AURA SYSTEMS INC - Annual Report: 2006 (Form 10-K)
UNITED
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SECURITIES
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF
1934
For
the
fiscal year ended February 28, 2006
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AURA
SYSTEMS, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
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95-4106894
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification No.)
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2330
Utah Avenue
El
Segundo, California 90245
(Address
of principal executive offices)
Registrant's
telephone number, including area code: (310)
643-5300
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name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report:
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Stock
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On
August
31, 2005 the aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates
of the Registrant was approximately $4.4 million. The aggregate market value
has
been computed by reference to the last trading price of the stock on August
31,
2005.
On
May
31, 2006, the Registrant had 24,282,710 shares of common stock outstanding.
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TABLE
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PART
I
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1. BUSINESS
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1A. RISK FACTORS
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2. PROPERTIES
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3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
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4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
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5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
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ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
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6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
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PART
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7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL
CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
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7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET
RISK
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8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
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9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING
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FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
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9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
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9B. OTHER INFORMATION
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PART
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10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
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11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
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12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
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13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS,
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14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
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PART
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15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
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SIGNATURES
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SPECIAL
NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This
Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal
securities laws. Statements other than statements of historical fact included
in
this Report, including the statements under the headings “Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,”
“Business” and elsewhere in this Report regarding future events or prospects are
forward-looking statements. The words “approximates,” “believes,” “expects,”
“anticipates,” “estimates,” “intends,” “plans” “would “should,” “may,” or other
similar expressions in this Report, as well as other statements regarding
matters that are not historical fact, constitute forward-looking statements..
We
caution investors that any forward-looking statements presented in this Report
are based on the beliefs of, assumptions made by, and information currently
available to, us. Such statements are based on assumptions and the actual
outcome will be affected by known and unknown risks, trends, uncertainties
and
factors that are beyond our control or ability to predict. Although we believe
that our assumptions are reasonable, they are not guarantees of future
performance and some will inevitably prove to be incorrect. As a result,
our
actual future results may differ from our expectations, and those differences
may be material. Accordingly, investors should use caution in relying on
forward-looking statements to anticipate future results or
trends.
Some
of the risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance
or
achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
forward-looking statements include the following:
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Our
ability to generate positive cash flow from
operations;
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Our
ability to obtain additional financing to fund our
operations;
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Our
business development and operating development;
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Our
expectations of growth in demand for our
products.
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We
do
not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as
a
result of new information, future events or otherwise except to the extent
required by law. You should interpret all subsequent written or oral
forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf
as
being expressly qualified by the cautionary statements in this Report. As
a
result, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
References
in this report to “we”, “us”, “the Company,” “Aura” or “Aura Systems”, includes
Aura Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
As
a
public company, we are required to file annual, quarterly and special reports,
proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy
any
of our materials on file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100
F Street N.E., Washington, DC 20549. Our filings are available to the public
over the Internet at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
Please
call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of
the
Public Reference Room. We also make available copies of our Forms 8-K,
10-K, 10-Q, Proxy and Annual Report at no charge to investors through our
website, http://www.aurasystems.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after
filing such material with the SEC.
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PART
I
ITEM
1. BUSINESS
Introduction
and History
We
design, assemble and sell the AuraGen®,
our
patented mobile power generator that uses the engine of a vehicle to generate
electric power. The AuraGen delivers on-location, plug-in electricity for
any
end use, including industrial, commercial, recreational and military
applications. The AuraGen system consists of three primary subsystems (i)
the
patented axial design alternator, (ii) the Electronic Control Unit (“ECU”) and
(iii) mounting kit that is a mechanical interface between the alternator
and the
automobile. Compared to the traditional solutions addressing the multi-billion
dollar North American mobile power market (i.e., Gensets, traditional
alternators, permanent magnet alternators dynamic and static inverters),
we
believe the AuraGen®
provides
c(pure sine wave AC power as well as simultaneous DC power with greater
reliability and flexibility at a lower cost to the end user. We began
commercializing the AuraGen®
in late
1999 as a 5,000-watt 120/240V AC machine compatible with certain Chevrolet
engine models. In 2001, we added an 8,000 watt configuration and also introduced
AC/DC and the Inverter Charger System (“ICS”) options. More recently we
introduced a dual system that generates up to 16,000-watts of continuous
power.
We now have configurations available for more than 90 different engine types
including a majority of General Motors and Ford models, some Daimler Chrysler
models and numerous others engine models made by International, Isuzu, Nissan,
Mitsubishi, Caterpillar, Detroit Diesel, Cummins, and Freightliner. More
recently, a number of boats have had AuraGens installed for both government
and
recreational end-users.
To
date,
AuraGen®
units
have been sold in numerous industries, including recreational, utilities,
telecommunications, emergency/rescue, public works, catering, oil and gas,
transportation, government and the military. Our objective is to be the leading
developer and supplier of fully integrated mobile electric power
systems.
We
continue to hold several patents, in addition to those related to the
AuraGen®,
which
we believe provide the basis for economically viable products in addition
to the
AuraGen®,
but
sales of the AuraGen®
currently provide substantially
all our operating revenues.
Aura
Systems, Inc. a Delaware corporation, was founded in 1987 and, until 1992,
was
primarily engaged in supplying defense related technologies for classified
military programs.
In
1992
we acquired the Electronic Ceramic Facility. This facility produced Piezo
electric material that we required for our Actuated Mirror Array “AMA”
technology. In 1996 we licensed our AMA technology to Daewoo Electronics.
During
the same period we acquired Delphi Electronic Components who developed and
built
microelectronic circuits and components. In 1994 we started NewCom to
manufacture and sale computer modems, sound cards and other multimedia
components. By the mid 1990s the Company was organized into 4 divisions (i)
AuraSound -producing and selling audio speakers based on a new and patented
magnetic design, (ii) Aura Industrial & Automotive - developing numerous
automotive and industrial related magnetic devices such as linear and rotary
actuators with applications for variable valves, active suspension, actuators
for many industrial machines, and the development of the AuraGen power system,
(iii) NewCom- manufacturing and selling modems and computer multimedia kits,
(iv) Aura display- using the AMA technology to develop very large very bright
display systems. By 1998 the Company had 3 facilities in California, a facility
in New Hope Minnesota, and facilities in Osaka Japan, Kuula Lumpur Malaysia,
and
New Dehli India. During the period the Company, was investing large capital
into
the development of the AuraGen.
In
1997
the Company spun off NewCom as a public Company with Aura retaining
approximately 60% of the stock. NewCom owed Aura approximately $40 million
that
was to be repaid by late 1998. In the summer of 1998, the computer industry
experienced a significant slow-down and most original equipment manufacturers
(“OEMs”), in order to revive their sales, introduced build - in modems and
multi-media functions as an integral part of the computer. This caused severe
pressure on NewCom’s operations. By early 1999, NewCom had ceased operations and
closed down.
During
1999, the Company sold the Speaker operations, the Ceramic Operation, and
Delphi. All activities on the AMA were stopped and the Company was totally
focused on the completion of the AuraGen development and commercialization.Since
fiscal 2002 sales of the AuraGen®
product
have accounted for substantially all of our operating revenues.
During
fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2005, we substantially reduced our internal staffing
due to the slower-than-anticipated level of AuraGen®
sales.
We also suspended substantially all research and development activities.
We
continued to downscale our operations in fiscal 2005. However, the impact
of the
related cost reductions was insufficient to offset our extremely weak financial
condition, which was worsened by late fees, penalties and transaction costs
incident to financial defaults. In June 2005, we filed for protection under
Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and emerged on January 31, 2006 under
a plan
of reorganization.
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The
AuraGen®
The
AuraGen®
is
composed of three basic subsystems. The first subsystem is the generator
that is
bolted to, and driven by, the vehicle's engine. The second subsystem, an
electronic control unit, filters and conditions the electricity to provide
clean, steady voltages for both AC and DC power. The third subsystem consists
of
mounting brackets and supporting components for installation and integration
of
the generator with the vehicle engine.
The
AuraGen is now available in three continuous power levels, (a) 5,000 Watts
AC/DC, (b) 8,000 Watts AC/DC and (c) 16,000 Watts AC/DC. All AC power are
pure sine wave with total harmonic distortion “THD” of less than 2.1% and
are available in both 120 VAC and or 240 VAC. In addition, the power
generated on all models can be partitioned to provide simulations AC and
14 or
28 volts of direct current “DC” or only DC, if required by the user. The
AuraGen power levels can be generated while the vehicle is being driven or
parked. The AuraGen/VIPER system includes as an option a complete power
management system which monitors in real time (i) the batteries voltage and
temperature, (ii) provides a partition of the power between AC and DC
simultaneously with the ability to be programmed from all AC to all DC, (iii)
monitors the RPM of the generator, (iv) monitors the temperatures of the
generator and the ECU, (iv) monitors the raw power generated, (v) monitors
both
the AC and DC loads as to voltage and current, (vi) provides programming
of load
prioritization and load shedding, and (vii) monitors the voltage of the internal
400VDC buss.
We
provide custom engineered brackets for our models that attach to over 90
different engine and chassis models. We also provide power-take-off (PTO)
and
hydraulic driven interfaces for bigger trucks that do not involve direct
attachment to the vehicle engine.
Mobile
Power Industry
The
mobile power generation market is large and growing. Vehicles used in the
telecommunications, utilities, public works, construction, catering, and
oil and
gas industries, and emergency/rescue, military and recreational vehicles
rely
heavily on mobile power for their internal systems. In addition, mobile work
sites require on-location electricity to power equipment ranging from computers
to power tools.
Based
on
studies conducted by the U.S. government, Business Communications Company,
Inc.
("BCC") and others, we estimate the annual gross North American mobile power
generation market in 2005 is at least $2.5 billion and growing. Worldwide
growth
is expected to be fueled by increases in the development and construction
of
industrial infrastructures, significant growth in homeland security
expenditures, and increased use of sophisticated electronic equipment in
underdeveloped areas where grid-based electricity is unavailable or unreliable.
We also believe that mobile power has become increasingly important as backup
to
electric grid power supply.
The
traditional available solutions for mobile power users are:
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Gensets.
Gensets are standalone power generation units which are not incorporated
into a vehicle and require external fuel, either gasoline or diesel,
in
order to generate electricity. Gensets are generally (i) noisy
and
cumbersome to transport because of their weight and size, (ii)
they
typical run at constant speed to generate 50 or 60 Hz of AC power,
(iii)
must be operated at a significant part of the rated power to avoid
wet
staking, (iv) are significantly derated in the presence of harmonics
in
the loads and (v) require significant scheduled maintenance and
service.
Genset technology has been utilized since the 1950s.
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High-Output
Alternators.
High-Output Alternators are traditionally found in trucks and commercial
vehicles and the vehicles engine is used as the prime mover. All
alternators provide their rated power at very high RPM and significantly
less power at lower RPM. In addition alternators are generally
only 30%
efficient at the low RPM range and increase to 50% efficiency at
the high
RPM range. The
power generated by alternators is 12 or 24 Volt DC and an inverter
is
required if 120 Volt AC power is needed. In addition, due to the
low power
output at low RPM, in order to get significant power, a throttle
controller is used to spin-up the engine.
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Inverters
are devices that invert battery direct current to alternating current.
Inverters as mobile power generators are traditionally used in
low power
requirements, typically less than 2500 Watts, and do not have the
ability
to recharge the batteries used as the source of power. Thus typical
inverter users require other means to recharge the used batteries
such as
“shore-power” or gensets. More recently dynamic inverters became
available. Dynamic inverters use power from the alternator to augment
power from the batteries and are able to achieve power levels of
6,000
watts plus. The dynamic inverters introduce significant stresses
on both
the batteries and alternators that cause significant life shortening
for
both. Dynamic inverters use power from the alternator. When the
inverter
is turned on, the alternator is switched off from the vehicle battery
and
tied into a transformer that uses electronics controls to change
the DC
alternator inputs to AC inverter output. A separate transform winding
provides battery charging so fully regulated 120 Volt AC and 12
Volt DC
power is available as long as the engine is running at high enough
RPM to
provide power for the load and the battery charging. All dynamic
inverters
require a high output alternator to be able to output significant
AC
power. As is often the case, the limiting factor is the high output
alternator. In order to get stable output a very accurate throttle
controller is also needed to maintain steady speed on the engine.
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Permanent-Magnet
(“PM”) alternators.
Recently a number of companies have introduced alternators using
exotic
permanent magnets. These alternators tend to have higher power
generation
capabilities than regular alternators at lower engine RPM. In order
to be
practical in a under-the-hood environment (200oF)
one must add active cooling since the magnets are demagnetized
at
approximately (176oF).
There are other issues that require an active control system that
will add
and subtract magnetic field strength as the engine RPM
increases.
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Fuel
cells
are solid-state, devices that produce electricity by combining
a fuel
containing hydrogen with oxygen. They have a wide range of applications,
and can be used in place of the internal combustion engine and
traditional
lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. So why aren't fuel cells being
installed everywhere? The most widely deployed fuel cells cost about
$4,500 per kilowatt.
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Batteries
convert stored chemical energy to electrical energy.
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Competition
The
industry in which we operate is competitive. The primary competition for
the
AuraGen®
are
Gensets and there are approximately 44 Genset manufacturers in the United
States. These competitors include: Onan, Honda and Kohler.
There
are
many High Output Alternator manufacturers. Some of the better known ones
are
Delco-Remy, Bosh, Nippon Densu, Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Prestelite.
There
are
many inverter manufacturers; some of the better-known ones are, Trace
Engineering, Vanner, and Xentrex.
Most
of
our competitors have greater financial, technical and marketing resources,
have
larger budgets for research, new product development and marketing and have
long-standing customer relationships. We must also compete with many larger
and
more established companies in the hiring and retention of qualified personnel.
In the past our financial condition has limited our ability to promote the
AuraGen®
and make
potential customers aware of its existence.
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The
AuraGen®
uses new
technology and has only been available in the marketplace for a a number
of
years.. Because our product is radically different from traditionally available
mobile power solutions, users may require lengthy evaluation periods in order
to
gain confidence in the product. Original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs")
and
large fleet users also typically require considerable time to make changes
to
their planning and production Because our limited financial and staff resources,
we have focused our sales and marketing activities to a few industrial and
military segments. In particular we focused on the US military including
the
USCG, homeland security agencies and emergency/rescue.
More
recently we expanded our focus and are now marketing to companies in the
oil and
gas segment, state and local governments in particular DOT, and recreational
boating industry.
Competitive
Advantages of the AuraGen®
We
believe the AuraGen®
is a
superior product due to its convenience, cost efficiency, fuel efficiency,
reliability, flexibility in power output, and the quality of the electricity
generated. The AuraGen is not sensitive to temperature or altitude variations
and generates the rated power at or near idle engine RPM.
The
AuraGen®
does not
require scheduled maintenance and is offered with a three year warranty compared
to the typical one year warranty available for a Genset or
inverter.
In
addition, the AuraGen®
is
significantly cleaner for the environment than gensets, the other generally
available mobile power solutions. The AuraGen®
uses the
automotive engine which is highly regulated for environmental protection.
Gensets use small engines that produce significantly higher levels of emissions
per unit of power output than the automobile engine.
We
believe that barriers to entry make it less likely that a product superior
to
the AuraGen®
will
become available in the foreseeable future. The inventions upon which the
AuraGen®
is based
are protected by patents issued by the U.S Patent office. To our knowledge,
there are no other patents for axial induction machines with solid rotors.
Manufacturers
and end users of mobile power solutions (including the military) typically
require completion of extensive evaluation and approval processes before
embracing new systems. After extensive testing, a number of Federal, state,
DOT
departments, and some r industrial companies have approved the
AuraGen®
for
purchase.
Thousands
of AuraGen®
units
are currently being used for multiple applications and in all types of operating
environments, providing a good sample set for reliability analysis. The results
show very low failure rates, which we are reducing further via minor hardware
and software modifications, better assembly procedures and improved installation
training. The U.S. Army has performed its own tests and is continuing to
test
the AuraGen®
under
severe conditions. The VIPER (the name for the military version of the
AuraGen®),
in use
by Special Operations and other combat forces, has been air-drop-certified
by
the Army and has been and is successfully deployed in Operation Enduring
Freedom
and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The
AuraGen®
system
passed all of the UL testing in 2002 and 2003. In late 2004 early 2005, the
USMC
core successfully tested the AuraGen/VIPER for safety and other operational
capabilities at the Aberdeen Test grounds..
Target
Markets
When
the
Company emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization under new management, the
sales
and marketing activities were expanded and now include:
Military,
Homeland Security Administration and Other Federal Agencies
We
believe the VIPER (the military version of the AuraGen®)
is a
superior mobile power solution compared with existing alternatives for numerous
military applications. The VIPER capability to produce both 120 Volt AC and
28
Volt DC power simultaneously at low engine RPM is critical for many military
applications. In addition the power management system which is inherited
in the
VIPER provides the military users with the ability to monitor, the quality
and
quantity of available power, the state of the on board batteries, and the
ability to prioritize different electric loads. The USCG after 3 years of
testing selected the VIPER as the power system for its 190 new patrol boats;
SAIC is using the VIPER on all of its VACIS gamma ray scan systems that are
used
for homeland and base security applications, numerous units of special forces
and regular army are using the VIPER in both Iraq and Afghanistan, The DOD
report to congress in August 2006 discussed the success of the VIPER in Iraq
and
Afghanistan. More recently a number of military OEMs are exploring the use
of
the VIPER for the MRAP, MMPV and similar military programs. The Company is
also
pursuing marketing the VIPER for the upcoming JLTV program.
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Marine
We
believe that the AuraGen is an ideal product for the recreational boating
in the
25-50 ft range. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “NOAA”
tested the AuraGen on the “Magna Spirit” for 3,000 miles on the open oceans and
reported flawless performance. The USCG tested the VIPER for 3 years before
choosing it to power the 190 new patrol boats. Both of these organizations
are
the leaders in introduction of new technologies and safety for marine
applications. More recently a major boat OEM successfully tested the AuraGen
on
one of their production boats and the Company is currently pursuing the required
boat related certifications from UL. While the Company is not expecting any
delays in getting the required certification, no assurances can be given
as to
when such required certification will be completed.
Oil
and Gas industry
The
oil
and gas industry are heavy users of mobile power for service. We have identified
a number of oil and gas service providers that require the power level as
well
as the power quality generated by the AuraGen. In particular the need for
very
large power to start inductive loads such as compressors, fans and electric
motors. Typically the starting power required is knows as lock rotor and
can
easily go as high as 30,000 watts. The AuraGen ICS design and architecture
is
such that it can easily support these power levels for very short times that
are
required to start the loads. We have demonstrated 30,000 watts starting power
for numerous compressors and motors.
Mid
size Refrigeration Trucks.
Mid
size
refrigeration trucks are used throughout the country for the delivery of
food.
These trucks typically have a diesel engine mounted over the cab that is
used as
a generator for the refrigeration unit. The AuraGen is an ideal power source
that can eliminate the need for the extra diesel engine thus reducing operating
cost and fuel costs. The AuraGen ability to provide large start-up power
is
critical for this application since a typical refrigeration system requires
a
2-4 horsepower compressor. Such compressors require 20,000-30,000 watts of
starting power. The Company has now sold over 100 systems for this application
and is anticipating significant growth in this segment.
Emergency/Rescue
The
emergency/rescue market relies heavily upon mobile power for lights,
communications gear, instruments, medical equipment and digital equipment
and
tools. As the emergency/rescue market has undergone a transition to digital
equipment and portable computers, it has experienced constant growth in mobile
power needs. Approximately 20 organizations have started to use the
AuraGen®.
Recently the Red Cross has used the AuraGen to power their communication
needs
in support of disaster relief during hurricane Katrina and the wild fires
in
California in October 2007. In addition, hundreds of fire trucks are now
using
the AuraGen as their mobile power source.
Facilities,
Manufacturing Process and Suppliers
As
of
February 28, 2006, we assembled and tested the AuraGen®
at our
27,000 square foot facility in El Segundo, California with components which
are
produced by various suppliers. We established these facilities with a maximum
production capacity of 1,000 units per month.
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Early
in
our AuraGen®
program,
we determined it was most cost-effective to outsource production of components
and subassemblies to volume-oriented manufacturers, rather than produce these
parts in house. As a result of this decision, and based on then anticipated
sales, we purchased, prior to fiscal 2001, a substantial inventory of components
and subassemblies at volume prices.. Since sales did not meet such expectations,
we have been assembling, testing and selling product from this inventory
for
several years. Many of the components and subassemblies are mechanical in
nature, do not deteriorate and are readily usable for all of our AuraGen
models.
Some of the subassembly are in the form of electronic control units that
have
also not deteriorated and, even though there have been improvements and
modifications over this period, the units in inventory required only minor
applications of parts and labor to bring them to current specifications.
From
fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2005, we substantially reduced our internal staffing
to be more appropriate to the slower-than-anticipated level of sales. We
also
suspended substantially all research and development activities. Since the
emergence from Chapter 11 reorganization in February 2006, we have begun
to
increase our research and development efforts.
In
order
to renew our inventory of components, we will need to renew contracts with
such
manufacturers or locate other suitable manufacturers. Since February 2006,
the
Company has renewed its relationships with a number of its old suppliers
and is
developing new relationships with others. To ensure quality and reliability
in
the field, we use highly qualified suppliers, the majority of which are ISO
9002
compliant.
We
provide a turnkey product and service to support our customers in every area.
We
have performed all of the development, from basic physics to detailed
engineering. We believe our core capabilities provide a solid foundation
to
resolve technical issues, develop an ongoing line of new products and
continually enhance our products.
Our
vehicle integration team develops, engineers, and supplies all of the brackets,
pulleys, idlers, belts, tensioners and other components that comprise a mounting
system. The group also specifies all of the requirements of the
AuraGen®
to allow
its use with other mobile drives, such as hydraulic systems and Power Take
Off
("PTO") applications.
