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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Notes to Financial Statements  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

3. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
 
Revenue Recognition. We follow the guidance of the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) 104 for revenue recognition and Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 605, “Revenue Recognition”. The Company operates as a contract manufacturer and produces finished goods according to customer specifications. The agreements with customers do not contain any rights of return other than for goods that fail to meet the specifications provided by the customer. The Company has not experienced any significant returns from customers and accordingly, in management’s opinion, no reserve for returns is provided. We record revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered or product delivery has occurred, the selling price to the customer is fixed or determinable and collectability of the revenue is reasonably assured.
 
Principles of Consolidation. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries, all of which are wholly owned, its equity investment in Betazone, Inc. and 580 Garcia Ave, LLC (“580 Garcia”) a Variable Interest Entity (“VIE”).
 
The Company considered the terms of its interest in 580 Garcia and determined that 580 Garcia is a VIE in accordance with ACS 810-10-55, which should be consolidated.  As of March 31, 2012, amounts included in the consolidated assets relating to 580 Garcia, which are shown in property and equipment, and consolidated liabilities, which are reported in long-term debt, total $769,856 and $2,629,718, respectively. The Company’s involvement with the entity is limited to its lease to rent the facility from 580 Garcia, with the Company as the only tenant, and the guarantee of the mortgage on the property of 580 Garcia. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss, which is based on the Company’s guarantee of the mortgage of 580 Garcia, is $2,629,718, which equals the carrying amount of its liability as of March 31, 2012.
 
Our significant unconsolidated subsidiary, which is accounted for using the equity method of accounting, is our investment in Betazone.
 
Convertible Instruments.  We evaluate and account for conversion options embedded in convertible instruments in accordance with ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging Activities”. Applicable Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) requires companies to bifurcate conversion options from their host instruments and account for them as free standing derivative financial instruments according to certain criteria. The criteria include circumstances in which (a) the economic characteristics and risks of the embedded derivative instrument are not clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics and risks of the host contract, (b) the hybrid instrument that embodies both the embedded derivative instrument and the host contract is not re-measured at fair value under other GAAP with changes in fair value reported in earnings as they occur and (c) a separate instrument with the same terms as the embedded derivative instrument would be considered a derivative instrument.
 
We account for convertible instruments (when we have determined that the embedded conversion options should not be bifurcated from their host instruments) as follows: We record when necessary, discounts to convertible notes for the intrinsic value of conversion options embedded in debt instruments based upon the differences between the fair value of the underlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note. Debt discounts under these arrangements are amortized over the term of the related debt to their stated date of redemption.
 
Common Stock Purchase Warrants. We classify as equity any contracts that require physical settlement or net-share settlement or provide us a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in our own shares (physical settlement or net-share settlement) provided that such contracts are indexed to our own stock as defined in ASC 815-40 ("Contracts in Entity's Own Equity"). We classify as assets or liabilities any contracts that require net-cash settlement (including a requirement to net cash settle the contract if an event occurs and if that event is outside our control) or give the counterparty a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in shares (physical settlement or net-share settlement). We assess classification of our common stock purchase warrants and other free standing derivatives at each reporting date to determine whether a change in classification between assets and liabilities is required.
 
Our derivative instruments consisting of warrants to purchase our common stock were valued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, using the following assumptions at March 31, 2012:
 
Estimated dividends
None
Expected volatility
100%
Risk-free interest rate
0.83%
Expected term
4.25 years
 
Goodwill. Goodwill represents the excess of the consideration transferred over the fair value of net assets of business purchased. Goodwill is not being amortized but is evaluated for impairment on at least an annual basis.