ITEM 2. MANAGEMENTS DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion of our results of operations should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes, included elsewhere in this report. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our current plans, estimates and beliefs and involves unknown risks and uncertainties. Examples of forward-looking statements include: projections of capital expenditures, competitive pressures, revenues, growth prospects, product development, financial resources and other financial matters. You can identify these and other forward-looking statements by the use of words such as may, will, should, plans, anticipates, believes, estimates, predicts, intends, potential or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include those discussed below and elsewhere in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q.
Executive Summary
B-Scada, Inc. (we, B-Scada, us, our) is in the business of developing software and hardware products for the visualization and monitoring of data in residential, commercial and heavy industries. Since 2003, B-Scada's focus on user interface design solutions for Windows and web applications has given us a unique perspective and insight into the data visualization market. Our software solutions are reducing resource consumption, increasing productivity and improving safety all over the world in industries like manufacturing, building automation, water treatment, energy management, and other fields of business relying on real-time data visualization and analytics to manage their processes. With a background in heavy industrial software technology, B-Scada has pushed beyond the traditional boundaries of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) to bring our technology to light industrial, commercial and residential customers as well.
From machine-level HMI software to enterprise-level SCADA software, B-Scada leverages the latest technology and industry standards to provide powerful, stable, and modern solutions to its customers. B-Scada also has IoT (Internet of Things) cloud-based and on premise solutions, that allow users to create powerful customized applications for Smart Cities and remote monitoring. B-Scadas team of developers and designers have provided world-class service and consultation to customers in a wide range of vertical markets.
Overall Strategic Goals
Our goal is to become a leading supplier of data visualization and analytics to industry. Using some of the best talent in the industry, we build our monitoring systems in house and sell them into various vertical markets worldwide including building automation, petro chemical, transportation, electricity distribution and EPA emissions monitoring. Smaller firms and Fortune 500 companies have recognized the talent of our technical staff and the unique capabilities of our technology. This has given us the ability to license portions of our technology to other companies to use in their software systems.
Products and Services
Our technology team has extensive experience in software design and development and has designed, built and delivered, over the years, world-class software solutions for numerous vertical markets. In addition to software development, we also derive income from the sale of wireless sensors, consulting services, graphic design and contract development that we offer hand in hand with our software solutions.
Product Description
Our Status product line falls into the category of SCADA or HMI software. In addition, our technology is hosted providing an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for monitoring of industrial and commercial data.
The Status family of products are a powerful data visualization software package that allows the user to create highly graphical screens and connect the controls on the screens to real-time data. The screens can then be published and viewed by anyone within the company or from the web. The system includes alarming, reporting, workflow, data modelling and calculation services. Users can use a Windows client or any HTML5 enabled device to access the system.
Status has built-in connectivity to real-time OPC (Open Process Control) data (including OPCUA (Unified Architecture)) and can very easily be extended to bind to other types of data. OPC data is primarily used in the manufacturing and process control industries. The market appeal for Status is its ability to connect to a variety of data from hundreds of data sources and display that data in real time.
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Status Machine Edition was released in January 2009 as an industrial control and monitoring application for heavy industry and manufacturing. 'Status Enterprise' is a supervisory level version of Machine Edition which was released in January 2014.
While Status Enterprise has been deployed internally behind the firewall of corporate networks, it can also be installed on hosted servers on the web. This allows users to bring data into the system from many different devices located anywhere. The HTML 5 support allows the data to be visualized on almost any device. As such, Status Enterprise is a true IoT (Internet of Things) platform. Starting in February of 2015, B-Scada has begun to present Status Enterprise as an IoT platform known as VoT (Virtualization of Things). The intent of this platform is to open additional markets to B-Scada products, markets that may not be realized if our systems were marketed as SCADA only.
Through the various Internet of Things trade shows attended by B-Scada during the year a number of observations have become apparent. IoT customers are looking for complete solutions. This includes the monitoring software, hardware and consulting services for a turnkey system. In order to address this B-Scada has started the process of providing its own sensors to the IoT market.