Research
and Development
From
fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2005, we suspended substantially all research
and
development activities due to our weakened financial condition. Accordingly,
during the fiscal years ended February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004, our
expenditures for research and development ("R&D") activities were
negligible. Although we believe that ongoing R&D is important to the success
of our product in order to utilize the most recent technology, to develop
additional products and additional uses for existing products, and to stay
current with changes in vehicle manufacture and design and to maintain an
ongoing advantage over potential competition, our financial condition has
not
allowed significant expenditures on R&D as all costs are being minimized
while we seek to maintain solvency and attain profitability.
In
February 2006, when the Company emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization, we
started to rebuild our research and development team. We have introduced
and
begun to ship our dual and Tamgen systems that generate up to 16,000 watts
of
continuous power with both AC and DC simultaneous capabilities. We have
completed the design, and are currently testing, a unit that is one third
smaller than the current 5,000 and 8,000 watt systems that will supply 3,000
to
4,000 watts. We are also pursuing the development of a larger unit that we
expect to have 25,000 watts capability.
Patents
and Intellectual Property
Our
Intellectual Property portfolio consists of trademarks, proprietary know-how
and
patents.
Utilizing
electromagnetic technology we developed numerous magnetic systems and designs
that result in a significant increase of magnetic field density per unit
volume,
that can be converted into useful power energy or work. This increase in
field
density is a factor of 3 to 4 which, when incorporated into mechanical devices,
could result in a significant reduction in size and cost for the same
performance, in a given application.
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The
applications of these technological advances are found in mechanical machines
used every day by industrial, commercial and consumer users. We have applied
this technology in numerous applications in industrial machines such as
generators, motors, actuators and linear motors.
The
U.S.
Patent Office awarded us 29 Patents applicable to automotive and industrial
applications. Of the above patents, four (4) are focused directly on the
AuraGen, seven (7) are basic magnetic actuation, two (2) are for control
systems
associated with controlling the magnetic fields in different configurations
and
sixteen (16) are focused on the EVA application.
The
sixteen (16) patents associated with EVA cover the implementation of a
controlled magnetic field as applied to linear motors. Many of the same
techniques are implemented into the AuraGen control and in particular, the
control of the high power board used in the new AuraGen inverter mode, which
uses many elements from the EVA system.
Areas
of
AuraGen Technology Innovation
Patents:
5,734,217; 6,157,175; 6,700,214; 6,700,802; with expiration dates of 2015,
2017,
2019 and 2019 respectively. The above patents cover three areas as described
below.
1-
Induction Machine-
The
basic
patent covers a new form of induction machine with superior performance in
a
much smaller size than conventional machines. The solid cast rotor, the shaped
magnetic field, the secondary conduction path through the steel and the axial
magnetic orientation is a key component of this innovation.
2-
Control Systems
The
control system separates the power generation from the power delivery by
introducing a 400 VDC bus. For each cycle of each phase part of the cycle
power
is drawn from the bus to run the electronics and energize the coils while
during
the other part of the cycle power is delivered to charge up the bus. The
control
system must balance all the timing to effect zero voltage change to the bus
under dynamic variations of frequency and loads. The ability to optimize
in real
time the slip frequency is a key innovation in motor and generator control
for
variable speed variable frequency and variable load systems.
3-
Bi-Directional Power Supply (BDP)
The
patented ICS system developed by Aura provides a new capability in power
systems. The BDP allows a system with simultaneous multi sources for power.
It
is a key component in providing the ability to deliver both AC and DC power
simultaneously as well as the ability to handle large power surges without
the
need for a throttle controller.
Employees
As
of
February 28, 2006, we employed 29 persons. We have reduced our workforce
significantly in the two years ended February 28, 2006, in order to conserve
cash. We are not a party to any collective bargaining agreements.
Significant
Customers
During
the year ended February 28, 2006, we conducted business with four customers
whose sales comprised 24% of net sales. As of February 28, 2006, two customers
accounted for 87% of net accounts receivable.
Backlog
We
had no
material backlog as of the end of the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years.
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ITEM
1A. Risk Factors
Risk
Factors Relating to Our Business
We
have a history of losses and we may not be profitable in any future
period.
In
each
fiscal year since our organization in 1987 we have not made an operating
profit.
We have an accumulated deficit in excess of $300 million from our inception
through February 28, 2006. We cannot assure you that we will be able to achieve
or maintain profitability or positive cash flow.
If
we are unable to raise capital, our ability to implement our current business
plan and ultimately our viability as a company could be adversely
affected.
The
cash
flow generated from our operations to date has not been sufficient to fund
our
working capital needs, and we cannot predict when operating cash flow will
be
sufficient to fund working capital needs. Since fiscal 2002 we were forced
to
scale back operations due to inadequate working capital and in June 2005
we were
forced to file for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code,
from
which we emerged under a court-approved plan of reorganization on January
31,
2006.
In
the
past, in order to maintain liquidity we have relied upon external sources
of
financing, principally equity financing and private and bank indebtedness.
We
have no bank line of credit and require additional debt or equity financing
to
fund ongoing operations. We are seeking to raise additional capital. However,
we
have no firm commitments from third parties to provide additional financing
and
we cannot assure you that financing will be available at the times or in
the
amounts required. The issuance of additional shares of equity in connection
with
such financing could dilute the interests of our existing stockholders, and
such
dilution could be substantial. If
we
cannot raise needed funds, we would also be forced to make further substantial
reductions in our operating expenses, which could adversely affect our ability
to implement our current business plan and ultimately our viability as a
company.
Our
revenues have declined significantly in recent years.
We
have
experienced a significant decline in operating revenues since fiscal 1998.
Our
net revenues peaked at approximately $104 million in the fiscal year ended
February 29, 1998, prior to commercial sales of the AuraGen®.
Revenues declined to $2.5 million for the fiscal year ended February 2001.
The
decline in revenues was due primarily to the cessation of operations of our
computer peripherals subsidiary, NewCom, Inc., in fiscal 1999 and the sale
of
our speaker operations, electronic component operations, and ceramics
operations. Substantially all of our operating revenues are now derived from
the
sale of our AuraGen products, which did not produce a material amount of
revenues until the fourth quarter of our fiscal year ended February 2001.
Since
fiscal 2001, annual operating revenues have ranged between $1.1 million and
$3.1
million. We expect that substantially all of our operating revenues will
continue to be derived from AuraGen sales for the foreseeable
future.
Our
auditors have qualified their reports on our financial statements to indicate
that there is substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going
concern, which could adversely affect our ability to obtain third party
financing.
Our
auditors, Kabani & Co., have qualified their reports on the financial
statements for the fiscal years ended February 28, 2005 and 2006, to indicate
that there is "substantial doubt" about our ability to continue as a going
concern. These opinions are based upon our continuing losses from operations.
The existence of the going concern qualification could affect our ability
to
obtain financing from third parties or could result in increased cost of
this
financing.
Our
continued existence will require that we generate sufficient cash flow from
operations or obtain necessary capital from outside sources. As indicated
elsewhere in this report, to date we have been unable to achieve profitability
and our financial success is dependent upon the success of our
AuraGen®
line of
products. Our ability to achieve profitability will depend upon a number
of
factors, many of which we do not control, including successful marketing
and
sales of the AuraGen®
line of
products. Until we are able to generate sufficient cash flow from our
operations, we will be dependent on external sources of funding, such as
the
sale of equity, favorable vendor payment terms and debt financing. These
sources
of funding may not be available when we require them, or they may not be
available in amounts sufficient to sustain our operations.
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Our
success over the short-term depends on the commercial success of the
AuraGen®
products, as we are not currently engaged in any other line of
business.
Because
we have focused our business on developing a single product line, rather
than on
diversifying into other areas, our success in the foreseeable future will
be
dependent upon the commercial success of the AuraGen®
product
line.
We
may have difficulty managing our growth.
We
restructured our operation during fiscal 2004, 2005 and 2006 in order to
conserve cash. Our workforce declined from 101 employees as of February 28,
2002
to 47 at February 28, 2007. We will need to hire employees, rebuild our sales
and production infrastructure and improve our operating and financial systems
in
order to effectively manage any significant growth in demand for our products.
If we do not effectively manage our growth, we will not be successful in
executing our business plan, which could materially adversely affect our
business, results of operations and financial condition.
The
market acceptance of the AuraGen®
is uncertain.
Our
business is dependent upon sales generated from the AuraGen®
family
of products and increasing acceptance of these products. We cannot assure
you
that our products will achieve broad acceptance in the marketplace. The
AuraGen®
uses new
technology and has only been available in the marketplace for a few years.
Our
financial condition has limited our ability to market the AuraGen®
to
potential customers. Because our product is radically different from
traditionally available mobile power solutions, users may require lengthy
evaluation periods in order to gain confidence in the product. Original
equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and large fleet users also typically require
considerable time to make changes to their planning and production.
Our
business may be adversely affected by industry
competition.
The
industry in which we operate is competitive. We face substantial competition
from companies that have been offering traditional solutions such as gensets
(portable generators) for the last 50 years, and there are more than 40 genset
manufacturers in the United States. These competitors include: Onan, Honda
and
Kohler.
Most
of
our competitors have greater financial resources, have larger budgets for
research, new product development and marketing and have long-standing customer
relationships. We must compete with many larger and more established companies
in the hiring and retention of qualified personnel.
Moreover,
this market may attract new competitors that have longer operating histories,
greater name recognition, and significantly greater financial, technical
and
marketing resources than our company. Our failure to meet our projections
for
our products’ market acceptance or the ability of our competitors to capture a
first mover advantage could have a material adverse impact upon our business,
operating results and financial condition. Furthermore, new product
introductions or product enhancements by our current or future competitors
or
the use of other technologies could cause a loss of market acceptance of
our
products.
We
depend on our intellectual property to provide us with a competitive
advantage.
We
rely
on a number of patents and patent applications to protect the
AuraGen®
products
from unauthorized competitors. Our
efforts to protect our proprietary rights may not succeed in preventing
infringement by others or ensure that these rights will provide us with a
competitive advantage. We
cannot
assure you that the patents pending relating to the AuraGen®
system
or future patent applications will be issued or that any issued patents will
not
be invalidated, circumvented or challenged. A portion of our proprietary
technology depends upon trade secrets and unpatented technology and proprietary
knowledge related to the development, promotion and operation of our products.
While we generally enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees,
consultants and vendors, we cannot assure you that our trade secrets and
proprietary technology will not become known or be independently developed
by
competitors in such a manner that we have no practical recourse, nor can
there
be any assurance that others will not develop or acquire equivalent expertise
or
develop products which render our current or future products noncompetitive
or
obsolete.
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Litigation
regarding intellectual property rights could be time-consuming and expensive
and
could divert our technical and management personnel. We cannot assure you
that
such litigation expenses will not be incurred in the future. There also can
be
no assurance that other parties will not take, or threaten to take, legal
action
against us, alleging infringement of such parties' patents by our current
or
proposed products. We cannot assure you that we will have adequate financial
resources to successfully institute or defend intellectual property litigation.
Insurance coverage to indemnify us against liability for infringement of
other
parties' intellectual property rights is either unavailable or prohibitively
expensive.
We
depend on the expertise of key employees.
Because
our product depends on patented and proprietary technology and must be
periodically modified to adapt the product to changes in engine design and
new
operational requirements, we depend on a limited number of key employees
with
experience in electromagnetic theory and design.
Competition
for key employees is intense, and we cannot assure you that we will be able
to
retain our key employees or that it will be able to attract, assimilate and
retain other highly qualified personnel in the future. While we may enter
into
agreements with its employees regarding patents, confidentiality and related
matters, we not generally have employment agreements with our employees.
The
loss of key personnel, especially without notice, or the inability to hire
or
retain qualified personnel, particularly given our anticipated growth, could
have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial
condition.
We
depend on third party manufacturers for certain product
components.
We
rely
extensively on subcontracts with third parties for the manufacture of most
components of the AuraGen®.
If
these providers do not produce these products on a timely basis, if the products
do not meet our specifications and quality control standards, or if the products
are otherwise flawed, we may have to delay product delivery, or recall or
replace unacceptable products. In addition, such failures could damage our
reputation and could adversely affect our operating results. As a result,
we
could lose potential customers and any revenues that we may have at that
time
may decline dramatically.
Although
we generally use standard industrial and electrical parts and components
for our
products, some of our components are currently available only from a single
source or from limited sources. We may experience delays in production of
the
AuraGen®
if we
fail to identify alternate vendors or if any parts supply is interrupted
or
reduced, or if there is a significant increase in production costs or decline
in
component quality.
We
will need to renew sources of supply to meet increases in demand for the
AuraGen®.
We
purchased the basic components for the AuraGen®
units
currently being sold under a bulk order placed prior to fiscal 2001. Due
to
sales not meeting anticipated levels, we have been selling from this inventory.
In order to renew this inventory, we will need to renew contracts with such
manufacturers or locate other suitable manufacturers. Although we believe
that
there are a number of potential manufacturers of the components, we cannot
assure you that renewed contracts for components can be obtained on favorable
terms. Any material adverse change in such contracts could increase our cost
of
goods.
Risks
Relating to Our Common Stock
Because
our operating results have been uneven and may continue to fluctuate, this
could
affect our stock price.
Because
our efforts since 1999 have been focused entirely on the introduction of
the
AuraGen®
family
of products into the marketplace, our revenues and operating results have
been
uneven and may continue to be so during our current fiscal year and beyond.
These fluctuations could affect our stock price. Factors which could affect
our
operating results include:
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·
The
size, timing and shipment of individual orders;
·
Market
acceptance of our products;
·
Development of direct and indirect sales channels; and
·
The timing of introduction of new
products or enhancements.
We
have a history of filing late periodic reports with the
SEC.
In
June
1999 we failed to file our annual report on Form 10-K on the due date prescribed
by the SEC as we were unable to complete the audit of our financial statements.
This in turn delayed the filing of three subsequent quarterly reports on
Form
10-Q. The delay was occasioned by inadequate financial resources brought
about
by severe financial difficulties of our computer peripherals subsidiary,
NewCom,
Inc., which ceased operations in the first quarter of 1999. As a result of
the
delinquent filings our common stock was delisted from the Nasdaq National
Market
in July 1999. In February 2000 we completed our financial restructuring and
filed all delinquent SEC reports, and listed on the NASD, Inc. OTC Bulletin
Board (“OTCBB”). From February, 2005 through January 2008, we failed to timely
file quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Reports on Form 10-K. This
delay
was also occasioned by inadequate financial resources, culminating in our
filing
for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in June 2005.
As
a result of our failure to file these reports we were delisted from the OTCBB
in
July, 2005 and currently trade on the “pink sheets.” Following our emergence
from bankruptcy in January 2006 we engaged auditors and other professionals
to
assist in the preparation of delinquent SEC filings. As of the date of filing
of
this report, all of our delinquent filings have been made and we are now
eligible for re-listing on the NASD, Inc. OTCBB. However, we cannot assure
you
that our common stock will be listed. Continued listing on the OTCBB and
other
U.S. exchanges requires that we timely file periodic SEC reports. Our failure
to
remain timely, therefore, could result in the delisting of our common stock
on
the OTCBB should we again become listed, which in turn could adversely affect
the market liquidity of our common stock.
We
may issue additional shares of our authorized common stock without obtaining
the
approval of our stockholders.
As
of the
date of this report, our corporate charter currently authorized our Board
of
Directors to issue up to 50,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 36,670,820
shares were outstanding as of January 31, 2008. The power of the Board of
Directors to issue authorized shares of common stock is generally not subject
to
stockholder approval under Delaware state law, the state of our corporate
organization. Any additional issuance of our common stock may have the effect
of
further diluting the equity interest of stockholders, and such dilution could
be
substantial.
Because
our common stock is not traded on Nasdaq or a national or regional market,
liquidity for our common stock could be adversely
impacted.
Effective
July, 2005, our common stock was delisted from the OTCBB. As a result, an
investor may find it more difficult to dispose of or to obtain accurate price
quotations and volume information concerning our common stock than if it
were
listed on the OTCBB, the Nasdaq Stock Market or a national or regional
exchange.
Because
our common stock is subject to rules governing low priced securities, market
liquidity for our common stock could be adversely
impacted.
Our
common stock trades below $5.00 per share and is not listed on the Nasdaq
Stock
Market or a national or regional securities exchange. Therefore, our common
stock is subject to the low priced security or so-called "penny stock" rules
that impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who
sell
such securities to persons other than established customers and accredited
investors. For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the
rules
require, among other things, the delivery, prior to the transaction, of a
disclosure schedule required by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating
to the penny stock market. These rules also require that the broker determine,
based upon information obtained from the investor, that transactions in penny
stocks are suitable for the investor, and require the broker to obtain the
written consent of the investor prior to effecting the penny stock transaction.
The broker-dealer must also disclose the commissions payable to both the
broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the
securities and, if the broker-dealer is the sole market-maker, the broker-dealer
must disclose this fact and the broker-dealer's presumed control over the
market. Finally, monthly statements must be sent disclosing recent price
information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the
limited market in penny stocks. So long as our common stock is characterized
as
a penny stock, the market liquidity for these shares could be severely affected.
The regulations relating to penny stocks could limit the ability of
broker-dealers to sell these securities and, in turn, the ability of
stockholders to sell their shares in the secondary market.
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The
potential exercise of outstanding warrants and options could adversely affect
the market price of our common stock, dilute the holdings of existing
stockholders and impede our ability to obtain additional equity financing.
As
of
December 31, 2007 we had outstanding 5,855,126 options and warrants to purchase
our common stock at exercise prices ranging between $2.00 and $3.50, and
commitments to issue an additional 2,506,050 options at exercise prices ranging
between $2.00 and $3.00 upon shareholder approval of these issuances. If
those
option and warrant holders exercise these securities, we will be obligated
to
issue additional shares of common stock at the stated exercise price. As
of
March 3, 2008, the closing price of our common stock was $1.72per share.
The
existence of such rights to acquire common stock at fixed prices may prove
a
hindrance to our efforts to raise future equity funding, and the exercise
of
such rights will dilute the percentage ownership interest of our stockholders
and may dilute the value of their ownership. Future sale of shares issuable
on
the exercise of outstanding warrants and options at fixed prices below
prevailing market prices, or expectations of such sales, could adversely
affect
the prevailing market price of our common stock, particularly since such
warrants or options may be exercised at a fixed price and resold. Further,
the
holders of the outstanding warrants may exercise them at a time when we would
otherwise be able to obtain additional equity capital on terms more favorable
to
us.
We
do not expect to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
Although
our stockholders may receive dividends if, as, and when declared by our board
of
directors, we do not presently intend to pay dividends on our common stock
until
we are able to generate revenues and profits on a sustained basis and available
cash exceeds our working capital requirements. Therefore, you should not
purchase our common stock if you need immediate or future income by way of
dividends from your investment.
ITEM
2. PROPERTIES
As
of
February 28, 2005, our majority owned subsidiary, Aura Realty, Inc. (“Aura
Realty”), owned the 47,000 square foot headquarters facility and adjacent 27,690
square foot manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California that we use
for our
AuraGen®
product.
These properties were encumbered by a deed of trust securing a note in the
original principal amount of $5.4 million.
During
fiscal 2003, we sold a minority interest in Aura Realty. During fiscal 2004,
we
defaulted on payments under the note secured by our headquarters and
manufacturing facilities. Such default continued past year-end and the lender
took actions regarding a possible foreclosure sale. In June 2004, we paid
all
arrearages, cured this default and were current on our obligations under
the
note as of June 30, 2005.
In
December 2005, Aura Realty sold the two buildings to an unrelated third party.
We then leased the smaller facility and moved out of the headquarters facility.
Effective December 31, 2007, our current lease expired and we are currently
on a
month-to-month lease. In February 2008, we entered into a lease for a new
facility of approximately 25,500 square feet, near our current facility.
The
lease is for a term of five years, commencing May 1, 2008, and carries a
base
rent of $28,019 per month. We feel this facility is sufficient for our current
needs.
ITEM
3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Chapter
11 Reorganization of Aura Systems, Inc.
On
June
24, 2005, we filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California,
(Case Number LA 05-24550-SB). The filing of the bankruptcy proceeding acted
as
an automatic stay of all pending litigation as of the filing date without
further approval of the Bankruptcy Court. The Company continued its day-to-day
business operations as a “debtor-in-possession” under the jurisdiction of the
Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the
Bankruptcy Code until it emerged from Chapter 11 under a Plan of Reorganization
effective January 31, 2006.
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For
information regarding material developments in these proceedings for the
quarter
ended February 28, 2006, including the terms of the Plan of Reorganization
which
became effective on January 31, 2006, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital
Resources.”
Ben
Moshe and Maimon Litigation
Following
the commencement of our Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding in June 2005 we
filed a
suit against Yair Ben Moshe and David Maimon (United States Bankruptcy Court,
Central District of California, (Case Number LA 05-24550-SB) to enforce their
subscription obligations for Series B Preferred stock and they in turn filed
countersuits against us claiming monetary damages from a failed real estate
transaction involving our Alaska Avenue headquarters facility. All of the
parties’ claims were resolved as part of a settlement agreement entered into by
the parties, including us, Yair Ben Moshe ("Moshe"), David Maimon ("Maimon"),
Adi Harari, Izar Fernbach, Fred Balitzer, and ZD Products, Inc. ("ZD"), and
incorporated into the Plan of Reorganization.
The
following sets forth some of the key terms of the Settlement
Agreement:
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General
unsecured claims against us of $244,000, $956,041 and $1,426,915
filed by
Harari, Maimon and Moshe were reduced to a single allowed general
unsecured claim in the aggregate amount of $590,000 (the "Allowed
Claim").
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· |
ZD
agreed to purchase the Allowed Claim from Maimon and Moshe for
$225,000,
of which $150,000 was paid directly to Maimon and Moshe, and $75,000
was
contributed towards the $3,045,000 equity infusion which was part
of the
Plan (the “New Money
Contribution”).
