CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and
−Removed: We maintain a system
−Removed: of disclosure controls and procedures (as such item is defined in Rules 13a –
+Added: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: We maintain a system of disclosure
+Added: controls and procedures (as such item is defined in Rules 13a –
15(e) and 15d –
−Removed: the Exchange Act) that is designed to provide reasonable assurance that information, which is required to be disclosed by us in
−Removed: the reports that we file or submit under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized
−Removed: and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is accumulated
−Removed: and communicated to management in a timely manner.
−Removed: Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have evaluated this
−Removed: system of disclosure controls and procedures in accordance with applicable Securities and Exchange Commission guidance as of the
−Removed: end of the period covered by this annual report, and have concluded that disclosure controls and procedures were not effective
−Removed: because of the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting as discussed below.
−Removed: Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over
−Removed: Financial Reporting
+Added: 15(e) of the Exchange Act)
+Added: that is designed to provide reasonable assurance that information, which is required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file
+Added: or submit under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
+Added: specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is accumulated and communicated to management in
+Added: a timely manner.
+Added: Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have evaluated this system of disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: in accordance with applicable Securities and Exchange Commission guidance as of the end of the period covered by this annual report, and
+Added: have concluded that disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
+Added: Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial
Our management, including
−Removed: our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
−Removed: and the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with US GAAP.
−Removed: control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:
−Removed: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that
−Removed: in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
−Removed: reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in
−Removed: accordance with US GAAP, and that the Company’s receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations
−Removed: of management and directors of the Company;
−Removed: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection
−Removed: of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect
−Removed: misstatements.
−Removed: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may
−Removed: become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: Our Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting based on the 1992 framework in Internal Control —
−Removed: Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of
−Removed: Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, management concluded that the Company’s internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting was not effective as of March 31, 2020 because of the material weakness in internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting as discussed below.
−Removed: Material weaknesses
−Removed: arose in our oversight of the accounting function as well as the disclosure controls and procedures of the Hong Kong Joint Venture
−Removed: The HKJV is a material component of the Company’s consolidated financial statements during the period covered by
−Removed: Effective March 31, 2020 the Company sold its interest in the HKJV, and accordingly, the sale of the Company’s
−Removed: interest in the HKJV will remediate the necessity to design and implement appropriate disclosure controls and procedures in subsequent
−Removed: reporting periods.
−Removed: Changes in Internal Control over
−Removed: Financial Reporting .
−Removed: Effective in the quarter
−Removed: ended March 31, 2020 the Company sold its interest in the ownership of its former Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: Accordingly, the sale
−Removed: of the Company’s interest in the HKJV will remediate the necessity to design and implement appropriate disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures in subsequent reporting periods.
−Removed: There have been no other changes in internal control over financial reporting that
−Removed: have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, internal control over financial reporting during the quarter
−Removed: ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over
+Added: financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
+Added: preparation of our consolidated financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with US GAAP.
+Added: Internal control over
+Added: financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:
+Added: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail
+Added: accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
+Added: (ii) provide reasonable assurance that
+Added: transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, and that
+Added: the Company’s receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the
+Added: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition
+Added: of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Because of its inherent limitations,
+Added: internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness
+Added: to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of
+Added: compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: Our Chief Financial Officer,
+Added: with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting based on the 1992 framework in Internal Control —
+Added: Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
+Added: of the Treadway Commission.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, management concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
+Added: was effective.
+Added: in Internal Control over Financial Reporting .
+Added: There have been no other changes
+Added: in internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, internal control
+Added: over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
OTHER INFORMATION
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DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
+Added: The information with respect
+Added: to the identity and business experience of the directors of the Company and their remuneration set forth in the section captioned “Election
+Added: of Directors”
+Added: in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement filed pursuant to Regulation 14A and issued in conjunction with
+Added: the 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Proxy Statement”) is incorporated herein by reference.
The information with
−Removed: respect to the identity and business experience of the directors of the Company and their remuneration set forth in the section
−Removed: captioned “Election of Directors”
−Removed: in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement filed pursuant to Regulation 14A
−Removed: and issued in conjunction with the 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Proxy Statement”) is incorporated herein
−Removed: by reference.
−Removed: The information with respect to the identity and business experience of executive officers of the Company is set
−Removed: forth in Part I of this Form 10-K.
−Removed: The information with respect to the Company’s Audit Committee is incorporated
−Removed: herein by reference to the section captioned “Meetings and Committees of the Board of Directors”
+Added: respect to the identity and business experience of executive officers of the Company is set forth in Part I of this Form 10-K.
+Added: The information with respect to the Company’s Audit Committee is incorporated herein by reference to the section captioned “Meetings
+Added: and Committees of the Board of Directors”
in the Proxy Statement.
−Removed: The information with respect to compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act is incorporated herein by reference
−Removed: to the section captioned “Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act”
+Added: The information with respect to compliance with Section 16(a) of
+Added: the Exchange Act is incorporated herein by reference to the section captioned “Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange
in the Proxy Statement.
−Removed: information with respect to the Company’s Code of Ethics is incorporated herein by reference to the section captioned “Code
−Removed: of Ethics”
+Added: The information with respect to the Company’s Code of Ethics is incorporated herein by reference
+Added: to the section captioned “Code of Ethics”
in the Proxy Statement.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
−Removed: The information required
−Removed: by this item is incorporated herein by reference to the sections captioned “Director Compensation”
−Removed: and “Executive
−Removed: Compensation”
+Added: The information required by
+Added: this item is incorporated herein by reference to the sections captioned “Director Compensation”
+Added: and “Executive Compensation”
in the Proxy Statement.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The information required
−Removed: by this item regarding security ownership is incorporated herein by reference to the sections captioned “Beneficial Ownership”
+Added: The information required by
+Added: this item regarding security ownership is incorporated herein by reference to the sections captioned “Beneficial Ownership”
and “Information Regarding Share Ownership of Management”
in the Proxy Statement.
−Removed: Information required by this item
−Removed: regarding our equity compensation plans is incorporated herein by reference to the Section entitled “Executive Compensation”
−Removed: in the Proxy Statement.
−Removed: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
−Removed: The information required
−Removed: by this item is incorporated herein by reference to the sections captioned “Transactions with Management”, if any,
−Removed: and “Election of Directors”
+Added: Information required by this item regarding
+Added: our equity compensation plans is incorporated herein by reference to the Section entitled “Executive Compensation”
+Added: the Proxy Statement.
+Added: RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
+Added: The information required by
+Added: this item is incorporated herein by reference to the sections captioned “Transactions with Management”, if any, and “Election
+Added: of Directors”
in the Proxy Statement.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
−Removed: The information required
−Removed: by this item is incorporated herein by reference to the section captioned “Independent Registered Public Accountants”
−Removed: in the Proxy Statement.
+Added: The information required by
+Added: this item is incorporated herein by reference to the section captioned “Independent Registered Public Accountants”
+Added: Proxy Statement.
Financial Statements .
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Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended March 31, 2021 and 2020
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the Years Ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the Years Ended March 31, 2021 and 2020
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’
2 unchanged sentences
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Exhibits required to be filed
−Removed: by Item 601 of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly
−Removed: Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 1988, File No.
−Removed: Articles Supplementary, filed October 14, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1
−Removed: to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed October 31, 2002, file No.
−Removed: Bylaws, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current
−Removed: Report on Form 8-K filed July 13, 2011, File No.
−Removed: 2011 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Proxy
−Removed: Statement with respect to the Company’s 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, filed July 26, 2011, File No.
−Removed: Hong Kong Joint Venture Agreement, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1
−Removed: to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2003, File No.
−Removed: Discount Factoring Agreement between the Registrant and Merchant Factors Corp., dated January 6,
−Removed: 2015 (substantially identical agreement entered into by USI’s wholly-owned subsidiary, USI Electric, Inc.) (incorporated
−Removed: by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 16, 2015, file
−Removed: Lease between Universal Security Instruments, Inc.
+Added: Exhibits required to be filed by Item
+Added: 601 of Regulation S-K.
+Added: Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31,
+Added: 1988, File No.
+Added: Articles Supplementary,
+Added: filed October 14, 2003 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K
+Added: filed October 31, 2002, file No.
+Added: Bylaws, as amended (incorporated
+Added: by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 13, 2011, File No.
+Added: 2011 Non-Qualified Stock
+Added: Option Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Proxy Statement with respect to the Company’s 2011 Annual Meeting
+Added: of Shareholders, filed July 26, 2011, File No.
+Added: Hong Kong Joint Venture
+Added: Agreement, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for
+Added: the year ended March 31, 2003, File No.
+Added: Discount Factoring Agreement
+Added: between the Registrant and Merchant Factors Corp., dated January 6, 2015 (substantially identical agreement entered into by
+Added: USI’s wholly-owned subsidiary, USI Electric, Inc.) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s
+Added: Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 16, 2015, file No.
+Added: Lease between Universal
+Added: Security Instruments, Inc.
John Properties, Inc.
−Removed: dated November 4, 2008 for its office and warehouse located at 11407 Cronhill Drive, Suites A-D, Owings Mills, Maryland
−Removed: 21117 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period
−Removed: ended December 31, 2008, File No.
−Removed: Amendment to Lease between Universal Security Instruments, Inc.
+Added: dated November 4, 2008 for its office and warehouse located
+Added: at 11407 Cronhill Drive, Suites A-D, Owings Mills, Maryland 21117 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s
+Added: Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2008, File No.
+Added: Amendment to Lease between
+Added: Universal Security Instruments, Inc.
John Properties, Inc.
−Removed: dated June 23, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K
−Removed: for the year ended March 31, 2009, File No.
−Removed: Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated July 18, 2007 between the Company and Harvey B.
+Added: dated June 23, 2009 (incorporated by reference
+Added: to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2009, File No.
+Added: Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated July 18,
+Added: 2007 between the Company and Harvey B.
