 2107 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia.
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The amount of future payments guaranteed is $782,214.
−Removed: the result of restructuring actions intended to conserve cash during the COVID-19 crisis, the landlords of the North Scottsdale
−Removed: Road and the Wilson Boulevard spaces were notified that the Company no longer needed the spaces and is seeking an amicable and
−Removed: reasonable termination of the lease agreements.
−Removed: significant accounting policies are detailed in Note 2 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Changes to our accounting policies as a result of adopting ASU 2016-02 are discussed below.
−Removed: of June 30, 2020, the Company had two lease agreements for facilities.
−Removed: Some leases include options to extend for one or more years.
−Removed: These options are included in the lease term when it is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised.
−Removed: with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on our Balance Sheet;
−Removed: we recognize lease expense for these leases on
−Removed: a straight-line basis over the lease term.
−Removed: Leases with initial terms in excess of 12 months are recorded as operating or financing
−Removed: leases in our Balance Sheet.
−Removed: assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the
−Removed: lease term at commencement date.
−Removed: As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use a secured incremental borrowing
−Removed: rates based on the information available at commencement date, including lease term, in determining the present value of future
−Removed: The operating lease asset also includes any lease payments made and excludes lease incentives and initial direct costs
−Removed: Our lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the option will
−Removed: be exercised.
−Removed: inception, the Company determines if an arrangement contains a lease and whether that lease meets the classification criteria
−Removed: of a finance or operating lease.
−Removed: Some of the Company’s lease arrangements contain lease components (e.g.
−Removed: minimum rent payments)
−Removed: and non-lease components (e.g.
−Removed: maintenance, labor charges, etc.).
−Removed: The Company generally accounts for each component separately
−Removed: based on the estimated standalone price of each component.
−Removed: For certain leases, the Company accounts for the lease and non-lease
−Removed: components as a single lease component.
−Removed: Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
+Added: the result of restructuring actions intended to conserve cash during the COVID-19 crisis, the landlord of the Wilson Boulevard
+Added: space was notified that the Company no longer needed the space and is seeking an amicable and reasonable termination of the lease
+Added: Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenant.
leases are included in operating lease ROU lease assets, and operating lease liabilities and operating long-term lease liabilities
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Lease income is not material
−Removed: to the results of operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2020.
−Removed: The Company announced a corporate restructuring on June 30,
−Removed: 2020 which will result in the abandonment of certain office spaces.
−Removed: The Company has recorded an impairment charge of approximately
−Removed: $382,962 which is the estimate of the future payments less projected sublease income from the abandoned office space.
+Added: to the results of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020.
initial right-of-use asset of $233,751 was recognized as a non-cash asset addition with the adoption of the new lease accounting
−Removed: Cash paid for amounts included in the present value of operating lease liabilities was $28,534 during third quarter
−Removed: 2020 and is included in operating cash flows.
−Removed: In February 2020, the Company’s new lease in Arlington, Virginia added approximately
−Removed: $734,000 in new lease obligations.
−Removed: weighted average remaining lease terms and discount rates for all of our operating lease were as follows as of June 30, 2020:
+Added: In February 2020, the Company’s new lease in Arlington, Virginia added approximately $746,000 in new lease obligations.
+Added: Cash paid for amounts included in the present value of operating lease liabilities was $39,868 during first quarter 2021 and is
+Added: included in operating cash flows.
+Added: weighted average remaining lease terms and discount rates for all of our operating lease were as follows as of December 31, 2020:
Remaining lease term and discount rate:
−Removed: June 30, 2020
+Added: December 31, 2020
Weighted average remaining lease terms (years)
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judgements include the discount rates applied, the expected lease terms, and lease renewal options.
−Removed: There are three leases with
−Removed: a renewal option.
−Removed: Using the practical expedient, the Company utilized existing lease classifications as of September 30, 2019.
−Removed: As a result, the lease renewal options were not changed on implementation.
−Removed: annual minimum lease obligations at June 30, 2020 are as follows:
+Added: annual minimum lease obligations at December 31, 2020 are as follows:
Year ending September 30
−Removed: expense totaled $177,785 and $118,602 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively
−Removed: April 6, 2020, to supplement its cash balance, the Company submitted their application for a Paycheck Protection Program loan
−Removed: (“SBA loan”) in the amount of $365,430.
−Removed: On April 12, 2020, Company’s SBA loan application was approved, and
−Removed: the Company received loan proceeds on April 22, 2020.
−Removed: The SBA loan has an interest rate of 1% and matures in April 12, 2022.