We have attracted a number of resellers and system integrators that are now promoting and using the Status product line in commercial settings. We believe that this will result in greater sales and distribution of our software through retail outlets and to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We are also targeting potential customers to offer customized applications to meet their industry requirements.
B-Scada technology is used to monitor one of the largest subway systems in the world in Seoul, South Korea. The system monitors building automation performance electricity distribution, mining, manufacturing, aquaculture and petrochemical and is also used for line of business applications.
B-Scada Systems are used in the United States and around the world in numerous countries including Germany, Sweden, Taiwan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Chile, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, South Africa, Russia and France.
Consulting
In addition to sales of the Status products, we generate revenue by providing consulting services to companies that wish to extend and customize our technology. We provide .Net development and graphic design services. We also offer training on our systems.
Technology Licensing
In addition to selling our own software products, we also license the technology we have developed to other software companies. Long-term licenses to multinational software companies are a major part of our business. The lead time for our engineers to work with theirs in developing successful integration of our software with their future products is fairly long - from nine months to two years - but the result is a multiyear high revenue license providing substantial income for us for years to come. We have several such agreements in place with Fortune 500 companies, and agreements with smaller firms.
The products developed using B-Scadas technology include industrial automation solutions, medical applications, smart grid, building automation and line of business applications. The relationships established through licensing are very strategic and may lead to acquisitions to prevent competitive companies from having the same strategic benefits.
Growth Strategy
B-Scada software can collect vital information of what is happening with the system it is monitoring. This data can be very valuable for such activities as scheduling, predictive maintenance and manufacturing execution as well as providing for real-time business process management data to executive-level personnel. Our growth strategy is to grow our software offerings beyond SCADA and provide a more complete and valuable offering to our customers. These additional software products may be developed in house as the company grows, or added through a business acquisition. Additional capital may be needed to finance such an acquisition, either through debt or equity public or private offerings. There is no assurance that, if needed, we will be able to raise capital in an amount necessary to finance such acquisition or finance such acquisition on acceptable terms.
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One new area B-Scada is looking at is IoT (Internet of Things). The software products we offer fit very well with this new growth industry. In 2015 we have started new marketing and product initiatives in this space using our existing technology. From various trade shows we have attended, it has become obvious that many potential IoT customers are looking for turnkey solutions and do not want to develop them themselves. In line with meeting these needs, we plan on offering additional products alongside our software, including sensors, and will be expanding our efforts to partner with other companies in the IoT space to help deliver more complete solutions to the market.
On May 1, 2015, B-Scada signed an agreement with an electronic manufacturing firm for the development of B-Scada sensors. As mentioned, it has become apparent that customers are looking for a complete IoT solution instead of trying to piece together a solution from various vendors. While some sensor companies have software for viewing their sensor data, the software is very limited in its abilities and can only be used with data from that one company. B-Scada software will be able to work with B-Scada sensors as well as sensors and hardware from hundreds of other companies, allowing for the development of a sophisticated system aggregating data from many different hardware sources into custom solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
B-Scada currently has companies that are evaluating Status Enterprise as a data visualization solution to be marketed and sold with their existing hardware and/or software products. There is some integration work required before these systems will be available on the market, but the opportunities look promising.
Revenue Strategy
We sell our SCADA software products to system integrators and commercial customers for visually monitoring and archiving their industrial data. Often, we are asked to provide technical expertise in the form of software development, graphics design and consulting services along with the software we provide our customers. We currently sell our SCADA products directly over the Internet from our website and through resellers to end users and system integrators.
Our IoT initiatives include offering hosted services through a SAAS (Software as a Service) model. This opens up B-Scada to a much larger market than SCADA alone and provides additional revenue streams using technology already developed by B-Scada. These hosted offerings will be driven by the sale of lightweight commercial sensors owned by B-Scada and sold to the market through online sales, resellers, retailers and system integrators.