Grossblatt ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2007, File No.
−Removed: 1-31747 ), as amended by Addendum dated November 13, 2007 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed November 15, 2007, File No.
−Removed: 1-31747 ), by Addendum dated
−Removed: September 8, 2008 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed September 8, 2008, File No.
−Removed: 1-31747 ), by Addendum dated March 11, 2010 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed March 12, 2010, File No.
+Added: 1-31747 ), as amended by Addendum dated
+Added: November 13, 2007 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed November 15, 2007, File No.
+Added: 1-31747 ), by Addendum dated September 8, 2008 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed September 8, 2008, File No.
+Added: 1-31747 ), by Addendum dated March 11,
+Added: 2010 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed March 12, 2010, File No.
1-31747 ), by Addendum dated July 19, 2012 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 20, 2012, File No.
2 unchanged sentences
1-31747 ) ), by addendum dated July 23, 2015 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 28, 2015, File No.
+Added: 1-31747 ), by
+Added: addendum dated July 12, 2016 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 12, 2016, File No.
1-31747 ) by addendum dated July 18, 2017 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 20, 2017, File No.
+Added: 1-31747 ), by addendum dated July 9,
+Added: 2018 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 9, 2018, File No.
1-31747 ), by addendum dated July 12, 2019 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 16, 2019, File No.
−Removed: by addendum dated July 9, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report
−Removed: on Form 8-K filed July 9, 2018, File No.
−Removed: 1-31747), by addendum dated July 12, 2019 (incorporated by reference
−Removed: to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 16, 2019, File No.
−Removed: and by addendum dated July 27, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current
−Removed: Report on Form 8-K filed July 27, 2020, File No.
−Removed: 21 Subsidiaries of the Registrant (incorporated by reference
−Removed: to Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2012, File No.
−Removed: 23.1 Independent Registered Public
−Removed: Accounting Firm’s Consent*
+Added: 1-31747 ), and by addendum dated July 27, 2020 ( incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 27, 2020, File No.
+Added: Subsidiaries of the
+Added: Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31,
+Added: 2012, File No.
+Added: Independent Registered Public Accounting
+Added: Firm’s Consent
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer*
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Section 1350 Certifications*
−Removed: Press Release dated August 10, 2020*
−Removed: Interactive data files providing financial information
−Removed: from the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 in XBRL (eXtensible
−Removed: Business Reporting Language) pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T:
−Removed: (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets as of
−Removed: March 31, 2020 and 2019;
+Added: Press Release dated July 8, 2021*
+Added: Interactive data files providing financial information from the
+Added: Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 in XBRL (eXtensible Business
+Added: Reporting Language) pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T:
+Added: (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2021 and
(ii) Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020;
−Removed: (iii) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: (iv) Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’
+Added: (iii) Consolidated
+Added: Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 (iv) Consolidated Statements of
+Added: Shareholders’
Equity for the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020;
−Removed: (v) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019;
−Removed: and (vi) Notes to
−Removed: Consolidated Financial Statements*
+Added: (v) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the
+Added: years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020;
+Added: and (vi) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements*
*Filed herewith.
Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
−Removed: on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
+Added: behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: August 11, 2020
/s/ Harvey B.
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Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant
−Removed: and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
+Added: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in
+Added: the capacities and on the dates indicated.
/s/ Harvey B.
President, Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: August 11, 2020
Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: August 11, 2020
(principal financial officer and
1 unchanged sentence
/s/ Cary Luskin
−Removed: August 11, 2020
/s/ Ronald A.
−Removed: August 11, 2020
/s/ Ira Bormel
−Removed: August 11, 2020
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
−Removed: ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
To the Audit Committee of the
Board of Directors and Shareholders
−Removed: of Universal Security Instruments, Inc.
+Added: Universal Security Instruments, Inc.
and Subsidiary
2 unchanged sentences
balance sheets of Universal Security Instruments, Inc.
−Removed: and Subsidiary (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2020
−Removed: and 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, shareholders’
−Removed: equity and cash flows for
−Removed: each of the two years in the period ended March 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial
−Removed: statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
−Removed: the Company as of March 31, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years
−Removed: in the period ended March 31, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: and Subsidiary (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2021 and 2020, the related
+Added: consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), shareholders’
+Added: equity and cash flows for each of the two years
+Added: in the period ended March 31, 2021, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2021
+Added: and 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended March 31, 2021, in conformity
+Added: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
2 unchanged sentences
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB")
−Removed: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable
−Removed: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with
−Removed: the standards of the PCAOB .
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about
−Removed: whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required
−Removed: to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits we are
−Removed: required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
−Removed: on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are
+Added: required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and
+Added: regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the
+Added: standards of the PCAOB .
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
+Added: the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were
+Added: we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding
+Added: of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures
−Removed: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
−Removed: that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures
−Removed: in the financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
−Removed: by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a
−Removed: reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures to assess
+Added: the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond
+Added: to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating
+Added: the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Critical Audit Matters
+Added: Critical audit matters are matters arising from
+Added: the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging,
+Added: subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: We determined that there are no critical audit matters.
/s/ Marcum LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2015.
−Removed: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
−Removed: August 11, 2020
+Added: Philadelphia, PA
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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Receivables from employees
−Removed: Receivable from Hong Kong Joint Venture
Amount due from factor
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TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS
−Removed: INVESTMENT IN HONG KONG JOINT VENTURE
INTANGIBLE ASSETS - NET
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Accumulated Deficit
−Removed: Accumulated other comprehensive income
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS’
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these consolidated financial statements
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these consolidated financial statements
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
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Research and development expense
−Removed: Operating (loss) income
−Removed: Other expense:
+Added: Operating income (loss)
+Added: Other income (expense):
+Added: Forgiveness of debt –
Loss from investment in Hong Kong Joint Venture
Interest expense, net
−Removed: Loss before income taxes
−Removed: Income tax benefit
−Removed: Loss per share:
+Added: Earnings (Loss) before income taxes
+Added: Income tax expense
+Added: NET INCOME (LOSS)
+Added: $ (5,813,891 )
+Added: Earnings (Loss) per share:
Basic and diluted
−Removed: Shares used in computing net loss per share:
+Added: Shares used in computing net earnings (loss) per share:
Weighted average basis and diluted shares outstanding
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these consolidated financial statements
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these consolidated financial statements
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Year Ended March 31,
−Removed: $ (5,813,891 )
+Added: NET INCOME (LOSS)
$ (5,813,891 )
−Removed: Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income
+Added: Other Comprehensive Loss
Company’s Portion of Hong Kong
Joint Venture’s Other Comprehensive
−Removed: (Loss) Income:
Currency translation loss
−Removed: Unrealized (loss) gain on investment securities
+Added: Unrealized loss on investment securities
Reclassification adjustment for gain included in net loss
Total Other Comprehensive Loss
−Removed: COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
−Removed: $ (6,425,647 )
+Added: COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
$ (6,425,647 )
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these consolidated financial statements
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these consolidated financial statements
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’
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Currency translation loss
−Removed: Unrealized gain on investment securities
−Removed: Balance at March 31, 2019
−Removed: Currency translation loss
Unrealized loss on investment securities
Reclassification
−Removed: adjustment for gain included in net loss
+Added: adjustment for
+Added: gain included
Balance at March 31, 2020
+Added: Balance at March 31, 2021
$ (8,192,414 )
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these consolidated financial statements
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these consolidated financial statements
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
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OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: $ (5,813,891 )
+Added: Net Income (loss)
$ (5,813,891 )
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
+Added: Forgiveness of debt –
+Added: Paycheck Protection Program
Depreciation of right-of-use asset
+Added: Increase in allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
Loss from investment in Hong Kong Joint Venture
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
−Removed: Decrease (Increase) in accounts receivable and amounts due from factor
−Removed: Decrease (Increase) in inventories
−Removed: Decrease in prepaid expenses
−Removed: (Decrease) Increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses
+Added: (Increase) Decrease in accounts receivable and amounts due from factor
+Added: Decrease in inventories
+Added: (Increase) Decrease in prepaid expenses
+Added: Increase (Decrease) in accounts payable and accrued expenses
Decrease in operating lease liability
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FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Net (repayment of) proceeds from line of credit - factor
−Removed: NET CASH (USED IN) PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: (DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH
+Added: Proceeds from –
+Added: Paycheck Protection Program
+Added: Net repayment of line of credit - factor
+Added: NET CASH USED IN FINANCING ACTIVITIES
+Added: INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH
Cash at beginning of period
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Right-of-use asset in exchange for operating lease liability
−Removed: Reduction in accounts payable –
−Removed: Eyston Company Ltd arising from the sale of the investment in the Hong Kong Joint Venture
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral
−Removed: part of these consolidated financial statements
+Added: Conversion of trade accounts payable to note payable
+Added: Reduction in trade accounts payable to Eyston Co.
+Added: arising from the sale of
+Added: the Hong Kong Joint Venture
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these consolidated financial statements
UNIVERSAL SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, INC.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARY
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE A –
−Removed: NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT
−Removed: ACCOUNTING POLICIES
−Removed: Nature of Business:
−Removed: Universal Security
−Removed: Instruments, Inc.’s (the “Company”) primary business is the sale of smoke alarms and other safety products
−Removed: to retailers, wholesale distributors and to the electrical distribution trade which includes electrical and lighting distributors
−Removed: as well as manufactured housing companies.
−Removed: The Company imports all of its safety and other products from foreign manufacturers.
−Removed: The Company, as an importer, is subject to tariffs which vary depending on types of products and country of origin, changes in
−Removed: economic and political conditions in the country of manufacture, potential trade restrictions and currency fluctuations.
+Added: NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
+Added: Universal Security Instruments, Inc.’s (the “Company”) primary business is the sale of
+Added: smoke alarms and other safety products to retailers, wholesale distributors and to the electrical distribution trade which includes electrical
+Added: and lighting distributors as well as manufactured housing companies.