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· |
We
assigned to Maimon and Moshe $225,000 that we were to receive from
the
sale proceeds from Aura Realty, Inc.’s sale of its real property interests
in December 2005. Maimon and Moshe, in turn, agreed to contribute
this
$225,000 towards the $3,045,000 New Money Contribution.
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· |
Maimon
and Moshe have agreed to a release of the $3,738,000 unsecured
claim that
they filed against Aura Realty, Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy
case.
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· |
Maimon
and Moshe agreed that all of the stock interests that they never
paid for,
as well as the 200,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock which
were
previously issued to Moshe and/or Maimon in connection with their
former
agreement to purchase the Aura Realty, Inc. property, would be
cancelled.
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· |
We
agreed to dismiss our pending lawsuit against Maimon and Moshe
with
prejudice and all of the parties entered into mutual
releases.
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Chapter
11 Reorganization of Aura Realty, Inc.
On
August
8, 2005, Aura Realty, Inc., a 50.1% owned subsidiary of the Company, filed
its
own Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court,
Central District of California, (Case Number LA 05-27856-SB). Aura Realty
is the
owner of the company’s headquarters and manufacturing facility. The Company at
the time of the filing was the lessee of the property. The filing was deemed
necessary by the Company in order to protect the equity in the property in
view
of the inability of Aura Realty to cure outstanding arrearages to the senior
lender, who had instituted foreclosure proceedings against the property.
In
October 2005 the Bankruptcy Court approved the sale of the real property
to a
third party for $8.75 million and the sale of the property was completed
in
December 2005. Subsequently Aura Realty obtained the dismissal of the bankruptcy
proceeding.
Other
Litigation
At
the
time of the filing by the Company of the Chapter 11 proceeding in June 2005
it
was engaged in numerous legal actions by creditors seeking payment of sums
owed.
The filing by the Company of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding acted as
an
automatic stay of all pending litigation as of the filing date without further
approval of the Bankruptcy Court. Implementation of the Plan of Reorganization
on January 31, 2006, resulted in the termination of these claims pursuant
to the
Plan of Reorganization.
17
ITEM
4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
No
matters were submitted to a vote of security holders in the fourth quarter
of
fiscal 2006.
PART
II
ITEM
5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND
ISSUER
PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
From
May
21, 1991, to July 21, 1999, our common stock was listed on the NASDAQ National
Stock Market. In July 1999 the shares were de-listed from the NASDAQ National
Market as a result of our failure to meet the minimum $1.00 bid price and
other
requirements. On February 1, 2001, our shares were listed on the OTC Bulletin
Board under the symbol "AURA". In July 2005, following the filing of our
Chapter
11 proceeding, our common stock ceased to be quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board.
Since such time our common stock has been traded on the over-the-counter
market
under the symbol “AUSI”.
Set
forth
below are high and low bid prices for our common stock for each quarterly
period
in the two most recent fiscal years. Such quotations reflect inter-dealer
prices, without retail mark-up, markdown or commissions and may not necessarily
represent actual transactions in the common stock. We had approximately 3,282
stockholders of record as of May 31, 2006.
Period
(a)
|
High
|
|
Low
|
||||
Fiscal
2005
|
|||||||
First
Quarter ended May 31, 2004
|
$
|
22.65
|
$
|
8.79
|
|||
Second
Quarter ended August 31, 2004
|
$
|
18.59
|
$
|
10.14
|
|||
Third
Quarter ended November 30, 2004
|
$
|
23.66
|
$
|
11.83
|
|||
Fourth
Quarter ended February 28, 2005
|
$
|
13.86
|
$
|
9.13
|
Period
|
High
|
|
Low
|
||||
Fiscal
2006
|
|||||||
First
Quarter ended May 31, 2005
|
$
|
6.76
|
$
|
5.07
|
|||
Second
Quarter ended August 31, 2005
|
$
|
5.07
|
$
|
0.34
|
|||
Third
Quarter ended November 30, 2005
|
$
|
3.72
|
$
|
0.68
|
|||
Fourth
Quarter ended February 28, 2006
|
$
|
3.38
|
$
|
0.68
|
On
June
30, 2006, the reported closing sales price for our common stock was
$0.69.
(a)
Price
adjusted for a 1 for 338 reverse split effective January 31, 2006.
Dividend
Policy
We
have
not paid any dividends on our common stock and we do not anticipate paying
any
dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. During fiscal 2004
we
issued shares of Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock and in fiscal
2005 we issued Series B Preferred Stock. Under the terms of the preferred
shares
we could not pay dividends on our common stock until dividends had been paid
on
the preferred shares. Effective with the implementation of our Chapter 11
reorganization plan in January 2006 all of the outstanding shares of Series
A
Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock were converted into common
stock.
Repurchases
of Equity Securities
We
did
not repurchase any shares of our common stock during the fourth quarter of
fiscal 2006.
18
Securities
Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
as of February 28, 2006
Equity
Compensation Plan Information as of February 28, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number
of Securities Remaining Available
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-average
|
|
|
for
Future Issuance
|
|
|||
|
|
Number
of Securities to
|
|
|
Exercise
Price of
|
|
|
Under
Equity Compensation
|
|
|||
|
|
be
Issued Upon Exercise
|
|
|
Outstanding
|
|
|
Plans
(Excluding Securities
|
|
|||
|
|
of
Outstanding Options,
|
|
|
Options,
Warrants and Rights
|
|
|
Reflected
in Column (a))
|
|
|||
Plan
Category
|
|
Warrants
and Rights (a)
|
|
|
(b)
|
|
|
(c)
|
|
|||
|
||||||||||||
Equity
compensation plans approved by security holders
|
|
|
802,778
|
|
|
$
|
2.15
|
|
|
|
197,222
|
|
Equity
compensation plans not approved by security holders
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Total
|
|
|
802,778
|
|
|
$
|
2.15
|
|
|
|
197,222
|
|
We
maintained two equity compensation plans as of February 28, 2006, both of
which
have been approved by our security holders under our Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Plan
of Reorganization. Effective upon approval of the Plan in January 2006, a
total
of 500,000 warrants to purchase our common stock were reserved for issuance
to
management from time to time and 500,000 warrants were reserved for issuance
to
our directors from time to time.
ITEM
6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The
following Selected Financial Data has been taken or derived from our audited
consolidated financial statements and should be read in conjunction with
and is
qualified in its entirety by the full-consolidated financial statements,
related
notes and other information included elsewhere herein.
AURA
SYSTEMS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
|
February
28,
2006
|
|
February
28,
2005
|
|
February
29,
2004
|
|
February
28,
2003
|
|
February
28,
2002
|
|||||||
Net
revenues
|
$
|
1,756,105
|
$
|
2,525,431
|
$
|
1,864,325
|
$
|
1,103,770
|
$
|
3,116,295
|
||||||
Cost
of goods sold
|
$
|
614,327
|
$
|
1,573,116
|
$
|
934,769
|
$
|
571,099
|
$
|
1,480,736
|
||||||
Inventory write down |
$
|
439,188
|
$
|
2,088,703
|
$
|
550,968
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
1,510,871
|
||||||
Gross
profit (loss)
|
$
|
702,590
|
$
|
(1,136,388
|
)
|
$
|
378,588
|
$
|
532,671
|
$
|
124,688
|
|||||
Expenses:
|
||||||||||||||||
Engineering,
research & development
|
$
|
1,483,247
|
$
|
2,482,678
|
$
|
2,135,061
|
$
|
3,956,886
|
$
|
9,224,376
|
||||||
Selling,
general and administrative
|
$
|
5,867,388
|
$
|
6,886,542
|
$
|
7,191,925
|
$
|
7,374,961
|
$
|
10,006,844
|
||||||
Class
action litigation & other legal settlements
|
$
|
267,726
|
$
|
2,765,192
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
233,259
|
$
|
(2,750,000
|
)
|
|||||
Adjustment
to accounts payable
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
(651,685
|
)
|
|||||
Impairment
losses on long-lived assets
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
544,510
|
$
|
2,000,398
|
$
|
2,300,000
|
$
|
7,661,559
|
||||||
Severance
expense
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
241,243
|
$
|
1,080,525
|
||||||
Total
expenses
|
$
|
7,618,361
|
$
|
12,678,912
|
$
|
11,327,384
|
$
|
14,106,349
|
$
|
24,571,619
|
||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Loss
from operations
|
$
|
(6,915,771
|
)
|
$
|
(13,815,300
|
)
|
$
|
(10,948,796
|
)
|
$
|
(13,573,678
|
)
|
$
|
(24,446,931
|
)
|
|
Other
(income) and expense:
|
||||||||||||||||
Impairment
of investments
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
286,061
|
$
|
500,000
|
$
|
818,019
|
$
|
1,433,835
|
||||||
Loss
on sale of minority interest in Aura Realty
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
231,000
|
$
|
626,676
|
$
|
-
|
||||||
(Gain)
loss on sale of investments and assets
|
$
|
(2,446,798
|
)
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
(201,061
|
)
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||
Interest
expense
|
$
|
6,602,020
|
$
|
18,965,852
|
$
|
2,409,732
|
$
|
2,656,592
|
$
|
2,495,551
|
||||||
Other
|
$
|
50,000
|
$
|
(166,345
|
)
|
$
|
129,337
|
$
|
(362,096
|
)
|
$
|
(535,179
|
)
|
|||
Change
in derivative liability
|
$
|
(16,254,502
|
)
|
$
|
(4,622,235
|
)
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||
Provision
(benefit) for taxes
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
(1,549,882
|
)
|
|||||
Minority
interest
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
(3,970
|
)
|
$
|
(365,514
|
)
|
$
|
14,018
|
$
|
-
|
||||
Gain
on extinguishment of debt obligations, net of income taxes
|
$
|
1,730,979
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
67,415
|
$
|
1,186,014
|
$
|
1,889,540
|
||||||
Preferred
stock dividend
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
525,377
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||||
Net
Income (Loss)
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
$
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
$
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
$
|
(16,140,873
|
)
|
$
|
(24,936,895
|
)
|
Net
Income (Loss) per common share
|
$
|
2.24
|
$
|
(22.35
|
)
|
$
|
(10.65
|
)
|
$
|
(13.52
|
)
|
$
|
(27.04
|
)
|
||
Weighted
average number of common shares
|
3,063,216
|
1,288,114
|
1,276,056
|
1,230,365
|
969,194
|
|||||||||||
Cash/cash
equivalents
|
$
|
472,482
|
$
|
61,376
|
$
|
83,200
|
$
|
163,693
|
$
|
1,143,396
|
||||||
Working
capital
|
$
|
2,567,684
|
$
|
(34,338,147
|
)
|
$
|
(14,011,245
|
)
|
$
|
(15,626,271
|
)
|
$
|
(2,512,553
|
)
|
||
Total
assets
|
$
|
7,891,377
|
$
|
13,305,777
|
$
|
17,760,733
|
$
|
23,767,866
|
$
|
28,761,990
|
||||||
Total
debt
|
$
|
5,140,554
|
$
|
36,535,119
|
$
|
15,545,829
|
$
|
13,345,378
|
$
|
10,895,466
|
||||||
Net
stockholders' equity (deficit)
|
$
|
4,082,983
|
$
|
(23,883,233
|
)
|
$
|
(3,614,425
|
)
|
$
|
4,712,176
|
$
|
12,652,733
|
ITEM
7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
OF
OPERATIONS
Forward
Looking Statements.
This
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations includes many forward-looking statements. For cautions about relying
on such forward looking statements, please refer to the section entitled
“Forward Looking Statements” at the beginning of this report immediately prior
to “Item 1”.
19
Overview
We
design, assemble and sell the AuraGen®,
our
patented mobile power generator that uses the engine of a vehicle to generate
power. The AuraGen®
delivers
on-location, plug-in electricity for any end use, including industrial,
commercial, recreational and military applications. We began commercializing
the
AuraGen®
in late
1999. To date, AuraGen®
units
have been sold to numerous industries, including recreational, utilities,
telecommunications, emergency/rescue, public works, catering, oil and gas,
transportation, government and the military.
We
were
founded in 1987 and, until 1992, primarily engaged in supplying defense
technology to classified military programs. In 1992 we transitioned to being
primarily a supplier of consumer and industrial products and services using
our
technology. In 1994, we founded NewCom, Inc., which sold and distributed
computer communications and sound products such as CD-ROMs and sound cards.
In
1997, we acquired MYS Corporation of Japan (“MYS”), a manufacturer of speaker
systems. NewCom ceased operations in 1999 and we experienced severe financial
hardship from this and other causes. In fiscal 2000, we sold MYS, our business
divisions providing sound products, and other assets, restructured substantial
indebtedness and concentrated our focus on the AuraGen®
product.
Since fiscal 2002 sales and support of the AuraGen®
have
provided substantially all of our operating revenues.
We
have
not yet achieved a level AuraGen®
sales
sufficient to generate positive cash flow. Accordingly, we have depended
on
repeated infusions of cash in order to maintain liquidity as we have sought
to
develop sales. During fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2004, we substantially reduced
our internal staffing due to the slower-than-anticipated level of
AuraGen®
sales.
We also suspended substantially all research and development activities.
We
continued to downscale our operations in fiscal 2005.
In
September 2004, we entered into agreements with a group of investors and
holders
of secured debt in order to recapitalize the company. These agreements are
referred to as the "2004 Recapitalization Transactions" or “2004
Recapitalization” and are described in more detail below under "Liquidity and
Capital Resources - The 2004 Recapitalization Transactions". Completion of
the
2004 Recapitalization Transactions was intended to provide us with a more
stable
financial condition by infusing new capital of up to $15 million through
the
sale of units comprising Series B Preferred Stock and common stock warrants,
conversion of $3.5 million of secured debt into Series B Preferred Stock
and
warrants and extension of the maturity of the remaining $2.1 million of secured
debt to August 2005, and the settlement of legal claims with former management.
However, we continued to require further financing to remain solvent.
Accordingly, subsequent to the end of fiscal 2005, in June 2005 we filed
for
protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and emerged on January
31, 2006 under a plan of reorganization.
Our
financial statements included in this report have been prepared on the
assumption that we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the
realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course
of
business. However, as a result of our losses from operations there is
substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The
consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect
the
possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets
or
the amount and classification of liabilities that may result from our possible
inability to continue as a going concern.
Our
ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the successful
achievement of profitable operations and the ability to generate sufficient
cash
from operations and obtain financing sources to meet our obligations. There
is
no assurance that such efforts will be successful.
Our
current level of sales reflects our efforts to introduce a new product into
the
marketplace. Many purchases of the product are being made for evaluation
purposes. We seek to achieve profitable operations by obtaining market
acceptance of the AuraGen®
as a
competitive - superior - product providing mobile power, thereby causing
sales
to increase dramatically to levels which support a profitable operation.
There
can be no assurance that this success will be achieved.
20
Critical
Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our
discussion and analysis of our financial conditions and results of operations
are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared
in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
States
of America. The preparation of financial statements requires management to
make
estimates and disclosures on the date of the financial statements. On an
on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates, including, but not limited to,
those
related to revenue recognition. We use authoritative pronouncements, historical
experience and other assumptions as the basis for making judgments. Actual
results could differ from those estimates. We believe that the following
critical accounting policies affect our more significant judgments and estimates
in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.
Revenue
Recognition
We
are
required to make judgments based on historical experience and future
expectations, as to the reliability of shipments made to our customers. These
judgments are required to assess the propriety of the recognition of revenue
based on Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 101, "Revenue Recognition,"
and
related guidance. Because sales are currently in limited volume and many
sales
are for evaluative purposes, we have not booked a general reserve for returns.
We will consider an appropriate level of reserve for product returns when
our
sales increase to commercial levels.
Inventory
Valuation and Classification
Inventories
consist primarily of components and completed units for our AuraGen®
product.
Inventories are valued at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or market.
Provision is made for estimated amounts of current inventories that will
ultimately become obsolete due to changes in the product itself or vehicle
engine types that go out of production. Due to continuing lower than projected
sales, we are holding inventories in excess of what it expects to sell in
the
next fiscal year. The net inventories which are not expected to be realized
within a 12-month period based on current sales forecasts have been reclassified
as long term. Management believes that existing inventories can, and will,
be
sold in the future without significant costs to upgrade it to current models
and
that the valuation of the inventories, classified both as current and long-term
assets, accurately reflects the realizable values of these assets. The
AuraGen®
product
being sold currently is not technologically different from those in inventory.
Existing finished goods inventories can be upgraded to the current model
with
only a small amount of materials and manpower. We make these assessments
based
on the following factors: i) existing orders, ii) age of the inventory, iii)
historical experience and iv) our expectations as to future sales. If expected
sales volumes do not materialize or if significant discounts from current
pricing levels are granted to generate sales, there would be a material impact
on our financial statements.
Valuation
of Long-Lived Assets
Long-lived
assets, consisting primarily of property and equipment, and patents and
trademarks, comprise a significant portion of our total assets. Long-lived
assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances
indicate that their carrying values may not be recoverable. Recoverability
of
assets is measured by a comparison of the carrying value of an asset to the
future net cash flows expected to be generated by those assets. Net cash
flows
are estimated based on expectations as to the realizeability of the asset.
Factors that could trigger a review include significant changes in the manner
of
an asset's use or our overall strategy.
Specific
asset categories are treated as follows:
Accounts
Receivable: We record an allowance for doubtful accounts based on management's
expectation of collectibility of current and past due accounts
receivable.
Property,
Plant and Equipment: We depreciate our property and equipment over various
useful lives ranging from five to ten years. Adjustments are made as warranted
when market conditions and values indicate that the current value of an asset
is
less than its net book value.
21
When
we
determine that an asset is impaired, it measures any such impairment by
discounting an asset's realizable value to the present using a discount rate
appropriate to the perceived risk in realizing such value. When we determine
that an impaired asset has no foreseeable realizable value, it writes such
asset
down to zero.
Results
of Operations
In
fiscal
2006, we reported net income of $6.9 million. This was primarily as a result
of
the recording of income of $16.3 million from a change in derivative liability
that essentially reversed a charge for this amount in fiscal 2005. Our fiscal
2005 net loss was $28.8 million, with $17.8 million of that loss related
to
non-cash charges for depreciation, amortization, asset impairments and
beneficial conversion of certain debt instruments. In fiscal 2004, the net
loss
was $13.6 million and the similar non-cash charges were $7.0 million. Net
operating revenues and gross profit were $1.8 million and $.7 million,
respectively, in fiscal 2006, $2.5 million and $(1.1) million, respectively,
in
fiscal 2005, and $1.9 million and $0.4 million, respectively, in fiscal
2004.
Revenues
Net
revenues in fiscal 2006 decreased $769,326 to $1,756,105 from $2,525,431
in
fiscal 2005, a decrease of 30%. This was due primarily to the lack of financial
resources, the reduction in the workforce and the filing of
bankruptcy.
Net
revenues in fiscal 2005 increased $661,106 to $2,525,431 from $1,864,325
in
fiscal 2004, an increase of 35% due primarily to a contract with a supplier
of
vehicles for the government.
Cost
of Goods
Cost
of
Goods sold in fiscal 2006 decreased $958,789 to $614,327 from $1,573,116
in
fiscal 2005. As a percentage of net revenues, cost of goods sold was 35%
in
fiscal 2006 compared to 62.4% in fiscal 2005. On the low level of sales we
have
had, this percentage can vary substantially from year to year based on the
mix
of product sold.
Cost
of
Cost of goods sold in fiscal 2005 increased $634,347 to $1,573,116 from $934,769
in fiscal 2004. As a percentage of net revenues, cost of goods sold was 62.4%
in
fiscal 2005 compared to 50.1% in fiscal 2004. This was a result of the mix
of
products sold.
Engineering,
Research and Development
Engineering,
research and development decreased $999,421 to $1,483,247 in fiscal 2006
from
$2,482,668 in fiscal 2005. The decrease is largely attributable to the
substantial reduction in workforce that was necessitated by our financial
condition and the filing of bankruptcy.
Engineering,
research and development increased $347,607 to $2,482,668 in fiscal 2005
from
$2,135,061 in fiscal 2004. The increase is primarily attributable to a
government contract. As a percentage of net revenues, engineering, research
and
development was 98.3% in fiscal 2005 compared to 114.5% in fiscal 2004. Research
and development activities were negligible in fiscal 2005 and 2004 as we
significantly reduced our research activities due to our financial condition.
We
expect research and development activities to continue at this reduced level
until we have the financial resources available to fund such
activities.
Selling,
General and Administrative
Selling,
general and administrative expenses in fiscal 2006 decreased $1,019,154 (15%)
to
$5,867,388 from $6,886,542 in fiscal 2005. The decrease is primarily
attributable to the continued decrease in our workforce.
Selling,
general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") declined $305,383 (4%) to
$6,886,542 in fiscal 2005 from $7,191,925 in fiscal 2004. As a percentage
of net
revenues, SG&A was 273% in fiscal 2005 compared to 386% in fiscal 2004. The
decrease is primarily attributable to our ongoing cost cutting efforts and
personnel reduction.
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Legal
Settlements
Legal
settlements of $2,765,192 were recorded in fiscal 2005 primarily as a result
of
the settlement of various litigation against us and certain of our officers
by
members of our former management and others as part of the 2004
Recapitalization. Approximately $1.5 million of this expense arose from
valuations of the warrants, options and Series B units issued as part of
the
settlement. There was no comparable expense in fiscal 2006. See “Liquidity and
Capital Resources” below for further information regarding the terms of the
settlement.
Asset
Impairment
During
fiscal 2005 we recorded an asset impairment charge of $.5 million for the
book
value of our patents due to continued low sales.
During
fiscal 2004, we recorded an asset impairment charge of $2.0 million with
regard
to the book value of certain of our patents and trademarks related to products
which were not related to our core business where we could not justify that
value based on our projections of revenues or cash flows during their remaining
lives.
Non-Operating
Income and Expenses
We
incurred $0.3 million and $0.5 million of investment impairment charges in
fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004, respectively, primarily due to a decline in
the
value of non-core long-term investments.
