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Note 12 - Correction of Immaterial Misstatement to Prior Period Financial Statements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Text Block]
NOTE
12
– CORRECTION OF IMMATERIAL MISSTATEMENT TO PRIOR PERIOD FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
During fiscal
2018,
the Company identified certain warrants issued in
2016
and
2017,
which were incorrectly recognized as expense in
2017
when the warrants vested. As a result, investors stock compensation expense and additional paid-in capital were overstated by
$2,150,097
for the year ended
December 31, 2017.
 
Also during fiscal
2018,
the Company identified that employee stock compensation expense was incorrectly recognized in
2017.
As a result, employee stock compensation expenses and additional paid-in capital were understated by
$406,522
for the year ended
December 31, 2017.
 
Lastly during fiscal
2018,
the Company identified that certain nonqualified stock options were excluded from the Company’s tax provision calculation in
2017.
As a result, deferred tax assets and the valuation allowance on these assets were understated by
$767,000
as of
December 31, 2017.
 
Based on an analysis of Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”)
250
– “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections” (ASC
250”
), Staff Accounting Bulletin
99
– “Materiality” (“SAB
99”
) and Staff Accounting Bulletin
108
– Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements (“SAB
108”
), the Company determined that these costs were immaterial to the previously-issued financial statements. The Company analyzed and considered all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors and determined that the prior fiscal year financial statements should be corrected, even though such revision previously was and continues to be immaterial to the prior year financial statements. Management also determined that such correction to prior fiscal year financial statement for immaterial misstatements would
not
require previously filed reports to be amended and that such corrections
may
be made the next time the Company files the prior year financial statements.
 
Accordingly, the Company restated its presentation of general and administrative, sales and marketing, and operating expenses as well as retained earnings and additional paid-in capital in the consolidated financial statements for the year ended
December 31, 2018
to reflect such corrections as if they had been recorded in the appropriate fiscal period as of
December 31, 2017.
Specifically, the adjustments were reflected and corrected in the last quarter of
2017
for the period ended
December 31, 2017,
by reducing investors stock compensation expense under general and administrative expenses and reducing additional paid-in capital by
$
2,150,097
;
and, by increasing employee stock compensation expenses under general and administrative, selling and operating expense and increasing additional paid-in capital by a total of
$
406,522
on the comparative balance sheet for the period ended
December 31, 2017.
In addition, the Company restated Note
4
– Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit), Stock Options and Warrants, and Note
8
– Income Taxes, to reflect the impact of these restatements on the footnote disclosures as of and for the year ended
December 31, 2017.