+Added: The Company imports all of its safety and other products from foreign
+Added: manufacturers.
+Added: The Company, as an importer, is subject to tariffs which vary depending on types of products and country of origin, changes
+Added: in economic and political conditions in the country of manufacture, potential trade restrictions and currency fluctuations.
Principles of Consolidation:
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary USI Electric, Inc.
−Removed: All significant
−Removed: intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: In 1989 we formed Eyston Company Limited (Eyston),
−Removed: a limited liability company under the laws of Hong Kong, as a 50% joint venture partner with a Hong Kong-based partner, to manufacture
−Removed: various products in the Peoples Republic of China (the “Hong Kong Joint Venture”).
−Removed: Effective March 31, 2020 we sold
−Removed: our 50% interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture in exchange for $4,000,000.
−Removed: We believe that our 50% ownership interest in the Hong
−Removed: Kong Joint Venture through the date of its sale on March 31, 2020 allowed us to significantly influence the operations of the Hong
−Removed: Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: As such, we accounted for our interest in the operations of the Hong Kong Joint Venture using the equity method
−Removed: of accounting we have included our investment balance as a non-current asset through the date of sale.
−Removed: We have included our share
−Removed: of the Hong Kong Joint Venture’s loss in our consolidated statements of operations for fiscal years ended March 31, 2020
−Removed: The investment and earnings and losses were adjusted to eliminate intercompany profits through the date of its sale on
−Removed: March 31, 2020.
−Removed: Use of Estimates:
−Removed: In preparing financial
−Removed: statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (US-GAAP), management is
−Removed: required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent
−Removed: assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
+Added: The consolidated
+Added: financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary USI Electric, Inc.
+Added: All significant intercompany
+Added: accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: In 1989 we formed Eyston Company Limited (Eyston), a limited liability
+Added: company under the laws of Hong Kong, as a 50% joint venture partner with a Hong Kong-based partner, to manufacture various products in
+Added: the Peoples Republic of China (the “Hong Kong Joint Venture”).
+Added: Effective March 31, 2020, we sold our 50% interest in the Hong
+Added: Kong Joint Venture in exchange for $4,000,000.
+Added: We believe that our 50% ownership interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture through the date
+Added: of its sale on March 31, 2020 allowed us to significantly influence the operations of the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
+Added: As such, we accounted
+Added: for our interest in the operations of the Hong Kong Joint Venture using the equity method of accounting we have included our investment
+Added: balance as a non-current asset through the date of sale.
+Added: We have included our share of the Hong Kong Joint Venture’s loss in our
+Added: consolidated statements of operations for fiscal years ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: The investment and earnings and losses were adjusted to eliminate
+Added: intercompany profits through the date of its sale on March 31, 2020.
+Added: of Estimates:
+Added: In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States
+Added: of America (US-GAAP), management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities,
+Added: the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses
+Added: during the reporting period.
Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: The Company maintains its
−Removed: cash in bank deposit accounts which, at times, may exceed federally insured limits.
−Removed: The Company has not experienced any losses
−Removed: in such accounts, and believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk with cash.
+Added: The Company maintains its cash in bank deposit accounts which, at times, may exceed federally insured limits.
+Added: The Company has not experienced
+Added: any losses in such accounts, and believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk with cash.
Revenue Recognition:
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is recognized at a point in time once the Company has determined that the customer has obtained control over the product.
−Removed: is typically deemed to have been transferred to the customer when the product is shipped or delivered to the customer.
−Removed: may not return, exchange or refuse acceptance of goods without our approval.
−Removed: Generally, the Company does not grant extended payment
−Removed: Shipping and handling costs associated with outbound freight, after control over a product has transferred to a customer,
−Removed: are accounted for as a fulfillment cost and are recorded in selling, general and administrative expense.
−Removed: The amount of revenue recognized reflects
−Removed: the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for products sold.
−Removed: Revenue is recorded at
−Removed: the transaction price net of estimates of variable consideration.
−Removed: The Company uses the expected value method based on historical
−Removed: data in considering the impact of estimates of variable consideration, which may include trade discounts, allowances, product returns
−Removed: (including rights of return) or warranty replacements.
−Removed: Estimates of variable consideration are included in revenue to the extent
−Removed: that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur.
+Added: Control is typically
+Added: deemed to have been transferred to the customer when the product is shipped or delivered to the customer.
+Added: Customers may not return, exchange
+Added: or refuse acceptance of goods without our approval.
+Added: Generally, the Company does not grant extended payment terms.
+Added: Shipping and handling
+Added: costs associated with outbound freight, after control over a product has transferred to a customer, are accounted for as a fulfillment
+Added: cost and are recorded in selling, general and administrative expense.
+Added: Remaining performance obligations represent the transaction price
+Added: of firm orders for satisfied or partially satisfied performance obligations on contracts with an original expected duration of one year
+Added: The Company’s contracts are predominantly short-term in nature with a contract term of one year or less.
+Added: For those contracts,
+Added: the Company has utilized the practical expedient in ASC Topic 606 exempting the Company from disclosure of the transaction price allocated
+Added: to remaining performance obligations if the performance obligation is part of a contract that has an original expected duration of one
+Added: year or less.
+Added: The amount of revenue recognized reflects the
+Added: consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for products sold.
+Added: Revenue is recorded at the transaction
+Added: price net of estimates of variable consideration.
+Added: The Company uses the expected value method based on historical data in considering the
+Added: impact of estimates of variable consideration, which may include trade discounts, allowances, product returns (including rights of return)
+Added: or warranty replacements.
+Added: Estimates of variable consideration are included in revenue to the extent that it is probable that a significant
+Added: reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur.
Disaggregation of Revenue:
−Removed: presents below revenue associated with sales of products acquired from Eyston, the Hong Kong Joint Venture, separately from revenue
−Removed: associated with sales of ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI’s) and ventilation fans.
−Removed: The Company believes this disaggregation
−Removed: best depicts how our various product lines perform and are affected by economic factors.
−Removed: Revenue recognized by these categories
−Removed: for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 are as follows:
+Added: The Company presents
+Added: below revenue associated with sales of safety alarm products separately from revenue associated with sales of ground fault circuit interrupters
+Added: (GFCI’s) and ventilation fans.
+Added: The Company believes this disaggregation best depicts how our various product lines perform and are
+Added: affected by economic factors.
+Added: Revenue recognized by these categories for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
Fiscal Year ended
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March 31, 2020
−Removed: Sales of safety alarms acquired from Eyston
+Added: Sales of safety alarms
Sales of GFCI’s and ventilation fans
Accounts Receivable:
−Removed: The Company assigns the majority of its
−Removed: trade receivables on a pre-approved non-recourse basis to Merchant Factors Corporation (Merchant or Factor) under a factoring agreement
−Removed: on an ongoing basis.
−Removed: Factoring charges recognized on assignment of receivables are deducted from revenue in the consolidated statements
−Removed: of operations and amounted to $118,141 and $132,137 for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Management considers amounts due from the
−Removed: Company’s factor to be “financing receivables”.
−Removed: Trade accounts receivable, other receivables, and receivables
−Removed: from our Hong Kong Joint Venture are not considered to be financing receivables.
−Removed: At the time a receivable is assigned to
−Removed: our factor, the credit risk associated with the credit worthiness of the debtor is assumed by the factor.
−Removed: The Company continues
−Removed: to bear any credit risk associated with delivery or warranty issues related to the products sold.
−Removed: Management assesses the credit risk of
−Removed: both its trade accounts receivable and its financing receivables based on the specific identification of accounts that have exceeded
−Removed: credit terms.
+Added: The Company assigns the majority of its trade
+Added: receivables on a pre-approved non-recourse basis to Merchant Factors Corporation (Merchant or Factor) under a factoring agreement on an
+Added: ongoing basis.
+Added: Factoring charges recognized on assignment of receivables are deducted from revenue in the consolidated statements of operations
+Added: and amounted to $154,267 and $118,141 for the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Management considers amounts due from the Company’s
+Added: factor to be “financing receivables”.
+Added: Trade accounts receivable, foreign receivables, and receivables from our suppliers are
+Added: not considered to be financing receivables.
+Added: At the time a receivable is assigned to our factor,
+Added: the credit risk associated with the credit worthiness of the debtor is assumed by the factor.
+Added: The Company continues to bear any credit
+Added: risk associated with delivery or warranty issues related to the products sold.
+Added: Management assesses the credit risk of both its
+Added: trade accounts receivable and its financing receivables based on the specific identification of accounts that have exceeded credit terms.
An allowance for uncollectible receivables is provided based on that assessment.
−Removed: Changes in the allowance account
−Removed: from one accounting period to the next are charged to operations in the period the change is determined.
−Removed: Amounts ultimately determined
−Removed: to be uncollectible are eliminated from the receivable accounts and from the allowance account in the period that the receivables’
−Removed: status is determined to be uncollectible.
+Added: Changes in the allowance account from one accounting
+Added: period to the next are charged to operations in the period the change is determined.
+Added: Amounts ultimately determined to be uncollectible
+Added: are eliminated from the receivable accounts and from the allowance account in the period that the receivables’
+Added: status is determined
+Added: to be uncollectible.
Based on the nature of the factoring agreement
−Removed: and prior experience, no allowance for uncollectible financing receivables has been provided.
−Removed: At March 31, 2020 and 2019,
−Removed: an allowance of $57,000 has been provided for uncollectible trade accounts receivable.
−Removed: Inventories are stated
−Removed: at the lower of cost (first in/first out method) or net realizable value.
−Removed: Included as a component of finished goods inventory are
−Removed: additional non-material costs.
+Added: and prior experience, no allowance for uncollectible financing receivables has been provided and no amounts are considered to be past
+Added: due at March 31, 2021.
+Added: At March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, an allowance of $157,000 and $57,000 has been provided for
+Added: uncollectible trade accounts receivable.