We are currently generating revenues by licensing portions of our technology to different software companies, which technology they in turn use in their software products. These license agreements are long term arrangements providing consistent revenue to B-Scada.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The preparation of the financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and related disclosures. Though we evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis, our actual results may differ from these estimates.
Certain of our accounting policies that we believe are the most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and that require managements subjective judgments are described below to facilitate a better understanding of our business activities. We base our judgments on our experience and assumptions that we believe are reasonable and applicable under the circumstances.
Revenue Recognition
- Our revenues are recognized in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 985-605 Revenue Recognition for the software industry. Revenue from the sale of software licenses is recognized when standardized software modules are delivered to and accepted by the customer, the license term has begun, the fee is fixed or determinable and collectability is probable. Revenue from software maintenance contracts and Application Service Provider (ASP) services are recognized ratably over the lives of the contracts. Revenue from professional services is recognized when the service is provided.
We enter into revenue arrangements in which a customer may purchase a combination of software, maintenance and support, and professional services (multiple-element arrangements). When vendor-specific objective evidence (VSOE) of fair value exists for all elements, we allocate revenue to each element based on the relative fair value of each of the elements.
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VSOE of fair value is established by the price charged when that element is sold separately. For maintenance and support, VSOE of fair value is established by renewal rates, when they are sold separately. For arrangements where VSOE of fair value exists only for the undelivered elements, we defer the full fair value of the undelivered elements and recognize the difference between the total arrangement fee and the amount deferred for the undelivered items as revenue, assuming all other criteria for revenue recognition have been met.
Technology Development
- We capitalize costs to develop technology for sale once technological feasibility is established. Costs incurred to establish technological feasibility are charged to expense when incurred. Capitalization of technology costs cease when the related products are available for sale and at this time the capitalized costs are amortized on a straight-line method over the remaining estimated economic life of the product.
Results of Operations
Comparison of the Three Months Ended April 30, 2016 and 2015
The following tables set forth, for the periods indicated, certain items from the consolidated statements of operations along with a comparative analysis of ratios of costs and expenses to revenues.
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For the three months ended April 30,
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2016
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2015
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(Unaudited)
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(Unaudited)
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% of
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% of
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Amounts
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Revenues
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Amounts
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Revenues
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Revenues
|
|
|
|
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Technology licensing and support
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$
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193,498
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51%
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$
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418,838
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83%
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Commercial software
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186,860
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49%
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85,212
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17%
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Total revenues
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$
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380,358
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100%
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$
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504,050
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100%
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Operating expenses:
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Technology licensing and support
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$
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--
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-%
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$
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32,646
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6%
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Commercial software
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$
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165,207
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43%
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$
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146,056
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29%
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Sales and marketing
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$
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77,202
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20%
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$
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136,043
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27%
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Research and development
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$
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36,454
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10%
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$
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24,474
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5%
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General and administrative
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$
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146,944
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39%
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$
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242,178
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48%
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Depreciation and amortization
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$
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4,262
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1%
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$
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4,308
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--%
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Interest expense
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$
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1,222
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--%
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$
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1,500
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--%
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Benefit from income taxes
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$
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(21,683)
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(6)%
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$
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(12,703)
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(3)%
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Net loss
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$
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(28,956)
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(8)%
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$
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(69,852)
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(14)%
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Basic and Diluted loss per common share
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$
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(0.01)
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$
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(0.01)
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|
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Revenues
Our revenues for the three months ended April 30, 2016 amounted to $380,358 compared to six months ended 2015 revenues of $504,050, a decrease of $123,692 (25%). The primary decline in revenue is due to losses in the petrochemical sector which has been well documented in previous quarters. In fiscal 2016, we had a decrease in technology licensing revenues $225,340 which was offset by an increase in commercial software revenues of $101,648. The growth in software revenues is due to the increase in our cloud based offerings and increased sales from our system integrators.
