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Liquidity
6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Liquidity [Abstract]  
LIQUIDITY

Note 2 – LIQUIDITY

 

The Company's accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("US GAAP") on a going concern basis. The going concern basis assumes that assets are realized and liabilities are extinguished in the ordinary course of business at amounts disclosed in the financial statements. The Company's ability to continue as a going concern depends upon aligning its sources of funding (debt and equity) with its expenditure requirements and repayment of the short-term debts as and when they become due.

 

The drug retail business is a highly competitive industry in the PRC. Several large drugstore chains and a variety of single stores operate in Hangzhou City and Zhejiang Province. In order to increase the Company's competitive advantages and gain more local retail pharmacy market share, from fiscal year 2018, we opened fifty-nine new stores in Hangzhou. As a result, the Company incurred significant incremental expense related to rental, labor hiring and training, and marketing activities. As the retail pharmaceutical market becomes more competitive in recent years, a new store usually cannot make profit in its operation until a year later. In fact, the Company incurred significant expenses with limited incremental revenue in the period it opened new stores. At their openings, except for four stores, almost all of the new stores were without government insurance reimbursement certificates. In fact, it usually takes more than one year for a new store to apply for and obtain the local government insurance reimbursement certificate. As of September 30, 2020, the Company had obtained forty-seven reimbursement certificates for stores opened in fiscal 2018 and thereafter. Historically in a mature store, more than half of the total revenue were collected from the individual customers' government insurance program. The Company is in the process of actively applying certificates for all of its new stores. In the future, as more and more stores obtain certificates, the Company expect its new store revenue to increase and eventually contribute positive operating cash flow.

 

The Company's principal sources of liquidity consist of existing cash, equity financing, and bank facilities from local banks as well as personal loans from its principal shareholders if necessary. On April 15, 2019, the Company closed a registered direct offering of 4,000,008 shares of common stock at $2.50 per share with gross proceeds of $10,000,020 from its effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement dated April 11, 2019 (the "2019 Securities Purchase Agreement"), by and among the Company and the investors named therein. On June 3, 2020, the Company closed a registered direct offering of 5,000,004 shares of common stock at $2.00 per share with gross proceeds of $10,000,008 from its effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement dated June 1, 2020 (the "2020 Securities Purchase Agreement"), by and among the Company and the investors named therein.

 

The Company has a credit line agreement from a local bank as displayed in detail in Note 16. As of September 30, 2020, approximately $3.11 million of the aforementioned bank credit line was available for further borrowing. Additionally, Jiuzhou Pharmacy obtained a credit line of approximately $7,175,000 (RMB50,000,000) from Haihui Commercial Factoring (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. ("Haihui Commercial") for three years beginning July 26, 2019. As of September 30, 2020, the full amount has been borrowed from Haihui Commercial. Any borrowing thereunder is guaranteed by a third-party guarantor company and secured by the Company's assets pursuant to a collateral agreement, as well as personal guarantees of some of its principal shareholders.

 

The Company has also obtained additional government insurance reimbursement certificates for its stores opened in the last two years. As the sales reimbursed from the government account for more than half of sales in a mature store, the certificates may significantly increase the sales of these stores in the next 12 months. Additionally, with the proceeds from the registered direct financing closed on April 15, 2019 and June 3, 2020, and increased credit line, the Company believes it can support its operations for at least the next 12 months.