+Added: Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (first in/first out method) or net realizable value.
+Added: Included as a component of finished goods
+Added: inventory are additional non-material costs.
These costs include freight, import duty, tariffs, and inspection fees.
−Removed: Expenses incurred for inventory
−Removed: quality control in the amount of approximately $45,000 and $45,000, were absorbed in inventory for the fiscal years ended March 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Expenses incurred
+Added: for inventory quality control in the amount of approximately $45,000 and $45,000, were absorbed in inventory for the fiscal years ended
+Added: March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
We evaluate inventories on a quarterly basis and write down inventory that is considered obsolete
−Removed: or unmarketable in an amount equal to the difference between the cost of inventory and the estimated net realizable value based
−Removed: upon assumptions about future demand and market conditions.
−Removed: Impairment of long-lived assets :
−Removed: Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the
−Removed: asset may not be recoverable.
−Removed: The factors considered in performing this assessment include current operating results, anticipated
−Removed: future results, the manner in which the asset group is used and the effects of obsolescence, demand, competition and other economic
−Removed: Accordingly, when indicators of impairment are present, the Company evaluates the carrying value of these asset groups
−Removed: in relation to the operating performance of the business and future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of
−Removed: these asset groups.
+Added: or unmarketable in an amount equal to the difference between the cost of inventory and the estimated net realizable value based upon assumptions
+Added: about future demand and market conditions.
+Added: of long-lived assets :
+Added: Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that
+Added: the carrying value of the asset group may not be recoverable.
+Added: The factors considered in performing this assessment include current operating
+Added: results, anticipated future results, the manner in which the asset group is used and the effects of obsolescence, demand, competition
+Added: and other economic factors.
+Added: Accordingly, when indicators of impairment are present, the Company evaluates the carrying value of these
+Added: asset groups in relation to the operating performance of the business and future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use
+Added: of these asset groups.
Impairment losses are recognized when the sum of expected future cash flows is less than the asset groups carrying
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no impairment to long-lived assets resulted for fiscal years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020.
−Removed: Income Taxes:
−Removed: The Company recognizes
−Removed: a liability or asset for the deferred tax consequences of temporary differences between the tax basis of assets or liabilities
−Removed: and their reported amounts in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: These temporary differences may result in taxable or deductible
−Removed: amounts in future years when the reported amounts of the assets or liabilities are recovered or settled.
−Removed: The deferred tax assets
−Removed: are reviewed periodically for recoverability and a valuation allowance is provided whenever it is more likely than not that a deferred
−Removed: tax asset will not be realized.
−Removed: The Company follows Accounting Standards
−Removed: Codification (ASC) 740-10 that gives guidance to tax positions related to the recognition and measurement of a tax position taken
−Removed: or expected to be taken in a tax return and requires that we recognize in our financial statements the impact of a tax position,
−Removed: if that position is more likely than not to be sustained upon an examination, based on the technical merits of the position.
−Removed: and penalties, if any, related to income tax matters are recorded as income tax expenses.
+Added: Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception.
+Added: Right-of-use (“ROU”) assets represent the Company’s right
+Added: to use an underlying asset for the lease term, and lease liabilities represent its obligation to make lease payments arising from the
+Added: Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over
+Added: the lease term.
+Added: As most of the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company estimates the incremental borrowing
+Added: rate to discount the lease payments based on information available at lease commencement.
+Added: The Company’s lease terms may include
+Added: options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise such options.
+Added: The Company utilizes
+Added: certain practical expedients, including the election not to reassess its prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification
+Added: and initial direct costs, as well as the election not to separate lease and non-lease components for arrangements where the Company is
+Added: Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
+Added: See Note F, Leases.
+Added: The Company recognizes a liability or asset for the deferred tax consequences of temporary differences between the tax
+Added: basis of assets or liabilities and their reported amounts in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: These temporary differences may result
+Added: in taxable or deductible amounts in future years when the reported amounts of the assets or liabilities are recovered or settled.
+Added: deferred tax assets are reviewed periodically for recoverability and a valuation allowance is provided whenever it is more likely than
+Added: not that a deferred tax asset will not be realized.
+Added: The Company follows Accounting Standards Codification
+Added: (ASC) 740-10 that gives guidance to tax positions related to the recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be
+Added: taken in a tax return and requires that we recognize in our financial statements the impact of a tax position, if that position is more
+Added: likely than not to be sustained upon an examination, based on the technical merits of the position.
+Added: Interest and penalties, if any,
+Added: related to income tax matters are recorded as income tax expenses.
See Note G, Income Taxes.
−Removed: We generally provide warranties, on the safety
−Removed: products, from one to ten years to the non-commercial end user on all products sold.
−Removed: The manufacturers of our safety products provide
−Removed: us with a one-year warranty on all products we purchase for resale.
−Removed: Claims for warranty replacement of products beyond the one-year
−Removed: warranty period covered by the manufacturers have not been historically material.
−Removed: Research and Development:
−Removed: and development costs are charged to operations as incurred.
−Removed: Shipping and Handling Fees and Costs:
+Added: We generally provide warranties, on the safety products, from one to ten years to the non-commercial end user on all products sold.
+Added: manufacturers of our safety products provide us with a one-year warranty on all products we purchase for resale.
+Added: Claims for warranty replacement
+Added: of products beyond the one-year warranty period covered by the manufacturers have not been historically material.
+Added: and Development:
+Added: Research and development costs are charged to operations as incurred.
+Added: and Handling Fees and Costs:
The Company includes shipping and handling fees billed to customers in net sales.
−Removed: Shipping and handling costs associated with inbound
−Removed: freight are included in cost of goods sold.
−Removed: Shipping and handling costs associated with outbound freight are included in selling,
−Removed: general and administrative expenses and totaled $343,838 and $472,570 in fiscal years 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Foreign currency :
−Removed: The activity and
−Removed: accounts of the Hong Kong Joint Venture are denominated in Hong Kong dollars and are translated to US dollars.
−Removed: The Company translates
−Removed: the accounts of the Hong Kong Joint Venture at the applicable exchange rate in effect at the year-end date for assets and liabilities
−Removed: and at the average exchange rate for the reporting period for statement of operation purposes.
−Removed: The Company currently does not maintain
−Removed: cash in foreign banks to support its operations in Hong Kong.
−Removed: The cumulative balance of currency translation,
−Removed: a component of accumulated other comprehensive income, amounted to $561,358 at March 31, 2019.
−Removed: The reclassification of the
−Removed: realized gain from other comprehensive income is included in the loss from investment in the Hong Kong Joint Venture in the Consolidated
−Removed: Statements of Operations.
−Removed: Net Loss per Share:
−Removed: Basic net loss
−Removed: per share is computed by dividing net loss for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the
−Removed: Diluted loss per share is computed by dividing net loss for the period by the weighted average number of common shares
−Removed: and common share equivalents outstanding (unless their effect is anti-dilutive) for the period.
−Removed: As a result of the net losses,
−Removed: the weighted average number of common shares outstanding is identical for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 for both
+Added: handling costs associated with inbound freight are included in cost of goods sold.
+Added: Shipping and handling costs associated with outbound
+Added: freight are included in selling, general and administrative expenses and totaled $409,692 and $343,838 in fiscal years 2021 and 2020,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: The activity and accounts of the Hong Kong Joint Venture are denominated in Hong Kong dollars and are translated
+Added: to US dollars.
+Added: The Company translates the accounts of the Hong Kong Joint Venture at the applicable exchange rate in effect at the year-end
+Added: date for assets and liabilities and at the average exchange rate for the reporting period for statement of operation purposes.
+Added: The reclassification of the realized gain from
+Added: other comprehensive income is included in the loss from investment in the Hong Kong Joint Venture in the Consolidated Statements of Operations
+Added: for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: Net Earnings (Loss) per Share:
+Added: earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding
+Added: during the period.
+Added: Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) for the period by the weighted average
+Added: number of common shares and common share equivalents outstanding (unless their effect is anti-dilutive) for the period.
+Added: As a result of
+Added: the net loss for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, the weighted average number of common shares outstanding is identical for both
basic and diluted shares.
−Removed: In addition, there were no other securities outstanding during 2020 or 2019.
−Removed: Recently Issued Accounting Standards:
−Removed: Changes to U.S.
−Removed: GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the form of Accounting Standards Updates
−Removed: (ASU’s) to the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification.
−Removed: The Company considers the applicability and impact of all
+Added: In addition, there were no other securities outstanding during 2021 or 2020 other than common stock.
+Added: Issued Accounting Standards:
+Added: Changes to US-GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the form of
+Added: Accounting Standards Updates (ASU’s) to the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification.
+Added: The Company considers the applicability
+Added: and impact of all ASU’s.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU
−Removed: 2018-07, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718) Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting.
−Removed: This guidance expands the scope of accounting for share-based payment arrangements to include share-based payment transactions
−Removed: for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees.
−Removed: This guidance was adopted effective April 1, 2019 and did not have an
−Removed: effect on the financial statements of the Company at March 31, 2020.
−Removed: In February 2016, the FASB issued
−Removed: ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) , which sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure
−Removed: of leases for both parties to a contract (i.e., lessees and lessors).
−Removed: The new standard requires lessees to apply a dual approach,
−Removed: classifying leases as either financing or operating leases based on the principle of whether or not the lease is effectively a
−Removed: financed purchase by the lessee.
−Removed: This classification determines whether lease expense is recognized based on an effective interest
−Removed: method or on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.
−Removed: A lessee is also required to record a right-of-use asset and a lease
−Removed: liability for all leases with a term of greater than 12 months regardless of their classification.
−Removed: Leases with a term of 12 months
−Removed: or less are accounted for similar to previous guidance for operating leases with the election of the practical expedient.
−Removed: standard requires lessors to account for leases using an approach that is substantially equivalent to previous guidance for sales-type
−Removed: leases, direct financing leases and operating leases.
