2.	Significant accounting policies

Use of estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“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 date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Principles of consolidation

The financial statements include the accounts of MiMedx Group, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries MiMedx, SpineMedica, and Surgical Biologics. All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Segment Reporting

ASC 280, “Segment Reporting” requires use of the “management approach” model for segment reporting. The management approach model is based on the way a company's management organizes segments within the company for making operating decisions and assessing performance. The Company determined it has one operating segment. Disaggregation of the Company's operating results is impracticable, because the Company's research and development activities and its assets overlap, and management reviews its business as a single operating segment. Thus, discrete financial information is not available by more than one operating segment.

Market concentrations and credit risk

The Company places its cash and cash equivalents on deposit with financial institutions in the United States. In July 2010, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) increased coverage to $250,000 for substantially all depository accounts and temporarily provides unlimited coverage for certain qualifying and participating non-interest bearing transaction accounts. The temporary unlimited coverage is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2012, at which time it is anticipated amounts insured by the FDIC will return to $250,000. During the year, the Company from time to time may have had amounts on deposit in excess of the insured limits. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $2,821,000 in excess of these insured amounts.

The Company's principal market concentration of risk is related to its limited distribution channels. Two customers accounted for approximately 37% of revenues for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, including one customer who represented 19% and another customer which represented 18% of total revenue. The Company's accounts receivable are derived from customers primarily located in the United States of America. Two customers accounted for 43% of total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2011, including one customer who represented 33% and another customer representing 10% of total accounts receivable.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents include all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable represent amounts due from customers for which revenue has been recognized. Generally, the Company does not require collateral or any other security to support its receivables.

The allowance for doubtful accounts is the Company's best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in the Company's existing receivables. The Company determines the allowance based on factors such as historical collection experience, customer's current creditworthiness, customer concentration, age of accounts receivable balance and general economic conditions that may affect the customer's ability to pay. As of December 31, 2011, and 2010, the Company has $19,500 and $21,600, respectively, in the allowance for doubtful accounts. Actual customer collections could differ from estimates. The approximate provision during the year ended December 31, 2011 was $57,900, and the charge-offs during the same period were approximately $60,000.

Inventories

Inventories at December 31, 2011, are valued at the lower of actual cost or market, using the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method. Work in process is calculated by estimating the number of units that will be successfully converted to finished goods, based upon a build-up in the stage of completion using estimated labor inputs for each stage and historical yields reduced by estimated usage for quality control testing. Idle facility expense, excessive spoilage, extra freight, and handling costs are expensed, as necessary, in cost of sales and are not capitalized into inventories. Allocation of fixed production overheads is based on the normal capacity of production facilities.

Goodwill and intangible assets

Goodwill is tested at least annually for impairment, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired. Intangible assets with finite useful lives are amortized into Selling, General and Administrative Expenses in the consolidated statement of Operations using the straight-line method over various periods depending upon the specific asset.

Property and equipment

Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, principally five to seven years. Leasehold improvements are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the lesser of the estimated useful lives or the life of the lease.

Impairment of long-lived assets

The Company evaluates the recoverability of its long-lived assets (finite lived intangible assets and property and equipment) whenever adverse events or changes in business climate indicate that the expected undiscounted future cash flows from the related assets may be less than previously anticipated. If the net book value of the related assets exceeds the expected undiscounted future cash flows of the assets, the carrying amount would be reduced to the present value of their expected future cash flows and an impairment loss would be recognized. There has been no impairment losses in the periods presented.

