Reflect Scientific, Inc 10-K for FY2021
Reflect Scientific, Inc. (RSCF)
About this 10-K
Reflect Scientific, Inc filed this 10-K on March 31, 2022, covering the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (FY2021).
Headline figures
Fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as reported in this filing, compared with the same period a year earlier where the filing states it.
- Revenue
- $2.81M
- up 0.8% from $2.79M a year earlier
- Net income
- $939.07K
- up 42.3% from net income of $660.12K a year earlier
- Diluted EPS
- $0.01
- unchanged from $0.01 a year earlier
U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D. C. 20549
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State Issuer’s revenues for its most recent fiscal year: December 31, 2021 - $2,814,670.
Aggregate Market Value of Non-Voting Common Stock Held by Non-Affiliates
There are approximately 39,239,086 shares of common voting stock of the Registrant held by non-affiliates, and based upon the average bid and asked prices of our common stock on June 30, 2021 of $0.40, as reported by the OTC Bulletin Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., the aggregate market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $
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Outstanding Shares
As of March 23, 2022, the Registrant had
Documents Incorporated by Reference
A description of “Documents Incorporated by Reference” is contained in Part IV, Item 15, of this Annual Report.
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Forward-Looking Statements
When used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the words or phrases “would be,” “will allow,” “intends to,” “will likely result,” “are expected to,” “will continue,” “is anticipated,” “estimate,” “project” or similar expressions are intended to identify “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements specifically include, but are not limited to, our expectations regarding strategic business initiatives, our intentions to defend our intellectual property rights, continue our research and development, seek regulatory approvals and plans regarding sales and marketing.
We caution readers not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Annual Report, are based on certain assumptions and expectations which may or may not be valid or actually occur and which involve various risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to competitive products and pricing, difficulties in product development, commercialization and technology, changes in the regulation of life science products, or other necessary approvals to sell future products and other risk described elsewhere herein. If and when sales of our new product lines commence, sales may not reach the levels anticipated. As a result, our actual results for future periods could differ materially from those anticipated or projected. All forward-looking statements reflect our present expectation of future events and are subject to a number of important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
Unless otherwise required by applicable law, we do not undertake, and specifically disclaim any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences, developments, unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statement.
PART I
Item 1. Description of Business
Business Development
History
Reflect Scientific, Inc., a Utah corporation (the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “us” and words of similar import), was organized under the laws of the State of Utah on November 3, 1999, under the name “Cole, Inc.” On December 31, 2003, we acquired Reflect Scientific, Inc., a California corporation. We changed our name to “Reflect Scientific, Inc.” and succeeded to the business operations of our wholly-owned subsidiary, that involved the manufacture and distribution of unique laboratory consumables and disposables such as filtration and purification products, customized sample handling vials, electronic wiring assemblies, high temperature silicone, graphite and vespel/graphite sealing components for use by original equipment manufacturers (“OEM”) in the chemical analysis industries, primarily in the field of gas/liquid chromatography.
On November 29, 2005, we announced the execution of a Letter of Intent to acquire Cryomastor Corporation, a California corporation (“Cryomastor” [sometimes called “Cryometrix,” its amended name]).
Effective as of April 4, 2006, we entered into a Purchase Agreement (the “JMST Agreement”) with JM SciTech, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, and doing business as JMST Systems (“JMST”); David Carver, an individual (“Carver”); and Julie Martin, an individual (“Martin”) (JMST, Carver and Martin are sometimes hereinafter referred to collectively as “Sellers”). Pursuant to the JMST Agreement, we purchased and JMST sold all right, title and interest in and to the JMST Technology (the “JMST Technology”), as described in the JMST Agreement; and Carver conveyed and assigned any rights he had in and to certain patents (the “Carver Patents”) and related intellectual assets as described in the JMST Agreement (collectively, including the Carver Patents, referred to herein as the “Carver Technology”). JMST had created a line of chemical detection instruments that are used in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and homeland security markets. The patented technology allows researchers to accurately analyze chemical formulations for their composition and identity.
On June 27, 2006, we completed the acquisition of Cryomastor pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Cryomastor Merger Agreement”), which became our wholly-owned subsidiary; changed its name to “Cryometrix, Inc.”; and succeeded to its business operations, which involved the manufacture and sale of ultra-low temperature freezer systems powered by liquid nitrogen for use in bio-repositories associated with the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, as well as government facilities, universities and many other diverse applications that require a large number of reliable and energy efficient freezers.
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Business
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The recent COVID-19 Pandemic (“the Pandemic”) has to date had little negative effect on our business with regard to disruption of normal business activities such as receiving and processing orders and shipping. Many of the new COVID-19 vaccines and protein-based therapeutics require freezers either in processing or storing these products. The press surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines has often focused on the dearth of freezers capable of storing vaccines at an appropriately low temperature. The Company sells ultra low temperature freezers and as a consequence benefited from the press-generated awareness of the need for these types of freezers. Our pharmaceutical freezer customers develop and manufacture many vaccines. The Company is not privy to the specific use of its low temperature freezers and can not determine if any increases in sales or revenue are directly attributable to the Pandemic.
There is a continued risk of supply chain interruption, availability of raw materials or other unforeseen issues that can be caused by the ever-changing progression of the Pandemic. In addition, demand for the Company’s products may decrease or fluctuate in the future and current demand for our products may not, therefore, be indicative of sales and revenue going forward.
We recognize these risks and are taking every effort to prevent or mitigate them as they arise.
Overview
Reflect Scientific is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of innovative products targeted at the life science market. Our customers include hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, cold chain management, universities, government and private sector research facilities, chemical and industrial companies.
Our goal is to provide our customers with the best solution for their needs. This philosophy extends into our business strategies and acquisition plans. Through a series of strategic acquisitions, we acquired technology that has enabled us to expand our line of products to align with, and capitalize on, market needs. Our growing product portfolio includes ultra-low temperature freezers, blast freezers, solvent chillers and refrigerated transportation in addition to supplying OEM products to the life sciences industry.
Our Cryometrix brand ultra-low temperature and blast freezers innovative design enables our customers to save substantially on energy costs related to cryogenic storage. Ultra-low temperature freezers are used worldwide for the storage of vaccines, DNA, RNA, proteins and many other biological and chemical substances. There is a growing need for energy efficient, reliable ultra-low temperature storage units. Our Cryometrix freezers are targeted to this growing market and we have had tremendous success in blood storage and pharmaceutical manufacturing applications. The application of this technology for use in refrigerated trailers (commonly called “reefers”) used to transport goods which need to be maintained in a cold environment significantly broadens the market for this technology. The utilization of this technology in reefers eliminates the current method of cooling, which uses engines run on hydrocarbon fuels. The Cryometrix technology is pollutant free and is more efficient and cost effective than the technologies currently used. Reflect Scientific has added a new product line of solvent chillers. Solvent chillers are used in natural products extraction for optimizing product yield and purity.
Products
Reflect Scientific designs, develops and sells scientific equipment for the life sciences and manufacturing industries. Since Reflect Scientific’s inception in 1993, our focus is and has been on providing value added products, analytic testing supplies and equipment, and stand-alone products for the life sciences and industrial marketplace. Reflect Scientific’s products range from non-mechanical Cyrometrix™ freezers and value-added products and components for the life sciences industry to tools and analytical services for industrial manufacturing.
Our Cryometrix freezers use an entirely different technology for cooling that requires far less power and has significantly fewer moving parts. Less power consumption and fewer parts (i.e., less chance for wear or malfunction) translates into an immediate realization of cost savings to the customer. Management believes that there is no mechanical freezer that can match the temperature uniformity and rapid cooling of our Cryometrix freezer. These attributes are why these freezers are being sold into the pharmaceutical market – they meet customer needs that can not be fulfilled by current freezer technology.
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All of Reflect Scientific’s products and services are developed with one key factor in mind: Providing a superior cost/benefit to the customer verses other products in the same market space. With years of experience in the life science and industrial manufacturing markets, Reflect Scientific has been able to develop not only unique patentable products, but products that we believe offer a superior value proposition to the customer.
