As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 21, 2022
Registration No. 333-267263
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Amendment No. 1
to
FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
QDM International Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Florida | 6411 | 59-3564984 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Room 715, 7F, The Place Tower C, No. 150 Zunyi Road
Changning District, Shanghai, China 200051
+86 (21) 22183083
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Huihe Zheng
President and Chief Executive Officer
Room 715, 7F, The Place Tower C, No. 150 Zunyi Road
Changning District, Shanghai, China 200051
+86 (21) 22183083
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Wei Wang, Esq.
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10105
Phone: (212) 370-1300
Fax: (212) 370-7889
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.
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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission acting pursuant to said Section 8(a) may determine.
The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
Preliminary Prospectus | Subject to Completion, dated December 21, 2022 |
QDM International Inc.
Up to 30,000,000 Shares of Common Stock
We are offering up to 30,000,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of QDM International Inc., a Florida holding company with substantially all of its operations conducted in Hong Kong (referred to herein as “QDM” or the “Company”), without an underwriter or placement agent at a fixed price of $0.081 per share. There is a material disparity between the offering price of the shares of our common stock being offered under this prospectus and the market price of the common stock as of the date of this prospectus. For a detailed description of the principal factors considered by us in determining the final public offering price, see “Plan of Distribution.” Throughout this prospectus, unless the context indicates otherwise, all references to “we,” “us,” “our” or similar terms used in this prospectus refer to QDM and/or its consolidated subsidiaries, including 24/7 Kid Doc, Inc., QDM Holdings Limited, QDM Group Limited, YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited, Lutter Global Limited and QDMI Software Group Limited.
This offering is being conducted on a “best efforts/no minimum” basis, meaning that no aggregate minimum offering amount is required to be raised by us in this offering. As such, the actual public offering amount and proceeds to us, if any, are not presently determinable and net proceeds may be substantially less than the total maximum offering set forth above.
This offering will terminate three months after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part unless the offering is fully subscribed before that date or we decide to terminate the offering (which we may do at any time in our discretion) prior to that date. We may conduct multiple closings of the offering until the offering is fully subscribed or terminated. In either event, the offering may be closed without further notice to you. All costs associated with the registration will be borne by us. All net proceeds will be available to us for use as set forth in “Use of Proceeds” herein. Offering proceeds will not be held in escrow and may be utilized by us immediately on a subscription-by-subscription basis upon satisfaction of the closing conditions set forth in the securities purchase agreement to be entered into between us and the investors in this offering.
This prospectus will permit our officers and directors to offer and sell on our behalf the shares of common stock offered hereby directly to the public, with no commission or other remuneration payable to them for any shares sold. In offering the securities on our behalf, our officers and directors will rely on the safe harbor from broker-dealer registration set out in Rule 3a4-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (which we refer to herein as the Exchange Act). Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to engage FINRA member broker-dealers as finders in connection with this offering.
Our common stock is currently traded on the OTCQB Marketplace operated by the OTC Markets under the symbol “QDMI.” On December 16, 2022, the last reported sales price for our common stock was $0.81 per share. The over-the-counter market quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.
We conduct substantially all of our operations in Hong Kong. Although we conduct limited administrative activities in our principal executive offices located in China, we currently do not have or intend to set up any subsidiary or enter into any contractual arrangements to establish a variable interest entity (“VIE”) with any entity in mainland China. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the PRC and the basic policies of the PRC regarding Hong Kong are reflected in the Basic Law, namely, Hong Kong’s constitutional document, which provides Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy and executive, legislative and independent judicial powers, including that of final adjudication under the principle of “one country, two systems”. Accordingly, we believe the laws and regulations of the PRC do not currently have any material impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations. However, there is no assurance that there will not be any changes in the economic, political and legal environment in Hong Kong in the future. If there is significant change to current political arrangements between mainland China and Hong Kong, companies operated in Hong Kong may face similar regulatory risks as those operated in the PRC, including its ability to offer securities to investors, list its securities on a U.S. or other foreign exchange, conduct its business or accept foreign investment. In light of China’s recent expansion of authority in Hong Kong, there are risks and uncertainties which we cannot foresee for the time being, and rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little or no advance notice. The Chinese government may intervene or influence our current and future operations in Hong Kong at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in issuers likes ourselves. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong.”
We are aware that the PRC government recently initiated a series of statements and regulatory developments to regulate business operations in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using a VIE structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement. We do not believe these statements and regulatory developments would apply to us, however, should these statements or regulatory actions apply to us, including our Hong Kong operations, in the future, or if we expand our business operations into Mainland China in some ways such that we become subject to them to a greater extent, our ability to conduct our business, invest into Mainland China as foreign investments or accept foreign investments, or list on a U.S. or other overseas exchange may be restricted. The failure to comply with these PRC regulations could result in penalties and other regulatory actions against us and may materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations. In addition, the PRC government has significant authority to intervene or influence the China or Hong Kong operations of an offshore holding company, such as ours, at any time. These risks, together with uncertainties in the PRC legal system and the interpretation and enforcement of PRC laws, regulations, and policies, could hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer the shares of our common stock, result in a material adverse change to our business operations, and damage our reputation, which could cause our common stock to significantly decline in value or become worthless. For a detailed description of risks relating to doing business in China, see “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Doing Business in Hong Kong.”
Furthermore, as more stringent criteria have been imposed by the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) recently, our securities may be prohibited from trading if our auditor cannot be fully inspected. On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a report to notify the SEC of its determinations that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms headquartered in Mainland China and Hong Kong, respectively, and identifies the registered public accounting firms in Mainland China and Hong Kong that are subject to such determinations. On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it had signed a Statement of Protocol (the “Statement of Protocol”) with the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Finance of China. The terms of the Statement of Protocol would grant the PCAOB complete access to audit work papers and other information so that it may inspect and investigate PCAOB-registered accounting firms headquartered in China and Hong Kong. According to the PCAOB, its December 2021 determinations under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the “HFCA Act”) remain in effect. The PCAOB is required to reassess these determinations by the end of 2022. Under the PCAOB’s rules, a reassessment of a determination under the HFCA Act may result in the PCAOB reaffirming, modifying or vacating the determination. As of the date of the prospectus, ZH CPA, LLC, our auditor, is not on the list. While our auditor is based in the U.S. and is registered with PCAOB and subject to PCAOB inspection, in the event it is later determined that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely our auditor because of a position taken by an authority in a foreign jurisdiction, then such lack of inspection could cause our shares of our common stock to be delisted from the OTCQB. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong - Under the HFCA Act, our securities may be prohibited from being traded on any U.S. securities exchange, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, or through any other trading method within the SEC’s regulatory jurisdiction, including the OTC markets if our auditor is not inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, and this ultimately could result in trading in our securities being prohibited. Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if enacted, would amend the HFCA Act and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges or the OTC markets if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three.”
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida with no material operations, and we conduct our insurance brokerage business through our wholly-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong. Investors in our shares of our common stock thus are purchasing equity interest in QDM, a Florida holding company and may never directly own any equity interest in our operating subsidiary in Hong Kong. This structure involves unique risks to investors. As a holding company, QDM relies on dividends from our subsidiaries for its cash requirements, including any payment of dividends to its stockholders. The ability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends to QDM may be restricted by the debt they incur on their own behalf or laws and regulations applicable to them.
As of the date of this prospectus, no transfer of cash or other types of assets has been made between our Florida holding company and subsidiaries. Our Florida holding company has not declared or paid dividends to our investors given the early development stage of our businesses, nor any dividends or distributions were made by a subsidiary to the Florida holding company. Our board of directors has complete discretion on whether to distribute dividends, subject to applicable laws. For a detailed description of the transfers from the Company to its subsidiaries and from its subsidiaries to the Company, see “Summary Financial Data—Cash Transfers and Dividend Distribution.” in the Prospectus Summary section and condensed consolidated schedule and consolidated financial statements starting from page F-1 of this prospectus. See also “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to This Offering and Our Common Stock— We do not foresee paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future and, as a result, our investors’ sole source of gain, if any, will depend on capital appreciation, if any.” If needed, cash can be transferred between our holding company and subsidiaries through intercompany fund advances, and there are currently no restrictions of transferring funds between our Florida holding company and our subsidiary in Hong Kong. There are no significant restrictions on foreign exchange or our ability to transfer cash between entities within our group, across borders, or to U.S. investors. See “Summary Financial Data—Cash Transfers and Dividend Distribution.”
Investing in our securities is highly speculative and involves a significant degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 of this prospectus for a discussion of information that should be considered before making a decision to purchase our securities.
| | | Per Share | | | | Total(1) | |
Public offering price | | | $0.081 | | | | $2,430,000 | |
Proceeds, before expenses, to us | | | $0.081 | | | | $2,430,000 | |
| (1) | Assumes the maximum number of shares in this offering are sold. |
Certain of our existing stockholders and entities that are affiliated with our officers and directors, including HW FUND, a Cayman Islands exempted company, of which Huihe Zheng, our President and Chief Executive Officer is the controlling shareholder, and Willington Capital Limited, a Hong Kong limited company, of which Huili Shen, our director, is the sole shareholder and director, have indicated their interests in purchasing up to an aggregate of approximately $1.377 million worth of shares of common stock in this offering at the public offering price. However, because indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase, the existing stockholders and their affiliated entities could determine to purchase more, less or no shares of common stock in this offering.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
The date of this prospectus is _________, 2022.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Please read this prospectus carefully. It describes our business, our financial condition, and our results of operations. We have prepared this prospectus so that you will have the information necessary to make an informed investment decision. You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with any information or to make any representations about us, the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus or any other matter discussed in this prospectus, other than the information and representations contained in this prospectus. If any other information or representation is given or made, such information or representation may not be relied upon as having been authorized by us.
The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock. Neither the delivery of this prospectus nor any distribution of securities in accordance with this prospectus shall, under any circumstances, imply that there has been no change in our affairs since the date of this prospectus. This prospectus will be updated and made available for delivery to the extent required by the federal securities laws.
This prospectus includes estimates, statistics and other industry data that we obtained from industry publications, research, surveys and studies conducted by third parties and publicly available information. Such data involves a number of assumptions and limitations and contains projections and estimates of the future performance of the industries in which we operate that are subject to a high degree of uncertainty. This prospectus also includes data based on our own internal estimates. We caution you not to give undue weight to such projections, assumptions and estimates.
For investors outside the United States: We have not done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus or any free writing prospectus we may provide to you in connection with this offering in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. You are required to inform yourselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to this offering and the distribution of this prospectus and any such free writing prospectus outside of the United States.
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
This summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. To understand this offering fully, you should read the entire prospectus carefully, including the “Risk Factors” section, the financial statements and the notes to the financial statements.
Unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, references in this prospectus to:
| ● | “24/7 Kid” are to 24/7 Kid Doc, Inc., a Florida corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company; |
| ● | “BVI” are to the British Virgin Islands; |
| ● | “common stock” are to the common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share; |
| ● | “EUR,” “€” and “Euro” are to the legal currency of those member states of the European Union that have adopted the single currency; |
| ● | “HKD,” “HK$” and “Hong Kong dollars” are to the legal currency of Hong Kong; |
| ● | “QDM BVI” are to QDM Holdings Limited, a BVI company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company; |
| ● | “QDM HK” are to QDM Group Limited, a Hong Kong corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of QDM BVI; |
| ● | “QDM” and the “Company” refer to QDM International Inc. a Florida corporation; and |
| ● | “Series C Preferred Stock” are to the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, each 30 shares of Series C Preferred Stock convertible into 11 shares of common stock (each Series C Preferred Stock initially convertible into 11 shares of common stock before the Reverse Stock Split (as defined below)); |
| ● | the “Group” are to QDM BVI, QDM HK and YeeTah, collectively; |
| ● | “technical representatives” are to licensed individuals who provide advice to an insurance policy holder or potential policy holder on insurance matters on behalf of an insurance agent or broker, or arrange contracts of insurance in or from Hong Kong on behalf of that insurance agent or broker; |
| ● | “US$,” “U.S. dollars,” “$,” and “USD” are to the legal currency of the United States; |
| ● | “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to QDM International Inc. and/or its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context suggests otherwise; and |
| ● | “YeeTah” are to YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited, a Hong Kong corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of QDM HK. |
The Company, 24/7 Kid, and QDM BVI maintain their books and records in U.S. dollars and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles of the United States. QDM HK and YeeTah maintain their books and records either in U.S. dollars or Hong Kong dollars. This prospectus also contains translations of Hong Kong dollars into U.S. dollars for the convenience of the reader. The Hong Kong dollar is freely convertible into other currencies (including the U.S. dollar). Since 1983, the Hong Kong dollar has effectively been officially linked to the U.S. dollar at the rate of approximately HK$7.80 = US$1.00. However, the market exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the U.S. dollar continues to be influenced by the forces of supply and demand in the foreign exchange market.
Unless otherwise stated, all translations of Hong Kong dollars into U.S. dollars were made at a pegged rate of HK$7.80 = US$1.00. We make no representation that the Hong Kong dollar or U.S. dollar amounts referred to in this prospectus could have been or could be converted into U.S. dollars or Hong Kong dollars, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all.
Overview
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida with no material operations of its own, and we conduct our insurance brokerage business through our wholly-owned subsidiary, YeeTah, primarily in Hong Kong.
YeeTah sells a wide range of insurance products, consisting of two major categories: (1) life and medical insurance, such as individual life insurance; and (2) general insurance, such as automobile insurance, commercial property insurance, liability insurance and homeowner insurance. In addition, as a Mandatory Provident Fund (“MPF”) Intermediary, YeeTah also provides its customers with assistance on account opening and related services under the MPF and the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance schemes (“ORSO”) in Hong Kong, both of which are mandatory retirement protection schemes set up for employees who are Hong Kong residents.
YeeTah sells insurance products underwritten by insurance companies operating in Hong Kong to individual customers who are either Hong Kong residents or visitors from Mainland China and are compensated for its services by commissions paid by insurance companies, typically based on a percentage of the premium paid by the insured. Commissions generally depend on the type, term of insurance products and the particular insurance company and they are usually paid by the insurance companies the next month after the cooling off period of the policies sold, which is generally 21 days after the earlier of the delivery of the policy or a cooling off notice to the policy holder.
As of the date of this prospectus, YeeTah is a party to agreements with 19 insurance companies in Hong Kong, and offers approximately 431 insurance products to its customers. As of September 30, 2022, YeeTah had serviced an aggregate of 625 customers in connection with the purchase of an aggregate of 698 insurance products as well as a total of 44 customers for MPF related services. For the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, an aggregate of 66.9% and 80.0% of YeeTah’s total commissions were attributable to its top two insurance companies, respectively. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, an aggregate of 81.4% of YeeTah’s total commissions was attributable to its top two insurance companies, which accounted for 47.7% and 33.7% its total commissions, respectively. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, an aggregate of 88.8% of YeeTah’s total commissions was attributable to its top two insurance companies, which accounted for 49.8% and 39.0% of its total commissions, respectively.
As an independent insurance agency, YeeTah offers not only a broad range of insurance products underwritten by multiple insurance companies to address the needs of increasingly sophisticated customers with diverse needs and preferences, but also quality services covering the policy application, customer information collection, analysis of policy selection, and after-sale services.
We focus on offering long-term life insurance products including endowment life and annuity life insurance and distribute general insurance products including automobile insurance, individual accident insurance, homeowner insurance, liability insurance and travel insurance. All of YeeTah’s sales of life and medical insurance products and general insurance products are conducted through its licensed salespersons (known in Hong Kong as technical representatives).
Hong Kong’s independent insurance intermediary market is experiencing rapid growth due to increasing demands for insurance products by the Chinese population, especially visitors from mainland China. We intend to grow our business by offering premium services and recruiting talent to join our professional team and sales force, expanding our distribution network through building more connections with business partners in Hong Kong and mainland China, such as wealth management companies, funds, trust companies, and overseas immigration agencies.
Holding Company Structure
QDM is not an operating company but a Florida holding company with operations primarily conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiary based in Hong Kong. Our investors hold shares of common stock in QDM, the Florida holding company.
We do not have or intend to set up any subsidiary or enter into any contractual arrangements to establish a VIE structure with any entity in China. 24/7 Kid, Lutter Global Limited (“LGL”) and QDMI Software Group Limited (“QDMS”) currently have no operations. Our corporate organizational structure is as follows as of the date of this prospectus:
Our holding company structure presents unique risks as our investors may never directly hold equity interests in our Hong Kong operating subsidiary and will be dependent upon dividends and other distributions from our subsidiaries to finance our cash flow needs. Our ability to receive dividends and other contributions from our subsidiaries are significantly affected by regulations promulgated by Hong Kong and PRC authorities. Any change in the interpretation of existing rules and regulations or the promulgation of new rules and regulations may materially affect our operations and or the value of our securities, including causing the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless. For a detailed description of the risks facing the Company associated with our structure, please refer to “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong.”
Currently, PRC laws and regulations do not prohibit direct foreign investment in our Hong Kong operating subsidiary. Nonetheless, in light of the recent statements and regulatory actions by the PRC government, such as those related to Hong Kong’s national security, the promulgation of regulations prohibiting foreign ownership of Chinese companies operating in certain industries, which are constantly evolving, and anti-monopoly concerns, we may be subject to the risks of uncertainty of any future actions of the PRC government in this regard, which would likely result in a material change in our operations, including our ability to continue our existing holding company structure, carry on our current business, accept foreign investments, and offer or continue to offer securities to our investors, and the resulting adverse change in value to our common stock. We may also be subject to penalties and sanctions imposed by the PRC regulatory agencies, including the China Securities Regulatory Commission (the “CSRC”), if we fail to comply with such rules and regulations, which would likely adversely affect the ability of the Company’s securities to continue to trade on the OTCQB, which would likely cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
Transfers of Cash to and from Our Subsidiaries
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida with no material operations of its own, and we conduct our insurance brokerage business through our wholly-owned subsidiary, YeeTah, primarily in Hong Kong. We may rely on dividends and other distributions on equity to be paid by our Hong Kong subsidiary to fund our cash and financing requirements, including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to our stockholders, to service any debt we may incur and to pay our operating expenses. Currently, substantially all of our operations are in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the PRC and the basic policies of the PRC regarding Hong Kong are reflected in the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (the “Basic Law”), providing Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy and executive, legislative and independent judicial powers, including that of final adjudication under the principle of “one country, two systems”. The laws and regulations of the PRC do not currently have any material impact on transfer of cash from us to YeeTah or from YeeTah to us and the investors in the U.S. In addition, there are no restrictions or limitations under the laws of Hong Kong imposed on the conversion of Hong Kong dollar into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of Hong Kong or across borders and to U.S investors.
We are permitted under the Florida law to provide funding to our subsidiaries, including YeeTah, through loans or capital contributions without restrictions on the amount of the funds. There are no restrictions or limitations on our ability to distribute earnings from our businesses, including our subsidiaries, to the U.S. investors. YeeTah is permitted under the laws of Hong Kong to provide funding to QDM HK and QDM BVI, the holding company incorporated in Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands, respectively, through dividend or other distribution without restrictions on the amount of the funds. As of the date of this prospectus, there has been no dividends or distributions between our holding company and our subsidiaries nor do we expect such dividends or distributions to occur in the foreseeable future among our holding company and its subsidiaries.
YeeTah currently intends to retain all available funds and future earnings, if any, for the operation and expansion of its business and does not anticipate declaring or paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. There are no significant restrictions and limitations on our ability to distribute earnings from our businesses, including our subsidiaries, to the parent company and U.S. investors or our ability to settle amounts owed. There are no restrictions on foreign exchange or our ability to transfer cash between entities within our group, across borders, or to U.S. investors. However, the PRC government has significant authority to intervene or influence the China operations of an offshore holding company at any time, and such oversight may also extend to our Hong Kong operating company. We cannot assure you that the PRC government will not prevent us from transferring the cash we maintain in Hong Kong outside of Hong Kong, or restrict our ability to deploy our cash into business or to pay dividends. We could also be subject to limitations on the transfer or the use of our cash if we expand our business operations into China or conduct our operations in some other ways such that we become subject to PRC laws that regulate these activities. In addition, if YeeTah incurs debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us. Any limitation on our ability to transfer or use our cash could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow, make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our business, pay dividends, or otherwise fund and conduct our business.
We have never paid or declared any cash dividends on our common stock and do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The declaration of dividends on any class of shares is within the discretion of our board of directors, subject to the Florida law, out of legally available funds, and will depend on the assessment of, among other factors, earnings, capital requirements and our operating and financial condition. If we determine to pay dividends on any of our capital stock in the future to our stockholders, we will be dependent on receipt of funds from our Hong Kong subsidiary, YeeTah. None of our subsidiaries has made any dividends or distributions to us. Under the current practice of the Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong, no tax is payable in Hong Kong in respect of dividends paid by us. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Our Business and Industry – We rely on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our subsidiaries to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, and any limitation on the ability of our subsidiaries to make payments to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.” on page 12.