Deferred Grant Income

The Company received a Regional Economic Business Assistance ("REBA") grant in the amount of $250,000 from the State of Georgia to help the Company defray certain expenses and capital expenditures related to the Company's expansion of manufacturing activities in the State. To retain the grant monies the Company must add a certain number of full time positions and spend a certain amount on capital and operations expenditures by December 31, 2014. The Company recorded the grant monies received as Deferred Grant Income which is included in the Other Liabilities section of the balance sheet per ASC 450-30 Gain Contingencies where an existing condition, situation, or set of circumstances involving uncertainty as to possible gain will ultimately be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. A contingency that might result in a gain should not be reflected in the financial statements because to do so might be to recognize the gain before its realization. As part of the transaction, the Company sold and is leasing back $250,000 of the assets from the State for $100 payable at the time the performance standards are achieved or at the termination date of the lease whichever is earlier. Once the Company has met the headcount and expenditure goals of the project the Company shall notify the State and pay the fixed rent amount of $100 at which time ownership of the equipment will transfer back to the Company. The Company also entered into a Performance & Accountability Agreement with the State of Georgia which defines the performance standard that if the Company fails to reach by no later than December 31, 2014, the Company shall repay a portion of the Grant amount.

Debt Instruments with Detachable Warrants and Beneficial Conversion Features

According to ASC-470 Debt Instruments with Detachable Warrants, proceeds from the sale of debt instruments with stock purchase warrants (detachable call options) shall be allocated to the two elements based upon the relative fair values of the debt instrument without the warrants and of the warrants themselves at the time of issuance. The portion of the proceeds so allocated to the warrants shall be accounted for as paid-in capital. The remainder of the proceeds shall be allocated to the debt instrument portion of the transaction. Also, the embedded beneficial conversion feature present in the convertible instrument shall be recognized separately at issuance by allocating a portion of the proceeds equal to the intrinsic value of that feature to additional paid-in capital.

Revenue Recognition

The Company sells its products primarily through a combination of independent stocking distributors and representatives in the U.S. and independent distributors in international markets. The Company recognizes revenue when title to the goods and risk of loss transfers to customers, provided there are no material remaining performance obligations required of the Company or any matters of customer acceptance. In cases where the Company utilized distributors or ships product directly to the end user, it recognizes revenue upon shipment provided all revenue recognition criteria have been met. A portion of the Company's revenue is generated from inventory maintained at hospitals or with field representatives. For these products, revenue is recognized at the time the product has been used or implanted. The Company records estimated sales returns, discounts and allowances as a reduction of net sales in the same period revenue is recognized.

Research and development costs

Research and development costs consist of direct and indirect costs associated with the development of the Company's technologies. These costs are expensed as incurred.

Income taxes

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective income tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are recorded for deferred tax assets when the recoverability of such assets is not deemed more likely than not.

Share-based compensation

The Company follows the provisions of ASC topic 718 “Compensation - Stock compensation” which requires the use of the fair-value based method to determine compensation for all arrangements under which employees and others receive shares of stock or equity instruments (options and warrants). All awards are amortized on a straight-line basis over their vesting terms into Selling, General and Administrative Expenses in the consolidated Statements of Operations.

Fair value of financial instruments

The carrying value of accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair value due to the short-term nature of these liabilities. The fair value of our short term and long term convertible debt approximates $5,169,000 which represents the face value less the unamortized discount of any beneficial conversion feature plus accrued but unpaid interest at December 31, 2011. Included in other long term assets is the fair value of warrants issued in conjunction with placement fees on the convertible senior secured promissory notes of approximately $15,000 as of December 31, 2011.

Fair Value Measurements

The Company follows the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures, with respect to assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on both a recurring and nonrecurring basis. Under this guidance, fair value is defined as the exit price, or the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants as of the measurement date. The authoritative guidance also establishes a hierarchy for inputs used in measuring fair value that maximizes the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs by requiring that the most observable inputs be used when available. Observable inputs are inputs market participants would use in valuing the asset or liability developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Company. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company's assumptions about the factors market participants would use in valuing the asset or liability developed based upon the best information available in the circumstances. The hierarchy is broken down into three levels. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurement). Level 2 – Inputs include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active and inputs (other than quoted prices) that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. The lowest priority is Level 3, which are unobservable inputs. We analyze all financial instruments with features of both liabilities and equity under ASC 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities From Equity” and ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging.”

Net loss per share

Basic net loss per common share is computed using the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period.