We have developed a business model with a focus on excellence in the design and development of products and solutions for life science and industrial manufacturing industries. We outsource the majority of our manufacturing, allowing us to concentrate our efforts on product innovation across multiple lines and industries. Our strength is in developing and providing value added products which we believe offer immediate and verifiable benefits and cost saving solutions.
We have found a number of companies that can manufacture products to our specification, allowing us to focus on our core competencies of development and design, and maintain a flexible corporate structure capable of taking advantage of new opportunities without the large capital investment required to acquire tooling and manufacturing equipment. Our focus on development and design expertise, as opposed to manufacturing of products, enables us to innovate along multiple industry lines and customize our products to meet specific needs in a variety of industrial settings. Our products are sold in the biotechnology, natural products, pharmaceutical, cold chain management and medical industries, as well as manufacturing industries, such as automotive.
Cryometrix Freezers
Our Cryometrix ultra-low temperature and blast freezers are, we believe, a technological breakthrough that provides energy savings and other critically important benefits to cryo-storage customers in the life science related industries. Ultra-low temperature and blast freezers are used in many applications for the storage and fast freezing protocols of everything from blood to cancer vaccines. These types of freezers are used by hospitals and biotechnology research facilities.
The only ultra-low temperature freezers currently available are produced by a limited number of companies and rely on a mechanical process for cooling. Because of inadequacies in the mechanical process, we believe there is loss of inventory each year because of the problems related to reliability inherent with mechanical freezers.
Our freezers incorporate a disruptive technology. They are based on a complete divergence from the technology currently used in ultra-low temperature freezers. Through the advantages of our technology, we believe our freezers solve the current inadequacies and provide immediate cost savings and reliability for our clients. Current cryogenic storage equipment falls short of customer expectations in a variety of key performance criteria.
| * | High energy usage – a growing problem with rising energy costs |
| * | Inflexible temperature range control – existing units cannot be easily modified for colder requirements (colder temperatures are an industry trend) |
| * | Sample inventory is at risk in the event of a power failure |
| * | Poor temperature uniformity – samples in different areas of the freezer can experience wide variations in temperatures which is undesirable from a regulatory standpoint. |
| * | Frost build-up |
Our Cryometrix ultra low temperature and blast freezer uses a patented design and technology which is powered by liquid nitrogen. Through the use of a liquid nitrogen powered freezer system we are able to address the market need for:
| * | Low energy requirements |
| * | Flexible temperature control – wide range of usable temperatures |
| * | Power failures have little effect - uses passive liquid nitrogen technology rather than electrically powered compressors. |
| * | Uniform temperatures throughout freezer – more usable storage volume |
| * | Much larger storage volume per area of floor space occupied – reduced facilities cost |
| * | Reliable and essentially maintenance free, further lowering cost of ownership |
| * | Environmental issues related to pollution using the current refrigerated trailer (“reefer”) technology |
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Cryometrix freezers are powered by liquid nitrogen. The competition’s freezers, including those developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific and Sanyo Corporation, are compressor based, with hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants and electric compressors. This basic technology difference results in the following Cryometrix advantages:
| * | The Cryometrix freezer cooling medium is nitrogen, an all-green element that makes up 78% of our atmosphere. Many competitors use refrigerants that are harmful to the environment. |
| * | Cryometrix freezers cool extremely fast compared to the competition. One particular Cryometrix freezer will cool to -80C in eight minutes, an order of magnitude faster than the competition. |
| * | The inherent Cryometrix technology provides a much more uniform temperature throughout the freezer than competitors’ compressor-based freezers. |
| * | When power is lost, the competitors’ freezers immediately fail to operate. Cryometrix freezers, when placed in manual freezing mode, continue to maintain a cold temperature for days and even weeks. |
| * | Cryometrix feezers are more reliable than the competition. Those well-versed in mean time between failure analysis calculate potential failures mainly based on the number of moving parts. Compressor-based freezers have many moving parts and are not as reliable in theory or in practice as Cryometrix freezers, which have almost no moving parts. |
The adaptation of the freezer technology to reefers for transporting perishable items opens a significant new market. Trailers can easily be retrofitted with the Cryometrix unit, which operates pollution free, more efficiently, and provides a cost savings compared to the diesel-powered units currently used. The non-polluting Cryometrix unit provides significant benefits over any other unit currently marketed.
A new development using a similar liquid nitrogen cooling technology is the solvent chiller. Solvent chillers are used for providing chilled solvent for extracting a final commercial product from plant materials. The extraction solvent is rapidly chilled to a temperature that will optimize the extraction purity and recovery of the final product of interest. Solvent chillers are currently being sold into the CBD extraction market.
Other Products
In addition to our Cryometrix freezers, we market our Visacon OEM products, LCGCVials.com vial products, GCFerules.com OEM GC consumable products, and HPLC Detectors.com UV detector products into the chromatography market. These are highly technical products and encompass a vast array of sizes, configurations and uses. These products represent a stable supplies business but they do not represent a significant growth opportunity for the Company.
Competition
The environment for our products and services is intensely competitive. Although the complexity of the products we produce limits the number of companies we compete with, the companies with competing technology are generally larger and often subsidiaries or divisions of very large multinational companies. Our competitor’s size and association with large multinational companies gives them advantages over us in the ability to access potential customers. Many potential customers already purchase products either directly from our competitors or from another subsidiary of these large multinational companies, creating natural inroads to sales that we do not possess.
Given our relative size versus our competitors, we are often required to seek niche markets for our products or focus on selling consumable components to be used by our competitors. We believe, however, that our technology and experience in the ultra-low freezers space allows us to be competitive in those markets. As our ultra-low freezer products are new to the marketplace, the products long term commercial acceptance is still unknown. Most of our products compete against multiple competitors, with our refrigeration products competing primarily against Thermo Fisher Scientific and Sanyo Corporation. Although our Cryometrix freezer products are considered to be in the ultra-cold freezer market space, we do not believe that they compete directly with freezer products sold by these companies because our Cryometrix freezers use a completely different technology, liquid nitrogen cooling, to achieve very fast cooling rates and stable set temperatures. Freezer products sold by Thermo Fisher Scientific and Sanyo Corporation cannot achieve the same rates of cooling. Our Cryometrix freezers compete with other ultra-cold freezer products based on technical merit – their ability to meet freezing parametersultra-cold freezer market space, we do not believe that they compete directly with freezer products sold by these companies because our Cryometrix freezers use a completely different technology, liquid nitrogen cooling, to achieve very fast cooling rates and stable set temperatures. Freezer products sold by Thermo Fisher Scientific and Sanyo Corporation cannot achieve the same rates of cooling. For additional disclosure about our Cryometrix products, see the discussion under the subheading “Cryometrix Freezers” above.
The product lines other than our Cryometrix freezers face competition from many laboratory supply companies, with Thermo Fisher Scientific being by far the largest. We estimate our market share in this segment to be well under five percent. However, because of the OEM nature of much of our chromatography business, we sell to several of the large chromatography supply companies.
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Growth Plan
While we will continuously evaluate acquisitions of businesses and technologies to grow our revenues in the life science and green technology markets, our primary focus will be the continued growth of our own product lines through increasing market share and the addition of new innovative products to enhance our current offerings.
We seek to expand the applications for our products and equipment into additional markets as we develop brand recognition. We hope to be able to obtain market leverage from our existing products and name recognition as we use our existing offerings and product strengths to position us as a key supplier of cryogenic storage, blast freezing and cold chain management solutions. This strategic plan will also enable us to further diversify our customer base.
Manufacturing, Supplies, and Quality Control
Many of our products are manufactured by strategic selection of third-party manufacturers. By outsourcing our manufacturing, we are able to reduce the overall cost position of our products. We manufacture our lower volume products that are less labor and parts intensive in our facility in Orem, Utah.
In addition, we engage in light manufacturing (assembly, filling and repackaging) for many of our chromatography supplies. We also do the final assembly and design for our Cryometrix brand freezers. The freezer shells, doors, shelving, heat exchangers and electronics are produced by contracted vendors. We sell directly to OEM customers and end users.
Regulation and Environmental Compliance
Presently, none of our products are in highly regulated industries.
Sources and Availability of Raw Materials and Names of Principal Suppliers
Sources and availability of key materials and intermediates continue to remain stable. Where supply is considered a critical success factor for our business, we have certified primary vendors in place and have identified secondary vendors.