−Removed: The Company adopted the standard on April 1, 2019, the date it became
−Removed: effective for public companies based on the Company’s fiscal year, using the modified retrospective approach whereby the
−Removed: cumulative effect of adoption was recognized on the adoption date and prior periods were not restated.
−Removed: There was no net cumulative
−Removed: effect adjustment to the accumulated deficit as of April 1, 2019 as a result of this adoption.
−Removed: Upon adoption, the Company
−Removed: elected the package of practical expedients permitted within the standard, which among other things, allows for the carryforward
−Removed: of historical lease classification.
−Removed: The Company also elected the practical expedient provided in a subsequent amendment to the
−Removed: standard that removed the requirement to separate lease and non-lease components, provided certain conditions were met.
+Added: 2016-13, “
+Added: Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326) - Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments .”
+Added: The guidance in ASU 2016-13 requires the measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held at amortized
+Added: It replaces the existing incurred loss impairment model with an expected loss methodology, which will result in more
+Added: timely recognition of credit losses.
+Added: The Company adopted this guidance as of April 1, 2020, and the adoption of this guidance
+Added: did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
NOTE B –
LIQUIDITY AND MANAGEMENT’S PLAN
−Removed: The Company had net losses of $5,813,891
−Removed: and $1,347,986 for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: As the Company’s products are sold
−Removed: primarily to the construction industry and do-it-yourself centers, restrictions and limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: have had a negative impact on the Company’s sales.
−Removed: The Company is not yet able to quantify the full impact of the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic on its sales and financial results, but believes that the pandemic was a factor in significantly lower sales for the fourth
−Removed: quarter of its fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 when compared to sales for the 2019 period.
−Removed: Our short-term borrowings to finance operating
−Removed: losses, trade accounts receivable, and foreign inventory purchases are provided pursuant to the terms of our Factoring Agreement
−Removed: with Merchant.
−Removed: Advances from the Company’s factor, are at the sole discretion of Merchant based on their assessment of the
−Removed: Company’s receivables, inventory and financial condition at the time of each request for an advance.
−Removed: The unused availability
−Removed: of this facility totaled approximately $738,000 at March 31, 2020.
−Removed: The Company sold its fifty percent ownership in the Hong Kong
−Removed: Joint Venture effective March 31, 2020.
−Removed: The non-cash proceeds from the sale were used to reduce our trade accounts payable due
−Removed: to the Hong Kong Joint Venture by $4,000,000.
−Removed: In addition, the Company and the HKJV agreed to convert $839,831 of trade accounts
−Removed: payable to an interest only note payable.
−Removed: In April, 2020 the Company and the HKJV formalized these terms into a note payable agreement
+Added: As the Company previously reported, on August 31,
+Added: 2020, the Company received a letter from NYSE American LLC (the “Exchange”) stating that the Exchange has determined that
+Added: the Company is not in compliance with the Exchange’s continued listing requirements as the result of the Company’s failure
+Added: to maintain stockholders’
+Added: equity of $6.0 million after reporting losses from continuing operations and/or net losses in its five
+Added: most recent fiscal years.
+Added: On September 23, 2020, the Company submitted to the Exchange the Company’s plan (the “Plan”)
+Added: of actions the Company has taken or will take to regain compliance with the continued listing standards by February 28, 2022 (the
+Added: “Plan Period”).
+Added: On November 5, 2020, the Company received a letter from the Exchange advising the Company that the Exchange
+Added: has accepted the Plan and granted the Plan Period through February 28, 2022.
+Added: The Exchange will review the Company periodically to
+Added: determine whether the Company is making progress consistent with the Plan.
+Added: The Company is working diligently to execute its Plan to regain
+Added: compliance with the Exchange’s continued listing requirements.
+Added: The Company had net income of $268,343 for the
+Added: fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and a net loss of $5,813,891 for the year ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: As the Company’s products are sold primarily
+Added: to the construction industry and do-it-yourself centers, restrictions and limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have had an impact
+Added: on the Company’s sales We are not yet able to quantify the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our sales and financial results,
+Added: but we believe that during the first half of calendar 2020 (our fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 and first quarter of fiscal 2021) sales
+Added: were negatively impacted by lower sales resulting from steps taken to combat the spread of COVID-19.
+Added: Sales in our second and third fiscal
+Added: quarters ended September 30, 2020, and December 31, 2020 increased significantly when compared to sales for the comparable 2019
+Added: periods due to the Company’s ability to fill orders from inventory for a large national retailer new customer, when the national
+Added: retailer’s usual supplier was unable to fill the orders due to delays caused by the pandemic.
+Added: Our sales growth was also due to sales
+Added: of two products to another large national retailer which purchased certain of our models as a 1,350 store test, which were completed in
+Added: the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021.
+Added: Our short-term borrowings to finance operations,
+Added: trade accounts receivable, and foreign inventory purchases are provided pursuant to the terms of our Factoring Agreement with Merchant.
+Added: Advances from the Company’s factor, are at the sole discretion of Merchant based on their assessment of the Company’s receivables,
+Added: inventory and financial condition at the time of each request for an advance.
+Added: The unused availability of this facility totaled approximately
+Added: $1,795,000 at March 31, 2021.
+Added: The Company sold its fifty percent ownership in
+Added: Eyston effective March 31, 2020.
+Added: The non-cash proceeds from the sale were used to reduce our trade accounts payable due to Eyston
+Added: by $4,000,000.
+Added: In addition, the Company and Eyston agreed to convert $1,081,440 of trade accounts payable to an interest only note payable
with a maturity date of April 19, 2022.
−Removed: Until March 31, 2020 the Company had secured extended payment terms for purchases up to
−Removed: $4,000,000 from our Hong Kong Joint Venture for the purchase of sealed battery alarms.
−Removed: These amounts were unsecured, incurred interest
−Removed: at 5.5% per annum, and provided for repayment terms of 120 days for each purchase.
−Removed: Subsequent to March 31, 2020 Eyston will continue
−Removed: to be the Company’s principal supplier of safety alarms and the Company will pay for these purchases upon evidence of shipment
−Removed: from the factory.
−Removed: We anticipate, now
−Removed: that our complete line of sealed smoke and carbon monoxide alarms has been introduced, that these products will compete on price
−Removed: and functionality with similar products offered by our larger competitors.
−Removed: While we believe there will be market acceptance of
−Removed: our products we cannot be assured of this.
−Removed: Should our products not achieve the level of acceptance we anticipate this will have
−Removed: a significant impact on our future operations and potentially impact our ability to continue operations.
−Removed: The Company has a history of sales that are insufficient to
−Removed: generate profitable operations, and has limited sources of financing.
−Removed: Management’s plan in response to these conditions includes
−Removed: increasing sales resulting from the delivery of the Company’s line of sealed battery ionization smoke alarms, carbon monoxide
−Removed: products, and ground fault circuit interrupters.
−Removed: In addition, effective March 31, 2020, the Company sold its ownership interest
−Removed: in the Hong Kong Joint Venture reducing its current liabilities due to the Hong Kong Joint Venture by $4,000,000.
−Removed: Subsequent to
−Removed: March 31, 2020 the Company has seen positive results on this plan due to increased sales of its product offerings to a major home
−Removed: improvement retailer during the second quarter of the Company’s fiscal year ending March 31, 2021.
−Removed: The increase in sales
−Removed: to the major home improvement retailer has resulted in significant additional availability under the provisions of the Company’s
+Added: Until March 31, 2020 we had secured extended payment terms for purchases up to $4,000,000
+Added: from Eyston for the purchase of sealed battery alarms.
+Added: These amounts were unsecured, incurred interest at 5.5% per annum, and provided
+Added: for repayment terms of 120 days for each purchase.
+Added: Subsequent to March 31, 2020, Eyston continues to be the Company’s principal
+Added: supplier of safety alarms and the Company will pay for these purchases upon evidence of shipment from the factory.
+Added: We anticipate, now that our complete line of sealed
+Added: smoke and carbon monoxide alarms has been introduced, that these products will compete on price and functionality with similar products
+Added: offered by our larger competitors.
+Added: While we believe there will be market acceptance of our products we cannot be assured of this.
+Added: our products not achieve the level of acceptance we anticipate this will have a significant impact on our future operations and potentially
+Added: impact our ability to continue operations.
+Added: Prior to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 the Company has a history
+Added: of sales that were insufficient to generate profitable operations, and has limited sources of financing.
+Added: Management’s plan in response
+Added: to these conditions continues to be to increase sales resulting from the delivery of the Company’s line of sealed battery ionization
+Added: smoke alarms, carbon monoxide products, and ground fault circuit interrupters.
+Added: The Company has seen positive results on this plan due
+Added: to increased sales of its product offerings to a major home improvement retailer during the second and third quarters of the Company’s
+Added: fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.
+Added: This increase in sales has resulted in significant additional availability under the Company’s
facility with its Factor.
−Removed: Management expects this sales growth to continue going forward.
−Removed: In May, 2020 the Company received a Paycheck
−Removed: Protection Program loan of $221,400 under the CARES Act and expects the loan will be forgiven in compliance with the provisions
−Removed: Though no assurances can be given, if management’s plan continues to be successful over the next twelve months,
−Removed: the Company anticipates that it should be able to meet its cash needs for the next twelve months following the issuance date of
−Removed: Cash flows and credit availability is expected to be adequate to fund operations for one year from the issuance date
−Removed: of this report.
+Added: Management expects sales growth to continue going forward.
+Added: In May, 2020 the Company received a Paycheck Protection
+Added: Program loan of $221,400 under the CARES Act and the loan was subsequently forgiven in compliance with the provisions of the CARES Act.
+Added: Though no assurances can be given, if management’s plan continues to be successful over the next twelve months, the Company anticipates
+Added: that it should be able to meet its cash needs for the next twelve months following the issuance date of this report.
