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NOTE 17 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2021
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
NOTE 17 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

NOTE 17 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS  

 

In accordance with ASC 855-10, the Company has analyzed its operations subsequent to August 31, 2021 to the date these financial statements were issued.

 

Covid-19 impact:

 

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) surfaced. The spread of COVID-19 around the world in the first quarter of 2020 has caused significant volatility in the U.S. and international markets. The ultimate disruption which may be caused by the outbreak is uncertain; however, it may result in a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position, operations and cash flows. It is too early to quantify the impact this situation will have on company revenue and profits at this time. Possible areas that may be affected include, but are not limited to, disruption to the Company’s customers and revenue, labor workforce, unavailability of supplies used in operations, etc. Accordingly, Management is evaluating the Company’s liquidity position, reduction in revenues, and reviewing the analysis of the Company’s financial performance as the Company seeks to withstand the uncertainty related to the coronavirus. As no large-crowd gathering has been allowed since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Company has not generated any revenue from the Ai Bian Quan Qiu performance matching platform. Consequently, the Company has decided to impair all of the intangible asset carrying value related to the Ai Bian Quan Qiu performance matching platform and its Wechat official account, given that it is uncertain whether this platform will continue generating any revenue.

 

Subsequent cash receipt for Put share issuance:

 

On September 4, 2021, the Company received the subscription receivable from Peak One Opportunity Fund LP for issuing 3,000,000 Put shares at $0.0344 per share on August 16, 2021.

 

Issue of Series C Preferred Stock:

 

On September 3, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with an accredited investor Geneva Roth Remark Holdings, Inc. (the “Investor”), whereby Investor purchased from the Company 234,300 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Series C Preferred Stock”) for a purchase price of $203,500 (the “Purchase Price”). The closing occurred on September 3, 2021. After the payment of transaction-related expenses, net proceeds to the Company from the issuance of the Series C Preferred Stock totaled $184,000. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Preferred Stock for general working capital purposes.

 

 

On October 21, under another Purchase Agreement with the Investor, whereby Investor purchased from the Company 98,325 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Series C Preferred Stock”) for a purchase price of $85,450 (the “Purchase Price”). The closing occurred on October 22, 2021. After the payment of transaction-related expenses, net proceeds to the Company from the issuance of the Series C Preferred Stock totaled $75,390. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Preferred Stock for general working capital purposes.

 

Issue of Series D Preferred Stock:

 

For the Securities Purchase Agreement dated March 10, 2021 entered between the Company and the accredited investor GHS Investments, LLC (the “Investor”), the Company will issue up to 5,075 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Series D Preferred Stock”) to GHS Investments, LLC with a purchase price of $1,000 per share. On September 6, 2021 and October 5, 2021, the Company issued 73 and 37 shares of series D preferred stock to the investor, respectively. After the payment of transaction-related expenses, net proceeds to the Company from the issuance of the Series D Preferred Stock was $67,160 and $34,040, respectively. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Preferred Stock for general working capital purposes.

 

Open a Movie Theater in New York City:

 

In October 2021, the Company entered into a five- year lease with Martabano Realty Corp (hereinafter referred to as "Landlord") for the "The Mt. Kisco Theatre” located at 144 Main Street, Mount Kisco, New York. The property under the lease consists of approximately 8,375 squares to be used and occupied by the Company as a movie theater. The fixed minimum annual base rent for each year of the five-year lease term is $83,750, $83,750, $159,125, $163,899, and $168,816.

 

NFT Film and Music Market (NFT MMM) Development and Maintenance Contract:

 

The Company has entered into a contract with STAREASTnet to develop a decentralized application based on the NFT (Non-Fungible Token) for a movie and music marketplace with the option to buy physical, digital download or both, in one place. The digital copyrights of movies and music are generalized through NFTs, whose smart contracts facilitate the verifications of digital copyrights saved on the blockchain. The Company will hold 100% stake of STAREASTnet NFT Movies and Music Marketplace (NFT MMM).

 

Officer Resignation:

 

Brandy Gao resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company since the term of her contract with the Company ended on December 31, 2021.