Competitive Advantages
We believe that the following competitive strengths contribute to our growth and differentiate us from our competitors:
| ● | premium customer service experience; |
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| ● | concentrated insurance product offerings; |
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| ● | good relationships with insurance companies; |
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| ● | experienced management team; and |
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| ● | strong commitment to rigorous training and development. |
Growth Strategy
Our goal is to further expand our distribution network. To achieve this goal, we intend to capitalize on the growth potential of Hong Kong’s insurance industry and the insurance intermediary sector, leverage our competitive strengths and pursue the following strategy:
| ● | Pursue acquisitions of other insurance intermediaries. |
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| ● | Further participation in the growing life-insurance sector in Hong Kong |
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| ● | Further expand our distribution network through building relationships with strategic partners. |
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| ● | Continue to strengthen our relationships with leading insurance companies. |
Recent Developments
Impact of COVID-19
An outbreak of a novel strain of the coronavirus, COVID-19, was identified in China and has subsequently been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely restricted the level of economic activity around the world. In response to the pandemic, the governments of many countries, states, cities and other geographic regions, including Hong Kong, have taken preventative or protective actions, such as imposing restrictions on travel and business operations and advising or requiring individuals to limit or forego their time outside of their homes.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance brokers in Hong Kong have been greatly affected by the implementation of travel restrictions and social distancing measures. These restrictions and measures have resulted in a significant decrease in new business for insurance brokers, such as YeeTah, that rely on in-person consultations and storefronts for customer acquisition. Customers from mainland China contributed to a substantial part of YeeTah’s commissions. Regulations require their physical presence in Hong Kong to complete the policy contract. However, due to the political turmoil and travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 epidemic, mainland Chinese customers have dropped sharply. As a result, YeeTah’s revenue from commissions on new business has decreased significantly. YeeTah’s commissions from renewal premiums have also been materially affected since the mainland Chinese customers have been late in making the renewal payments due to the inability to visit Hong Kong to make the payments. Most of YeeTah’s mainland customers do not have Hong Kong bank account and used to pay their premiums through credit card or in cash in person.
While Hong Kong has recently lifted most of its quarantine measures, tourists from mainland China who visit Hong Kong may still face restrictions on their travel and be required to undergo quarantine upon returning to mainland China, which continues to present a significant challenge to YeeTah to restore and grow its business. We do not expect a significant improvement over our business and results of operations until the mainland visitors are permitted to enter Hong Kong and return to mainland China without COVID-19 related restrictions. As such, we presently focus on servicing Hong Kong residents.
The extent to which the COVID-19 epidemic affects our business will depend on future developments in Hong Kong and around the world, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions required to contain and treat it, among others. The duration of such business disruption and the resulting operational and financial impact on us have negatively affected our financial results for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and may continue to adversely affect our business operations for the year ended March 31, 2023. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Conditions” for more information on the impact of COVID-19 on our business operations and financial conditions. The global spread of COVID-19 pandemic in a significant number of countries around the world has resulted in, and may intensify, global economic distress, and the extent to which it may affect our results of operations will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry— Our business, financial condition and results of operations have been and may continue to be adversely affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong.”
The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the “HFCA Act”)
As more stringent criteria applying to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors have been imposed by the SEC and the PCAOB recently, and under the HFCA Act, our securities may be prohibited from being traded on the over-the-counter (the “OTC”) markets if our auditor is not inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, and this ultimately could result in trading in our securities being prohibited.
The HFCA Act was enacted on December 18, 2020. The HFCA Act states that if the SEC determines that an issuer’s audit reports issued by a registered public accounting firm have not been subject to inspection by the PCAOB for three consecutive years beginning in 2021, the SEC shall prohibit such issuer’s securities from being traded on a national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter trading market in the United States. On March 24, 2021, the SEC adopted interim final rules relating to the implementation of certain disclosure and documentation requirements of the HFCA Act. We will be required to comply with these rules if the SEC identifies us as having a “non-inspection” year under a process to be subsequently established by the SEC. If we fail to meet the new rules before the deadline specified thereunder, we could face possible prohibition from trading on the OTCQB, deregistration from the SEC and/or other risks, which may materially and adversely affect, or effectively terminate, our securities trading in the United States. On December 2, 2021, the SEC issued amendments to finalize rules implementing the submission and disclosure requirements in the HFCA Act. The rules apply to registrants that the SEC identifies as having filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located in a foreign jurisdiction and that PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a position taken by an authority in foreign jurisdictions.
Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if enacted, would amend the HFCA Act and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges or the OTC markets if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three thus reducing the time before our securities may be prohibited from trading or being delisted.
On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a Determination Report which found that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms headquartered in: (i) China, and (ii) Hong Kong. Our auditor, ZH CPA, LLC, is an independent registered public accounting firm with the PCAOB and has been inspected by the PCAOB on a regular basis. The PCAOB currently has access to inspect the working papers of our auditor. Our auditor is not headquartered in China or Hong Kong and was not identified in this report as a firm subject to the PCAOB’s determination.
On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it had signed the Statement of Protocol with the CSRC and the Ministry of Finance of China. The terms of the Statement of Protocol would grant the PCAOB complete access to audit work papers and other information so that it may inspect and investigate PCAOB-registered accounting firms headquartered in China and Hong Kong. According to the PCAOB, its December 2021 determinations under the HFCA Act remain in effect. The PCAOB is required to reassess these determinations by the end of 2022. Under the PCAOB’s rules, a reassessment of a determination under the HFCA Act may result in the PCAOB reaffirming, modifying or vacating the determination. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong — Under the HFCA Act, our securities may be prohibited from being traded on any U.S. securities exchange, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, or through any other trading method within the SEC’s regulatory jurisdiction, including the OTC markets if our auditor is not inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, and this ultimately could result in trading in our securities being prohibited. Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if enacted, would amend the HFCA Act and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges or the OTC markets if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three.” on page 12.
Regulatory Permissions and Developments
Our counsel as to PRC law has advised us that the laws and regulations of the PRC do not currently have any material impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations. However, there is no assurance that there will not be any changes in the economic, political and legal environment in Hong Kong in the future. If there is significant change to current political arrangements between mainland China and Hong Kong, companies operated in Hong Kong such as us may face similar regulatory risks as those operated in PRC, including their ability to offer securities to investors, list their securities on a U.S. or other foreign exchange, conduct their business or accept foreign investment. In light of China’s recent expansion of authority in Hong Kong, there are risks and uncertainties which we cannot foresee for the time being, and rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little or no advance notice. The Chinese government may intervene or influence our current and future operations in Hong Kong at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in issuers likes ourselves. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong.”
We are aware that, recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in certain areas in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using variable interest entity structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement. For example, on July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued a document to crack down on illegal activities in the securities market and promote the high-quality development of the capital market, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental authorities to strengthen cross-border oversight of law-enforcement and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over China-based companies listed overseas, and to establish and improve the system of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws. Also, on July 10, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (the “CAC”) issued a revised draft of the Measures for Cybersecurity Review for public comments, or the Revised Draft, which required that, among others, in addition to “operator of critical information infrastructure”, any “data processor” controlling personal information of no less than one million users (which to be further specified) which seeks to list in a foreign stock exchange should also be subject to cybersecurity review, and further elaborated the factors to be considered when assessing the national security risks of the relevant activities.
Except for the Basic Law, national laws of the PRC do not apply in Hong Kong unless they are listed in Annex III of the Basic Law and applied locally by promulgation or local legislation. National laws that may be listed in Annex III are currently limited under the Basic Law to those which fall within the scope of defense and foreign affairs as well as other matters outside the limits of the autonomy of Hong Kong. National laws and regulations relating to data protection, cybersecurity and anti-monopoly have not been listed in Annex III and do not apply directly to Hong Kong and, as such, we are advised by our counsel as to PRC law that that the CAC and CSRC do not currently have jurisdiction over companies operating in Hong Kong.
Our counsel as to PRC law has advised us that that we are not currently required to obtain any permission or approval from the CSRC, the CAC or any other regulatory authority in the PRC for our operations, the trading of our securities on the OTCQB and the offering of our securities to foreign investors. The business of our subsidiary is not subject to cybersecurity review with the CAC, given that PRC laws on data protection and cybersecurity do not currently apply to Hong Kong. To the extent that if we become subject to such PRC laws in the future, we do not believe we are required to conduct a cybersecurity review because (i) we do not possess a large amount of personal information in our business operations; and (ii) data processed in our business does not have a bearing on national security and thus may not be classified as core or important data by the authorities. In addition, we are not subject to merger control review by China’s anti-monopoly enforcement agency as such PRC enforcement agency does not currently have jurisdiction over our Hong Kong operating subsidiary. However, our operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by existing or future laws and regulations relating to our business or industry, if we inadvertently conclude that such approvals are not required when they are, or applicable laws, regulations, or interpretations change and we are required to obtain approval in the future. We may be subject to penalties and sanctions imposed by the PRC regulatory agencies, including the CSRC, if we fail to comply with such rules and regulations, which could adversely affect the ability of the Company’s securities to continue to trade on the OTCQB, which may cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
In addition, in light of the recent statements and regulatory actions by the PRC government, such as those related to Hong Kong’s national security, the promulgation of regulations prohibiting foreign ownership of Chinese companies operating in certain industries, which are constantly evolving, and anti-monopoly concerns, we may be subject to the risks of uncertainty of any future actions of the PRC government in this regard including the risk that the PRC government could disallow our holding company structure, which may result in a material change in our operations, including our ability to continue our existing holding company structure, carry on our current business, accept foreign investments, and offer or continue to offer securities to our investors. These adverse actions could cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
There may be prominent risks associated with our operations being in Hong Kong. For example, as a U.S.-listed public company operating primarily in Hong Kong, we may face heightened scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity, which could result in a material change in our operations and the value of our common stock. Additionally, we are subject to certain legal and operational risks associated with our business operations in Hong Kong, which is subject to political and economic influence from China. PRC laws and regulations governing our current business operations are sometimes vague and uncertain, and we may face the risk that changes in the policies of the PRC government could have a significant impact upon the business we conduct in Hong Kong and the profitability of such business. Therefore, these risks associated with being based in or having the majority of our operations in Hong Kong could likely cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or be worthless. Furthermore, these risks would likely result in a material change in our business operations or a complete hinderance of our ability to offer or continue to offer our securities to investors. Furthermore, changes in Chinese internal regulatory mandates, such as the Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (the “M&A Rules”), the Anti-Monopoly Law, the Cybersecurity Law and the Data Security Law, may target the Company’s corporate structure and impact our ability to conduct business in Hong Kong, accept foreign investments, or list on an U.S. or other foreign exchange.
The U.S. government, including the SEC, has recently made statements and taken certain actions that may lead to significant changes to U.S. and international relations, and will impact companies with connections to the United States or China (including Hong Kong). The SEC has issued statements primarily focused on companies with significant China-based operations. For example, on July 30, 2021, Gary Gensler, Chairman of the SEC, issued a Statement on Investor Protection Related to Recent Developments in China, pursuant to which Chairman Gensler stated that he has asked the SEC staff to engage in targeted additional reviews of filings for companies with significant China-based operations.
For a detailed description of the risks facing the Company and the risks associated with having our operations in Hong Kong, please refer to “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong.”
Recent PCAOB Developments
The PCAOB is currently unable to conduct inspections on accounting firms in the PRC or Hong Kong without the approval of the relevant government authorities. The auditor and its audit work in the PRC or Hong Kong may not be inspected fully by the PCAOB. Inspections of other auditors conducted by the PCAOB outside China have at times identified deficiencies in those auditors’ audit procedures and quality control procedures, which may be addressed as part of the inspection process to improve future audit quality. The lack of PCAOB inspections of audit work undertaken in China or Hong Kong prevents the PCAOB from regularly evaluating the PRC auditor’s audits and its quality control procedures. As a result, investor may be deprived of the benefits of such inspection.
The documentation we may be required to submit to the SEC proving certain beneficial ownership requirements and establishing that we are not owned or controlled by a foreign government in the event that we use a foreign public accounting firm not subject to inspection by the PCAOB or where the PCAOB is unable to completely inspect or investigate our accounting practices or financial statements because of a position taken by an authority in the foreign jurisdiction could be onerous and time consuming to prepare. The HFCA Act mandates the SEC to identify issuers of SEC-registered securities whose audited financial reports are prepared by an accounting firm that the PCAOB is unable to inspect due to restrictions imposed by an authority in the foreign jurisdiction where the audits are performed. If such identified issuer’s auditor cannot be inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, the trading of such issuer’s securities on any U.S. national securities exchanges, as well as any over-the-counter trading in the U.S., will be prohibited.
On March 24, 2021, the SEC adopted interim final rules relating to the implementation of certain disclosure and documentation requirements of the HFCA Act. An identified issuer will be required to comply with these rules if the SEC identifies it as having a “non-inspection” year under a process to be subsequently established by the SEC.
On November 5, 2021, the SEC approved the PCAOB’s Rule 6100, Board Determinations Under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act. Rule 6100 provides a framework for the PCAOB to use when determining, as contemplated under the HFCA Act, whether it is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms located in a foreign jurisdiction because of a position taken by one or more authorities in that jurisdiction.
On December 2, 2021, the SEC issued amendments to finalize rules implementing the submission and disclosure requirements in the HFCA Act. The rules apply to registrants that the SEC identifies as having filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located in a foreign jurisdiction and that PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a position taken by an authority in foreign jurisdictions.
On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a Determination Report which found that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms headquartered in: (i) China, and (ii) Hong Kong. Our auditor, ZH CPA, LLC, is an independent registered public accounting firm with the PCAOB and has been inspected by the PCAOB on a regular basis. The PCAOB currently has access to inspect the working papers of our auditor. Our auditor is not headquartered in China or Hong Kong and was not identified in this report as a firm subject to the PCAOB’s determination.
On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it had signed the Statement of Protocol with the CSRC and the Ministry of Finance of China. The terms of the Statement of Protocol would grant the PCAOB complete access to audit work papers and other information so that it may inspect and investigate PCAOB-registered accounting firms headquartered in China and Hong Kong. According to the PCAOB, its December 2021 determinations under the HFCA Act remain in effect. The PCAOB is required to reassess these determinations by the end of 2022. Under the PCAOB’s rules, a reassessment of a determination under the HFCA Act may result in the PCAOB reaffirming, modifying or vacating the determination.
As a firm registered with the PCAOB, ZH CPA, LLC is subject to laws in the United States which provide that the PCAOB shall conduct regular inspections to assess the auditor’s compliance with the applicable professional standards. We have no intention of dismissing ZH CPA, LLC in the future or engaging any auditor not based in the U.S. and not subject to regular inspection by the PCAOB. There is no guarantee, however, that any future auditor engaged by the Company would remain subject to full PCAOB inspection during the entire term of our engagement. If it is later determined that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate our auditor completely, investor may be deprived of the benefits of such inspection. Any audit reports not issued by auditors that are completely inspected by the PCAOB, or a lack of PCAOB inspections of audit work undertaken in China or Hong Kong that prevents the PCAOB from regularly evaluating our auditors’ audits and their quality control procedures, could result in a lack of assurance that our financial statements and disclosures are adequate and accurate.
Future developments in respect of increased U.S. regulatory access to audit information are uncertain, as the legislative developments are subject to the legislative process and the regulatory developments are subject to the rule-making process and other administrative procedures.
See also “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong — Under the HFCA Act, our securities may be prohibited from being traded on any U.S. securities exchange, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, or through any other trading method within the SEC’s regulatory jurisdiction, including the OTC markets if our auditor is not inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, and this ultimately could result in trading in our securities being prohibited. Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if enacted, would amend the HFCA Act and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges or the OTC markets if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three.”
Corporate History
QDM was incorporated in Florida in March 2020 and are the successor to 24/7 Kid, which was incorporated in Florida in November 1998. 24/7 Kid was a telemedicine company that provided Connect-a-Doc telemedicine kits to schools and its services aimed at providing an alternative to schools that desire to provide a higher level of healthcare to their students but are unable to keep a full-time school nurse available.
On October 21, 2020, we entered into a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with QDM BVI, and Huihe Zheng, the sole shareholder of QDM BVI (the “QDM BVI Shareholder”), who is also our principal stockholder and serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer, to acquire all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI in exchange for the issuance to the QDM BVI Shareholder 900,000 shares of a newly designated Series C Preferred Stock, with each share of Series C Preferred Stock initially being convertible into 11 shares of our common stock, subject to certain adjustments and limitations (the transaction, the “Share Exchange”). The Share Exchange closed on October 21, 2020. As a result of the consummation of the Share Exchange, we acquired QDM BVI, QDM HK and YeeTah, which is an insurance brokerage company primarily engaged in the sales and distribution of insurance products in Hong Kong. Since the consummation of the Share Exchange, we have assumed the business operations of the Group as our own.
On November 3, 2021, we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of QDMS, a company incorporated on February 6, 2020 in Cyprus. We acquired QDMS through an intermediary holding company, LGL, which was incorporated on July 29, 2021 in the BVI. Before the acquisition, Huihe Zheng was the sole shareholder of QDMS. As part of the acquisition, Mr. Zheng sold all the shares of QDMS to LGL for a consideration of EUR5,000 in November 2021 and at the same time the sole shareholder of LGL, Mengting Xu, transferred all her shares in LGL to us for a consideration of US$1.00. As a result, we acquired a 100% ownership of LGL, which, in turn, owns 100% of QDMS. Although QDMS has no operation as of the date of this prospectus, QDMS plans to engage in the research and development of customer relationship management (“CRM”) software as a service (“SaaS”), with a business model derived from “customer-centered” CRM concept to improve enterprise-customers relationship. We plan to market QDMS’ SaaS services to our network of banks, securities companies, insurance companies and other financial services providers in Hong Kong and China.
Summary of Risk Factors
Our business is subject to many significant risks, as more fully described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” immediately following this prospectus summary. You should read and carefully consider these risks, together with the risks set forth under the section entitled “Risk Factors” and all of the other information in this prospectus, including the financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, before deciding whether to invest in our common stock. If any of the risks discussed in this prospectus actually occur, our business, financial condition or operating results could be materially and adversely affected. In particular, our risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
| ● | Our operating subsidiary derives a significant portion of revenues from selling insurance products supplied by our major insurance company partners and our business is subject to concentration risks arising from dependence on a single or limited number of insurance company partners. |
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| ● | We incurred net losses in the past and there can be no assurance that we will be able to become profitable in the future. |
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| ● | Our business, financial condition and results of operations have been and may continue to be materially adversely affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong. |
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| ● | Our independent auditor has expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. |
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| ● | All of our sales of life and medical insurance products and general insurance products are conducted through our licensed technical representatives. If we are unable to attract and retain highly productive technical representatives, our business could be materially and adversely affected. Misconduct of the technical representatives may also have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition. |
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| ● | We are subject to extensive regulations for our insurance brokerage business and operations in Hong Kong. Failure to obtain, renew, or retain licenses, permits or approvals may affect our ability to conduct or expand our business. |
| ● | We face intense competition in the insurance intermediary industry in Hong Kong. If we are unable to compete effectively with both existing and new market participants, we may lose customers and our financial results may be negatively affected. |
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| ● | Our commission revenue is subject to both quarterly and annual fluctuations as a result of the seasonality of our business, the timing of policy renewals and the net effect of new and lost business. The factors that cause the quarterly and annual variations are not within our control. |
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| ● | Our disclosure controls and procedures are not effective and we have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. |
Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong
| ● | Adverse changes in economic and political policies of the PRC government could have a material and adverse effect on overall economic growth in China and Hong Kong, which could materially and adversely affect our business. |
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| ● | In light of China’s extension of its authority into Hong Kong, the Chinese government can change Hong Kong’s rules and regulations at any time with little to no advance notice, and can intervene and influence our operations and business activities in Hong Kong. We are currently not required to obtain approval from Chinese authorities (including the CSRC and the CAC) to operate or to list on U.S. exchanges. However, to the extent that the Chinese government exerts more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in Hong Kong-based issuers over time and if our subsidiary or the holding company were required to obtain approvals in the future, or we inadvertently conclude that that approvals were not required, or were denied permission from Chinese authorities to list on U.S. exchanges, our operations may materially change, our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to our investors or to continue listing on a U.S. exchange may be adversely affected, and the value of our common stock may significantly decline or become worthless, which would materially affect the interest of the investors. There is a risk that the Chinese government may intervene or influence our operations at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in Hong Kong-based issuers, which could result in a material change in our operations and/or the value of our securities. Further, any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers would likely significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless. |
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| ● | We may become subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the PRC regarding privacy, data security, cybersecurity, and data protection. We may be liable for improper use or appropriation of personal information provided by our customers. |
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| ● | The recent joint statement by the SEC and PCAOB, and the HFCA Act all call for additional and more stringent criteria to be applied to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors, especially the non-U.S. auditors who are not inspected by the PCAOB. These developments could add uncertainties to our offering. Trading in our securities may be prohibited under the HFCA Act if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or investigate completely our auditor, and that as a result an exchange may determine to delist our securities. On June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act which would reduce the number of consecutive non-inspection years required for triggering the prohibitions under the HFCA Act from three years to two thus reducing the time before our securities may be prohibited from trading or being delisted. On December 2, 2021, the SEC adopted rules to implement the HFCA Act. Pursuant to the HFCA Act, the PCAOB issued its report notifying the Commission that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely accounting firms headquartered in mainland China or Hong Kong due to positions taken by authorities in mainland China and Hong Kong. Our auditor is not subject to the determinations announced by the PCAOB on December 16, 2021. However, in the event the Hong Kong authorities subsequently take a position disallowing the PCAOB to inspect our auditor, then we would need to change our auditor to avoid having our securities delisted. |
| ● | QDM is a holding company with operations conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiary based in Hong Kong. This structure presents unique risks as our investors may never directly hold equity interests in our Hong Kong subsidiary and will be dependent upon contributions from our subsidiary to finance our cash flow needs. Any limitation on the ability of our subsidiary to make payments to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct business. We do not anticipate paying dividends in the foreseeable future; you should not buy our stock if you expect dividends. |
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| ● | You may be subject to PRC income tax on dividends from us or on any gain realized on the transfer of shares of our common stock. |
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| ● | QDM is organized under the laws of the State of Florida as a holding company that conducts its business through a number of subsidiaries organized under the laws of foreign jurisdictions such as Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands. This may have an adverse impact on the ability of U.S. investors to enforce a judgment obtained in U.S. Courts against these entities, bring actions in Hong Kong against us or our management or to effect service of process on the officers and directors managing the foreign subsidiaries. |
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| ● | U.S. regulatory bodies may be limited in their ability to conduct investigations or inspections if our operations are based in China. |
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| ● | The market price for our securities could be adversely affected by increased tensions between the United States and China. |
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| ● | Our business, financial condition and results of operations, and/or the value of our common stock or our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors may be materially and adversely affected to the extent the laws and regulations of the PRC become applicable to a company such as us. |
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| ● | The future development of national security laws and regulations in Hong Kong could materially impact our business by possibly triggering sanctions and other measures which can cause economic harm to our business. |
Risks Related to this Offering and Our Securities
| ● | The Series B and Series C Preferred Stock, which are controlled by Mr. Huihe Zheng, our Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, have super voting rights that may adversely affect our holders of common stock; in addition, Mr. Zheng, as our controlling stockholder, may exercise significant influence over us and may be subject to conflicts of interest. |
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| ● | The limited public trading market may cause volatility in our stock price. |
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| ● | The public offering price is set by our board of directors and does not necessarily indicate the actual or market value of our common stock. |
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| ● | An active and visible trading market for our common stock may not develop. |
Principal Offices
Our current principal offices are located at Room 715, 7F, The Place Tower C, No. 150 Zunyi Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China 200051. Our phone number is +86 (21) 22183083.