Interest
expense decreased $12.4 million in fiscal 2006 to $6.6 million from $19 million
in fiscal 2005. The prior years expense was substantially increased due to
the
charges attributable to the beneficial conversion feature of convertible
notes
and warrants issued as part of a litigation settlement.
Interest
expense increased to $19 million in fiscal 2005 from $2.4 million in fiscal
2004. Interest expense in 2005 consisted primarily of approximately $19.2
million in charges attributable to a beneficial conversion feature of
convertible notes, and warrants issued as part of the global settlement arising
from the settlement of litigation.
Other
income/expense, net was an expense of $.05 million in fiscal 2006, $0.15
million
in fiscal 2005 and $0.1 million in fiscal 2004.
We
recognized income of $16.2 million for a change in derivative liability in
fiscal 2006, compared to income of $4.6 million in fiscal 2005. This resulted
from a reversal in the liability that was incurred for warrants that were
exercisable, but for which there were not sufficient shares
authorized.
We
realized gains of approximately $1.7 million in fiscal 2006 from bankruptcy
settlements, and $0.1 million in fiscal 2004 from the forgiveness of
debt by certain of our creditors.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources
At
February 28, 2006, we had cash of approximately $472,000 compared to
approximately $61,000 at February 28, 2005. We had working capital of
approximately $2.9 million at February 28, 2006, as compared to a deficit
of
approximately $34 million at the end of the prior fiscal year. The increase
in
working capital reflects an “other receivable” of $2,654,864 resulting from the
sale of our buildings and monies held in escrow from the sale of stock, and
the
conversion of approximately $12.1 million of current liabilities into common
stock and warrants under the Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization effected on
January 31, 2006 (the “Plan” or “Plan of Reorganization”).
At
February 28, 2006, we had accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful
accounts, of approximately $88,000, and approximately $637,000 at February
28,
2005. Our collections tend to average 60 - 90 days from invoice due to the
nature of our significant customers. There was no spending for property and
equipment in either fiscal 2006 or fiscal 2005, and less than $0.1 million
in
fiscal 2004. As of February 28, 2006, we had no material capital project
that
would require funding. We made debt repayments of $4.7 million in fiscal
2006 as
a result of the payoff of the mortgage on the buildings that were sold in
December 2005, $0.1million of debt repayments in fiscal 2005 and $0.5 million
in
fiscal 2004.
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Our
revenues from operations are derived solely from sales of the
AuraGen®.
The
cash
flow generated from our operations has not been sufficient to fund our working
capital needs. In the past, in order to maintain liquidity we have relied
upon
external sources of financing, principally equity financing and private
indebtedness.
As
of May
31, 2005, we had a working capital deficiency of $39.5 million, no cash or
cash
equivalents, negative cash flow from operations and no readily available
sources
of additional working capital. In order to allow sufficient time to raise
additional capital and restructure outstanding indebtedness we filed for
protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in June 2005. The
bankruptcy proceeding and the events leading up to the bankruptcy proceeding
are
discussed in more detail below. During the remainder of fiscal 2006, following
commencement of our bankruptcy proceeding, we continued to rely on third
party
funding to cover our cash shortfalls, which included a series of secured
debt
financings aggregating more than $3.3 million during the pendency of our
Chapter
11 proceeding and $3 million raised in a private placement of common stock
and
warrants to a group of “new money” investors as part of the Plan of
Reorganization.
Background
of Chapter 11 Reorganization
In
September 2004, we entered into agreements with a group of investors and
holders
of secured debt in order to recapitalize the Company (the "2004 Recapitalization
Transactions"). Completion of the 2004 Recapitalization Transactions was
intended to provide us with a more stable financial condition by infusing
new
capital of up to $15 million through the sale of units comprising Series
B
Preferred Stock and common stock warrants, conversion of $3.5 million of
secured
debt into Series B Preferred Stock and warrants and extension of the maturity
of
the remaining $2.1 million of secured debt to August 2005, and the settlement
of
legal claims with former management. Subsequent to February 28, 2005, some
of
the investors who agreed to purchase Series B units failed to pay the
subscription price when due in fiscal 2006, leaving more than $3 million
of
subscriptions unpaid as of May 31, 2005, resulting in defaults in other
financial obligations. Without sufficient funds to operate, the inability
to
collect funding from the Series B investors in a timely manner, creditors
aggressively pursuing the Company, and the inability to mount an adequate
funding effort, we determined that filing for protection under the U.S.
bankruptcy laws was the only way to preserve the going concern value of the
Company. Accordingly, in June 2005 we filed for protection under Chapter
11 of
the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and continued day-to-day operations as a debtor
in
possession, under the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court.
At
the
time of our bankruptcy filing we were generating approximately $180,000 of
monthly revenue and had approximately $500,000 of monthly operating expenses,
with no cash reserves. Substantially all of our assets, including our operating
revenues, were encumbered by liens in favor of a group of lenders holding
secured notes (the “Secured Notes”) with an aggregate principal balance of
approximately $6 million. Therefore, our ability to continue to operate during
the Chapter 11 proceeding was dependent upon our ability to use our operating
revenue to pay expenses and to obtain “debtor-in-possession” financing.
Accordingly, through agreements reached by the Company with the lenders holding
the Secured Notes, and the approval of the bankruptcy court, between July
and
December of 2005, we concluding a series of three new secured financings,
totaling $3.36 million, with three new lenders (the “DIP Lenders”).
In
December 2005 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court ordered that a Plan of Reorganization
proposed by us be circulated for approval by our creditors and shareholders,
subject to the final confirmation of the Bankruptcy Court. The Plan of
Reorganization was approved in January 2006 and became effective on January
31,
2006 (the “Effective Date”). Following is a summary of some of the principal
elements of the Plan.
Principal
Terms of the Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization
The
principal terms of the Plan, which became effective on January 31, 2006,
are as
follows:
Secured
Note Holders
- The
holders of the Secured Notes outstanding when the Chapter 11 proceeding was
filed, with an approximate principal balance of $5.5 million immediately
prior
to the Effective Date, received 1,134,000 shares of Common Stock, warrants
to
purchase 259,900 shares of Common Stock, and restated Secured Notes with
a
reduced principal balance of $2,525,000 on the Effective Date, after giving
effect to a $75,000 cash payment by the Company on the Effective Date. The
Secured Notes, as restated, continued to be secured by a lien on substantially
all of the property of the Company, with annual interest of 7%, and payable
in
48 equal monthly installments commencing 12 months after the Effective
Date.
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DIP
Lenders
- The
DIP Lenders converted all of their approximately $4.06 million of loans
immediately prior to the Effective Date into 6,065,699 shares of Common Stock
and warrants to purchase 606,570 shares of Common Stock on the Effective
Date.
Unsecured
Claims
-
Holders of approximately $8.3 million of unsecured claims against the Company
immediately prior to the Effective Date received approximately 4.7 million
shares of Common and warrants to purchase 945,900 shares of Common Stock
on the
Effective Date in exchange for their unsecured claims.
New
Money Investors - A
group
of new investors (“New Money Investors”) contributed a total of $3,045,000 of
new money on the Effective Date in exchange for 3,349,500 shares of Common
Stock
and warrants to purchase 669,000 shares of Common Stock, of which approximately
$1.1 million was used to pay administrative expenses of the bankruptcy
proceeding outstanding on the Effective Date. An additional 837,375 shares
of
Common Stock were issued under the Plan following the Effective Date as the
Company did not timely file a registration statement.
Series
A Preferred Stockholders
- The
holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, of which 591,110 shares were
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Date, received a total of
357,818
shares of Common Stock and warrants to purchase 89,455 shares of Common Stock
in
exchange for their Series A Preferred Stock.
Series
B Preferred Stockholders
- The
holders of $9,979,838 of Series B Preferred Stock which was fully paid for
immediately prior to the Effective Date, received a total of 3,215,712 shares
of
Common Stock and warrants to purchase 987,195 shares of Common Stock in exchange
for their Series B Preferred Stock. The remaining, unpaid shares of Series
B
Preferred Stock were cancelled on the Effective Date.
Common
Stockholders
- The
holders of the 439,458,082 shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately
prior
to the Effective Date (“Old Common Stock”) received approximately 1.3 million
shares of new Common Stock in the reorganized Company on the Effective Date
in
exchange for the Old Common Stock (i.e. one share of new Common Stock in
exchange for each 338 shares of Old Common Stock).
Aries
Group Reorganization Fee
- For
major contributions to the Plan, Disclosure Statement which describes the
Plan,
business analysis and modeling, feasibility study, assistance in settlement
disputes between the Company and certain creditors, and providing valuation
analysis for pricing of the investment by the New Money Investors as well
as the
conversion rates for the DIP Lenders, the Aries Group received 2,541,500
shares
of the Company’s Common Stock and warrants to purchase 508,300 shares of Common
Stock. The Plan provided that of these 2,541,500 shares of Common Stock and
508,300 warrants received by the Aries Group, 900,000 shares of Common Stock
and
179,800 Warrants were to be delivered to Harry Kurtzman.
New
Warrants - The
warrants to purchase a total of approximately 3,807,319 shares of Common
Stock
issued under the Plan to the New Money Investors, the DIP Lenders, holders
of
unsecured claims, holders of Series A and Series B Preferred Stock and the
Aries
Group entitled the warrant holder to purchase Common Stock at a price of
$3.00
per share during the first 12 months following the Effective Date, $3.50
per
share during the second 12 months following the Effective Date, and $4.00
per
share thereafter. The warrants to purchase a total of 259,900 shares of Common
Stock issued under the Plan to the holders of the Secured Notes entitled
the
warrant holder to purchase Common Stock at a price of $2.00 per share during
the
first 12 months following the Effective Date, $2.50 per share during the
second
12 months following the Effective Date, and $3.00 per share thereafter. The
Plan
also provided for the reservation by the Company of warrants for 500,000
shares
for the Company’s management and 500,000 shares for members of the Board of
Directors, to be issued by the Company from time to time.
Contractual
Obligations
The
table
below describes the Company’s future contractual obligations, including items
not included in the consolidated balance sheet, as of February 28, 2006:
At
February 28, 2006, we had the following contractual obligations and commercial
commitments:
25
|
|
Payments
Due by Period
|
|
||||||||||||||||
Contractual
Obligations
|
|
Total
|
Less
Than 1 Year
|
1-3 Years
|
3-5 Years
|
More
Than 5 Years
|
|||||||||||||
Long
term debt
|
a.
|
)
|
$
|
2,525,000
|
$
|
48,766
|
$
|
1,942,986
|
$
|
533,248
|
$
|
0
|
|||||||
Capital
lease obligations
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
|||||||||
Operating
leases
|
b.
|
)
|
$
|
386,100
|
$
|
210,600
|
$
|
175,500
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
|||||||
Minimum
license commitment
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
|||||||||
Fixed
asset and inventory purchase commitments
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total
contractual cash obligations
|
$
|
2,911,100
|
$
|
259,366
|
$
|
2,118,486
|
$
|
533,248
|
$
|
0
|
|||||||||
|
a.) |
Represents
notes payable dated January 31, 2006, bearing interest at a rate
of 7% per
annum and secured by our intellectual property. The notes carry
a term of
five years with interest accruing the first 12 months, principal
and
interest payments beginning the 13th month, and continuing through
month
60. During the year ended February 28, 2007, $167,346 in accrued
and
unpaid interest was added to the principal balance of the
notes.
|
b.) |
Represents
obligations for the lease of our
facilities.
|
ITEM
7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET
RISK
We
are
exposed to various market risks, including changes in interest rates. Market
risk is the potential loss arising from adverse changes in market rates and
prices. We consider our exposure to market risks to be immaterial. Historically,
we have not entered into derivative financial instrument transactions to
manage
or reduce market risk or for speculative purposes. Our long term debt
obligations all bear interest at fixed rates and, therefore, have no exposure
to
interest rate fluctuations. Our risk related to foreign currency fluctuations
is
not material at this time, as any accounts we have in foreign denominations
are
not in themselves material.
As
we
anticipate needing to use the cash we held at year end within a short period,
we
have invested it in money market accounts, and we do not expect that the
amount
of fluctuation in interest rates will expose us to any significant risk due
to
market fluctuation.
ITEM
8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
See
Index
to Consolidated Financial Statements at page F-1.
ITEM
9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL
DISCLOSURE
Not
applicable.
ITEM
9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure
controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance that
information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or
submit, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time
periods
specified in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms,
and such information is accumulated and communicated to management as
appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Our
Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have evaluated our disclosure
controls and procedures and have concluded, as of February 28, 2006, that
they
were not effective in view of our delinquent filings.
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As
of
February 28, 2006, we were delinquent in filing all quarterly and annual
SEC
reports due since November 30, 2004. We did not have adequate financial
resources to engage our outside auditors and ensure the timely filing of
Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2005, as disclosed in Form 12b-25
filed with the SEC on May 26, 2005. In June 2005 our financial condition
required us to seek protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code. The commencement of the bankruptcy proceeding placed additional
demands on our then existing accounting personnel, including the filing of
monthly financial reports with the bankruptcy court and the SEC. Our limited
financial and personnel resources did not allow us to fully address our
reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 until we
emerged
from bankruptcy on January 31, 2006. As of February 28, 2006, we experienced
additional events which further delayed the filing of our delinquent SEC
reports. Specifically, the integrity of our financial records was severely
disrupted as a result of errors made by temporary file personnel in December
2005 in the course of moving our principal office from 2335 Alaska Avenue
to our
Utah Avenue location. In addition, we experienced a change in our Chief
Financial Officer and other accounting personnel towards the end of the February
2006 quarter, further compounding delays during this period.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There
have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during
our
fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2006, that have materially affected or
are
reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial
reporting.
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PART
III
ITEM
10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Directors
The
following table sets forth as of March 1, 2008, our directors, their age,
and
the office they hold.
Name
|
Age
|
Title
|
||
Directors
|
|
|||
|
|
|
||
Melvin
Gagerman
|
64
|
Chairman,
Director, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and
President
|
||
Arthur
J. Schwartz, PhD
|
59
|
Director,
Chief Technical Officer
|
||
Dr.
Maurice Zeitlin
|
65
|
Director,
Chairman - Nominating Committee; member, Compensation Committee
and Audit
Committee
|
||
Warren
Breslow
|
64
|
Director,
Chairman - Audit Committee; member, Nominating Committee and Compensation
Committee
|
||
Salvador
Diaz-Verson, Jr.
|
52
|
Director,
Chairman, Compensation Committee; member, Audit Committee and Nominating
Committee
|
||
|
||||
Other
Executive Officers
|
|
|||
|
||||
Yedidia
Cohen
|
51
|
Vice
President of Engineering
|
The
following sets forth as of March 1, 2008, certain information with respect
to
our directors and executive officers as of the date of this report.
Melvin
Gagerman -
Mr.
Gagerman has been the CEO and CFO of the Company since we emerged from Chapter
11 proceedings on January 31, 2006. He has many years of experience in all
aspects of managing companies and a very strong background in accounting
and
finance. Mr. Gagerman was the President of Hollywood Trading Co., a distributor
of novelty items, from 2000 until February 2006, when he became CEO of the
Company. Prior to that Mr. Gagerman was the CEO of Surface Protection Industries
from 1976 to 1977, where he successfully reorganized key management positions;
established relationships with new distributors and upgraded manufacturing
abilities, developed aggressive marketing programs to revitalize mature product
lines and identified new market opportunities to increase sales and profits.
From 1973 to 1975 Mr. Gagerman was the Chairman and CEO of Applause, where
he
successfully reorganized a world famous designer, manufacturer and distributor
of licensed and generic stuffed toys which had sales of $137 million per
year,
700 employees and losses of 12 million dollars a year. By aggressively altering
product lines, adding new lines, cutting overhead, restructuring several
key
management positions, the company produced a $4.5 million profit within one
year. Mr. Gagerman has also served as Managing Partner of Good, Gagerman
&
Berns, an accounting firm, National Audit Partner for Laventhol and Horwath
and
Audit Supervisor at Coopers and Lybrand.
Arthur
J. Schwartz, PhD
- Dr.
Schwartz has been CTO and a director of the Company since it emerged from
Chapter 11 proceedings on January 31, 2006. From 2002 to 2006 Dr. Schwartz
was a
principal in the business consulting firm Aries Group Ltd. Dr. Schwartz is
one
of the founders of the Company and was a member of Aura’s management from1987
until 2002 as Executive Vice President, CTO and director. Dr. Schwartz has
been
has been involved in all technical aspects of the Company and has been
instrumental in many of our government programs. Prior to founding Aura,
Dr.
Schwartz worked at Hughes Aircraft Company as a senior scientist on classified
programs. Dr. Schwartz has a Ph.D in Physics.
Dr.
Maurice Zeitlin
- Dr.
Maurice Zeitlin has been a director of the Company since it emerged from
Chapter
11 proceedings on January 31, 2006. Since 1985, Dr Zeitlin has been the
President and owner of Maurice A. Zeitlin M.D., a Medical Corporation. He
currently practices administrative medicine and is the medical director for
several Los Angeles area hospitals. Dr. Zeitlin was a Major in the USAF from
1972 until 1974 He attended the University of Chicago and received his M.D
in
1967.
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Warren
Breslow
- Mr.
Breslow has been a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee since it
emerged
from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings on January 31, 2006. Mr. Breslow is
the
General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Goldrich & Kest Industries
(“G & K Industries”), a property management firm. He joined G & K
Industries in 1972 as controller and assumed his current position as General
Partner and Chief Financial Officer in 1974. As General Partner and Chief
Financial Officer of G & K, Mr. Breslow oversees the financial aspects of G
& K’s construction activity, as well as their management operations and
information systems center. He is also past president and lifetime member
of the
board of directors of the Stephen S. Wise Temple, and supports numerous
charitable and civic organizations. Prior to his association with Goldrich
&
Kest Industries, Mr. Breslow was a manager with the International Accounting
firm of Laventhol & Horwath. He is a CPA and graduated from the Bernard
Baruch School of Business Administration.
Salvador
Diaz-Verson, Jr.
is a
director of the Company and has served in this capacity since June, 2007.
He
previously served as a director of the Company from 1997 to 2005. Mr.
Diaz-Verson is the founder, Chairman and President of Diaz-Verson Capital
Investments, Inc., an Investment Adviser registered with the SEC, where he
has
served since 1991. Mr. Diaz-Verson served as President and member of the
Board
of Directors of American Family Corporation (AFLCAC Inc.) a publicly held
insurance holding company, from 1979 until 1991. Mr. Diaz-Verson also served
as
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of American Family
Life
Assurance Company, subsidiary of AFLAC Inc., from 1976 through 1991. He is
currently a Director of the board of Miramar Securities, Clemente Capital
Inc.,
Regions Bank of Georgia and The Philippine Strategic Investment Holding Limited.
Since 1992, Mr. Diaz-Verson has also been a member of the Board of Trustees
of
the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, appointed by President George
H.W. Bush in 1992, and re-appointed by President Clinton in early 2000. Mr.
Diaz-Verson is a graduate of Florida State University.
Yedidia
Cohen
- Mr.
Cohen has been employed by us since July, 2001, developing numerous magnetic
applications, and has been our VP of Engineering since May, 2006. Prior to
being
appointed VP of Engineering he was the lead engineer on the AuraGen mechanical
tasks. Mr. Cohen has extensive experience in designing and building highly
reliable and durable weapon systems. He spent much of his professional carrier
at Raphael (Weapon development and testing facility for the Israeli Army).
In
addition to his vast experience in weapon systems, Mr. Cohen worked for
Electric Power
Corporation in Haifa, Israel, where he specialized in conceptual design of
power
generation plane, thermodynamic calculations, design of boilers, pressure
vessels and heat exchangers. In addition to his engineering skills Mr. Cohen
has
experience in building and managing teams of engineers working on complex
tasks.
Mr. Cohen has a M.S.E.E degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion
in
Haifa, Israel
Section
16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section
16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"),
requires our officers and Directors, and beneficial owners of more than ten
percent of the common stock, to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. reports of ownership
and changes in ownership of the common stock. Copies of such reports, or
written
representations that no reports were required, are required to be furnished
us.
Based solely upon a review of Forms 3 and 4 and amendments thereto furnished
to
us during our fiscal year ended February 28, 2006, and Form 5 and amendments
thereto furnished to us covering the 2005 fiscal year filed under Section
16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, no person who was an officer or director
or beneficial owner of more than 10% of our common stock failed to file on
a
timely basis, as disclosed in such Forms, the reports required by Section
16(a)
of the Exchange Act during such fiscal year or prior fiscal years.
Code
of Ethics
We
have a
Code of Ethics for all of our employees, including our Chief Executive Officer,
Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. The purpose of
the
Code is to ensure that our business is conducted in a consistently legal
and
ethical matter. A copy of our Code of Ethics is included as an exhibit to
this
Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Audit
Committee
The
Audit
Committee of our Board of Directors recommends selection of independent public
accountants to our Board, reviews the scope and results of the year-end audit
with management and the independent auditors, reviews our accounting principles
and our system of internal accounting controls and reviews our annual and
quarterly reports before filing with the SEC. As of March, 2008, the members
of
our Audit Committee were Mr. Warren Breslow, (Chairman), Maurice Zeitlin
and
Salvador Diaz-Verson. Our Board has determined that all members of the Audit
Committee were independent directors under the rules of the SEC and the listing
standards of NASDAQ. Our Board also determined that Mr. Breslow is an “audit
committee financial expert” in accordance with applicable SEC
regulations.
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ITEM
11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Executive
Compensation
The
following table summarizes all compensation paid during the three fiscal
years
ended February 28, 2006, to the individual who served as our chief executive
officer during fiscal 2006, and the one other most highly compensated executive
officer who was serving in such capacity as of February 28, 2006 (together,
the
"Named Executive Officers"). Information is presented only for years in which
an
individual served as an officer of the Company.
