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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
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. As of February 28, 2021 and August 31, 2020, 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 six months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020 are $30,720 and $30,720, 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 February 28, 2021, the Company has $1,439 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 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 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.

 

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.

 

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 six months ended February 28, 2021, $90,000 salary and $50,000 bonus were paid in cash to Chief Executive Officer. $12,500 salary was paid in cash to Chief Financial Officer. $1,710 salary was paid in cash to Chief Investment Officer. $27 and $30,100 in the form of stock-based compensation were paid to Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer, respectively. During the six months ended February 29, 2020, $85,102 was paid to five executives in the form of stock-based compensation and $7,500 cash salary was paid to the Chief Financial Officer.