 

Cancellation of Acquiring a Movie Copyright:

 

The Company acquired a movie copyright of “Too Simple” from Guang Dong Honor Pictures Ltd in July 2021 at a price of $1,271,680, which was to be paid in installments. As of August 31, 2021, $644,785 was paid and recorded in long-term prepayment. On December 31, 2021, the Company entered into a termination contract with Guang Dong Honor Pictures Ltd to cancel the purchase of this movie copyright and will receive a full refund before May 31, 2022. Therefore, the Company has reclassified $644,785 from long-term prepayment to other receivable on the balance sheet.

 

Change in Outstanding Common Shares:

 

As of December 31, 2021, the Company had 237,297,700 shares of common stock outstanding. The approximate 10.7 million increase from 226,589,735 shares outstanding at August 31, 2021 is primarily attributed to 7.3 million Put shares issued to Peak One Opportunity Fund LP and 3.2 million common shares converted from preferred shares series D.

 

 

Item 9. Changes In and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

None.

 

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

 

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

As required by Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, we have carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this annual report, being August 31, 2021. This evaluation was carried out under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

 

Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our company’s reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

Based upon that evaluation, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective as of the end of the period covered by this annual report.

 

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). Management has assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of August 31, 2021 based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. As a result of this assessment, management concluded that, as of August 31, 2021, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective. Our management identified the following material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, which are indicative of many small companies with small staff: (i) inadequate segregation of duties and effective risk assessment; and (ii) insufficient written policies and procedures for accounting and financial reporting with respect to the requirements and application of both US GAAP and SEC guidelines.

 

We plan to take steps to enhance and improve the design of our internal control over financial reporting. During the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-K, we have not been able to remediate the material weaknesses identified above. To remediate such weaknesses, we hope to implement the following changes during our fiscal year ending August 31, 2022: (i) appoint additional qualified personnel to address inadequate segregation of duties and ineffective risk management; and (ii) adopt sufficient written policies and procedures for accounting and financial reporting. The remediation efforts set out in (i) and (ii) are largely dependent upon our securing additional financing to cover the costs of implementing the changes required. If we are unsuccessful in securing such funds, remediation efforts may be adversely affected in a material manner.

 

This annual report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to an exemption for non-accelerated filers set forth in Section 989G of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

 

Remediation of Material Weakness

 

We are unable to remedy our controls related to the inadequate segregation of duties and ineffective risk management until we receive financing to hire additional employees.

  

 

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the year ended August 31, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

Limitations on the Effectiveness of Internal Controls

 

Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting are or will be capable of preventing or detecting all errors or all fraud. Any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements, due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns may occur because of simple error or mistake. Controls can also be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of controls. The design of any system of controls is based in part on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Projections of any evaluation of controls effectiveness to future periods are subject to risk.

 

Item 9B. Other Information

 

None.

 

PART III

 

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

 

Our current executive officer and director is as follows:

 

Name   Age   Position  
Chiyuan Deng   58   Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer and Director  
Brandy Gao   38   Chief Financial Officer, Resigned on December 31, 2021  
Vella Deng   50   Chief Financial Officer, Appointed on December 31, 2021  
Jimmy Chue   65   Chief Investment Officer  
Ruiyu Guan   53   Director  
Ho Fai Lam   65   Director  
                 

Chiyuan Deng

 

Mr. Deng is an investor, producer, and director of Chinese films. He has worked as Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Province Film and TV Production Industry Association and Vice Secretary General of the China City Image Project Advancement Committee. He has extensive investment and management experience in China, including in the areas of corporate development and business investment activities. Mr. Deng graduated from Guangzhou Broadcast TV University in 1987. Mr. Deng is Jianli Deng’s father.

 

Mr. Deng does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

We have chosen Mr. Deng as our director because of his experience in the movie production business.

 

 

Brandy Gao

 

Ms. Gao has more than 13 years of professional service experience in a variety of industries including software, media, telecommunications, FinTech, pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare, financial services, real estate, manufacturing, and retail. She played leadership roles at PwC and KPMG before becoming the CFO of the Company.

