INTELLINETICS, INC. - Quarter Report: 2020 September (Form 10-Q)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
[X] | QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2020
[ ] | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from _____________________to _________________________
Commission file number: 000-31671
INTELLINETICS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada | 87-0613716 | |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
2190 Dividend Drive | ||
Columbus, Ohio | 43228 | |
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
(614) 921-8170
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
(Former name and former address, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:.
Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||
None. | N/A | N/A |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Common stock, $0.001 par value.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b- 2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer | [ ] | (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) | Accelerated filer | [ ] |
Non-accelerated filer | [ ] | Smaller reporting company | [X] | |
Emerging growth company | [ ] |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act): Yes [ ] No [X]
As of November 12, 2020 there were 2,810,865 shares of the issuer’s common stock outstanding with par value of $0.001 per share.
INTELLINETICS, INC.
Form 10-Q
September 30, 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the documents incorporated into this report by reference contain, and we may from time to time make, forward-looking statements. From time to time in the future, we may make additional forward-looking statements in presentations, at conferences, in press releases, in other reports and filings and otherwise. Forward-looking statements are all statements other than statements of historical fact, including statements that refer to plans, intentions, objectives, goals, targets, strategies, hopes, beliefs, projections, prospects, expectations or other characterizations of future events or performance, and assumptions underlying the foregoing. The words “may,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “will,” “project,” “intend,” “continue,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “expect,” “plan,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “scheduled,” “goal,” “target,” and “future,” variations of such words, and other comparable terminology and similar expressions and references to future periods are often, but not always, used to identify forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the following:
● | our prospects, including our future business, revenues, expenses, net income, earnings per share, margins, profitability, cash flow, cash position, liquidity, financial condition and results of operations, backlog of orders and revenue, our targeted growth rate, our goals for future revenues and earnings, and our expectations about realizing the revenues in our backlog and in our sales pipeline; | |
● | the effects on our business, financial condition and results of operations of current and future economic, business, market and regulatory conditions, including the current economic and market conditions and their effects on our customers and their capital spending and ability to finance purchases of our products, services, technologies and systems; | |
● | the effects of fluctuations in sales on our business, revenues, expenses, net income, earnings per share, margins, profitability, cash flow, capital expenditures, liquidity, financial condition and results of operations; | |
● | our products, services, technologies and systems, including their quality and performance in absolute terms and as compared to competitive alternatives, their benefits to our customers and their ability to meet our customers’ requirements, and our ability to successfully develop and market new products, services, technologies and systems; | |
● | our markets, including our market position and our market share; | |
● | our ability to successfully develop, operate, grow and diversify our operations and businesses; | |
● | our business plans, strategies, goals and objectives, and our ability to successfully achieve them; | |
● | the sufficiency of our capital resources, including our cash and cash equivalents, funds generated from operations, availability of borrowings under our credit and financing arrangements and other capital resources, to meet our future working capital, capital expenditure, lease and debt service and business growth needs; | |
● | the value of our assets and businesses, including the revenues, profits and cash flow they are capable of delivering in the future; | |
● | industry trends and customer preferences and the demand for our products, services, technologies and systems; and | |
● | the nature and intensity of our competition, and our ability to successfully compete in our markets. |
Any forward-looking statements we make are based on our current plans, intentions, objectives, goals, targets, strategies, hopes, beliefs, projections and expectations, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events, but are subject to and qualified by substantial risks, uncertainties and other factors, which are difficult to predict and are often beyond our control. Forward-looking statements will be affected by assumptions and expectations we might make that do not materialize or that prove to be incorrect and by known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed, anticipated or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, those described in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed on March 30, 2020, those items described in Part II, Item 1A “Risk Factors” of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and June 30, 2020, filed on May 15, 2020 and August 14, 2020, respectively, as well as other risks, uncertainties and factors discussed elsewhere in this report, in documents that we include as exhibits to or incorporate by reference in this report, and in other reports and documents we from time to time file with or furnish to the SEC. In light of these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements that we make.
Any forward-looking statements contained in this report speak only as of the date of this report, and any other forward-looking statements we make from time to time in the future speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no duty or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement or to publicly disclose any update or revision for any reason, whether as a result of changes in our expectations or the underlying assumptions, the receipt of new information, the occurrence of future or unanticipated events, circumstances or conditions or otherwise.
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INTELLINETICS, INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Unaudited) | ||||||||
September 30, | December 31, | |||||||
2020 | 2019 | |||||||
ASSETS | ||||||||
Current assets: | ||||||||
Cash | $ | 1,511,990 | $ | 404,165 | ||||
Accounts receivable, net | 1,078,862 | 329,571 | ||||||
Accounts receivable, unbilled | 503,642 | 23,371 | ||||||
Parts and supplies, net | 79,975 | 4,184 | ||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 207,201 | 110,841 | ||||||
Total current assets | 3,381,670 | 872,132 | ||||||
Property and equipment, net | 716,000 | 6,919 | ||||||
Right of use assets | 2,703,978 | 97,239 | ||||||
Intangible assets, net | 1,239,090 | - | ||||||
Goodwill | 2,322,887 | - | ||||||
Other assets | 18,784 | 10,284 | ||||||
Total assets | $ | 10,382,409 | $ | 986,574 | ||||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY(DEFICIT) | ||||||||
Current liabilities: | ||||||||
Accounts payable | $ | 183,327 | $ | 160,911 | ||||
Accrued compensation | 261,638 | 70,027 | ||||||
Accrued expenses, other | 156,567 | 140,079 | ||||||
Lease liabilities - current | 516,206 | 47,397 | ||||||
Deferred revenues | 1,022,252 | 754,073 | ||||||
Deferred compensation | 100,828 | 117,166 | ||||||
Earnout liabilities - current | 287,390 | - | ||||||
Accrued interest payable - current | 4,505 | 1,212,498 | ||||||
Notes payable - current | 612,539 | 3,339,963 | ||||||
Notes payable - related party - current | - | 1,467,400 | ||||||
Total current liabilities | 3,145,252 | 7,309,514 | ||||||
Long-term liabilities: | ||||||||
Notes payable | 1,817,681 | - | ||||||
Lease liabilities - net of current portion | 2,262,445 | 53,318 | ||||||
Earnout liabilities - net of current portion | 601,810 | - | ||||||
Total long-term liabilities | 4,681,936 | 53,318 | ||||||
Total liabilities | 7,827,188 | 7,362,832 | ||||||
Stockholders’ equity (deficit): | ||||||||
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 25,000,000 shares authorized; 2,810,865 and 370,497 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively | 2,811 | 371 | ||||||
Additional paid-in capital | 24,121,370 | 14,419,437 | ||||||
Accumulated deficit | (21,568,960 | ) | (20,796,066 | ) | ||||
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit) | 2,555,221 | (6,376,258 | ) | |||||
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity (deficit) | $ | 10,382,409 | $ | 986,574 |
See Notes to these condensed consolidated financial statements
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INTELLINETICS, INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
For the Three Months Ended September 30, | For the Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | |||||||||||||
Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
Sale of software | $ | 53,767 | $ | 170,738 | $ | 153,999 | $ | 179,590 | ||||||||
Software as a service | 281,810 | 214,237 | 756,497 | 643,402 | ||||||||||||
Software maintenance services | 340,129 | 248,343 | 915,483 | 753,692 | ||||||||||||
Professional services | 1,615,445 | 122,250 | 3,221,154 | 334,877 | ||||||||||||
Storage and retrieval services | 220,131 | - | 510,453 | - | ||||||||||||
Total revenues | 2,511,282 | 755,568 | 5,557,586 | 1,911,561 | ||||||||||||
Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
Sale of software | - | 1,469 | 40,117 | 4,479 | ||||||||||||
Software as a service | 65,712 | 67,643 | 209,508 | 195,911 | ||||||||||||
Software maintenance services | 49,354 | 17,894 | 127,439 | 67,813 | ||||||||||||
Professional services | 841,016 | 60,684 | 1,637,308 | 152,056 | ||||||||||||
Storage and retrieval services | 64,906 | - | 136,283 | - | ||||||||||||
Total cost of revenues | 1,020,988 | 147,690 | 2,150,655 | 420,259 | ||||||||||||
Gross profit | 1,490,294 | 607,878 | 3,406,931 | 1,491,302 | ||||||||||||
Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
General and administrative | 844,186 | 510,817 | 2,533,046 | 1,570,835 | ||||||||||||
Significant transaction costs | - | - | 636,440 | - | ||||||||||||
Sales and marketing | 285,462 | 248,757 | 759,024 | 739,177 | ||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 89,475 | 1,901 | 204,317 | 5,908 | ||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 1,219,123 | 761,475 | 4,132,827 | 2,315,920 | ||||||||||||
Income (loss) from operations | 271,171 | (153,597 | ) | (725,896 | ) | (824,618 | ) | |||||||||
Other income (expense) | ||||||||||||||||
Gain on extinguishment of debt | - | - | 287,426 | - | ||||||||||||
Income tax benefit | - | - | 188,300 | - | ||||||||||||
Interest expense, net | (115,498 | ) | (245,156 | ) | (522,724 | ) | (717,650 | ) | ||||||||
Total other expense | (115,498 | ) | (245,156 | ) | (46,998 | ) | (717,650 | ) | ||||||||
Net income (loss) | $ | 155,673 | $ | (398,753 | ) | $ | (772,894 | ) | $ | (1,542,268 | ) | |||||
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share: | $ | 0.06 | $ | (1.08 | ) | $ | (0.34 | ) | $ | (4.17 | ) | |||||
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – basic and diluted |
2,810,865 | 370,497 | 2,271,169 | 370,205 |
See Notes to these condensed consolidated financial statements
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INTELLINETICS, INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
For the Three and Nine Months Ended September, 2020 and 2019
(Unaudited)
Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | ||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Capital | Deficit | Total | ||||||||||||||||
Balance, June 30, 2019 | 370,497 | $ | 371 | $ | 14,374,320 | $ | (19,806,300 | ) | $ | (5,431,609 | ) | |||||||||
Stock Option Compensation | - | - | 58,863 | - | 58,863 | |||||||||||||||
Net Loss | - | - | - | (398,753 | ) | (398,753 | ) | |||||||||||||
Balance, September 30, 2019 | 370,497 | $ | 371 | $ | 14,433,183 | $ | (20,205,053 | ) | $ | (5,771,499 | ) | |||||||||
Balance, June 30, 2020 | 2,810,865 | 2,811 | 24,107,401 | (21,724,633 | ) | 2,385,579 | ||||||||||||||
Stock Option Compensation | - | - | 13,969 | - | 13,969 | |||||||||||||||
Net Income | - | - | - | 155,673 | 155,673 | |||||||||||||||
Balance, September 30, 2020 | 2,810,865 | $ | 2,811 | $ | 24,121,370 | $ | (21,568,960 | ) | $ | 2,555,221 |
Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | ||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Capital | Deficit | Total | ||||||||||||||||
Balance, December 31, 2018 | 354,588 | $ | 355 | $ | 14,162,216 | $ | (18,662,785 | ) | $ | (4,500,214 | ) | |||||||||
Stock Issued to Directors and Employee | 15,909 | 16 | 87,484 | - | 87,500 | |||||||||||||||
Stock Option Compensation | - | - | 183,483 | - | 183,483 | |||||||||||||||
Net Loss | - | - | - | (1,542,268 | ) | (1,542,268 | ) | |||||||||||||
Balance, September 30, 2019 | 370,497 | $ | 371 | $ | 14,433,183 | $ | (20,205,053 | ) | $ | (5,771,499 | ) | |||||||||
Balance, December 31, 2019 | 370,497 | 371 | 14,419,437 | (20,796,066 | ) | (6,376,258 | ) | |||||||||||||
Stock Issued to Directors | 16,429 | 16 | 57,484 | - | 57,500 | |||||||||||||||
Stock Option Compensation | - | - | 32,652 | - | 32,652 | |||||||||||||||
Stock Issued | 955,000 | 955 | 3,819,045 | - | 3,820,000 | |||||||||||||||
Stock Issued for Convertible Notes | 1,468,939 | 1,469 | 5,728,566 | - | 5,730,035 | |||||||||||||||
Equity Issuance Costs | - | - | (307,867 | ) | - | (307,867 | ) | |||||||||||||
Note Offer Warrants | - | - | 372,053 | - | 372,053 | |||||||||||||||
Net Loss | - | - | - | (772,894 | ) | (772,894 | ) | |||||||||||||
Balance, September 30, 2020 | 2,810,865 | $ | 2,811 | $ | 24,121,370 | $ | (21,568,960 | ) | $ | 2,555,221 |
See Notes to these condensed consolidated financial statements
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INTELLINETICS, INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
2020 | 2019 | |||||||
Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||
Net loss | $ | (772,894 | ) | $ | (1,542,268 | ) | ||
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | ||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 204,317 | 5,908 | ||||||
Bad debt expense | 40,325 | 14,340 | ||||||
Parts and supplies reserve change | 10,500 | - | ||||||
Amortization of deferred financing costs | 91,156 | 137,888 | ||||||
Amortization of beneficial conversion option | 11,786 | 53,038 | ||||||
Amortization of debt discount | 62,222 | - | ||||||
Amortization of right of use asset | 278,879 | 30,982 | ||||||
Stock issued for services | 57,500 | 87,500 | ||||||
Stock options compensation | 32,652 | 183,483 | ||||||
Note conversion stock issue expense | 141,000 | - | ||||||
Warrant issue expense | 236,761 | - | ||||||
Interest on converted debt | 176,106 | - | ||||||
Gain on extinguishment of debt | (287,426 | ) | - | |||||
Amortization of original issue discount on notes | 18,296 | - | ||||||
Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
Accounts receivable | 333,121 | (227,594 | ) | |||||
Accounts receivable, unbilled | (204,248 | ) | 29,766 | |||||
Parts and supplies | 5,105 | 1,533 | ||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | (25,790 | ) | 4,155 | |||||
Right of use assets | 0 | (138,549 | ) | |||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | (589,461 | ) | 65,798 | |||||
Lease liabilities, current and long-term | (269,748 | ) | 111,476 | |||||
Deferred compensation | (16,338 | ) | (35,077 | ) | ||||
Accrued interest, current and long-term | 4,504 | 523,085 | ||||||
Deferred revenues | 69,520 | (50,903 | ) | |||||
Total adjustments | 380,739 | 796,829 | ||||||
Net cash used in operating activities | (392,155 | ) | (745,439 | ) | ||||
Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||
Cash paid to acquire business, net of cash acquired | (4,019,098 | ) | - | |||||
Purchases of property and equipment | (55,603 | ) | (5,489 | ) | ||||
Net cash used in investing activities | (4,074,701 | ) | (5,489 | ) | ||||
Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||
Proceeds from issuance of common stock | 3,167,500 | - | ||||||
Offering costs paid on issuance of common stock | (307,867 | ) | - | |||||
Payment of deferred financing costs | (175,924 | ) | - | |||||
Proceeds from notes payable | 3,008,700 | - | ||||||
Repayment of notes payable | (70,000 | ) | - | |||||
Repayment of notes payable - related parties | (47,728 | ) | (34,622 | ) | ||||
Net cash provided by/(used in) financing activities | 5,574,681 | (34,622 | ) | |||||
Net increase (decrease) in cash | 1,107,825 | (785,550 | ) | |||||
Cash - beginning of period | 404,165 | 1,088,630 | ||||||
Cash - end of period | $ | 1,511,990 | $ | 303,080 | ||||
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: | ||||||||
Cash paid during the period for interest | $ | 142,018 | $ | 6,241 | ||||
Cash paid during the period for taxes | $ | 112,954 | $ | - | ||||
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash financing activities: | ||||||||
Accrued interest notes payable converted to equity | $ | 796,074 | $ | - | ||||
Accrued interest notes payable related parties converted to equity | 238,883 | - | ||||||
Discount on notes payable for beneficial conversion feature | 320,000 | - | ||||||
Discount on notes payable for warrants | 135,292 | - | ||||||
Notes payable converted to equity | 3,421,063 | - | ||||||
Notes payable converted to equity - related parties | 1,465,515 | - | ||||||
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing activities relating to business acquisitions: | ||||||||
Cash | $ | 17,269 | $ | - | ||||
Accounts receivable | 1,122,737 | - | ||||||
Accounts receivable, unbilled | 276,023 | - | ||||||
Parts and supplies | 91,396 | - | ||||||
Prepaid expenses | 73,116 | - | ||||||
Other current assets | 5,954 | - | ||||||
Right of use assets | 2,885,618 | - | ||||||
Property and equipment | 735,885 | - | ||||||
Intangible assets | 1,361,000 | - | ||||||
Accounts payable | (168,749 | ) | - | |||||
Accrued expenses | (162,426 | ) | - | |||||
Lease liabilities | (2,947,684 | ) | - | |||||
Federal and state taxes payable | (168,900 | ) | - | |||||
Deferred revenues | (198,659 | ) | - | |||||
Deferred tax liabilities, net | (149,900 | ) | - | |||||
Net assets acquired in acquisition | 2,772,680 | - | ||||||
Total goodwill acquired in acquisition | 2,322,887 | - | ||||||
Total purchase price of acquisition | 5,095,567 | - | ||||||
Purchase price of business acquisition financed with earnout liability | (889,200 | ) | - | |||||
Purchase price of business acquisition financed with installment payments | (170,000 | ) | - | |||||
Cash used in business acquisition | $ | 4,036,367 | $ | - |
See Notes to these condensed consolidated financial statements
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INTELLINETICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
1. | Business Organization and Nature of Operations |
Intellinetics, Inc., formerly known as GlobalWise Investments, Inc., (“Intellinetics”), is a Nevada corporation incorporated in 1997, with two subsidiaries: (i) Intellinetics, Inc., an Ohio corporation that is wholly-owned by the Company (“Intellinetics Ohio), and (ii) Graphic Sciences, Inc., a Michigan corporation that is also wholly-owned by the Company (“Graphic Sciences”). Intellinetics Ohio was incorporated in 1996, and on February 10, 2012, Intellinetics Ohio became the sole operating subsidiary of the Company as a result of a reverse merger and recapitalization. On March 2, 2020, the Company purchased all the outstanding capital stock of Graphic Sciences.