QDM is organized under the laws of the State of Florida as a holding company that conducts its business through a number of subsidiaries organized under the laws of foreign jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, the BVI and Cyprus.
The Offering
Securities Offered: | Up to 30,000,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share. The shares of common stock are being offered directly by us on a “best efforts/no minimum” basis, meaning we are not required to sell any aggregate minimum amount in this offering. The price per share in this offering to investors will be $0.081. |
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Common Stock Outstanding Before this Offering: (1) | 209,993 shares. |
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Common Stock to be Outstanding After this Offering: (1) | 30,209,993 shares, assuming the maximum amount of shares sold. |
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Series B Preferred Stock Outstanding | 13,500 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, convertible into 1,350,000 shares of our common stock. |
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Series C Preferred Stock Outstanding | 531,886 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, convertible into 195,024 shares of our common stock. |
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Indications of Interest | Certain of our existing stockholders and entities that are affiliated with our officers and directors, including HW FUND, a Cayman Islands exempted company, of which Huihe Zheng, our President and Chief Executive Officer is the controlling shareholder, and Willington Capital Limited, a Hong Kong limited company, of which Huili Shen, our director, is the sole shareholder and director, have indicated their interests in purchasing up to an aggregate of approximately $1.377 million worth of shares of common stock in this offering at the public offering price. However, because indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase, the existing stockholders and their affiliated entities could determine to purchase more, less or no shares of common stock in this offering. |
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Term of Offering: | This offering will terminate three months after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, unless the offering is fully subscribed before the date or we decide to terminate the offering prior to that date. In either event, the offering may be closed without further notice to you at any time and in our discretion. |
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Method of Offering: | Although the gross proceeds of this offering may be up to $2,430,000, this offering is being conducted on a “best efforts/no minimum” basis, meaning that no aggregate minimum offering amount is required to be raised by us in this offering. As such, the actual public offering amount and proceeds to us, if any, are not presently determinable and net proceeds may be substantially less than the total maximum offering set forth above. This prospectus will permit our officers and directors to sell our securities directly to the public, with no commission or other remuneration payable to them for any shares they may sell. In offering the securities on our behalf, our officers and directors will rely on the safe harbor from broker-dealer registration set out in Rule 3a4-1 under the Exchange Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to engage FINRA member broker-dealers as finders in connection with this offering. |
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Use of Proceeds: | We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for business development activities, new hires, working capital and other general corporate purposes. |
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OTCQB Marketplace Symbol: | Our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB market under the symbol “QDMI.” |
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Risk Factors: | An investment in the Company is highly speculative and involves a significant degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” and other information included in this prospectus for a discussion of factors you should carefully consider before deciding to invest in shares of our common stock. |
Summary Financial Data
The summary financial data below for the Company as of September 30, 2022 and for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 have been derived from its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus The summary financial data below for the Company as of and for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 have been derived from its audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.
The following summary financial information should be read in connection with, and is qualified by reference to, the Company’s consolidated financial statements and their related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere in this prospectus. The Company’s historical results for any prior period are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected in any future period.
Summary of Consolidated Statement of Operations
| | For the Six Months Ended September 30, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
Revenues | | $ | 22,963 | | | $ | 30,218 | |
Gross profit | | | — | | | | — | |
Operating costs and expenses | | | (171,447 | ) | | | (183,703 | ) |
Loss from operations | | | (171,447 | ) | | | (183,703 | ) |
Net other (income) expenses | | | (2,026 | ) | | | 960 | |
Provision for income taxes | | | — | | | | — | |
Net loss | | | (169,421 | ) | | | (184,663 | ) |
Comprehensive loss | | | (166,118 | ) | | | (184,663 | ) |
Net loss per share – basic & diluted | | | (0.81 | ) | | | (1.08 | ) |
Weighted average number of shares of common stock – basic & diluted | | | 209,520 | | | | 170,831 | |
| | For Years Ended March 31, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
Revenues | | $ | 68,969 | | | $ | 123,438 | |
Gross profit | | | 133 | | | | 392 | |
Operating costs and expenses | | | (376,968 | ) | | | (333,284 | ) |
Loss from operations | | | (376,835 | ) | | | (332,892 | ) |
Net other (income) expenses | | | (1,330 | ) | | | 6,773 | |
Provision for income taxes | | | — | | | | — | |
Net loss | | | (378,165 | ) | | | (326,119 | ) |
Comprehensive loss | | | (376,832 | ) | | | (326,119 | ) |
Net loss per share – basic & diluted | | | (1.99 | ) | | | (5.89 | ) |
Weighted average number of shares of common stock – basic & diluted | | | 190,170 | | | | 55,384 | |
Summary of Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
| | As of September 30, | | As of March 31, |
| | 2022 | | 2022 |
Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 154,380 | | | $ | 69,658 | |
Total current assets | | | 281,366 | | | | 148,707 | |
Total assets | | | 395,932 | | | | 270,643 | |
Total current liabilities | | | 1,031,698 | | | | 870,815 | |
Total non-current liabilities | | | 54,324 | | | | 73,800 | |
Total liabilities | | | 1,086,022 | | | | 944,615 | |
Total equity (deficit) | | | (690,090 | ) | | | (673,972 | ) |
Total liabilities and equity | | | 395,932 | | | | 270,643 | |
| | As of March 31, | |
| | 2022 | | | 2021 | |
Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 69,658 | | | $ | 35,605 | |
Total current assets | | | 148,707 | | | | 151,054 | |
Total assets | | | 270,643 | | | | 151,054 | |
Total current liabilities | | | 870,815 | | | | 579,969 | |
Total non-current liabilities | | | 73,800 | | | | - | |
Total liabilities | | | 944,615 | | | | 579,969 | |
Total equity (deficit) | | | (673,972 | ) | | | (428,915 | ) |
Total liabilities and equity | | | 270,643 | | | | 151,054 | |
Cash Transfers and Dividend Distribution
We conduct the majority of our operations in Hong Kong and maintain our bank accounts and balances primarily in licensed banks in Hong Kong. If needed, cash can be transferred between our holding company and subsidiaries through intercompany fund advances, and there are currently no restrictions of transferring funds between our Florida holding company and subsidiaries in Hong Kong. No transfer of cash or other types of assets has been made between our Florida holding company and subsidiaries as of the date of this prospectus.
Our Florida holding company has not declared or paid dividends in the past given the early development stage of our businesses, nor any dividends or distributions were made by a subsidiary to the Florida holding company. We intend to have our holding company distribute dividends in the future, but we do not have a fixed dividend policy. Although we intend to distribute dividends in the future, the amount, timing, and whether or not we actually distribute dividends at all is at the discretion of our board of directors. Our board of directors has complete discretion on whether to distribute dividends, subject to applicable laws. Even if our board of directors decides to pay dividends, the form, frequency, and amount will depend upon our future operations and earnings, capital requirements and surplus, general financial condition, contractual restrictions, and other factors that the board of directors may deem relevant.
Our Florida holding company has not declared or made any dividend or other distribution to its stockholders, including U.S. investors, in the past. U.S. investors will not be subject to Florida, Hong Kong, taxation on dividend distributions, and no withholding will be required on the payment of dividends or distributions to them while they may be subject to U.S. federal income tax.
RISK FACTORS
An investment in our securities is highly speculative and involves substantial risks, including the risks described below. You should carefully consider all of the risks described below, together with the other information contained in this prospectus, before making a decision to invest in our securities. The risks highlighted here are not the only ones that we may face. For example, additional risks presently unknown to us or that we currently consider immaterial or unlikely to occur could also impair our operations. If any of the risks or uncertainties described below or any such additional risks and uncertainties actually occur, our business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations could be negatively affected, and you might lose all or part of your investment.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
Our business is subject to concentration risks arising from dependence on a single or limited number of insurance company partners.
We derive a significant portion of revenues from selling insurance products supplied by our major insurance company partners. For the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, an aggregate of 66.9% and 80.0% of YeeTah’s total commissions were attributable to its top two insurance companies, respectively. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, an aggregate of 81.4% of YeeTah’s total commissions were attributed to its top two insurance companies, which accounted for 47.7% and 33.7% its total commissions, respectively. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, an aggregate of 88.8% of YeeTah’s total commissions were attributable to its top two insurance company partners, which accounted for 49.8% and 39.0% of its total commissions, respectively.
Because of this concentration in the supply of the insurance products we sell, our business and operations would be negatively affected if we experience a partial or complete loss of any of these insurance partners. In addition, any significant adverse change in our relationship with any of these insurance company partners could result in loss of revenue, increased costs and distribution delays that could harm our business and customer relationships.
We incurred net losses in the past and may never achieve profitability in the future.
We had a net loss of $169,421 and $184,663 for the six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and a net loss of $378,165 and $326,199 in the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. There can be no assurance that we will be able to become profitable in the future. We anticipate that our operating costs and expenses will increase in the foreseeable future as we continue to grow our business, acquire new clients and further develop our service offering and increase brand recognition. These efforts may prove more costly than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenues sufficiently to offset these higher expenses. There are other factors that could negatively affect our financial condition. For example, if we fail to compete successfully with our existing or potential competitors, or if the insurance products we sell are not accepted by the market as we expect, we will receive lower-than-expected insurance brokerage income, and our financial results will be adversely affected. If regulatory authorities promulgate new laws, regulations and regulatory requirements that limit our business operations, especially with regard to our fee or cost model, our results of operations will suffer. As a result of the foregoing and other factors, our net profit margins may decline or we may continue to incur net losses in the future and may not be able to achieve profitability on a quarterly or annual basis.
Our business, financial condition and results of operations have been and may continue to be materially adversely affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong.
In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, was reported in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 has since spread rapidly to other countries, including the United States, and the World Health Organization formally declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in March 2020. The pandemic has reached more than 160 countries, resulting in the implementation of significant governmental measures, including lockdowns, closures, quarantines, and travel bans, intended to control the spread of the virus. The Hong Kong government has ordered quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of schools, stores, borders and facilities. Companies are also taking precautions, such as requiring employees to work remotely, imposing travel restrictions and temporarily closing businesses.
Our business operations rely heavily on the customers from mainland China and the closure by Hong Kong government of the borders with mainland China, the restriction on travel and quarantine requirements have significantly reduced the number of our new customers. In addition, limited ability of our sales personnel to interact with customers face-to-face as result of the social distance measures has hindered the sales activities of our sales force, which has had a material adverse impact on our operating results of the period from January 2020 to the date of this prospectus and the operating income for the same period significantly decreased on a year-over-year basis.
While Hong Kong has recently lifted most of its quarantine measures, tourists from mainland China who visit Hong Kong may still face restrictions on their travel and be required to undergo quarantine upon returning to mainland China, which continues to present a significant challenge to YeeTah to restore and grow its business. We do not expect a significant improvement over our business and results of operations until the mainland visitors are permitted to enter Hong Kong and return to mainland China without COVID-19 related restrictions. As such, we presently focus on servicing Hong Kong residents.
The duration of the business disruption caused by COVID-19 and the resulting operational and financial impact on us have negatively affected our financial results for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and may continue to adversely affect our business operations for the year ending March 31, 2023. The global spread of COVID-19 pandemic in a significant number of countries around the world has resulted in, and may intensify, global economic distress, and the extent to which it may affect our results of operations will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. We cannot assure you that the COVID-19 pandemic can be eliminated or contained in the near future, or at all, or a similar outbreak will not occur again. If the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting disruption to our business were to extend over a prolonged period, it could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our independent auditor has expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, our independent auditor included an explanatory paragraph in their audit report emphasizing to the readers of the audit report that there is a substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern based upon our net losses and negative cash flows from operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 and its levels of working capital as of March 31, 2022. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of these uncertainties. Our unaudited consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, and our audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 have also been prepared on a going concern basis which assumes we will be able to realize our assets and discharge our liabilities in the normal course of business for the foreseeable future. We have incurred losses since inception resulting in an accumulated deficit as of September 30, 2022. Management is planning to raise any necessary additional funds to fund our operating expenses through loans and additional sales of our common stock, securities convertible into our common stock, debt securities or a combination of such financing alternatives; however, there can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising any necessary additional capital. If we are not successful in raising additional capital, we may not have enough financial resources to support our business and operations and, as a result, may not be able to continue as a going concern and could be forced to liquidate.
If we fail to attract and retain productive technical representatives to sell the insurance products, our business and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
All of our sales of life and medical insurance products and general insurance products are conducted through our licensed technical representatives. We have been actively recruiting and will continue to recruit technical representatives to join our distribution and service network. Technical representatives have been instrumental to the development of our life insurance business.
As of September 30, 2022, we had six technical representatives. Competition for technical representatives is intense and there can be no assurance that we will be able to attract and retain such personnel. If we are unable to attract and retain highly productive technical representatives, our business could be materially and adversely affected.
Misconduct of the technical representatives may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
Misconduct of the technical representatives could result in regulatory sanctions, litigation or serious reputational or financial harm to us.
Misconduct may include:
| ● | the use of methods of solicitation and advertising that are not compatible with the integrity and dignity of the profession of insurance broking; |
| ● | the use of any illustration, circular or memorandum that misrepresents or is incomplete as regards the terms, benefits or advantages of any contract of insurance issued or to be issued to a prospective purchaser of insurance; |
| ● | the use of any incomplete comparison of any policy or contract of insurance for the purpose of inducing an insured to forfeit or replace a policy or contract of insurance; |
| ● | the offer of any payment, allowance or gift as an inducement to any prospective insured to insure through the offeror; and |
| ● | holding out to the public or advertising by means of advertisements, cards, circulars, letters, signs or other methods in an irresponsible or untruthful manner. |
Failure to prevent and detect misconduct may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
We are subject to extensive regulations for our insurance brokerage business and operations.
We conduct our business primarily in Hong Kong and our business operations are subject to vigorous regulations in Hong Kong applicable to licensed insurance brokers. Any failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations could result in fines, censure, suspensions of personnel or other sanctions, including revocation of our license as insurance broker. Even if a sanction imposed against us or our personnel is small in monetary amount, the adverse publicity arising from the imposition of sanctions against us by regulators could harm our reputation and impede our ability to retain customers and develop new customer relationships, which may reduce our revenues.
From time to time, the regulatory landscape in the insurance industry in Hong Kong involves and changes. We face the risk of significant intervention by regulatory authorities, including increased registered capital requirements, extended training of the insurance agencies’ personnel, and adoption of costly or restrictive new regulations and judicial or administrative proceedings. If any restrictive or costly new regulations and rules become effective and applicable to our business, these regulations may materially limit our activities and operational profitability.
Compliance with changing regulation of corporate governance and public disclosure, and our management’s inexperience with such regulations, will result in additional expenses and creates a risk of non-compliance.
Changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related SEC regulations, have created uncertainty for public companies and significantly increased the costs and risks associated with accessing the public markets and public reporting. Our management team will need to invest significant management time and financial resources to comply with both existing and evolving standards for public companies, which will lead to increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from revenue generating activities to compliance activities. In addition, our management members who are located in the PRC has little experience with compliance with U.S. laws (including securities laws). This inexperience may cause us to fall out of compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, which could lead to enforcement action against us and a negative impact on our stock price.
Failure to obtain, renew, or retain licenses, permits or approvals may affect our ability to conduct or expand our business.
We are required to obtain applicable licenses, permits and approvals from different Hong Kong regulatory authorities in order to conduct or expand our business. The Insurance Authority of Hong Kong (the “HKIA”) has promulgated various regulations on the insurance business, including regulations requiring an insurance broker license. We obtained, renewed and maintained our insurance broker license as required by the HKIA. However, there is no assurance that the HKIA will not issue new regulations governing the insurance product and service industry that might require us to obtain additional licenses, permits or approvals for our current or future business operations. Our failure to obtain any such additional licenses, permits or approvals may adversely our business operations and financial condition.
Competition in our industry is intense and, if we are unable to compete effectively with both existing and new market participants, we may lose customers and our financial results may be negatively affected.
The insurance intermediary industry in Hong Kong is intensely competitive, and we expect competition to persist and further intensify as more insurance broker companies enter the market. In insurance product distribution, we face competition from insurance companies that use their in-house sales force and exclusive sales agents to distribute their products, from business entities that distribute insurance products on an ancillary basis, such as commercial banks, as well as from other traditional insurance intermediaries. Many of our competitors, both existing and newly emerging, have greater financial and marketing resources than we do and may be able to offer products and services that we do not currently offer and may not offer in the future. If we are unable to compete effectively against those competitors, we may lose customers and our financial results may be negatively affected.
Because the commission we earn on the sale of insurance products is based on premiums and commission rates set by insurance companies, any decrease in these premiums or commission rates may have an adverse effect on our results of operations.
We are an insurance broker and derive revenues primarily from commissions paid by the insurance companies whose policies our customers purchase. Our commission rates are set by insurance companies and are based on the types and terms of the insurance products. Commission rates and premiums can change based on the prevailing economic, regulatory, taxation-related and competitive factors that affect insurance companies. These factors, which are not within our control, include the ability of insurance companies to place new business, underwriting and non-underwriting profits of insurance companies, consumer demand for insurance products, the availability of comparable products from other insurance companies at a lower cost, as well as the tax deductibility of commissions and the consumers themselves.
Because we do not determine, and cannot predict, the timing or extent of premium or commission rate changes, we cannot predict the effect any of these changes may have on our operations. Any decrease in premiums or commission rates may significantly affect our profitability.
Quarterly and annual variations in our commission revenue may unexpectedly impact our results of operations.
Our commission revenue is subject to both quarterly and annual fluctuations as a result of the seasonality of our business, the timing of policy renewals and the net effect of new and lost business. During any given year, our commission revenue derived from distribution of life and medical insurance products is highest during the fourth quarter and is lowest during the first quarter. This general seasonality trend was further affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced our first year life insurance commission revenue during 2021 and 2022. The factors that cause the quarterly and annual variations are not within our control. Specifically, regulatory changes to product design may result in cessation of products from time to time and cause quarterly fluctuation in the results of our operations. In addition, consumer demand for insurance products can influence the timing of renewals, new business and lost business, which generally includes policies that are not renewed, and cancellations. As a result, quarterly or annual comparisons of our operating results may not be used as an indication of our future performance.
Our future success depends on the continuing efforts of our senior management team and other key personnel, and our business may be harmed if we lose their services.
Our future success depends heavily upon the continuing services of the members of our senior management team and other key personnel, in particular, Mr. Huihe Zheng, our President and Chief Executive Officer. If our senior executives or other key personnel, are unable or unwilling to continue in their present positions, we may not be able to replace them easily, or at all. As such, our business may be disrupted and our financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected. Competition for senior management and key personnel in insurance industry is intense because of a number of factors including the limited pool of qualified candidates. We may not be able to retain the services of our senior executives or key personnel, or attract and retain high-quality senior executives or key personnel in the future. In addition, if any member of our senior management team or any of our other key personnel joins a competitor or forms a competing company, we may lose customers, sensitive trade information, key professionals and staff members.
We may not be able to ensure the accuracy and completeness of product information and the effectiveness of our recommendation of insurance products.
Our customers rely on the insurance product information we provide through our technical representatives. While we believe that such information is generally accurate, complete and reliable, there can be no assurance that the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the information can be maintained in the future. If our technical representatives provide any inaccurate or incomplete information due to either their own fault or that of our insurance partners, or we fail to present accurate or complete information of any insurance products which could lead to our customers’ failure to get the protection or we being warned or punished by regulatory authorities, our reputation could be harmed and we could experience reduced businesses, which may adversely affect our business and financial performance.
We may not be able to recommend suitable insurance products to our customers. Our technical representatives may not fully understand the customers’ needs and recommend suitable products to them. In addition, because the technical representatives are compensated based on premiums and commission rates, they may be tempted to sell insurance products with higher commissions rather than those required by or suitable to the customers or prospective customers. If our customers are recommended insurance products that do not suit their protection needs, they may lose trust in the company. Meanwhile, our insurance company partners may find our recommendation ineffective. Our customers may consequently be reluctant to continue to use our services, and our insurance company partners may be hesitant to continue to partner with us. As a result, our business, reputation, financial performance and prospects will be materially and adversely affected.
We may face potential liability, loss of customers and damage to our reputation for any failure to protect the confidential information of our customers.
Our customer database holds confidential information concerning our customers. We may be unable to prevent third parties, such as hackers or criminal organizations, from stealing information provided by our customers. Confidential information of our customers may also be misappropriated or inadvertently disclosed through insurance agents’ misconduct or mistake. We may also in the future be required to disclose to government authorities certain confidential information concerning our customers. Any compromise of our security could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
Though we have not experienced any material cybersecurity incidents in the past, if our database was compromised by outside sources or if we were accused of failing to protect the confidential information of our customers, we may be forced to expend significant financial and managerial resources in remedying the situation, defending against these accusations and we may face potential liability. Any negative publicity, especially concerning breaches in our cybersecurity systems, may adversely affect our public image and reputation. Though we take proactive measures to protect against these risks and believe that our efforts in this area are sufficient for our business, there can be no assurance that such measures will prove effective against all cybersecurity risks.