 

Ms. Gao does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

On December 31, 2021, Brandy Gao resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The term of her contract with the Company ended on the last day of 2021.

 

Vella Deng

 

Ms Deng has approximately 20 years’ experiences in accounting and financial management, Ms. Deng was the Director of Accounting at Free Productions Limited in Hong Kong and China before being appointed as the CFO of the Company. 

 

Ms. Deng is the sister of Chiyuan Deng, our Chief Executive Officer. Besides Ms Deng, there are no other family relationships between Ms. Deng and any directors or executive officers of the Company.

 

Ms. Deng does not hold and has not had any material direct or indirect interest in any of the Company’s transactions or proposed transactions over the last two years.

 

Ms Deng does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

Ho Fai Lam

 

From Jan 2014 to present, Mr. Lam is a director of Gay Giano Company Limited, a company holding patent and trademarks in the fashion industry.

 

Mr. Lam has over 20 years’ experience in treasury management in the banking industry and 10 years of corporate finance experience.

 

Mr. Lam does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

Ruiyu Guan

 

From May 2014 to present, Ms. Guan has served as Secretary General of Guangdong Jin Shi Gold L.L.C. in China.

 

Ms Guan does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

Jimmy Chue

 

Wall Street career spans for more than three decades. Working with prestiges firms such as Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities as a senior analysis of operations. Founding Member and CIO of Healthier2gether, Senior Partner at Silver Bear Capital, and Cofounder of a new entity in formation named World Global Partners Inc.

 

Mr. Chue does not hold and has not held over the past five years any other directorships in any company with a class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act or subject to the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or any company registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

Other Significant Employees

 

Other than our executive officer, we do not currently have any significant employees.

 

Term of Office

 

Our directors are appointed for a one-year term to hold office until the next annual general meeting of our shareholders or until removed from office in accordance with our bylaws. Our officers are appointed by our board of directors and hold office until removed by the board, subject to their respective employment agreements.

 

Family Relationships

 

There are no family relationships between or among the directors, executive officers or persons nominated or chosen by us to become directors or executive officers, aside from Jianli and Chiyuan Deng, who are father and son, Vella and Chiyuan Deng who are sister and brother.

 

 

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

 

During the past 10 years, none of our current executive officers, nominees for directors, or current directors have been involved in any legal proceeding identified in Item 401(f) of Regulation S-K, including:

 

  1. Any petition under the Federal bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency law filed by or against, or a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer was appointed by a court for the business or property of such person, or any partnership in which he or she was a general partner at or within two years before the time of such filing, or any corporation or business association of which he or she was an executive officer at or within two years before the time of such filing;

  

  2. Any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being named a subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);

 

  3. Being subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining him or her from, or otherwise limiting, the following activities:

 

  i. Acting as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, floor broker, leverage transaction merchant, any other person regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or an associated person of any of the foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter, broker or dealer in securities, or as an affiliated person, director or employee of any investment company, bank, savings and loan association or insurance company, or engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with such activity;  

 

ii.       Engaging in any type of business practice; or

 

  iii. Engaging in any activity in connection with the purchase or sale of any security or commodity or in connection with any violation of Federal or State securities laws or Federal commodities laws;

 

  4. Being subject to any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any Federal or State authority barring, suspending or otherwise limiting for more than 60 days the right of such person to engage in any type of business regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, securities, investment, insurance or banking activities, or to be associated with persons engaged in any such activity;

 

  5. Being found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the SEC to have violated any Federal or State securities law, and the judgment in such civil action or finding by the Commission has not been subsequently reversed, suspended, or vacated;

 

  6. Being found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated any Federal commodities law, and the judgment in such civil action or finding by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated;

 

  7. Being subject to, or a party to, any Federal or State judicial or administrative order, judgment, decree, or finding, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, relating to an alleged violation of:

 

i.       Any Federal or State securities or commodities law or regulation; or

 

  ii. Any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies including, but not limited to, a temporary or permanent injunction, order of disgorgement or restitution, civil money penalty or temporary or permanent cease-and-desist order, or removal or prohibition order; or

 

  iii. Any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity; or

 

  8. Being subject to, or a party to, any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any self-regulatory organization (as defined in Section 3(a)(26) of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(26))), any registered entity (as defined in Section 1(a)(29) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1(a)(29))), or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or organization that has disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member.