Name and
|
Fiscal Year ended
|
Annual
Compensation
|
Long
Term
Compensation
|
Other
|
||||||||||||
Principal
Position
|
February
28/29
|
|
Salary
|
|
Other
|
|
Options/SARs
(2)
|
|
Compensation
|
|||||||
Raymond
Yu (1)
|
2006
|
$
|
215,385
|
-
|
-
|
$
|
25,990
(3
|
)
|
||||||||
Chairman,
Chief Executive Officer and President
|
2005
|
$
|
88,462
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||
2004
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||
Sandra
Ferro (4),
|
2006
|
145,094
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
Chief Financial Officer |
2005
|
46,154
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
2004
|
-
|
(1) |
Mr.
Yu was elected CEO, President and a director effective September
20, 2004,
and resigned in January 2006.
The position of CEO then remained vacant until after the end of
the 2006
fiscal year.
|
(2) |
No
long-term incentive payments or restricted stock awards were granted
to
the above individual during the three
fiscal years ended February 28, 2006.
|
(3) |
Represents
travel and living expenses away from
home.
|
(4) |
Ms.
Ferro became the Chief Financial Officer on October 21, 2004, and
was
terminated in February 2006.
|
No
options were granted or exercised by the Named Executive Officers during
the
fiscal year ended February 28, 2006, and none of these individuals had any
stock
options outstanding as of February 28, 2006.Employment
Contracts and Change in Control Agreements as of February 28,
2006
Melvin
Gagerman
Melvin
Gagerman was appointed acting Chief Financial Officer in February
2006.
Under
the original terms of his engagement Mr. Gagerman was to receive a starting
salary, retroactive to January 1, 2006, of $300,000 per year, along with
an
automobile allowance of $1,000 per month. If the Company reported two
consecutive profitable quarters, Mr. Gagerman’s salary was to be increased to
$360,000 per year. In May 2006 Mr. Gagerman assumed the position of President
and CEO.
Effective
January 31, 2006, Mr. Gagerman was awarded 250,000 Management Warrants by
our
Board of Directors as authorized under our Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization.
The terms of the Management Warrants provide for an exercise price of $2.00
per
share during the first 12 months from the effective date of issuance
(January
31, 2006),
$2.50
per share from the 13th
to the
24th
months
from the effective date of issuance; and $3.00 per share from the 25th
to the
36th
month
from the effective date of issuance. However, under the terms of Mr. Gagerman’s
employment agreement, which are subject to shareholder approval under our
Bylaws, the exercise price will be $2.00 per share. The Management Warrants
vest
over a 36 month period: 1/36th
of the
shares of common stock underlying the warrant vest each month after the date
of
issuance, subject to his continuing to serve as an employee. However, under
the
terms of Mr. Gagerman’s employment agreement, which are subject to shareholder
approval under our Bylaws, the warrants were fully vested as of May 1, 2006.
30
Effective
January 31, 2006, Mr. Gagerman was awarded 350,000 Director Warrants by our
Board of Directors as authorized under our Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization.
The terms of the Director Warrants provide for an exercise price of $2.50
per
share. However, under the terms of Mr. Gagerman’s employment agreement, which
are subject to shareholder approval under our Bylaws, the exercise price
will be
$2.00 per share. The
Director Warrants vest over a two year period: 25% of the shares of common
stock
underlying the warrant vest each six months after the effective date of issuance
(January 31, 2006). However,
under
the terms of Mr. Gagerman’s employment agreement, which are subject to
shareholder approval under our Bylaws, the warrants were fully vested as
of May
1, 2006.
Sandra
Ferro
On
September 28, 2004, the Company entered into an Employment Agreement with
Sandra
Ferro (the “Ferro Agreement”), pursuant to which, effective October 21, 2004,
Ms. Ferro became Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The Ferro Agreement
provided (i) for Ms. Ferro’s starting annual salary of $120,000; and (ii) that
if she were terminated by the Company without cause during the first two
years
of her employment, she would be entitled to receive a severance payment equal
to
30 days’ salary. In addition, the Ferro Agreement provided that she would be
granted options to purchase 2,958 shares of the Company’s Common Stock at an
exercise price of 19.27 per share. Such options were to vest 50% on the first
anniversary of her employment and 50% on the second anniversary. As a result
of
the implementation of the Plan of Reorganization, the Ferro Agreement was
cancelled on January 31, 2006, the Effective Date of the Plan.
Compensation
of Directors
Directors
are reimbursed for travel expenses incident to their service as a director
but
do not receive cash compensation. Directors are eligible to receive stock
options and stock purchase warrants from time to time. All grants are at
or
above the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant. In
February 2006, following the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization,
Arthur
Schwartz, Sheldon Appel and Richard Armbrust were each awarded Director Warrants
authorized under the Plan, entitling each of them to purchase 50,000 shares
of
common stock at an exercise price of $2.50 per share, vesting at the rate
of 25%
every six months and expiring three years from the date of grant. All grants
are
at or above the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant.
Warrants were also issued to Mr. Gagerman as Chairman of the Board and acting
Chief Financial Officer. For information regarding warrants awarded to Melvin
Gagerman, see “Employment Contracts and Termination of Employment and Change in
Control Agreements” above.
Compensation
Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
During
the fiscal year ended February 28, 2006, decisions regarding compensation
of
executive officers were made by the outside, disinterested Directors of the
Board of Directors, after discussing the matter with the executive officer.
ITEM
12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND
MANAGEMENT AND
RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
Common
Stock
The
following table sets forth, to the extent of our knowledge, certain information
regarding our Common Stock owned as of December 31, 2007 (i) by each person
who
is the beneficial owner of more than five percent (5%) of our outstanding
Common
Stock, (ii) by each of our Directors and the Named Executive Officers, and
(iii)
by all Directors and executive officers as a group:
31
Beneficial
Owner
|
Number
of Shares of Common
Stock
|
|
Percent
of
Common
Stock (1))
|
||||
ICM
Asset Management, Inc. (2)(3)
|
1,492,388
|
4.1
|
%
|
||||
James
M. Simmons (2)(4)
|
1,612,012
|
4.4
|
%
|
||||
Koyah
Ventures, LLC (2)(5)
|
1,541,238
|
4.2
|
%
|
||||
Koyah
Leverage Partners, L.P. (2)(6)
|
1,260,978
|
3.4
|
%
|
||||
Raymond
Yu
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
Sandra
Ferro
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
Melvin
Gagerman (7)
|
611,501
|
1.7
|
%
|
||||
Arthur
Schwartz (8)
|
728,659
|
2.0
|
%
|
||||
Maurice
Zeitlin (9)
|
1,116,260
|
3.0
|
%
|
||||
Warren
Breslow (10)
|
1,488,378
|
4.1
|
%
|
||||
Salvador
Diaz-Verson, Jr. (11)
|
115,934
|
*
|
|||||
All
current executive officers and Directors as a group (eight)
|
4,060,732
|
11.1
|
%
|
||||
|
*
Less
than 1% of outstanding shares.
(1) |
Beneficial
ownership is determined in accordance with rules of the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. The calculation of the percentage of beneficial
ownership is based upon 36,670,820 shares of common stock outstanding
on
December 31, 2007. In computing the number of shares beneficially
owned by
any shareholder and the percentage ownership of such shareholder,
shares
of common stock which may be acquired by a such shareholder upon
exercise
or conversion of warrants or options which are currently exercisable
or
exercisable within 60 days of December 31, 2007, are deemed to
be
exercised and outstanding. Such shares, however, are not deemed
outstanding for purposes of computing the beneficial ownership
percentage
of any other person. Shares issuable upon exercise of warrants
and options
which are subject to shareholder approval are not deemed outstanding
for
purposes of determining beneficial ownership. Except as indicated
by
footnote, to our knowledge, the persons named in the table above
have the
sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of
common
stock shown as beneficially owned by them.
|
(2) |
Based
upon information contained in Schedule 13G jointly filed with the
SEC on
February 13, 2008, by ICM Asset Management, Inc., Koyah Ventures,
LLC,
Koyah Leverage Partners, L.P. and James M. Simmons. The business
address
of these filers is 601
W. Main Avenue, Suite 600, Spokane, Washington 99201. ICM
Asset Management, Inc., James M. Simmons and Koyah Ventures, LLC
constitute a group sharing beneficial ownership within the meaning
of Rule
13d-5(b)(1), but are not part of a group with any other person.
Koyah
Leverage Partners, L.P. expressly disclaims membership in a group
and
disclaims beneficial ownership of the common stock covered by the
Schedule
13G. ICM Asset Management, Inc. is a registered investment adviser
whose
clients have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt
of
dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the common stock.
James
M. Simmons is the Chief Executive Officer and controlling shareholder
of
ICM Asset Management, Inc. and the manager and controlling owner
of Koyah
Ventures, LLC. Koyah Ventures, LLC is the general partner of Koyah
Leverage Partners, L.P. and other investment limited partnerships
of which
ICM Asset Management, Inc. is the investment adviser. No individual
client
of ICM, other than Koyah Leverage Partners, L.P., holds more than
five
percent of the outstanding common stock.
|
(3) |
Includes
sole dispositive and voting power of 862 shares and shared voting
and
dispositive power of 1,491,526
shares.
|
(4) |
Includes
sole dispositive and voting power of 7,771 shares and shared voting
and
dispositive power of 1,612,012
shares.
|
(5) |
Includes
sole dispositive and voting power of 119,503 shares and shared
voting and
dispositive power of 1,421,735
shares.
|
(6) |
Includes
shared dispositive and voting power of 1,260,678
shares.
|
(7) |
Includes
446,639 warrants and options exercisable within 60 days of December
31,
2007.
|
(8) |
Includes
157,433 warrants and options exercisable within 60 days of December
31,
2007.
|
(9) |
Includes
157,757 warrants and options exercisable within 60 days of December
31,
2007.
|
(10) |
Includes
60,989 warrants and options exercisable within 60 days of December
31,
2007.
|
(11) |
Includes
51,327 warrants and options exercisable within 60 days of December
31,
2007.
|
32
The
mailing address for the officers and directors is c/o Aura Systems, Inc.,
2330
Utah Avenue, El Segundo, CA 90245.
ITEM
13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
During
fiscal 2006 we entered into a number of agreements with persons who were
directors or officers. For information regarding these agreements, see “ITEM 11.
Executive Compensation.” In addition we entered into agreements with holders of
our Secured Notes who beneficially own more than 5% of our common stock,
Koyah
Ventures, LLC and Koyah Leverage Partners, LP. For information regarding
the
transactions with the holders of the Secured Notes, see “Item 7 - Liquidity and
Capital Resources.”
ITEM
14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND DISCLOSURES
The
Audit
Committee regularly reviews and determines whether specific non-audit projects
or expenditures with our independent auditors potentially affect their
independence. The Audit Committee’s policy is to pre-approve all audit and
permissible non-audit services provided by our independent auditors.
Pre-approval is generally provided by the Audit Committee for up to one year,
as
detailed as to the particular service or category of services to be rendered,
as
is generally subject to a specific budget. The Audit Committee may also
pre-approve additional services of specific engagements on a case-by-case
basis.
The
following table sets forth the aggregate fees billed to us by Kabani & Co.
for the years ended February 28, 2006 and 2005:
Year
Ended February 28,
|
|||||||
2006
|
2005
|
||||||
Audit
Fees(1)
|
$
|
82,500
|
$
|
82,500
|
|||
Audit-related
fees(2)
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
Tax
fees
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
All
other fees
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
Total
|
$
|
82,500
|
$
|
82,500
|
(1)
|
|
Included
fees for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual
financial statements and review of our annual report on Form 10-K
and for
reviews of the financial statements included in our quarterly reports
on
Form 10-Q for the first three quarters of the years ended February
28,
2006 and 2005.
|
|
||
(2)
|
|
Includes
fees for professional services rendered in connection with our
evaluation
of internal controls.
|
PART
IV
ITEM
15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
33
A.
Documents filed as part of this Form 10-K:
1.
Financial Statements
See
Index
to Consolidated Financial Statements at page F-1
2.
Financial Statement Schedules
See
Index
to Consolidated Financial Statements at page F-1
3.
Exhibits
See
Exhibit Index
B.
Reports on Form 8-K
None
34
INDEX
TO EXHIBITS
Description
of Documents
2.1
|
First
Amended Plan of Reorganization of Aura Systems, Inc.(2)
|
|
3.1
|
Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Aura Systems, Inc..
(1)
|
|
3.2
|
Amended
and Restated Bylaws of Aura Systems, Inc. as amended to date.
(1)
|
|
10.1
|
Form
of Unsecured Creditor Warrants issued under First Amended Plan
of
Reorganization of the Company. (3)
|
|
10.2
|
Form
of Management Warrants issued under First Amended Plan of Reorganization
of Aura Systems, Inc.(3)
|
|
10.3
|
Form
of Director Warrants issued under First Amended Plan of Reorganization
of
t Aura Systems, Inc. (3)
|
|
10.4
|
Aura
Systems, Inc. 2006 Stock Option Plan. (3)
|
|
10.5
|
Form
of Aura Systems, Inc. Non-Statutory Stock Option Agreement.
(3)
|
|
10.6
|
Employment
Agreement dated January 4, 2007, by and between the Company and
Melvin
Gagerman. (3)
|
|
10.7
|
Full
Release dated as of January 31, 2006, by Aura Systems, Inc. for
the
benefit of Koyah Leverage Partners, L.P., Koyah Partners, L.P.
Koyah
Ventures LLC, Raven Partners, L.P., Koyah Microcap Partners Master
Fund,
L.P. and James M. Simmons. (3)
|
|
10.8
|
Consolidated,
Amended and Restated Security Agreement dated as of January 31,
2006, by
Aura Systems, Inc. for the benefit of Koyah Leverage Partners,
L.P., Koyah
Partners, L.P. Koyah Ventures LLC, Raven Partners, L.P., and Koyah
Microcap Partners Master Fund, L.P. (3)
|
|
10.9
|
Consolidated,
Amended and Restated Stock Pledge Agreement dated as of January
31, 2006,
by Aura Systems, Inc. for the benefit of Koyah Leverage Partners,
L.P.,
Koyah Partners, L.P. Koyah Ventures LLC, Raven Partners, L.P.,
and Koyah
Microcap Partners Master Fund, L.P. (3)
|
|
10.10
|
Amended
and Restated Intercreditor Agreement dated as of January 31, 2006,
by and
among Aura Systems, Inc., Koyah Leverage Partners, L.P., Koyah
Partners,
L.P. Koyah Ventures LLC, Raven Partners, L.P., and Koyah Microcap
Partners
Master Fund, L.P. (3)
|
|
10.11
|
Amended
and Restated Promissory Note dated January 31, 2006, by Aura Systems,
Inc.
in favor of Raven Partners, L.P. (3)
|
|
10.12
|
Amended
and Restated Promissory Note dated January 31, 2006, by Aura Systems,
Inc.
in favor of Koyah Ventures, LLC (3)
|
|
10.13
|
Consolidated,
Amended and Restated Promissory Note dated January 31, 2006, by
Aura
Systems, Inc. in favor of Koyah Partners, L.P. (3)
|
|
10.14
|
Consolidated,
Amended and Restated Promissory Note dated January 31, 2006, by
Aura
Systems, Inc. in favor of Koyah Microcap Partners Master Fund,
L.P.
(3)
|
|
10.15
|
Consolidated,
Amended and Restated Promissory Note dated January 31, 2006, by
Aura
Systems, Inc. in favor of Koyah Leverage Partners, L.P.
(3)
|
|
10.16
|
Lease
between Aura Systems Inc., and Alliance Commercial Partners
(3)
|
|
10.17
|
Lease
between Aura Systems Inc., and Derek Lidow as Trustee for the Lidow
Family
Trust and Alexander Lidow (3)
|
|
14.1
|
Code
of Ethics (3)
|
|
31.1
|
CEO
Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of
2002
|
|
31.2
|
CFO
Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of
2002
|
|
32.1
|
Certification
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
|
|
(1)
|
Incorporated
by reference from the Company's Report on Amendment to Form 8-A
filed with
the SEC on January 31, 2006.
|
|
(2)
|
Incorporated
by reference from the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
SEC on January 20, 2006.
|
|
(3)
|
Incorporated
by reference from the Company’s Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC for
the year ended February 28,
2005.
|
35
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements 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 behalf
by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
AURA
SYSTEMS, INC.
|
||
Dated:
|
March
25, 2008
|
|
|
|
|
By:
|
/s/
Melvin Gagerman
|
|
|
Melvin
Gagerman
|
|
|
Chief
Executive Officer
|
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has
been
signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in
the
capacities and on the date indicated.
Signatures
|
Title
|
Date
|
||
/s/
Melvin Gagerman
|
Chief
Executive Officer, Acting Chief Financial Officer Director and
Chairman of
the Board (Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer,
Principal Accounting Officer)
|
March
25, 2008
|
||
Melvin
Gagerman
|
||||
|
|
|
||
/s/
Arthur Schwartz
|
Director
|
March
25, 2008
|
||
Arthur
Schwartz
|
||||
|
|
|||
/s/
Salvador Diaz-Verson, Jr
|
Director
|
March
25, 2008
|
||
Salvador
Diaz-Verson, Jr.
|
||||
|
Director
|
March
25, 2008
|
||
/s/
Maurice Zeitlin
|
||||
Maurice
Zeitlin
|
|
|||
|
Director
|
March
25, 2008
|
||
/s/
Warren Breslow
|
||||
Warren
Breslow
|
|
|||
|
Director
|
March
25, 2008
|
||
36
Index
to Consolidated Financial Statements
Independent
Auditors' Reports on Consolidated Financial Statements and Financial
Statement Schedule
|
F-1
|
|||
|
||||
Consolidated
Financial Statements of Aura Systems, Inc. and
Subsidiaries:
|
||||
|
||||
Consolidated
Balance Sheets - February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005
|
F-3
|
|||
Consolidated
Statements of Operations - Years ended February 28, 2006, February
28,
2005 and February 29, 2004
|
F-4
|
|||
Consolidated
Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) - Years ended February
28,
2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004
|
F-5
|
|||
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows - Years ended February 28, 2006, February
28,
2005 and February 29, 2004
|
F-6
to F-7
|
|||
Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements
|
F-8
to F-27
|
|||
Consolidated
Financial Statement Schedule II: Valuation and Qualifying
Accounts
|
F-28
to F-29
|
Schedules
other than those listed above are omitted because they are not required or
are
not applicable, or the required information is shown in the respective
consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.
REPORT
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To
the
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Aura
Systems, Inc. and subsidiaries
We
have
audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Aura Systems, Inc.
(a
Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries as of February 28, 2006 and February
28,
2005, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders'
equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the two years for the period ended
February 28, 2006. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audits.
We
conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we
plan
and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining,
on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used
and
significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
In
our
opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly,
in all material respects, the financial position of Aura Systems, Inc. and
subsidiaries as of February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005, and the results
of
their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period
ended February 28, 2006 in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America.
The
accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming
that
the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to
the
consolidated financial statements, the Company has generated significant
losses
from operations and defaulted on certain debt obligations. The Company
filed for
reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, in the United
States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, (Case Number LA
05-24550-SB). They secured a Debtor in Possession (“DIP”) loan. They submitted a
reorganization plan that was approved by the court and voted and approved
by the
DIP lenders, the secured creditors, the unsecured creditors, the shareholders
and the new money investors. 254,127 additional shares were issued to Yair
Ben
Mosche, David Maimon and Eli Melech Lowey to settle their claims in excess
of
the bankruptcy court approval. All of the outstanding litigation and disputes
were settled during the bankruptcy. The real estate was sold to an unrelated
third party in December 2005 for gross proceeds of $8,750,000. After
satisfaction of the mortgage liabilities and payment of the costs of the
sale,
approximately $2.9 million was due to the Company. From this amount, $1.9
million was paid to the minority shareholder, approximately $470,000 was
used to
satisfy outstanding legal bills, and the balance of $595,000 was received
by the
Company in March of 2006. All disputes regarding the real estate were settled.
The Company emerged from the Chapter 11 effective January 31,
2006.
/s/
Kabani & Company, Inc.
Certified
Public Accountants
Los
Angeles, California
June
15,
2007
F-1
REPORT
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To
the
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Aura
Systems, Inc. and subsidiaries
We
have
audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’
equity (deficit), and cash flows for the year ended February 29, 2004 of
Aura
Systems, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries. Our audit also included
the financial statement schedule of Aura Systems, Inc. and subsidiaries listed
in Item 15(a). These financial statements and the financial statement schedule
are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is
to
express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
We
conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that
we plan
and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining,
on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used
and
significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
In
our
opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present
fairly,
in all material respects, the results of operations of Aura Systems, Inc.
and
subsidiaries and their cash flows for the year ended February 29, 2004, in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our
opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation
to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents
fairly
in all material respects the information set forth therein.
The
accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming
that
the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company has generated
significant losses from operations and defaulted on certain debt obligations.