Dependence on One or a Few Major Customers
We have four major customers who represented 45 percent and 24 percent of our sales volume in 2021 and 2020, respectively. In our 2021 fiscal year, these customers represented 14.4 percent; 12.0 percent; 9.2 percent; and 8.9 percent of our revenues, respectively.
The Company has strong relationships with each of its customers and does not believe this concentration poses a significant risk due to those long-term relationships and the uniqueness of the products they purchase from us.
Our customers purchase our products via purchase orders describing the quantity and price of the products being purchased in a given transaction. By way of example, our largest customer purchases products through the use of more than 60 purchase orders per year.
Need for any Governmental Approval of Principal Products or Services
No products presently being manufactured or sold by us are subject to prior governmental approvals.
Effect of Existing or Probable Governmental Regulations on the Business
Our Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, will become effective 60 days after filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, at which point our securities will be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act. Issuers with securities registered under Section 12(g) are subject to numerous regulatory requirements under the Exchange Act. For example, we will be subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This Act creates a strong and independent accounting oversight board to oversee the conduct of auditors of public companies and strengthens auditor independence. It also requires steps to enhance the direct responsibility of senior members of management for financial reporting and for the quality of financial disclosures made by public companies; establishes clear statutory rules to limit, and to expose to public view, possible conflicts of interest affecting securities analysts; creates guidelines for audit committee members appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of public companies’ auditors; prohibits certain insider trading during pension fund blackout periods; and establishes a federal crime of securities fraud, among other provisions.
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Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act requires all companies with securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act to comply with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding proxy solicitations, as outlined in Regulation 14A. Matters submitted to stockholders of our Company at a special or annual meeting thereof or pursuant to a written consent will require our Company to provide our stockholders with the information outlined in Schedules 14A or 14C of Regulation 14; preliminary copies of this information must be submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission at least 10 days prior to the date that definitive copies of this information are forwarded to our stockholders.
Upon effectiveness of our Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, we will also be required to file annual reports on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q with the Securities Exchange Commission on a regular basis, and will be required to timely disclose certain material events (e.g., changes in corporate control; acquisitions or dispositions of a significant amount of assets other than in the ordinary course of business; changes in executive officers and directors; and bankruptcy) in a Current Report on Form 8-K.
Patents, Trademarks, Licenses, Franchises, Concessions, Royalty Agreements or Labor Contracts, including Duration
We regard intellectual property (“IP”) as a strategic asset that allows us to maintain a highly competitive position in the market. All patents and trademarks relating to acquired technologies have been assigned to us. Where appropriate, we seek patent protection for inventions and developments made by our personnel and incorporated into our products or otherwise falling within our fields of interest. We protect some of our technology as proprietary trade secrets and, where appropriate, we use trademarks or registered trademarks used in connection with our products.
There are currently 29 patents assigned to Reflect Scientific, Inc. All of our patents cover our Cryometrix product line of nitrogen-based equipment for processing, storage and transportation of bio-pharma products. All patents are utility patents within the jurisdiction of the United States, with expiration dates ranging from December, 2023, to December, 2041. We have a strong commitment to maintaining our IP portfolio and pursuing additional IP to expand our product protection.
Research and Development Costs During the Last Two Fiscal Years
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we expended $58,340 for research and development. During the year ended December 31, 2020, we expended $185,295 for research and development. The majority of the research and development on our products is performed by independent contractors who have been enhancing technologies, primarily on the reefer unit and the detectors. We expect research and development cost to increase in the future with the development work required to update and make improvements on our Cryometrix freezers.
Employees
As of March 23, 2022, subsequent to the balance sheet date, we had 7 full-time and 2 part-time employees. None of our employees are represented under a collective bargaining agreement. We believe our relations with our employees to be good.
Reports to Security Holders
You may read and copy any materials that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the Securities and Exchange Commissions’ Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may also find all of the reports that we have filed electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission at their Internet site www.sec.gov.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Not applicable for Registrant.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None. Not applicable.
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Item 2. Description of Property
Reflect Scientific conducts all of its business operations from one facility, located in Orem, UT. This is a combination warehouse, manufacturing and office facility with 6,000 square feet of space; we lease this facility at $4,999 per month to the end of the lease term on November 30, 2023.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosure
Not applicable.
PART II
Item 5. Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters and Registrant Purchases of Equity Securities.
Market Information
Since July 6, 2005, our common stock has been listed under the symbol “RSCF” on the OTCBB. Prior to July 6, 2005, our stock traded under the symbol “COLH” since its initial listing on May 24, 2001.
As of March 23, 2022, there were 84,989,086 shares of our common stock outstanding. On March 23, 2022, the high and low bid price for our common stock was $0.1247 and $0.1247, respectively.
Holders
The number of record holders of our common stock as of March 23, 2022, was approximately 107 this number does not include an indeterminate number of stockholders whose shares may be held by brokers in street name.
Dividends
We have not declared any cash dividends with respect to our common stock, and do not intend to declare dividends in the foreseeable future. Our future dividend policy cannot be ascertained with any certainty. There are no material restrictions limiting, or that are likely to limit, our ability to pay dividends on our securities.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
| Plan Category | Number of Securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights |
Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights |
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans excluding securities reflected in column (a) |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | |
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders |
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None |
| Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders |
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None |
| Total | - | - |
None |
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Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
None.
Use of Proceeds of Registered Securities
There were no proceeds received during the calendar year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, from the sale of registered securities.
Issuance of Equity Securities by Us
In December 2021, the board approved the issuance of 1,000,000 shares of restricted stock to its patent attorney, 250,000 shares to vest on the grant date with an additional 250,000 shares to vest on each of the next three anniversary dates.
Item 6. Reserved.
We are not required to provide information under this item.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
This periodic report contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to the Plan of Operations provided below, including information regarding the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, business strategies, operating efficiencies or synergies, competitive positions, growth opportunities, and the plans and objectives of management. The statements made as part of the Plan of Operations that are not historical facts are hereby identified as “forward-looking statements.”
The following discussion and analysis provides information which management believes is relevant to an assessment and understanding of our results of operations and financial condition. The discussion should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes included in this report as Part II, Item 8.
Critical Accounting Policies
Reflect Scientific’s accounting policies are more fully described in Note 2 of the consolidated financial statements. As discussed in Note 2, the preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions about the future events that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. Reflect Scientific believes that the following addresses Reflect Scientific’s most critical accounting policies. The significant accounting change implemented during the year ended December 31, 2019 related to the adoption of lease accounting.
REVENUE RECOGNITION: We sell our specialty science and environmental lab supplies through direct sales and through distributor relationships. We sell our ultra-low temperature freezers through consultants and commission-only sales personnel. Revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised goods based on the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for these goods. This core principle is achieved through the following steps:
Identify the contract with the customer. A contract with a customer exists when (i) we enter into an enforceable contract with a customer that defines each party’s rights regarding the goods to be transferred and identifies the payment terms related to these goods, (ii) the contract has commercial substance and, (iii) we determine that collection of substantially all consideration for services that are transferred is probable based on the customer’s intent and ability to pay the promised consideration. We do not have significant costs to obtain contracts with customers.
Identify the performance obligations in the contract. Generally, our contracts with our laboratory supply customers do not include multiple performance obligations to be completed over a period of time. Our performance obligations generally relate to delivering specialty laboratory products to a customer, subject to the shipping terms of the contract. Limited warranties are provided, under which we typically accept returns and provide either replacement parts or refunds. We do not have significant returns. We do not typically offer extended warranty or service plans.
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Ultra-low temperature freezers sold to customers are built to order. Generally, 50% of the value of the contract is paid by the customer prior to work beginning on manufacturing the freezer. Upon completion of manufacturing and testing the customer will then sign an acceptance of the unit and make payment of the remaining balance on the contract, at which title passes to the customer. The units are FOB ship point. The customer may either arrange to transport the unit with a carrier he uses or ask the Company to arrange such shipment, the charges of which are the responsibility of the customer. A customer may, after accepting the unit, request that it be upgraded with additional hardware or software options. Those options are installed under a new contract, with the deposit and final payment requirements being the same as on the original order.