 

 

Audit Committee

 

The Board of Directors has an audit committee to assist the Board of Directors in the execution of its responsibilities. Our audit committee is comprised solely of non-employee, independent directors as defined by NYSE American market listing standards.

 

The Audit Committee was established in October of 2019 and is comprised of Directors Ruiyu Guan and Ho Fai Lam, and is chaired by Director Lam.

 

The Audit Committee approves the selection of our independent accountants and meets and interacts with the independent accountants to discuss issues related to financial reporting. In addition, the Audit Committee reviews the scope and results of the audit with the independent accountants, reviews with management and the independent accountants our annual operating results, considers the adequacy of our internal accounting procedures and considers other auditing and accounting matters including fees to be paid to the independent auditor and the performance of the independent auditor.

 

For the fiscal year ending August 31, 2021, the Audit Committee:

 

1. Reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements with management, and

2. Reviewed and discussed the written disclosures and the letter from our independent auditors on the matters relating to the auditor's independence.

 

Based upon the Audit Committee’s review and discussion of the matters above, the board of directors authorized inclusion of the audited financial statements for the year ended August 31, 2020 to be included in this Annual Report.

 

The Board has determined that Mr. Lam of the Audit Committee qualifies as an audit committee financial expert as defined under applicable SEC rules and also meets the additional criteria for independence of audit committee members set forth in Rule 10A-3(b)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Compliance with Section 16(a) Of the Exchange Act

 

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors and executive officers and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent of a registered class of the Company’s equity securities to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of common stock and other equity securities of the Company. Officers, directors and greater than ten percent beneficial shareholders are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. To the best of our knowledge based solely on a review of Forms 3, 4, and 5 (and any amendments thereof) received by us during or with respect to the year ended August 31, 2021, there have been no late reports, failures to file or transactions not timely reported, aside from one transaction not timely reported for Mr. Chiyuan Deng.

 

Code of Ethics

 

We have adopted a Corporate Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and Financial Code of Ethics. These are attached as exhibits to our Annual Report for the year ended August 31, 2019.

 

 

Item 11. Executive Compensation

 

The table below summarizes all compensation awarded to, earned by, or paid to our former or current executive officers for the fiscal years ended August 31, 2021 and 2020.

 

  SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE 

Name

and

principal

position

Year Salary($)

Bonus

($)

 

Stock

Awards

($)

Option

Awards

($)

Non-Equity

Incentive Plan

Compensation

($)

Nonqualified

Deferred

Compensation

Earnings ($)

All Other

Compensation

($)

Total

($)

Chiyuan Deng
President,

CEO, and Director

2021

2020

 

180,000

__

50,000

 

30,100

100,000

0

0

0

0

0

0

9,000

9,000

269,100

109,000

Brandy Gao

CFO, resigned in December 2021

2021

2020

25,000

15,000

0

0

0

145

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

25,000

15,145 

Jimmy Chue

Chief Investment Officer

2021

 

 

55,685 0 7,527 0 0 0 0 63,212

Linqing Ye

Former COO

2021

2020

 

__

0

0

0

0

9,667

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

120,000

__

129,667

Jianli Deng

Former Secretary, Treasurer and Director

2021

2020

0

__

 

0

0

0

50,000

 

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

119,000

__

169,000

Lijun Yu

Former Chief Marketing Officer

2021

2020

0

0

0

0

0

9,667

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

110,000

__

119,667

 

On July 30, 2018, we entered into an employment agreement with Chiyuan Deng to serve as our President. The agreement is for six years and we issued Mr. Deng 400,000 shares for his services. Under the agreement, Mr. Deng is eligible for a bonus if provided by the board, vacation, medical, insurance and other benefits.

