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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 12– RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

In support of the Company’s efforts and cash requirements, it may rely on advances from related parties until such time that the Company can support its operations or attains adequate financing through sales of its equity or traditional debt financing. There is no formal written commitment for continued support by shareholders. Amounts represent advances or amounts paid in satisfaction of liabilities. The advances are considered temporary in nature and have not been formalized by a promissory note. During the years ended August 31, 2020 and 2019, there are no such related party transactions.

 

The Company has entered into a patent license agreement with a related party Guangzhou Shengshituhua Film and Television Company Limited (“Licensor”). The agreement is for a term of 5 years commencing on the effective date on June 1, 2017. The Company has already paid the licensor a non-refundable, up-from payment of $500,000 and shall pay a royalty of 20% of the gross revenue realized from the sale of licensed products and sub-licensing of this patent every year. The royalty expenses during the years ended August 31, 2020 and 2019 are $61,440 and $60,928, respectively.

 

Youall Perform Services Ltd, owned by the Company’s Board of Director Jianli Deng, has been collecting revenue on behalf of the Company from the performance matching platform “Ai Bian Quan Qiu”. As of August 31, 2020, the Company has $87,581 related party receivable from Youall Perform Services Ltd for the revenue collected from “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” on behalf of the Company.

 

In September 2019, the company entered into an agreement with Youall Perform Services Ltd for two transactions. 1) The Company pays Youall Perform Services Ltd. 10% of the revenue generated from the “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” platform every month to reimburse the valued-added tax, tax surcharges, and foreign transaction fee Youall Perform Services Ltd. has been paying on behalf of the Company. 2) Youall Perform Services Ltd. will provide IT consulting service for “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” platform upgrade and maintenance at a total cost of $128,000, out of which $108,800 has been paid. As there has been no revenue from “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” due to COVID-19 since mid-January, 2020, $108,800 long-term prepayment is expensed as research and development expense. In July 2020, the Company changed the service scope of this agreement and turned it into a website maintenance contract over the next two years. The major website of this Company is ABQQ.tv for video streaming. The contract amount remains to be $128,000, out of which $108,800 was previously paid and $19,200 will be due on the twenty first month after the contract related signing date of July 31, 2020.

 

The Company rented an office from Zestv Studios Ltd., owned by the Chief Executive Officer Chiyuan Deng, and incurred a total related party payable of $5,504 as there is a one-month lag in payment of the office rent.

 

During the years ended August 31, 2020, $169,768 was paid to five executives in the form of stock-based compensation and $15,000 cash salary was paid to the Chief Financial Officer. 

 

On August 29, 2020, the Company entered into a Separation Agreement and Release with each of Jianli Deng, Lijun Yu and Linqing Ye. Pursuant to the agreements, Mr. Deng resigned as Secretary and Treasurer, Ms. Yu resigned as Chief Marketing Officer and Mr. Ye resigned as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Deng will remain on as a member of our board of directors. The Separation and Release Agreement cancelled the employment agreements for each of Messrs. Deng, Yu and Ye, and provided them each an indebtedness payment within five (5) business days of the agreements. Mr. Deng will receive $110,000 USD, Ms. Yu will receive $110,000 USD and Mr. Ye will receive $120,000 USD. We received a release of all claims from these prior officers. In addition, Mr. Deng, Ms. Yu, and Mr. Deng agreed to return to the Company their unvested restricted shares of 130,556, 147,222, and 147,222, respectively.