The Company is a document management company, providing comprehensive document solutions, software, and services to its customers in both the public and private sectors. The Company’s software platform allows customers to capture and manage all documents across operations such as scanned hard-copy documents and all digital documents including those from Microsoft Office 365, digital images, audio, video and emails. The Company’s suite of document services includes indexing, conversion, and physical document storage and retrieval. The Company’s comprehensive solutions create value for customers by making it easy to connect business-critical documents to the processes they drive by making them easy to find, secure and compliant with its customers’ audit requirements.
2. | Basis of Presentation |
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”). The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the issuance of this Form 10-Q.
The financial statements presented in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are unaudited. However, in the opinion of management, such Financial Statements include all adjustments, consisting solely of normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP applicable to interim periods.
Operating results for the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the current fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
3. | Liquidity and Management’s Plans |
Through September 30, 2020, the Company had incurred an accumulated deficit since its inception of $21,568,960. At September 30, 2020, the Company had a cash balance of $1,511,990. Since inception, the Company’s operations have primarily been funded through a combination of gross profits, government-sponsored loans, and the sale of both equity and debt securities.
As part of its overall strategic plan to increase the Company’s revenues, improve liquidity, and move the Company towards profitability, the Company acquired Graphic Sciences on March 2, 2020, and CEO Imaging Systems, Inc. (“CEO Image”) on April 21, 2020. Additionally, proceeds from issuance of shares, including conversion of convertible debt, and issuance of new debt on March 2, 2020 enabled the company to restructure its balance sheet and reduce its overall debt burden by approximately $3 million.
The Company’s business plan is to increase our sales and market share by focusing on a targeted marketing approach to select vertical markets, maximizing cross selling opportunities within the newly expanded customer base of the consolidated company, enhancing our direct selling results, and continuing to develop a network of select resellers through which we expect to sell our expanded document management solutions. We expect that these initiatives will require us to continue our efforts towards direct marketing campaigns and leads management, reseller on-boarding, and to develop additional software integration and customization capabilities, all of which may require additional capital. We also plan to continually monitor opportunities to make strategic acquisitions that will strengthen or complement our product and services offerings, bring more solutions to our customers, and increase revenues and liquidity. Since the COVID-19 crisis began, the Company has been working proactively to preserve cash, including a temporary furlough at Graphic Sciences until the Michigan stay-at-home order was lifted, a reduction in management compensation through June 2020, and the receipt of a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) in April 2020 amounting to $838,700. Currently, we believe that we comply with the program requirements and that the entire amount will be forgiven, but will not have assurance on the amount forgiven until our forgiveness application is accepted by the Small Business Administration.
Our ability to meet our capital needs in the future will depend on many factors, including maintaining and enhancing our operating cash flow, successfully managing the transition of our recent acquisitions of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image, successfully retaining and growing our client base in the midst of general economic uncertainty, managing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, and obtaining forgiveness of our PPP loan. We will need to successfully manage our revenues to support potential future earnout commitments for previous transactions and current debt service commitments, and our future cash resources and capital requirements may vary materially from those now planned. Our ability to obtain additional capital or debt financing on favorable terms, if needed, would likely be adversely affected by our history of operating losses. Prior to this quarter, management has historically assessed that there was substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern. These conditions raise substantial doubt over the Company’s ability to meet all of its obligations over the twelve months following the date of this Report. However, management has evaluated these conditions and believes, based on its current plans and expectations, that we will be able to meet those obligations, although there is no assurance.
Based on our plans and assumptions as of the date of this report, we believe our capital resources, including our cash and cash equivalents, along with funds expected to be generated from our operations, will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs, including for working capital, earnout liability payments for previous transactions, capital spending, and debt service commitments, for at least the next 12 months. However, any projections of future cash needs and cash flows are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, such as our history of operating losses, the current COVID-19 pandemic, as well as general overall economic conditions. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” above in this report and the risk factors included in Part II, Item IA of this Report, Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020, and June 30, 2020, and filed on May 15, 2020, and August 14, 2020, respectively, and the risk factors that are included in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed on March 30, 2020.
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The Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should it be unable to continue as a going concern.
4. | Corporate Actions |
On March 20, 2020, the Company effected a one-for-fifty (1-for-50) reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock. All share and per share amounts herein have been adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split.
5. | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
Principles of Consolidation
The financial statements include the accounts of Intellinetics and the accounts of all the subsidiaries in which a controlling interest is held by the Company. Under U.S. GAAP, consolidation is generally required for investments of more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of an investee, except when control is not held by the majority owner. The Company’s subsidiaries include: Intellinetics Ohio and Graphic Sciences. The Company considers the criteria established under Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) Topic 810, “Consolidations” in its consolidation process. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions. Such estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses. Actual results could differ from estimated amounts.
Significant estimates and assumptions include valuation allowances related to receivables, accounts receivable -unbilled, allowance for obsolescence or slow-moving parts and supplies inventory, the recoverability of long-term assets, depreciable lives of property and equipment, purchase price allocations for acquisitions, fair value for goodwill and intangibles, the lease liabilities, estimates of fair value deferred taxes and related valuation allowances. The Company’s management monitors these risks and assesses its business and financial risks on a quarterly basis.
Revenue Recognition
In accordance with ASC 606, the Company follows a five-step model to assess each contract of a sale or service to a customer: identify the legally binding contract, identify the performance obligations, determine the transaction price, allocate the transaction price, and determine whether revenue will be recognized at a point in time or over time. Revenue is recognized when a performance obligation is satisfied and the customer obtains control of promised goods and services. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration to which we expect to be entitled to receive in exchange for these goods and services. In addition, ASC 606 requires disclosures of the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers.
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We categorize revenue as software, software as a service, software maintenance services, professional services, and storage and retrieval services. We earn the majority of our revenue from the sale of professional services, followed by the sale of software maintenance services and software as a service. Specific revenue recognition policies apply to each category of revenue.
a) Sale of software
Revenues included in this classification typically include sales of licenses with professional services to new customers, additional software licenses to existing customers, and sales of software with or without services to the Company’s resellers (See section j) - Reseller Agreements, below. Our software licenses are functional intellectual property and typically provide customers with the right to use our software in perpetuity as it exists when made available to the customer. We recognize revenue from software licenses at a point in time upon delivery, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met.
b) Sale of software as a service
Sale of software as a service (“SaaS”) consists of revenues from arrangements that provide customers the use of the Company’s software applications, as a service, typically billed on a monthly or annual basis. Advance billings of these services are not recorded to the extent that the term of the arrangement has not commenced and payment has not been received. Revenue on these services is recognized over the contract period.
c) Sale of software maintenance services
Software maintenance services revenues consist of revenues derived from arrangements that provide post-contract support (“PCS”), including software support and bug fixes, to the Company’s software license holders. Advance billings of PCS are not recorded to the extent that the term of the PCS has not commenced and payment has not been received. PCS are considered distinct services. However, these distinct services are considered a single performance obligation consisting of a series of services that are substantially the same and have the same pattern of transfer to the customer. These revenues are recognized over the term of the maintenance contract.
d) Sale of professional services
Professional services revenues consist of revenues from document scanning and conversion services, consulting, discovery, training, and advisory services to assist customers with document management needs, as well as repair and maintenance services for customer equipment. We recognize professional services revenue over time as the services are delivered using an input or output method (e.g., labor hours incurred as a percentage of total labor hours budgeted, images scanned, or similar milestones), as appropriate for the contract, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met.
e) Sale of storage and retrieval services
Sale of document storage and retrieval services consist principally of secured warehouse storage of customer documents, as well as retrieval per agreement terms and certified destruction if desired. We recognize revenue from document storage and retrieval services over the term of the contract for storage and for the retrieval and destructions components, as the services are delivered.
f) Arrangements with multiple performance obligations
In addition to selling software licenses, software as a service, software maintenance services, professional services, and storage and retrieval services on a stand-alone basis, a portion of our contracts include multiple performance obligations. For contracts with multiple performance obligations, the Company allocates the transaction price of the contract to each distinct performance obligation, on a relative basis using its standalone selling price. The Company determines the standalone selling price based on the price charged for the deliverable when sold separately.
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g) Contract balances
When the timing of our delivery of goods or services is different from the timing of payments made by customers, we recognize either a contract asset (performance precedes contractual due date) or a contract liability (customer payment precedes performance). Customers that prepay are represented by deferred revenue until the performance obligation is satisfied. Contract assets represent arrangements in which the good or service has been delivered but payment is not yet due. Our contract assets consisted of accounts receivable, unbilled, which are disclosed on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Our contract liabilities consisted of deferred (unearned) revenue, which is generally related to software as a service or software maintenance contracts. We classify deferred revenue as current based on the timing of when we expect to recognize revenue, which are disclosed on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The following table present changes in our contract assets and liabilities during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019:
Balance
at Beginning of Period | Addition from acquisition (Note 6) | Revenue Recognized in Advance of Billings | Billings | Balance
at End of Period | ||||||||||||||||
Nine months ended September 30, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Contract assets: Accounts receivable, unbilled | $ | 23,371 | $ | 276,023 | $ | 602,692 | $ | (398,444 | ) | $ | 503,642 | |||||||||
Nine months ended September 30, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Contract assets: Accounts receivable, unbilled | $ | 65,118 | $ | - | $ | 133,505 | $ | (163,271 | ) | $ | 35,352 |
h) Deferred revenue
Amounts that have been invoiced are recognized in accounts receivable, deferred revenue or revenue, depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met. Deferred revenue represents amounts billed for which revenue has not yet be recognized. Deferred revenues typically relate to maintenance and software-as-a-service agreements which have been paid for by customers prior to the performance of those services, and payments received for professional services and license arrangements and software-as-a-service performance obligations that have been deferred until fulfilled under our revenue recognition policy.
Remaining performance obligations represent the transaction price from contracts for which work has not been performed or goods and services have not been delivered. We expect to recognize revenue on approximately 96% of the remaining performance obligations over the next 12 months, with the remainder recognized thereafter. As of September 30, 2020, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations for software as a service and software maintenance contracts with a duration greater than one year was $43,337. As of December 31, 2019, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations for software as a service and software maintenance contracts with a duration greater than one year was $69,381. This does not include revenue related to performance obligations that are part of a contract whose original expected duration is one year or less.
Balance
at Beginning of Period | Addition from acquisition (Note 6) | Billings | Recognized Revenue | Balance
at End of Period | ||||||||||||||||
Nine months ended September 30, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Contract liabilities: Deferred revenue | $ | 754,073 | $ | 198,659 | $ | 2,215,742 | $ | (2,146,222 | ) | $ | 1,022,252 | |||||||||
Nine months ended September 30, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Contract liabilities: Deferred revenue | $ | 723,619 | $ | - | $ | 2,010,090 | $ | (2,060,993 | ) | $ | 672,716 |
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i) Rights of return and customer acceptance
The Company does not generally offer variable consideration, financing components, rights of return or any other incentives such as concessions, product rotation, or price protection and, therefore, does not provide for or make estimates of rights of return and similar incentives. Our contracts with customers generally do not include customer acceptance clauses.
j) Reseller agreements
The Company executes certain sales contracts through resellers. The Company recognizes revenues relating to sales through resellers when all the recognition criteria have been met including passing of control. In addition, the Company assesses the credit-worthiness of each reseller, and if the reseller is undercapitalized or in financial difficulty, any revenues expected to emanate from such resellers are deferred and recognized only when cash is received and all other revenue recognition criteria are met.
k) Contract costs
The Company capitalizes the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. We have determined that certain sales commissions meet the requirement to be capitalized, and we amortize these costs on a consistent basis with the pattern of transfer of the goods and services in the contract. Total capitalized costs to obtain contracts were immaterial during the periods presented and are included in other current and long-term assets on our consolidated balance sheets.
l) Sales taxes
Sales taxes charged to and collected from customers as part of the Company’s sales transactions are excluded from revenues, as well as the determination of transaction price for contracts with multiple performance obligations, and recorded as a liability to the applicable governmental taxing authority.
m) Disaggregation of revenue
The Company provides disaggregation of revenue based on product groupings in our consolidated statements of operations as it believes this best depicts how the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors. Revenues from contracts are primarily within the United States. International revenues were not material to the condensed consolidated financial statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.
n) Significant financing component
The Company’s customers typically do not pay in advance for goods or services to be transferred in excess of one year. As such, it is not necessary to determine if the Company benefits from the time value of money and should record a component of interest income related to the upfront payment due to the practical expedient of ASC 606-10-32-18.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
The Company maintains its cash with high credit quality financial institutions. At times, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents may be uninsured or in deposit accounts that exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limit.
The number of customers that comprise the Company’s customer base, along with the different industries, governmental entities and geographic regions, in which the Company’s customers operate, limits concentrations of credit risk with respect to accounts receivable, with the exception of the State of Michigan. In the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company’s sales to the State of Michigan totaled approximately 43% of revenues. The Company expects revenues from the State of Michigan to be a slightly higher percentage of total revenues in future periods. The Company is not aware of any losses by Graphic Sciences resulting from nonpayment by the State of Michigan.
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The Company does not generally require collateral or other security to support customer receivables; however, the Company may require its customers to provide retainers, up-front deposits or irrevocable letters-of-credit when considered necessary to mitigate credit risks. The Company has established an allowance for doubtful accounts based upon facts surrounding the credit risk of specific customers and past collections history. Credit losses have been within management’s expectations. At September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts was $59,706 and $35,733, respectively.
Parts and Supplies
Parts and supplies are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Costs are determined using the first-in, first-out method. Parts and supplies are used for scanning and document conversion services. A provision for potentially obsolete or slow-moving parts and supplies inventory is made based on parts and supplies levels, future sales forecasted and management’s judgment of potentially obsolete parts and supplies. The Company recorded an allowance of $10,500 at September 30, 2020 and there was no allowance recorded as of September 30, 2019.
Property and Equipment
Property, equipment and leasehold improvements are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization is computed over the estimated useful lives of the related assets on a straight-line basis. Furniture and fixtures, computer hardware and purchased software are depreciated over three to seven years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the life of the lease or the asset, whichever is shorter, generally seven to ten years. Upon retirement or other disposition of these assets, the cost and related accumulated depreciation and amortization of these assets are removed from the accounts and the resulting gains and losses are reflected in the results of operations.
Intangible
All intangible assets have finite lives and are stated at cost, net of amortization. Amortization is computed over the useful life of the related assets on a straight-line method.
Goodwill
The carrying value of goodwill is not amortized, but is tested for impairment annually as of December 31, as well as on an interim basis whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of a reporting unity may not be recoverable. An impairment charge is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the recorded fair value.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company accounts for the impairment and disposition of long-lived assets in accordance with ASC 360, “Property, Plant, and Equipment.” The Company tests long-lived assets or asset groups, such as property and equipment, for recoverability when events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying amount may not be recoverable.