We rely on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our subsidiaries to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, and any limitation on the ability of our subsidiaries to make payments to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida, and it relies on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by its subsidiaries for its cash and financing requirements, including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to its stockholders and service any debt it may incur. If any of QDM’s subsidiaries incurs debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to QDM.
Under the current practice of the Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong, no tax is payable in Hong Kong in respect of dividends paid by us. See “Business – Regulation — Regulations Related to Hong Kong Taxation.” Any limitation on the ability of our Hong Kong subsidiary to pay dividends or make other distributions to us could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow, make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our business, pay dividends, or otherwise fund and conduct our business.
Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong
Potential political and economic instability in Hong Kong may adversely impact our results of operations. We may also face the risk that changes in the policies of the PRC government could have a significant impact upon the business we conduct in Hong Kong and the profitability of such business.
Our operational activities are primarily conducted in Hong Kong. Accordingly, political and economic conditions in Hong Kong and the surrounding region may directly affect our business. Since early 2019, a number of political protests and conflicts have occurred in Hong Kong in connection with proposed legislation that would allow local authorities to detain and extradite people who are wanted in territories that Hong Kong does not have extradition agreements with, including mainland China and Taiwan. The economy of Hong Kong has been negatively impacted, including our retail market, property market, stock market, and tourism, from such protests.
Under the Basic Law, Hong Kong is exclusively in charge of its internal affairs and external relations, while the government of the PRC is responsible for its foreign affairs and defense. As a separate customs territory, Hong Kong maintains and develops relations with foreign states and regions. We cannot assure you that the Hong Kong protests will not affect Hong Kong’s status as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and thereby affecting its current relations with foreign states and regions.
Our revenue is susceptible to Hong Kong protests as well as any other incidents or factors which affect the stability of the social, economic and political conditions in Hong Kong. As a result of the Hong Kong protests, we experienced a drop in new customers from mainland China beginning in June 2019, which impacted our revenue for the period from June 2019 to the quarter ended June 30, 2020.
It is unclear whether there will be other political or social unrest in the near future or that there will not be other events that could lead to the disruption of the economic, political and social conditions in Hong Kong. If such events persist for a prolonged period of time or that the economic, political and social conditions in Hong Kong are to be disrupted, our overall business and results of operations may be adversely affected.
In addition, economic, political and legal developments and social conditions in the PRC may significantly affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. The PRC economy is in transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented economy subject to plans adopted by the government that set national economic development goals. Policies of the PRC government can have significant effects on economic conditions in the PRC and Hong Kong. While we believe that the PRC will continue to strengthen its economic and trading relationships with foreign countries and that business development in the PRC will continue to follow market forces, we cannot assure you that this will be the case. Our business operations and prospects, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected by changes in policies by the PRC government, including:
| ● | changes in laws, regulations or their interpretation; |
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| ● | confiscatory taxation; |
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| ● | restrictions on currency conversion, imports or sources of supplies, or ability to continue as a for-profit enterprise; |
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| ● | expropriation or nationalization of private enterprises; and |
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| ● | the allocation of resources. |
Substantial uncertainties and restrictions with respect to the political and economic policies of the PRC government and PRC laws and regulations could have a significant impact upon the business that we conduct in Hong Kong and accordingly on the results of our operations and financial condition.
Our business operations may be adversely affected by the current and future political environment in the PRC. The PRC government has exercised and continues to exercise substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through regulation and state ownership. The interpretations of many laws, regulations and rules may not always be uniform and the enforcement of these laws, regulations and rules may involve uncertainties for you and us. Our ability to operate in Hong Kong, conduct overseas offerings and continue to investment in Hong Kong based issuers may be harmed by these changes in its laws and regulations, including those relating to taxation, import and export tariffs, healthcare regulations, environmental regulations, land use and property ownership rights, and other matters. Accordingly, government actions in the future, including any decision not to continue to support recent economic reforms and to return to a more centrally planned economy or regional or local variations in the implementation of economic policies, could have a significant effect on economic conditions in Hong Kong or particular regions thereof, and could limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors or require us to divest ourselves of any interest we then hold in Hong Kong properties or joint ventures. Any such actions (including divesture or similar actions) could result in a material adverse effect on us and on your investment in us and could render our securities and your investment in our securities worthless.
There are substantial uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of PRC laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the laws and regulations governing our business, or the enforcement and performance of our contractual arrangements with borrowers in the event of the imposition of statutory liens, death, bankruptcy or criminal proceedings. Only after 1979 did the Chinese government begin to promulgate a comprehensive system of laws that regulate economic affairs in general, deal with economic matters such as foreign investment, corporate organization and governance, commerce, taxation and trade, as well as encourage foreign investment in China. Although the influence of the law has been increasing, China has not developed a fully integrated legal system and recently enacted laws and regulations may not sufficiently cover all aspects of economic activities in China. Also, because these laws and regulations are relatively new, and because of the limited volume of published cases and their lack of force as precedents, interpretation and enforcement of these laws and regulations involve significant uncertainties. New laws and regulations that affect existing and proposed future businesses may also be applied retroactively. In addition, there have been constant changes and amendments of laws and regulations over the past 30 years in order to keep up with the rapidly changing society and economy in China. Because government agencies and courts that provide interpretations of laws and regulations and decide contractual disputes and issues may change their interpretation or enforcement very rapidly with little advance notice at any time, we cannot predict the future direction of Chinese legislative activities with respect to either businesses with foreign investment or the effectiveness on enforcement of laws and regulations in China. The uncertainties, including new laws and regulations and changes of existing laws, as well as may cause possible problems to foreign investors.
Although the PRC government has been pursuing economic reform policies for more than two decades, the PRC government continues to exercise significant control over economic growth in the PRC through the allocation of resources, controlling payments of foreign currency, setting monetary policy and imposing policies that impact particular industries in different ways. We cannot assure you that the PRC government will continue to pursue policies favoring a market-oriented economy or that existing policies will not be significantly altered, especially in the event of a change in leadership, social or political disruption, or other circumstances affecting political, economic and social life in the PRC.
The future development of national security laws and regulations in Hong Kong could materially impact our business by possibly triggering sanctions and other measures which can cause economic harm to our business.
On May 28, 2020, the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China approved a proposal to impose a new national security law for Hong Kong and authorized the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress to proceed to work out details of the legislation to be implemented in Hong Kong (the “Decision”). The Decision states that the new law will target secession, subversion of state power, terrorism activities and foreign interference. The stated objective of the Decision is to protect the national security of China as a whole (including Hong Kong and Macau) and is not intended to have a direct commercial bearing on commercial and economic activities. The government believes the new law may bring about more stability to Hong Kong, which in turn may lay the foundation for commercial and economic activities to flourish. On June 30, 2020, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed the national security law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Hong Kong’s Chief Executive promulgated it in Hong Kong later the same day. Among other things, it criminalizes separatism, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference in Hong Kong. We cannot rule out the possibility that the Decision and the implementation of the national security law may trigger sanctions or other forms of penalties by foreign governments, which may cause economic and other hardship for Hong Kong, including companies like us that do business in Hong Kong. It is difficult for us to predict the impact, in any, the implementation of the national security law will have on our business, as such impact will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.
Our Hong Kong subsidiary may be subject to restrictions on paying dividends or making other payments to us, which may restrict its ability to satisfy liquidity requirements, conduct business and pay dividends to holders of our common stock. Dividends payable to our foreign investors and gains on the sale of our shares of common stock by our foreign investors may become subject to tax by the PRC.
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida with its operating subsidiary located in Hong Kong. Accordingly, most of our cash is maintained in Hong Kong Dollars. We conduct no other business and, as a result, we depend entirely upon our Hong Kong operating subsidiary’s earnings and cash flow. If we decide in the future to pay dividends, as a holding company, our ability to pay dividends and meet other obligations depends upon the receipt of dividends or other payments from our operating subsidiary. There are currently no restrictions of transferring funds between our Florida holding company and our operating subsidiary in Hong Kong or limitations on the ability of our Hong Kong subsidiary to issue dividends or other distributions to its overseas stockholders. However, we cannot assure you that the oversight of the PRC government will not be extended to companies operating in Hong Kong like our Hong Kong operating subsidiaries. There is a possibility that the PRC government could prevent our cash maintained in Hong Kong from leaving or the PRC could restrict the deployment of the cash into our business or for the payment of dividends. Any such controls or restrictions may adversely affect our ability to finance our cash requirements, service debt or make dividend or other distributions to our stockholders and could result in a material adverse change to our business operations, our prospects, financial condition, and results of operations, and could cause our common stock to significantly decline in value or become worthless.
The market price for our securities could be adversely affected by increased tensions between the United States and China.
Recently there have been heightened tensions in the economic and political relations between the United States and China. On June 30, 2020, the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress issued the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. This law defines the duties and government bodies of Hong Kong for safeguarding national security and four categories of offences—secession, subversion, terrorist activities and collusion with a foreign country or external elements to endanger national security—and their corresponding penalties. On July 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, or HKAA, into law, authorizing the U.S. administration to impose blocking sanctions against individuals and entities who are determined to have materially contributed to the erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy. On August 7, 2020, the U.S. government imposed HKAA-authorized sanctions on 11 individuals, including Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam. The HKAA further authorizes secondary sanctions, including the imposition of blocking sanctions, against foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct a significant transaction with foreign persons sanctioned under this authority. The imposition of sanctions such as those provided in the HKAA is in practice discretionary and highly political, especially in a relationship as extensive and complex as that between the United States and China. It is difficult to predict the full impact of the HKAA on Hong Kong and companies like us. Furthermore, legislative or administrative actions in respect of Sino-U.S. relations could cause investor uncertainty for affected issuers, including us, and the market price of our securities could be adversely affected.
Our business, financial condition and results of operations, and/or the value of our common stock or our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors may be materially and adversely affected to the extent the laws and regulations of the PRC become applicable to a company such as us.
We currently have only immaterial, non-substantive operations mainland China. YeeTah does not sell any insurance products in mainland China or solicit customers or collect, store or process any personal data of any customer in China, and is not regulated by any insurance regulator in mainland China. As a result, the laws and regulations of the PRC do not currently have any material impact on YeeTah’s business, financial condition and results of operations. However, as we operate in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, there is no guarantee that if certain existing or future laws of the PRC become applicable to a company such as us, it will not have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations and/or our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors, any of which may cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.
Except for the Basic Law, national laws of the PRC do not apply in Hong Kong unless they are listed in Annex III of the Basic Law and applied locally by promulgation or local legislation. National laws that may be listed in Annex III are currently limited under the Basic Law to those which fall within the scope of defense and foreign affairs as well as other matters outside the limits of the autonomy of Hong Kong. National laws and regulations relating to data protection, cybersecurity and the anti-monopoly have not been listed in Annex III and so do not apply directly to Hong Kong.
The laws and regulations in the PRC are evolving, and their enactment timetable, interpretation and implementation involve significant uncertainties. To the extent any PRC laws and regulations become applicable to us, we may be subject to the risks and uncertainties associated with the legal system in the PRC, including with respect to the enforcement of laws and the possibility of changes of rules and regulations with little or no advance notice.
We may also become subject to the laws and regulations of the PRC to the extent we commence business and customer facing operations in mainland China as a result of any future acquisition, expansion or organic growth.
The PRC government exerts substantial influence and discretion over the manner in which companies incorporated under the laws of PRC must conduct their business activities. We are a Hong Kong-based company with no substantive operations in mainland China. However, if we were to become subject to such direct influence or discretion, it may result in a material change in our operations and/or the value of our common stock, which would materially affect the interest of the investors.
We have only immaterial, non-substantive operations in mainland China. We primarily operate in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. In addition, YeeTah does not sell any insurance products in mainland China or solicit any customer in China, and is not regulated by any insurance regulator in mainland China. The PRC government currently does not exert direct influence and discretion over the manner in which we conduct our business activities outside of mainland China, however, there is no guarantee that we will not be subject to such direct influence or discretion in the future due to changes in laws or other unforeseeable reasons or as a result of our expansion or acquisition of operations in mainland China. See “— Our business, financial condition and results of operations, and/or the value of our common stock or our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors may be materially and adversely affected by existing or future laws and regulations of the PRC which may become applicable to a company such as us.”
The PRC legal system is evolving rapidly and the PRC laws, regulations, and rules may change quickly with little advance notice. In particular, because these laws, rules and regulations are relatively new, and because of the limited number of published decisions and the non-precedential nature of these decisions, the interpretation of these laws, rules and regulations may contain inconsistences, the enforcement of which involves uncertainties. The PRC government has exercised and continues to exercise substantial control over many sectors of the PRC economy through regulation and/or state ownership. Government actions have had, and may continue to have, a significant effect on economic conditions in the PRC and businesses which are subject to such government actions.
If we were to become subject to the direct intervention or influence of the PRC government at any time due to changes in laws or other unforeseeable reasons or as a result of our development, expansion or acquisition of operations in the PRC, it may require a material change in our operations and/or result in increased costs necessary to comply with existing and newly adopted laws and regulations or penalties for any failure to comply. In addition, the market prices of our common stock could be adversely affected as a result of anticipated negative impacts of any such government actions, as well as negative investor sentiment towards Hong Kong-based companies subject to direct PRC government oversight and regulation, regardless of our actual operating performance. There can be no assurance that the Chinese government would not intervene in or influence our operations at any time.
We are not currently required to obtain permission from the PRC government for the trading of our common stock on the OTCQB, however there is no guarantee that this will continue to be the case in the future, or even when such permission is obtained, it will not be subsequently denied or rescinded. Any actions by the PRC government to exert more oversight and control over offerings (including businesses whose primary operations are in Hong Kong) that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investments in Hong Kong-based issuers could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or be worthless.
Recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using variable interest entity structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement. Our counsel as to PRC law has advised us that we are not subject to cybersecurity review with the CAC, given that: (i) we do not possess a large amount of personal information in our business operations; and (ii) data processed in our business does not have a bearing on national security and thus may not be classified as core or important data by the authorities. In addition, our counsel as to PRC law has advised us that we are not subject to merger control review by China’s anti-monopoly enforcement agency due to the level of our revenues which provided from us and audited by our auditor, and the fact that we currently do not expect to propose or implement any acquisition of control of, or decisive influence over, any company with revenues within China of more than RMB400 million. Currently, these statements and regulatory actions have had no impact on our daily business operation, the ability to accept foreign investments and list our securities on an U.S. or other foreign exchange. Since these statements and regulatory actions are new, it is highly uncertain how soon legislative or administrative regulation making bodies will respond and what existing or new laws or regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations will be modified or promulgated, if any, and the potential impact such modified or new laws and regulations will have on our daily business operation, the ability to accept foreign investments and list our securities on an U.S. or other foreign exchange.
Under the HFCA Act, our securities may be prohibited from being traded on any U.S. securities exchange, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, or through any other trading method within the SEC’s regulatory jurisdiction, including the OTC markets if our auditor is not inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, and this ultimately could result in trading in our securities being prohibited. Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if enacted, would amend the HFCA Act and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges or the OTC markets if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three.
As part of a continued regulatory focus in the United States on access to audit and other information currently protected by national law, in particular China’s, in June 2019, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced bills in both houses of Congress that would require the SEC to maintain a list of issuers for which the PCAOB is not able to inspect or investigate an auditor report issued by a foreign public accounting firm. The Ensuring Quality Information and Transparency for Abroad-Based Listings on our Exchanges (EQUITABLE) Act prescribes increased disclosure requirements for such issuers and, beginning in 2025, the delisting from national securities exchanges of issuers included for three consecutive years on the SEC’s list. On May 20, 2020, the U.S. Senate passed S. 945, the HFCA Act. The HFCA Act was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 2, 2020. On December 18, 2020, the former U.S. president signed into law the HFCA Act. In essence, the HFCA Act requires the SEC to prohibit foreign companies from listing securities on U.S. securities exchanges or trading through any other trading method within the SEC’s regulatory jurisdiction, including trading on the OTC markets, if a company retains a foreign accounting firm that cannot be inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, beginning in 2021. The enactment of the HFCA Act and any additional rulemaking efforts to increase U.S. regulatory access to audit information could cause investor uncertainty for affected issuers, including us, and the market price of our securities could be adversely affected, and our securities could be prohibited from being traded on any U.S. national securities exchange, or through any other trading method within the SEC’s regulatory jurisdiction, including the OTC markets if it is unable to cure the situation to meet the PCAOB inspection requirement in time. On March 24, 2021, the SEC adopted interim final rules relating to the implementation of certain disclosure and documentation requirements of the HFCA Act. We will be required to comply with these rules if the SEC identifies it as having a “non-inspection” year under a process to be subsequently established by the SEC. The SEC is assessing how to implement other requirements of the HFCA Act, including the listing and trading prohibition requirements described above. If we fail to meet the new rules before the deadline specified thereunder, we could face possible prohibition from trading on the OTCQB, deregistration from the SEC and/or other risks, which may materially and adversely affect, or effectively terminate, our securities trading in the United States. On December 2, 2021, the SEC issued amendments to finalize rules implementing the submission and disclosure requirements in the HFCA Act. The rules apply to registrants that the SEC identifies as having filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located in a foreign jurisdiction and that PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a position taken by an authority in foreign jurisdictions.
Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if enacted, would amend the HFCA Act and require the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges or the OTC markets if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three. On September 22, 2021, the PCAOB adopted a final rule implementing the HFCA Act, which provides a framework for the PCAOB to use when determining, as contemplated under the HFCA Act, whether the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms located in a foreign jurisdiction because of a position taken by one or more authorities in that jurisdiction. On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a Determination Report which found that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms headquartered in: (i) China, and (ii) Hong Kong. On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it had signed the Statement of Protocol with the CSRC and the Ministry of Finance of China. The terms of the Statement of Protocol would grant the PCAOB complete access to audit work papers and other information so that it may inspect and investigate PCAOB-registered accounting firms headquartered in China and Hong Kong. According to the PCAOB, its December 2021 determinations under the HFCA Act remain in effect. The PCAOB is required to reassess these determinations by the end of 2022. Under the PCAOB’s rules, a reassessment of a determination under the HFCA Act may result in the PCAOB reaffirming, modifying or vacating the determination.
The audit report included in this prospectus was issued by ZH CPA, LLC, a U.S. based accounting firm that is registered with the PCAOB and can be inspected by the PCAOB. We have no intention of dismissing ZH CPA, LLC in the future or engaging any auditor not based in the U.S. and not subject to regular inspection by the PCAOB. There is no guarantee, however, that any future auditor engaged by the Company would remain subject to full PCAOB inspection during the entire term of our engagement. The PCAOB is currently unable to conduct inspections in China or Hong Kong without the approval of relevant government authorities. If it is later determined that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate our auditor completely, investor may be deprived of the benefits of such inspection. Any audit reports not issued by auditors that are completely inspected by the PCAOB, or a lack of PCAOB inspections of audit work undertaken in China or Hong Kong that prevents the PCAOB from regularly evaluating our auditors' audits and their quality control procedures, could result in a lack of assurance that our financial statements and disclosures are adequate and accurate.
The SEC may propose additional rules or guidance that could impact us if our auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspection. For example, on August 6, 2020, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, or the PWG, issued the Report on Protecting United States Investors from Significant Risks from Chinese Companies to the then President of the United States. This report recommended the SEC implement five recommendations to address companies from jurisdictions that do not provide the PCAOB with sufficient access to fulfil its statutory mandate. Some of the concepts of these recommendations were implemented with the enactment of the HFCA Act. However, some of the recommendations were more stringent than the HFCA Act. For example, if a company’s auditor was not subject to PCAOB inspection, the report recommended that the transition period before a company would be delisted would end on January 1, 2022.
The SEC has announced that the SEC staff is preparing a consolidated proposal for the rules regarding the implementation of the HFCA Act and to address the recommendations in the PWG report. It is unclear when the SEC will complete its rulemaking and when such rules will become effective and what, if any, of the PWG recommendations will be adopted. The implications of this possible regulation in addition to the requirements of the HFCA Act are uncertain. Such uncertainty could cause the market price of our securities to be materially and adversely affected, and our securities could be delisted and prohibited from being traded on the national securities exchange earlier than would be required by the HFCA Act. If our securities are unable to be listed on another securities exchange by then, such a delisting would substantially impair your ability to sell or purchase our securities when you wish to do so, and the risk and uncertainty associated with a potential delisting would have a negative impact on the price of our securities.
If we become directly subject to the recent scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity involving U.S.-listed Chinese companies, we may have to expend significant resources to investigate and resolve the matter which could harm our business operations and our reputation and could result in a loss of your investment in our shares, especially if such matter cannot be addressed and resolved favorably.
U.S. public companies that have substantially all of their operations in China have been the subject of intense scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity by investors, financial commentators and regulatory agencies, such as the SEC. Much of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity has centered around financial and accounting irregularities, a lack of effective internal controls over financial accounting and reporting, inadequate corporate governance policies or a lack of adherence thereto and, in many cases, allegations of fraud. As a result of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity, the publicly traded stock of many U.S. listed Chinese companies has sharply decreased in value and, in some cases, has become virtually worthless. Many of these companies are now subject to shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement actions and are conducting internal and external investigations into the allegations. It is not clear what effect this sector-wide scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity will have on our company and our business. If we become the subject of any unfavorable allegations, whether such allegations are proven to be true or untrue, we may have to expend significant resources to investigate such allegations and/or defend the Company. This situation may be a major distraction to our management. If such allegations are not proven to be groundless, our Company and business operations will be severely hampered and your investment in our stock could be rendered worthless. In addition, major issues with other U.S. listed Chinese companies in the future, could have a negative effect on the value of your investment, even though the Company is not involved.