 

On September 11, 2020, we entered into an amended employment agreement with Chiyuan Deng, our Chief Executive Officer. Pursuant the amended agreement, we amended the compensation to Mr. Deng to include a salary of $180,000 annually, a reduction in common stock received under his initial employment agreement, a potential for a bonus in cash or shares, and the issuance of 100,000 shares of our newly created Series A Preferred Stock.

 

 

On February 22, 2021, we entered into an employment agreement with Jimmy Chue to serve as Chief Investment Officer (CIO). The CIO will be compensated with an annual base salary of $78,000, and eligible for a bonus of at least 50% of the annual salary payable in a lump sum at such time as may be determined by the Board of Directors. The Company also issued 500,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, to the CIO as Restricted Stock Award.

 

On August 29, 2020, we 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, Mr. 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, Miss 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.

 

On December 31, 2021, Brandy Gao resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The term of her contract with the Company ended on the last day of 2021.

 

OUTSTANDING EQUITY AWARDS AT FISCAL YEAR-END
OPTION AWARDS STOCK AWARDS
Name Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Exercisable Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Unexercisable Equity Incentive  Plan Awards: Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Unearned Options (#) Option Exercise Price  ($) Option Expiration Date Number of Shares or Units of Stock That Have Not Vested (#)

Market Value of Shares or Units

of Stock That Have Not Vested ($)

Equity Incentive  Plan Awards:  Number of Unearned  Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have

 Not Vested (#)

Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Market or Payout Value of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not  Vested (#)
Chiyuan Deng - - - - - - - - -
Linqing Ye - - - - - - - - -
Jianli Deng - - - - - - - - -
Lijun Yu - - - - - - - - -
Brandy Gao - - - - - - - - -

Jimmy

Chue

- - - - - - - - -

 

 

Director Compensation

 

On September 29, 2020, our board of directors approved a change in director compensation from shares to cash compensation.

 

For the year 2019-2020, the Board of Directors hereby approves of the payment of US$9,000 as the fee for each Director.

For the year 2020-2021, the Board of Directors hereby approves of the payment of US$9,000 as the fee for each Director.

 

 

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

 

The following table sets forth, as of November 11, 2021 information as to shares of our common stock owned by (i) each person known by us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common stock, (ii) each of our directors, and (iii) all of our executive officers and directors as a group:

 

Name and Address of
Beneficial Owner
  Common Stock     Series A
Preferred Stock
Series B
Preferred Stock
    Number of Shares Owned     Percent of  Class(1)(2)     Number of Shares Owned     Percent of  Class(1)(2) Number of Shares Owned Percent of  Class(1)(2)
Chiyuan Deng(3)     6,312,733       2.87%       100,000       100% 20,000 100%
Brandy Gao     2,000       *       —            —
Jimmy Chue     500,000       *            
Ho Fai Lam           —        —       
Ruiyu Guan     —         —         —       

All Directors and Executive Officers as a Group (3 persons)

    6,814,733       3.1%       100,000     100%

 

 

 

20,000

 

 

 

100%

5% Holders                                  
                      —       

 

* Less than 1%

  

  (1) Unless otherwise indicated, each person or entity named in the table has sole voting power and investment power (or shares that power with that person’s spouse) with respect to all shares of voting stock listed as owned by that person or entity.

 

  (2) Pursuant to Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 of the Exchange Act, beneficial ownership includes any shares as to which a shareholder has sole or shared voting power or investment power, and also any shares which the shareholder has the right to acquire within 60 days, including upon exercise of common shares purchase options or warrants. The percent of class is based on 235,950,399 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and 100,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock as of November 30, 2021.

 

  (3) Includes 2,020,400 shares and 100,000 shares that may be acquired within 60 days on conversion of the 100,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock

  

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

 

Except as provided in “Description of Business” and “Executive Compensation” set forth above, for the past two fiscal years there have not been, and there is not currently proposed, any transaction or series of similar transactions to which we were or will be a participant in which the amount involved exceeded or will exceed the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years, and in which any director, executive officer, holder of 5% or more of any class of our capital stock or any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing persons had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

 

 