Determine the transaction price. Payment by the customer is due under customary fixed payment terms, and we evaluate if collectability is reasonably assured. None of our contracts as of December 31, 2021 contained a significant financing component.
Allocate the transaction price to performance obligations in the contract. We typically do not have multiple performance obligations in our laboratory supply contracts with customers. As such, we generally recognize revenue upon transfer of the product to the customer’s control at contractually stated pricing. The freezers likewise do not have milestone or percentage of completion clauses in the contract, so revenue is only recognized when the work has been completed.
Contract Balances We have elected to use the practical expedient in ASC 340-40-25-4 (regarding recognition of the incremental costs of obtaining a contact) for costs related to contracts that are estimated to be completed within one year. In other word, we do not have any material accrued contract costs; however, we do require customer deposits to be made on freezer purchases. As of December 31, 2021, we have $118,566 of contract liabilities related to these customer deposits and no contract assets.
Recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation. We generally satisfy performance obligations at a point in time upon shipment of goods, or, with our freezers, upon final acceptance of the unit by the customer, in accordance with the terms of each contract with the customer. We do not have significant service revenue.
ESTIMATES: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
CASH: The Company considers all deposit accounts and investment accounts with an original maturity of 90 days or less to be cash equivalents.
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: The Company writes off trade receivables when deemed uncollectible. The Company estimates allowance for doubtful accounts based on the aged receivable balances and historical losses. The Company charges off uncollectible accounts when management determines there is no possibility of collecting the related receivable. The Company considers accounts receivable to be past due or delinquent based on contractual terms, which is generally net 30 days.
The Company charged $0 and $0 to bad debt expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The Company has historically experienced minimal bad debts. The allowance for doubtful accounts balance of $4,000 at December 31, 2020 was reviewed and it was deemed that no adjustment to the provision was required at December 31, 2021. Management feels this to be an adequate reserve based on the experience seen over multiple years.
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts to provide for losses arising from customers’ inability to make required payments. If there is deterioration of our customers’ credit worthiness and/or there is an increase in the length of time that the receivables are past due greater than the historical assumptions used, additional allowances may be required.
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT: Property and equipment are stated at cost. Expenditure for minor repairs, maintenance, and replacement parts which do not increase the useful lives of the assets are charged to expense as incurred. All major additions and improvements are capitalized. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method. The lives over which the property and equipment are depreciated range from 5 to 7 years, except for computer equipment, which is depreciated over a 3-year life.
INVENTORIES: Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market value based upon the average cost inventory method. The Company’s inventory consists of parts for scientific vial kits, refrigerant gases, components for the imaging and inspection systems which it builds, and other scientific items.
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COST OF SALES: Charges to cost of sales are made on a first-in first-out method (FIFO). In addition to the component costs, some labor costs are allocated to cost of goods for the direct labor utilized to build the sub-assemblies and finished goods.
INCOME TAXES: We account for income taxes in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Codification (ASC) 740, “Income Taxes”. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. Deferred tax assets will be reflected on the balance sheet when it is determined that it is more likely than not that the asset will be realized.
STOCK BASED COMPENSATION: The Company, in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation, records all share-based payments to employees at the grant-date fair value of the equity instruments issued. In accordance with ASC 718-10-30-9, Measurement Objective – Fair Value at Grant Date, the Company uses the closing price of the stock, as quoted by NASDAQ, on the date of the grant. The Company believes this pricing method provides the best estimate of fair the fair value of the consideration given. Compensation cost is recognized over the requisite service period.
The Company, in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation, establishes the value of equity instruments issued to non-employees for goods and services by using the closing price of the stock, as quoted by NASDAQ, on the date of the grant. The Company believes this method fairly establishes the value of the goods and/or services received.
GOODWILL: Goodwill represents the excess of the JMST assets acquired over the fair value of net assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized but instead is tested for impairment, at a reporting unit level, annually and when events and circumstances warrant an evaluation. The Company evaluates goodwill on an annual basis, as of the end of the fourth quarter, and whenever events and changes in circumstances indicate that there may be a potential impairment. In making this assessment, management relies on a number of factors, including operating results, business plans, economic projections, anticipated future cash flows, business trends and market conditions. Accordingly, the Company recorded on impairment of goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
As the Company consists of only one reporting unit, and is publicly traded, management estimates the fair value of its reporting unit utilizing the Company’s market capitalization, multiplying the number of actual shares outstanding by the market price on December 31, as reflected on NASDAQ National Market
LEASES: In February of 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02 - Leases (Topic 842), which significantly amends the way companies are required to account for leases. Under the updated leasing guidance, some leases that did not have to be reported previously are now required to be presented as an asset and liability on the balance sheet. In addition, for certain leases, what was previously classified as an operating expense must now be allocated between amortization expense and interest expense. The Company adopted this update as of January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective transition method.
Overview
During the year ended December 31, 2021 revenue increased by 1% compared to the year ended December 31, 2020. The revenue growth resulted from a small increase in our specialty laboratory supplies, offset in part by an approximately $40,282 decline in sales of our chillers and freezers. While there can be no assurance that freezer sales will increase in future periods, it is encouraging that the marketplace has embraced our disruptive technology, and our installed operating base continues to increase. Historically, the core business of the company has been the sale of specialty laboratory supplies. Orders of those supplies increased as a group in 2021 as compared to 2020. We continue working to attract new distributors to build sales of these specialty items to historical levels.
The recent COVID-19 Pandemic (“the Pandemic”) has to date had little negative effect on our business with regard to disruption of normal business activities such as receiving and processing orders and shipping. Many of the new COVID-19 vaccines and protein-based therapeutics require freezers either in processing or storing these products. The press surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines has often focused on the dearth of freezers capable of storing vaccines at an appropriately low temperature. The Company sells ultra low temperature freezers and as a consequence benefited from the press-generated awareness of the need for these types of freezers. Our pharmaceutical freezer customers develop and manufacture many vaccines. The Company is not privy to the specific use of its low temperature freezers and cannot determine if any increases in sales or revenue are directly attributable to the Pandemic.
There is a continued risk of supply chain interruption, availability of raw materials or other unforeseen issues that can be caused by the ever-changing progression of the Pandemic. In addition, demand for the Company’s products may decrease or fluctuate in the future and current demand for our products may not, therefore, be indicative of sales and revenue going forward.
We recognize these risks and are taking every effort to prevent or mitigate them as they arise.
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The Company focused its resources during 2021 to the marketing of our ultra-cold freezers. Increasing sales of the ultra-low temperature freezers and commercialization of the refrigerated trailer will provide opportunity for the Company to expand sales in the higher margin technology markets.
The Company has been proactive in making those business decisions which it believes will enable it to carry out its business plan. Significant cost reduction measures have been implemented, unprofitable subsidiaries divested, facilities consolidated and personnel reductions made.
Financial Position
The table below presents a summary of our consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2021 and 2020:
SUMMARY OF BALANCE SHEET INFORMATION
|
Year ended Dec. 31, 2021 |
Year ended Dec 31, 2020 |
Increase (Decrease) | |
|
Cash |
$ 1,473,924
|
$ 642,542
|
$ 831,382 |
| Total current assets | 2,305,365 | 1,445,709 | 859,656 |
| Total assets | 2,478,948 | 1,676,450 | 802,498 |
| Total current liabilities | 241,849 | 242,629 | (780) |
| Accumulated deficit | (18,897,115) | (19,836,180) | 939,065 |
| Total stockholders’ equity (deficit) | $ 2,179,706 | $ 1,213,141 | $ 966,565 |
We had $1,473,924 in cash as of December 31, 2021, an increase of $831,382 from December 31, 2020. The increase in cash results from contract liabilities from operating income and customer deposits received with orders for chillers. We had working capital of $2,063,516 at December 31, 2021, compared to working capital of $1,203,080 at December 31, 2020. The increased working capital results from the operating profit and contract liability for customer deposits placed on equipment orders.