Because a majority of our operations are based in Hong Kong, we are subject to the regulations and rules of the Hong Kong government as well as the influence of the Chinese government. The Chinese government has exercised and continues to exercise substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through regulation and state ownership. Our ability to operate in Hong Kong may be harmed by changes in its laws and regulations, including those relating to taxation, environmental regulations, land use rights, property and other matters. The central or local governments of these jurisdictions may impose new, stricter regulations or interpretations of existing regulations that would require additional expenditures and efforts on our part to ensure our compliance with such regulations or interpretations. Accordingly, government actions in the future, including any decision not to continue to support recent economic reforms and to return to a more centrally planned economy or regional or local variations in the implementation of economic policies, could have a significant effect on economic conditions in China or particular regions thereof, and could require us to divest ourselves of any interest we then hold in Chinese properties.
As such, the Company’s business segments may be subject to various government and regulatory interference in the provinces in which they operate. The Company could be subject to regulation by various political and regulatory entities, including various local and municipal agencies and government sub-divisions. The Company may incur increased costs necessary to comply with existing and newly adopted laws and regulations or penalties for any failure to comply. The Company’s operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by existing or future laws and regulations relating to its business or industry. Given that the Chinese government may intervene or influence our operations at any time with little to no advanced notice, it could result in a material change in our operation and the value of our common stock. Given recent statements by the Chinese government indicating an intent to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas, any such action could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.
Furthermore, it is uncertain when and whether the Company will be required to obtain permission from the PRC government for our current quotation on the OTCQB or any future application to have our securities list on a U.S. stock exchange, and even when such permission is obtained, whether it will be denied or rescinded. Although the Company is currently not required to obtain permission from any PRC regulatory authorities and has not received any denial to list on the U.S. exchange, our operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by existing or future laws and regulations relating to its business or industry. As a result, our common stock may decline in value dramatically or even become worthless should we become subject to new requirement to obtain permission from the PRC government to list on U.S. exchange in the future.
Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the Opinions on Severe and Lawful Crackdown on Illegal Securities Activities, which were available to the public on July 6, 2021. These opinions emphasized the need to strengthen the administration over illegal securities activities and the supervision on overseas listings by China-based companies. These opinions proposed to take effective measures, such as promoting the construction of relevant regulatory systems, to deal with the risks and incidents facing China-based overseas-listed companies and the demand for cybersecurity and data privacy protection. Moreover, the State Internet Information Office issued the Measures of Cybersecurity Review (Revised Draft for Comments, not yet effective) on July 10, 2021, which require operators with personal information of more than 1 million users who want to list abroad to file a cybersecurity review with the Office of Cybersecurity Review. The aforementioned policies and any related implementation rules to be enacted may subject us to additional compliance requirement in the future. While we believe that our operations are not affected by this, as these opinions were recently issued, official guidance and interpretation of the opinions remain unclear in several respects at this time. Therefore, we cannot assure you that we will remain fully compliant with all new regulatory requirements of these opinions or any future implementation rules on a timely basis, or at all.
It may be difficult for stockholders to enforce any judgment obtained in the United States against us, which may limit the remedies otherwise available to our stockholders.
Substantially all of our assets are located in Hong Kong. Moreover, half of our current directors and officers are Chinese nationals. All or a substantial portion of their assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for our stockholders to effect service of process within the United States upon our subsidiaries or any individuals. In addition, there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of Hong Kong or the PRC would recognize or enforce judgments of U.S. courts obtained against us or our officers and/or directors predicated upon the civil liability provisions of Hong Kong against us or such persons predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof. It is unclear if extradition treaties now in effect between the United States and the PRC would permit effective enforcement against us or our officers and directors of criminal penalties under the United States Federal securities laws or otherwise.
In addition, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are provided for under the PRC Civil Procedures Law. PRC courts may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedures Law based either on treaties between China and the country where the judgment is made or on principles of reciprocity between jurisdictions. China does not have any treaties or other forms of written arrangement with the United States that provide for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. In addition, according to the PRC Civil Procedures Law, the PRC courts will not enforce a foreign judgment against us or our directors and officers if they decide that the judgment violates the basic principles of PRC laws or national sovereignty, security, or public interest. As a result, it is uncertain whether and on what basis a PRC court would enforce a judgment rendered by a court in the United States.
It may also be difficult for you or overseas regulators to conduct investigations or collect evidence within China. For example, in China, there are significant legal and other obstacles to obtaining information needed for shareholder investigations or litigation outside China or otherwise with respect to foreign entities. Although the authorities in China may establish a regulatory cooperation mechanism with its counterparts of another country or region to monitor and oversee cross-border securities activities, such regulatory cooperation with the securities regulatory authorities in the United States may not be efficient in the absence of a practical cooperation mechanism. Furthermore, according to Article 177 of the PRC Securities Law, or “Article 177,” which became effective in March 2020, no overseas securities regulator is allowed to directly conduct investigations or evidence collection activities within the territory of the PRC. Article 177 further provides that Chinese entities and individuals are not allowed to provide documents or materials related to securities business activities to foreign agencies without prior consent from the securities regulatory authority of the State Council and the competent departments of the State Council. While detailed interpretation of or implementing rules under Article 177 have yet to be promulgated, the inability for an overseas securities regulator to directly conduct investigation or evidence collection activities within China may further increase difficulties faced by you in protecting your interests.
U.S. regulatory bodies may be limited in their ability to conduct investigations or inspections if our operations are based in China.
Any disclosure of documents or information located in China by foreign agencies may be subject to jurisdiction constraints and must comply with China’s state secrecy laws, which broadly define the scope of “state secrets” to include matters involving economic interests and technologies. There is no guarantee that requests from U.S. federal or state regulators or agencies to investigate or inspect our operations will be honored by us, by entities who provide services to us or with whom we associate, without violating PRC legal requirements, especially as those entities are located in China. Furthermore, under the current PRC laws, any on-site inspection by any of these regulators may be limited or prohibited.
Risks Related to this Offering and Our Securities
We have not received any commitments to purchase any securities in this offering, and there is no minimum offering amount, meaning we could (and have the right) to raise substantially less than the maximum amount of shares being offered hereby.
We will use our best efforts to sell the full 30,000,000 shares of common stock offered hereby, but we are not required to raise any minimum amount. Consequently, there can be no assurance that any of the securities offered hereby will be sold. To the extent that the net proceeds raised by us are substantially less than the maximum offering amount, our viability as an ongoing enterprise could be materially diminished. In the event that an alternate source of financing is not obtained in a timely manner, those investors who participate in this offering risk the loss of their entire investments.
This is a self-directed offering, meaning that we are not utilizing an underwriter or placement agent to facilitate the offering. This could impact our ability to raise funding in this offering.
No underwriter or placement agent has been engaged in connection with the offering or performed any due diligence activities which would otherwise confirm the accuracy of our disclosures in the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. Thus, investors will not be afforded customary benefits associated with the participation of an investment bank in a registered offering, including greater possibility of raising funds in this offering, support for the trading of our common stock in the market, analyst coverage and similar benefits. Moreover, we will be relying primarily on our own efforts to secure investors for this offering, which might be less effective than if we had engaged an underwriter or placement agent.
The public offering price is set by our board of directors and does not necessarily indicate the actual or market value of our common stock.
Our board of directors has approved the public offering price and other terms of this offering after considering, among other things: the number of shares authorized in our articles of incorporation, as amended; the current market price of our common stock; trading prices of our common stock over time; the volatility of our common stock; our current financial condition and the prospects for our future cash flows; the availability of and likely cost of capital of other potential sources of capital; the characteristics of interested investors and market and economic conditions at the time of the offering. The offering price is not intended to bear any relationship to the book value of our assets or our past operations, cash flows, losses, financial condition, net worth or any other established criteria used to value securities. The public offering price may not be indicative of the fair value of the common stock.
You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value per share of the common stock you purchase.
Because the price per share of our common stock being offered is substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our common stock, you will suffer substantial dilution in the net tangible book value of the common stock you purchase in this offering. Based on a public offering price of $0.081 per share, if you purchase shares of common stock in this offering, you will suffer immediate and substantial dilution of approximately $0.027 per share in the net tangible book value of the common stock assuming the sale of all 30,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering. See the section entitled “Dilution” in this prospectus for a more detailed discussion of the dilution you will incur if you purchase common stock in this offering.
Our management has broad discretion as to the use of the net proceeds from this offering.
We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for business development activities, new hires, working capital and other general corporate purposes, however we cannot specify with certainty the particular uses of the net proceeds we will receive from this offering. Our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds. See “Use of Proceeds.” Accordingly, you will have to rely upon the judgment of our management with respect to the use of the proceeds. Our management may spend a portion or all of the net proceeds from this offering in ways that holders of our common stock may not desire or that may not yield a significant return or any return at all. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could harm our business. Pending their use, we may also invest the net proceeds from this offering in a manner that does not produce income or that loses value.
The limited public trading market may cause volatility in our stock price.
The quotation of our common stock on the OTCQB does not assure that a meaningful, consistent and liquid trading market currently exists, and in recent years such market has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have particularly affected the market prices of many smaller companies like us. Our common stock is thus and will be subject to significant volatility. Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock, or the perception that such sales might occur, could adversely affect prevailing market prices of our common stock.
An active and visible trading market for our common stock may not develop.
Although our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB marketplace operated by OTC Markets Group, Inc., trading has been very limited and we cannot predict whether an active market for our common stock will develop in the future. We are not applying for the listing of our common stock on a national exchange in connection with this offering. In the absence of an active trading market:
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The OTCQB is an unorganized, inter-dealer, over-the-counter market that provides significantly less liquidity than Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange. The trading price of the common stock is expected to be subject to significant fluctuations in response to variations in quarterly operating results, changes in analysts’ earnings estimates, announcements of innovations by us or our competitors, general conditions in the industry in which we operate and other factors. These fluctuations, as well as general economic and market conditions, may have a material or adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.
We may not maintain qualification for OTCQB inclusion, and therefore you may be unable to sell your shares.
Our common stock is eligible for quotation on the OTCQB. However, trading of our common stock could be suspended. If for any reason our common stock does not become eligible or maintain eligibility for quotation on the OTCQB or a public trading market does not develop, purchasers of shares of our common stock may have difficulty selling their shares should they desire to do so. If we are unable to satisfy the requirements for quotation on the OTCQB, any quotation in our common stock could be conducted in the “pink sheets” market. As a result, a purchaser of our common stock may find it more difficult to dispose of, or to obtain accurate quotations as to the price of their shares. This would materially and adversely affect the liquidity of our securities.
Even if a market for our common stock develops, the market price of our common stock may be significantly volatile, which could result in substantial losses for purchasers.
The market price for our common stock may be significantly volatile and subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors including the following:
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In some cases, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, stockholders have often instituted class action securities litigation against those companies. Such litigation, if instituted, could result in substantial costs and diversion of management attention and resources, which could significantly harm our business operations and reputation.
Our controlling stockholder may exercise significant influence over us and may be subject to conflicts of interest.
Our Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Huihe Zheng, owns approximately 97.1% of our outstanding voting power. Mr. Zheng thus has the power, on his own, to determine the outcome of any corporate transaction or other matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including mergers, consolidations and the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, election of directors, approval of equity incentive plans, and other significant corporate actions. Mr. Zheng also has the power to prevent or cause a change in control. In addition, without the consent of Mr. Zheng, we could be prevented from entering into transactions that could be beneficial to us. The interests of Mr. Zheng may differ from the interests of our other stockholders, which cause him to be faced with conflicts of interests that may not be resolved in favor of or to the satisfaction of our minority stockholders.
The Series B and Series C Preferred Stock, which are controlled by our Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, have super voting rights that may adversely affect our holders of common stock.
Except as required by law, holders of Series B and Series C Preferred Stock (which is currently controlled by Huihe Zheng, our Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President) are entitled to super voting rights. Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is entitled to 100 votes and each 30 shares of Series C Preferred Stock are entitled to 11 votes for each share of common stock into which such share of Series C Preferred Stock could then be converted (each share of Series C Preferred Stock is initially entitled to 11 votes for each share of common stock before the Reverse Stock Split). Holders of Series B and Series C Preferred Stock will vote together on all matters upon which common stock holders are entitled to vote. The voting rights of holders of our common stock will be diluted as a result of these super voting rights.
Our common stock may be considered a “penny stock,” and thereby be subject to additional sale and trading regulations that may make it more difficult to sell.
Our common stock, which is currently quoted on OTCQB, may be considered to be a “penny stock” if it does not qualify for one of the exemptions from the definition of “penny stock” under Section 3a51-1 of the Exchange Act, as amended. Our common stock may be a “penny stock” if it meets one or more of the following conditions: (i) the stock trades at a price less than $5.00 per share; (ii) it is NOT traded on a “recognized” national exchange; (iii) it is not quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market, or even if so, has a price less than $5.00 per share; or (iv) is issued by a company that has been in business less than three years with net tangible assets less than $5 million. The principal result or effect of being designated a “penny stock” is that securities broker-dealers participating in sales of our common stock will be subject to the “penny stock” regulations set forth in Rules 15-2 through 15g-9 promulgated under the Exchange Act. For example, Rule 15g-2 requires broker-dealers dealing in penny stocks to provide potential investors with a document disclosing the risks of penny stocks and to obtain a manually signed and dated written receipt of the document at least two business days before effecting any transaction in a penny stock for the investor’s account. Moreover, Rule 15g-9 requires broker-dealers in penny stocks to approve the account of any investor for transactions in such stocks before selling any penny stock to that investor. This procedure requires the broker-dealer to: (i) obtain from the investor information concerning his or her financial situation, investment experience and investment objectives; (ii) reasonably determine, based on that information, that transactions in penny stocks are suitable for the investor and that the investor has sufficient knowledge and experience as to be reasonably capable of evaluating the risks of penny stock transactions; (iii) provide the investor with a written statement setting forth the basis on which the broker-dealer made the determination in (ii) above; and (iv) receive a signed and dated copy of such statement from the investor, confirming that it accurately reflects the investor’s financial situation, investment experience and investment objectives. Compliance with these requirements may make it more difficult and time consuming for holders of our common stock to resell their shares to third parties or to otherwise dispose of them in the market or otherwise.
FINRA sales practice requirements may also limit your ability to buy and sell our common stock, which could depress the price of our shares.
FINRA rules require broker-dealers to have reasonable grounds for believing that an investment is suitable for a customer before recommending that investment to the customer. Prior to recommending speculative low-priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer’s financial status, tax status and investment objectives, among other things. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability such speculative low-priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. Thus, FINRA requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit your ability to buy and sell our shares, have an adverse effect on the market for our shares, and thereby depress our share price.
You may face significant restrictions on the resale of your shares due to state “blue sky” laws.
Each state has its own securities laws, often called “blue sky” laws, which (1) limit sales of securities to a state’s residents unless the securities are registered in that state or qualify for an exemption from registration, and (2) govern the reporting requirements for broker-dealers doing business directly or indirectly in the state. Before a security is sold in a state, there must be a registration in place to cover the transaction, or it must be exempt from registration. The applicable broker-dealer must also be registered in that state.
We do not know whether our securities will be registered or exempt from registration under the laws of any state. A determination regarding registration will be made by those broker-dealers, if any, who agree to serve as market makers for our common stock. We have not yet applied to have our securities registered in any state and will not do so until we receive expressions of interest from investors resident in specific states after they have viewed this prospectus. There may be significant state blue sky law restrictions on the ability of investors to sell, and on purchasers to buy, our securities. You should therefore consider the resale market for our common stock to be limited, as you may be unable to resell your shares without the significant expense of state registration or qualification.
Our management has determined that our disclosure controls and procedures are not effective and we have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting.
In connection with the preparation of our unaudited consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, and our audited financial statements for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective and we identified several material weaknesses. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. In addition, as of September 30, 2022, our management concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. The material weaknesses result from the following: (i) lack of proper segregation of duties and risk assessment process; (ii) lack of formal documentation in internal controls over financial reporting; and (iii) lack of independent directors and an audit committee.
Each of the material weaknesses described above could result in a misstatement of our accounts or disclosures that would result in a material misstatement of our annual or interim consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected. We cannot assure you that any measures we may take in the future will be sufficient to remediate the material weaknesses described above or avoid potential future material weaknesses. If we are unable to report financial information timely and accurately or to maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures, our stock price could be negatively impacted and we could be subject to, among other things, regulatory or enforcement actions by the SEC.
If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or if they change their recommendations regarding our stock adversely, our stock price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our common stock will be influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. We do not currently have and may never obtain research coverage by industry or financial analysts. If no or few analysts commence coverage of us, the trading price of our stock would likely decrease. Even if we do obtain analyst coverage, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our stock, our stock price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.
We do not foresee paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future and, as a result, our investors’ sole source of gain, if any, will depend on capital appreciation, if any.
We do not plan to declare or pay any cash dividends on our shares of common stock in the foreseeable future and currently intend to retain any future earnings for funding growth. As a result, investors should not rely on an investment in our securities if they require the investment to produce dividend income. Capital appreciation, if any, of our shares may be investors’ sole source of gain for the foreseeable future. Moreover, investors may not be able to resell their common stock at or above the price they paid for them.
The rights of the holders of common stock may be impaired by the potential issuance of preferred stock.
Our Board of Directors may, without stockholder approval, issue preferred stock with voting, dividend, conversion, liquidation or other rights that could adversely affect the voting power and equity interest of the holders of common stock. Preferred stock, which could be issued with the right to more than one vote per share, could be utilized as a method of discouraging, delaying or preventing a change of control. The possible impact on takeover attempts could adversely affect the price of our common stock. Although we have no present intention to issue any additional shares of preferred stock or to create any new series of preferred stock, we may issue such shares in the future.
You may experience additional dilution as a result of future equity offerings.
In order to raise additional capital, we have issued equity securities in the past and may in the future offer additional shares of our common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock at prices that may not be the same as the price per unit in this offering and our previous equity offering. The price per share at which we sell additional shares of our common stock, or securities convertible or exchangeable into common stock, in future transactions, may be lower than the price per share paid by investors in this offering and our previous equity offering.
Shares of our common stock that have not been registered under federal securities laws are subject to resale restrictions imposed by Rule 144, including those set forth in Rule 144(i) which apply to a former “shell company.”
Prior to the closing of the Share Exchange, we were deemed a “shell company” under applicable SEC rules and regulations because we had no or nominal operations and either no or nominal assets, assets consisting solely of cash and cash equivalents, or assets consisting of any amount of cash and cash equivalents and nominal other assets. Pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), sales of the securities of a former shell company, such as us, under that rule are not permitted (i) until at least 12 months have elapsed from the date on which our Current Report on Form 8-K reflecting our status as a non-shell company, was filed with the SEC; (ii) unless at the time of a proposed sale, we are subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and have filed all reports and other materials required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable, during the preceding 12 months, other than Form 8-K reports; or (iii) until the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to our common stock. Therefore, unless we register such shares of common stock for sale under the Securities Act, most of our stockholders will be forced to hold their shares of our common stock for at least that 12-month period before they are eligible to sell those shares, and even after that period, sales may not be made under Rule 144 unless we and the selling stockholders are in compliance with other requirements of Rule 144. Further, it will be more difficult for us to raise funding to support our operations through the sale of debt or equity securities unless we agree to register such securities under the Securities Act, which could cause us to expend significant time and cash resources. Additionally, our previous status as a shell company could also limit our use of our securities to pay for any acquisitions we may seek to pursue in the future (although none are currently planned). The lack of liquidity of our securities as a result of the inability to sell under Rule 144 for a longer period of time than a non-former shell company could cause the market price of our securities to decline.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements provide our management’s current expectations or forecasts of future events. Forward-looking statements include statements about our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, intentions, assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts. The words “anticipates,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predicts,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this prospectus include, but are not limited to, statements about:
| ● | the impact (including travel and entry restrictions and quarantine) of public health epidemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Hong Kong and the rest of the world, on the market we operate in and our business, results of operations and financial condition; |
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| ● | the impact of political uncertainty and social unrest in Hong Kong and laws, rules and regulations of the Chinese government aimed at addressing such unrest; |
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| ● | the market for our services in Hong Kong; |
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| ● | our expansion and other plans and opportunities; |
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| ● | our future financial and operating results, including revenues, income, expenditures, cash balances and other financial items; |
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| ● | current and future economic and political conditions in Hong Kong and China; |
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| ● | the future growth of the Hong Kong insurance industry as a whole and the professional insurance intermediary sector in particular; |
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| ● | our ability to attract customers, further enhance our brand recognition; |
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| ● | our ability to hire and retain qualified management personnel and key employees in order to enable them to develop our business; |
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| ● | changes in other applicable laws or regulations in Hong Kong related to or that could impact our business; |
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| ● | our management of our business through the Company, a U.S. publicly-traded and reporting company and the general reputation and potential scrutiny of U.S. publicly-traded companies with their principal operations in Hong Kong and China; and |
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| ● | other assumptions regarding or descriptions of potential future events or circumstances described in this prospectus underlying or relating to any forward-looking statements. |
These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this prospectus, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our management’s views as of any subsequent date, and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
In addition, statements that we “believe,” “we expect,” “we anticipate” and similar statements reflect its beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to such party as of the date of this prospectus, and while our management believes such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and these statements should not be read to indicate that our management has conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.
You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, our actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
USE OF PROCEEDS
This offering is being made on a best-efforts basis: no minimum number of shares must be sold in order for the offering to proceed. The offering price per share is $0.081. The following tables set forth the uses of proceeds assuming the sale of 100% ($2,430,000), 75% ($1,822,500), 50% ($1,215,000), and 25% ($607,500), respectively, of the securities offered for sale by us, before deducting commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. The offering scenarios presented are for illustrative purposes only and the actual amount of proceeds, if any, may differ.