Youall Perform Services Ltd, owned by the son of the Company’s Chief Executive Offer and the Company’s former Secretary and Treasurer Jianli Deng, collects revenue from the performance matching platform “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” via a Wechat official account on behalf of the Company. Due to the COVID-19 impact, the Company ceased operation of the “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” platform in January, 2020. For the years ended August 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized revenue of $0 and $141,143 from this performance matching platform, respectively. The balance of related party receivable from Youall Perform Services Ltd was $1,439 and $87,581 as of August 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

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 the “Ai Bian Quan Qiu” platform due to COVID-19 since mid-January, 2020, $108,800 long-term prepayment was expensed as research and development expense in FY2020. 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 afterthe launch of the website www.abqq.tv. The website maintenance service began on January 1, 2021 and will end on December 31, 2022. The Company will pay Youall Perform Services Ltd the remaining balance of $19,200 in September, 2022.

 

The Company has entered into a patent license agreement with a related party Guangzhou Shengshituhua Film and Television Company Limited (“Licensor”) 100% owned by the Chief Executive Officer Chiyuan Deng. 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, 2021 and August 31, 2020 are $25,600 and $61,440, respectively. In January, 2021, the Company’s sublicensing agreement to generate royalty revenues was terminated with Anyone Picture. As such, there has been no royalty expenses since the end of December, 2020 given there has been no sublicensing royalty revenue generated from the patent. Once the Company finds another company to sublicense the patent, it will generate royalty revenue and pay royalty expense again.

  

The Company rented an office from ZESTV STUDIOS LIMITED, a Hong Kong entity 100% owned by the Chief Executive Officer Chiyuan Deng. On December 1, 2020, the Company entered an agreement with ZESTV STUDIOS LIMITED to grant ZESTV STUIDIOS LIMITED the distribution right for the movie “Love over the world” and charge ZESTV STUIDIOS LIMITED movie royalties. The Company’s royalties revenue is stipulated to equal 43% of the after-tax movie box office revenue deducting movie issuance costs. The movie box office revenue is tracked by a movie distributor Huaxia Film Distribution Co. Ltd (hereafter “Hua Xia”) in China as it connects with all movie theaters in China and can track the total movie box office revenue online in real time. Although ZESTV STUDIOS LIMITED has paid royalties revenue to the Company, ZESTV STUDIOS LIMITED failed to collect cash from Hua Xia. The Company will refund ZESTV STUDIOS LIMITED the movie royalties. As of August 31, 2021, the Company incurred related party payable of $16,512 for the office rent and $916,922 of refund for the movie royalites revenue net of the movie distribution commission fee.   

  

 

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, Ms. Yu will receive $110,000 and Mr. Ye will receive $120,000. We received a release of all claims from these prior officers. In addition, Mr. Deng, Ms. Yu, and Mr. Ye agreed to return to the Company their unvested restricted shares of 130,556, 147,222, and 147,222, respectively.

 

On September 11, 2020, we entered into an amended employment agreement with Chiyuan Deng, our Chief Executive Officer. Pursuant the amended agreement, we amended the compensation to Mr. Deng to include a salary of $180,000 annually, a reduction in common stock received under his initial employment agreement, a potential for a bonus in cash or shares, and the issuance of 100,000 shares of our newly created Series A Preferred Stock at par value $0.001.

 

During the year ended August 31, 2021, the Company paid the Chief Executive Officer $180,000 salary, $50,000 bonus in cash, and $30,100 stock-based compensation. $25,000 salary was paid in cash to Chief Financial Officer. In addition, the Company hired Chief Investment Officer on February 22, 2021. $55,685 cash salary and $7,527 stock-based compensation were paid to Chief Investment Officer for the year ended August 31, 2021. During the year 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. 

 

Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services 

 

Below is the table of audit fees billed by our auditors in connection with the audits of the Company’s annual financial statements for the years ended:

 

Financial Statements for the
Year Ended August 31
  Audit Services   Audit Related Fees   Tax Fees   Other Fees
  2021     $ 58,500   $ 0     $ 18,750     $ 0  
  2020     $ 63,500   $ 744     $ 0     $ 0  

 

PART IV

 

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statements Schedules

 

(a) Financial Statements and Schedules

 

The following financial statements and schedules listed below are included in this Form 10-K.