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Contractual Obligations
The Company leases office/warehouse space in Utah. In addition, it had a lease on a vehicle. The following summarizes future minimum lease payments under the operating leases at December 31, 2021:
| Minimum Lease Payments | |||
| Year Ending December 31, |
Building | Automobile | Total |
| 2022 | $ 61,091 | $ - | $ 61,091 |
| 2023 | 58,920 | - | 58,920 |
| Total | $ 120,011 | $ - | $ 120,011 |
Results of Operations
December 31, 2021 and 2020
The following table summarizes revenue, cost of goods sold, and operating expenses for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
| Year
Ended December 31, 2021 |
Year
Ended December 31, 2020 |
Increase (Decrease) | |
| Revenue | $ 2,814,670 | $ 2,792,623 | $ 22,047 |
| Cost of Goods Sold | 884,066 | 1,071,321 | (187,225) |
| Gross Profit | 1,930,604 | 1,721,302 | (209,302) |
| Salaries and wages | 608,065 | 534,525 | 73,540 |
| Research and development expense | 58,340 | 185,295 | (126,955) |
| General and administrative expense | 436,399 | 350,477 | 85,922 |
| Total operating expenses | 1,102,804 | 1,070,297 | 32,507 |
| Income from operations | 827,800 | 651,005 | 176,795 |
| Other income (expense) | 111,265 | 9,110 | 102,155 |
| Net income | $ 939,065 | $ 660,115 | $ 278,950 |
Total revenue in 2021 increased 0.8% to $2,814,670 from revenue of $2,792,627 in 2020. Revenue of $1,910,179 was from ultra-low temperature freezers accounts in 2021, compared with revenue of $1,950,462 from freezer sales in 2020. We continue to work to increase sales of these freezer units, as well as working to develop marketing strategies to expand distribution channels of our specialty laboratory products.
Our cost of goods sold decreased by $187,225 in the period ending December 31, 2021, as compared to December 31, 2020. Gross sales margin was 69% in 2021 and 62% in 2020. Our gross margin percent is influenced by the sales mix, with the ultra-low temperature freezers carrying significantly higher margins than the more generic lab supplies. We are working to further increase gross margins through working with current vendors to obtain more favorable costing or identifying and qualifying new vendors who offer more favorable pricing without compromising quality.
The salaries and wages increase of $73,540 in 2021 compared to 2020 is the net result of salary changes and personnel additions, offset in part by salaries charged to research and development, cost of goods and inventory. Our plan is to continue to use outside contractors where practical to enable us to minimize our number of employees.
Research and development expense was $58,340 in 2021 compared to $185,295 in 2020, a decrease of $126,955. The decrease was due to additional costs incurred in finalizing the design of the ultra-low temperature freezers during 2020, not incurred in 2021.
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General and administrative expenses increased to $436,399 for 2021 as compared $350,477 in 2020, an increase of $85,922. The majority of the increase results from increased personnel costs and consulting fees in 2021 over 2020. Expense levels going forward are expected to approximate the 2021 levels as we continue increase market penetration with our products.
Other income consisted in 2021 of a $111,265 gain on forgiveness of our PPP loan.
We had a net income of $939,065 in 2021, an increase of $278,950 over the $660,115 net income realized in 2020.
Seasonality and Cyclicality
We do not believe our business is cyclical.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our cash resources at December 31, 2021, were $1,473,924, with accounts receivable of $175,649 and inventory of $624,486 net of reserves. Our working capital at December 31, 2021 was $2,063,516. This compares to working capital of $1,203,080 at December 31, 2020.
In 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was $831,382 as compared to net cash used by operations of $25,218 in 2020. We anticipate that in 2022, with the benefit of continued cost reductions and increased revenue, we will continue to generate positive cash from operating activities. We continue working to enhance our on-line ordering system to increase sales, develop the market for our ultra-low temperature freezers, work with current vendors to obtain more favorable pricing, and locate new vendors to provide opportunities to further reduce our cost of goods.
We will continue to focus our efforts on our core business activities while pursuing capital resources and evaluating potential future acquisitions which fit within and enhance our core business.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
None noted.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Not applicable to Registrant.
Item 8. Financial Statements
The financial statements of the Company are set forth immediately following the signature page to this Form 10-K.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report, we conducted an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief/Principal Financial Officer, of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”). Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that information required to be disclosed is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the specified periods and is accumulated and communicated to management, including our President and Principal Financial Officer, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure of material information required to be included in our periodic Securities and Exchange Commission reports. Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are not effective due to the material weakness in the Company’s internal control. It should be noted that the design of any system of controls is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions, regardless of how remote.
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Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021. In making this assessment, our management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013). Based on this evaluation, our management concluded that, as of December 31, 2021 our internal control over financial reporting was not effective due to the lack of segregation of duties inherent in a small company.
Inherent Limitations over Internal Controls
Internal control over financial reporting cannot provide absolute assurance of achieving financial reporting objectives because of its inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error and circumvention by collusion or overriding of controls. Accordingly, even an effective internal control system may not prevent or detect material misstatements on a timely basis. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Changes in internal control over financial reporting
We have made no change in our internal control over financial reporting during the last fiscal year that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm
This annual report does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to rules of the SEC that permit us to provide only management’s report in this annual report on Form 10-K.
Item 9B. Other Information
None; not applicable.
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections.
None; not applicsable.
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PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, Promoters and Control Persons; Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act
Identification of Directors and Executive Officers
The following table sets forth the names of all of our current directors and executive officers. These persons will serve until the next annual meeting of the stockholders or until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified, or their prior resignation or termination.
| Name | Positions Held | Date
of Election or Designation |
Date
of Termination or Resignation |
| Kim Boyce | President & | ||
| Director | 12/2003 | * | |
| Tom Tait | Vice President, | ||
| Secretary and Director | 01/2005 | * | |
| William G. Moon | Director | 04/2011 | * |
* These persons presently serve in the capacities indicated.
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Business Experience
Kim Boyce - CEO, Director
Mr. Boyce, 68, founded Reflect Scientific in 1993 and has over 40 years of experience in manufacturing, sales, distribution and management. His prior experience includes executive roles with Grace/Alltech Scientific, where he served as manager – distribution and sales and manager – plant operations. He also co-founded Labtech Scientific Products in Northern California, a distribution company specializing in equipment for use in life science and environmental related industries. He has an accomplished track record in strategic business development in a variety of markets, including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors and cold chain management. Mr. Boyce received his technical training at DeAnza College in Cupertino, CA and his business training at San Jose State University.
Thomas Tait - Vice President, Secretary, Director
Mr. Tait, 67, serves as Vice President. Mr. Tait brings experience with accelerated product development, “lean” process management tools, strategic market analysis, and acquisition integration. Mr. Tait joined us from Danaher Company where he was a Business Manager over a $120 million in sales product line. Prior assignments have included General Manager of HyperQuan Inc., Product Manager J&W Scientific and Project Manager Varian Inc. He also co-founded ChiraTech Inc, a high technology Company that was sold to Thermo Electron Corporation. Mr. Tait holds an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix and a BS in Chemistry from Clarkson University. He also holds patents in Optics and MEMS technologies.
William G. Moon, Director
Mr. Moon, 73, has over 30 years experience in startup and engineering related companies. His leadership experience includes assisting in the formation of what became the world’s largest disk drive company, Quantum Corporation, with over 10,000 employees. He was Principal Engineer and Vice President of Engineering for over twenty years, during which time he co-designed numerous standard-setting disk drives. During that time, he was a co-founder of a wholly owned Quantum subsidiary, Plus Development, and was key in the invention of the Hardcard, the first hard drive on a plug-in card. He helped create a partnership with Panasonic for the world’s first totally automated disk drive assembly plant in Japan, producing over 100 million disk drives. Prior to that, Mr. Moon designed memory products at Hewlett Packard Labs in their Disk Memory Division. Over the past five years Mr. Moon has served as technical advisor to several companies and has sat on several boards.
We believe that, based on education and experience all of our directors are qualified to serve.
Significant Employees
There are no employees who are not executive officers who are expected to make a significant contribution to our Company’s business.
Family Relationships
There are no family relationships between our officers and directors.
Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings
During the past five years, no director, person nominated to become a director, executive officer, promoter or control person of our Company:
(1) was a general partner or executive officer of any business against which any bankruptcy petition was filed, either at the time of the bankruptcy or two years prior to that time;
(2) was convicted in a criminal proceeding or named subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
(3) was subject to any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities; or
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(4) was found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.
Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires that our executive officers and directors and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of our common stock, file initial reports of stock ownership and reports of changes in stock ownership with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Officers, directors, and greater than 10% owners are required by applicable regulations to furnish our Company with copies of all Section 16(a) forms that they file.
Based solely on a review of the copies of such forms furnished to us or written representations from certain persons, we believe that during our calendar year ended December 31, 2021, all filing requirements applicable to our officers, directors and 10% stockholders were met by such persons.
Code of Ethics
We have adopted a Code of Ethics that applies to all of our directors and executive officers serving in any capacity for our Company, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions, which Code of Ethics was attached to our Form 10-K annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2003. See Part IV, Item 15.
Nominating Committee
We have not established a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee because we believe that the three members currently comprising our Board of Directors are able to effectively manage the issues normally considered by a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Audit Committee
Due to the size and status of our Company we have no Audit Committee, and are not required to have an audit committee. We do not believe the lack of an Audit Committee will have any adverse effect on our financial statements, based upon our current operations. We will assess whether an audit committee may be necessary in the future.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The following table sets forth the aggregate compensation paid by us for services rendered during the periods indicated:
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
| Name
and Principal Position |
Year | Salary ($) |
Bonus ($) |
Stock
Awards ($) |
Option
Awards ($) |
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Com- pensation($) |
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation ($) |
All
Other Compensation($) |
Total Earnings ($) |
| Kim Boyce | 12/31/21 | $102,200 | - | - | - | - | - | - | $102,200 |
| CEO & | 12/31/20 | $102,200 | - | - | - | - | - | - | $102,200 |
| Director | 12/31/19 | $102,200 | - | 102,500 | - | - | - | - | $204,700 |
| Tom Tait | 12/31/21 | $14,440 | - | - | - | - | - | - | $14,400 |
| VP & | 12/31/20 | $15,000 | - | - | - | - | - | - | $15,000 |
| Director | 12/31/19 | $25,480 | - | 4,100 | - | - | - | - | $29,580 |
| William | 12/31/21 | $38,500 | - | - | - | - | - | - | $38,500 |
| Moon | 12/31/20 | $38,500 | - | - | - | - | - | - | $38,500 |
| VP and Director | 12/31/19 | $18,000 | - | 4,100 | - | - | - | - | $22,100 |
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Outstanding Equity Awards
At December 31, 2021, there are no outstanding equity awards.
Compensation of Directors
| Name | Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($) |
Stock Awards ($) |
Option Awards ($) |
Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($) |
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings ($) |
All Other Compensation ($) |
Total ($) |
| None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners
The following table sets forth, as of March 23, 2022, the names, addresses and number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by all persons known to the management of Reflect Scientific to be beneficial owners of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of common stock, and the names and number of shares beneficially owned by all directors of Reflect Scientific and all executive officers and directors of Reflect Scientific as a group (except as indicated, each beneficial owner listed exercises sole voting power and sole dispositive power over the shares beneficially owned).
For purposes of this table, information as to the beneficial ownership of shares of common stock is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and includes general voting power and/or investment power with respect to securities. Except as otherwise indicated, all shares of our common stock are beneficially owned, and sole investment and voting power is held, by the person named. For purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares of common stock, which such person has the right to acquire within 60 days after the date hereof. The inclusion herein of such shares listed beneficially owned does not constitute an admission of beneficial ownership.
All percentages are calculated based upon a total number of 84,989,086 shares of common stock outstanding as of March 23, 2022, plus, in the case of the individual or entity for which the calculation is made, that number of options or warrants owned by such individual or entity that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days.
| Amount and Nature of |
Percentage of Outstanding | ||||
| Title of Class | Name and Address of Beneficial Owner | Beneficial Owner | Common stock | ||
| Principal Shareholders | |||||
| Common Stock |
Kim Boyce 1270 South 1380 West Orem, Utah 84058 |
43,500,000 | 51.18% | ||
| Officers and Directors | |||||
| Common Stock | Kim Boyce | 43,500,000 | 51.18% | ||
| Common Stock | Tom Tait | 900,000 | 1.06% | ||
| Common Stock | William Moon. | 1,100,000 | 1.29% | ||
| All directors and executive officers of the Company as a group (Five individuals) | 45,500,000 | 53.54% |
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Changes in Control
There are no current or planned transactions that would or are expected to result in a change of control of our Company.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
| Plan Category | Number
of Securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights |
Weighted-average
exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights |
Number
of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans excluding securities reflected in column (a) |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | |
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders | - | - | None |
| Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders | - | - | None |
| Total | - | - | None |
The 2007 Equity Inventive Plan as amended on December 31, 2009, authorized the Company to issue 12,000,000 shares of stock options and restricted stock under an equity plan. The plan had an expiration date of December 31, 2019. No stock or option awards were outstanding at the time the plan expired.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
Transactions with Related Persons
In the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no related party transactions.
Parents of the Issuer
None; however Kim Boyce, our President and a director, may be deemed to be our “Parent” by virtue of his substantial shareholdings in our Company.
Transactions with Promoters and Control Persons
There were no material transactions, or series of similar transactions, during our Company’s last five fiscal years, or any currently proposed transactions, or series of similar transactions, to which we or any of our subsidiaries was or is to be a party and in which any promoter or founder of ours or any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing persons, had an interest.
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Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
The following is a summary of the fees billed to us by our principal accountants during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
| Fee Category | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||
| Audit Fees | $ | 57,000 | $ | 30,000 | ||||
| Audit-related Fees | $ | 1,500 | $ | 2,000 | ||||
| Tax Fees | $ | 2,100 | $ | - | ||||
| All Other Fees | $ | - | $ | - | ||||
| Total Fees | $ | 60,600 | $ | 32,000 | ||||
Audit Fees - Consists of fees for professional services rendered by our principal accountants for the audit of our annual financial statements and review of the financial statements included in our Forms 10-Q or services that are normally provided by our principal accountants in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements.
Audit-related Fees - Consists of fees for assurance and related services by our principal accountants that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under “Audit fees.”
Tax Fees - Consists of fees for professional services rendered by our principal accountants for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning.
All Other Fees - Consists of fees for products and services provided by our principal accountants, other than the services reported under “Audit fees,” “Audit-related fees,” and “Tax fees” above.
Policy on Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of Independent Auditors
We do not have an Audit Committee; therefore, there is no Audit Committee policy in this regard. However, we do require approval in advance of the performance of professional services to be provided to us by our principal accountant. Additionally, all services rendered by our principal accountant are performed pursuant to a written engagement letter between us and the principal accountant.
The Board of Directors has received from our auditors the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 16 (Communications with Audit Committees).
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PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits
Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Title of Document | Location if other than attached hereto | ||
| 3.1 | Articles of Incorporation | 10-SB Registration Statement* | ||
| 3.2 | Articles of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation | 10-SB Registration Statement* | ||
| 3.3 | By-Laws | 10-SB Registration Statement* | ||
| 3.4 | Articles of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation | 8-K Current Report dated December 31, 2003* | ||
| 3.5 | Articles of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation | 8-K Current Report dated December 31, 2003* | ||
| 3.6 | Articles of Amendment | September 30, 2004 10-QSB Quarterly Report* | ||
| 3.7 | By-Laws Amendment | September 30, 2004 10-QSB Quarterly Report* | ||
| 4.1 | Debenture | 8-K Current Report dated June 29, 2008* | ||
| 4.2 | Form of Purchasers Warrant | 8-K Current Report dated June 29, 2008* | ||
| 4.3 | Registration Rights Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated June 29, 2008* | ||
| 4.4 | Form of Placement Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated June 29, 2008* | ||
| 10.1 | Securities Purchase Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated June 29, 2008* | ||
| 10.2 | Placement Agent Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated June 29, 2008* | ||
| 10.3 | JMST Purchase Agreement | 8-k Current Report dated April 4, 2006* | ||
| 10.4 | Cryomastor Merger Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated April 19, 2006* | ||
| 10.5 | Image Labs Merger Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated November 15, 2006* | ||
| 10.6 | All Temp Merger Agreement | 8-K Current Report dated November 17, 2006* | ||
| Debenture Settlement | 8-K Current Report dated August 17, 2010 | |||
| 14 | Code of Ethics | December 31, 2003 10-K Annual Report* | ||
| 21 | Subsidiaries of the Company | December 31, 2006 10-K Annual Report* | ||
| 31.1 | 302 Certification of Kim Boyce | This Filing | ||
| 31.2 | 302 Certification of Keith Merrell | This Filing | ||
| 32 | 906 Certifications | This Filing |
* Previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the form indicated and incorporated by reference
Additional Exhibits Incorporated by Reference
| * | Reflect California Reorganization | 8-K Current Report dated December 31, 2003 | ||
| * | JMST Acquisition | 8-K Current Report dated April 4, 2006 | ||
| * | Cryomastor Reorganization | 8-K Current Report dated June 27, 2006 | ||
| * | Image Labs Merger Agreement Signing | 8-K Current Report dated November 15, 2006 | ||
| * | All Temp Merger Agreement Signing | 8-K Current Report dated November 17, 2006 | ||
| * | All Temp Merger Agreement Closing | 8-KA Current Report dated November 17, 2006 | ||
| * | Image Labs Merger Agreement Closing | 8-KA Current Report dated November 15, 2006 | ||
| * | Debenture Placement | 8-K Current Reported dated June 29, 2007 |
* Previously filed and incorporated by reference.