In general, we intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for business development activities, new hires, working capital and other general corporate purposes. The anticipated use of proceeds for the offering funds is summarized below.
Use of the net proceeds from the sale of shares at 100% of the offering ($2,430,000 gross):
New hires and employee training programs (40%) | | $ | 972,000 | |
New offices (30%) | | $ | 729,000 | |
Research and development expenses (30%) | | $ | 729,000 | |
Total | | $ | 2,430,000 | |
Use of the net proceeds from the sale of shares at 75% of the offering ($1,822,500 gross):
New hires and employee training programs (40%) | | $ | 729,000 | |
New offices (30%) | | $ | 546,750 | |
Research and development expenses (30%) | | $ | 546,750 | |
Total | | $ | 1,822,500 | |
Use of the net proceeds from the sale of shares at 50% of the offering ($1,215,000 gross):
New hires and employee training programs (40%) | | $ | 486,000 | |
New offices (30%) | | $ | 364,500 | |
Research and development expenses (30%) | | $ | 364,500 | |
Total | | $ | 1,215,000 | |
Use of the net proceeds from the sale of shares at 25% of the offering ($607,500 gross):
New hires and employee training programs (40%) | | $ | 243,000 | |
New offices (30%) | | $ | 182,250 | |
Research and development expenses (30%) | | $ | 182,250 | |
Total | | $ | 607,500 | |
To the extent that the net proceeds raised by us are substantially less than the maximum offering amount, our viability as an ongoing enterprise could be materially diminished.
Pending any ultimate use of any portion of the proceeds from this offering, we intend to invest the proceeds in a variety of capital preservation investments, including short-term, interest-bearing instruments.
The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including increased number of employees, our operations and business developments and opportunities that may arise. Accordingly, our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds, and investors will be relying on the judgment of our management regarding the application of the proceeds from this offering. We may find it necessary or advisable to use portions of the proceeds from this offering for other purposes. Circumstances that may give rise to a change in the use of proceeds and the alternate purposes for which the proceeds may be used include:
| ● | the existence of unforeseen or other opportunities or the need to take advantage of changes in the timing of our existing activities; |
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| ● | the need or desire on our part to accelerate, increase, reduce or eliminate one or more existing initiatives due to, among other things, changing market conditions and competitive developments; |
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In the course of our business, we evaluate these and other factors, and we anticipate continuing to make such evaluations to determine if the existing allocation of resources, including the proceeds of this offering, is being optimized.
DIVIDEND POLICY
We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock. We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future and we intend to retain all of our earnings, if any, to finance our growth and operations and to fund the expansion of our business. Payment of any dividends will be made in the discretion of our Board of Directors, after its taking into account various factors, including our financial condition, operating results, current and anticipated cash needs and plans for expansion.
MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
As of the date of this prospectus, we have approximately 252 holders of record of our common stock. The number of record holders does not include persons, if any, who hold our common stock in nominee or “street name” accounts through brokers.
Our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB markets under the symbol “QDMI.”
The sales prices of our common stock were obtained from the OTC Market Group, Inc. and do not necessarily reflect actual transactions, retail markups, mark downs or commissions. As of December 16, 2022, the last reported sales price of a share of our common stock on the OTCQB was $0.81. No assurance can be given that an established public market will develop in our common stock, or if any such market does develop, that it will continue or be sustained for any period of time. There is currently very little volume in our common stock and it rarely trades.
Our stock transfer agent is Pacific Stock Transfer Company, which is located at 6725 Via Austi Pkwy, Suite 300, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119, telephone: (702) 323-0033.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
We currently do not have any equity compensation plans.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
None.
CAPITALIZATION
The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of September 30, 2022:
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Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 154,380 | | | $ | 154,380 | |
Long-term liability | | | 54,324 | | | | 54,324 | |
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized and 545,386 shares issued and outstanding | | | 54 | | | | 54 | |
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized and 209,993 shares issued and 209,521 shares outstanding as of September 30, 2022 | | | 624 | | | | 3,624 | |
Subscription receivable | | | (48,718 | ) | | | (48,718 | ) |
Treasury stock | | | (60,395 | ) | | | (60,395 | ) |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 9,618,667 | | | | 11,941,664 | |
Accumulated deficit | | | (10,204,958 | ) | | | (10,204,958) | |
Accumulative other comprehensive income | | | 4,636 | | | | 4,636 | |
Total stockholders’ equity | | | (690,090 | ) | | | 1,635,907 | |
Total capitalization | | $ | (635,766 | ) | | $ | 1,690,231 | |
DILUTION
If you purchase shares in this offering your interest will be diluted immediately to the extent of the difference between the public offering price of $0.081 per share and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately following this offering.
Our net tangible book value as of September 30, 2022 was approximately $(690,090), or approximately $(3.29) per share. Net tangible book value per share represents our total tangible assets less total tangible liabilities, divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2022. Net tangible book value dilution per share to new investors represents the difference between the amount per share paid by purchasers in this offering and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of common stock immediately after completion of this offering.
Assuming the sale of all 30,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering at a public offering price of $0.081 per share, and after deducting estimated offering expenses, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2022 would have been approximately $1,635,907, or $0.054 per share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $$3.35 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $0.027 per share to purchasers of common stock in this offering.
In the event that 75%, or 22,500,000 shares of common stock are sold in this offering at a public offering price of $0.081 per share, and after deducting estimated offering expenses, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2022 would have been approximately $1,028,407, or $0.045 per share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $3.34 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $0.036 per share to purchasers of common stock in this offering.
In the event that 50%, or 15,000,000 shares of common stock are sold in this offering at a public offering price of $0.081 per share, and after deducting estimated offering expenses, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2022 would have been approximately $420,907, or $0.028 per share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $3.32 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $0.053 per share to purchasers of common stock in this offering.
In the event that 25%, or 7,500,000 shares of common stock are sold in this offering at a public offering price of $0.081 per share, and after deducting estimated offering expenses, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2022 would have been approximately $(186,593), or $(0.02) per share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $3.27 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $0.105 per share to purchasers of common stock in this offering.
The following table illustrates the dilution to the purchasers of the common stock in this offering. The table below includes an analysis of the dilution that will occur if 25%, 50%, 75% of the shares are sold, as well as the dilution if all shares are sold:
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Public offering price per share | | $ | 0.081 | | | $ | 0.081 | | | $ | 0.081 | | | $ | 0.081 | |
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Net tangible book value per share as of September 30, 2022 | | $ | (3.29 | ) | | $ | (3.29 | ) | | $ | (3.29 | ) | | $ | (3.29 | ) |
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Increase in net tangible book value per share attributable to this offering | | $ | 3.27 | | | $ | 3.32 | | | $ | 3.34 | | | $ | 3.35 | |
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Adjusted net tangible book value per share as of September 30, 2022, after giving effect to the offering | | $ | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 0.027 | | | $ | 0.045 | | | $ | 0.054 | |
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Dilution per share to new investors in the offering | | $ | 0.105 | | | $ | 0.053 | | | $ | 0.036 | | | $ | 0.027 | |
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion and analysis is based on, and should be read in conjunction with our financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this prospectus. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contains statements that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risk, uncertainties and other factors. These statements are often identified by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “estimate,” or “continue,” and similar expressions or variations. Actual results could differ materially because of the factors discussed in “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this prospectus, and other factors that we may not know.
Overview
From 2016 to 2020, we were a telemedicine company that provides Connect-a-Doc telemedicine kits to schools. Our services aimed to provide alternatives to schools that desire to provide a higher level of healthcare to their students but are unable to keep a full-time school nurse available. In 2020 this business was discontinued and we became a non-operating “shell” company.
Following the change in control in March 2020, we planned to conduct insurance brokerage business in Hong Kong, through either formation or acquisition of an existing insurance brokerage business. To implement our business plan, during 2020, we engaged professionals (legal counsel and accountants) to evaluate the optimal corporate structure for our new business and conduct due diligence on a potential target.
On October 21, 2020, we entered into the Share Exchange Agreement with QDM BVI, and Huihe Zheng, the sole shareholder of QDM BVI, who is also our principal stockholder and serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer, to acquire all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI in exchange for the issuance to Mr. Zheng 900,000 shares of a newly designated Series C Preferred Stock, with each share of Series C Preferred Stock initially being convertible into 11 shares of our common stock, subject to certain adjustments and limitations. The Share Exchange closed on October 21, 2020.
As a result of the consummation of the Share Exchange, we acquired QDM BVI and its indirect subsidiary, YeeTah, an insurance brokerage company primarily engaged in the sales and distribution of insurance products in Hong Kong. Following the closing of the transaction, we have assumed the business operations of QDM BVI and its subsidiaries.
On November 3, 2021, we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of QDMS, a company incorporated on February 6, 2020 in Cyprus. We acquired QDMS through an intermediary holding company, LGL, which was incorporated on July 29, 2021 in the BVI. Before the acquisition, Huihe Zheng was the sole shareholder of QDMS. As part of the acquisition, Mr. Zheng sold all the shares of QDMS to LGL for a consideration of EUR5,000 in November 2021 and at the same time the sole shareholder of LGL, Mengting Xu, transferred all her shares in LGL to us for a consideration of USD$1.00. As a result, we acquired a 100% ownership of LGL, which, in turn, owns 100% of QDMS. Although QDMS has no operation as of the date of this prospectus, QDMS plans to engage in the research and development of CRM SaaS, with a business model derived from “customer-centered” CRM concept to improve enterprise-customers relationship. We plan to market QDMS’ SaaS services to our network of banks, securities companies, insurance companies and other financial services providers in Hong Kong and China.
Impact of COVID-19
Impact of COVID-19
An outbreak of a novel strain of the coronavirus, COVID-19, was identified in China and has subsequently been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely restricted the level of economic activity around the world. In response to this pandemic, the governments of many countries, states, cities and other geographic regions, including Hong Kong, have taken preventative or protective actions, such as imposing restrictions on travel and business operations and advising or requiring individuals to limit or forego their time outside of their homes.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance brokers in Hong Kong have been greatly affected by the implementation of travel restrictions and social distancing measures. These restrictions and measures have resulted in a significant decrease in new business for insurance brokers, such as YeeTah, that rely on in-person consultations and storefronts for customer acquisition.
Customers from mainland China contributed to a large part of YeeTah’s commissions. Regulations require their physical presence in Hong Kong to complete the policy contract. However, due to the political turmoil and travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 epidemic, mainland Chinese customers have dropped sharply. As a result, YeeTah’s revenue from commissions on new business has decreased significantly. YeeTah’s commissions from renewal premiums have also been materially affected since the mainland Chinese customers have been late in making the renewal payments due to inability to visit Hong Kong to make the payments. Most of YeeTah’s mainland customers do not have Hong Kong bank account and used to pay their premiums through credit card or in cash in person.
While Hong Kong has recently lifted most of its quarantine measures, tourists from mainland China who visit Hong Kong may still face restrictions on their travel and be required to undergo quarantine upon returning to mainland China, which continues to present a significant challenge to YeeTah to restore and grow its business. We do not expect a significant improvement over our business and results of operations until the mainland visitors are permitted to enter Hong Kong and return to mainland China without COVID-19 related restrictions. As such, we presently focus on servicing Hong Kong residents.
Results of Operations
Three and Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
The following table presents an overview of the results of operations for the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021:
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| | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Revenue | | $ | 13,181 | | | $ | 18,608 | | | $ | 22,963 | | | $ | 30,218 | |
Cost of sales | | | 13,181 | | | | 18,608 | | | | 22,963 | | | | 30,218 | |
Gross profit | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Operating costs and expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
General and administrative expenses | | | 74,822 | | | | 75,580 | | | | 171,447 | | | | 183,703 | |
Total operating costs and expenses | | | 74,822 | | | | 75,580 | | | | 171,447 | | | | 183,703 | |
Loss from operations | | | (74,822 | ) | | | (75,580 | ) | | | (171,447 | ) | | | (183,703 | ) |
Total other income (expenses) | | | 1,557 | | | | (64 | ) | | | 2,026 | | | | (960 | ) |
Net loss | | $ | (73,265 | ) | | $ | (75,644 | ) | | $ | (169,421 | ) | | $ | (184,663 | ) |
Revenue
Revenue decreased by approximately $5,400 or 29.2% and $7,300 or 24.0% respectively for the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the same periods of 2021. The decreases were mainly due to the decreases in the number of customers, primarily PRC mainland customers, resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 travel restriction and quarantine measures imposed by PRC and Hong Kong governments.
Cost of sales
The amounts decreased by approximately $5,400 or 29.2% and $7,300 or 24.0% respectively for the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the same periods of 2021. The decreases were in line with the decreases of revenue.
General and administrative expenses
General and administrative (G&A) expenses consist primarily of employee salaries, office rents, insurance costs, general office operating expenses (e.g., utilities, repairs and maintenance) and professional fees.
General and administrative expenses decreased by approximately $700 or 1% for the three months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021. The change is immaterial and consistent with the activity of the Company in 2022 compared to 2021 as there was no significant change in revenue and G&A expenses are generally fixed and routine costs.
General and administrative expenses decreased by approximately $12,000 or 6.7% for the six months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021. The change is primarily due to the fact that there were more professional expenses in relation to amendments to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K in 2021.
Net loss
As a result of the factors described above, net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2022 decreased by approximately $2,000 or 3.1% as compared to the same period of 2021.
As a result of the factors described above, net loss for the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 decreased by approximately $15,000 or 8.3% as compared to the same period of 2021.
Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
The following table presents an overview of our results of operations for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
| | For The Year Ended | | For The Year Ended |
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
Revenue | | $ | 68,969 | | | $ | 123,438 | |
Cost of sales | | | 68,836 | | | | 123,046 | |
Gross profit | | | 133 | | | | 392 | |
Operating costs and expenses: | | | | | | | | |
General and administrative expenses | | | 376,968 | | | | 333,284 | |
Total operating costs and expenses | | | 376,968 | | | | 333,284 | |
Loss from operations | | | (376,835 | ) | | | (332,892 | ) |
Total other income | | | (1,330 | ) | | | 6,773 | |
Net loss | | $ | (378,165 | ) | | $ | (326,119 | ) |
Revenue
Revenue decreased by approximately $54,000 or 44.1% for the year ended March 31, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021. The decrease was mainly due to the decrease in the number of customers, primarily PRC mainland customers, resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 travel restriction imposed by Hong Kong government during the year ended March 31, 2022.
Cost of sales
Cost of sales represented commissions paid to individuals or companies who referred customers to us. The amount decreased by approximately $54,000 or 44.0% for the year ended March 31, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021. The decrease was in line with the decrease of revenue.
Gross margin
Gross margin was 0.2% for the year ended March 31, 2022, which was consistent with 0.3% for the same period of last year.
General and administrative expenses
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of stock-based payments, employee salaries, office rents, insurance costs, general office operating expenses (e.g., utilities, repairs and maintenance) and professional fees. General and administrative expenses increased by approximately $44,000 or 13.2% for the year ended March 31, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to an $42,000 increase of legal expenses in 2022 in connection with the Reverse Stock Split and increased SEC filing activities.
Net loss
As a result of the factors described above, net loss for the year ended March 31, 2022 increased by approximately $52,000 or 16.0% as compared to the same period of 2021.
Foreign Currency Translation
The Company’s reporting currency is the United States dollar (“US$”). The Company’s operations are principally conducted in Hong Kong where the Hong Kong dollar is the functional currency. The functional currency of the Company’s two subsidiaries, LGL and QDMS, is the Euro.
Transactions denominated in other than the functional currencies are re-measured into the functional currency of the entity at the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the applicable functional currencies are translated into the functional currency at the prevailing rates of exchange at the balance sheet date. The resulting exchange differences are reported in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The exchanges rate used for translation from Hong Kong dollar to US$ was 7.8000, a pegged rate determined by the linked exchange rate system in Hong Kong. This pegged rate was used to translate Company’s balance sheets, income statement items and cash flow items for both the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, and the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021.
The exchanges rates used for translation from Euro to US$ are as follows:
| | | September 30, 2022 | | | | September 30, 2022 | |
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Period-end spot rate | | | EUR1= US$0.9783 | | | | EUR1= US$1.1577 | |
Average rate | | | EUR1= US$1.0353 | | | | EUR1= US$1.1917 | |
| | | March 31, 2022 | | | | March 31, 2021 | |
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Year-end spot rate | | | EUR1= US$1.1093 | | | | EUR1= US$1.1743 | |
Average rate | | | EUR1= US$1.1627 | | | | EUR1= US$1.1661 | |
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Three and Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
We have financed our operations primarily through cash generated by operating activities, equity financings and advances from our principal stockholder. QDM is a holding company and conducts substantially all of its operations through YeeTah, which is its only entity that has cash inflows and outflows. Our expenses are paid directly either by YeeTah or our principal stockholder.
There have been no cash and any asset transactions between us and our subsidiaries since the Share Exchange. As of September 30 and March 31, 2022, we had $154,380 and $69,658, respectively, in cash and cash equivalents, which primarily consisted of cash deposited in banks.
| | September 30, 2022 | | September 30, 2021 |
Net cash used in operating activities | | $ | (182,987 | ) | | $ | (193,854 | ) |
Net cash used in investing activities | | | (14,628 | ) | | | — | |
Net cash provided by financing activities | | | 282,843 | | | | 187,491 | |
Effect of Exchange rate changes on cash | | | (506 | ) | | | — | |
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents | | | 84,722 | | | | (6,363 | ) |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period | | | 69,658 | | | | 35,605 | |
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period | | $ | 154,380 | | | $ | 29,242 | |
Our working capital requirements mainly comprise of commissions paid to technical representatives and referral fees, operating lease payments and employee salaries. Historically, our capital requirements were generally met by cash generated from our operations, equity financings and funding from our principal stockholder. In light of impact on our operations of the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong, we undertook certain cost cutting measures, including but not limited to, relocating to a new office with a much lower rent and reducing the number of employees. Discretionary expenditures are also curtailed or reduced to save costs. In addition to adjusting our operating expenditures, we will continue to seek opportunities of equity financings and financial supports from our principal stockholder. Although historically we were successful in obtaining equity financings through the sales of our securities and obtaining loans from our principal stockholder, the availability of such financings when required is dependent on many factors beyond our control, such as the unforeseeable impact from COVID-19 and the recovery of the Hong Kong economy following the civilian protests.
Operating Activities:
Net cash used in operating activities was approximately $183,000 for the six months ended September 30, 2022, compared to net cash used in operating activities of $194,000 for 2021, representing a decrease of approximately $11,000 in the net cash outflow in operating activities. The decrease in net cash used in operating activities was primarily due to a decrease of net loss of $15,000 in the six months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021 and the following major working capital changes:
| (1) | Change in prepaid expenses resulted in an approximately $14,000 cash outflow for the six months ended September 30, 2022 compared to an approximately $21,000 cash inflow for the same period of 2021, which led to an approximately $35,000 increase in net cash outflow from operating activities. |
| (2) | Change in accounts payable and accrued liabilities resulted in an approximately $7,000 cash outflow for the six months ended September 30, 2022 compared to an approximately $14,000 cash inflow for the same period of 2021, which led to an approximately $20,000 increase in net cash outflow from operating activities. |
| (3) | Change in due to a related party resulted in an approximately $4,000 cash inflow for the six months ended September 30, 2022 compared to an approximately $41,000 cash outflow for the same period of 2021, which led to an approximately $45,000 increase in net cash inflow from operating activities. |
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| (4) | Change in accounts receivable resulted in an approximately $500 cash inflow for the six months ended September 30, 2022 compared to an approximately $3,300 cash outflow for the same period of 2021, which led to an approximately $3,800 increase in net cash inflow from operating activities. |
Investing Activities:
Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $15,000 for the six months ended September 30, 2022, which was solely attributable to acquisitions of fixed assets. There was no investing cash activities for the same period of 2021.
Financing Activities:
Net cash generated from financing activities was approximately $283,000 for the six months ended September 30, 2022, which was attributable to the net results of: (i) related-party advances of approximately $167,000; (ii) stockholder contribution of $150,000; (iii) prepayment of $34,000 issuance costs for future equity financing.
Net cash generated from financing activities was approximately $187,000 for the six months ended September 30, 2021, which was attributable to the net results of: (i) related-party advances of approximately $211,000; (ii) share issuance proceeds of $200,500; (iii) repayment of related party of $200,500 and payment of $24,000 issuance costs for share issued in the period.
Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
We have financed our operations primarily through cash generated by operating activities, equity financings and advances from our principal stockholder. QDM is a holding company and conducts substantially all of its operations through YeeTah, which is its only entity that has cash inflows and outflows. Our expenses are paid directly either by YeeTah or our principal stockholder. There have been no cash and any asset transactions between us and our subsidiaries since the Share Exchange. As of March 31, 2022 and 2021, we had $69,658 and $35,605, respectively, in cash and cash equivalents, which primarily consisted of cash deposited in banks.
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
Net cash used in operating activities | | $ | (398,610 | ) | | $ | (369,145 | ) |
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | | | (3,700 | ) | | | — | |
Net cash provided by financing activities | | | 436,363 | | | | 341,970 | |
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents | | | 34,053 | | | | (27,175 | ) |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year | | | 35,605 | | | | 62,780 | |
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year | | $ | 69,658 | | | $ | 35,605 | |
Our working capital requirements mainly comprise of commissions paid to technical representatives and referral fees, operating lease payments and employee salaries. Historically, our capital requirements were generally met by cash generated from our operations, equity financings and funding from our principal stockholder. In light of impact on our operations from the civilian protests in Hong Kong and the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong, we undertook certain cost cutting measures, including but not limited to, relocating to a new office with a much lower rent and reducing the number of employees. Discretionary expenditures are also curtailed or reduced to save costs. In addition to adjusting our operating expenditures, we will continue to seek opportunities of equity financings and financial supports from our principal stockholder. Although historically we were successful in obtaining equity financings through the sales of our securities and obtaining loans from our principal stockholder, the availability of such financings when required is dependent on many factors beyond our control, such as the unforeseeable impact from COVID-19 and the recovery of the Hong Kong economy following the civilian protests.