Circumstances which could trigger a review include, but are not limited to: significant adverse changes in the business climate or legal factors; current period cash flow or operating losses combined with a history of losses or a forecast of continuing losses associated with the use of the asset; and a current expectation that the asset will more likely than not be sold or disposed of before the end of its estimated useful life.
Recoverability is assessed based on comparing the carrying amount of the asset to the aggregate pre-tax undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposal of the asset or asset group. Impairment is recognized when the carrying amount is not recoverable and exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group. The impairment loss, if any, is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds fair value, which for this purpose is based upon the discounted projected future cash flows of the asset or asset group. There were no impairment of long lived assets in the periods ended September 30, 2020 or 2019.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company accounts for stock-based payments to employees in accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation - Stock Compensation.” Stock-based payments to employees include grants of stock that are recognized in the consolidated statement of operations based on their fair values at the date of grant.
The Company accounts for stock-based payments to non-employees in accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation - Stock Compensation,” which requires that such equity instruments are recorded at their fair values on the grant date.
The grant date fair value of stock option awards is recognized in earnings as stock-based compensation cost over the requisite service period of the award using the straight-line attribution method. The Company estimates the fair value of the stock option awards using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. The exercise price of options is specified in the stock option agreements. The expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of the Company’s stock for the previous period equal to the expected term of the options. The expected term of options granted is based on the midpoint between the vesting date and the end of the contractual term. The risk-free interest rate is based upon a U.S. Treasury instrument with a life that is similar to the expected term of the options. The expected dividend yield is based upon the yield expected on date of grant to occur over the term of the option.
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Software Development Costs
The Company designs, develops, tests, markets, licenses, and supports new software products and enhancements of current products. The Company continuously monitors its software products and enhancements to remain compatible with standard platforms and file formats. In accordance with ASC 985-20, “Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased or Otherwise Marketed,” the Company expenses software development costs, including costs to develop software products or the software component of products to be sold, leased, or marketed to external users, before technological feasibility is reached. Once technological feasibility has been established, certain software development costs incurred during the application development stage are eligible for capitalization. Based on the Company’s software development process, technical feasibility is established upon completion of a working model. Technological feasibility is typically reached shortly before the release of such products. No such costs were capitalized during the periods presented in this report.
In accordance with ASC 350-40, “Internal-Use Software,” the Company capitalizes purchase and implementation costs of internal use software. Once an application has reached development stage, internal and external costs, if direct and incremental, are capitalized until the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use. Capitalization ceases upon complete of all substantial testing. The Company also capitalize costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable that the expenditure will result in additional functionality. No such costs were capitalized during the periods presented in this report.
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, our expensed software development costs were $60,085 and $228,834, respectively, and $101,885 and $349,111, respectively.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – Internal-Use Software
In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, which addresses a customer’s accounting for implementation costs incurred in a cloud computing arrangement that is a service contract. Under the new guidance, customers will apply the same criteria for capitalizing implementation costs as they would for an arrangement that has a software license. ASC 2018-15 was effective for the Company beginning in its first quarter of 2020. The Company has concluded that the impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures is not material.
Fair Value
In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, which is guidance that changes the fair value measurement disclosure requirements of ASC 820. ASU 2018-13 was effective for the Company beginning in its first quarter of 2020. The Company has concluded that the impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures is not material.
Leases
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (“ASC 842”) (“ASU 2016-02”), which modified lease accounting for both lessees and lessors to increase transparency and comparability by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous accounting standards and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. ASU 2016-02 was effective for the Company beginning in its first quarter of 2019. On January 1, 2019, the Company recorded a lease liability of $143,761 and a net right-of-use asset of $138,549 using the required modified retrospective approach. On March 2, 2020, the Company recorded a lease liability of $2,947,684 and a net right-of-use asset of $2,885,619 using the required modified retrospective approach for the newly acquired subsidiary, Graphic Sciences. In adopting ASC 842, the Company elected to utilize the available package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard, which does not require the reassessment of the following: i) whether existing or expired arrangements are or contain a lease, ii) the lease classification of existing or expired leases, and iii) whether previous initial costs would qualify as capitalization under the new lease standard.
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Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Effective
Financial Instruments – Credit Losses
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326), which requires entities to measure all expected credit losses for financial assets held at the reporting date based on historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts. This replaces the existing incurred loss model and is applicable to the measurement of credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost. ASC 2016-16 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2023, including interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the new guidance on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Reference Rate Reform
In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting” which provides optional relief through specific exceptions and practical expedients for transitioning away from reference rates that are expected to be discontinued. The relief generally applies to eligible modifications of contractual terms that change (or have the potential to change) the amount or timing of contractual cash flows related to replacement of a reference rate. The relief allows such modifications to be accounted for as continuations of existing contracts without additional analysis. The optional relief is available from March 2020 through December 31, 2022. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU.
Income Taxes
In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes” which removes certain exceptions related to intra-period tax allocations and deferred tax accounting on outside basis differences in foreign subsidiaries and equity method investments. Additionally, it provides other simplifying measures for the accounting for income taxes. The new standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021 with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU.
Equity Securities, Equity Method Investments and Certain Derivatives
In January 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-01, “Clarifying the Interactions Between Topic 321, Topic 323, and Topic 815.” This ASU clarifies the interaction between accounting standards related to equity securities, equity method investments and certain derivatives. The effective date of the standard will be for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2020, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of the new standard on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Lease Accounting and COVID-19
In April 2020, the FASB issued a question-and-answer document to address stakeholder questions on the application of the lease accounting guidance for lease concessions related to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance will allow concessions related to the timing of payments, where the total consideration has not changed, to not be accounted for as lease modifications. Instead, any such concessions can be accounted for as if no change was made to the contract or as variable lease payments. The Company is currently assessing the impact of the question-and-answer document on its condensed consolidated financial statements.
All other Accounting Standards Updates issued but not yet effective are not expected to have a material effect on the Company’s future condensed consolidated financial statements.
Advertising
The Company expenses the cost of advertising as incurred. Advertising expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 amounted to $1,651 and 5,331, respectively, $1,028 and $3,084, respectively.
Earnings (Loss) Per Share
Basic income or loss per share is computed by dividing net income or loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted income or loss per share is computed by dividing net income or loss by the diluted weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The diluted weighted average number of shares gives effect to all dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period using the treasure stock method. Diluted earnings per share exclude all diluted potential shares if their effect is anti-dilutive, including warrants or options which are out-of-the-money and for those periods with a net loss. For the three months ended September 30, 2020, all applicable options and warrants were out-of-the-money. The nine months ended September 30, 2020 and the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 reported a net loss.
Income Taxes
The Company and its subsidiaries file a consolidated federal income tax return. The provision for income taxes is computed by applying statutory rates to income before taxes.
Deferred income taxes are recognized for the tax consequences in future years of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities as of each period-end based on enacted tax laws and statutory rates. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized. A 100% valuation allowance has been established on deferred tax assets at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, due to the uncertainty of our ability to realize future taxable income. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 the Company recovered a net $179,400 of its valuation allowance in conjunction with the consolidation of the net deferred tax liability of its wholly owned subsidiary, Graphic Sciences.
The Company accounts for uncertainty in income taxes in its financial statements as required under ASC 740, “Income Taxes.” The standard prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The standard also provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition accounting. Management determined there were no material uncertain positions taken by the Company in its tax returns.
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Segment Information
Operating segments are defined in the criteria established under ASC 280, “Segment Reporting,” as components of public entities that engage in business activities from which they may earn revenues and incur expenses for which separate financial information is available and which is evaluated regularly by the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) in deciding how to assess performance and allocate resources. The Company’s CODM assesses performance and allocates resources based on two operating segments: Document Management and Document Conversion. These segments contain individual business components that have been combined on the basis of common management, customers, solutions offered, service processes and other economic characteristics. The Company currently has no intersegment sales. The Company evaluates the segments’ performance based on gross profits.
The Document Management Segment provides cloud-based content services software. Its modular suite of solutions complements existing operating and accounting systems to serve a mission-critical role for organizations to make content secure, compliant, and process-ready. This segment conducts its primary operations in the United States. Markets served include highly regulated, risk and compliance-intensive markets in healthcare, K-12 education, public safety, other public sector, risk management, financial services, and others. Solutions are sold both directly to end-users and through resellers.
The Document Conversion Segment provides services for scanning and indexing, converting images from paper to digital, paper to microfilm, and microfiche to microfilm, as well as long-term physical document storage and retrieval. This segment conducts its primary operations in the United States. Markets served include business and federal, county, and municipal governments. Solutions are sold both directly to end-users and through a reseller distributor.
Information by operating segment is as follows:
Three
months ended September 30, 2020 | Three
months ended September 30, 2019 | |||||||
Revenues | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | 780,834 | $ | 738,957 | ||||
Document Conversion | 1,730,448 | 16,611 | ||||||
Total revenues | $ | 2,511,282 | $ | 755,568 | ||||
Gross profit | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | 605,451 | $ | 610,998 | ||||
Document Conversion | 884,843 | (3,120 | ) | |||||
Total gross profit | $ | 1,490,294 | $ | 607,878 | ||||
Capital additions, net | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | - | $ | - | ||||
Document Conversion | 33,676 | - | ||||||
Total capital additions, net | $ | 33,676 | $ | - |
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months ended September 30, 2020 | Nine
months ended September 30, 2019 | |||||||
Revenues | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | 2,018,208 | $ | 1,879,187 | ||||
Document Conversion | 3,539,378 | 32,374 | ||||||
Total revenues | $ | 5,557,586 | $ | 1,911,561 | ||||
Gross profit | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | 1,526,283 | $ | 1,506,071 | ||||
Document Conversion | 1,880,648 | (14,769 | ) | |||||
Total gross profit | $ | 3,406,931 | $ | 1,491,302 | ||||
Capital additions, net | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | 7,911 | $ | - | ||||
Document Conversion | 51,205 | 5,489 | ||||||
Total capital additions, net | $ | 59,116 | $ | 5,489 |
September 30, 2020 | December 31, 2019 | |||||||
Total assets | ||||||||
Document Management | $ | 1,825,343 | $ | 986,574 | ||||
Document Conversion | 4,995,089 | - | ||||||
Corporate | 3,561,977 | - | ||||||
Total assets | $ | 10,382,409 | $ | 986,574 |
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Statement of Cash Flows
For purposes of reporting cash flows, cash includes cash on hand and demand deposits held by banks.
Reclassifications
Certain amounts reported in prior filings of the condensed consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to current presentation.
6. | Business Acquisitions |
On March 2, 2020, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding stock of Graphic Sciences. The acquisition was accounted for in accordance with GAAP and was made to expand the Company’s market share in the document management industry and due to synergies of product lines and services between the Companies.
On April 21, 2020, the Company entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of CEO Image. The acquisition was accounted for in accordance with GAAP and was made to expand the Company’s market share in the document management industry and due to synergies of product lines and services between the Companies.
The purchase price has been preliminarily allocated to assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair value of such assets and liabilities at the date of acquisitions as follows:
Total | March 2, 2020 | April 21, 2020 | ||||||||||
Assets acquired: | ||||||||||||
Cash | $ | 17,269 | $ | 17,269 | $ | - | ||||||
Accounts receivable | 1,122,737 | 1,071,770 | 50,967 | |||||||||
Accounts receivable, unbilled | 276,023 | 276,023 | - | |||||||||
Parts and supplies | 91,396 | 91,396 | - | |||||||||
Prepaid expenses | 73,116 | 73,116 | - | |||||||||
Other current assets | 5,954 | 5,954 | - | |||||||||
Right of use assets | 2,885,618 | 2,885,618 | - | |||||||||
Property and equipment | 735,885 | 732,372 | 3,513 | |||||||||
Intangible assets (see Note 7) | 1,361,000 | 1,230,000 | 131,000 | |||||||||
6,568,998 | 6,383,518 | 185,480 | ||||||||||
Liabilities assumed: | ||||||||||||
Accounts payable | 168,749 | 129,622 | 39,127 | |||||||||
Accrued expenses | 162,426 | 155,949 | 6,477 | |||||||||
Lease liabilities | 2,947,684 | 2,947,684 | - | |||||||||
Federal and state taxes payable | 168,900 | 168,900 | - | |||||||||
Deferred revenue | 198,659 | 39,186 | 159,473 | |||||||||
Deferred tax liabilities - Net | 149,900 | 149,900 | - | |||||||||
3,796,318 | 3,591,241 | 205,077 | ||||||||||
Total identifiable net assets/(liabilities) | 2,772,680 | 2,792,277 | (19,597 | ) | ||||||||
Purchase price | 5,095,567 | 4,592,453 | 503,114 | |||||||||
Goodwill - Excess of purchase price over fair value of net assets acquired | $ | 2,322,887 | $ | 1,800,176 | $ | 522,711 |
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The purchase price of Graphic Sciences was financed with a $686,200 seller earnout liability and $3,906,253 was paid in cash. Goodwill in the amount of $1,800,176 was recognized in the acquisition of Graphic Sciences and is attributable to the cash flows of the business derived from the potential of the Company to outperform the market due to its existing relationship and other synergies created within the Company.
The purchase price of CEO Image was partially financed with a $203,000 seller earnout liability and $170,000 in installment payments. $128,832 was paid in cash at the closing. On August 3, 2020, $1,282 was paid for a net working capital adjustment and $70,000 was paid, along with accrued interest, in installment payments. The remaining Seller note of $100,000 is included in notes payable – current. Goodwill in the amount of $522,711 was recognized in the acquisition of CEO Image and is attributable to the cash flows of the business derived from the potential of the Company to outperform the market due to its existing relationship and other synergies created within the Company.
Acquisition costs which include legal and other professional fees of approximately $636,440 were expensed as nonrecurring transaction costs and are included in Significant transaction costs in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations.
The earnout arrangement for Graphic Sciences requires the Company to pay the seller up to $833,000 annually for a three year period based on a gross profit level achieved by Graphic Sciences on an annual basis, resulting in a max payout to the seller over a three year period of $2,500,000, as defined. Management estimated a fair value of the earnout liability of $686,200 which would be owed to the seller based on the terms of the earnout, and accordingly, recorded this liability at the acquisition date in accordance with GAAP. The fair value was based on projections of future gross profit over a three year period and valuation techniques that utilized expected volatility, threshold probability, and discounting of future payments.
The earnout arrangement for CEO Image requires the Company to pay the seller up to $185,000 annually for a two year period based on a sales revenue level achieved by certain customers of CEO Image on an annual basis, resulting in a max payout to the seller over a two year period of $370,000, as defined. Management estimated a fair value of the earnout of $203,000 which would be owed to the seller based on the terms of the earnout, and accordingly, recorded this liability at the acquisition date in accordance with GAAP. The fair value was based on projections of future revenue over a two year period and valuation techniques that utilized expected volatility, threshold probability, and discounting of future payments.
As the Company finalizes the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, additional purchase price adjustments may be recorded. The finalization of the purchase accounting assessment may result in changes in the valuation of assets acquired and liabilities assumed and may have an impact on the Company’s results of operations and financial position.
The following unaudited pro forma information presents a summary of the consolidated results of operations for the Company as if the acquisitions of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image had occurred on January 1, 2019.
For the Three months ended | ||||||||
(unaudited) | (unaudited) | |||||||
September 30, 2020 | September 30, 2019 | |||||||
Total revenues | $ | 2,511,282 | $ | 2,931,250 | ||||
Net income (loss) | $ | 155,673 | $ | (324,174 | ) | |||
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share | $ | 0.06 | $ | (0.12 | ) |
For the Nine months ended | ||||||||
(unaudited) | (unaudited) | |||||||
September 30, 2020 | September 30, 2019 | |||||||
Total revenues | $ | 6,990,549 | $ | 7,716,421 | ||||
Net loss | $ | (566,082 | ) | $ | (1,031,326 | ) | ||
Basic and diluted net loss per share | $ | (0.20 | ) | $ | (0.37 | ) |
The unaudited pro forma consolidated results are based on the Company’s historical financial statements and those of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image and do not necessarily indicate the results of operations that would have resulted had the acquisition actually been completed at the beginning of the applicable period presented. The pro forma financial information assumes that the companies were combined as of January 1, 2019.
The following table presents the amounts of revenue and earnings of the acquirees since the acquisition date included in the condensed consolidated income statement for the reporting period.