+Added: Cash flows and credit
+Added: availability is expected to be adequate to fund operations for one year from the issuance date of this report.
NOTE C –
−Removed: INVESTMENT IN THE HONG
−Removed: KONG JOINT VENTURE
−Removed: The Company held a fifty percent interest
−Removed: in Eyston Company Limited, the Hong Kong Joint Venture, which has manufacturing facilities in the People’s Republic of China,
−Removed: for the manufacturing of certain of our electronic and electrical products.
−Removed: The Company sold its fifty percent interest in the
−Removed: Hong Kong Joint Venture in exchange for $4,000,000.
−Removed: The Company recorded a loss related to the sale of the Company’s investment
−Removed: in the Hong Kong Joint Venture of $2,472,620, and a loss from its equity share of the Hong Kong Joint Venture’s net loss
−Removed: for the year ended March 31, 2020 of $1,369,655.
−Removed: The combined loss is recorded as the loss from investment in the Hong Kong
−Removed: Joint Venture on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended March 31, 2020.
−Removed: The proceeds of the sale were
−Removed: used to reduce our outstanding trade account payable balance owed to the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2019, the
−Removed: Company had an investment balance of $8,441,889, respectively for its 50% interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: material differences between US-GAAP and those used by the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
+Added: INVESTMENT IN THE HONG KONG
+Added: JOINT VENTURE
+Added: The Company held a fifty percent interest in Eyston
+Added: Company Limited, the Hong Kong Joint Venture, which has manufacturing facilities in the People’s Republic of China, for the manufacturing
+Added: of certain of our electronic and electrical products.
+Added: The Company sold its fifty percent interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture in exchange
+Added: for $4,000,000.
+Added: The Company recorded a loss related to the sale of the Company’s investment in the Hong Kong Joint Venture of $2,472,620,
+Added: and a loss from its equity share of the Hong Kong Joint Venture’s net loss for the year ended March 31, 2020 of $1,369,655.
+Added: The combined loss is recorded as the loss from investment in the Hong Kong Joint Venture on the Consolidated Statements of Operations
+Added: for the year ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: The proceeds of the sale were used to reduce our outstanding trade account payable balance owed
+Added: to the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
+Added: There are no material differences between US-GAAP and those used by the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
The following represents summarized financial
−Removed: information derived from the financial statements of the Hong Kong Joint Venture as of March 31, 2019 and for the years ended
−Removed: March 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: Current assets
−Removed: Property and other assets
−Removed: Current liabilities
−Removed: Non-current liabilities
−Removed: Total liabilities and equity
+Added: information derived from the financial statements of the Hong Kong Joint Venture for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020.
For the Year Ended March 31,
−Removed: During the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company
−Removed: purchased $7,335,646 and $10,982,518, respectively, of finished product from the Hong Kong Joint Venture, which represents 82.7%
−Removed: and 87.2%, respectively, of the Company’s total finished product purchases.
−Removed: Effective March 31, 2020, the Company sold its fifty
−Removed: percent ownership interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture and converted $839,831 of trade accounts payable due to the Hong
−Removed: Kong Joint Venture to an unsecured long-term interest only note payable in April 2020.
−Removed: Interest is based on the Shanghai
−Removed: Commercial Bank Limited in Hong Kong US Dollar prime rate published on the first day of each calendar month plus 2% (5.25%
+Added: During the year ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company purchased
+Added: $7,612,131 and $7,335,646, respectively, of finished product from Eyston, which represented 77.6% and 82.7%, respectively, of the Company’s
+Added: total finished product purchases.
+Added: Effective March 31, 2020, the Company sold
+Added: its fifty percent ownership interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture and converted $1,081,440 of trade accounts payable due to the Hong
+Added: Kong Joint Venture to an unsecured long-term interest only note payable with the principal balance due in April 2022.
+Added: based on the Shanghai Commercial Bank Limited in Hong Kong US Dollar prime rate published on the first day of each calendar month plus
2% (5.25% effective rate at March 31, 2020) and is payable monthly.
−Removed: The principal balance of $839,831 is due and payable on
−Removed: April 19, 2022.
−Removed: The Company has reflected this amount as a noncurrent liability at March 31, 2020 as the terms of
−Removed: sale were completed with the HKJV in connection with the sale.
−Removed: At March 31, 2019, the Company had outstanding $4,962,023
−Removed: under an extended payment term agreement with the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: The extended payment term agreement was canceled
−Removed: with the sale of the Company’s interest in the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: The agreement previously had provided for
−Removed: extended payment terms for the purchase of inventory from the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: Purchases under the agreement were
−Removed: limited to $4,000,000, incurred interest at 5.50%, are for a term of one hundred-twenty (120) days, and were unsecured.
−Removed: Dividends declared and paid by the Hong Kong Joint Venture, which amounted to $0 for the fiscal years ended March 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019, are first used to repay any outstanding balance on the agreement.
−Removed: The balance outstanding under this agreement
−Removed: at March 31, 2019 is $4,962,023 with $2,758,960 of this amount being beyond agreed repayment terms.
−Removed: The Company’s investment in the Hong
−Removed: Kong Joint Venture at March 31, 2019, as recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets and through the date
−Removed: of sale, has been adjusted for the effect of intercompany profit of the Hong Kong Joint Venture in the ending inventory of the
+Added: For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 the Company had
+Added: secured extended payment terms for purchases up to $4,000,000 from Eyston for the purchase of sealed battery alarms.
+Added: These amounts were
+Added: unsecured, incurred interest at 5.5% per annum, and provided for repayment terms of 120 days for each purchase.
NOTE D –
SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS AND CREDIT ARRANGEMENTS
−Removed: On January 15, 2015, the Company entered
−Removed: into an Agreement with Merchant for the purpose of factoring the Company’s trade accounts receivable and to provide financing
−Removed: secured by finished goods inventory.
−Removed: Under the modified Agreement the Company may borrow eighty percent (80%) of eligible accounts
−Removed: Additional funding, characterized by Merchant as an over advance, may be provided up to one hundred percent (100%)
−Removed: of eligible accounts receivable.
−Removed: The over advance portion, if any, may not exceed fifty percent (50%) of eligible inventory up
−Removed: to a maximum of $500,000.
−Removed: The Agreement which was extended on January 7, 2020, expires on January 6, 2022, and provides
−Removed: for continuation of the program for successive two year periods until terminated by one of the parties to the Agreement.
−Removed: available to borrow from Merchant is approximately $738,000 and $605,000 at March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: on factored trade accounts receivable and borrowing on inventories are secured by all of the Company’s trade accounts receivable
−Removed: and inventories, are repaid periodically as collections are made by Merchant but are otherwise due upon demand, and bear interest
−Removed: at the prime commercial rate of interest, as published, plus two percent (effective rate 5.25% at March 31, 2020 and 7.50%
−Removed: at March 31, 2019).
−Removed: Advances under the Agreement are made at the sole discretion of Merchant, based on their assessment of
−Removed: the receivables, inventory and our financial condition at the time of each request for an advance.
+Added: On January 15, 2015, the Company entered into
+Added: an Agreement with Merchant for the purpose of factoring the Company’s trade accounts receivable and to provide financing secured
+Added: by finished goods inventory.
+Added: Under the modified Agreement the Company may borrow eighty percent (80%) of eligible accounts receivable.
+Added: Additional funding, characterized by Merchant as an over advance, may be provided up to one hundred percent (100%) of eligible accounts
+Added: The over advance portion, if any, may not exceed fifty percent (50%) of eligible inventory up to a maximum of $500,000.
+Added: Agreement which was extended and expires on January 6, 2022, provides for continuation of the program for successive two year periods
+Added: until terminated by one of the parties to the Agreement.
+Added: The amount available to borrow from Merchant is approximately $1,795,000 and
+Added: $738,000 at March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Advances on factored trade accounts receivable and borrowing on inventories are secured
+Added: by all of the Company’s trade accounts receivable and inventories, are repaid periodically as collections are made by Merchant but
+Added: are otherwise due upon demand, and bear interest at the prime commercial rate of interest, as published, plus two percent (effective rate
+Added: 5.25% at March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020).
+Added: Advances under the Agreement are made at the sole discretion of Merchant, based on their
+Added: assessment of the receivables, inventory and our financial condition at the time of each request for an advance.
At March 31, 2021 and
−Removed: there was $1,561,665 and $1,851,591 borrowed and outstanding under the factoring agreement.
−Removed: Under the Agreement, the Company assigned
−Removed: receivables of $14,162,999 and $16,868,324 during the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: The uncollected balance
−Removed: of non-recourse receivables held by the factor amounted to $2,300,109 and $2,549,986 at March 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: cash maintained on deposit at March 31, 2020 and 2019 with the factor earns interest at the factor’s prime rate of interest
−Removed: less 2.5 percent (effective rate of 0.75% and 3.00% at March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.) There was no cash on deposit
−Removed: with the Factor at March 31, 2020 or 2019.
+Added: 2020 there was $18,904 and $1,561,665 borrowed and outstanding under the factoring agreement, respectively.
+Added: Under the Agreement, the Company assigned receivables
+Added: of $17,003,317 and $14,162,999 during the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: The uncollected balance of non-recourse
+Added: receivables held by the factor amounted to $1,925,291 and $2,300,109 at March 31, 2021 and 2020.
+Added: Collected cash maintained on deposit
+Added: at March 31, 2021 and 2020 with the factor earns interest at the factor’s prime rate of interest less 2.5 percent (effective
+Added: rate of 0.75% and 0.75% at March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.) There was no cash on deposit with the Factor at March 31,
+Added: 2021 or 2020.
+Added: In May, 2020 the Company received a Paycheck Protection Program loan
+Added: of $221,400 under the CARES Act and during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, the loan was forgiven in compliance with the provisions
+Added: of the CARES Act.
NOTE E –
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT - NET
−Removed: Property and equipment are recorded at
−Removed: cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization.