Operating Activities:
Net cash used in operating activities was approximately $399,000 for the year ended March 31, 2022, compared to net cash used in operating activities of approximately $369,000 for 2021, representing an increase of approximately $29,000 in the net cash outflow in operating activities. The increase in net cash used in operating activities was primarily due to an increase of net loss of $52,000 in the year ended March 31, 2022 as compared to the same period of 2021, offset by the following working capital changes:
| (1) | Change in accounts receivable resulted in an approximately $200 cash outflow for the year ended March 31, 2022, while for the year ended March 31, 2021, change in accounts receivable was an approximately $7,600 cash inflow, which led to an approximately $7,800 decrease in net cash inflow from operating activities. |
| (2) | Change in prepaid expenses resulted in an approximately $4,000 cash outflow for the year ended March 31, 2022, while for the year ended March 31, 2021, change in prepaid expenses resulted in a cash outflow of approximately $29,000, which led to an approximately $25,000 increase in net cash inflow from operating activities. |
| (3) | Change in accounts payable and accrued liabilities resulted in an approximately $10,000 cash inflow for the year ended March 31, 2022, while for the year ended March 31, 2021, change in accounts payable and accrued liabilities generated a cash outflow of approximately $14,000, which led to an approximately $24,000 increase in net cash inflow from operating activities. |
| (4) | Change in due to a related party resulted in an approximately $19,000 cash outflow for the year ended March 31, 2022, while for the year ended March 31, 2021, change in due to a related party resulted in a cash outflow of approximately $28,000, which led to an approximately $9,000 decrease in net cash outflow from operating activities. |
| (5) | Change in non-cash operating items resulted in an approximately $2,000 cash outflow for 2022, while for 2021, change in non-cash operating items resulted in a cash inflow of approximately $21,000, which led to an approximately $23,000 decrease in net cash inflow from operating activities. |
Financing Activities:
Net cash generated from financing activities was approximately $436,000 for the year ended March 31, 2022, which was attributable to the net results of: (i) stockholder advances of approximately $290,000; (ii) share issuance proceeds of approximately $200,000; and (iii) prepaid legal fees.
Net cash generated from financing activities was approximately $342,000 for the year ended March 31, 2021, which was attributable to the net results of: (i) stockholder advances of approximately $644,000; (ii) cash used in reverse acquisition of approximately $251,000; (iii) cash of approximately $71,000 incurred for future equity issuance; and (iv) stockholder capital contributions of approximately $20,000.
Material Commitments
We have no material commitments for the next twelve months. We will, however, require additional capital to meet our liquidity needs.
We had one office lease agreement and our lease commitments as of September 30, 2022 are summarized as follows:
Operating lease
The future aggregate minimum lease payments under the non-cancellable office operating lease are as follows:
2023 | | $ | 21,086 | |
2024 | | | 42,172 | |
2025 | | | 35,143 | |
Total future minimum lease payments | | $ | 98,400 | |
Less: imputed interest | | | (5,596 | ) |
Total operating lease liability | | $ | 92,805 | |
Less: operating lease liability - current | | | 38,481 | |
Total operating lease liability – non current | | $ | 54,324 | |
Critical Accounting Policies
Please refer to the notes to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in this prospectus for details of critical accounting policies. There were no areas requiring significant management judgments and estimates for the periods covered by this prospectus.
Off-balance Sheet Commitments and Arrangements
As of September 30, 2022, the Company did not have any material off-balance sheet arrangements that had or were reasonably likely to have any effect on their respective financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.
BUSINESS
Overview
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida with no material operations, and we conduct our insurance brokerage business through our wholly-owned subsidiary, YeeTah, primarily in Hong Kong.
YeeTah sells a wide range of insurance products, consisting of two major categories: (1) life and medical insurance, such as individual life insurance; and (2) general insurance, such as automobile insurance, commercial property insurance, liability insurance and homeowner insurance. In addition, as a MPF intermediary, YeeTah also provides its customers with assistance on account opening and related services under the MPF and the ORSO in Hong Kong, both of which are mandatory retirement protection schemes set up for employees who are Hong Kong residents.
YeeTah sells insurance products underwritten by insurance companies operating in Hong Kong to individual customers who are either Hong Kong residents or visitors from Mainland China and are compensated for its services by commissions paid by insurance companies, typically based on a percentage of the premium paid by the insured. Commissions generally depend on the type, term of insurance products and the particular insurance company and they are usually paid by the insurance companies the next month after the cooling off period of the policies sold, which is generally 21 days after the earlier of the delivery of the policy or a cooling off notice to the policy holder.
As of the date of this prospectus, YeeTah was a party to agreements with 19 insurance companies in Hong Kong, and offers approximately 431 insurance products to our customers. For the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, an aggregate of 66.9% and 80.0% of YeeTah’s total commissions were attributable to its top two insurance companies, respectively. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, an aggregate of 81.4% of YeeTah’s total commissions was attributable to its top two insurance companies, which accounted for 47.7% and 33.7% its total commissions, respectively. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, an aggregate of 88.8% of YeeTah’s total commissions was attributable to its top two insurance companies, which accounted for 49.8% and 39.0% of its total commissions, respectively.
As of September 30, 2022, YeeTah had serviced an aggregate of 625 customers in connection with the purchase of an aggregate of 698 insurance products as well as a total of 44 customers for MPF related services.
As an independent insurance agency, YeeTah offers not only a broad range of insurance products underwritten by multiple insurance companies to address the needs of increasingly sophisticated customers with diverse needs and preferences but also quality services covering the policy application, customer information collection, analysis of policy selection, and after-sale services.
We focus on offering long-term life insurance products including endowment life and annuity life insurance and distribute general insurance products including automobile insurance, individual accident insurance, homeowner insurance, liability insurance and travel insurance. All of YeeTah’s sales of life and medical insurance products and general insurance products are conducted through its licensed salespersons (known in Hong Kong as technical representatives).
Hong Kong’s independent insurance intermediary market is experiencing rapid growth due to increasing demands for insurance products by the Chinese population, especially visitors from mainland China. We intend to grow our business by offering premium services and recruiting talent to join our professional team and sales force, expanding our distribution network through building more connections with business partners in Hong Kong and mainland China, such as wealth management companies, funds, trust companies, and overseas immigration agencies.
Corporate History
QDM was incorporated in Florida in March 2020 as the successor to 24/7 Kid, which was incorporated in Florida in November 1998. 24/7 Kid was a telemedicine company that provided Connect-a-Doc telemedicine kits to schools and its services aimed at providing an alternative to schools that desire to provide a higher level of healthcare to their students but are unable to keep a full-time school nurse available.
On March 3, 2020, a stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) was entered into by and between Huihe Zheng, our Chief Executive Officer and President and Tim Shannon, our then controlling stockholder as well as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President and director. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Mr. Shannon sold to Mr. Zheng (i) 710,000 shares common stock of 24/7 Kid, representing 42.6% of the total issued and outstanding shares of common stock of 24/7 Kid as of March 9, 2020 and (ii) 13,500 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, each entitling the holder to 100 votes on all corporate matters submitted for stockholder approval, in consideration of $500,000 in cash from Mr. Zheng’s personal funds. The shares of common stock and Series B Preferred Stock acquired by Mr. Zheng, in the aggregate, represented 68.3% of the outstanding voting securities of 24/7 Kid as of March 9, 2020, and the acquisition of such shares resulted in a change in control of 24/7 Kid.
On March 11, 2020, QDM was incorporated in Florida as a wholly owned subsidiary of 24/7 Kid and QDM Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”) was incorporated in Florida as our wholly owned subsidiary, for the purposes of effectuating a name change by implementing a reorganization of the corporate structure of 24/7 Kid through a merger (the “Merger”). On March 13, 2020, an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) was entered into by and among 24/7 Kid, QDM, and the Merger Sub. On April 8, 2020, the Articles of Merger were filed with the State of Florida to effect the Merger as stipulated by the Merger Agreement.
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into 24/7 Kid, with 24/7 Kid being the surviving entity. As a result, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub ceased and 24/7 Kid became a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of QDM. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement and as a result of the Merger, all issued and outstanding shares of common stock and Series B Preferred Stock of 24/7 Kid were converted into shares of common stock and Series B Preferred Stock of QDM, respectively, on a one-for-one basis, with securities of QDM having the same designations, rights, powers and preferences and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions as the corresponding share of the securities of 24/7 Kid being converted. As a result, upon consummation of the Merger, all of the stockholders of 24/7 Kid immediately prior to the Merger became stockholders of QDM and all the directors and officers of 24/7 Kid became the directors and officers of QDM. Upon consummation of the Merger, QDM became the successor issuer to 24/7 Kid pursuant to 12g-3(a) and as a result shares of our common stock were deemed to be registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act.
On October 21, 2020, QDM entered into the Share Exchange Agreement with QDM BVI, and the QDM BVI Shareholder, to acquire all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI in exchange for the issuance to the QDM BVI Shareholder 900,000 shares of a newly designated Series C Preferred Stock, with each share of Series C Preferred Stock initially being convertible into 11 shares of QDM’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, subject to certain adjustments and limitations. The Share Exchange closed on October 21, 2020. As a result of the consummation of the Share Exchange, we acquired QDM BVI, QDM HK and YeeTah. Since the consummation of the Share Exchange, QDM assumed the business operations of the Group as its own.
As described above, on October 21, 2020, QDM acquired all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement and QDM BVI became our wholly owned subsidiary. The acquisition was accounted for as a recapitalization effected by a share exchange, wherein QDM BVI is considered the acquirer for accounting and financial reporting purposes. The assets and liabilities of QDM BVI have been brought forward at their book value and no goodwill has been recognized.
Consequently, the assets and liabilities and the historical operations that were reflected in the financial statements prior to the Share Exchange were those of the Group and were recorded at the historical cost basis of the Group, and the consolidated financial statements after completion of the Share Exchange will include the assets and liabilities of the Group, historical operations of the Group, and operations of the Company and its subsidiaries from the closing date of the Share Exchange.
As a result of the acquisition of all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI, QDM assumed the business operations of the Group as its own.
On November 3, 2021, we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of QDMS, a company incorporated on February 6, 2020 in Cyprus. We acquired QDMS through an intermediary holding company, LGL, which was incorporated on July 29, 2021 in the BVI. Before the acquisition, Huihe Zheng was the sole shareholder of QDMS. As part of the acquisition, Mr. Zheng sold all the shares of QDMS to LGL for a consideration of EUR5,000 in November 2021 and at the same time the sole shareholder of LGL, Mengting Xu, transferred all her shares in LGL to us for a consideration of US$1.00. As a result, we acquired a 100% ownership of LGL, which, in turn, owns 100% of QDMS. Although QDMS has no operation as of the date of this prospectus, QDMS plans to engage in the research and development of CRM SaaS, with a business model derived from “customer-centered” CRM concept to improve enterprise-customers relationship. We plan to market QDMS’ SaaS services to our network of banks, securities companies, insurance companies and other financial services providers in Hong Kong and China.
Our current principal offices are located at Room 715, 7F, The Place Tower C, No. 150 Zunyi Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China 200051. Our phone number is +86 (21) 22183083.
QDM is organized under the laws of the State of Florida as a holding company that conducts its business through a number of subsidiaries organized under the laws of foreign jurisdictions such as Hong Kong and the BVI. This may have an adverse impact on the ability of U.S. investors to enforce a judgment obtained in U.S. Courts against these entities, or to effect service of process on the officers and directors managing the foreign subsidiaries.
Holding Company Structure
QDM is not an operating company but a Florida holding company with operations primarily conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiary based in Hong Kong. Our investors hold shares of common stock in QDM, the Florida holding company.
We do not have or intend to set up any subsidiary or enter into any contractual arrangements to establish a VIE structure with any entity in China. 24/7 Kid, LGL and QDMS currently have no operations. Our corporate organizational structure is as follows as of the date of this prospectus:
Our holding company structure presents unique risks as our investors may never directly hold equity interests in our Hong Kong operating subsidiary and will be dependent upon dividends and other distributions from our subsidiaries to finance our cash flow needs. Our ability to receive dividends and other contributions from our subsidiaries are significantly affected by regulations promulgated by Hong Kong and PRC authorities. Any change in the interpretation of existing rules and regulations or the promulgation of new rules and regulations may materially affect our operations and or the value of our securities, including causing the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless. For a detailed description of the risks facing the Company associated with our structure, please refer to “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong.”
Currently, PRC laws and regulations do not prohibit direct foreign investment in our Hong Kong operating subsidiary. Nonetheless, in light of the recent statements and regulatory actions by the PRC government, such as those related to Hong Kong’s national security, the promulgation of regulations prohibiting foreign ownership of Chinese companies operating in certain industries, which are constantly evolving, and anti-monopoly concerns, we may be subject to the risks of uncertainty of any future actions of the PRC government in this regard, which would likely result in a material change in our operations, including our ability to continue our existing holding company structure, carry on our current business, accept foreign investments, and offer or continue to offer securities to our investors, and the resulting adverse change in value to our common stock. We may also be subject to penalties and sanctions imposed by the PRC regulatory agencies, including the CSRC, if we fail to comply with such rules and regulations, which would likely adversely affect the ability of the Company’s securities to continue to trade on the OTCQB, which would likely cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
Transfers of Cash to and from Our Subsidiaries
QDM is a holding company incorporated in Florida with no material operations of its own, and we conduct our insurance brokerage business through our wholly-owned subsidiary, YeeTah, primarily in Hong Kong. We may rely on dividends and other distributions on equity to be paid by our Hong Kong subsidiary to fund our cash and financing requirements, including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to our stockholders, to service any debt we may incur and to pay our operating expenses. Currently, substantially all of our operations are in Hong Kong. We do not have or intend to set up any subsidiary or enter into any contractual arrangements to establish a VIE structure with any entity in China. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the PRC and the basic policies of the PRC regarding Hong Kong are reflected in the Basic Law, providing Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy and executive, legislative and independent judicial powers, including that of final adjudication under the principle of “one country, two systems”. The laws and regulations of the PRC do not currently have any material impact on transfer of cash from us to YeeTah or from YeeTah to us and the investors in the U.S. In addition, there are no restrictions or limitations under the laws of Hong Kong imposed on the conversion of Hong Kong dollar into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of Hong Kong or across borders and to U.S investors.
We are permitted under the Florida law to provide funding to our subsidiaries, including YeeTah, through loans or capital contributions without restrictions on the amount of the funds. There are no restrictions or limitations on our ability to distribute earnings from our businesses, including our subsidiaries, to the U.S. investors. YeeTah is permitted under the laws of Hong Kong to provide funding to QDM HK and QDM BVI, the holding company incorporated in Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands, respectively, through dividend or other distribution without restrictions on the amount of the funds. As of the date of this prospectus, there has been no dividends or distributions between our holding company and our subsidiaries nor do we expect such dividends or distributions to occur in the foreseeable future among our holding company and its subsidiaries.
YeeTah currently intends to retain all available funds and future earnings, if any, for the operation and expansion of its business and does not anticipate declaring or paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. There are no significant restrictions and limitations on our ability to distribute earnings from our businesses, including our subsidiaries, to the parent company and U.S. investors or our ability to settle amounts owed. There are no restrictions on foreign exchange or our ability to transfer cash between entities within our group, across borders, or to U.S. investors. However, the PRC government has significant authority to intervene or influence the China operations of an offshore holding company at any time, and such oversight may also extend to our Hong Kong operating company. We cannot assure you that the PRC government will not prevent us from transferring the cash we maintain in Hong Kong outside of Hong Kong, or restrict our ability to deploy our cash into business or to pay dividends. We could also be subject to limitations on the transfer or the use of our cash if we expand our business operations into China or conduct our operations in some other ways such that we become subject to PRC laws that regulate these activities. In addition, if YeeTah incurs debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us. Any limitation on our ability to transfer or use our cash could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow, make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our business, pay dividends, or otherwise fund and conduct our business.
We have never paid or declared any cash dividends on our common stock and do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The declaration of dividends on any class of shares is within the discretion of our board of directors, subject to the Florida law, out of legally available funds, and will depend on the assessment of, among other factors, earnings, capital requirements and our operating and financial condition. If we determine to pay dividends on any of our capital stock in the future to our stockholders, we will be dependent on receipt of funds from our Hong Kong subsidiary, YeeTah. None of our subsidiaries has made any dividends or distributions to us. Under the current practice of the Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong, no tax is payable in Hong Kong in respect of dividends paid by us. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Our Business and Industry – We rely on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our subsidiaries to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, and any limitation on the ability of our subsidiaries to make payments to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.” on page 12.
Competitive Advantages
We believe that the following competitive strengths contribute to our growth and differentiate us from our competitors:
| ● | Premium Customer Service Experience. We believe providing superior customer service to our existing and potential customers is the most important aspect of our business in terms of brand building and product differentiation. We have designed our services to provide personalized customer service throughout the whole insurance purchase process, including in-depth customer needs analysis, product and plan customization, product evaluation and selection, and claim settlement related assistance. |
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| ● | Concentrated Insurance Product Offerings. Hong Kong’s independent insurance intermediary companies generally focus on both life insurance and property insurance, but our strategy has been to focus on life insurance because of generally higher commissions. As of September 30, 2022, YeeTah had distributed an aggregate of 679 life and medical insurance policies from 19 insurance companies in Hong Kong. We believe our ability to offer concentrated products and services makes us an attractive distributor for our insurance company partners, and enables us to provide quality service to our customers. |
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| ● | Good Relationships with Insurance Companies. We maintain good relationships with the leading insurance companies in Hong Kong, including but not limited to, Prudential and AIA International Limited which have very stringent requirements on selection of brokers. YeeTah has been working with them for a few years and is able to pass their annual evaluations and receive favorable commission rates. |
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| ● | Experienced Management Team in the Insurance Industry. YeeTah’s responsible officer has more than ten years of experience serving as a senior executive in the insurance industry and is familiar with the insurance intermediary industry and the regulatory environment in Hong Kong. In addition, YeeTah’s administrative manager has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry and ten years of management experience. |
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| ● | Strong Commitment to Rigorous Training and Development. Given the rapid development of new insurance products and the heavy reliance on face-to-face sales efforts in Hong Kong’s insurance industry, we believe that YeeTah’s strong in-house training program, which covers both product knowledge and sales skills, gives it a competitive edge over the other professional insurance intermediaries and helps YeeTah retain its sales force and improve our sales. The training also emphasizes inculcating in YeeTah’s technical representatives our corporate culture of customer service and commitment to high ethical standards. |
Growth Strategy
Our goal is to further expand our distribution network. To achieve this goal, we intend to capitalize on the growth potential of Hong Kong’s insurance industry and the insurance intermediary sector, leverage our competitive strengths and pursue the following strategy:
| ● | Pursue Acquisitions of Other Insurance Intermediaries. We intend to acquire suitable insurance intermediaries in mainland China in order to achieve the objective of growth and provide an area of expansion that will add to insurance product/service lines in a market that is currently not served by us. |
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| ● | Further Participation in the Growing Life-Insurance Sector in Hong Kong. Life insurance products that require periodic premium payments have the potential to generate sustained revenue over an extended period of time. In order to take advantage of the significant growth potential of Hong Kong’s life issuance market and generate recurring income, we intend to continue to devote significant resources to growing this business line. We intend to actively recruit sales and marketing professionals to help increase sales of life insurance products in Hong Kong. We also intend to improve the productivity of individual technical representatives through rigorous training. In addition, we plan on leveraging our existing customer base to cross-sell life insurance products to our non-life insurance customers. |
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| ● | Further Expand Our Distribution Network Through Building Relationships with Strategic Partners. The insurance intermediary sector in Hong Kong is highly competitive. We plan to grow our distribution network by building relationships with partners in mainland China that have the potential of generating large premium in sales such as financial institutes, real estate companies and other public entities and with wealth management companies, high net-worth clients and strategic partners in the Hong Kong market through recruiting and hiring more sales professionals to cover strategic partners. We believe that expanding our distribution network will help us generate more business and grow our sales. |
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| ● | Continue to Strengthen Our Relationships with Leading Insurance Companies. We currently establish and maintain most of our business relationships with insurance companies in Hong Kong. As we plan to expand our distribution network through partners in China in an effort to increase our sales volumes in the future, we hope to obtain favorable commission rates and exclusive rights to distribute high-margin products or collaborate with our insurance company partners to custom-develop products to suit the needs of our prospective customers. |
Recent Developments
Impact of COVID-19
An outbreak of a novel strain of the coronavirus, COVID-19, was identified in China and has subsequently been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely restricted the level of economic activity around the world. In response to the pandemic, the governments of many countries, states, cities and other geographic regions, including Hong Kong, have taken preventative or protective actions, such as imposing restrictions on travel and business operations and advising or requiring individuals to limit or forego their time outside of their homes.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance brokers in Hong Kong have been greatly affected by the implementation of travel restrictions and social distancing measures. These restrictions and measures have resulted in a significant decrease in new business for insurance brokers, such as YeeTah, that rely on in-person consultations and storefronts for customer acquisition.
Customers from mainland China contributed to a substantial part of YeeTah’s commissions. Regulations require their physical presence in Hong Kong to complete the policy contract. However, due to the political turmoil and travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 epidemic, mainland Chinese customers have dropped sharply. As a result, YeeTah’s revenue from commissions on new business has decreased significantly. YeeTah’s commissions from renewal premiums have also been materially affected since the mainland Chinese customers have been late in making the renewal payments due to the inability to visit Hong Kong to make the payments. Most of YeeTah’s mainland customers do not have Hong Kong bank account and used to pay their premiums through credit card or in cash in person.