For the three months ended September 30, 2020 | Graphic Sciences | CEO Image | ||||||
Total revenues | $ | 1,660,775 | $ | 155,414 | ||||
Net income | $ | 239,555 | $ | (a) |
For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 | Graphic Sciences | CEO Image | ||||||
Total revenues | $ | 3,409,193 | $ | 219,934 | ||||
Net income | $ | 380,881 | $ | (a) |
(a) | Total earnings from the CEO Image acquisition is impracticable to disclose as the operations were merged with existing operations and not accounted for separately. |
7. | Intangible Assets, Net |
At September 30, 2020, intangible assets consisted of the following:
Estimated | Accumulated | |||||||||||||
Useful Life | Costs | Amortization | Net | |||||||||||
Trade names | 10 years | $ | 119,000 | $ | (6,942 | ) | $ | 112,058 | ||||||
Customer contracts | 5-8 years | 1,242,000 | (114,968 | ) | 1,127,032 | |||||||||
$ | 1,361,000 | $ | (121,910 | ) | $ | 1,239,090 |
Amortization expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, amounted to $54,119 and $121,910, respectively. The following table represents future amortization expense for intangible assets subject to amortization.
For the Nine Months Ending September 30, | Amount | |||
2021 | $ | 216,475 | ||
2022 | 216,475 | |||
2023 | 216,475 | |||
2024 | 216,475 | |||
2025 | 205,558 | |||
Thereafter | 167,632 | |||
$ | 1,239,090 |
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8. | Fair Value Measurements |
Under U.S. GAAP, fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The fair value hierarchy included in U.S. GAAP gives the highest priority to Level 1 inputs, which consist of unadjusted quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets. Level 2 inputs consist of quoted prices for similar instruments. Level 3 valuations are derived from inputs that are significant and unobservable, and these valuations have the lowest priority.
Management believes that the carrying values of cash and equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses, and the 2019 Related Notes approximate fair value because of their short maturity. Management believes that the carrying value of the 2020 Notes approximates fair value given the March 2, 2020 transaction proximity to September 30, 2020.
The table below reflects all other notes payable at December 31, 2019.
December 31, 2019 | ||||||
Fair Value | ||||||
2016 Unrelated Notes | (a) | $ | 942,256 | |||
2017 Unrelated Notes | (a) | 2,011,859 | ||||
2018 Unrelated Notes | (a) | 1,028,792 | ||||
Total | $ | 3,982,907 |
December 31, 2019 | ||||||
Fair Value | ||||||
2016 Related Notes | (a) | $ | 405,784 | |||
2017 Related Notes | (a) | 445,810 | ||||
2018 Related Notes | (a) | 457,241 | ||||
Total | $ | 1,308,835 |
(a) | The fair value was based upon Level 2 inputs. See Note 10 for additional information about the Company’s 2016, 2017, and 2018 Unrelated Notes. See Note 11 for additional information about the Company’s 2016, 2017, and 2018 Related Notes. |
Management believes that the carrying value of the earnout liabilities approximates fair value given the March 2, 2020 and April 21, 2020 transactions proximity to September 30, 2020. Fair value of the earnout liabilities is based upon Level 3 inputs, using significant unobservable inputs for the period ended.
9. | Property and Equipment |
Property and equipment are comprised of the following:
September 30, 2020 | December 31, 2019 | |||||||
Computer hardware and purchased software | $ | 998,007 | $ | 259,959 | ||||
Leasehold improvements | 275,106 | 221,666 | ||||||
Furniture and fixtures | 82,056 | 82,056 | ||||||
1,355,169 | 563,681 | |||||||
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization | (639,169 | ) | (556,762 | ) | ||||
Property and equipment, net | $ | 716,000 | $ | 6,919 |
Total depreciation expense on the Company’s property and equipment for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 amounted to $35,357 and $82,407, respectively, and $1,901 and $5,908, respectively.
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10. | Notes Payable |
Summary of Notes Payable
The table below reflects all notes payable at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, with the exception of related party notes disclosed in Note 11 - Notes Payable - Related Parties.
September 30, 2020 | December 31, 2019 | |||||||
Seller Notes Payable | $ | 100,000 | $ | - | ||||
PPP Note Payable | 838,700 | - | ||||||
2020 Notes | 2,000,000 | - | ||||||
2018 Unrelated Notes | - | 900,000 | ||||||
2017 Unrelated Notes | - | 1,760,000 | ||||||
2016 Unrelated Notes, net of beneficial conversion feature of $50,703 | - | 824,297 | ||||||
Total notes payable | $ | 2,938,700 | $ | 3,484,297 | ||||
Less unamortized debt issuance costs | (250,702 | ) | (144,334 | ) | ||||
Less unamortized debt discount | (257,778 | ) | - | |||||
Less current portion | (612,539 | ) | 3,339,963 | |||||
Long-term portion of notes payable | $ | 1,817,681 | $ | - |
Future minimum principal payments of these notes payable as described in this Note 10 are as follows:
As of September 30, | Amount | |||
2021 | $ | 612,539 | ||
2022 | 326,161 | |||
2023 | 2,000,000 | |||
Total | $ | 2,938,700 |
As of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, accrued interest for these notes payable with the exception of the related party notes in Note 11 - Notes Payable - Related Parties, was $4,505 and $918,307, respectively. As of September 30, 2020, unamortized deferred financing costs and unamortized debt discount were reflected within long term liabilities on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of December 31, 2019, unamortized deferred financing costs were $144,334, and was reflected within current liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.
With respect to all notes outstanding (other than the notes to related parties), for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, interest expense, including the amortization of deferred financing costs, accrued loan participation fees, original issue discounts, deferred interest and related fees, interest expense related to warrants issued for the conversion of convertible notes, and the embedded conversion feature was $115,498 and $433,783, respectively, and $186,198 and $544,639, respectively.
Seller Notes Payable
On April 21, 2020, the Company entered into an asset purchase agreement under which the Company agreed to pay a principal amount of $170,000 (“Seller Notes Payable”) as further discussed in Note 6. The terms of the Seller Notes Payable are approximately three and six months, with $70,000 plus accrued interest paid August 3, 2020 and $100,000 plus accrued interest due November 1, 2020. The Seller Notes Payable bear an interest rate of 1.5% per annum.
Paycheck Protection Program Note Payable
On April 15, 2020, the Company entered into an unsecured promissory note (“PPP Note Payable”) under the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”), through PNC Bank with a principal amount of $838,700. The term of the PPP Note Payable is two years, with an interest rate of 1.0% per annum, which shall be deferred for the first six months of the term of the loan. PPP loan recipients can be granted forgiveness for all or a portion of loans granted under the PPP, based on the use of loan proceeds for payroll costs and mortgage interest, rent or utility costs and the maintenance of employee and compensation levels. No assurance is provided that the Company will obtain forgiveness of the PPP Note Payable in whole or in part.
2020 Note Issuance
On March 2, 2020, the Company issued and sold 2,000 units (“Units”) to certain accredited investors in a private offering, with each Unit consisting of $1,000 in 12% Subordinated Notes (“2020 Notes”) and 40 shares of common stock, for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,000,000 in Units. The entire outstanding principal and accrued interest of the 2020 Notes are due and payable on February 28, 2023. Interest on the 2020 Notes accrues at the rate of 12% per annum, payable quarterly in cash, beginning on June 30, 2020. Any accrued but unpaid quarterly installment of interest shall accrue interest at the rate of 14.0% per annum. Any overdue principal and accrued and unpaid interest at the maturity date shall accrue a mandatory default penalty of 20% of the outstanding principal balance and an interest rate of 14% per annum from the maturity date until paid in full. The Company used a portion of the net proceeds of the offering to finance the acquisition of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image and using the remaining net proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes. The Company recognized a debt discount of $320,000 for the 80,000 shares issued in conjunction with the Units. The amortization of the debt discount will be recognized over the life of the 2020 Notes as interest expense, and was $26,667 and $62,222, respectively, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020.
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2020 Note Conversion
On March 2, 2020, the Company entered into amendments to all of its then-outstanding convertible promissory notes, which were issued by the Company to various related and unrelated investors in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The Note Amendments permitted the Company to convert all of the then-outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest payable with respect to the 2016-2018 Notes into shares of Common Stock upon the same terms as such private placement. Pursuant to the Note Amendments, on March 2, 2020, the Company converted all of the then-outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest payable with respect to the 2016-2018 Notes into the aggregate amount of 1,433,689 shares of Common Stock at a conversion price of $4.00 per share. Taglich Brothers, Inc. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the Note Conversion, and earned fees in the form of 35,250 shares of Common Stock at a price of $4.00 per share (with such fees relating to the conversion of both the related and unrelated notes).
2018 Notes
On September 20 and September 26, 2018, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $900,000 (“2018 Unrelated Notes”) to unrelated accredited investors (the “2018 Note Investors”). Placement agent and escrow agent fees of $106,740 were paid out of the cash proceeds. The 2018 Unrelated Notes matured on December 31, 2020, and bore interest at an annual rate of interest of 8% until maturity, with interest of 8% payable quarterly beginning January 2, 2019. The 2018 Note Investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2018 Unrelated Notes into shares of Company common stock under certain circumstances at a conversion rate of $6.50 per share. These notes were further amended and converted into equity on March 2, 2020, as described further below in this note, see “2020 Note Conversion.”
2017 Notes
On November 17 and November 30, 2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $1,760,000 (“2017 Unrelated Notes”) to unrelated accredited investors (the “2017 Note Investors”). Placement agent and escrow agent fees of $174,810 were paid out of the cash proceeds. The 2017 Unrelated Notes had an original maturity date of November 30, 2019. On September 14, 2018, the 2017 Unrelated Notes were amended to mature on December 31, 2020. The amendment was accounted for as a troubled debt restructuring with the future undiscounted cash flows being greater than the carrying value of the debt prior to extension. No gain was recorded on the amendment, and a new effective interest rate on the 2017 Unrelated Notes was established based on the carrying value of the debt and the revised future cash flows. The 2017 Unrelated Notes bore interest at an annual rate of interest of 8% until maturity, with interest of 8% payable quarterly beginning July 1, 2018. The 2017 Note Investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2017 Unrelated Notes into shares of Company common stock under certain circumstances at a conversion rate of $10.00 per share. These notes were further amended and converted into equity on March 2, 2020, as described further below in this note, see “2020 Note Conversion.”
2016 Notes
The Company issued convertible promissory notes on December 30, 2016 in an aggregate amount of $315,000, and on January 6, 2017 and January 31, 2017 in an aggregate amount of $560,000 (collectively, the “2016 Unrelated Notes”), to unrelated accredited investors (the “2016 Note Investors”). Placement agent and escrow agent fees of $100,255 in the aggregate for those issuances, were paid out of the cash proceeds of those issuances. The 2016 Unrelated Notes bore interest at an annual rate of interest of 12% until maturity, with partial interest of 6% payable quarterly, and an original maturity date of December 31, 2018. The 2016 Note Investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2016 Unrelated Notes into shares of Company common stock at a conversion rate of $32.50 per share. On September 17, 2018, the 2016 Unrelated Notes were amended to mature on December 31, 2020, and bore interest at an annual rate of interest of 10% until maturity, with partial interest of 5% payable quarterly. With the amendment, the 2016 Note Investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2016 Unrelated Notes into shares of Company common stock at a conversion rate of $20.00 per share. The amendment was accounted for as a troubled debt restructuring with the future undiscounted cash flows being greater than the carrying value of the debt prior to extension. No gain was recorded on the amendment, and a new effective interest rate on the 2016 Unrelated Notes was established based on the carrying value of the debt and the revised future cash flows. The Company recognized an initial beneficial conversion feature in the amount of $369,677, plus a fair value adjustment of $56,661 under the troubled debt restructuring accounting. Interest expense recognized on the amortization of the beneficial conversion feature of the 2016 Unrelated Notes was $0 and $50,703, and $12,675 and $38,027, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. These notes were further amended and converted into equity on March 2, 2020, as described further below in this note, see “2020 Note Conversion.”
The Company has evaluated the terms of its convertible notes payable in accordance with ASC 815 – 40, “Derivatives and Hedging - Contracts in Entity’s Own Stock” and determined that the underlying common stock is indexed to the Company’s common stock. The Company determined that the conversion feature did not meet the definition of a derivative and therefore did not bifurcate the conversion feature and account for it as a separate derivative liability. The Company evaluated the conversion feature for a beneficial conversion feature. The effective conversion price was compared with the market price on the date of each note. If the conversion price was deemed to be less than the market value of the underlying common stock at the inception of the note, then the Company recognized a beneficial conversion feature resulting in a discount on the note payable, upon satisfaction of the contingency. The beneficial conversion features were amortized to interest expense over the life of the respective notes, starting from the date of recognition.
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11. | Notes Payable - Related Parties |
Summary of Related Notes
The table below reflects the notes payable to related parties at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively:
September 30, 2020 | December 31, 2019 | |||||||
2019 Related Notes | $ | - | $ | 397,728 | ||||
2018 Related Notes | - | 400,000 | ||||||
2017 Related Notes | - | 390,000 | ||||||
2016 Related Notes, net of beneficial conversion feature of $20,015 | - | 354,985 | ||||||
Total notes payable - related party | $ | - | $ | 1,542,713 | ||||
Unamortized original issue discount and debt issuance costs | - | (75,313 | ) | |||||
Less current portion | - | (1,467,400 | ) | |||||
Long-term portion of notes payable-related party | $ | - | $ | - |
As of December 31, 2019, accrued interest for these notes payable – related parties amounted to $294,191, and on the condensed consolidated balance sheets was reflected within current liabilities as of December 31, 2019.
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, interest expense in connection with notes payable – related parties was $0 and $88,941, respectively, and $58,958 and $173,011, respectively.
2020 Note Conversion
On March 2, 2020, the Company entered into amendments to all of its currently outstanding Convertible Promissory Notes, which were issued by the Company to various related and unrelated investors in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The Note Amendments permitted the Company to convert all of the then-outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest payable with respect to the 2016-2018 Notes into shares of Common Stock upon the same terms as such private placement. Pursuant to the Note Amendments, on March 2, 2020, the Company converted all of the then-outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest payable with respect to the 2016-2018 Notes into the aggregate amount of 1,433,689 shares of Common Stock at a conversion price of $4.00 per share. Taglich Brothers, Inc. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the Note Conversion, and earned fees in the form of 35,250 shares of Common Stock at a price of $4.00 per share (with such fees relating to the conversion of both the related and unrelated notes).
2019 Notes
On November 15, 2019, the Company issued promissory notes in an aggregate principal amount of $397,728 (the “2019 Related Notes”) to Robert Taglich and Michael Taglich (each holding more than 5% beneficial interest in the Company’s Shares). The notes included an original issue discount of $47,728. Interest expense recognized on the amortization of the original discount was $11,932, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2019. The notes bore no interest in addition to the original issue discount, which was 12%, and matured on May 15, 2020. If the 2019 Related Notes had not been either fully repaid by the Company or converted into Company shares or other securities by the maturity date, then the 2019 Related Notes would have accrued interest at the annual rate of 12% from the maturity date until the date of repayment. The Company used the proceeds of the 2019 Related Notes for working capital, general corporate purposes, and debt repayment. On March 2, 2020, $350,000 of such notes were converted into equity in connection with a private placement of common stock at a conversion price of $4.00 per share. On May 15, 2020, the remaining balance of $47,728 was repaid by the Company in cash.
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2018 Notes
On September 26, 2018, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $400,000 (the “2018 Related Notes”) to accredited investors, including Robert Taglich and Michael Taglich (each holding more than a 5% beneficial interest in the Company’s shares). The 2018 Related Notes matured on December 31, 2020, and bore interest at an annual rate of 8% until maturity, with interest payable quarterly beginning January 2, 2019. The 2018 Related Note investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2018 Related Notes into shares of Company common stock under certain circumstances at a conversion rate of $6.50 per share. These notes were further amended and converted into equity on March 2, 2020, as described further below in this note, see “2020 Note Conversion.”
2017 Notes
On September 21, 2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in an aggregate principal amount of $154,640 (the “2017 Bridge Notes”) to Robert Taglich and Michael Taglich (each holding more than a 5% beneficial interest in the Company’s shares). The 2017 Bridge Notes included an original issue discount of $4,640. Interest expense recognized on the amortization of the original discount was $889 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2017. The 2017 Bridge Notes bore interest at an annual rate of 8% beginning March 21, 2018 until maturity on September 21, 2018. The effective interest rate was 7% for the term of the 2017 Bridge Notes. The 2017 Bridge Note investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2017 Bridge Notes into securities to be issued by the Company in a private placement of equity, equity equivalents, convertible debt or debt financing. In conjunction with the issue of the 2016 Bridge Notes, 3,000 warrants were issued to the 2017 Bridge Note investors. The warrants have an exercise price equal to $15.00 per share and contain a cashless exercise provision. All warrants are immediately exercisable and are exercisable for five years from issuance. The Company recognized debt issuance costs, recorded as a debt discount, on the issue of the warrants in the amount of $38,836. Interest expense recognized on the amortization of the debt discount was $38,836 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2017. On November 30, 2017, principal in the amount of $150,000 of the 2017 Bridge Notes was converted by the 2017 Bridge Note investors into the 2017 Related Notes, described below.