 

Financial Statements (See Item 8)

 

(b) Exhibits

 

        Incorporated by
Reference
    Filed or
Furnished
Exhibit Number   Exhibit Description   Form     Exhibit     Filing Date   Herewith
                         
3.1   Articles of Incorporation   S-1     3.1     10/10/14    
                         
3.2   Bylaws   S-1     3.2     10/10/14    
                         
3.3   Certificate of Amendment   8-K     3.1     6/7/18    
                         
3.4   Certificate of Change   8-K     3.1     6/18/19    
                         
4.1   Convertible Promissory Note   8-K     4.1     11/21/19    
                         
4.2   Convertible Debenture   8-K     4.1     12/18/19    
                        .
4.3   Common Stock Purchase Warrant   8-K     4.2     12/18/19    
                         
4.4   Convertible Promissory Note   8-K     4.1     1/10/20    
                         
4.5   Convertible Promissory Note   8-K     4.2     1/10/20    
                         
4.6   10% Convertible Note   8-K     4.1     2/21/20    
                         
4.7   10% Convertible Note   8-K     4.2     2/21/20    
                         
4.8   Convertible Promissory Note   8-K     4.1     3/18/20    
                         
4.9   Common Stock Purchase Warrant   8-K     10.1     3/18/20    
                         
4.10   10% Convertible Note   8-K     4.1     7/23/20    
                         
4.11   Convertible Promissory Note   8-K     4.1     7/28/20    
                         
4.12   Common Stock Purchase Warrant   8-K     4.1     8.3.20    
                         
10.1   Patent License Agreement   8-K     10.1     6/6/17    
                         
10.2   Agreement for Termination and Release   8-K     10.1     11/1/18    
                         
10.3   Chief Marketing Officer Employment Agreement   8-K     10.1     2/11/19    
                         
10.4   Chief Operating Officer Employment Agreement   8-K     10.2     2/11/19    
                         
10.5   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     11/21/19    

 

 

10.6   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     12/18/19    
                         
10.7   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     1/10/20    
                         
10.8   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.2     1/10/20    
                         
10.9   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     2/21/20    
                         
10.10   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.2     2/21/20    
                         
10.11   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     4.2     3/18/20    
                         
10.12   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     7/23/20    
                         
10.13   Securities Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     7/28/20    
                         
10.14   Equity Purchase Agreement   8-K     10.1     8/3/20    
                         
10.15   Registration Rights Agreement   8-K     10.2     8/3/20    
                         
10.16   Separation Agreement and Release with Jianli Deng, dated August 29, 2020   8-K     10.1     9/1/20    
                         
10.17   Separation Agreement and Release with Lijun Yu, dated August 29, 2020   8-K     10.2     9/1/20    
                         
10.18   Separation Agreement and Release with Linqing Ye, dated August 29, 2020   8-K     10.3     9/1/20    
                         
31.1   Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002                  
                         
31.2   Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002                   X

 

                       

 

 

 32.1

  Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002                   X

 

101 INS*   Inline XBLR Instance Document                    
101 SCH*  

Inline XBLR Taxonomy Extension

Schema Document

                   
101 CAL*  

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension

Calculation Linkbase Document

                   
101 LAB*  

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label

Linkbase Document

                   
101 PRE*  

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension

Presentation Linkbase Document

                   
101 DEF*  

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension

Definition Linkbase Document

                   
104*  

Cover Page Interactive Data File

(formatted as Inline XBRL and contained

in Exhibit 101 attachments)

                   

 

* These certifications are being furnished solely to accompany this quarterly report pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section

 

1350, and are not being filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Registrant, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

 

SIGNATURES

In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

AB International Group Corp.

 

By: /s/ Chiyuan Deng
 

Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer, and Director

  January 12, 2022

 

By: /s/ Vella Deng
  Chief Financial Officer
  January 12, 2022

 

 

In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

By: /s/ Chiyuan Deng
 

Chief Executive Officer, Principal Executive Officer, and Director

  January 12, 2022

 

By: /s/ Vella Deng
  Chief Financial Officer
  January 12, 2022