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization are provided by using the straight-line method
−Removed: based on estimated useful lives.
+Added: Property and equipment are recorded at cost, less
+Added: accumulated depreciation and amortization.
+Added: Depreciation and amortization are provided by using the straight-line method based on estimated
+Added: useful lives.
Expenditures for major betterments that extend the useful life of property and equipment are capitalized.
−Removed: Repair and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: When property and equipment are retired or otherwise disposed of, the cost
−Removed: and accumulated depreciation and amortization are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is included in the results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: The estimated useful lives for financial
−Removed: reporting purposes are as follows:
+Added: Repair and maintenance
+Added: costs are expensed as incurred.
+Added: When property and equipment are retired or otherwise disposed of, the cost and accumulated depreciation
+Added: and amortization are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is included in the results of operations.
+Added: The estimated useful lives for financial reporting
+Added: purposes are as follows:
Leasehold improvements
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Computer equipment
−Removed: Less accumulated depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization expense totaled $159,469, which
−Removed: includes $156,250 of amortization of right-of-use lease asset, and $15,587 for fiscal years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Right-of-use lease assets of $329,698, net, are included in leasehold improvements in Property and Equipment on the Consolidated
−Removed: Balance Sheets.
+Added: Less accumulated depreciation
+Added: Depreciation expense totaled $161,799, which includes $158,576 of amortization
+Added: of right-of-use lease asset, and $159,469 which included $156,250 of amortization of right-of-use lease asset for fiscal years ended March
+Added: 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: Right-of-use lease assets of $171,122 and $329,698, net, are included in leasehold improvements in Property
+Added: and Equipment on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
NOTE F - LEASES
−Removed: The Company is a lessee in lease agreements
−Removed: for office space.
−Removed: Certain of the Company’s leases contain provisions that provide for one or more options to renew at the
−Removed: Company’s sole discretion.
−Removed: The Company’s leases are comprised of fixed lease payments, with its real estate leases
−Removed: including lease payments subject to a rate or index which may be variable.
−Removed: Certain real estate leases also include executory costs
−Removed: such as common area maintenance (non-lease component).
−Removed: As a practical expedient permitted under ASC 842, the Company has elected
−Removed: to account for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component.
−Removed: Lease payments, which may include lease components
−Removed: and non-lease components, are included in the measurement of the Company’s lease liabilities to the extent that such payments
−Removed: are either fixed amounts or variable lease amounts based on a rate or index (fixed in substance) as stipulated in the lease contract.
−Removed: During January 2009, the Company entered
−Removed: into an operating lease for its office and warehouse location in Owings Mills, Maryland which was set to expire in March 2019.
−Removed: In October, 2018, we extended this operating lease to expire in April 2022.
−Removed: This lease is subject to increasing rentals at 2.5%
−Removed: In November 2019, the Company renewed its operating lease through February 2021 for a 3,400 square foot office in Naperville,
−Removed: This lease is subject to increasing rentals at three percent (3.0%) per year.
−Removed: Our operating leases for real estate are
−Removed: generally renewable with terms and conditions similar to the original lease.
−Removed: Rent expense, including common area maintenance, totaled
−Removed: $208,734 for the year ended March 31, 2019.
−Removed: Rent expense for short term operating leases amounted to $67,448 for the year ended
−Removed: March 31, 2020.
−Removed: None of the Company’s lease agreements contain any residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
−Removed: As a result of the Company’s election of the package of practical expedients permitted within ASC 842, which among other
−Removed: things, allows for the carryforward of historical lease classification, all of the Company’s lease agreements in existence
−Removed: at the date of adoption that were classified as operating leases under ASC 840 have been classified as operating leases under ASC
−Removed: Lease expense for payments related to the Company’s operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the
−Removed: related lease term, which includes options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will
+Added: The Company is a lessee in lease agreements for
+Added: office space.
+Added: Certain of the Company’s leases contain provisions that provide for one or more options to renew at the Company’s
+Added: sole discretion.
+Added: The Company’s leases are comprised of fixed lease payments, with its real estate leases including lease payments
+Added: subject to a rate or index which may be variable.
+Added: Certain real estate leases also include executory costs such as common area maintenance
+Added: (non-lease component).
+Added: As a practical expedient permitted under ASC 842, the Company has elected to account for the lease and non-lease
+Added: components as a single lease component.
+Added: Lease payments, which may include lease components and non-lease components, are included in the
+Added: measurement of the Company’s lease liabilities to the extent that such payments are either fixed amounts or variable lease amounts
+Added: based on a rate or index (fixed in substance) as stipulated in the lease contract.
+Added: During January 2009, the Company entered into
+Added: an operating lease for its office and warehouse location in Owings Mills, Maryland which was set to expire in March 2019.
+Added: 2018, we extended this operating lease to expire in April 2022.
+Added: This lease is subject to increasing rentals at 2.5% per year.
+Added: renewed its operating lease through February 2022 for a 3,400 square foot office in Naperville, Illinois.
+Added: Included are 3 one-year renewal
+Added: options that are not included in the measurement of the lease term.
+Added: Our operating leases for real estate are generally
+Added: renewable with terms and conditions similar to the original lease.
+Added: Rent expense, including common area maintenance, totaled $239,557 and
+Added: $208,734 for the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: None of the Company’s lease agreements contain any residual
+Added: value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
+Added: As a result of the Company’s election of the package of practical expedients
+Added: permitted within ASC 842, which among other things, allows for the carryforward of historical lease classification, all of the Company’s
+Added: lease agreements in existence at the date of adoption that were classified as operating leases under ASC 840 have been classified as operating
+Added: leases under ASC 842.
+Added: Lease expense for payments related to the Company’s operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis
+Added: over the related lease term, which includes options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will
exercise that option.
Right-of-use assets represent the Company’s
−Removed: right to use an underlying asset during the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease
−Removed: payments as specified in the lease.
−Removed: Right-of-use assets and lease liabilities related to the Company’s operating leases are
−Removed: recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of the remaining lease payments over the lease term and amounted
−Removed: to approximately $485,000 at the date of adoption.
−Removed: When the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company
−Removed: uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available surrounding the Company’s borrowing rates at the lease
−Removed: commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.
−Removed: The right-of use asset also includes any lease payments made
−Removed: at or before lease commencement less any lease incentives.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2020, the Company had right-of-use assets of $329,698
−Removed: and lease liabilities of $329,698 related to its operating leases.
+Added: right to use an underlying asset during the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease payments
+Added: as specified in the lease.
+Added: Right-of-use assets and lease liabilities related to the Company’s operating leases are recognized at
+Added: the lease commencement date based on the present value of the remaining lease payments over the lease term and amounted to approximately
+Added: $485,000 at the date of adoption.
+Added: When the Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing
+Added: rate based on the information available surrounding the Company’s borrowing rates at the lease commencement date in determining
+Added: the present value of lease payments.
+Added: The right-of use asset also includes any lease payments made at or before lease commencement less
+Added: any lease incentives.
+Added: As of March 31, 2021, the Company had right-of-use assets of $171,122 and lease liabilities of $171,122 related
+Added: to its operating leases.
+Added: Right-of-use assets are included in property and equipment, net, on the consolidated balance sheet and lease
+Added: liabilities related to the Company’s operating leases are included in short-term and long-term lease liability on the consolidated
+Added: balance sheet.
+Added: As of March 31, 2021 the Company’s weighted-average remaining lease term and weighted-average discount rate related
+Added: to its operating leases is one year and 6.0%, respectively.
+Added: During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, the cash paid for amounts included
+Added: in the measurement of lease liabilities related to the Company’s operating leases was $173,622, which is included as an operating
+Added: cash outflow within the consolidated statements of cash flows.
+Added: During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, the operating lease costs
+Added: related to the Company’s operating leases was $173,622 which is included in operating costs and expenses in the consolidated statements
+Added: of operations.
+Added: During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company did not enter into any material lease agreements set
+Added: to commence in the future and there were no newly leased assets for which a right-of use asset was recorded in exchange for a new lease
+Added: liability, other than th o se lease assets recorded upon implementation.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, the Company had right-of-use assets
+Added: of $329,698 and lease liabilities of $329,698 related to its operating leases.
Right-of-use assets are included in property and equipment,
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and long-term lease liability on the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2020 the Company’s weighted-average remaining
−Removed: lease term and weighted-average discount rate related to its operating leases were two years and 6.0%, respectively.
−Removed: fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, the cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities related to the Company’s
−Removed: operating leases was $160,605, which is included as an operating cash outflow within the consolidated statements of cash flows.
−Removed: During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, the operating lease costs related to the Company’s operating leases was $160,605
−Removed: which is included in operating costs and expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: During the fiscal year ended March
−Removed: 31, 2020, the Company did not enter into any lease agreements set to commence in the future and there were no newly leased assets
−Removed: for which a right-of use asset was recorded in exchange for a new lease liability, other than th o se lease assets recorded
−Removed: upon implementation.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 the Company’s weighted-average remaining lease
+Added: term and weighted-average discount rate related to its operating leases were two years and 6.0%, respectively.
+Added: During the fiscal year
+Added: ended March 31, 2020, the cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities related to the Company’s operating
+Added: leases was $160,605, which is included as an operating cash outflow within the consolidated statements of cash flows.
+Added: During the fiscal
+Added: year ended March 31, 2020, the operating lease costs related to the Company’s operating leases was $160,605 which is included in
+Added: operating costs and expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
The future minimum payments under operating leases were as follows
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NOTE G –
−Removed: The Company files its income tax returns
+Added: The Company files its income tax returns in the
federal jurisdiction, and various state jurisdictions.
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and 2018 are considered open and subject to examination by tax authorities.
−Removed: Deferred income tax assets and liabilities
−Removed: are computed and recognized for those differences that have future tax consequences and will result in net taxable or deductible
−Removed: amounts in future periods.