On November 17, 2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $390,000 (the “2017 Related Notes”) to accredited investors, including Robert Taglich and Michael Taglich (each holding more than a 5% beneficial interest in the Company’s shares) and James DeSocio (President, Chief Executive Officer and Director), in exchange for the conversion of $150,000 principal amount under the 2017 Bridge Notes and the receipt of $240,000 cash. The 2017 Related Notes were initially scheduled to mature on November 30, 2019. On September 14, 2018, the 2017 Related Notes were amended to mature on December 31, 2020. The amendment was accounted for as a troubled debt restructuring with the future undiscounted cash flows being greater than the carrying value of the debt prior to extension. No gain was recorded, and a new effective interest rate was established based on the carrying value of the debt and the revised future cash flows. The 2017 Related Notes bore interest at an annual rate of 8% until maturity, with interest payable quarterly beginning July 1, 2018. The 2017 Related Note investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2017 Related Notes into shares of Company common stock under certain circumstances at a conversion rate of $10.00 per share. These notes were further amended and converted into equity on March 2, 2020, as described further below in this note, see “2020 Note Conversion.”
2016 Notes
On December 30, 2016, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $375,000 (the “2016 Related Notes”) to accredited investors (the “2016 Related Note Investors”), including Robert Taglich and Michael Taglich (each holding more than 5% beneficial interest in the Company’s shares) and Robert Schroeder (a director of the Company). The 2016 Related Notes bore interest at an annual rate of interest of 12% until maturity, with partial interest of 6% payable quarterly, and an initial maturity date of December 31, 2018. The 2016 Related Note Investors had a right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2016 Related Notes into shares of Company common stock at a conversion rate of $32.50 per share. On September 17, 2018, the 2016 Related Notes were amended to mature on December 31, 2020, and to bear interest at an annual rate of interest of 10% until maturity, with partial interest of 5% payable quarterly. With the amendment, the 2016 Related Note Investors had the right, in their sole discretion, to convert the 2016 Related Notes into shares at a conversion rate of $20.00 per share. The amendment was accounted for as a troubled debt restructuring with the future undiscounted cash flows being greater than the carrying value of the debt prior to extension. No gain was recorded on the amendment, and a new effective interest rate on the 2016 Related Notes was established based on the carrying value of the debt and the revised future cash flows. The Company recognized an initial beneficial conversion feature in the amount of $144,231, plus a fair value adjustment of $24,710 under the troubled debt restructuring accounting. Interest expense recognized on the amortization of the beneficial conversion feature of the 2016 Related Notes was $0 and $20,015, and $5,004 and $15,011, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. These notes were further amended and converted into equity on March 2, 2020, as described further below in this note, see “2020 Note Conversion.”
12. | Deferred Compensation |
Pursuant to the Company’s employment agreements with the founders, the founders have earned incentive compensation totaling $100,828 and $117,166 in cash, as of September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which payment obligation has been deferred by the Company until it reasonably believes it has sufficient cash to make the payment. Following the retirement of founder A. Michael Chretien on December 8, 2017, the Company made bi-weekly payments of $1,846 until his portion of the deferred compensation had been paid, which occurred in May, 2020. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company paid $0 and $16,338, respectively, and $11,077 and $35,077, respectively, which is reflected as a reduction in the deferred compensation liability.
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13. | Commitments and Contingencies |
Employment Agreements
The Company has entered into employment agreements with three of its key executives. Under their respective agreements, the executives serve at will and are bound by typical confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-competition provisions. Deferred compensation for a founder of the Company, as disclosed in Note 12 above, is still outstanding as of December 31, 2019.
Operating Leases
On January 1, 2010, the Company entered into an agreement to lease 6,000 rentable square feet of office space in Columbus, Ohio. The lease commenced on January 1, 2010 and, pursuant to a lease extension dated August 9, 2016, the lease expires on December 31, 2021.
Our subsidiary, Graphic Sciences, uses 36,000 square feet of leased space in Madison Heights as its main facility. Graphic Sciences uses about 20,000 square feet for its records storage services, with the remainder of the space used for production, sales, and administration. The monthly rental payment is $40,694, with increases annually in September up to $45,828 for the final year, with a lease term continuing until August 31, 2026.
Graphic Sciences also leases and uses a separate 20,000 square foot building for document storage in Highland Park, MI, a satellite office in Traverse City, MI for production, and additional temporary storage space in Madison Heights, MI. The monthly Highland Park rental payment is $10,417, with increases annually in September up to $11,250 for the final year, with a lease term continuing until September 30, 2021. The monthly Traverse City rental payment is $4,500, with a lease term continuing until January 31, 2024. The monthly additional Madison Heights rental payment is $6,348, with an initial lease term until July 31, 2020 and a month-to-month arrangement thereafter.
Graphic Sciences also leases and uses four leased vehicles for logistics. The monthly rental payments for these vehicles total $2,618, with lease terms continuing until October 31, 2024.
Future minimum lease payments under these operating leases are as follows:
For the Twelve Months Ending September 30, | Amount | |||
2021 | $ | 774,230 | ||
2022 | 607,808 | |||
2023 | 593,781 | |||
2024 | 564,589 | |||
2025 | 541,481 | |||
Thereafter | 504,111 | |||
$ | 3,586,000 |
Lease costs charged to operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 amounted to $216,561 and $505,072, respectively, and $12,814 and $38,441, respectively. Additional information pertaining to the Company’s lease are as follows:
For the Nine Months Ending September 30, 2020: | ||||
Operating cash flows from operating leases | $ | 315,377 | ||
Weighted average remaining lease term – operating leases | 5.4 years | |||
Weighted average discount rate – operating leases | 8.0 | % |
14. | Stockholders’ Equity |
Description of Authorized Capital
The Company is authorized to issue up to 25,000,000 shares of common stock with $0.001 par value. The holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to one vote per share. The holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the Board of Directors out of legally available funds. However, the current policy of the Board of Directors is to retain earnings, if any, for the operation and expansion of the business. Upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company, the holders of common stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally available for distribution.
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Reverse Stock Split
Effective February 27, 2020, upon recommendation and authorization by the Board of Directors, stockholders holding a majority in interest of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock, acting by written consent, adopted an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to (i) effectuate the Reverse Split at a ratio of one-for-fifty (1-for-50) and (ii) reduce the number of authorized shares of Common Stock of the Company as of the effective date of such amendment to 25,000,000 shares. On March 3, 2020, the Company filed the Reverse Split Amendment, which became effective on March 20, 2020. On March 1, 2020, upon recommendation and authorization by the Board of Directors, stockholders holding a majority in interest of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company, acting by written consent, adopted an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of Common Stock to 160,000,000 shares (representing 3,200,000 on a post-split basis) from 75,000,000 shares (representing 1,500,000 on a post-split basis), in order to facilitate the acquisition of Graphic Sciences, the 2020 private placement of equity and debt, and the 2020 Note Conversion. On March 2, 2020, the Company filed the Shares Increase Amendment, which was effective immediately upon filing.
The reverse stock split did not cause an adjustment to par value of the common stock. As a result of the reverse stock split, the Company also adjusted the share amounts for shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding warrants, outstanding stock options, and shares reserved for the 2015 Plan. All disclosures of common shares and per share data in the accompanying financial statements related notes have been adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split for all periods presented. The September 30, 2019 balances of common stock and additional paid in capital were adjusted to $371 and $14,433,183, from previously reported amounts of $31,528 and $14,371,648, respectively. The December 31, 2019 balances of common stock and additional paid in capital were adjusted to $371 and $12,419,437, from previously reported amounts of $31,528 and $14,388,280, respectively.
Issuance of Restricted Common Stock to Directors
On January 2, 2020 and January 7, 2019, the Company issued 16,429 and 10,454 shares, respectively, of restricted common stock to directors of the Company as part of an annual compensation plan for directors. The grant of shares was not subject to vesting. Stock compensation of $57,500 was recorded on the issuance of the common stock for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.
Issuance of Warrants
Between December 30, 2016 and January 31, 2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes, the 2016 Unrelated Notes and the 2016 Related Notes (collectively, the “2016 Notes”), in an aggregate amount of $1,250,000 to certain accredited investors, including related parties, in private placements. The Company retained Taglich Brothers, Inc. as the exclusive placement agent for the private placement offering of the 2016 Notes. In January 2017, in compensation for the placement agent’s services in the private placement offering of the 2016 Notes, the Company paid the placement agent a cash payment of $100,000, equal to 8% of the gross proceeds of the offering, along with warrants to purchase 3,077 shares of Company common stock, and the reimbursement for the placement agent’s reasonable out of pocket expenses, FINRA filing fees and related legal fees. The warrants issued to the placement agent contained an exercise price at $37.50 per share, are exercisable for a period of five years after issuance, contain customary cashless exercise provisions and anti-dilution protection and, pursuant to piggyback registration rights, the underlying shares were registered in the Company’s a Registration Statement on Form S-1 declared effective in February 2018. Of the warrants issued to the placement agent, 1,699 warrants were issued in conjunction with proceeds raised in December 2016, and underwriting expense of $65,243 was recorded for the issuance of these warrants, utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model to value the warrants issued. The remaining 1,378 warrants were issued in conjunction with proceeds raised in January 2017, and underwriting expense of $52,951 was recorded for the issuance of these warrants, utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model. The fair value of warrants issued was determined to be $38.50.
On September 21, 2017, the Company issued warrants to purchase 3,000 shares of Company common stock to Robert Taglich and Michael Taglich (each holding more than a 5% beneficial interest in the Company’s shares) in connection with the 2017 Bridge Notes. The warrants are exercisable at an exercise price of $15.00 per share, contain a cashless exercise provision, antidilution protection and are exercisable for five years after issuance. A debt discount of $38,837 was recorded for the issuance of these warrants, utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model. The 2017 Bridge Notes were converted into the 2017 Related Notes in November 2017. The fair value of warrants issued was determined to be $13.00 utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model.
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Between November 17 and November 30, 2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes, the 2017 Unrelated Notes and the 2017 Related Notes (collectively, the “2017 Notes”), in an aggregate amount of $2,150,000 to certain accredited investors, including related parties, in private placements. The Company retained Taglich Brothers, Inc. as the exclusive placement agent for the private placement offering of the 2017 Notes. In compensation for the placement agent’s services in the private placement offering of the 2017 Notes, the Company paid the placement agent a cash payment of 8% of the gross proceeds of the offering, along with warrants to purchase shares of Company common stock, and the reimbursement for the placement agent’s reasonable out of pocket expenses, FINRA filing fees and related legal fees. On November 17, 2017, the Company paid the placement agent cash in the amount of $172,000 and issued the placement agent warrants to purchase 7,080 shares at an exercise price at $12.50 per share, which are exercisable for a period of five years after issuance, contain customary cashless exercise provisions and anti-dilution protection and were entitled to piggyback registration rights that were exercised in connection with the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 declared effective in February 2018. On November 30, 2017, the Company issued the placement agent warrants to purchase 10,120 shares at an exercise price at $12.50 per share, which are exercisable for a period of five years after issuance, contain customary cashless exercise provisions and anti-dilution protection and are entitled to registration rights that were exercised in connection with the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 declared effective in February 2018. Debt issuance costs of $126,603 was recorded for the issuance of the November 17 and November 30, 2017 warrants, utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model. The fair value of warrants issued was determined to be $8.50 and $6.50 for the November 17 and November 30 warrants, respectively. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, interest expense of $0 and $14,726, respectively, and $22,089 and $66,267, respectively, was recorded as amortization of the debt issuance costs.
Between September 20 and September 26, 2018, the Company issued convertible promissory notes, the 2018 Unrelated Notes and the 2018 Related Notes (collectively, the “2018 Notes”), in an aggregate amount of $1,300,000 to certain accredited investors, including related parties, in private placements. The Company retained Taglich Brothers, Inc. as the exclusive placement agent for the private placement offering of the 2018 Notes. In compensation, the Company paid the placement agent a cash payment of 8% of the gross proceeds of the offering, along with warrants to purchase shares of Company common stock, and reimbursement for the placement agent’s reasonable out of pocket expenses, FINRA filing fees and related legal fees. On September 20, 2018, the Company paid the placement agent cash in the amount of $40,000 and issued the placement agent warrants to purchase 6,153 shares at an exercise price at $9.00 per share, which are exercisable for a period of five years after issuance, contain customary cashless exercise provisions and anti-dilution protection and are entitled to limited piggyback registration rights. On September 26, 2018, the Company paid the placement agent cash in the amount of $64,000 and issued the placement agent warrants to purchase 9,846 shares at an exercise price at $9.00 per share, which are exercisable for a period of five years after issuance, contain customary cashless exercise provisions and anti-dilution protection and are entitled to limited piggyback registration rights. Debt issuance costs of $64,348 was recorded for the issuance of the September 20 and September 26, 2018 warrants, utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model. The fair value of warrants issued was determined to be $5.00 and $3.50 for the September 20 and September 26 warrants, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, interest expense of $0 and $14,458, respectively, and $21,688 and $65,063, respectively, was recorded as amortization of the debt issuance costs.
On March 2, 2020, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with certain accredited investors, pursuant to which the Company issued and sold (i) 875,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, at a price of $4.00 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of $3,500,000 and (ii) 2,000 units (“Units”), with each Unit consisting of $1,000 in 12% Subordinated Notes and 40 shares, for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,000,000 in Units and $5,500,000 for the combined private placement pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement. The Company issued 955,000 new shares of Common Stock for the Offering. The Company retained Taglich Brothers, Inc. as the exclusive placement agent for the private placement offering of the Securities Purchase Agreement. In compensation, the Company paid the placement agent a cash payment of 8% of the gross proceeds of the offering, along with warrants to purchase shares of Company common stock, and reimbursement for the placement agent’s reasonable out of pocket expenses, FINRA filing fees and related legal fees. On March 2, 2020, the Company paid the placement agent cash in the amount of $440,000 and issued the placement agent warrants to purchase 95,500 shares at an exercise price at $4.00 per share, which are exercisable for a period of five years after issuance, contain customary cashless exercise provisions and anti-dilution protection and are entitled to limited piggyback registration rights. Underwriting expense of $236,761 and debt issuance costs of $135,291 was recorded for the issuance of the March 2, 2020 warrants, utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model. The fair value of warrants issued was determined to be $3.90. Underwriting expense of $307,867 and debt issuance costs of $175,924 was recorded for the placement agent cash fee and other related legal fees. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, interest expense of $25,935 and $60,514, respectively, was recorded as amortization of the debt issuance costs.
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The estimated values of warrants, as well as the assumptions that were used in calculating such values were based on estimates at the issuance date as follows:
Placement
Agent December 30, 2016 | Bridge
Noteholders September 21, 2017 | |||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 1.93 | % | 1.89 | % | ||||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | 5 years | ||||||
Expected volatility | 123.07 | % | 130.80 | % | ||||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % |
Placement
Agent November 17, 2017 | Placement
Agent November 30, 2017 | |||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 2.06 | % | 2.14 | % | ||||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | 5 years | ||||||
Expected volatility | 129.87 | % | 129.34 | % | ||||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % |
Placement
Agent September 20, 2018 | Placement
Agent September 26, 2018 | |||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 2.96 | % | 2.96 | % | ||||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | 5 years | ||||||
Expected volatility | 122.52 | % | 122.92 | % | ||||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % |
Placement
Agent March 2, 2020 | ||||
Risk-free interest rate | 0.88 | % | ||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | |||
Expected volatility | 130.12 | % | ||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % |
Shares Issued and Outstanding and Shares Reserved for Exercise of Warrants, Convertible Notes, and the 2015 Plan
The Company had 2,810,865 Shares issued and outstanding, 230,032 Shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding warrants, and 197,330 Shares reserved for issuance under the 2015 Plan, as of September 30, 2020.
15. | Stock-Based Compensation |
On April 30, 2015, the Company entered into a Non-qualified Stock Option Agreement with Sophie Pibouin, a director of the Company, in accordance with the 2015 Plan. The agreement granted options to purchase 2,560 shares prior to the expiration date of April 29, 2025 at an exercise price of $37.50. The options granted vested on a graded scale over a period of time through October 31, 2015.
