1. Nature of Operations and Going Concern
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1. Nature of Operations and Going Concern |
Overview
果冻APP传媒 Group, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the Company or 果冻APP传媒) was founded in Colorado in 1987 as the International School of Information Management. On September 30, 2004, it was acquired by Higher Education Management Group, Inc. (HEMG) and changed its name to 果冻APP传媒 University Inc. On May 13, 2011, the Company formed a Colorado subsidiary, 果冻APP传媒 University Marketing, LLC, which was inactive and was formally dissolved on November 20, 2012. On March 13, 2012, the Company was recapitalized in a reverse merger (See Note 12). All references to the Company or 果冻APP传媒 before March 13, 2012 are to 果冻APP传媒 University, Inc.
果冻APP传媒s mission is to become an institution of choice for adult learners by offering cost-effective, comprehensive, and relevant online education. One of the key differences between 果冻APP传媒 and other publicly-traded, exclusively online, for-profit universities is that approximately 87% of our degree-seeking students (as of December 31, 2012) were enrolled in graduate degree programs (Master or Doctorate degree program). Since 1993, we have been nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), a national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (the DOE).
Merger with Education Growth Corporation
On May 19, 2011, the Company closed an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the Merger Agreement) wherein the Company acquired Education Growth Corporation, Inc. (EGC), a privately-held corporation formed in Delaware on January 21, 2011. EGC merged with and into 果冻APP传媒 University Inc. and 果冻APP传媒 University Inc. was the surviving corporation.
The consideration with respect to the merger with EGC consisted of 3,200,000 common shares of the Company. EGC was not an operating company and it did not meet the definition of a business for business combination accounting. EGC did possess intellectual property and, accordingly, the merger was accounted for as an asset acquisition. Since the stockholders of EGC acquired more than a 10% voting interest in the Company, the asset acquisition was accounted for in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin, Topic 5G, Transfers of Nonmonetary Assets by Promoters or Shareholders. Accordingly, the assets acquired in the merger have been recorded at the transferors historical cost basis determined under GAAP. The net purchase price, including acquisition costs paid, was allocated to assets acquired and liabilities assumed as follows:
Going Concern
The Company had a net loss allocable to common stockholders of $6,048,113 and negative cash flows from operations of $4,403,361 for the year ended December 31, 2012. While management expects operating trends to improve over the course of 2013, the Companys ability to continue as a going concern is contingent on securing additional debt or equity financing from outside investors. These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
Management plans to continue to implement its business plan and to fund operations by raising additional capital through the issuance of debt and equity securities. During 2012, the Company has raised $5,778,000 in gross funding including: (i) $1,706,000 from the sale of convertible notes and warrants under the Laidlaw arrangement (See Note 9), (ii) $600,000 from the sale of convertible notes to the Companys chief executive officer (the CEO) (See Notes 9 and 15), and (iii) $3,472,000 from Units (consisting of common shares and warrants) (See Note 12). Since the beginning of 2013, the Company has received an additional $565,000 in funding from the sale of Units (consisting of common stock and warrants). To aid the fund-raising process, the Company on March 14, 2013 engaged Laidlaw and Company to raise up to $770,000 through the sale of additional Units.
The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recovery of the recorded assets or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern. |