These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as
a going concern. The consolidated financial statements do not include any
adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
SINGER
LEWAK GREENBAUM & GOLDSTEIN LLP
Los
Angeles, California
July
10,
2004
F-2
CONSOLIDATED
BALANCE SHEETS
|
February
28, 2006
|
February
28, 2005
|
|||||
ASSETS
|
|
|
|||||
Current
assets
|
|
|
|||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$
|
472,482
|
$
|
61,376
|
|||
Accounts
receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $164,241 and
$178,134
|
87,808
|
637,436
|
|||||
Current
inventories
|
615,000
|
802,003
|
|||||
Other
receivables
|
2,654,864
|
-
|
|||||
Other
current assets
|
69,690
|
696,157
|
|||||
Total
current assets
|
3,899,844
|
2,196,972
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Property,
plant, and equipment, net
|
26,669
|
6,588,996
|
|||||
Non-current
inventories net of allowance for obsolete inventories of $2,967,751
and
$4,038,047
|
3,964,864
|
4,519,809
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Total
assets
|
$
|
7,891,377
|
$
|
13,305,777
|
|||
|
|||||||
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)
|
|||||||
Current
liabilities
|
|||||||
Accounts
payable
|
$
|
590,577
|
$
|
3,322,137
|
|||
Current
portion of notes payable (including $0 and $1,495,525 to related
parties)
|
48,766
|
8,730,982
|
|||||
Convertible
notes payable
|
-
|
5,686,527
|
|||||
Accrued
expenses
|
528,192
|
2,376,346
|
|||||
Derivative
liability
|
-
|
16,254,502
|
|||||
Deferred
income
|
164,625
|
164,625
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Total
current liabilities
|
1,332,160
|
36,535,119
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Notes
payable, net of current portion
|
2,476,234
|
-
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Total
liabilities
|
3,808,394
|
36,535,119
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Minority
interest in consolidated subsidiary
|
653,891
|
||||||
|
|||||||
Commitments
and contingencies
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
Stockholders'
equity (deficit)
|
|||||||
Series
A Convertible, Redeemable Preferred Stock, $0.005 par value, 1,500,000
shares authorized, 591,110 shares issued and outstanding at February
28,
2005
|
-
|
2,956
|
|||||
Series
B Convertible, Preferred Stock, par value $0.005 per share, 2,650,798
shares issued and outstanding at February 28, 2005
|
-
|
9,857
|
|||||
Common
stock, $0.0001par value, 50,000,000 shares authorized, 24,282,710
and
1,300,172 issued and outstanding at February 28, 2006 and February
28,
2005
|
2,428
|
130
|
|||||
Committed
common stock, 64,917 shares at February 28, 2005
|
-
|
3,102,958
|
|||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
343,073,025
|
318,857,824
|
|||||
Accumulated
deficit
|
(338,992,470
|
)
|
(345,856,958
|
)
|
|||
|
|||||||
Total
stockholders' equity (deficit)
|
4,082,983
|
(23,883,233
|
)
|
||||
|
|||||||
Total
liabilities and stockholders' equity
|
$
|
7,891,377
|
$
|
13,305,777
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial
statements
F-3
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For
the
Years Ended February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005, and February 29,
2004
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
Net
revenues
|
$
|
1,756,105
|
$
|
2,525,431
|
$
|
1,864,325
|
||||
Cost
of goods sold
|
614,327
|
1,573,116
|
934,769
|
|||||||
Inventory
write down
|
439,188
|
2,088,703
|
550,968
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Gross
profit
|
702,590
|
(1,136,388
|
)
|
(378,588
|
) | |||||
|
||||||||||
Operating
expenses
|
||||||||||
Engineering,
research and development
|
1,483,247
|
2,482,668
|
2,135,061
|
|||||||
Selling,
general, and administrative
|
5,867,388
|
6,886,542
|
7,191,925
|
|||||||
Legal
settlements
|
267,726
|
2,765,192
|
-
|
|||||||
Impairment
losses on long-lived assets
|
-
|
544,510
|
2,000,398
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Total
operating expenses
|
7,618,361
|
12,678,912
|
11,327,384
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Loss
from operations
|
(6,915,771
|
)
|
(13,815,300
|
)
|
(10,948,796
|
)
|
||||
|
||||||||||
Other
income (expense)
|
||||||||||
Impairment
of investments
|
-
|
(286,061
|
)
|
(500,000
|
)
|
|||||
Loss
on sale of minority interest in Aura Realty
|
-
|
-
|
(231,000
|
)
|
||||||
Gain
on sale of assets
|
2,446,798
|
-
|
201,061
|
|||||||
Interest
income , net
|
(6,602,020
|
)
|
(18,965,852
|
)
|
(2,409,732
|
)
|
||||
Other
income (expense), net
|
(50,000
|
)
|
166,345
|
(129,337
|
)
|
|||||
Change
in derivative liability
|
16,254,502
|
4,622,235
|
-
|
|||||||
Bankruptcy
Settlements
|
1,730,979
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Total
other income (expense)
|
13,780,259
|
(14,463,333
|
)
|
(3,069,008
|
)
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
Net
Income (Loss) before minority interest in subsidiary and
extraordinary item
|
6,864,488
|
|
)
|
(14,017,804
|
)
|
|||||
Minority
interest
|
-
|
3,970
|
365,514
|
|||||||
Extraordinary
item:
|
||||||||||
Gain
on extinguishment of debt, net of income taxes of $0
|
-
|
-
|
67,415 | |||||||
|
||||||||||
Net
income (loss) before preferred stock dividend
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
$
|
(28,274,663
|
)
|
$
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
||
Preferred
stock dividend
|
-
|
525,377
|
-
|
|||||||
Net
Income (Loss) applicable to common shareholders
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
$
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
$
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
||
|
||||||||||
Basic
and diluted income (loss) per share
|
$
|
2.24
|
$
|
(22.35
|
)
|
$
|
(10.65
|
)
|
||
|
||||||||||
Weighted-average
shares outstanding
|
3,063,216
|
1,288,114
|
1,276,056
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial
statements
F-4
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)
|
Preferred
Stock Shares
|
Preferred
Stock Amount
|
Common
Stock
Shares
|
Common
Stock
Amount
|
Committed
Common
Stock
|
Additional
Paid-In Capital
|
Accumulated
Deficit
|
Total
Stockholders' Equity (Deficit)
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
February 28, 2003
|
1,276,056
|
$
|
127
|
$
|
3,102,958
|
$
|
305,429,688
|
$
|
(303,820,597
|
)
|
$
|
4,712,176
|
|||||||||||||
Warrants
issued to debt holders
|
494,265
|
494,265
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Beneficial
conversion feature on convertible notes payable
|
827,375
|
827,375
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of Series A Preferred Stock
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
In
private placements
|
57,090
|
$
|
285
|
259,215
|
259,500
|
||||||||||||||||||||
For
conversion of notes payable
|
534,020
|
2,671
|
3,674,464
|
3,677,135
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Prior
period adjustment
|
(348,555
|
)
|
348,555
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Net
loss
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
February 29, 2004
|
591,110
|
$
|
2,956
|
1,276,056
|
$
|
127
|
$
|
3,102,958
|
$
|
310,336,452
|
$
|
(317,056,918
|
)
|
$
|
(3,614,425
|
)
|
|||||||||
Reclassify
prior year warrant expense as liability
|
(1,617,403
|
)
|
(1,617,403
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Penalty
shares issued on global settlement
|
24,116
|
3
|
292,269
|
292,272
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of Series B for note conversion
|
500,000
|
2,500
|
2,497,500
|
2,500,000
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of Series B for global settlement
|
91,717
|
459
|
458,124
|
458,583
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of Series B creditors settlement
|
290,311
|
1,452
|
1,450,103
|
1,451,555
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Series
B issued in private placement
|
1,089,245
|
5,446
|
5,440,779
|
5,446,225
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Net
Loss
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
February 28, 2005
|
2,562,383
|
$
|
12,813
|
1,300,172
|
$
|
130
|
$
|
3,102,958
|
$
|
318,857,824
|
$
|
(345,856,958
|
)
|
$
|
(23,883,233
|
)
|
|||||||||
Series
B issued in private placements
|
26,963
|
123
|
123,338
|
123,461
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Cancel
preferred stock
|
(2,589,346
|
)
|
(12,936
|
)
|
(13,903,525
|
)
|
(13,916,461
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||||
Cancel
common stock
|
(1,300,172
|
)
|
(130
|
)
|
(3,102,958
|
)
|
(305,077,637
|
)
|
(308,180,725
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for cancelled common stock
|
1,300,172
|
130
|
308,180,595
|
308,180,725
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for cancelled preferred stock
|
3,319,403
|
332
|
13,916,129
|
13,916,461
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for additional claims
|
254,127
|
25
|
856,324
|
856,349
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued in exchange for secured debt
|
1,134,000
|
113
|
2,899,887
|
2,900,000
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for new money contribution
|
3,349,500
|
335
|
2,952,665
|
2,953,000
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for DIP financing
|
6,065,699
|
607
|
4,063,411
|
4,064,018
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for administrative claims
|
2,766,786
|
277
|
-277
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Penalty
shares issued on new money contribution
|
837,375
|
84
|
-84
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for unsecured debt
|
4,611,247
|
461
|
8,125,478
|
8,125,939
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for legal settlements
|
644,401
|
64
|
1,135,501
|
1,135,565
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of warrants
|
943,396
|
943,396
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
Income
|
6,864,488
|
6,864,488
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
February 28, 2006
|
-
|
-
|
24,282,710
|
$
|
2,428
|
-
|
$
|
343,073,025
|
$
|
(338,992,470
|
)
|
$
|
4,082,983
|
F-5
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
For
the Years Ended February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29,
2004
|
2006
|
2005
|
2004
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Cash
flows from operating activities
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net
income (loss)
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
$
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
$
|
(13,584,876
|
)
|
||
Adjustments
to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating
activities
|
||||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
65,091
|
416,161
|
571,734
|
|||||||
Gain
on disposition of assets
|
(2,446,798
|
)
|
(201,061
|
)
|
||||||
Loss
on sale of minority interest in Aura Realty
|
-
|
-
|
231,000
|
|||||||
Change
in allowance for doubtful accounts
|
88,682
|
32,134
|
-
|
|||||||
Reserve
for Note Receivable
|
-
|
-
|
2,042,340
|
|||||||
Change
in reserve for inventory obsolescence
|
439,188
|
2,088,703
|
550,968
|
|||||||
Impairment
of long-lived assets and investments
|
-
|
830,571
|
2,500,397
|
|||||||
Gain
on extinguishment of debt
|
(1,730,979
|
)
|
(17,221
|
)
|
(65,594
|
)
|
||||
Minority
interest in net income of consolidated subsidiary
|
-
|
(3,970
|
)
|
(365,514
|
)
|
|||||
Operating
expense charged for warrants issues-
|
943,396
|
-
|
||||||||
Stock
options issued as consulting expense
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||
Change
in derivative liability
|
(16,254,502
|
)
|
(4,622,235
|
)
|
-
|
|||||
Beneficial
conversion feature on convertible debt
|
3,801,457
|
19,259,334
|
1,090,639
|
|||||||
Operating
expenses satisfied with stock
|
300,000
|
750,855
|
-
|
|||||||
(Increase)
decrease in
|
||||||||||
Accounts
receivable
|
460,946
|
12,732
|
(271,585
|
)
|
||||||
Inventories
|
302,760
|
895,628
|
130,614
|
|||||||
Other
current assets
|
626,467
|
(437,068
|
)
|
(92,500
|
)
|
|||||
Other
assets
|
-
|
594,271
|
131,364
|
|||||||
Increase
(decrease) in
|
||||||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
|
1,974,022
|
2,156,666
|
609,437
|
|||||||
Deferred
income
|
-
|
3,750
|
375
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Net
cash used in operating activities
|
(4,565,782
|
)
|
(6,839,729
|
)
|
(6,722,272
|
)
|
||||
|
||||||||||
Cash
flows from investing activities
|
||||||||||
Payments
received on notes receivable
|
-
|
-
|
174,053
|
|||||||
Purchase
of property, plant, and equipment
|
-
|
-
|
(24,684
|
)
|
||||||
Proceeds
from sale of investments
|
-
|
-
|
415,000
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Net
cash provided by (used in) investing activities
|
-
|
-
|
564,369
|
F-6
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
Cash
flows from financing activities
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Proceeds
from notes payable and convertible notes payable
|
-
|
2,150,000
|
$
|
6,366,080
|
||||||
Payments
on notes payable
|
(103,727
|
)
|
(778,320
|
)
|
(548,170
|
)
|
||||
Net
proceeds from issuance of preferred stock
|
123,461
|
5,446,225
|
259,500
|
|||||||
Net
proceeds from issuance of common stock
|
4,957,154
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Net
cash provided by financing activities
|
4,976,888
|
6,817,905
|
6,077,410
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
|
411,106
|
(21,824
|
)
|
(80,493
|
)
|
|||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, beginning of year
|
61,376
|
83,200
|
163,693
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, end of year
|
472,482
|
$
|
61,376
|
$
|
83,200
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
Supplemental
disclosures of cash flow information
|
||||||||||
Interest
paid
|
$
|
550,255
|
$
|
674,383
|
$
|
324,872
|
||||
|
||||||||||
Income
taxes paid
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
Supplemental
schedule of non-cash financing and investing activities:
During
the year ended February 28, 2006, we:
·
|
issued
1,134,000 shares of common stock upon conversion of $2,900,000
of secured
debt
|
·
|
issued
2,766,786 shares of common stock for administrative claims arising
out of
the bankruptcy filing
|
·
|
issued
837,375 shares of common stock as penalty shares for failure to
timely
file a registration statement
|
·
|
issued
4,611,247 shares of common stock in satisfaction of $8,125,939
of
unsecured debt
|
·
|
issued
644,401 shares of common stock as legal settlements
|
During
the year ended February 28, 2005, we:
·
|
issued
290,311 shares of Series B convertible preferred stock in satisfaction
of
$ 1,451,555 in liabilities issued 500,000 shares of Series B convertible
preferred stock upon conversion of $2,500,000 of note payable
|
During
the year ended February 29, 2004, the Company:
·
|
issued
$125,811 of convertible notes payable in satisfaction of $125,811
in
contractual obligations arising from the sale of the convertible
notes
payable.
|
F-7
NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE
1 - ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS
General
Aura
Systems, Inc., ("Aura" or the "Company") a Delaware corporation, was founded
to
engage in the development, commercialization, and sales of products, systems,
and components, using its patented and proprietary electromagnetic and
electro-optical technology. Aura develops and sells AuraGen®
mobile
induction power systems to the industrial, commercial, and defense mobile power
generation markets. In addition, we hold patents for other technologies that
have not been commercially exploited.
Chapter
11 reorganization
On
June
24, 2005 we filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code, in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California,
(Case Number LA 05-24550-SB). We secured a Debtor in Possession (“DIP”) loan
from Blue Collar Films LLC (“BCF”) for one million dollars and secured an
additional $1.2 million DIP loan from AGP Lender LLC. In addition a group of
individual investors provided an additional $1.16 million in DIP financing.
We
submitted a reorganization plan that was approved by the court and voted and
approved by the DIP lenders, the secured creditors, the unsecured creditors,
the
shareholders and the new money investors. Under the reorganization plan (i)
the
secured creditor retained $2.5 million in a secured note payable over 48 months
at 7% annual interest with the first payment starting 12 months after the
reorganization, (ii) the Series B Preferred Stock holders received new common
shares calculated by dividing the total cash invested in the Series B Placement
by $3.37, (iii) the Series A Preferred Stock holders converted their 1.8 Series
A Preferred Stock for one new common share, (iv) the common shareholders
converted 338 of their shares for one new share, and (v) the DIP loans converted
their loans into approximately 6.07 million new shares of common stock, and
(vi)
all the unsecured creditors received new shares of common stock valued at one
share per $1.75 in claim. An additional 5.89 million shares of common stock
were
issued for the new money and reorganization related fees.254,127 additional
shares were issued to shareholders to settle their claims in excess of the
bankruptcy court approval.
All
of
the outstanding litigation and disputes were settled during the bankruptcy.
The
real estate was sold to an unrelated third party in December 2005 for gross
proceeds of $8,750,000. After satisfaction of the mortgage liabilities and
payment of the costs of the sale, approximately $2.9 million was due us. From
this amount, $1.9 million was paid to the minority shareholder, approximately
$470,000 was used to satisfy outstanding legal bills, and the balance of
$595,000 was received by the Company in March of 2006. All disputes regarding
the real estate were settled.
We
emerged from the Chapter 11 effective January 31, 2006.
NOTE
2 - GOING CONCERN
Our
accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the basis
that we are a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and
satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.
Our
long-term ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the
successful achievement of profitable operations and the ability to generate
sufficient cash from operations and financing sources to meet our obligations.
The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect
the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets
or the amount and classification of liabilities that may result from our
possible inability to continue as a going concern. We are currently seeking
to
raise additional financing and anticipate being able to increase our sales
in
order to achieve positive cash flow.
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NOTE
3 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Principles
of Consolidation
The
consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Aura and our
subsidiary, Aura Realty, Inc. Investments in affiliated companies are accounted
for by the equity or cost method, as appropriate. Significant inter-company
amounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Revenue
Recognition
The
Company’s revenue recognition policies are in compliance with Staff accounting
bulletin (SAB) 104. Sales revenue is recognized at the date of shipment to
customers when a formal arrangement exists, the price is fixed or determinable,
the delivery is completed, no other significant obligations of the Company
exist
and collectibility is reasonably assured. Payments received before all of the
relevant criteria for revenue recognition are satisfied are recorded as unearned
revenue.
We
recognize revenue for product sales upon shipment and when title is transferred
to the customer. When Aura performs the installation of the product, revenue
and
cost of sales are recognized when the installation is complete. We have in
the
past earned a portion of our revenues from license fees and recorded those
fees
as income when we fulfilled our obligations under the particular
agreement.
Comprehensive
Income
We
utilize Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 130, "Reporting
Comprehensive Income." This statement establishes standards for reporting
comprehensive income and its components in a financial statement. Comprehensive
income as defined includes all changes in equity (net assets) during a period
from non-owner sources. Examples of items to be included in comprehensive
income, which are excluded from net income, include foreign currency translation
adjustments and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities.
Comprehensive income is not presented in our financial statements since we
did
not have any of the items of comprehensive income in any period
presented.
Cash
and Cash Equivalents
Cash
and
equivalents include cash in hand and cash in time deposits, certificates of
deposit and all highly liquid debt instruments with original maturities of
three
months or less. We maintain cash deposits at multiple banks located in
California. Deposits at each bank are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation up to $100,000. At February 28, 2005, there were no uninsured
portions of the balances. We have not experienced any losses in such accounts
and believe we are not exposed to any significant risk on cash and cash
equivalents.
Accounts
Receivable
Accounts
receivable consist primarily of amounts due from customers. We have provided
for
an allowance for doubtful accounts, which we believe to be sufficient to account
for all uncollectible amounts.
Inventories
Inventories
are valued at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or market. Due to
continuing lower than projected sales, we are holding inventories in excess
of
what we expect to sell in the next fiscal year. As of February 28, 2006 and
February 28, 2005 $3,964,864, and $4,519,809, respectively, of inventories
have
been classified as long-term assets. (See Note 4.)
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Property,
Plant, and Equipment
Property,
plant, and equipment, including leasehold improvements, are recorded at cost,
less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation is provided using
the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective
assets as follows:
Buildings
|
40
years
|
|
Machinery
and equipment
|
5
to 10 years
|
|
Furniture
and fixtures
|
7
years
|
Improvements
to leased property are amortized over the lesser of the life of the lease or
the
life of the improvements. Amortization expense on assets acquired under capital
leases is included with depreciation and amortization expense on owned
assets.
Maintenance
and minor replacements are charged to expense as incurred. Gains and losses
on
disposals are included in the results of operations.
Long-Term
Investments
We
account for all investments where we hold less than a 20% voting interest,
cannot exercise significant influence, and where the fair market value of those
securities is not readily determinable under the cost basis. Investments in
voting interests between 20% and 50% where we can exercise significant influence
are accounted for under the equity method of accounting, and investments greater
than 50% are generally consolidated for the purposes of financial reporting.
As
we do not hold a sufficient interest in our investments to exercise significant
influence and the fair market value of the investments are not readily
determinable, long-term investments have been accounted for under the cost
method. A decline in the value of any investment below cost that is deemed
other
than temporary is charged to earnings. As of February 28, 2006, we have impaired
all of our long-term investments.
Patents
and Trademarks
We
capitalize the cost of obtaining or acquiring patents and trademarks.
Amortization of patent and trademark costs is provided for by the straight-line
method over the shorter of the legal or estimated economic life. Amortization
expense was $ 0, $657,728, and $187,028 for the years ended February 28, 2006,
February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004, respectively. Accumulated amortization
was $1,228,061 as of February 28, 2006 and 2005. If a patent or trademark is
rejected, abandoned, or otherwise invalidated, the unamortized cost is expensed
in that period. During fiscal 2004, we recorded a $2,000,398 long-lived asset
impairment charge resulting from the write off of some of our patents and
trademarks. We reevaluated our intentions with regard to its patents and
trademarks related to products outside our core business and wrote-off the
carrying value of patents not related to products in production. In fiscal
2005,
due to the continued low sales volume, we wrote off the carrying value of the
balance of our patents.
Valuation
of Long-Lived Assets
We
review
long-lived assets and identifiable intangibles in accordance with SFAS No.
144,
"Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets," on at least
an
annual basis or whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying
amount of such assets may not be fully recoverable. During the year ended
February 28, 2005, we recorded asset impairment charges on certain of our
long-lived assets (see Note 7).
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Stock-Based
Compensation
SFAS
No.
123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation," establishes and encourages
the
use of the fair value based method of accounting for stock-based compensation
arrangements under which compensation cost is determined using the fair value
of
stock-based compensation determined as of the date of grant and is recognized
over the periods in which the related services are rendered. The statement
also
permits companies to elect to continue using the current implicit value
accounting method specified in Accounting Principles Board ("APB")
Opinion
No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees," to account for stock-based
compensation. We have elected to use the implicit value based method and to
disclose the pro forma effect of using the fair value based method to account
for its stock-based compensation.
If
we had
elected to recognize compensation expense based upon the fair value at the
grant
date for awards under this plan consistent with the methodology prescribed
by
SFAS No. 123, our net loss and loss per share would be reduced to the pro forma
amounts indicated below for the years ended February 28, 2006, February 28,
2005
and February 29, 2004:
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
Net
income (loss), as reported
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
$
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
$
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
||
Intrinsic
value expense
|
-
|
|||||||||
Stock-based
employee compensation expense determined under fair value presentation
for
all options
|
-
|
-
|
(1,965,275
|
)
|
||||||
|
||||||||||
Pro
forma net income (loss)
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
$
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
$
|
(15,550,150
|
)
|
||
|
||||||||||
Basic
income (loss) per common share:
|
||||||||||
As
reported
|
$
|
2.24
|
$
|
(21.64
|
)
|
$
|
(10.65
|
)
|
||
Pro
forma
|
$
|
2.24
|
$
|
(21.64
|
)
|
$
|
(12.19
|
)
|
For
purposes of computing the pro forma disclosures required by SFAS No. 123, the
fair value of each option granted to employees and directors is estimated using
the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted-average
assumptions for the year ended February 29, 2004: dividend yields of 0%,
expected volatility of 98%, risk-free interest rate of 1.7%, and expected lives
of 2.0 years. There were no options granted during the years ended February
28,
2005 and 2006.