Operating Expenses
Technology licensing and support costs consist of payroll and related expenses. Technology licensing and support costs amounted to $0 in the three months ended April 30, 2016 compared to $32,646 in the three months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $32,646 (100%). The decrease was due to the loss of a license in the petrochemical sector.
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As a percentage of technology licensing and support revenues the related costs decreased to 0% in fiscal 2016 as compared to 8% of such revenues in fiscal 2015. The decrease to zero was due to the loss in the petrochemical sector for technology license support.
Commercial software costs consist primarily of payroll and related expenses. Commercial software costs amounted to $165,207 in the three months ended April 30, 2016 compared to $146,056 in the three months ended April 30, 2015 an increase of $19,151 (13%).
Commercial software costs were 88% of commercial software revenues in fiscal 2016 and 171% in fiscal 2015. Overall these costs represented 49% of fiscal 2016 revenues compared to 17% of fiscal 2015 revenues. The 32% increase was due to shifting of staff from Technology Licensing and Support to Commercial software.
Sales and marketing costs have decreased to $77,202 in the three months ended April 30, 2016 from $136,043 in the three months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $58,841 (43%). Payroll and related costs decreased to $60,291 ($9,303 Spain) from $72,354 ($10,411 Spain) and advertising, marketing and trade shows decreased to $16,911 from $63,689. This decrease was a result due to marketing budgets cuts and staff reductions.
Research and development costs increased to $36,454 in the three months ended April 30, 2016 from $24,474 in the three months ended April 30, 2015, an increase of $11,980 (49%). Research and development, payroll and related costs will continue to increase as we continuously work on our production of sensors.
General and administrative costs decreased to $146,944 in the three months ended April 30, 2016 from $242,178 in the three months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $95,234 (39%). The decrease was primarily related to decreases in payroll and related costs which decreased to $76,415 ($13,847 Spain) from $101,569, a result of payroll and related staff reductions.
Interest and Debt Costs
Interest expense decreased to $1,222 in the three months ended April 30, 2016 from $1,500 in the three months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $278 (19%). Interest expense relates to the mortgage on our office building which was purchased in April 2014.
Income Tax Benefit
In the three months ended April 30, 2016, we recorded a deferred income tax benefit of $21,683. US operations recorded a tax benefit of $25,431 and Spanish operations utilized a deferred tax benefit of $3,748. In the three months ended April 30, 2015, we recorded a deferred tax benefit of $12,703. US operations recorded a tax benefit of $2,479 and Spanish operations recorded a tax benefit of $10,224.
Net Income (Loss)
Net loss in the three months ended April 30, 2016 totaled $28,956 (Spain incurred net income of $16,609) compared to net loss of $69,852 (Spain incurred net loss of $33,335) in the three months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $40,896.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the Six Months Ended April 30, 2016 and 2015
The following tables set forth, for the periods indicated, certain items from the consolidated statements of operations along with a comparative analysis of ratios of costs and expenses to revenues.
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For the six months ended April 30,
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2016
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2015
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(Unaudited)
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(Unaudited)
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% of
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% of
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Amounts
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Revenues
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Amounts
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Revenues
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|
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|
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Revenues
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Technology licensing and support
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$
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504,503
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64%
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$
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824,251
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82%
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Commercial software
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280,037
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36%
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175,943
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18%
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Total revenues
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$
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784,540
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100%
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$
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1,000,194
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100%
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Operating expenses:
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Technology licensing and support
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$
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--
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--%
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$
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73,526
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7%
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Commercial software
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$
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289,484
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37%
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$
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277,200
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28%
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Sales and marketing
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$
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164,228
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21%
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$
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281,352
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28%
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Research and development
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$
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88,693
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11%
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$
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50,603
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5%
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General and administrative
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$
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331,919
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42%
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$
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604,548
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60%
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Depreciation and amortization
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$
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9,539
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1%
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$
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8,560
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--%
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Interest expense
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$
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2,485
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--%
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$
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2,964
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--%
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Benefit from income taxes
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$
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(36,140)
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(5)%
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$
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(79,021)
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(8)%
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Net income (loss)
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$
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(64,686)
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(8)%
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$
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(218,400)
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(22)%
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|
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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Basic and Diluted per loss common share
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$
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(0.02)
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|
|
|
$
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(0.01)
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|
|
Revenues
Our revenues for the six months ended April 30, 2016 amounted to $784,540 compared to six months ended 2015 revenues of $1,000,194, a decrease of $215,654 (22%). In fiscal 2016, we had decreases in technology licensing, development, and support revenues of $319,748. These decreases were primarily from our petrochemical customers.