For all periods presented, diluted net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share, as the inclusion of equivalent shares from outstanding common stock options, warrants, and convertible debt would be anti-dilutive.

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010:

	Year ended December 31,
	2011			2010
Net loss	$	(10,193,986	)	$	(11,419,753	)
Denominator for basic earnings per share - weighted average shares		72,450,337			59,138,357
Effect of dilutive securities: Stock options and warrants outstanding and convertible debt (a)		-			-

Denominator for diluted earnings per share - weighted average shares adjusted for dilutive securities		72,450,337			59,138,357

Loss per common share - basic and diluted	$	(0.14	)	$	(0.19	)

(a)	Securities outstanding that were excluded from the computation, prior to the use of the treasury stock method, because they would have been anti-dilutive are as follows:

	December 31, 2011		December 31, 2010
Outstanding Stock Options		10,333,583		8,257,650
Outstanding Warrants		9,388,817		6,003,924
Convertible Debt, promissory notes		5,007,732		403,432
Convertible Line of Credit with Related Party		1,342,726		-
Convertible Debt, Acquisition		1,299,315		-
		27,372,173		14,665,006

(*)	The table above excludes all securities with contingencies including the earnout liability and contingent warrants.

Recently adopted accounting pronouncements

In December 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2010-28: Intangibles - Goodwill and Other: When to Perform Step 2 of the Goodwill Impairment Test for Reporting Units with Zero or Negative Carrying Amounts (Topic 350). The amendments to the Codification in this update modify Step 1 of the goodwill impairment test for reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts. For those reporting units, an entity is required to perform Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test if it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists. Goodwill of a reporting unit is required to be tested for impairment between annual tests if an event occurs or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying amount. This update is effective starting in the first quarter of 2011 with early adoption not permitted. Adoption of this update had no impact on our financial statements.

In December 2010, the FASB issued ASU 2010-29: Business Combinations: Disclosure of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations (Topic 805). The amendments to the Codification in this ASU apply to any public entity that enters into business combination that are material on an individual or aggregate basis and specify that the entity presents comparative financial statements, the entity should disclose revenue and earnings of the combined entity as though the business combination(s) that occurred during the current year had occurred as of the beginning of the comparable prior annual reporting period only. The update also expands the supplemental pro forma disclosures to include a description of the nature and amount of material, nonrecurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business combination included in the reported pro forma revenue and earnings. The update is effective prospectively for business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning in January 2011 with early adoption permitted. We adopted this update for the acquisition completed in 2011.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU Update No. 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment. The amendment simplifies how entities test goodwill for impairment. The amendments in the Update permit an entity to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test described in Topic 350. The more-likely-than-not threshold is defined as having a likelihood of more than 50 percent. Previous guidance under Topic 350 required an entity to test goodwill for impairment, on at least an annual basis, by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount, including goodwill (step one). If the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then the second step of the test must be performed to measure the amount of the impairment loss, if any. Under the amendments in this Update, an entity is not required to calculate the fair value of a reporting unit unless the entity determines that it is more likely than not that its fair value is less than its carrying amount. The amendments are effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, and early adoption is permitted. Its adoption is not expected to significantly impact the Company's consolidated financial statements.

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU Update No. 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income. The amendments to the Codification in this ASU will require companies to present the components of net income and other comprehensive income either as one continuous statement or as two consecutive statements. It eliminates the option to present components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in stockholders' equity. The standard does not change the items which must be reported in other comprehensive income, how such items are measured or when they must be reclassified to net income. This standard is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. Because this ASU impacts presentation only, it will have no effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-04, Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The amendments to the Codification in this ASU will provide a consistent definition of fair value and ensure that the fair value measurement and disclosure requirements are similar between U.S. GAAP and IFRS. ASU 2011-04 changes certain fair value measurement principles and enhances the disclosure requirements particularly for Level 3 fair value measurements. This guidance is effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2012. Its adoption is not expected to significantly impact the Company's consolidated financial statements.