The
weighted-average fair value of options granted in fiscal 2004 was $0.040, and
the weighted-average exercise price was $0.065.
The
Black-Scholes option valuation model was developed for use in estimating the
fair value of traded options which do not have vesting restrictions and are
fully transferable. In addition, option valuation models require the input
of
highly subjective assumptions, including the expected stock price volatility.
Because our employee stock options have characteristics significantly different
from those of traded options, and because changes in the subjective input
assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimate, in management's
opinion, the existing models do not necessarily provide a reliable single
measure of the fair value of its employee stock options.
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments
Our
financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable,
and notes receivable, long-term investments, accounts payable, and accrued
expenses. The carrying amounts of these instruments approximate their fair
value
due to their short maturities.
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Minority
Interest
Minority
interest represents the proportionate share of the equity of the consolidated
subsidiary owned by our minority stockholders in that subsidiary.
Advertising
Expense
Advertising
costs are charged to expense as incurred and were immaterial for the years
ended
February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004.
Research
and Development
Research
and development costs are expensed as incurred. These costs include the expenses
incurred in the development of the 200amp ECU, the Tamgen (dual generator),
and
the eight inch generator.
Income
Taxes
We
utilize SFAS No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes," which requires the
recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future
tax
consequences of events that have been included in the financial statements
or
tax returns. Under this method, deferred income taxes are recognized for the
tax
consequences in future years of differences between the tax bases of assets
and
liabilities and their financial reporting amounts at each period end based
on
enacted tax laws and statutory tax rates applicable to the periods in which
the
differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are
established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount
expected to be realized.
We
have
significant income tax net operating losses; however, due to the uncertainty
of
the realizability of the related deferred tax asset, a reserve equal to the
amount of deferred income taxes has been established at February 28, 2006 and
February 28, 2005.
Loss
per Share
The
consolidated net loss per common share is based on the weighted-average number
of common shares outstanding during the year.
Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting
period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Major
Customers
During
the year ended February 28, 2006, we conducted business with four customers
whose sales comprised 24% of net sales. As of February 28, 2006, two customers
accounted for 87% of net accounts receivable. During the year ended February
2,
2005, we conducted business with four customers whose sales comprised 44% of
net
sales. As of February 28, 2005, four customers accounted for 54% of net accounts
receivable.
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Recently
Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In
December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 153, entitled Exchanges of Nonmonetary
Assets -- An Amendment of APB Opinion No.29. SFAS No. 153 amends Opinion 29
to
eliminate the exception for nonmonetary exchanges of nonmonetary assets that
do
not have commercial substance. A nonmonetary exchange has commercial substance
if the future cash flows of the entity are expected to change significantly
as a
result of the exchange. The adoption of SFAS 153 did not impact the consolidated
financial statements.
In
December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (Revised), entitled Share-Based
Payment. This revised Statement eliminates the alternative to use APB Opinion
No. 25's intrinsic value method of accounting that was provided in SFAS No.
123
as originally issued. Under Opinion 25, issuing stock options to employees
generally resulted in recognition of no compensation cost. This Statement
requires entities to recognize the cost of employee services received in
exchange for awards of equity instruments based on the grant-date fair value
of
those awards. For public companies that file as a small business issuer, this
Statement is effective as of the beginning of the first interim or annual
reporting period that begins after December 15, 2005. The adoption of SFAS
123
(Revised) will not impact the consolidated financial statements as the Company
has not granted any equity instruments to employees.
In
May
2005, the FASB issued SFAS No. 154, entitled Accounting Changes and Error
Corrections--a replacement of APB Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3.
This
Statement replaces APB Opinion No. 20, Accounting Changes, and FASB Statement
No. 3, Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements, and changes
the requirements for the accounting for and reporting of a change in accounting
principle. This Statement applies to all voluntary changes in accounting
principle. It also applies to changes required by an accounting pronouncement
in
the
unusual instance that the pronouncement does not include specific transition
provisions. Opinion 20 previously required that most voluntary changes in
accounting principle be recognized by including in net income of the period
of
the change the cumulative effect of changing to the new accounting principle.
This Statement requires retrospective application to prior periods' financial
statements of changes in accounting principle, unless it is impracticable to
determine either the period-specific effects or the cumulative effect of the
change. This Statement defines retrospective application as the application
of a
different accounting principle to prior accounting periods as if that principle
had always been used or as the adjustment of previously issued financial
statements to reflect a change in the reporting entity. This Statement also
redefines restatement as the revising of previously issued financial statements
to reflect the correction of an error. The adoption of SFAS 154 did not impact
the consolidated financial statements.
In
February 2006, FASB issued SFAS No. 155, "Accounting for Certain Hybrid
Financial Instruments". SFAS No. 155 amends SFAS No 133, "Accounting for
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities", and SFAF No. 140, "Accounting
for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of
Liabilities". SFAS No. 155, permits fair value remeasurement for any
hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise
would require bifurcation, clarifies which interest-only strips and
principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of SFAS No. 133,
establishes a requirement to evaluate interest in securitized financial assets
to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid
financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation,
clarifies that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are
not embedded derivatives, and amends SFAS No. 140 to eliminate the prohibition
on the qualifying special-purpose entity from holding a derivative financial
instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative
financial instrument. This statement is effective for all financial
instruments acquired or issued after the beginning of the Company's first fiscal
year that begins after September 15, 2006. The Company has not evaluated
the impact of this pronouncement in its financial statements.
In
March
2006 FASB issued SFAS 156 'Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets' this
Statement amends FASB Statement No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing
of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities, with respect to the
accounting for separately recognized servicing assets and servicing liabilities.
This Statement:
1.
Requires an entity to recognize a servicing asset or servicing liability each
time it undertakes an obligation to service a financial asset by entering into
a
servicing contract.
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2.
Requires all separately recognized servicing assets and servicing liabilities
to
be initially measured at fair value, if practicable.
3.
Permits an entity to choose 'Amortization method' or 'Fair value measurement
method' for each class of separately recognized servicing assets and servicing
liabilities.
4.
At its
initial adoption, permits a one-time reclassification of available-for-sale
securities to trading securities by entities with recognized servicing rights,
without calling into question the treatment of other available-for-sale
securities under Statement 115, provided that the available-for-sale securities
are identified in some manner as offsetting the entity's exposure to changes
in
fair value of servicing assets or servicing liabilities that a servicer elects
to subsequently measure at fair value.
5.
Requires separate presentation of servicing assets and servicing liabilities
subsequently measured at fair value in the statement of financial position
and
additional disclosures for all separately recognized servicing assets and
servicing liabilities.
This
Statement is effective as of the beginning of the Company's first fiscal year
that begins after September 15, 2006. Management believes that this statement
will not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial
statements.
In
September 2006, FASB issued SFAS 157 ‘Fair Value Measurements’. This Statement
defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in
generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and expands disclosures about
fair value measurements. This Statement applies under other accounting
pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements, the Board having
previously concluded in those accounting pronouncements that fair value is
the
relevant measurement attribute. Accordingly, this Statement does not require
any
new fair value measurements. However, for some entities, the application of
this
Statement will change current practice. This Statement is effective for
financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007,
and interim periods within those fiscal years. The management is currently
evaluating the effect of this pronouncement on financial
statements.
In
July 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued FASB
Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—an
Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109 ("FIN 48"). FIN 48 seeks to reduce
the diversity in practice associated with certain aspects of measuring and
recognition in accounting for income taxes. In addition, FIN 48 requires
expanded disclosure with respect to the uncertainty in income taxes and is
effective as of the beginning of the 2008 fiscal year. Management is currently
evaluating the effect of this pronouncement on financial
statements.
In
September 2006, FASB issued SFAS No. 158 “Employers’ Accounting for Defined
Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans - an amendment of FASB Statements
No. 87, 88, 106, and 132(R)”. This Statement improves financial reporting by
requiring an employer to recognize the over funded or under funded status of
a
defined benefit postretirement plan (other than a multiemployer plan) as an
asset or liability in its statement of financial position and to recognize
changes in that funded status in the year in which the changes occur through
comprehensive income of a business entity or changes in unrestricted net assets
of a not-for-profit organization. This Statement also improves financial
reporting by requiring an employer to measure the funded status of a plan as
of
the date of its year-end statement of financial position, with limited
exceptions. An employer with publicly traded equity securities is required
to
initially recognize the funded status of a defined benefit postretirement plan
and to provide the required disclosures as of the end of the fiscal year ending
after December 15, 2006. An employer without publicly traded equity securities
is required to recognize the funded status of a defined benefit postretirement
plan and to provide the required disclosures as of the end of the fiscal year
ending after June 15, 2007. However, an employer without publicly traded equity
securities is required to disclose the following information in the notes to
financial statements for a fiscal year ending after December 15, 2006, but
before June 16, 2007, unless it has applied the recognition provisions of this
Statement in preparing those financial statements:
· |
A
brief description of the provisions of this Statement
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· |
The
date that adoption is required
|
· |
The
date the employer plans to adopt the recognition provisions of
this
Statement, if earlier.
|
The
requirement to measure plan assets and benefit obligations as of the date
of the
employer’s fiscal year-end statement of financial position is effective for
fiscal years ending after December 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating
the effect of this pronouncement on financial statements.
In
February 2007, FASB issued FASB Statement No. 159, The Fair Value Option for
Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. FAS 159 is effective for fiscal
years beginning after November 15, 2007. Early adoption is permitted subject
to
specific requirements outlined in the new Statement. Therefore, calendar-year
companies may be able to adopt FAS 159 for their first quarter 2007 financial
statements.
The
new
Statement allows entities to choose, at specified election dates, to measure
eligible financial assets and liabilities at fair value that are not otherwise
required to be measured at fair value. If a company elects the fair value option
for an eligible item, changes in that item's fair value in subsequent reporting
periods must be recognized in current earnings. FAS 159 also establishes
presentation and disclosure requirements designed to draw comparison between
entities that elect different measurement attributes for similar assets and
liabilities. Management is currently evaluating the effect of this pronouncement
on financial statements.
In
December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 160, “Noncontrolling Interests in
Consolidated Financial Statements”. This Statement amends ARB 51 to establish
accounting and reporting standards for the noncontrolling (minority) interest
in
a subsidiary and for the deconsolidation of a subsidiary. It clarifies that
a
noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary is an ownership interest in the
consolidated entity that should be reported as equity in the consolidated
financial statements. SFAS No. 160 is effective for the Company’s fiscal year
beginning October 1, 2009. Management is currently evaluating the effect of
this
pronouncement on financial statements.
In
December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141(R), “Business Combinations”. This
Statement replaces SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations. This Statement retains
the fundamental requirements in Statement 141 that the acquisition method of
accounting (which Statement 141 called the purchase method) be used for all
business combinations and for an acquirer to be identified for each business
combination. This Statement also establishes principles and requirements for
how
the acquirer: a) recognizes and measures in its financial statements the
identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any noncontrolling
interest in the acquiree; b) recognizes and measures the goodwill acquired
in
the business combination or a gain from a bargain purchase and c) determines
what information to disclose to enable users of the financial statements to
evaluate the nature and financial effects of the business combination. SFAS
No.
141(R) will apply prospectively to business combinations for which the
acquisition date is on or after Company’s fiscal year beginning October 1, 2009.
While the Company has not yet evaluated this statement for the impact, if any,
that SFAS No. 141(R) will have on its consolidated financial statements, the
Company will be required to expense costs related to any acquisitions after
September 30, 2009.
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NOTE
4 - INVENTORIES
Inventories
at February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005 consisted of the
following:
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
||||
|
|||||||
Raw
materials
|
$
|
2,909,930
|
$
|
3,720,204
|
|||
Finished
goods
|
4,637,685
|
5,639,655
|
|||||
|
7,547,615
|
9,359,859
|
|||||
Reserve
for potential product obsolescence
|
(2,967,751
|
)
|
(4,038,047
|
)
|
|||
|
|||||||
|
4,579,864
|
5,321,812
|
|||||
Non-current
portion
|
3,964,864
|
4,519,809
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Current
portion
|
$
|
615,000
|
$
|
802,003
|
Inventories
consist primarily of components and completed units for the Company’s
AuraGen®
product.
Early
in
its AuraGen®
program,
we determined it was most cost-effective to outsource production of components
and subassemblies to volume-oriented manufacturers, rather than produce these
parts in house. As a result of this decision, and based on then anticipated
sales, we purchased, prior to fiscal 2001, a substantial inventory of components
at volume prices, most of which was then assembled into finished
AuraGen®
units.
Since sales did not meet such expectations, we have been selling product from
this inventory for several years. Management has analyzed its inventories based
on its current business plan, current orders for future delivery, and pending
proposals with prospective customers and has determined we do not expect to
realize all of its inventories within the next year. The net inventories as
of
February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005, which are not expected to be realized
within a 12-month period have been reclassified as long term.
We
assessed the net realizability of these assets, and the potential obsolescence
of inventory. In accordance with this assessment, management has recorded a
reserve of $2,967,751 and $4,038,047 at February 28, 2006 and February 28,
2005,
respectively.
NOTE
5 - NOTES RECEIVABLE
In
March
2000, we received a $2,500,000 note bearing interest at 8% per annum and due
on
October 1, 2007 from the purchaser of our ceramics facility. This note was
assigned in connection with the Aura Realty Transaction. No payments have been
made under this note since November 2003. The remaining $2,042,340 principal
balance of the Ceramics Note was reserved as uncollectible as of February 29,
2004 and was included in bad debt expense in Selling, General and Administrative
expenses in the accompanying financial statements.
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NOTE
6 - PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT
Property,
plant, and equipment at February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005 consist of
the
following:
2006
|
|
2005
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Land
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
3,187,997
|
|||
Buildings
|
0
|
6,408,796
|
|||||
Machinery
and equipment
|
911,308
|
1,798,485
|
|||||
Furniture
and fixtures
|
1,509,492
|
2,308,023
|
|||||
Leasehold
improvements
|
0
|
135,935
|
|||||
|
|||||||
|
2,420,800
|
13,839,286
|
|||||
Less
accumulated depreciation and amortization
|
2,394,131
|
7,250,240
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Property,
plant and equipment, net
|
$
|
26,669
|
$
|
6,588,996
|
Depreciation
and amortization expense was $65,091, $416,161, and $641,246 for the years
ended
February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004,
respectively.
In
December 2005, our majority owned subsidiary, Aura Realty, sold the buildings
we
operate in to an unrelated third party for gross proceeds of $8,750,000. After
satisfaction of the mortgage liabilities and payment of the costs of the sale,
approximately $2.9 million was due us. From this amount, $1.9 million was paid
to the minority shareholder, approximately $470,000 was used to satisfy
outstanding legal bills, and the balance of $595,000 was received by the Company
in March of 2006. We then entered into a lease arrangement with the purchasers
to lease one of the properties for a period of two years beginning January
1,
2006.
NOTE
7 - LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
We
have
made long-term investments in the common stock of three companies as follows:
Aquajet-$923,835; Algo Technology-$1,348,652 and Telemac-$715,153. As of
February 29, 2004, we had fully written off our investment in Aquajet and Algo
Technology, and had a net book value in our Telemac investment of $286,061.
During fiscal 2005, we wrote off the balance of our investment in Telemac and
as
of February 28, 2006 and 2005, we have fully written off all our long-term
investments.
F-17
NOTE
8 - NOTES PAYABLE AND CONVERTIBLE NOTES PAYABLE
Notes
payable and convertible notes payable at February 28, 2006 and 2005 consisted
of
the following:
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
||||
|
|||||||
Note
payable (a)
|
$
|
2,525,000
|
$
|
0
|
|||
Convertible
notes payable (b)
|
0
|
5,061,527
|
|||||
Convertible
notes payable (c)
|
0
|
625,000
|
|||||
Notes
payable - buildings (d)
|
0
|
4,838,904
|
|||||
Note
payable - related party (e)
|
0
|
1,149,525
|
|||||
Litigation
payable (f)
|
0
|
2,742,553
|
|||||
|
|||||||
$
|
2,525,000
|
14,417,509
|
|||||
Less
current portion
|
48,766
|
14,417,509
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Long-term
portion
|
$
|
2,476,234
|
$
|
-
|
(a)
Represents notes payable dated January 31, 2006, bearing interest at a rate
of
7% per annum and secured by our intellectual property. The notes carry a term
of
five years with interest accruing the first twelve months, principal and
interest payments beginning the thirteenth month, and continuing through month
sixty.
(b) Represents
secured notes payable (the "Secured Notes") on June 15, 2004, bearing interest
at 10% per annum and convertible at the option of the holder into new debt
or
equity securities of the Company at a 20% discount to the best terms by which
such new debt or equity is sold to any new investor. The Secured Notes may
be
prepaid on notice at a 15% premium. Repayment of the Secured Notes is secured
by
substantially of our assets (with limited exceptions). The beneficial conversion
feature of these notes was valued at $348,555 and has been recorded as interest
expense in the accompanying financial statements. These notes were converted
into new secured notes payable (see (a) above) and 1,134,000 shares of common
stock in the reorganized company as a result of the bankruptcy
reorganization.
In
connection with the foregoing financing, primarily as inducements to the lender
to continue to provide interim funding, we agreed to issue warrants to purchase
an aggregate of 3,200,000 shares of common stock at a price per share of $0.11,
exercisable through January 7, 2011, and additional warrants (with a net
exercise feature) to purchase an aggregate of 10,209,878 shares of common stock
at a price per share of $0.024. These warrants were valued at $195,200 and
have
been recorded as interest expense in the accompanying financial
statements.
Pursuant
to the 2004 Recapitalization Transactions, the maturity of such notes was
extended to June 30, 2005, the conversion discount / prepayment premium was
eliminated, and a portion of such notes were converted into Series B Preferred
Stock .
(c) Convertible
notes payable carry an 8% interest rate and are convertible into common stock
at
various conversion rates (the "8% Convertible Notes"). In fiscal 2004,
$1,125,000 these notes were adjusted to be convertible into shares of
convertible, redeemable preferred stock, and such conversion was completed
. We
recorded interest expense of $316,619 related to the original conversion feature
on the debt in fiscal 2003. The balance of these notes were converted into
shares of common stock of the reorganized company as a result of the bankruptcy
reorganization.
F-18
(d) Notes
payable - buildings consist of a First Trust Deed on two buildings in California
used as our headquarters bearing interest at 7.625% per annum. A final balloon
payment is due in fiscal 2009. In April 2003, we defaulted on these notes
payable and, in June 2004, cured such defaults. As such, at February 28, 2003,
these notes payable were classified as current liabilities. This note was paid
in full upon the sale of the buildings in December, 2005.
(e) Notes
payable - related parties consist of two separate notes: a $1,000,000 note
payable, dated December 1, 2002, which was entered into in connection with
the
sale of a minority interest in Aura Realty, as more fully described in our
Form
10-K for the year ended February 29, 2004 as filed with the SEC (the “$1M Note”)
and a $150,000 demand note, dated August 6, 2004, which was issued in exchange
for a $150,000 cash advance from an employee (the $150K Note”).
The
$1M
Note bears interest at 12.3% per annum and is secured by a security interest
in
a certain note receivable. We were required to make interest only payments
for
the first 17 months of the term, and the $1,000,000 principal was due on May
31,
2004. We were unable to make the principal payment as demanded by the Purchasers
and the note is now in default. In August 2004, one of the minority shareholders
of Aura Realty filed a lawsuit against us seeking full payment of this Note.
This note was paid off as a part of the settlement with Minority shareholders
on
the sale of the Aura Realty building during bankruptcy.
The
$150K
Note includes a fixed charge of $15,000 for interest, which was recorded as
interest expense in August 2004, and is secured by our accounts receivable.
The
holders of the Secured Notes have subordinated their security interest in our
accounts receivable to allow us to grant this security interest. These notes
were converted into shares of common stock of the reorganized company as a
result of the bankruptcy reorganization.
(f) The
litigation payable represents the legal settlements entered into by Aura with
various parties. These settlements call for payment terms with 8% interest
rate
to the plaintiffs through fiscal 2004. We are in default with respect to
payments required under these settlements. These notes were converted into
shares of common stock of the reorganized company as a result of the bankruptcy
reorganization.
Future
maturities of notes payable at February 28, 2006 are as
follows:
Year
Ending February 28,
|
|
|||
2007
|
$
|
48,766
|
||
2008
|
592,251
|
|||
2009
|
651,808
|
|||
2010
|
698,927
|
|||
2011
|
533,248
|
|||
$
|
2,525,000
|
F-19
NOTE
9 - ACCRUED EXPENSES
Accrued
expenses at February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005 consisted of the
following:
|
2006
|
|
2005
|
||||
|
|||||||
Accrued
payroll and related expenses
|
$
|
178,170
|
$
|
352,836
|
|||
Accrued
interest
|
16,833
|
856,662
|
|||||
Accrued
Litigation Settlement
|
-
|
550,760
|
|||||
Other
|
333,189
|
840,495
|
|||||
Total
|
$
|
528,192
|
$
|
2,600,753
|
NOTE
10 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Leases
At
February 28, 2006, we did not have any significant long-term operating leases.
Rent expense charged to operations amounted to $858,368, $838,458, and $412,531
for the years ended February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004,
respectively.
Litigation
Barovich/Chiau
et. al. v. Aura Systems, Inc. et. al. (Case No. CV
-95-3295).