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SIGNATURES
In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act, the Company caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
REFLECT SCIENTIFIC, INC.
| Date: | 03/31/2022 | By: | /s/Kim Boyce | |
| Kim Boyce, Chief Executive Officer and Director |
| Date: | 03/31/2022 | By: | /s/Kim Boyce | |
| Kim Boyce, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) |
In accordance with the Securities Exchange Act, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Company and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
REFLECT SCIENTIFIC, INC.
| Date: | 03/31/2022 | By: | /s/Kim Boyce | |
| Kim Boyce, CEO and Director | ||||
| Date: | 03/31/2022 | By: | /s/Tom Tait | |
| Tom Tait, Vice President and Director | ||||
| Date: | 03/31/2022 | By: | /s/William Moon | |
| William Moon, Director |
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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
December 31, 2021 and 2020
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM (PCAOB ID
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Reflect Scientific, Inc.:
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Reflect Scientific, Inc. and subsidiaries (“the Company”) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2021 and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021and 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2021, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
Critical audit matters are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. We determined that there were no critical audit matters.
/s/
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2015.
March 31, 2022
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Consolidated Balance Sheets
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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2021 and 2020
NOTE 1 - ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Reflect Scientific, Inc. (the Company) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Utah on November 3, 1999 as Cole, Inc. The Company was organized to engage in any lawful activity for which corporations may be organized under the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act. On December 30, 2003 the Company changed its name to Reflect Scientific, Inc.
Reflect Scientific
Reflect Scientific is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of innovative products targeted at the life sciences market. Our customers include hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, cold chain management, universities, government and private sector research facilities, chemical and industrial companies.
Our Cryometrix brand ultra-ow temperature and blast freezers innovative design enables our customers to save substantially on energy costs related to cryogenic storage. Ultra-low temperature freezers are used worldwide for the storage of vaccines, DNA, RNA, proteins and many other biological and chemical substances. There is a growing need for energy efficient reliable ultra-low temperature storage units. Our Cryometrix freezers are targeted to this growing market and we have had tremendous success in blood storage and pharmaceutical manufacturing applications. The application of this technology for use in refrigerated trailers (commonly called “reefers”) used to transport good which need to be maintained in a cold environment significantly broadens the market for this technology. The utilization of this technology in reefers eliminates the current method of cooling, which uses engines run on hydrocarbon fuels. The Cryometrix technology is pollutant free and is more efficient and cost effective than the technologies currently used. Reflect Scientific has added a new product line of solvent chillers. Solvent chillers are used in natural products extraction for optimizing product yield and purity.
NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
a. Accounting Method
The Company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
b. Revenue Recognition
We sell our specialty science and environmental lab supplies through direct sales and through distributor relationships. We sell our ultra-low temperature freezers through consultants and commission-only sales personnel. Revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised goods based on the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for these goods. This core principle is achieved through the following steps:
Identify the contract with the customer. A contract with a customer exists when (i) we enter into an enforceable contract with a customer that defines each party’s rights regarding the goods to be transferred and identifies the payment terms related to these goods, (ii) the contract has commercial substance and, (iii) we determine that collection of substantially all consideration for services that are transferred is probable based on the customer’s intent and ability to pay the promised consideration. We do not have significant costs to obtain contracts with customers.
Identify the performance obligations in the contract. Generally, our contracts with our laboratory supply customers do not include multiple performance obligations to be completed over a period of time. Our performance obligations generally relate to delivering specialty laboratory products to a customer, subject to the shipping terms of the contract. Limited warranties are provided, under which we typically accept returns and provide either replacement parts or refunds. We do not have significant returns. We do not typically offer extended warranty or service plans.
Ultra-low temperature freezers sold to customers are built to order. Generally, 50% of the value of the contract is paid by the customer prior to work beginning on manufacturing the freezer. Upon completion of manufacturing and testing the customer will then sign an acceptance of the unit and make payment of the remaining balance on the contract, at which title passes to the customer. The units are FOB ship point. The customer may either arrange to transport the unit with a carrier he uses or ask the Company to arrange such shipment, the charges of which are the responsibility of the customer. A customer may, after accepting the unit, request that it be upgraded with additional hardware or software options. Those options are installed under a new contract, with the deposit and final payment requirements being the same as on the original order.
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Determine the transaction price. Payment by the customer is due under customary fixed payment terms, and we evaluate if collectability is reasonably assured. None of our contracts as of December 31, 2021 contained a significant financing component.
Allocate the transaction price to performance obligations in the contract. We typically do not have multiple performance obligations in our laboratory supply contracts with customers. As such, we generally recognize revenue upon transfer of the product to the customer's control at contractually stated pricing. The freezers likewise do not have milestone or percentage of completion clauses in the contract, so revenue is only recognized when the work has been completed.
Recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation. We generally satisfy performance obligations at a point in time upon shipment of goods, or, with our freezers, upon final acceptance of the unit by the customer, in accordance with the terms of each contract with the customer. We do not have significant service revenue.
Contract Balances We have elected to use the practical expedient in ASC 340-40-25-4 (regarding recognition of the incremental costs of obtaining a contact) for costs related to contracts that are estimated to be completed within one year. In other words. We do not have any material accrued contract costs; however, we do require customer deposits to be made on freezer purchases. As of December 31, 2021, we have $
A part of our customer base is made up of international customers. The following table presents Reflect Scientific revenues disaggregated by region and product type:
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c. Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
d. Cash
The Company considers all deposit accounts and investment accounts with an original maturity of 90 days or less to be cash equivalents.
e. Accounts Receivable
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts to provide for losses arising from customers’ inability to make required payments. If there is deterioration of our customers’ credit worthiness and/or there is an increase in the length of time that the receivables are past due greater than the historical assumptions used, additional allowances may be required. The Company estimates allowance for doubtful accounts based on the aged receivable balances and historical losses. The Company charges off uncollectible accounts when management determines there is no possibility of collecting the related receivable. The Company considers accounts receivable to be past due or delinquent based on contractual terms, which is generally net 30 days.
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The Company charged $
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts to provide for losses arising from customers’ inability to make required payments. If there is deterioration of our customers’ credit worthiness and/or there is an increase in the length of time that the receivables are past due greater than the historical assumptions used, additional allowances may be required.
f. Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are stated at cost. Expenditure for minor repairs, maintenance, and replacement parts which do not increase the useful lives of the assets are charged to expense as incurred. All major additions and improvements are capitalized. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method. The lives over which the property and equipment are depreciated range from
g. Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market value based upon the average cost inventory method. The Company’s inventory consists of parts for scientific vial kits, refrigerant gases, components for the imaging and inspection systems which it builds, and other scientific items. An allowance is recorded when it is determined that the amount owing is at high risk. The Company recorded $
h. Cost of Sales
Charges to cost of sales are made on a first-in first-out method (FIFO). In addition to the component costs, some labor costs are allocated to cost of goods for the direct labor utilized to build the sub-assemblies and finished goods.
i. Advertising Expense
The Company follows the policy of charging the costs of advertising to expense as incurred. The Company recognized $
j. Newly Issued Accounting Pronouncements
The Company has reviewed all FASB-issued ASU accounting pronouncements and interpretations thereof that have effective dates during the period reported and in future periods. The Company has carefully considered the new pronouncements that alter previous GAAP and does not believe that any new or modified principles will have a material impact on the company’s reported financial position or operations in the near term. The applicability of any standard is subject to the formal review of the Company’s financial management and certain standards are under consideration.
k. Earnings per Share
The computation of basic earnings per share of common stock is based on the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period. Diluted EPS is computed by dividing net earnings by the weighted-average number of common shares and dilutive common stock equivalents during the period. Common stock equivalents are not used in calculating dilutive EPS when their inclusion would be anti-dilutive. At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had no common stock equivalents.
