SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND NATURE OF OPERATIONS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation Of Financial Statements Disclosure and Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]

NOTE 1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND NATURE OF OPERATIONS

The Company

Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd. (“Chelsea Ltd.” or the “Company”) is a development stage pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative pharmaceutical products. Specifically, the Company is focusing on its clinical research and registration program to support its efforts in obtaining market approval in the United States for Northera™ (droxidopa), a novel therapeutic agent for the treatment of symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, or Neurogenic OH, in patients with primary autonomic failure (Parkinson’s disease, or PD, multiple systems atrophy, or MSA, and pure autonomic failure, or PAF), dopamine-β-hydroxylase, or DBH, deficiency and non-diabetic autonomic neuropathy. The Company is also evaluating the potential therapeutic applications of droxidopa in reducing the frequency of falls in patients with Neurogenic OH associated with PD as well as other potentially norepinephrine-related conditions and diseases including intradialytic hypotension, fibromyalgia and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In addition, although no activities are currently ongoing, the Company has, in previous periods, devoted resources to the development of a portfolio of metabolically inert antifolates for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis that might also be suitable for the treatment of multiple other autoimmune disorders including psoriasis, Crohn’s disease, uveitis, ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer and other immunological disorders.

The Company’s operating subsidiary, Chelsea Therapeutics, Inc. (“Chelsea Inc.”), was incorporated in the State of Delaware on April 3, 2002 as Aspen Therapeutics, Inc., with the name changed in July 2004. In February 2005, Chelsea Inc. merged with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chelsea Ltd.’s predecessor company, Ivory Capital Corporation (“Ivory”), a Colorado public company with no operations (the “Merger”). The Company reincorporated into the State of Delaware in July 2005, changing its name to Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd.

As a result of the Merger of Ivory and Chelsea Inc. in February 2005, and the reincorporation in Delaware in July 2005, Chelsea Ltd. is the reporting company and is the 100% owner of Chelsea Inc. The separate existence of Ivory ceased in connection with the Delaware reincorporation in July 2005. Except where the context provides otherwise, references to the “Company” and similar terms mean Ivory, Chelsea Ltd. and Chelsea Inc.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its operating subsidiary, which shall collectively be referred to as the “Company”. These statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial reporting and the instructions to Form 10-Q and do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete financial statements. In the opinion of the Company’s management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods have been included. Operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 are not necessarily indicative of the results for the year ending December 31, 2012 or future periods. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 7, 2012 and available on the website (www.sec.gov) of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. The accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2011 has been derived from the audited balance sheet as of that date included in the Form 10-K.

Since inception, the Company has focused primarily on organizing and staffing, negotiating in-licensing agreements with partners, acquiring, developing and securing its proprietary technology, participating in regulatory discussions with the United States Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, and other regulatory agencies and undertaking preclinical trials and clinical trials of product candidates. The Company is a development stage company and has generated no revenue since inception.

The Company has sustained operating losses since its inception and expects that such losses could continue for the foreseeable future. The Company’s continued operation depends on its ability to raise funds through various potential sources, such as strategic alliances including out-licensing, equity financing or debt financing.  Such strategic relationships or out-licensing arrangements might require the Company to relinquish rights to certain of its technologies, product candidates or products that the Company would otherwise seek to develop or commercialize itself. If adequate funds are not available, the Company may be required to delay, reduce the scope of, or eliminate one or more of its development programs or curtail operations.

Management believes that capital resources available at September 30, 2012 will be sufficient to meet the operating needs of the Company into the second quarter of 2014. This estimate assumes the planned costs of currently ongoing clinical activity and a planned new Phase III trial of droxidopa that could begin patient dosing in the third quarter of 2013 with a significant ramp in spending in the second quarter of 2013. Should additional clinical and or regulatory activities arise, they could adversely impact this estimate.

Basis of Consolidation

The accompanying financial statements present, on a condensed consolidated basis, the financial position and results of operations of Chelsea Ltd. and its subsidiary. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements as well as the reported revenues and expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates and judgments. Management bases estimates on its historical experience and on various other factors that it believes are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of 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 might differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.