−Removed: 1106 of the CARES Act provides for forgiveness of up to the full principal amount of qualifying loans guaranteed under the PPP.
−Removed: The PPP and loan forgiveness are intended to provide economic relief to small businesses, such as the Company, that are adversely
−Removed: impacted under the COVID-19 Emergency Declaration issued by President Trump on March 13, 2020.
+Added: expense totaled $38,279 and $22,744 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: April 6, 2020, to supplement its cash balance, the Company submitted their application for a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”)
+Added: loan (the “SBA loan”) sponsored by the U.S.
+Added: Small Business Administration in the amount of $365,430.
+Added: 2020, Company’s SBA loan application was approved, and the Company received loan proceeds on April 22, 2020.
+Added: has an interest rate of 1% and matures on April 12, 2022.
+Added: 1106 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) provides for forgiveness of up to the
+Added: full principal amount of qualifying loans guaranteed under the PPP.
+Added: The PPP and loan forgiveness are intended to provide economic
+Added: relief to small businesses, such as the Company, that are adversely impacted under the COVID-19 Emergency Declaration issued by
+Added: President Donald J.
+Added: Trump on March 13, 2020.
+Added: a result of staff reductions during 2020, the Company expects the ultimate amount of loan forgiveness to be less the original
+Added: principal of the PPP SBA loan.
+Added: PPP loan balance at December 31, 2020 was $365,430.
+Added: The Company filed for partial loan forgiveness on January 29, 2021 but has
+Added: not received approval of its forgiveness application as of the time of this filing.
7 - STOCKHOLDERS’
−Removed: Company is authorized to issue 681,000,000 common shares and 10,000,000 preferred shares at a par value of $0.01 per share.
−Removed: determines the fair value of stock issuances using the closing stock price on the grant date.
−Removed: the nine months ended June 30, 2020, the Company came to a settlement with First Fire and purchased back 149,557 shares and recorded
−Removed: such shares as Treasury Stock.
−Removed: First Fire received $150,000 in exchange for the 149,557 shares and associated warrants.
−Removed: outstanding share of preferred stock is convertible into the Company’s common stock at a rate of one preferred share to
−Removed: 1.5 common shares.
−Removed: Each share of preferred stock has 1.5 votes on all matters presented to be voted by the holders of common stock.
+Added: EQUITY (DEFICIT)
+Added: Company is authorized to issue 681,000,000 common shares and 1,000,000 preferred shares, each at a par value of $0.01 per share.
+Added: the three months ended December 31, 2020, there were no issuances of common stock.
+Added: the three months ended December 31, 2019, the Company issued 620,000 shares of stock options to the employees with a fair value
+Added: of $459,019, of which $12,751 was recorded as stock-based compensation expenses in research and development, marketing and general
+Added: administration expense.
+Added: Options will vest over a three-year period ratably.
+Added: Of the 620,000 options, 500,000 options have a strike
+Added: price of $0.78 and the remaining 120,000 have a strike price of $0.81.
+Added: Total stock compensation expense was $51,574 for the quarter
+Added: ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: A Preferred Stock
+Added: outstanding share of Series A preferred stock is convertible into the Company’s common stock at a rate of one preferred
+Added: share to 1.5 common shares.
+Added: Each share of preferred stock has 1.5 votes on all matters presented to be voted by the holders of
+Added: common stock.
The holders of preferred stock can only convert the shares upon approval of the Company’s board of directors.
−Removed: by the board of directors, holders of preferred stock are entitled to receive dividends prior and in preference to any declaration
−Removed: or payment of any dividend on the common stock of the Company.
−Removed: In the event of liquidation or dissolution of the Company, holders
−Removed: of preferred stock shall be paid out of the assets of the Company prior and in preference to any payment or distribution to holders
−Removed: of common stock of the Company.
−Removed: 7 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
−Removed: were no related party transactions.
+Added: If declared by the board of directors, holders of preferred stock are entitled to receive dividends prior and in preference to
+Added: any declaration or payment of any dividend on the common stock of the Company.
+Added: In the event of liquidation or dissolution of the
+Added: Company, holders of preferred stock shall be paid out of the assets of the Company prior and in preference to any payment or distribution
+Added: to holders of common stock of the Company.
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
−Removed: were no subsequent events as of the filing of this report.
+Added: January 11, 2021, settlement was reached in relation to suit filed by the Company against James LeGanke, as Trustee of Carmel
+Added: Trust II, and was settled for $50,000 in exchange for the return of 1,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and 127,500 shares
+Added: of common stock to the Company.