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l. Shipping and Handling Fees and Costs
The Company records all shipping and handling costs as operating costs. Freight paid on outgoing shipments in 2021 and 2020 was $
m. Income Taxes
Deferred taxes are provided on an asset and liability approach whereby deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences. Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax basis. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.
The Company’s policy is to recognize potential interest and penalties accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits within income tax expense. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, it did not recognize any interest or penalties in its Statement of Operations, nor did it have any interest or penalties accrued in its Balance Sheet at December 31, 2021 and 2020 relating to unrecognized benefits.
n. Principles of consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries, which include Cryometrix (previously Cryomastor). All subsidiaries are wholly owned. All material intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
o. Research and development expense
The Company accounts for research and development costs in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Accounting Standard Codification Topic 730 “Research and Development". Under ASC 730, all research and development costs must be charged to expense as incurred. Accordingly, internal research and development costs are expensed as incurred. Third-party research and developments costs are expensed when the contracted work has been performed or as milestone results have been achieved. Company-sponsored research and development costs related to both present and future products are expensed in the period incurred. The Company had $
p. Stock-Based Compensation
The Company, in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation, records all share-based payments to employees at the grant-date fair value of the equity instruments issued. In accordance with ASC 718-10-30-9, Measurement Objective – Fair Value at Grant Date, the Company uses the closing price of the stock, as quoted by NASDAQ, on the date of the grant. The Company believes this pricing method provides the best estimate of fair the fair value of the consideration given. Compensation cost is recognized over the requisite service period.
q. Intangible Assets
Intangible assets include trademarks, trade secrets, patents, customer lists and goodwill acquired through acquisition of subsidiaries. The patents have been registered with the United States Patent and Trademarks Office. The costs of obtaining patents are capitalized as incurred. Intangibles, except for goodwill, are amortized over their estimated useful lives. The Company regularly evaluates whether events or circumstances have occurred that indicate possible impairment and relies on a number of factors, including operating results, business plans, economic projections, and anticipated future cash flows. The Company uses an estimate of the future undiscounted net cash flows of the related asset or asset group over the remaining life in measuring whether the assets are recoverable. Measurement of the amount of impairment, if any, is based upon the difference between the asset’s carrying value and estimated fair value. Fair value is determined through various valuation techniques, including cost-based, market and income approaches as considered necessary.
r. Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of the JMST assets acquired over the fair value of net assets acquired. Goodwill is not amortized but instead is tested for impairment, at a reporting unit level, annually and when events and circumstances warrant an evaluation. The Company evaluates goodwill on an annual basis, as of the end of the fourth quarter, and whenever events and changes in circumstances indicate that there may be a potential impairment. In making this assessment, management relies on a number of factors, including operating results, business plans, economic projections, anticipated future cash flows, business trends and market conditions. Accordingly, the Company recorded on impairment of goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
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s. Leases
In February of 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02 - Leases (Topic 842), which significantly amends the way companies are required to account for leases. Under the updated leasing guidance, some leases that did not have to be reported previously are now required to be presented as an asset and liability on the balance sheet. In addition, for certain leases, what was previously classified as an operating expense must now be allocated between amortization expense and interest expense. The Company adopted this update as of January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective transition method.
NOTE 3 - PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property and equipment and related depreciation for the period are as follows:
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( |
) |
( |
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Total Property and Equipment |
$ |
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$ |
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Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, was $-
NOTE 4 - INVENTORIES
Inventories consisted of the following at December 31, 2021 and 2020:
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December 31, 2020 | |||||||
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Finished goods |
$ |
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$ |
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Raw materials |
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Inventory allowance |
( |
) |
( |
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Total Inventories, net |
$ |
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$ |
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NOTE 5 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Operating Lease Obligations
The Company leases its office and warehouse space under a non-cancelable lease agreement accounted for as operating leases. The Company also leases an automobile under a similar non-cancelable lease agreement, which is also accounted for as an operating lease.
Building Lease - Orem, Utah: The Company leases a manufacturing and office facility with
Rent expense relating to the building lease was $
Automobile Lease – The Company currently leases one vehicle with a monthly lease payment of $
Automobile lease expense was $
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Minimum rental payments under the non-cancelable operating leases are as follows:
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Years ending December 31, |
Amount | ||
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2022 |
$ |
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2023 |
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$ |
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NOTE 6 - PREFERRED STOCK
In November 2004 the Company amended its Articles of Incorporation so as to authorize
Dividends
The holders of the Series A Preferred Stock would be entitled to dividends at the rate of
Convertibility
NOTE 7 - COMMON STOCK TRANSACTIONS
During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the following stock transactions occurred:
In December 2021, the Board of Directors approved the issuance of
NOTE 8 - CONCENTRATIONS OF RISK
Cash in Excess of Federally Insured Amount
While the Company, at December 31, 2021 and at various other times during 2021 and 2020 had cash balances that exceed the $
Sales and Accounts Receivable
The Company has four major customers who represent a significant portion of revenue. These four customers represented
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NOTE 9 - LINE OF CREDIT
The Company has a credit line with a commercial bank of $
The Company applied for and received $
NOTE 10 - INCOME TAXES
The provision (benefit) for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 consist of the following:
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2020 | |||||||
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Federal: | ||||||||
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Current |
$ |
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$ |
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Deferred |
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State: | ||||||||
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Current |
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Deferred |
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Valuation allowance |
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$ |
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$ |
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Net deferred tax assets consist of the following components as of December 31, 2021 and 2020:
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2021 |
2020 | |||||||
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Deferred tax assets (liabilities): | ||||||||
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NOL Carryover |
$ |
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$ |
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Property and Equipment |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||
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Other Reserves |
( |
) |
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Valuation Allowance |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||
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Net deferred tax asset (liability) |
$ |
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$ |
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The income tax provision differs from the amount of income tax determined by applying the U.S. federal income tax rate to pretax income from continuing operations for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 due to the following:
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2021 |
2020 | |||||||
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Tax at statutory rate: |
$ |
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$ |
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Effects of: | ||||||||
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Meals and Entertainment |
|
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Depreciation and Amortization |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||
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Other, net |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||
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Change in Valuation Allowance |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||
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$ |
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$ |
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At December 31, 2021, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $
No tax benefit has been reported in the December 31, 2021 consolidated financial statements since the potential tax benefit is offset by a valuation allowance of the same amount.
NOTE 12 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
There were no related party transactions in the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
NOTE 13 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
None.
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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Kim Boyce certify that:
1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Reflect Scientific, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The Registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the Registrant and have:
a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
d)
Disclosed in this report any change in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the Registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the Registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The Registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the Registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the Registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions);
a)
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b)
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Dated: 3/31/2022 Signature:/s/Kim Boyce
Kim Boyce
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Kim Boyce, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Reflect Scientific, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The Registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the Registrant and have:
a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
d)
Disclosed in this report any change in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the Registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the Registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The Registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the Registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the Registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions);
a)
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b)
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Dated: 3/31/2022 Signature:/s/Kim Boyce
Kim Boyce
Principal Financial Officer and CFO
Exhibit 32
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the Annual Report of Reflect Scientific, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2021 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), We, Kim Boyce, our Chief Executive Officer and director and Kim Boyce, our Chief/Principal Financial Officer, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:
(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Company.
Dated: 3/31/2022 /s/Kim Boyce
Kim Boyce
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dated: 3/31/2022 /s/Kim Boyce
Kim Boyce
Principal Financial Officer and CFO