As
previously reported in our fiscal 2000 report on Form 10-K, we settled
shareholder litigation in the referenced matter in January 1999. On November
20,
1999, the parties entered into an Amended Stipulation of Settlement, requiring
that we make payment of $2,260,000 (plus interest) in thirty-six equal monthly
installments of $70,350. On October 22, 2002, after we had failed to make
certain monthly payments, Plaintiffs applied for and obtained a judgment against
us for $935,350, representing the balance due. We have subsequently made only
two monthly payments of $70,350 each, reducing the amount owed to $794,650
(plus
interest) as of February 28, 2005. Subsequent to year end, the bankruptcy court
(see footnote 18) approved the settlement of this claim in the amount of
approximately $820,000 as an unsecured claim, to be satisfied by the issuance
of
approximately 465,000 shares of common stock in the recapitalized company.
Plaintiffs appealed the settlement claiming they are a secured creditor entitled
to full payment in cash over a period of five years. The appellate court upheld
the settlement provisions, and Plaintiffs have appealed this decision. The
appeal is pending.
NOTE
11 - STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Series
A Convertible, Redeemable Preferred Stock
The
Board
of Directors is authorized to issue from time to time up to 10,000,000 shares
of
preferred stock, in one or more series, and the Board of Directors is authorized
to fix the dividend rates, any conversion rights or rights of exchange, any
voting right, any rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund
provisions), the redemption price, liquidation preferences and any other rights,
preferences, privileges and restrictions of any series of preferred
stock.
F-20
On
March
25, 2003, our Board of Directors authorized 1,500,000 shares of Series A
convertible, redeemable preferred stock (the "Series A") with a par value of
$0.005. Each Series A share is convertible into common stock at $0.08 per share.
The Series A can be converted at the option of the holder provided that we
do
not exercise the mandatory conversion on any date on or after March 31, 2004.
We
may exercise its right to mandatory conversion provided that the current market
value of our common stock equal or exceeds 120% of the then prevailing
conversion price.
The
Series A has liquidation preference of $10 per share. In addition, the holders
of the Series A are entitled to receive cumulative dividends at a rate of 5%
per
annum. Dividends are payable in arrears on the first day of each quarter,
commencing on September 1, 2003. The shares can be redeemed on or after March
31, 2004 in whole or in part at a redemption price equal to $10 per share,
plus
the amount of any accumulated and unpaid dividends.
During
the year ended February 29, 2004, we issued 591,110 shares of Series
A:
·
|
57,090
of these shares were issued for cash totaling $259,500 in private
offerings to various third parties at an average price of $4.55
per share
of Series A or an effective average price per common share of $0.036
on an
"if converted" basis;
|
·
|
522,238
of these shares were issued in conversion of $2,499,509 of principal
and
accrued interest of the 5% Convertible Notes (see Note 9) to various
third
parties at an average price of $4.79 per share of Series A or an
effective
average price per common share of $0.036 on an "if converted" basis;
and
|
·
|
11,782
of these shares were issued in conversion of $1,178,167 of principal
and
accrued interest of the 8% Convertible Notes (see Note 9) to various
third
parties at an average price of $10.00 per share of Series A or
an
effective average price per common share of $0.08 on an "if converted"
basis.
|
On
March
26, 2004, our Board of Directors authorized 8,000,000 shares of Series B
convertible preferred stock (the “Series B”) with a par value of $0.001. Each
Series B share is convertible into common stock at $0.02 per share. The Series
B
can be converted at any time at the option of the holder, provided there are
sufficient common shares authorized.
The
Series B has a liquidation preference of $5 per share. In addition, the holders
of the Series B are entitled to receive cumulative dividends at a rate of 8%
per
annum. Dividends are payable in arrears on the first day of each quarter,
commencing 90 days after the issuance date. Dividends are payable in cash,
or,
at the option of a majority of the holders of the Series B, in shares of common
stock.
During
the year ended February 28, 2005, we issued 1,971,273 shares of Series
B:
1,089,245
of these shares were issued for cash totaling $5,446,225
500,000
of these shares were issued in conversion of $2,500,000 of notes
payable
91,717
of
these shares were issued as part of the global settlement totaling
$458,583
290,311
of these shares were issued in settlement of liabilities totaling
$1,451,555
During
the year ended February 28, 2006, we issued 26,963 shares of Series B Preferred
Stock for consideration of $123,461.
F-21
As
part
of the reorganization plan, all Series A and Series B Preferred Stock has been
converted into common stock of the reorganized company. The Series A Preferred
Stock holders received one new share of common stock for each 1.8 Series A
Preferred share. The Series B Preferred Stock holders received new common shares
calculated by dividing the total cash invested in the Series B Placement by
$3.37. As of February 28, 2006, there is no outstanding preferred
stock.
Common
Stock
At
February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005, and February 29, 2004, we had 50,000,000
shares of $0.0001 par value common stock authorized for issuance. During the
year ended February 28, 2006 we issued 24,282,710 shares of common stock in
the
reorganized company as follows:
·
|
1,134,000
shares upon conversion of $2,900,000 of secured debt
|
·
|
2,766,786
shares for administrative claims arising out of the bankruptcy
filing
|
·
|
837,375
shares as penalty shares for failure to timely file a registration
statement
|
·
|
4,611,247
shares in satisfaction of $8,125,939 of unsecured
debt
|
·
|
1,300,172
shares in exchange for the old common
stock
|
·
|
3,
319,403 shares for cancelled preferred
stock
|
·
|
254,127
additional shares to settle claims in excess of the bankruptcy
approval
|
·
|
6,065,699
shares for DIP financing
|
·
|
3,349,500
shares for new money contribution
|
·
|
644,401
shares issued for legal settlements
|
As
described below, as of February 28, 2005 we had commitments to issue, in
exchange for consideration already received, approximately 65,000 shares of
common stock. This is in addition to outstanding stock options, warrants and
convertible securities.
During
the year ended February 28, 2005, we issued 24,116 common shares as penalty
shares on the shares purchased in the real estate transaction, for failure
to
file a registration statement.
During
the year ended February 29, 2004, we did not issue any shares of common
stock.
As
part
of the reorganization plan, all shares of outstanding common stock were
cancelled and exchanged for common stock in the reorganized company in the
ratio
of one share of new common stock for every 338 shares of old common stock.
Prior
years shares outstanding, common stock, additional paid in capital, warrants
outstanding and warrant exercise prices have been adjusted to reflect the
effects of the reverse split.
Director
Stock Options
We
have
granted nonqualified stock options to certain directors. Options were granted
at
fair market value at the date of grant, vested immediately, and were exercisable
at any time within a 10-year period from the date of grant. These options were
cancelled as part of the Reorganization Plan as of February 28,
2006.
A
summary
of our outstanding options and activity under the director’s plan is as
follows:
Number
of Shares
|
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise
Price
|
|||||
Outstanding,
February 29, 2004 and February 28, 2005
|
1,331
|
$
|
696.28
- 777.40
|
||||
Exercisable,
February 28, 2005
|
1,331
|
$
|
696.28
- 777.40
|
||||
Cancelled,
February 28, 2006
|
(1,331
|
)
|
$
|
696.28
- 777.40
|
|||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2006
|
0
|
F-22
Employee
Stock Options
The
1989
Stock Option Plan has granted the maximum allowable number of options
authorized. In March 2000, our Board of Directors adopted the 2000 Stock Option
Plan, a non-qualified plan which was subsequently approved by the stockholders.
The 2000 Stock Option Plan authorized the grant of options to purchase up to
10%
of our outstanding common shares.
During
the year ended February 29, 2004, we:
·
|
issued
stock options to employees to purchase 29,959 of our common stock,
5,551
of these shares were a reallocation of shares granted to employees
in
January 2003 that terminated their employment prior to vesting
in these
options.
|
·
|
issued
stock options to various Board members and consultants to purchase
35,946
of our common stock.
|
Options
issued to employees and employee directors were issued with an exercise price
equal to the fair market value of our common stock and the value of options,
as
determined by the Black-Scholes model, of consultant options was not
material.
As
part
of the reorganization plan, all outstanding employee options in both plans
were
cancelled.
Activity
in the employee stock option plans was as follows:
|
1989
Plan
|
2000
Plan
|
|||||||||||
|
Number
of Shares
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price
|
Number
of Shares
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2003
|
2,860
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
114,307
|
$
|
104.78
- 216.32
|
|||||||
Granted
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
84,841
|
$
|
16.90
- 40.56
|
|||||||
Canceled
|
(748
|
)
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
(5,656
|
)
|
$
|
27.04
- 216.32
|
|||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2004
|
2,112
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
163,906
|
$
|
16.90
- 216.32
|
|||||||
Exercisable,
February 28, 2004
|
2,112
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
155,428
|
$
|
16.90
- 216.32
|
|||||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2005
|
2,112
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
163,906
|
$
|
16.90
- 216.32
|
|||||||
Exercisable,
February 28, 2005
|
2,112
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
155,428
|
$
|
16.90
- 216.32
|
|||||||
Cancelled
|
(2,112
|
)
|
$
|
605.02-$2,470.78
|
(163,906
|
)
|
$
|
16.90
- 216.32
|
|||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2006
|
0
|
$
|
-
|
0
|
$
|
0
|
The
exercise prices for the options outstanding at February 28, 2006, and
information relating to these options is as follows:
Range
of Exercise Prices
|
Stock
Options Outstanding
|
Stock
Options Exercisable
|
Weighted-Average
Remaining Contractual Life
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price of Options Outstanding
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price of Options Exercisable
|
|||||||||||
None
|
F-23
Warrants
During
the year ended February 29, 2004, in connection with the Intercreditor Secured
Debt financing (see Note 9), primarily as inducements to the lenders to continue
to provide interim funding, the issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of
9,467 shares of common stock at a price per share of $37.18, exercisable through
January 7, 2011. Subsequent to year-end, we issued warrants (with a net exercise
feature) to purchase an aggregate of 30,206 shares of common stock at a price
per share of $8.11 to the same lenders, again as inducements to continue to
provide interim funding.
We
agreed
to file a registration statement with the SEC within 60 days of closing under
the Agreement and issued 16,272 additional warrants to the Purchasers during
fiscal 2004 because we failed to do (see Note 4). These warrants were valued
at
$231,000, using the Black-Scholes pricing model, which is recorded in the
accompanying fiscal 2004 financial statements as an additional loss on the
sale
of the minority interest in Aura Realty.
At
February 29, 2004 and February 28, 2003, there were warrants outstanding to
purchase 130,909 and
144,842 shares, respectively, of our common stock, exercisable at an average
price of $148.72 and $128.44, respectively, per share.
As
of
February 29, 2004, the aggregate number of outstanding options, warrants, and
common share equivalents was significantly in excess of the authorized but
unissued number of shares of our common stock. Management intends to seek
shareholder approval of an increase in the Company’s authorized shares
sufficient to satisfy all existing commitments and create available shares
for
potential future investments. However, such approval was not granted. Hence,
management determined that the value of the warrants was required to be
classified as a liability under the provisions of EITF 00-19 - Accounting for
Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed To and Potentially Settled In a
Company’s Own Stock. As of February 28, 2005, the value of the warrants has been
classified as a liability.
Activity
in issued and outstanding warrants was as follows:
Number
of Shares
|
|
Exercise
Prices
|
|||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2003
|
155,637
|
$
|
50.07
- 858.52
|
||||
Issued
|
34,911
|
$
|
16.90
- 50.07
|
||||
Exercised
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
||||
Expired
|
59,934
|
$
|
67.60
- 162.24
|
||||
Outstanding,
February 29, 2004
|
130,909
|
$
|
16.90
- 858.52
|
||||
Issued
|
443,786
|
$
|
6.76
- 16.90
|
||||
Exercised
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
Expired
|
-
|
-
|
|||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2005
|
574,684
|
$
|
6.76
- 858.52
|
||||
Cancelled
|
(574,684
|
)
|
$
|
6.76
- 858.52
|
|||
Issued
|
5,022,948
|
$
|
2.00-3.00
|
||||
Outstanding,
February 28, 2006
|
5,022,948
|
$
|
2.00-3.00
|
As
part
of the reorganization plan, all warrants outstanding as of January 31, 2006
were
cancelled.
During
the year ended February 28, 2006, we issued 5,022,945 warrants with a grant
date
of January 31, 2006, as part of the reorganization plan. The warrants are
exercisable for a period of five years from the date of grant and are
exercisable at a price of $3.00 the first twelve months, $3.50 the second twelve
months, and $4.00 thereafter.
F-24
The
exercise prices for the warrants outstanding at February 28, 2006, and
information relating to these warrants is as follows:
Range
of Exercise Prices
|
Stock
Warrants Outstanding
|
|
Stock
Warrants Exercisable
|
|
Weighted-Average
Remaining Contractual Life
|
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price of Warrants Outstanding
|
|
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price of Warrants Exercisable
|
Intrinsic
Value
|
||
$3.00
|
5,022,945
|
5,022,945
|
59
months
|
$3.00
|
$3.00
|
$0.00
|
Assumptions
for the Black-Scholes calculation for the warrants are as follows: Volatility
-
114%, Term - 5 years, Discount rate - 5.25%.
NOTE
12 - INCOME TAXES
We
have
not incurred any income tax expense since inception. The actual tax benefit
differs from the expected tax benefit computed by applying the United States
federal corporate tax rate of 34% to loss before income taxes as follows for
the
years ended February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004:
|
2006
|
2005
|
2004
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Expected
tax benefit
|
34.0
|
%
|
34.0
|
%
|
34.0
|
%
|
||||
State
income taxes, net of federal benefit
|
6.0
|
6.0
|
6.0
|
|||||||
Changes
in valuation allowance
|
(40.0
|
)
|
(40.0
|
)
|
(40.0
|
)
|
||||
Total
|
-
|
%
|
-
|
%
|
-
|
%
|
The
following table summarizes the significant components of our deferred tax asset
at February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005:
|
2006
|
2005
|
|||||
|
|||||||
Deferred
tax asset
|
|
|
|||||
Property,
plant, and equipment and other
|
0
|
6,350,000
|
|||||
Net
operating loss carryforward
|
115,500,000
|
113,000,000
|
|||||
Valuation
allowance
|
(115,500,000
|
)
|
(119,350,000
|
)
|
|||
Net
deferred tax asset
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
We
recorded an allowance of 100% for its net operating loss carryforward due to
the
uncertainty of its realization.
A
provision for income taxes has not been provided in these financial statements
due to the net loss. At February 28, 2006, we had operating loss carryforwards
of approximately $288,700,000, which expire through 2021.
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NOTE
13 - EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
We
sponsor two employee benefit plans: The Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the
"ESOP") and a 401(k) plan.
The
ESOP
is a qualified discretionary employee stock ownership plan that covers
substantially all employees. We did not make any contributions to the ESOP
during the years ended February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29,
2004.
We
sponsor a voluntary, defined, contribution 401(k) plan. The plan provides for
salary reduction contributions by employees and matching contributions by us
of
20% of the first 7% of the employees' pre-tax contributions. The matching
contributions included in selling, general, and administrative expenses were
$10,552, $17,863 and $21,253 for the years ended February 28, 2006, February
28,
2005 and February 29, 2004, respectively.
NOTE
14 - SEGMENT INFORMATION
We
are a
United States based company providing advanced technology products to various
industries. The principal markets for our products are North America, Europe,
and Asia. All of our operating long-lived assets are located in the United
States. We operate in one segment.
Total
net
revenues from customer geographical segments are as follows for the years ended
February 28, 2006 and February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004:
2006
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
||||||
|
||||||||||
United
States
|
$
|
1,583,509
|
$
|
2,420,136
|
$
|
1,841,000
|
||||
Canada
|
105,243
|
43,523
|
1,000
|
|||||||
Europe
|
7,246
|
7,826
|
3,000
|
|||||||
Asia
|
60,107
|
53,946
|
19,000
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||
Total
|
$
|
1,756,105
|
$
|
2,525,431
|
$
|
1,864,000
|
NOTE
16 - QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION (UNAUDITED)
The
following tables list our quarterly financial information for the years ended
February 28, 2006, February 28, 2005 and February 29, 2004:
2006
|
|
First
Quarter
|
|
Second
Quarter
|
|
Third
Quarter
|
|
Fourth
Quarter
|
|
Total
Year
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
revenues
|
$
|
530,703
|
$
|
274,007
|
$
|
574,231
|
$
|
377,164
|
$
|
1,756,105
|
||||||
Gross
profit
|
$
|
335,651
|
$
|
171,949
|
$
|
395,431
|
$
|
(200,441
|
)
|
$
|
702,590
|
|||||
Loss
from operations
|
$
|
(1,249,927
|
)
|
$
|
(1,237,150
|
)
|
$
|
(1,143,838
|
)
|
$
|
(3,284,856
|
)
|
$
|
(6,915,771
|
)
|
|
Net
income (loss)
|
$
|
(5,262,942
|
)
|
$
|
18,445,502
|
$
|
(1,418,084
|
)
|
$
|
(4,751,380
|
)
|
$
|
6,864,488
|
|||
Basic
and diluted income (loss) per share
|
$
|
(4.06
|
)
|
$
|
13.52
|
$
|
(1.09
|
)
|
$
|
(6.13
|
)
|
$
|
2.24
|
F-26
2005
|
|
First
Quarter
|
|
Second
Quarter
|
|
Third
Quarter
|
|
Fourth
Quarter
|
|
Total
Year
|
|||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
revenues
|
$
|
685,834
|
$
|
599,443
|
$
|
631,774
|
$
|
608,380
|
$
|
2,525,431
|
||||||
Gross
profit
|
$
|
416,836
|
$
|
470,024
|
$
|
377,300
|
$
|
(2,400,548
|
)
|
$
|
(1,136,388
|
)
|
||||
Loss
from operations
|
$
|
(1,491,525
|
)
|
$
|
(3,810,130
|
)
|
$
|
(2,024,533
|
)
|
$
|
(5,664,112
|
)
|
$
|
(13,815,300
|
)
|
|
Net
loss
|
$
|
(2,571,476
|
)
|
$
|
(11,690,737
|
)
|
$
|
(16,504,722
|
)
|
$
|
1,966,895
|
$
|
(28,800,040
|
)
|
||
Basic
and diluted loss per share
|
$
|
(2.03
|
)
|
$
|
(9.13
|
)
|
$
|
(12.84
|
)
|
$
|
3.43
|
$
|
(22.35
|
)
|
2004
|
|
First
Quarter
|
|
Second
Quarter
|
|
Third
Quarter
|
|
Fourth
Quarter
|
|
Total
Year
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net
revenues
|
$
|
97,612
|
$
|
519,679
|
$
|
726,692
|
$
|
520,342
|
$
|
1,864,325
|
||||||
Gross
profit
|
30,829
|
230,730
|
424,229
|
276,574
|
378,588
|
|||||||||||
Loss
from operations
|
(1,643,011
|
)
|
(3,271,243
|
)
|
(1,429,628
|
)
|
(4,605,143
|
)
|
(10,948,796
|
)
|
||||||
Net
loss
|
(2,225,284
|
)
|
(3,536,450
|
)
|
(1,886,177
|
)
|
(5,936,964
|
)
|
(13,584,875
|
)
|
||||||
Basic
and diluted loss per share
|
$
|
(1.69
|
)
|
$
|
(2.70
|
)
|
$
|
(1.69
|
)
|
$
|
(4.57
|
)
|
$
|
(10.65
|
)
|
NOTE
18 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Capital
Transactions
In
the
year ended February 28, 2007, we issued 4,412,928 shares of common stock for
net
proceeds of $3,965,156.
In
the
nine months ended November 30, 2007, we issued 5,614,650 shares of common stock
for net proceeds of $5,377,08. We also issued 183,532 shares of common stock
upon conversion of $183,532 of secured notes payable.
F-27
SUPPLEMENTAL
INFORMATION
REPORT
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To
the
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Aura
Systems, Inc. and subsidiaries
Our
audits were conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and were made for the purpose of
forming an opinion on the basic consolidated financial statements taken as
a
whole. The consolidated supplemental schedule II is presented for purposes
of
complying with the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules and is not a
part
of the basic consolidated financial statements. This schedule has been subjected
to the auditing procedures applied in our audits of the basic consolidated
financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material
respects in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as
a
whole.
Our
report covering the basic financial statements indicates that there is
substantial doubt as to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern,
the outcome of which cannot presently be determined and that the financial
statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome
of
this uncertainty.
/s/Kabani
& Company, Inc.
Certified
Public Accountants
Los
Angeles, California
June
15,
2007
F-28
VALUATION
AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS - SCHEDULE II
|
Balance,
Beginning of Year
|
|
Additions
charged to Operations
|
|
Deductions
from
Reserve
|
|
Balance,
End
of
Year
|
||||||
Reserve
for doubtful accounts (see Note 3 and 6)
|
|||||||||||||
February
28, 2006
|
$
|
2,220,474
|
$
|
2,056,233
|
$
|
164,241
|
|||||||
February
28, 2005
|
$
|
2,188,340
|
$
|
86,537
|
$
|
54,403
|
$
|
2,220,474
|
|||||
February
29, 2004
|
$
|
244,310
|
$
|
2,042,340
|
$
|
98,310
|
$
|
2,188,340
|
|||||
Reserve
for obsolete inventories (see Note 5)
|
|||||||||||||
February
28, 2006
|
$
|
4,038,047
|
$
|
1,070,296
|
$
|
2,967,751
|
|||||||
February
28, 2005
|
$
|
2,032,000
|
$
|
2,006,047
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
4,038,047
|
|||||
February
29, 2004
|
$
|
1,678,000
|
$
|
354,000
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
2,032,000
|
|||||
Reserve
for investment (see Note 8)
|
|||||||||||||
February
28, 2006
|
$
|
2,987,640
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
2,987,640
|
|||||
February
28, 2005
|
$
|
2,701,579
|
$
|
286,061
|
$
|
-
|
$
|
2,987,640
|
|||||
February
29, 2004
|
$
|
2,522,487
|
$
|
500,000
|
$
|
320,908
|
$
|
2,701,579
|
F-29