+Added: February 5, 2021 the Company filed amendments to its Articles of Incorporation with the Texas Secretary of State.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: this Quarterly Report, “Cipherloc,”
−Removed: “Company,”
+Added: this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, “Company,”
+Added: “Cipherloc,”
“our company,”
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and “our”
−Removed: refer to Cipherloc Corporation, unless the context requires otherwise.
+Added: refer to Cipherloc Corporation and its subsidiaries, unless the context requires otherwise.
Forward-Looking
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is a data security solutions company.
−Removed: We are developing an innovative, polymorphic encryption technology designed to enable a
−Removed: significant additional layer of protection to existing solutions.
−Removed: The Company has five international patents and four US patents.
−Removed: We expect to be the industry’s first “Polymorphic Cipher Engine,”
−Removed: called Cipherloc ®
−Removed: to offer the first secure commercially viable advanced “Polymorphic Key Progression Algorithmic Cipher Engine”
−Removed: (“PKPA”)
−Removed: that can be used in any commercial data security industry and/or in sensitive applications.
−Removed: of Operations for the three and nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Revenue decreased to $8,750 for the
−Removed: three months ended June 30, 2020 compared with $27,850 for the same period in 2019.
−Removed: Revenue increased to $39,233 for the
−Removed: nine months ended June 30,2020 compared with $27,850 in 2019.
−Removed: The current fiscal year revenue is attributed to a contract
−Removed: with SoundFi.
−Removed: and administrative expenses were $833,260 and $947,309 for the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: The decreases
−Removed: in general and administrative expenses primarily resulted from a decrease in miscellaneous expense of $416,000 as a result of
−Removed: payments to QHI and Noun Energy, a decrease in headcount related expenses of $156,000 and a decrease in various other expenses
−Removed: $7,000 offset by an increase in legal fees of $465,000.
−Removed: and administrative expenses were $4,114,084 and $1,986,090 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: increase in general and administrative expenses were primarily due to the increase in legal expenses of $1,584,000, an increase
−Removed: in impairment loss on the ROU assets of $382,962, an increase in headcount related expenses of $271,000, an increase in board
−Removed: and professional fees of $170,000, and an increase in various other expenses of $135,000 offset by decrease in miscellaneous expense
−Removed: of $416,000 as a result of payments to QHI and Noun Energy.
−Removed: and marketing expenses decrease to $107,842 from $728,270, for the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: decrease is a result of lower consultant fees of $297,000 and lower marketing expense of $35,000.
−Removed: Selling and marketing expenses decreased to
−Removed: $695,245 from $1,377,045 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Sales and marketing expenses
−Removed: decreased due to lower consultant fees of $897,000 offset by an increase in headcount related costs of $232,000.
−Removed: and developments costs were $205,613 and $478,108 for the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: The decrease is in headcount
−Removed: related costs of $264,000 and a decrease in consultant fees of $9,900.
−Removed: and development costs were $1,338,592 and $1,303,680 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: and development expenses increased primarily as a result of higher consultant costs of $561,000 offset by a decrease in headcount
−Removed: related expense of $321,000.
−Removed: income, net, decreased to $0 from $5,938 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: We are developing products and services around our patented polymorphic encryption technology
+Added: designed to enable a more efficient and stronger layer of protection to be added to existing solutions.
+Added: Through a licensing program,
+Added: we anticipate offering the first secure commercially viable advanced “Polymorphic Encryption Core”
+Added: (“PEC”)
+Added: software developers kit to be used in any commercial data security industry and/or in sensitive applications.
+Added: innovative and patented polymorphic technology eliminates the flaws and inadequacies associated with today’s encryption
+Added: Instead of dealing with large monolithic blocks of data, our approach decomposes the information to be protected into
+Added: multiple segments.
+Added: These individual segments each have a unique encryption key, utilize different encryption algorithms, are randomly
+Added: grouped into different lengths, and can be further re-encrypted.
+Added: Since segments are independent from each other and are individually
+Added: protected, our technology is not susceptible to computational attacks.
+Added: In fact, the strength of our technology improves as compute
+Added: power increases.
+Added: of Operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: decreased to $8,750 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 from $18,750 for the three months ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: and administrative expenses decreased to $661,692 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 from $1,304,780 for the three months
+Added: ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: General and administrative expenses decreased primarily as a result of a decrease in legal fees of $370,000,
+Added: a decrease headcount related costs including combined payroll, consulting, and travel costs of $243,000, decreases in various
+Added: other expenses of $47,000, decreases in professional fees, consulting fees and contract services of $40,000 offset by an increase
+Added: in corporate insurance of $57,000.