−Removed: Deferred tax expense or benefit is the result of changes in the net asset or liability for deferred
−Removed: The deferred tax liabilities and assets for the Company result primarily from net operating loss and tax credit carry forwards,
−Removed: reserves and accrued liabilities.
−Removed: At March 31, 2020, the Company has
−Removed: total net federal and state operating loss carry forwards of approximately $5,714,000, which expire in various amounts at dates
−Removed: from 2020 through 2034.
−Removed: There are certain limitations to the use and application of these items.
−Removed: Management reviews net operating
−Removed: loss carry forwards and income tax credit carry forwards to evaluate if those amounts are recoverable.
−Removed: After a review of projected
−Removed: taxable income and the components of the deferred tax assets in accordance with applicable accounting guidance it was determined
−Removed: that it is more likely than not that the tax benefits associated with the remaining components of the deferred tax assets will
−Removed: not be realized.
−Removed: This determination was made based on the Company’s history of losses from operations and the uncertainty
−Removed: as to whether the Company will generate sufficient taxable income to use the deferred tax assets prior to their expiration.
−Removed: a valuation allowance was established to fully offset the value of the deferred tax assets.
−Removed: Our ability to realize the tax benefits
−Removed: associated with the deferred tax assets depends primarily upon the timing of future taxable income and the expiration dates of
−Removed: the components of the deferred tax assets.
−Removed: If sufficient future taxable income is generated, we may be able to offset a portion
−Removed: of future tax expenses
−Removed: The reconciliation between the statutory federal income tax
−Removed: provision and the actual effective tax provision is as follows:
+Added: Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed and
+Added: recognized for those differences that have future tax consequences and will result in net taxable or deductible amounts in future periods.
+Added: Deferred tax expense or benefit is the result of changes in the net asset or liability for deferred taxes.
+Added: The deferred tax liabilities
+Added: and assets for the Company result primarily from net operating loss and tax credit carry forwards, reserves and accrued liabilities.
+Added: At March 31, 2021, the Company has total net federal
+Added: operating loss carry forwards of approximately $5,912,000.
+Added: certain limitations to the use and application of these items.
+Added: Management reviews net operating loss carry forwards and income tax credit
+Added: carry forwards to evaluate if those amounts are recoverable.
+Added: After a review of projected taxable income and the components of the deferred
+Added: tax assets in accordance with applicable accounting guidance it was determined that it is more likely than not that the tax benefits associated
+Added: with the remaining components of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: This determination was made based on the Company’s
+Added: history of losses from operations and the uncertainty as to whether the Company will generate sufficient taxable income to use the deferred
+Added: tax assets prior to their expiration.
+Added: Accordingly, a valuation allowance was established to fully offset the value of the deferred tax
+Added: Our ability to realize the tax benefits associated with the deferred tax assets depends primarily upon the timing of future taxable
+Added: income and the expiration dates of the components of the deferred tax assets.
+Added: If sufficient future taxable income is generated, we may
+Added: be able to offset a portion of future tax expenses.
+Added: The reconciliation between the statutory federal income tax provision
+Added: and the actual effective tax provision is as follows:
Years ended March 31,
−Removed: Federal benefit at statutory rate (21%) before loss carry-forward
+Added: Federal tax (benefit) at statutory rate (21%) before loss carry-forward
$ (1,220,917 )
−Removed: Non-repatriated loss of Hong Kong Joint Venture
Permanent and other differences
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Change in deferred tax asset valuation allowance
−Removed: The individual components of the Company’s deferred tax
−Removed: assets are as follows:
+Added: The individual components of the Company’s deferred tax assets
+Added: are as follows:
Deferred tax assets:
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NOTE H - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
−Removed: From time to time, the Company is involved
−Removed: in various lawsuits and legal matters.
−Removed: It is the opinion of management, based on consultation with legal counsel, that there are
−Removed: no outstanding material claims outside of the normal course of business.
−Removed: The Company’s employment agreement
−Removed: with its CEO (the “CEO Agreement”) requires the Company to make certain post-employment payments to the CEO in the
−Removed: event of his termination following a change in control, death, disability, non-renewal, or resignation with “Good Reason”
−Removed: under terms of the CEO Agreement.
−Removed: Additionally, the CEO Agreement requires the Company to make post-employment payments, which
−Removed: can range from approximately $94,000 to $1,995,000, dependent upon the controlling event, as discussed above.
−Removed: In July, 2020, the
−Removed: Company renewed the CEO Agreement through July 31, 2021.
+Added: From time to time, the Company is involved in
+Added: various lawsuits and legal matters.
+Added: It is the opinion of management, based on consultation with legal counsel, that there are no outstanding
+Added: material claims outside of the normal course of business.
+Added: The Company’s employment agreement with
+Added: its CEO (the “CEO Agreement”) requires the Company to make certain post-employment payments to the CEO in the event of his
+Added: termination following a change in control, death, disability, non-renewal, or resignation with “Good Reason”
+Added: under terms of
+Added: the CEO Agreement.
+Added: Additionally, the CEO Agreement requires the Company to make post-employment payments, which can range from approximately
+Added: $94,000 to $1,995,000, dependent upon the controlling event, as discussed above.
+Added: In July, 2020, the Company renewed the CEO Agreement
+Added: through July 31, 2021.
NOTE I - CONCENTRATIONS
−Removed: The Company is primarily a distributor
−Removed: of safety products for use in home and business under both its trade names and private labels for other companies.
−Removed: in Note C, the Company purchased a majority of its products from the Hong Kong Joint Venture.
−Removed: The Company had two different customers,
−Removed: one in each of the fiscal years that ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 that represented 10.3% and 12.2% of the Company’s
+Added: The Company is primarily a distributor of safety products for use in
+Added: home and business under both its trade names and private labels for other companies.
+Added: The Company acquires all of the smoke alarm and carbon
+Added: monoxide alarm safety products that it sells from Eyston Company, Ltd.
+Added: At March 31, 2021, the Company had receivables due from Eyston
+Added: Company, Ltd.
+Added: of $381,401 recorded in trade accounts receivable.
+Added: The Company had one customer in the fiscal year
+Added: that ended March 31, 2021 that represented 21.9% of the Company’s net sales and two customers in the fiscal year that ended March
+Added: 31, 2020 that represented 12.2% and 10.3% of the Company’s net sales, respectively.
NOTE J - QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED)
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September 30,
−Removed: Net loss per share:
+Added: Net income (loss)
+Added: Net income (loss) per share:
Basic and diluted
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Basic and diluted
+Added: NOTE K –
RETIREMENT PLAN
−Removed: The Company has a retirement savings plan
−Removed: under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.
−Removed: All full-time employees who have completed 12 months of service are
−Removed: eligible to participate.
+Added: The Company has a retirement savings plan under
+Added: Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.
+Added: All full-time employees who have completed 12 months of service are eligible to
Employees are permitted to contribute up to the amounts prescribed by law.
−Removed: The Company may provide contributions
−Removed: to the plan consisting of a matching amount equal to a percentage of the employee’s contribution, not to exceed four percent
−Removed: Employer contributions were $41,121 and $36,868 for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: The Company may provide contributions to the plan
+Added: consisting of a matching amount equal to a percentage of the employee’s contribution, not to exceed four percent (4%).
+Added: contributions were $43,412 and $41,121 for the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
NOTE L –
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During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021
−Removed: 2020 and 2019, inventory purchases and other company expenses of approximately $999,000 and $1,723,000, respectively, were charged
−Removed: to credit card accounts of Harvey B.
−Removed: Grossblatt, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and certain of his immediate family
−Removed: The Company subsequently reimbursed these charges in full.
+Added: and 2020, inventory purchases and other company expenses of approximately $1,206,000 and $999,000 respectively, were charged to credit
+Added: card accounts of Harvey B.
+Added: Grossblatt, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and certain of his immediate family members.
+Added: subsequently reimbursed these charges in full.
Grossblatt receives mileage benefits from these charges.
−Removed: The maximum amount outstanding and due to Mr.
−Removed: Grossblatt at any point during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 and
−Removed: 2019 amounted to $136,876 and $168,826, respectively, and the amount outstanding at March 31, 2020 and 2019 is $27,102 and
−Removed: $55,321, respectively.
+Added: The maximum amount outstanding
+Added: and due to Mr.
+Added: Grossblatt at any point during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 amounted to $158,134 and $136,876,
+Added: respectively, and the amount outstanding at March 31, 2021 and 2020 is $50,536 and $27,102, respectively.
NOTE M –
INTANGIBLE ASSETS - NET
−Removed: Intangible assets consist of legal expenses
−Removed: of $89,434 incurred in obtaining and perfecting patents on newly developed detector technology and are capitalized for financial
−Removed: statement purposes.
+Added: Intangible assets consist of legal expenses of
+Added: $89,434 incurred in obtaining and perfecting patents on newly developed detector technology and are capitalized for financial statement
Upon issuance, patents are amortized on a straight-line basis over twenty years.
−Removed: Amortization expense for the
−Removed: fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 was $4,471 and $4,472, respectively.
−Removed: Accumulated amortization at March 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019 was $40,245 and $35,774, respectively.
+Added: Amortization expense for the fiscal year ended
+Added: March 31, 2021 and 2020 was $4,472 and $4,471, respectively.
+Added: Accumulated amortization at March 31, 2021 and 2020 was $44,717
+Added: and $40,245, respectively.
Amortization expense for the next five years is expected to be $4,472 through 2026.
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SHAREHOLDERS’
−Removed: Under the terms of the Company’s 2011 Non-Qualified Stock
−Removed: Option Plan, 120,000 shares of common stock are reserved for the granting of stock options.
−Removed: There were no stock options outstanding
−Removed: at March 31, 2020 or 2019.
+Added: Under the terms of the Company’s 2011 Non-Qualified Stock Option
+Added: Plan, 120,000 shares of common stock are reserved for the granting of stock options.
+Added: There were no stock options outstanding at March 31,
+Added: 2021 or 2020.
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