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On January 1, 2016, the Company granted employees stock options to purchase 5,000 shares at an exercise price of $45.00 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan. The options were fully vested as of January 1, 2019. The total fair value of $196,250 for these stock options was recognized by the Company over the requisite service period.
On February 10, 2016, the Company granted employees stock options to purchase 4,200 shares at an exercise price of $48.00 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan. The options were fully vested as of February 10, 2020. The total fair value of $174,748 for these stock options is being recognized by the Company over the requisite service period.
On December 6, 2016, the Company granted one employee stock options to purchase 2,000 shares at an exercise price of $38.00 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan, with vesting continuing until December 2020. The total fair value of $63,937 for these stock options is being recognized by the Company over the requisite service period.
On September 25, 2017, the Company granted an employee stock options to purchase 15,000 shares at an exercise price of $15.00 per share and 10,000 shares at an exercise price of $19.00 per share, in accordance with the 2015 Plan. The options were fully vested as of September 25, 2019. The total fair value of $321,011 for these stock options was recognized by the Company over the requisite service period.
On January 30, 2019, the Company entered into a Non-qualified Stock Option Agreement with an individual consultant to the Company, in accordance with the 2015 Plan. The agreement granted options to purchase 250 shares prior to the expiration date of December 31, 2025 at an exercise price of $45.00. The options granted were 100% vested as of the grant date.
On March 11, 2019, the Company canceled previously granted stock options to employees in the following amounts: 3,000 shares at an exercise price of $45.00 per share; 3,200 shares at an exercise price of $48.00 per share; 2,000 shares at an exercise price of $38.00 per share; 15,000 shares at an exercise price of $15.00 per share; and 10,000 shares at an exercise price of $19.00 per share. On March 11, 2019, the Company replaced those canceled stock options exercisable for a total of 33,200 shares with virtually identical stock options at an exercise price of $6.50 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan. The incremental fair value of $24,898 for these stock options is being recognized by the Company over the requisite service periods, which range by tranche from fully vested at issuance through vesting by December 2020.
On March 11, 2019, the Company granted employees stock options to purchase 10,100 shares at an exercise price of $6.50 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan, with vesting continuing until 2023. The total fair value of $44,591 for these stock options is being recognized by the Company over the requisite service period.
On September 2, 2020, the Company granted employees stock options to purchase 99,000 shares, including 37,500 shares of performance-based options, at an exercise price of $4.00 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan, with vesting continuing until 2024. The total fair value of $327,181 for these stock options is being recognized by the Company over the requisite service period.
The weighted average estimated values of director and employee stock option grants, as well as the weighted average assumptions that were used in calculating such values during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, were based on estimates at the date of grant as follows:
April 30, | January 1, | February 10, | ||||||||||
2015 Grant | 2016 Grant | 2016 Grant | ||||||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 1.43 | % | 1.76 | % | 1.15 | % | ||||||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | 5 years | 5 years | |||||||||
Expected volatility | 143.10 | % | 134.18 | % | 132.97 | % | ||||||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % |
December 6, | September 25, | January 30, | ||||||||||
2016 Grant | 2017 Grant | 2019 Grant | ||||||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 1.84 | % | 1.85 | % | 2.54 | % | ||||||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | 5 years | 5 years | |||||||||
Expected volatility | 123.82 | % | 130.79 | % | 115.80 | % | ||||||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % |
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March 11, | September 2, | |||||||
2019 Grant | 2020 Grant | |||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 2.44 | % | 0.26 | % | ||||
Weighted average expected term | 5 years | 5 years | ||||||
Expected volatility | 116.46 | % | 121.33 | % | ||||
Expected dividend yield | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % |
A summary of stock option activity during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 is as follows:
Weighted- | ||||||||||||||
Weighted- | Average | |||||||||||||
Shares | Average | Remaining | Aggregate | |||||||||||
Under | Exercise | Contractual | Intrinsic | |||||||||||
Option | Price | Life | Value | |||||||||||
Outstanding at January 1, 2020 | 46,860 | $ | 9.02 | 9 years | 19,200 | |||||||||
Granted | 99,000 | 4.00 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding at September 30, 2020 | 145,860 | $ | 5.61 | 9 years | $ | 19,200 | ||||||||
Exercisable at September 30, 2020 | 38,785 | $ | 9.54 | 8 years | $ | 19,200 |
Weighted- | ||||||||||||||
Weighted- | Average | |||||||||||||
Shares | Average | Remaining | Aggregate | |||||||||||
Under | Exercise | Contractual | Intrinsic | |||||||||||
Option | Price | Life | Value | |||||||||||
Outstanding at January 1, 2019 | 36,760 | $ | 25.04 | 8 years | 79,200 | |||||||||
Granted | 43,550 | 6.72 | ||||||||||||
Forfeited and expired | (33,450 | ) | 43.00 | |||||||||||
Outstanding at September 30, 2019 | 46,860 | $ | 9.02 | 9 years | $ | 19,200 | ||||||||
Exercisable at September 30, 2019 | 34,960 | $ | 9.87 | 9 years | $ | 19,200 |
The weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was $3.30. The weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $4.49.
As of September 30, 2020, and December 31, 2019, there was $350,462 and $56,012, respectively, of total unrecognized compensation costs related to stock options granted under our stock option agreements. The unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of four years. The total fair value of stock options that vested during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 was $14,963 and $105,785, respectively.
16. | Concentrations |
Revenues from the Company’s services to a limited number of customers have accounted for a substantial percentage of the Company’s total revenues. For the three months ended September 30, 2020, the Company’s two largest customers, State of Michigan (“Michigan”), a direct customer, and Quicken Loans, a direct customer, accounted for approximately 47% and 8%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenue for that period. For the three months ended September 30, 2019, the Company’s two largest customers, Avenu Insight & Analytics, formerly known as ACS Wagers or Xerox, a reseller, and Milwaukee Police Department, a direct customer, accounted for approximately 12% and 11%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenue for that period. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company’s two largest customers, Michigan and Quicken Loans accounted for approximately 43% and 8%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenues for that period. For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company’s two largest customers, Loffler Companies, Inc., a reseller, and Careworks, a direct customer, each accounted for approximately 12% of the Company’s total revenues for that period.
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For the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, government contracts represented approximately 65% and 43% of the Company’s total revenues, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 government contracts represented approximately 61% and 41%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenue.
As of September 30, 2020, accounts receivable concentrations from the Company’s two largest customers were 54% and 12% of gross accounts receivable, respectively, and as of September 30, 2019, accounts receivable concentrations from the Company’s three largest customers were 23%, 20%, and 13% of gross accounts receivable, respectively. Accounts receivable balances form the Company’s two largest customers at September 30, 2020 have been partially collected.
17. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions |
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
The following is a summary of the related person transactions that Intellinetics has participated in at any time during the reporting period.
Notes Payable – Related Parties
See Note 11 for a summary of notes issued to related parties and the subsequent conversion of such related party notes into shares of our common stock on March 2, 2020.
2020 Private Placement
The following related persons participated as investors a private placement of securities by the Company, on the same terms as all other investors participating in the offering. The Company issued and sold (i) shares of common stock, at a price of $4.00 per share and (ii) units, with each unit consisting of $1,000 in 12% subordinated notes and 40 shares. The principal amount of the 12% subordinated notes, together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, become due and payable on February 28, 2023.
Name of Investor | Relationship to the Company | Number
of Shares Purchased | Date
of Transaction | |||||
Michael N. Taglich | Beneficially owns more than 5% of the common stock of the Company. | 148,750 | 03/02/2020 | |||||
Robert F. Taglich | Beneficially owns more than 5% of the Common Stock of the Company. | 118,750 | 03/02/2020 | |||||
Robert C. Schroeder | Director and Chairman of the Board of the Company | 5,000 | 03/02/2020 | |||||
James F. DeSocio | President and Chief Executive Officer; Director of the Company | 7,500 | 03/02/2020 | |||||
Joseph D. Spain | Chief Financial Officer of the Company | 2,000 | 03/02/2020 |
Promoters and Certain Control Persons
Robert C. Schroeder, a director of the Company, is the Vice President of Investment Banking at Taglich Brothers, Inc. Robert F. Taglich and Michael N. Taglich, each beneficial owners of more than 5% of the Company’s common stock, are also both principals of Taglich Brothers, Inc.
We retained Taglich Brothers, Inc. on an exclusive basis to render financial advisory and investment banking services to the Company in connection with our acquisition of Graphic Sciences. Pursuant to an Engagement Agreement, dated April 15, 2019, we paid Taglich Brothers, Inc. a success fee of $300,000 as a result of the successful completion of the acquisition of Graphic Sciences, Inc.
We retained Taglich Brothers, Inc., as the exclusive placement agent for the 2020 private placement, as described above, pursuant to a Placement Agent Agreement. In connection with the 2020 private placement, we paid Taglich Brothers, Inc. $440,000, which represented an 8% commission based upon the gross proceeds of the 2020 private placement. In addition, for its services in the 2020 private placement, Taglich Brothers, Inc. was issued warrants to purchase 95,500 shares of common stock, which amount is equal to 10% of the shares and unit shares sold in the 2020 private placement, which have an exercise price of $4.00 per share of common stock, are exercisable for a period of five years, contain customary cashless exercise and anti-dilution protection rights and are entitled to piggy-back registration rights.
We retained Taglich Brothers, Inc. as the exclusive placement agent for the 2020 note conversion, as described above in Note 11 (Notes Payable – Related Parties), pursuant to the Placement Agent Agreement. In connection with the 2020 note conversion, we issued 35,250 shares of common stock to Taglich Brothers, Inc., which, based on the conversion price of $4.00 per share, was equal to 3% of the original principal amount of the converted notes.
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ITEM 2 | MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS |
The following management’s discussion and analysis of financial conditions and results of operations of the Company for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the notes to those financial statements that are included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. As used in this Form 10-Q, unless the context indicates otherwise:
● | the terms “Intellinetics,” “Company,” “us,” “we,” “our,” and similar terms refer to Intellinetics, a Nevada corporation, and its subsidiaries, | |
● | “Intellinetics Ohio” refers to Intellinetics, Inc., an Ohio corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and | |
● | “Graphic Sciences” refers to Graphic Sciences, Inc., a Michigan corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. |
This discussion includes forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the federal securities laws, based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties, such as plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors. Words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “continuing,” “ongoing,” “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” and similar expressions are used to identify forward-looking statements.
We caution you that these statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and are subject to a number of uncertainties, risks and other influences, many of which are beyond our control, which may influence the accuracy of the statements and the projections upon which the statements are based. Factors that may affect our results include, but are not limited to, the risk factors included in Part II, Item IA of this Report and the risk factors that are included in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed on March 30, 2020, and Part II, Item IA of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2020, and June 30, 2020, filed on May 15, 2020 and August 14, 2020, respectively. Any one or more of these uncertainties, risks and other influences could materially affect our results of operations and whether forward-looking statements made by us ultimately prove to be accurate. Our actual results, performance and achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether from new information, future events or otherwise.
Our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section discusses our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates and judgments, including those related to revenue recognition accrued expenses, financing operations, contingencies and litigation. We base our estimates and judgments on historical experience and on various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. The most significant accounting estimates inherent in the preparation of our financial statements include estimates as to the appropriate carry value of certain assets and liabilities which are not readily apparent from other sources. These accounting policies are described at relevant sections in this discussion and analysis and in the notes to the financial statements included in this report for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020.
Company Overview
The Company is a document services and solutions software company serving both the small-to-medium business and governmental sectors. The Company’s software platform allows customers to capture, manage, store, and retrieve all documents across operations such as boxed hard-copy documents, scanned hard-copy documents, microfilm and microfiche, and all digital documents including those from Microsoft Office 365, digital images, audio, video and emails. The Company’s document services offerings provide assistance to clients with document conversion generally as well as migration to our software solutions. The Company’s solutions create value for customers by making it easy to connect business-critical documents to the people who need them by making them easy to find, while also being secure and compliant with the customers’ audit requirements.
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Customers obtain use of the Company’s software by either purchasing it for installation onto their equipment, referred to as a “premise” model, or by accessing the platform via the Internet, referred to as a “cloud-based,” “software as a service,” or “SaaS” model. Especially in light of the increased deployment of remote workforce policies in 2020, we continue to view the provision of SaaS-based customer activation as a significant strategic part of our revenue growth opportunity. Our SaaS products are hosted with Amazon Web Services, Expedient, and Skynet Managed Technology Services, offering our customers reliable hosting services with best practices in data security. Our revenues from cloud-based delivery of our software, including hosting services, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, was $756,497 and $643,402, respectively.
We operate a predominantly U.S. business with sales that are diversified by customer. We hold or compete for leading positions regionally in select markets and attribute this leadership to several factors including the strength of our brand name and reputation, our comprehensive offering of innovative solutions, and the quality of our service support. Net growth in sales of software as a service and software maintenance services during 2019 and year-over-year for the first nine months of 2020 reflects market demand for these solutions over traditional sales of on-premise software. We expect to continue to benefit from our select niche leader positions, innovative product offering, growing installed base, and the impact of our sales and marketing programs. Examples of these programs include identifying and investing in growth and market penetration opportunities, more effectively pricing our products and services, demonstrating superior value to customers, increasing our sales force effectiveness through improved guidance, and continuing to optimize our lead generation and lead nurturing processes.
How We Evaluate our Business Performance and Opportunities
The major qualitative and quantitative factors we consider in the evaluation of our operating results include the following:
● | With respect to Intellinetics Ohio, including the solutions recently acquired from CEO Image, our current strategy is to focus on cloud-based delivery of our software products. Historically, our revenues have mostly resulted from premise-based software licensing revenue and professional services revenue. Our observation of industry trends leads us to anticipate that cloud-based delivery will become our principal software business and a primary source of revenues for us, and we are seeing our customers migrate to cloud-based services. When we evaluate our results, we assess whether our cloud-based software revenues are increasing, relative to prior periods and relative to other sources of revenue. | |
● | With respect to Graphic Sciences, our strategy is to maintain and grow Graphic Sciences’ core document conversion, storage, and retrieval business, while simultaneously leveraging our Intellinetics software products and services to provide more attractive total document solutions for the Graphic Sciences’ customers. Accordingly, when we evaluate our results for Graphic Sciences, we will assess whether our revenues increase with respect to Graphic Sciences services, relative to prior periods, but we will also be assessing whether the customers of Graphic Sciences’ document conversion, storage, and retrieval services begin to make purchases of other products or services. | |
● | We are focused upon sales of our document services and software solutions through resellers and directly to our customers, with a further focus on select vertical markets. We assess whether our sales resulting from relationships with resellers are increasing, relative to prior periods and relative to direct sales to customers, and whether reseller or direct efforts offer the best opportunities for growth in our targeted vertical markets. | |
● | Our customer engagements often involve the development and licensing of customer-specific document solutions and related consulting and software maintenance services or tailoring a document conversion program to meet customer requirements. When analyzing whether to undertake a particular customer engagement, we often consider the following factors as part of our overall strategy to grow the business: (i) the profit margins the project may yield, and (ii) whether the project would help to develop new product and service features that we could integrate into our suite of products, resulting in an overall product portfolio that better aligns with the needs of our target customers. | |
● | Our software sales cycle averages 1-2 months; however, large projects can be longer, lasting 3-6 months. When a software project begins, we generally perform pre-installation assessment, project scoping, and implementation consulting. On the other hand, our document conversion services typically contain a very short sales cycle, but we can have a backlog of work orders not yet processed. Therefore, when we plan our business and evaluate our results, we consider the revenue we expect to recognize from projects in our late-stage software pipeline and in our document conversion services backlog queue. | |
● | We monitor our costs and capital needs to ensure efficiency as well as an adequate level of support for our business plan. | |
● | While we are primarily focused on organic growth, we also continually monitor potential acquisitions of complementary solutions and expertise that are consistent with our core business. We look for acquisitions that can add value for our customers and are expected to be accretive to our financial performance. |
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Financial Impact of COVID-19
The spread of a novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) and developments surrounding the global pandemic have had, and we expect will continue to have, a significant impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
From March 24, 2020, through June 15, 2020, our Graphic Services business operations, constituting a majority of our professional services revenues, was reduced due to the State of Michigan stay-at-home order, and we were only able to process work orders deemed “essential” by the State of Michigan. While revenues were temporarily limited, the shut-down created a back-log of projects which we are now working to complete. At this point, it is unlikely that we will be able to make up our ordinary level of revenues in the remainder of 2020 to offset the period in which our operations were reduced. There has not been a meaningful cancellation of future jobs or current contracts for our Graphic Services business operations; however, certain customers continue to be slow to resume operations to pre-pandemic levels, and certain customers may never fully return. In addition, we are seeing inconsistent demand in certain other areas of our operations, even though those operations are still currently open for business with mostly remote staff.