+Added: and marketing expenses decreased to $25,000 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 from $256,044 for the three months ended
+Added: December 31, 2019.
+Added: Sales and marketing expenses decreased primarily as a result of a decrease in consultant expenses of $134,000,
+Added: a decrease in headcount related costs of $67,000, a decrease in travel related costs of $17,000 and a decrease in marketing spend
+Added: related costs of $13,000.
+Added: and development costs decreased to $121,793 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 from $566,015 for the three months ended
+Added: December 31, 2019.
+Added: Research and development expenses decreased primarily as a result of a decrease in consulting costs of $248,000
+Added: and a decrease in headcount related costs of $196,000.
and Capital Resources
−Removed: At June 30, 2020, the Company had cash
−Removed: of $2,227,830 and an accumulated deficit at June 30, 2020 of $67,790,612.
−Removed: We expect to decrease expenses but will still generate
−Removed: continued operating losses until we develop revenues in excess of our operating costs.
−Removed: In assessing its liquidity, management
−Removed: monitors and analyzes the Company’s cash balance, the ability to generate sufficient revenue sources in the future, and
−Removed: its operating and capital expenditure commitments.
−Removed: The Company plans to fund the business through its operations, bank borrowings
−Removed: and, if necessary, additional financing from investors.
−Removed: Based on the current operating plan, management believes that the above-mentioned
−Removed: measures collectively will provide sufficient liquidity for the Company to meet its future operating and capital requirements
−Removed: for at least the next twelve months from the date of this report.
−Removed: If necessary, we believe we can raise capital on terms that
−Removed: are favorable to the Company;
−Removed: however, there are risks which may inhibit the Company’s ability to raise capital sufficient
−Removed: to continue funding the business long term.
−Removed: following table summarizes, for the periods indicated, selected items in our statements of cash flow:
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Net cash (used in) provided by:
+Added: had an accumulated deficit at December 31, 2020 of $69,226,343.
+Added: We expect to incur substantial expenses and generate continued
+Added: operating losses until we generate revenues sufficient to meet our obligations.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, we had cash of $399,876.
+Added: We do not believe that our existing cash balances are sufficient to fund future operations for the next 12 months.
+Added: We are considering
+Added: options to issue additional equity as a means to increase liquidity sufficient to fund operations and resources needed to add
+Added: new customers and products.
+Added: following table summarizes, for the periods indicated, selected items in our condensed Statements of Cash Flows:
+Added: Three Months Ended
+Added: Net cash (used in):
Operating activities
$ (2,148,092 )
−Removed: $ (4,324,550 )
Investing activities
Financing activities
−Removed: used in operating activities was $5,798,100 and $4,324,550 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: change in cash used in operating activities was primarily due to increases in net loss because of increases in operating expenses
−Removed: described above.
−Removed: The net loss increase was partially offset by positive changes in accounts payable and prepaid expenses.
−Removed: used in investing activities was $28,972 and $37,059 for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: provided/(used) in financing activities was $215,430 and $(40,000) for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: The increase in cash provided by financing activities was due to the PPA Loan of $356,430 offset by the legal settlement with
−Removed: First Fire and the purchase of Treasury Stock for $150,000.
−Removed: Last year, a single investor was refunded $40,000 which had been refunded
−Removed: as an oversubscription, and for which shares were not issued.
+Added: used in operating activities was $679,963 and $2,148,092 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: The uses of cash during the quarter ended December 31, 2020 were attributable to a net loss of $899,735 which was offset by a
+Added: non-cash stock compensation expense of $41,025 and a decrease in net operating assets and liabilities of $128,748.
+Added: in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to a decrease in prepaid and other assets of $136,393 and an increase
+Added: in accounts payable and accrued liabilities of $51,105.
+Added: The Company used cash during the year to pay for the cost of general and
+Added: administrative, sales and marketing, and research and development activities which combined to be $858,485.
+Added: used in financing activities was $50,000 and $0 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: used in financing activities was in relation to suit filed by the Company against James LeGanke, as Trustee of Carmel Trust II,
+Added: and was settled for $50,000 in exchange for the return of 1,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and 127,500 shares of common
+Added: stock to the Company.
+Added: used in investing activities was $0 and $13,841 for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: used in investing activities was the result of fixed asset purchases.
Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: have no off-balance sheet arrangements, including arrangements that would affect the liquidity, capital resources, market risk
−Removed: support, and credit risk support or other benefits.
+Added: did not have during the periods presented, nor do we currently have, any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined under applicable
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
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