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Note 1. Business Description and Basis of Presentation
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Notes  
Note 1. Business Description and Basis of Presentation

NOTE 1. BUSINESS DESCRIPTION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

          

Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. (“the Company”) develops and manufactures high purity metals and compounds for use in the field of national defense, navigation, spaceflight and the electronic industry.  In addition, the Company is developing semiconductor, photoelectrical, photoconductive and photovoltaic basic materials for thin film solar cells. The Company owned the exclusive mining rights to the Dashuigou tellurium mine through January 31, 2014.  The Company is in the process of renewing the certificate.  

 

The company entered into various exclusive contractual arrangements on April 10, 2009 with Sichuan Xinju Mineral Resources Development Corporation (“XMR”, or the VIE), and certain of its shareholders who collectively own 51.6619% of the VIE.  Among other things, these agreements granted to our wholly-owned subsidiary a first option to purchase the exploration rights related to the Dashuigou area mine and the mining rights related to that certain tellurium and bismuth mine in Shimian Majiagou  Additionally, the VIE and certain of its shareholders who collectively own 51.6619% of the VIE granted to our wholly-owned subsidiary an exclusive right to purchase all of the products produced from XMR’s mining business for a specified period of time. The Company considered the terms of its interest in XMR and determined that it was a VIE in accordance with ASC 810-10-55 and that it should be consolidated with the Company.  

 

Basis of presentation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”).

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, its wholly owned subsidiaries, its equity method investment (see Note 5) and XMR, a Variable Interest Entity (“VIE”).  All significant inter-company transactions and balances among the Company, its subsidiaries and the VIE are eliminated upon consolidation.

 

The Company’s functional currency is the Chinese Renminbi (“RMB”); however, the accompanying financial statements have been translated and presented in United States Dollars (“USD”).

 

Reclassifications

 

Certain amounts of prior years were reclassified to conform with current year presentation.

 

Going concern

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As shown in the accompanying financial statements, the Company has a working capital deficiency of $7,605,859, did not generate cash from its operations, and has had operating losses for past two years.  In addition, approximately $9.6 million of the Company’s loan will be due in 2014.  The current cash and inventory level will not be sufficient to support the Company’s normal operation and repayment of the loans.  These circumstances, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.

 

Management plans to increase its marketing in order to generate more revenues and to reduce certain other operating expenses. Accordingly, for our next fiscal year, we anticipate our cash flow from operations to improve. Nevertheless, the Company anticipates that its current cash position will be insufficient to support the Company's operations at current capacity for the next twelve month period and, therefore, will need to seek additional financing of its operations. We may rely on bank borrowing as well as capital issuances and loans from existing shareholders. We are actively exploring various proposals and alternatives in order to secure sources of financing and improve our financial position. We may raise such additional capital through the issuance of our equity securities, which may result in significant dilution to our current investors. We are also exploring potential strategic partnerships, which could provide a capital infusion to the Company.

 

Discontinued Operations

On July 8, 2013, the Company entered into an Equity Transfer Agreement to sell its interest in Hefei Huirun Energy & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Hefei Huirun”).

The gain on disposal of Hefei Huirun was as following:

Consideration received

 

$

646,151

 

Net assets of Hefei Huirun

 

 

(32,933)

Gain on disposition of subsidiary

 

$

613,218

 

Accordingly, the Company has accounted for Hefei Huirun as a discontinued operation. The consolidated financial statements reflect the operating results and balance sheet items of the discontinued operations separately from continuing operations. Prior year’s amounts have been reclassified to conform with current year’s presentation of the discontinued operations. The following table summarized the operating result of the discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively:

 

For the Years Ended December 31,

2013

 

2012

Revenue

$

          825,683

$

      402,405

Cost of goods sold

 

       (679,853)

 

    (453,170)

Gross profit/loss

          145,827

      (50,765)

Operating expenses

 

          158,616

 

      441,228

Operating loss from discontinued operations before income tax

 

          (12,789)

 

    (491,993)

Net loss from discontinuing operations

$

          (12,789)

$

    (491,993)

 

The following summarized the assets and liabilities of discontinued operations as of December 31, 2012:

 

 

2012

Cash

$

              4,475

Accounts receivable, net

            13,184

Inventories

            91,080

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

            68,187

Current assets

          176,926

Fixed assets

 

          131,552

Total assets

$

          308,478

Account payable - trade

$

            63,247

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

 

          187,697

Current liabilities

$

          250,944