We worked closely with the State of Michigan on our reopening plans for the Graphic Services business. Most of our other employees are located in the State of Ohio, which permitted general office workers to return to work on May 4, 2020. However, the majority of our Ohio employees are continuing to work remotely as a precaution. Regardless of the lifting of stay-at-home orders in Ohio and Michigan (where most of our employees are located), many of our clients operate in a variety of other states, which had differing time periods in which their operations were, are currently, or will be restricted. Even though we have been able to fully resume our operations, we expect to see continued weakened demand in light of reduced governmental and small-business spending and general economic uncertainty.
We have engaged in aggressive efforts to reduce expenses and preserve cash flow during this time, including:
● From March 24, 2020 to June 15, 2020, we furloughed our non-essential employees in the State of Michigan who, due to the nature of their work, were not able to work remotely during the governmental shut-down in that state; | |
● from April 1, 2020 to June 29, 2020, we reduced our executive officer compensation by 20% and other manager compensation by 15%, and our Board of Directors waived their director compensation for the second fiscal quarter of 2020; and | |
● we applied for and received PPP funds, discussed below in Liquidity and Capital Resources, which we used to fund payroll and other limited permitted expenses such as rent and utilities. |
Additionally, we have instituted safe distancing practices and additional cleaning procedures for all company offices, as well as established work-from-home employees wherever feasible, in order to prevent or mitigate future outbreaks and disruptions to our business.
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Uncertainties, Trends, and Risks that can cause Fluctuations in our Operating Results
Aside from the effects of COVID-19, our operating results have fluctuated significantly in the past and are expected to continue to fluctuate in the future due to a variety of factors. Factors that affect our operating results include the following:
● | our capital needs, and the costs at which we are able to obtain capital; | |
● | general economic conditions that affect the amount our customers are spending on their software needs, the cost at which we can provide software products and services, and the costs at which we can obtain capital; | |
● | the development of new products, requiring development expenses, product rollout, and market acceptance; | |
● | the length of our sales cycle; | |
● | the fact that many of our customers are governmental organizations, exposing us to the risk of early termination, audits, investigations, sanctions, and other penalties not typically associated with private customers; | |
● | our relationships with our channel partners, for purposes of product delivery, introduction to new markets and customers, and for feedback on product development; | |
● | our need to increase expenses at the beginning of a customer project, while associated revenue is recognized over the life of the project; | |
● | the potential effect of security breaches, data center infrastructure capacity, our use of open-source software, and governmental regulation and litigation over data privacy and security; | |
● | whether our clients renew their agreements and timely remit our accounts receivable; | |
● | whether we can license third-party software on reasonable terms; | |
● | our ability to protect and utilize our intellectual property; and | |
● | the effects of litigation, warranty claims, and other claims and proceedings. |
Due to all these factors and the other risks discussed in Part II, Item IA of this Report, and Part I, Item IA of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, our results of operations should not be relied upon as an indication of our future performance. Comparisons of our operating results with prior periods is not necessarily meaningful or indicative of future performance.
Executive Overview of Results
Below are our key financial results (consolidated unless otherwise noted), with most of the significant changes year over year resulting from our recent acquisition of Graphic Sciences on March 2, 2020 and CEO Image on April 21, 2020:
For the three months ended September 30. 2020:
● | Revenues were $2,511,282, representing revenue growth of 232% year over year. |
● | Cost of revenues was $1,020,988. |
● | Operating expenses (excluding cost of revenues) were $1,219,123. |
● | Income from operations was $271,171. |
● | Net income was $155,673 with basic and diluted net income per share of $0.06. |
● | Operating cash deficit was $259,868. |
● | Capital expenditures were $33,676, excluding cash paid to acquire business. |
For the nine months ended September 30. 2020:
● | Revenues were $5,557,586, representing revenue growth of 191% year over year. |
● | Cost of revenues was $2,150,655. |
● | Operating expenses (excluding cost of revenues) were $4,132,827. |
● | Loss from operations was $725,896. |
● | Net loss was $772,894 with basic and diluted net loss per share of $0.34. |
● | Operating cash deficit was $392,155. |
● | Capital expenditures were $55,603, excluding cash paid to acquire business. |
● | As of September 30, 2020, the number of our employees was 101, including 18 part-time. |
Results of Operations
Revenues
We reported total revenues of $2,511,282 and $755,568 for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $1,755,714 or 232%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, revenues were $5,557,586 and $1,911,561, respectively, representing an increase of $3,646,025, or 191%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, our subsidiary acquired March 2, 2020, Graphic Sciences, accounted for $3,409,193 of the total sales, or 94% of the increase. Our subsidiary acquired April 21, 2020, CEO Image, accounted for $219,934 of the total sales, or 6% of the increase. The net increase in comparable total revenues year-over-year is primarily attributable to growth software as a service and software maintenance services, partially offset by sales of software and professional services, as further described below.
Sale of Software
Revenues from the sale of software principally consist of sales of additional or upgraded software licenses and applications to existing customers and resellers. These software revenues were $53,767 and $170,738, for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing a decrease of $116,971, or 69%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, revenues were $153,999 and $179,590 representing a decrease of $25,591, or 14%. The decrease year-over-year in sales was due to timing of large direct sales projects, with unfavorable comparisons to the high project volume of the third quarter of 2019. The volatility of this revenue line item is expected to continue as the frequency of on-premise software solution sales decreases over time.
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Sale of Software as a Service
We provide access to our software solutions as a service, accessible through the internet. Our customers typically enter into our software as a service agreement for periods of one year or more. Under these agreements, we generally provide access to the applicable software, data storage and related customer assistance and support. Our software as a service revenues were $281,810 and $214,237, for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $67,573 or 32%. Our software as a service revenues were $756,497 and $643,402, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $113,095 or 18%. The increase in revenue year-over-year was primarily the result of new customers choosing a cloud-based solution, plus expanded data storage, user seats, and hosting fees for existing customers, as well as $18,264 from CEO Image.
Sale of Software Maintenance Services
Software maintenance services revenues consist of fees for post contract customer support services provided to license (premise-based) holders. These agreements allow our customers to receive technical support, enhancements and upgrades to new versions of our software products when and if available. A substantial portion of these revenues were generated from customers to whom we sold software in prior years who have continued to renew their maintenance agreements. The support and maintenance agreements typically have a term of 12 months. Our software maintenance support revenue was $340,129 and $248,343, for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $91,786, or 37%. Our software maintenance support revenue was $915,483 and $753,692, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $161,791, or 21%. The increase in revenue year-over-year was the result of approximately $134,000 contribution from CEO Image, as well as new growth and normal price increases exceeding attrition of existing maintenance agreement renewals.
Sales of Professional Services
Professional services revenues consist of revenues from document scanning and conversion services, consulting, discovery, training, and advisory services to assist customers with document management needs, as well as repair and maintenance services for customer equipment. These revenues include those arrangements where we do not sell software license as an element of the overall arrangement. Our professional services offerings, particularly with respect to scanning and document conversion, including microfilm and microfiche, were recently broadened and enhanced with our March 2, 2020 acquisition of Graphic Sciences. Professional services revenues were $1,615,445 and $122,250, for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $1,493,195 or 1,221%. Professional services revenues were $3,221,154 and $334,877, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $2,886,277 or 862%. Our recently acquired subsidiary, Graphic Sciences, accounted for $2,898,740 of the total sales, or 100% of the increase. Professional services revenues excluding Graphic Sciences were $322,414 and $334,877, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing a decrease of $12,463 or 4%. The decrease in revenue excluding Graphic Sciences was due to reduction of consulting contracts for customers seeking expanded applications for our solutions, project management, and training, and a curtailment in our document scanning services in Columbus, Ohio, due to COVID stay-at-home orders disallowing non-essential projects for April and May.
Sale of Storage and Retrieval
Graphic Sciences provides document storage and retrieval services to customers, primarily in Michigan. Our document storage and retrieval revenues were $220,131 and $0, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Our document storage and retrieval revenues were $510,453 and $0, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The amounts were lower than historical levels at Graphic Sciences for similar periods due to COVID shut-downs at customers and the Michigan stay-at-home order which reduced retrieval services from April through June, primarily.
Costs of Revenue
The cost of revenues during the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $1,020,988 and $147,690, respectively, representing an increase of $873,298, or 591%. The cost of revenues during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $2,150,655 and $420,259, respectively, representing an increase of $1,730,396, or 412%. The Graphic Sciences acquisition accounted for $1,596,172 of the total costs of revenue, or 92% of the increase. The cost of revenues excluding Graphic Sciences during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were $554,483 and $420,259, respectively, representing an increase of $134,224, or 32%. The increase in cost of revenue excluding Graphic Sciences year-over-year is primarily the result of increased sales revenue, as well as exceptional professional services margins in 2019 on two projects that were not repeated in 2020.
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Cost of Software Revenues
Cost of software revenues consists primarily of third-party software licenses that are sold in connection with our core software applications and labor costs of our software engineers and implementation consultants. Cost of software revenues was $0 and $1,469 for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing a decrease of $1,469 or 100%. Cost of software revenues was $40,117 and $4,479 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, representing an increase of $35,638 or 796%.
Gross margin for this product category decreased to 74% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 from 98% for the nine months ended September 30, 2019. The decrease is driven by software solution mix: lesser margin solutions in 2020 unfavorably compared to high margin solutions sold in 2019.
Cost of Software as a Service
Cost of software as a service consists primarily of technical support personnel, hosting services, and related costs. Cost of software as a service was $65,712 for the three months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $67,643 for the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing a decrease of $1,931, or 3%. Cost of software as a service was $209,508 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $195,911 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $13,597, or 7%. The increase in cost followed the higher revenue, at slightly improved margins.
Gross margins for this product category were 72% and 70% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and 2019, respectively, with the cost of increased support personnel more than offset by increased revenues.
Cost of Software Maintenance Services
Cost of software maintenance services consists primarily of technical support personnel and related costs. Cost of software maintenance services for the three months ended September 30, 2020 was $49,354 compared with $17,894 for the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $31,460, or 176%. Cost of software maintenance services for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was $127,439 compared with $67,813 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $59,626, or 88%, due to high support activity in the first quarter and one incremental FTE support personnel following the April 21, 2020 acquisition of CEO Image.
Gross margins in this product category were 86% and 91% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Cost of Professional Services
Cost of professional services consists primarily of compensation for employees performing the document conversion services, compensation of our software engineers and implementation consultants and related third-party costs. Cost of professional services was $841,016 for the three months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $60,684 for the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $780,332 or 1,286%. Cost of professional services was $1,637,308 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $152,056 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $1,485,252 or 977%. Excluding Graphic Sciences, cost of professional services was $177,419 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $152,056 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $25,363 or 17%. The increase year-over-year resulted from an unfavorable mix shift to lower margin solutions added by the CEO Image April 21, 2020 acquisition, one additional FTE related to the acquisition of CEO Image, and some project inefficiencies with stopping and restarting projects due to COVID-related customer unavailability.
Gross margins in this product category were 49% and 55% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and 2019, respectively. Excluding Graphic Sciences, gross margins in this product category were 45% and 55% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and 2019, respectively. Gross margins related to consulting services may vary widely, depending upon the nature of the consulting project and the amount of labor it takes to complete a project, and the second quarter of 2019 included more high margin projects.
Cost of Storage and Retrieval Services
Cost of storage and retrieval services consists primarily of compensation for employees performing the document storage and retrieval services, including logistics, provided by Graphic Sciences. Cost of storage and retrieval was $64,906 for the three months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $0 for the three months ended September 30, 2019. Cost of storage and retrieval was $136,283 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
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Gross margins in this product category were 73% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. Gross margins exclude the cost of facilities rental, maintenance, and related overheads.
Gross Margins
Overall gross margin for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were 59% and 80%, respectively, representing a decrease of 21%. Overall gross margin for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were 61% and 78%, respectively, representing a decrease of 17%. The decrease represents the mix impact of the Graphic Sciences acquisition. Excluding Graphic Sciences, overall gross margin for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were 74% and 78%, respectively, representing a decrease of 4%. The decrease in gross margin year-over-year excluding Graphic Sciences is primarily a result of unusually strong professional services margins on two projects in 2019, as well as product mix in software sales in the third quarter of 2019.
Operating Expenses
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses were $844,186 during the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared with $510,817 during the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $333,369 or 65%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, general and administrative expenses were $2,533,046 and $1,570,835, respectively, representing an increase of $962,211, or 61%. The increase in operating expenses year-over-year was principally related to the addition of Graphic Sciences expenses.
Significant Transaction Expenses
Significant transaction expenses were $0 and $636,440 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, as compared with $0 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019. The significant transactions expenses comprised of investment banker and placement agent success fees, as well as legal and consulting fees.
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Sales and marketing expenses were $285,462 during the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared with $248,757 during the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $36,705 or 15%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, sales and marketing expenses were $759,024 and $739,177, respectively, representing an increase of $19,847, or 3%. The increase was a result of the addition of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image expenses, partially offset by stock compensation costs in 2020 due to certain option grants vesting in 2019, plus other operational savings, including marketing and web site updates in 2019 not repeated in 2020.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization was $89,475 for the three months ended September 30, 2020, as compared with $1,901 for the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $87,574 or approximately 4,607%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, depreciation and amortization expenses were $204,317 and $5,908, respectively, representing an increase of $198,409, or 3,358%. The increase is driven by amortization of the intangible assets acquired in March and April and the addition of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image depreciation.
Gain on Extinguishment of Debt
Gain on extinguishment of debt was $287,426 during the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The gain was driven by the extinguishment of debt in March, as part of conversion of notes payable accounted for using troubled debt restructuring.
Income Tax Benefit
Income tax benefit was $188,300 during the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The benefit was driven by the releases of a portion of the valuation allowance in March for deferred tax liabilities of Graphic Sciences that were no longer due.
Interest Expense, Net
Interest expense, net, was $115,498 during the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared with $245,156 during the three months ended September 30, 2019, representing a decrease of $129,658 or 53%. The decrease was driven by a lesser note payable balance in 2020. Interest expense, net, was $522,724 during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 as compared with $717,650 during the nine months ended September 30, 2019, representing a decrease of $194,926 or 27%. The decrease year-over-year resulted primarily from lower interest expense on lower net debt following the March 2020 private placement of securities and note conversion more than offsetting increased interest expense associated with accelerating the beneficial conversion option on the notes converted.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have financed our operations primarily through a combination of gross profits, government-sponsored loans, and the sale of both equity and debt securities. As of September 30, 2020, we had $1,511,990 in cash, and net working capital of $236,418. From 2012 through April, 2020 we raised a total of $18,555,903 in cash through issuance of debt and equity securities.
We have recently implemented plans to increase liquidity, including the acquisitions of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image. Additionally, proceeds from issuance of shares, including conversion of convertible debt, and issuance of new debt on March 2, 2020 enabled the company to restructure its balance sheet and reduce its overall debt burden by approximately $3 million.
The Company’s business plan is to increase our sales and market share by focusing on a targeted marketing approach to select vertical markets, maximizing cross selling opportunities within the newly expanded customer base of the consolidated company, enhancing our direct selling results, and continuing to develop a network of select resellers through which we expect to sell our expanded document management solutions. We expect that these initiatives will require us to continue our efforts towards direct marketing campaigns and leads management, reseller on-boarding, and to develop additional software integration and customization capabilities, all of which may require additional capital. We also plan to continually monitor opportunities to make strategic acquisitions that will strengthen or complement our product and services offerings, bring more solutions to our customers, and increase revenues and liquidity. Since the COVID-19 crisis began, the Company has been working proactively to preserve cash, including a temporary furlough at Graphic Sciences until the Michigan stay-at-home order was lifted, a reduction in management compensation through June 2020, and the receipt of a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) in April 2020 amounting to $838,700. Currently, we believe that we comply with the program requirements and that the entire amount will be forgiven, but will not have assurance on the amount forgiven until our forgiveness application is accepted by the Small Business Administration.