Commercial software revenues increased $104,094 to $280,037 during the same period. This increase is due to increases in sales of our cloud based services which are now generating recurring revenue in a SaaS model and increased activity in our sale channel.
Our line of wireless sensors is in final testing and will be launched at the National Sensors Expo and Conference June 21-23, 2016 at the McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA.
Operating Expenses
Technology licensing and support payroll amounted to $0 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 compared to $73,526 in the six months ended April 30, 2015 a decrease of $73,526 (100%). Commercial software costs amounted to $289,484 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 compared to $277,200 in the six months ended April 30, 2015 an increase of $12,284 (4%). This increase in costs result from shifting of labor from technology licensing and support and reduction of staff.
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As a percentage of technology licensing and support revenues the related costs decreased to 0% in fiscal 2016 as compared to 7% of such revenues in fiscal 2015. Commercial software costs were 103% of commercial software revenues in fiscal 2016 compared to 156% in fiscal 2015. This was a result of the decreased costs, as discussed above, and the decrease in such revenues in fiscal 2016. Overall these costs represented 37% of fiscal 2016 revenues compared to 28% of fiscal 2015 revenues.
Sales and marketing costs have decreased to $164,228 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 from $281,352 in the six months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $117,124 (42%). Payroll and related costs decreased to $125,502 ($17,430 Spain) from $152,465 ($22,863 Spain) and advertising, marketing and trade shows decreased to $38,726 from $128,887. This decrease was a result due to marketing budgets cuts and staff reductions.
Research and development costs increased to $88,693 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 from $50,603 in the six months ended April 30, 2015, an increase of $38,080 (75%). Payroll and related costs increased from fiscal 2015 because during that period we continued to work on our production of sensors.
General and administrative costs decreased to $331,919 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 from $604,548 in the six months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $272,629 (45%). The decrease was related to payroll and related costs, which decreased to $168,016 ($26,252 Spain) from $242,722 ($41,277 Spain), a result of staff reductions, and a one-time charge related to the establishment of our office in Spain of approximately $138,000. There was also decreases accounting, consulting and legal fees by $38,321 as well as office supplies and equipment of $9,400 and repairs and maintenance for city sewer line connection for $10,400.
Interest and Debt Costs
Interest expense increased to $2,485 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 from $2,964 in the six months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $479 (16%). Interest expense relates to the mortgage on our office building which was purchased in April 2014.
Income Tax Benefit
In the six months ended April 30, 2016, we recorded a deferred income tax benefit of $36,140. US operations recorded a tax benefit of $44,300 and Spanish operations utilized a deferred tax benefit of $7,890. In the six months ended April 30, 2015, we recorded a deferred tax benefit of $79,021, of which $9,483 related to US operations and $69,538 related to Spanish operations.
Net Loss
Net loss in the six months ended April 30, 2016 totaled $64,686 (Spain incurred net income of $26,273) compared to net loss of $218,400 (Spain incurred net loss of $162,211) in the six months ended April 30, 2015, a decrease of $153,714.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We currently fund our operations through sales of our products and services and when necessary through sales of equity and debt securities.
At April 30, 2016, we had cash and cash equivalents of $1,090,491 compared to $840,777 at October 31, 2015. The increase of $249,714 is primarily attributable to cash generated from a private placement of the companys common stock.
