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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:

NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:

 

Basis of presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of the Company’s management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all the adjustments necessary (consisting only of normal recurring accruals) to present the financial position of the Company. Operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2015. For further information, reference is made to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2014 included in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10. The interim condensed consolidated financial statements incorporate the financial statements of the Company and all of its subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the dates of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Principles of consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements comprise the results and position of the Company and its subsidiaries. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity so as to obtain benefits from its operating activities. In assessing control, legal and contractual rights are taken into account. The consolidated financial statements of subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date that control is achieved until the date that control ceases. Intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Revenue recognition

 

We generate revenues from our binary options business. The online binary options trading business involves a customer trying to predict the occurrence of a future event that will be settled in a win or lose situation at expiration or the end of the day. There is only a win or lose situation (binary option) and the gain or loss is recognized once every 15 minutes, and at the end of each day. Thus, each event commences and ends on the same day. Open client positions are carried at fair market value and gains and losses arising on this valuation are recognized in revenue as well as gains and losses realized on positions that have closed. The revenues are principally generated from the margin between winning customers and losing customers. In a winning situation (when either a higher or a lower strike price has been achieved at the expiration of the underlying asset) the binary option entitles a customer a fixed return (usually around 75%) in addition to the transaction amount. In a losing situation (when the customer’s prediction is not fulfilled) the customer loses between 90%-95% of the transaction price. In our consolidated statement of operations, we recognize revenues from the binary options on a net basis. In addition, once the customer makes a deposit, a contingent bonus is added into his or her account on top of his or her deposited amount. The customer is granted with the opportunity to forego the bonus and continue with the deposit made by him or her only. The bonus added is typically, on average, between 20% and 30% of the customer’s actual deposit, but we may choose to increase the bonus amount offered to the customer and the customer may also request to increase the bonus amount. To be entitled to withdraw a bonus or any profit earned in the account after the bonus is added into the account, a customer must turn over a trading volume of 25 times the amount of the bonus. As an example, if a customer received a bonus of $100, to be entitled to withdraw this bonus, he or she must trade a minimum volume of at least $2,500 during a time period no longer than 90 days from his or her first trade. If the customer has not reached the required volume within this 90 day period, then the bonus will be voided and deducted from the customer’s available balance, and any other profit earned in the account after the receipt of such bonus will also be void and excluded from the amounts that the customer can withdraw from his or her account. In the event that the customer loses on a particular trade after a bonus was added into his or her account, such loss will be deducted from the actual amounts deposited by the customer and not from the bonus.

 

Customers are informed about all aspects of the bonuses at the time of election via the detailed terms and conditions available on our website.

 

As of August 1, 2015, we have upgraded the terms and conditions of granting trading benefits to be consistent with Circular 68 issued by CYSEC regarding the granting of trading benefits. We have separated trading benefits into two separate types of contingent trading bonuses, as follows:

 

●“Sign-Up Bonus”: a Sign-Up Bonus may be granted after a customer registers a new account with the Company. The client is not required to make a prior deposit into the account. The customer can capitalize the free initial credit granted to him or her as a result of the Sign-Up Bonus only if he or she meets the withdrawal preconditions (volume generation must be equal to 25 times the initial bonus provided within 90 days).
   
●“Deposit Bonus”: a Deposit Bonus may be granted to a customer once he or she makes a deposit into his or her or her trading account. In the case of Deposit Bonuses, customer funds, including profits and losses, are available for withdrawal at any given time; the only element dependent on the withdrawal preconditions is the bonus itself. This Deposit Bonus is only available for withdrawal if the customer meets the withdrawal preconditions (volume generation must be equal to 25 times the initial bonus provided within 90 days).

Customers are informed about all aspects of the bonuses at the time of election via the detailed terms and conditions available on our website

 

For volume purposes, trading both a call option and a put option on the same asset and at the same expiration time would be considered a single trade. Sell option transactions will not be considered for the trading volume needed to be met in order to withdraw the bonus. A customer may not receive a bonus for a deposit when, at the same time, he or she has a pending withdrawal request. We may decide at our own discretion whether or not to grant bonuses.

 

The Company follows ASC 605-50-25 in accounting for each type of customer bonus offered. Since most of the Company’s transactions involving Deposit Bonuses result in gain for the Company, the Company applies ASC 605-50-25-3, “Sales Incentives that Will Not Result in a Loss on the Sale of a Product or Service” in accounting for Deposit Bonuses. The Company also follows guidance set forth in ASC 605-50-25 when accounting for Sign-Up Bonuses.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements:

 

In January 2015, the Financial Accounting Standard Board ("FASB") issued ASU 2015-01, "Simplifying Income Statement Presentation by Eliminating the Concept of Extraordinary Items", which eliminates the requirement to consider whether an underlying event or transaction is extraordinary, and if so, to separately present the item in the income statement net of tax, after income from continuing operations. Items that are either unusual in nature or infrequently occurring will continue to be reported as a separate component of income from continuing operations. Alternatively, these amounts may still be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements. The same requirement has been expanded to include items that are both unusual and infrequent. ASU 2015-01 is effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. Early adoption is permitted from the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The Company does not expect material impacts on its consolidated financial statements upon adoption.

 

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, "Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs", requires debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability to be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability in a manner consistent with the treatment for debt discounts. The amendments in this update do not affect the recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs. In addition, the ASU requires that the amortization of debt issuance costs be reported as interest expense. The standard is effective for fiscal years and the interim periods within those fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2015. ASU 2015-03 should be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements, subject to the disclosure requirements for a change in an accounting principle. Early adoption is permitted for financial statements that have not been previously issued. The Company does not expect material impacts on its consolidated financial statements upon adoption.