Our ability to meet our capital needs in the future will depend on many factors, including maintaining and enhancing our operating cash flow, successfully managing the transition of our recent acquisitions of Graphic Sciences and CEO Image, successfully retaining and growing our client base in the midst of general economic uncertainty, managing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, and obtaining forgiveness of our PPP loan. We will need to successfully manage our revenues to support potential future earnout commitments for previous transactions and current debt service commitments, and our future cash resources and capital requirements may vary materially from those now planned. Our ability to obtain additional capital or debt financing on favorable terms, if needed, would likely be adversely affected by our history of operating losses. Prior to this quarter, management has historically assessed that there was substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern. These conditions raise substantial doubt over the Company’s ability to meet all of its obligations over the twelve months following the date of this Report. However, management has evaluated these conditions and believes, based on its current plans and expectations, that it will be able to meet those obligations, although there is no assurance.
Based on our plans and assumptions as of the date of this report, we believe our capital resources, including our cash and cash equivalents, along with funds expected to be generated from our operations, will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs, including for working capital, earnout liability payments for previous transactions, capital spending, and debt service commitments, for at least the next 12 months. However, any projections of future cash needs and cash flows are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, such as our history of operating losses, the current COVID-19 pandemic, as well as general overall economic conditions. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” above in this report and the risk factors included in Part II, Item IA of this Report, Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020, and June 30, 2020, and filed on May 15, 2020, and August 14, 2020, respectively, and the risk factors that are included in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed on March 30, 2020.
Equity Capital Resources
As of November 12, 2020, we had 2,810,865 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, and 427,362 shares of common stock reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding warrants and outstanding and unissued stock options under the 2015 Plan.
On March 2, 2020, we completed a private placement of securities equity and debt (which we refer to as our “2020 private placement”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $5.5 million (of which, $3.5 million resulted from the sale of our common stock). As a result of the 2020 private placement, after payment of the initial purchase price for the acquisition of Graphic Sciences and transaction fees and expenses, the Company retained approximately $530,000 for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Our shares are available for quotation on the OTCQB, and we believe this is important for raising capital to finance our growth plan. We intend to deploy any future capital we may raise to expand our sales and marketing capabilities, develop ancillary software products, enhance our internal infrastructure, support the accounting, auditing and legal costs of operating as a public company, and provide working capital.
Debt Capital Resources
On April 21, 2020, the Company entered into an asset purchase agreement under which the Company agreed to pay a principal amount of $170,000 (“Seller Notes Payable”) as further discussed in Note 6. The terms of the Seller Notes Payable were approximately three and six months, with $70,000 plus accrued interest paid August 3, 2020 and $100,000 plus accrued interest due November 1, 2020. The Seller Notes Payable bear an interest rate of 1.5% per annum. These notes are installment payments for the net assets acquired.
On April 15, 2020, the Company secured PPP funding, through PNC Bank with a principal amount of $838,700. The term of the PPP loan is two years, with an interest rate of 1.0% per annum, which shall be deferred for the first six months of the term of the loan. PPP loan recipients can be granted forgiveness for all or a portion of loans granted under the PPP, based on the use of loan proceeds for payroll costs and mortgage interest, rent or utility costs and the maintenance of employee and compensation levels. We have used the loan proceeds for such costs, and believe we have met all program requirements for forgiveness, but we can offer no assurance that the Company will obtain forgiveness of the PPP loan in whole or in part.
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On March 2, 2020, we issued 12% subordinated promissory notes with a principal amount of $2 million and maturity date of February 28, 2023, as part of the 2020 private placement described above, in order to complete the acquisition of Graphic Sciences and provide additional working capital for our operations.
Simultaneously with the closing of the 2020 private placement, we converted substantially all of the outstanding principal and accrued interest payable on our then-existing convertible debt into shares of common stock at a conversion price of $4.00 per share. As a result, a total of approximately $6 million of convertible debt coming due December 31, 2020 was converted into shares of common stock.
Summary of Outstanding Indebtedness at September 30, 2020
The Company’s outstanding indebtedness at September 30, 2020 is as follows (with more details and all defined terms set forth in Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements):
● | The 2020 Notes issued to accredited investors on March 2, 2020, with an aggregate original principal balance of $2,000,000, a current principal balance of $2,000,000, and accrued interest of $0. |
● | PPP Note Payable held by PNC bank, dated April 15, 2020, with a principal balance of $838,700, a current principal balance of $838,700, and accrued interest of $3,844. |
● | Seller Notes Payable entered into as part of the asset purchase agreement, dated August 1, 2020, and November 1, 2020, with an aggregate original principal balance of $170,000, a current principal balance of $100,000, and accrued interest of $661. |
Cash Used In Operating Activities.
From our inception, we have generated revenues from the sales, implementation, subscriptions, and maintenance of our internally generated software applications. Our uses of cash from operating activities include compensation and related costs, hardware costs, rent for our corporate offices, hosting fees for our cloud-based software services, other general corporate expenditures, and travel costs to client sites and industry events.
Our plan is to increase our sales and market share by implementing a targeted marketing approach to select vertical markets, an expanded network of resellers through which we expect to sell our expanded software product portfolio, as well as continue to enhance our direct selling results. We expect our operations to continue to require additional capital in order to implement direct marketing campaigns and leads management, reseller training and on-boarding, and to develop additional software integration and customization capabilities. Although management believes that we may have access to additional capital resources, there are currently no commitments in place for new financing, and there is no assurance that we will be able to obtain funds on commercially acceptable terms, if at all.
Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, was $392,155 and $745,439, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the net cash used in operating activities was primarily attributable to the net loss adjusted for non-cash expenses of $1,074,074, a decrease in operating assets of $108,188 and a decrease in operating liabilities of $801,523. During the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the net cash used in operating activities was primarily attributable to the net loss adjusted for non-cash expenses of $513,139, an increase in operating assets of $330,689 and an increase in operating liabilities of $614,379.
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Cash Used by Investing Activities.
Net cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 amounted to $4,074,701 and $5,489, respectively, and was primarily related to cash paid to acquire Graphic Sciences, as well as cash paid to acquire CEO Image.
Capital Expenditures
There were no material commitments for capital expenditures at September 30, 2020.
Cash Provided and Used by Financing Activities.
Net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 amounted to $5,574,681. The net cash provided by financing activities resulted from new borrowings of $3,008,700, partially offset by $175,924 in financing costs, and the sale of common stock resulting in $2,859,633 in net cash. Notes payable payments amounted to $70,000, which comprised of seller notes which are installment payments for net assets acquired. Notes payable payments to related parties amounted to $47,728.
Net cash used by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 amounted to $34,622. The net cash used by financing activities resulted from notes payable repayments to related parties.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
These critical accounting policies and estimates by our management should be read in conjunction with Note 5 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The preparation of financial statements in accordance U.S. GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses in the reporting period. We regularly make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities. We base our estimates and assumptions on current facts, historical experience and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and the accrual of costs and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources.
The actual results experienced by us may differ materially and adversely from our estimates. To the extent there are material differences between our estimates and the actual results, our future results of operations will be affected.
We consider the following accounting policies and estimates to be both those most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and those that require the most subjective judgment:
● | Liquidity, Going Concern and Management’s Plans | |
● | Revenue Recognition | |
● | Business Acquisition, Goodwill and Intangibles | |
● | Accounts Receivable, Unbilled | |
● | Parts and Supplies Allowance | |
● | Deferred Revenues | |
● | Allowance for Doubt Accounts | |
● | Accounting for Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed and Accounting for Internal Use Software | |
● | Accounting Stock-Based Compensation |
Liquidity, Going Concern and Management’s Plans
We have incurred substantial recurring losses since our inception. The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. Thus, the financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going concern.
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Revenue Recognition
In accordance with ASC 606, the Company follows a five-step model to assess each contract of a sale or service to a customer: identify the legally binding contract, identify the performance obligations, determine the transaction price, allocate the transaction price, and determine whether revenue will be recognized at a point in time or over time. Revenue is recognized when a performance obligation is satisfied and the customer obtains control of promised goods and services. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration to which we expect to be entitled to receive in exchange for these goods and services. In addition, ASC 606 requires disclosures of the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers
Our contracts with customers often contain multiple performance obligations. For these contracts, we account for individual performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations on a relative standalone selling price (“SSP”) basis. We determine the SSP based on an observable standalone selling price when it is available, as well as other factors, including, the price charged to customers, our discounting practices, and our overall pricing objectives, while maximizing observable inputs. In situations where pricing is highly variable or uncertain, we estimate the SSP using a residual approach.
Revenue from on-premises licenses is recognized upfront upon transfer of control of the software, which occurs at delivery, or when the license term commences, if later. We recognize revenue from maintenance contracts ratably over the service period. Cloud services revenue is recognized ratably over the cloud service term. Training and professional services are provided either on a time and material basis, in which revenues are recognized as services are delivered, or over a contractual term, in which revenues are recognized ratably. With respect to contracts that include customer acceptance provisions, we recognize revenue upon customer acceptance. Our policy is to record revenues net of any applicable sales, use or excise taxes.
Payment terms and conditions vary by contract type, although our terms generally include a requirement of payment within 30 to 60 days. We assess whether payment terms are customary or extended in accordance with normal practice relative to the market in which the sale is occurring. In instances where the timing of revenue recognition differs from the timing of payment, we have determined our contracts do not include a significant financing component. The primary purpose of our invoicing terms is to provide customers with simplified and predictable ways of purchasing our products and services, not to receive financing from our customers or to provide customers with financing.
We generally do not offer rights of return or any other incentives such as concessions, product rotation, or price protection and, therefore, do not provide for or make estimates of rights of return and similar incentives.
We establish allowances for doubtful accounts when available information causes us to believe that credit loss is probable.
Business Acquisition, Goodwill and Intangibles Assets
We preliminarily allocate the purchase price to assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair value of such assets and liabilities at the date of acquisition, subject to further review and analysis. We estimate a fair value of any earnout which would be owed to the seller based on the terms of the earnout and record this liability at the acquisition date. Fair value is based on future projections of metrics such as revenue or profit over the earnout period and valuation techniques that utilize expected volatility, threshold probability, and discounting of future payments.
The carrying value of goodwill is not amortized, but it tested for impairment annually as of December 31, as well as on an interim basis whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of a reporting unity may not be recoverable. An impairment charge is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the recorded fair value. All intangible assets have finite lives and are stated at cost, net of amortization. Amortization is computed over the useful life of the related assets on a straight-line method.
Accounts Receivable, Unbilled
We recognize professional services revenue over time as the services are delivered using an input or output method (e.g., labor hours incurred as a percentage of total labor hours budgeted, images scanned, or similar milestones), as appropriate for the contract, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met. When our revenue recognition policies recognize revenue that has not yet been billed, we record those contract asset amounts in accounts receivable, unbilled.
Parts and Supplies Allowance
Parts and supplies are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Costs are determined using the first-in, first-out method. Parts and supplies are primarily used for scanning and document conversion services. We establish a provision for potentially obsolete or slow-moving parts and supplies inventory based on parts and supplies levels, future sales forecasted and our judgment of potentially obsolete parts and supplies.
Deferred Revenues
Amounts that have been invoiced are recognized in accounts receivable, deferred revenue or revenue, depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met. Deferred revenue represents amounts billed for which revenue has not yet be recognized. Deferred revenues typically relate to maintenance and software-as-a-service agreements which have been paid for by customers prior to the performance of those services, and payments received for professional services and license arrangements and software-as-a-service performance obligations that have been deferred until fulfilled under our revenue recognition policy.
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Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts which represents estimated losses resulting from the inability, failure or refusal of our clients to make required payments.
We analyze historical percentages of uncollectible accounts and changes in payment history when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts. We use an internal collection effort, which may include our sales and services groups as we deem appropriate. Although we believe that our allowances are adequate, if the financial condition of our clients deteriorates, resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, or if we underestimate the allowances required, additional allowances may be necessary, resulting in increased expense in the period in which such determination is made.
Accounting for Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed and Accounting for Internal Use Software
We design, develop, test, market, license, and support new software products and enhancements of current products.
In accordance with ASC 985-20 “Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased or Otherwise Marketed,” we expense software development costs, including costs to develop software products or the software component of products to be sold, leased, or marketed to external users, before technological feasibility is reached. Technological feasibility is typically reached shortly before the release of such products and as a result, development costs that meet the criteria for capitalization were not material for the periods presented in this report.
In accordance with ASC 350-40, “Internal-Use Software,” the Company capitalizes purchase and implementation costs of internal use software. No such costs were capitalized during the periods presented in this report.
Stock-Based Compensation
As of December 31, 2019, we maintain one stock-based compensation plan. We account for stock-based payments to employees in accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation - Stock Compensation.” Stock-based payments to employees include grants of stock that are recognized in the consolidated statement of operations based on their fair values at the date of grant. We account for stock-based payments to non-employees in accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation - Stock Compensation,” which requires that such equity instruments are recorded at their fair value on the grant date.
The grant date fair value of stock option awards is recognized in earnings as stock-based compensation cost over the requisite service period of the award using the straight-line attribution method. We estimate the fair value of the stock option awards using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. The exercise price of options is specified in the stock option agreements. The expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of our stock for the previous period equal to the expected term of the options. The expected term of options granted is based on the midpoint between the vesting date and the end of the contractual term. The risk-free interest rate is based upon a U.S. Treasury instrument with a life that is similar to the expected term of the options. The expected dividend yield is based upon the yield expected on date of grant to occur over the term of the option.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
Not applicable to smaller reporting companies.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
(a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.
With the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, we recognize that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that we are required to apply our judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.
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Based on our evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as required under Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting.
We regularly review our system of internal control over financial reporting and make changes to our processes and systems to improve controls and increase efficiency, while ensuring that we maintain an effective internal control environment. Changes may include such activities as implementing new, more efficient systems, consolidating activities, and migrating processes. The customers, personnel and processes added from the CEO Image acquisition were immediately incorporated into and made part of the control environment at Intellinetics, Inc. The control environment at Graphic Sciences was assessed, and a remediation was made to mitigate segregation of duties risk over bank account access, which was concentrated in too few personnel after prior ownership personnel retired.
Other than the remediation described above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
None.
Our business and operating results are subject to many risks, uncertainties and other factors. If any of these risks were to occur, our business, affairs, assets, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include the information discussed elsewhere in this report, the risk factors set forth in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, and the risk factors included in Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020, and June 30, 2020, and filed on May 15, 2020, and August 14, 2020, respectively, which have not materially changed as of the date of this report other than the following:
We have been and could continue to be negatively impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and related governmental actions and orders and market effects.
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)and related economic downturn continues to pose various and interrelated risks to our customers, our employees, our vendors and the communities in which we operate, which have all negatively impacted, and may continue to negatively impact, our business. From March 24, 2020 to June 15, 2020, we were obligated to scale back operations in our Graphic Sciences operations, due to Michigan stay-at-home orders, which permitted us to process only those projects qualifying as essential under the state guidance. We have resumed operating at full capacity, but it is unlikely that we will be able to make up our ordinary level of revenues in the remainder of 2020 to offset the period in which our operations were reduced. Since the stay-at-home order was lifted in June, 2020, through September 30, 2020, Graphic Sciences delivered 83% of 2019 revenues for the same four months. In addition, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected if we suffer one or several COVID-19 outbreaks in our facilities or if the State of Michigan issues new stay-at-home orders in the future. We are also likely to be impacted further by decreased customer demand and/or subscription terminations as a result of a reduction in customer spending (especially customers that are state and local governmental entities) or as a result of government-imposed restrictions on businesses. In particular, governmental budget reductions in the State of Michigan, our largest customer, may have a material adverse effect on our business. Finally, due to the portion of our business that generates subscription-based revenue, the effect of COVID-19 may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. If the pandemic continues to reduce customer’s budgets and restrict business operations, the pandemic may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows and adversely impact the trading price of our common stock.
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ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS.
There have been no securities sold by the registrant during the quarterly period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that have not previously been disclosed on a Current Report on Form 8-K other than the following:
● | On September 2, 2020, the Company granted employees stock options to purchase 99,000 shares at an exercise price of $4.00 per share in accordance with the 2015 Plan, with vesting continuing until 2024. The total fair value of $327,181 for these stock options is being recognized by the Company over the requisite service period. |
ITEM 3. DEFAULT UPON SENIOR SECURITIES.
None.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.
Not Applicable.
None.
The following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
101.* INS XBRL Instance Document.
101.* SCH XBRL Taxonomy Schema.
101.* CAL XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase.
101.* DEF XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase.
101.* LAB XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase.
101.* PRE XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase.
* filed herewith
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Pursuant to the requirements 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.
INTELLINETICS, INC. | ||
Dated: | November 16, 2020 | |
By: | /s/ James F. DeSocio | |
James F. DeSocio | ||
President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
Dated: | November 16, 2020 | |
By: | /s/ Joseph D. Spain | |
Joseph D. Spain | ||
Chief Financial Officer |
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