Cash Flows
Net cash used in operating activities amounted to $252,530 in the six months ended April 30, 2016 compared to net cash provided by operating activities of $226,648 in the six months ended April 30, 2015. Net cash from operations decreased $479,178 primarily due to the cancellation of a $400,000 technology license agreement related to the petrochemical industry.
In the six months ended April 30, 2016 investing activities we used $165,202 for the development of our sensor and for the six months ended April 30, 2015, we used $2,868 for the acquisition of property and equipment.
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In the six months ended April 30, 2016 and 2015 financing activities, we used $8,338 and $7,926, respectively in cash for principal payments on the mortgage incurred from the purchase of our office facility. Additionally, in fiscal 2016 we received $670,000 in cash from the sale of 3,350,000 shares of common stock at $0.20 per share.
We believe that our cash on hand at April 30, 2016 and our revenue commitments will be sufficient to fund our operations for at least the next 12 months. We have signed significant licensing agreements and continue to market our products and services in accordance with our strategic business plan. There is no assurance that the income generated from these and future agreements will meet our working capital requirements, or that we will be able to sign significant agreements in the future.
Contractual Obligations
The information to be reported under this item is not required of smaller reporting companies.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of April 30, 2016, we had no off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4) of Regulation S-K.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2016, the FASB completed its Leases project by issuing Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The new guidance establishes the principles to report transparent and information that faithfully represents the economics about the assets and liabilities that arise from leases. As a result, the effective date will be the first quarter of our fiscal year ending October 31, 2019. We have not determined the potential effects on our consolidated financial statements.
In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Shared-Based Payment Accounting (Topic 718). The amendments in ASU 2016-09 affect all entities that issue share-based payment awards to their employees and involve multiple aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. Some of the amendendments in ASU 2016-09 apply only to nonpublic entities. We have not determined the potential effects on our consolidated financial statements.
In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This ASU is based on when another party is involved in providing goods or services to a customer, an entity is required to determine whether the nature of its promise is to provide the specified good or service itself (that is the entity is a principal) or to arrange for that good or service to be provided by the other party (that is, the entity is an agent). An entity is a principal if it controls the specified good or service before that good or service is transferred to a customer. ASC 606 includes indicators to assist an entity in determining whether it controls a specified good or service before it is transferred to the customer. ASU 2016-08 clarifies the implementation guidance related to principal versus agent considerations and adds illustrative examples to assist in the application of the guidance. We have not determined the potential effects on our consolidated financial statements.
In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing (Topic 606). This ASU addresses implementation issues identified under ASC Topic 606 by the FASB-IASB Joint Transition Resource Group for Revenue Recognition (TRG). Specifically, implementation questions submitted to the TRG informed the FASB about certain implementation issues in ASC Topic 606 guidance on identifying performance obligations and licensing. We have not determined the potential effects on our consolidated financial statements.
In November 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740), which revises the balance sheet classification of deferred taxes. Currently, entities are required to separate deferred tax assets and liabilities into current and noncurrent amounts on the balance sheet, ASU No. 2015-17 requires that deferred tax assets and liabilities be classified as all noncurrent on the balance sheet. The amendments in the ASU may be applied either retrospectively or prospectively. The effective date will be the first quarter of our fiscal year ended October 31, 2018. We have elected to prospectively apply the guidance in ASU No. 2015-17 effective with our fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2015.
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In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015 -14, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) which deferred the effective date of ASU No. 2014-09. The effective date of the provisions in ASU No. 2014-09 will now be the first quarter of our fiscal year ended October 31, 2019.
In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in ASC Topic 605, Revenue Recognition, and most industry-specific guidance. This ASU is based on the principle that revenue is recognized to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The ASU also requires additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including significant judgments and changes in judgments and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract. The amendments in the ASU will be applied using one of two retrospective methods. The effective date will be the first quarter of our fiscal year ended October 31, 2018.
Management does not believe that any other recently issued but not yet effective accounting pronouncements, if adopted, would have an effect on the accompanying consolidated financial statements.