While Hong Kong has recently lifted most of its quarantine measures, tourists from mainland China who visit Hong Kong may still face restrictions on their travel and be required to undergo quarantine upon returning to mainland China, which continues to present a significant challenge to YeeTah to restore and grow its business.
We do not expect a significant improvement over our business and results of operations until the mainland visitors are permitted to enter Hong Kong and return to mainland China without COVID-19 related restrictions. As such, we presently focus on servicing Hong Kong residents.
The extent to which the COVID-19 epidemic affects our business will depend on future developments in Hong Kong and around the world, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions required to contain and treat it, among others. The duration of such business disruption and the resulting operational and financial impact on us have negatively affected our financial results for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and may continue to adversely affect our business operations for the year ended March 31, 2023. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Conditions” for more information on the impact of COVID-19 on our business operations and financial conditions. The global spread of COVID-19 pandemic in a significant number of countries around the world has resulted in, and may intensify, global economic distress, and the extent to which it may affect our results of operations will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry— Our business, financial condition and results of operations have been and may continue to be adversely affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong.”
Previous Self-underwritten Public Offering
On April 29, 2021, the Company consummated an initial closing of a “best efforts” self-underwritten public offering of the Company’s common stock (the “Previous Offering”), in which the Company issued and sold an aggregate of 16,708 shares (501,250 shares before the Reverse Stock Split) (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock at a price of $12 per share ($0.40 per share before the Reverse Stock Split) to certain investors, generating gross proceeds of $200,500. The material terms of the Previous Offering are described in the prospectus, dated April 13, 2021, filed by the Company with the SEC on April 14, 2021, pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act. The Previous Offering was registered pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-252967), originally filed with the SEC on February 10, 2021 (as amended, the “Previous Registration Statement”), which was declared effective by the SEC on April 13, 2021. In connection with the sale of the Shares, on April 15, 2021, the Company entered into securities purchase agreements with the investors in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Previous Registration Statement.
Conversion of Series C Preferred Stock
Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement entered into on October 21, 2020 by and among the Company, QDM BVI, and Huihe Zheng, the sole shareholder of QDM BVI who is also the Company’s principal stockholder and Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, the Company acquired all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI in exchange for the issuance to Huihe Zheng 900,000 shares of a newly designated Series C Preferred Stock of the Company.
The Certificate of Designation of Series C Preferred Stock provides that each share of Series C Preferred Stock is convertible, at any time and from time to time from and after October 21, 2020, at the option of the holder and without the payment of additional consideration by the holder, into shares of the Company’s common stock at an initial conversion rate of 30-for-11 (1-for-11 before the Reverse Stock Split). On May 17, 2021, upon receipt of a conversion notice from Huihe Zheng, the Company issued 134,976 shares (4,049,254 shares before the Reverse Stock Split) (the “Conversion Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, upon conversion of an aggregate of 368,114 shares of Series C Preferred Stock at a conversion ratio of 30-for-11 (1-for-11 before the Reverse Stock Split), pursuant to the terms of the Certification of Designation. Following the issuance of the Conversion Shares, the Company had an aggregate of 209,993 shares (6,238,553 shares before the Reverse Stock Split) of common stock issued and outstanding. The issuance of shares of common stock upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock was deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act, in reliance on Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act. The recipient of the shares represented its intention to acquire such shares for investment only and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, any distribution thereof.
Reverse Stock Split
On July 2, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) and Huihe Zheng, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Company’s majority stockholder holding approximately 97.1% of its outstanding voting power as of July 2, 2021, approved an amendment (the “Articles of Amendment”) to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, as amended (the “Articles of Incorporation”) to effect a reverse stock split of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock, at a ratio of between one-for-twenty (1:20) and one-for-thirty five (1:35) (the “Reverse Stock Split”), with such ratio and the implementation and timing of such Reverse Stock Split to be determined by the Board in its sole discretion. On August 9, 2021, the Board set the final ratio and approved a one-for-thirty (1:30) Reverse Stock Split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock.
On August 10, 2021, the Company filed the Articles of Amendment with the Secretary of State of Florida, to effect the one-for-thirty (1:30) Reverse Stock Split. The Reverse Stock Split became effective on August 10, 2021 (the “Effective Time”). At the Effective Time, every thirty (30) shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock (and such shares held in treasury) were automatically converted into one share of common stock, without any change in the par value per share. No fractional shares were issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Any fractional shares resulting from the Reverse Stock Split were rounded up to the nearest whole share. The Reverse Stock Split reduced the number of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock from approximately 6.24 million shares to approximately 0.2 million shares. The number of authorized shares of common stock was not affected by the Reverse Stock Split. The Company’s common stock began trading on a split-adjusted basis when the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority approved the Reverse Stock Split on August 31, 2021.
The Hong Kong Insurance Market
Hong Kong has one of the most developed insurance markets in Asia, with the per capita insurance premium standing at high levels and has attracted many of the world’s top insurance companies. According to the Statistical Highlights issued by Research Office of the Legislative Council Secretariat on May 10, 2019, the Hong Kong insurance industry has shown a considerable growth in recent years. In 2018, the total gross premiums of the industry were about HK$531.7 billion (approximately $68.17 billion), representing an increase of 78% over 2013, primarily as a result of an increase of 86% in long term business (e.g., life and annuity), which we believe might be indicative of the increasing demand for long term insurance products due to aging population.
We believe that Hong Kong’s insurance industry’s accelerating growth is also attributable to increasing demands for insurance products by the Chinese population, especially visitors from mainland China. According to statistics from the Hong Kong Insurance Authority, the number of new policies brought by mainland visitors had been steadily increasing year by year until 2018, while witnessed a 25.6% decrease in 2019.
According to the statistics released by the Hong Kong Insurance Authority, the number of new policies purchased by mainland visitors in 2019 was 345,021, accounting for approximately 23.4% of the total number of new policies for individual insurance business, which typically includes, but not limited to, medical insurance, long-term life insurance, term life insurance, annuity, critical illness insurance and savings insurance. According to the Hong Kong Insurance Authority, the total amount of new premiums for individual insurance in 2019 was HK$172.3 billion (approximately $22.09 billion), which represents an increase of 6.5% compared to 2018 (HK$161.8 billion). Among them, the new policy premiums brought by mainland China visitors were HK$43.4 billion (approximately $5.6 billion), accounting for 25.2% of the total new policy premiums for individual insurance business. The diagram below demonstrates the number and percentage of new policies purchased by the mainland visitors over the years from 2010 to 2019.
Source: Hong Kong Insurance Authority
Market Potential and Recent Trends
Hong Kong’s insurance industry slowed down in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Hong Kong and social unrest in the city. GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, previously forecasted that the industry would grow by 1.46% in 2020, from HKD 552 billion (approximately $70.8 billion) to HKD 560 billion (approximately $71.8 billion), representing one fourth of the sector’s rate of expansion comparing to last year. The slowing pace hit all insurance segments but in particular life insurance, which represents more than 90% of the Hong Kong insurance market. Non-life insurance sectors were expected to grow by 1% in 2020, in contract with pre-COVID-19 expectation of a growth of 4.4%. However, the firm forecasted a stronger future for the Hong Kong insurance industry beyond 2020, predicting 5.6%, 6.5% and 7.1% annual growth rates in 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively.
Source: https://www.globaldata.com/
Hong Kong’ containment measures to control the spread of the COVID-19 has affected and will continue to affect its economy and insurance industry, which was already impacted by the recent civil unrest and US-China trade conflict.
Another issue faced by Hong Kong life insurers is related to their business from China. Customers from Chinese mainland constitute an important segment for Hong Kong life insurers. Regulations require their physical presence in Hong Kong to complete the policy contract. However, due to the recent riots in Hong Kong and now COVID-19 epidemic in China, interest from Chinese mainland customers has dropped sharply. As a result, sales to Chinese customers have fallen to negligible levels.
Products and Services
We market and sell two broad categories of insurance products: (1) life and medical insurance products, and (2) general insurance products. As of the date of this prospectus, insurance products we sell are underwritten by 19 insurance companies in Hong Kong. In addition, as an MPF Intermediary, we also assist our customers with their investment through the MPF and the ORSO schemes in Hong Kong. Such services primarily include collection and provision of information on investment products and exclude investment advisory services.
Life and Medical Insurance Products
Our life and medical insurance products collectively accounted for approximately 83.7%, 92.7% and 96.3% of our net revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. For life and medical insurance products purchased by our customers, we generally receive commissions in the range of 2.72% to 168% of the first year premiums and in the range of 0% to 49.5% of renewal premiums.
The sale of life and medical insurance products is, and we currently expect it to continue to be, the major source of our revenue in the next several years. We began offering life insurance products in 2015 with a focus on individual life products with periodic payment schedules. The major life and medical insurance products we sell can be broadly classified into the categories set forth below. Due to constant product innovation by insurance companies, some of the insurance products we sell combine features of one or more of the categories listed below:
| ● | Individual Health Insurance. The individual health insurance products we sell primarily consist of critical illness insurance products, which provide guaranteed benefits when the insured is diagnosed with specified serious illnesses, and medical insurance products, which provide conditional reimbursement for medical expenses during the coverage period. In return, the insured makes periodic payment of premiums over a pre-determined period. |
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| ● | Individual Annuity. The individual annuity products we sell generally provide annual benefit payments after the insured attains a certain age, or for a fixed time period, and provide a lump sum payment at the end of the coverage period. In addition, the beneficiary designated in the annuity contract will receive guaranteed benefits upon the death of the insured during the coverage period. In return, the purchaser of the annuity products makes periodic payments of premiums during a pre-determined accumulation period. |
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| ● | Individual Endowment Life Insurance. The individual endowment products we sell generally provide insurance coverage for the insured for a specified time period and maturity benefits if the insured reaches a specified age. The individual endowment products we sell also provide to a beneficiary designated by the insured guaranteed benefits upon the death of the insured within the coverage period. In return, the insured makes periodic payment of premiums over a pre-determined period. |
We believe due to China and Hong Kong’s rapidly aging population, high national savings rate, sustained economic development, rising household income, strong support from government policies and regulations, and enhanced risk protection awareness, Hong Kong’s life and medical insurance sector will experience faster growth than the other insurance sectors, and currently we plan to allocate greater resources to develop our life and medical insurance business.
General Insurance Products
Our general insurance products, also known as property and casualty insurance products, accounted for approximately 16.3%, 7.3% and 3.7% of our net revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. For general insurance products purchased by our customers, we generally receive commissions from the insurance companies in the range of 5.0% - 55.0% of the premiums. The major general insurance products we offer or facilitate to individual customers can be further classified into the following categories:
| ● | Individual Accident Insurance. The individual accident insurance products we sell generally provide a guaranteed benefit during the coverage period in the event of death or disability of the insured as a result of an accident, or a reimbursement of medical expenses to the insured in connection with an accident. These products typically require only a single premium payment for each coverage period. Because most of the individual accident insurance products we sell are underwritten by general insurance companies, we classify individual accident insurance products as general insurance products. |
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| ● | Travel Insurance. The travel insurance products we sell are short-term insurance providing guaranteed benefit in the event of death or disability and covering travel-related emergencies and losses, either within one’s own country, or internationally. These products typically require only a single premium payment for each coverage period. |
| ● | Homeowner Insurance. The homeowner insurance products we sell primarily cover damages to the insured house, along with furniture and household electrical appliance in the house caused by a number of incidents such as fire, flood and explosion. |
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| ● | Auto Insurance. We facilitate both standard auto insurance policies and supplemental policies, which we refer to as riders. The standard auto insurance policies we facilitate generally have a term of one year and cover damages caused to the insured vehicle by collision and other traffic accidents, falling or flying objects, fire, explosion and natural disasters. We also facilitate standard third-party liability insurance policies, which cover bodily injury and property damage caused by an accident involving an insured vehicle to a person not in the insured vehicle. The riders we facilitate cover additional losses, such as liability to passengers, losses arising from vehicle theft and robbery, broken glass and vehicle body scratches. |
MPF and ORSO Services
The MPF is a compulsory saving scheme (pension fund) for the retirement of residents in Hong Kong. Most employees and their employers are required to contribute monthly to the MPF schemes provided by approved private organizations based on the salary and period of employment of the employee. ORSO schemes are retirement schemes set up voluntarily by employers to provide retirement benefits for their employees. MPF is the mainstream retire plan in Hong Kong. We introduce customers to the service providers of the MPF and ORSO schemes approved by MPF as trustees to administer the MPF and ORSO schemes. As of September 30, 2022, there were a total 12 approved trustees in Hong Kong, of which, four have signed agreements with us in connection with its provision of MPF and ORSO related services. We assist employees who are Hong Kong residents to open personal accounts with a new approved trustee and employers in Hong Kong to set up corporate accounts. We receive service fees in the range of 1.0% - 5.0% of the total investment transferred by an employee/employer to the new trustee and are paid by the trustee once the transaction is completed. We assisted an aggregate of 44 customers with account opening and transfer of funds through the MPF scheme since inception.
Distribution Network and Marketing
We rely on our technical representatives to market and sell insurance products in Hong Kong. As of September 30, 2022, we had six technical representatives in Hong Kong. YeeTah was a party to an agreement with YeeTah Financial Group Co., Ltd. (“YeeTah Financial”), a company controlled by its former officer and director, which referred customers, most of whom were mainland visitors, to YeeTah for the purchase of insurance products in Hong Kong in exchange for certain fees paid by YeeTah out of its commissions earned through the insurance policies purchased by the referred customers. Such agreement with YeeTah Financial was terminated in December 2019 and we are in the process of identifying new cross-industry marketing partners in various lines of businesses to expand our business.
Customers
From March 2017 to September 30, 2022, the total number of our individual customers grew from 329 to 625. By providing premium customer services to our customers, we also strive to build a loyal customer base that generates referral and cross-selling opportunities, and that becomes returning customers, i.e., a customer who purchases more than one product from us. For the three months ending September 30, 2022, we had three customers from Hong Kong and no customers from other regions. During each of the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, we had 13 customers from Hong Kong and no customers from other regions.
Collaboration with Insurance Companies
As of September 30, 2022, YeeTah had entered into long-term agreements with 19 insurance companies in Hong Kong, pursuant to which we are authorized to market and distribute certain insurance products of those companies to our customers. These agreements establish, among other things, the scope of our authority, the pricing of the insurance products YeeTah sells and its commission rates.
For the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, and the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, our top three insurance company partners by commissions are as follows:
| | Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 | | Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 | | Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2022 | | Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2021 |
Name | | Commissions (In US$) | | Percentage of Revenue | | Commissions (In US$) | | Percentage of Revenue | | Commissions (In US$) | | Percentage of Revenue | | Commissions (In US$) | | Percentage of Revenue |
Company A | | | 5,956 | | | | 26.2 | % | | | 11,280 | | | | 37.5 | % | | | 32,975 | | | | 47.7 | % | | | 61,575 | | | | 49.8 | % |
Company B | | | 9,265 | | | | 40.7 | % | | | 12,924 | | | | 42.9 | % | | | 23,311 | | | | 33.7 | % | | | 48,102 | | | | 39.0 | % |
Company C | | | 1,986 | | | | 8.7 | % | | | 3,160 | | | | 10.5 | % | | | 5,419 | | | | 7.8 | % | | | 6,666 | | | | 5.4 | % |
Collaboration with Business Partners
On February 5, 2021, the Company entered into a cooperation agreement (the “Agreement”) with Beijing HeWuHuiYing Equity Investment Co., Ltd., a limited liability company in China (“HeWuHuiYing”). Pursuant to the Agreement with HeWuHuiYing, HeWuHuiYing will promote the Company’s brand, products and services in mainland China, including business development, market research, referral and selection of business partners and clients, customer services and other related services. In consideration for such services, the Company agreed to issue to HeWuHuiYing an aggregate of 50,000 shares (1,500,000 shares before the Reverse Stock Split) of its common stock (the “Compensation Shares”) subject to equitable adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and the like, including to account for any equity securities into which such shares are exchanged or converted; provided, however, HeWuHuiYing shall only be entitled to (i) 50% of the Compensation Shares if the Company achieves a revenue of at least US$4 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022; and (ii) the remaining 50% of the Compensation Shares if the Company achieves a revenue of at least US$6 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023. The determination of whether or not the performance targets are achieved shall be based on the Company’s audited financial statements for the applicable period. The foregoing performance targets shall be met on an all-or-nothing basis, and there shall be no partial issuance. Upon satisfaction of the performance targets, the applicable portion of the Compensation Shares shall be issued to HeWuHuiYing in four equal installments on a quarterly basis beginning on the date of determination that the applicable target is met.
Competition
A number of industry players are involved in the distribution of insurance products in Hong Kong. We compete for customers on the basis of product offerings, customer services and reputation. Our principal competitors include:
| ● | Professional insurance intermediaries. As of September 30, 2022, there were a total of 2,356 and 828 insurance agencies and insurance broker companies in Hong Kong, respectively. The insurance agencies represent insurance companies, and the insurance broker companies represent customers who purchase insurance products. The rest of the insurance intermediaries are other businesses which sell insurance products, such as commercial banks. With an increasing consolidation expected in the insurance intermediary sector in the coming years, we expect competition within this sector to intensify |
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| ● | Insurance companies. We compete against insurance companies that rely on their own sales force to distribute their products. All large insurance companies use both in-house sales force and exclusive sales agents to distribute their own products. We believe that we can compete effectively with insurance companies because we focus only on distribution and are able to offer our customers a broader range of insurance products underwritten by multiple insurance companies as well as better insurance premium. |
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| ● | Other business entities. In Hong Kong, some business entities may distribute insurance products as an ancillary business, primarily commercial banks. However, the insurance products distributed by these entities are usually confined to those related to their main lines of business. We believe that we can compete effectively with these business entities because we offer our customers a broader variety of products and professional services. |
Although some of our competitors have operated for a longer period of time than us, with more market shares and greater brand influence, we believe that our entrepreneurial attitude and smaller size, as well as our customer service, enable us to better respond and adapt to fast changing insurance market conditions compared to the larger competitors.
Seasonality
Our income is subject to both quarterly and annual fluctuations as a result of the seasonality of our business, the timing of policy renewals and the net effect of new and lost business. For life insurance, the insurance companies, under pressure to meet their annual sales targets, would increase their sales efforts during the fourth quarter of a year by, for example, offering more incentives for insurance intermediaries to increase sales. As a result, income derived from life insurance products for the fourth quarter of a year is generally the highest among all four quarters. Business activities, including buying and selling insurance, usually slow down during the Chinese New Year festivities, which occur during the first quarter of each year. As a result, income derived from our insurance products for the first quarter of a year has generally been the lowest among all four quarters.
Intellectual Property
As of September 30, 2022, we had no registered or registration-pending intellectual property.
Employees and Technical Representatives
YeeTah had two full-time employees and we had two executive officers as of September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. YeeTah also had six and ten licensed technical representatives as of September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Technical representatives are licensed individuals who provide regulated advice to a policy holder or potential policy holder on insurance matters for an insurance agent or broker, or arrange contracts of insurance in or from Hong Kong on behalf of that insurance agent or broker. YeeTah’s affiliated technical representatives are not our employees and are only compensated via commissions on sales of insurance policies. The commissions YeeTah pays its technical representatives vary from 100% to 170% of basic commission rate provided by each insurance company.
Properties
Our principal executive office is located at Room 715, 7F, The Place Tower C, No. 150 Zunyi Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China 200051. We also lease office space located at Room 1005, 10/F, Emperor Group Centre, 288, Hennessey Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, for a monthly rent of HKD23,000 (approximately US$2,963) under a lease starting from May 2021.
We do not lease or own any other properties. Our principal executive office is provided by Mr. Huihe Zheng free of charge.
Legal Proceedings
There are no pending legal proceedings to which the Company or its subsidiaries are a party or in which any director, officer or affiliate of the Company, any owner of record or beneficially of more than 5% of any class of the Company’s voting securities, or security holder is a party adverse to the Company or has a material interest adverse to the Company. We may from time to time be subject to legal or administrative claims and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. Litigation or any other legal or administrative proceeding, regardless of the outcome, is likely to result in substantial cost and diversion of our resources, including our management’s time and attention.
Government Regulation
As a business operating in Hong Kong, we are subject to various regulations and rules promulgated by the Hong Kong government. The following is a brief summary of the Hong Kong laws and regulations that currently materially affect our business. This section does not purport to be a comprehensive summary of all present and proposed regulations and legislation relating to the industry in which we operate our business.
Regulations Related to Insurance Intermediaries
Effective September 23, 2019, the HKIA took over the regulation of insurance agents and brokers (collectively, “Insurance Intermediaries”) from the three self-regulatory organizations (i.e., the Insurance Agents Registration Board established under The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, The Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers and The Professional Insurance Brokers Association) and becomes the sole regulator to license and supervise all Insurance Intermediaries in Hong Kong. The HKIA is responsible for supervising Insurance Intermediaries’ compliance with the provisions of Insurance Ordinance (Cap. 41) (“IO”), and the relevant regulations, rules, codes and guidelines issued by the HKIA. The HKIA is also responsible for promoting and encouraging proper standards of conduct of Insurance Intermediaries, and has regulatory powers in relation to licensing, inspection, investigation and disciplinary sanctions.
The regulatory regime for Insurance Intermediaries is activity-based. Under section 64G of the IO, a person must not carry on a regulated activity, or must not hold out that the person is carrying on a regulated activity, in the course of business or employment, or for reward unless the person holds an appropriate type of Insurance Intermediary license or is exempt under the IO.
Regulated Activity
Under section 3A(a) of the IO and Schedule 1A to the IO, a person carries on a regulated activity if the person does any of the following:
| ● | negotiating or arranging a contract of insurance; |
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| ● | inviting or inducing, or attempting to invite or induce, a person to enter into a contract of insurance; |
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| ● | inviting or inducing, or attempting to invite or induce, a person to make a decision in relation to (a) the making of an application or proposal for a contract of insurance; (b) the issuance, continuance or renewal of a contract of insurance; (c) the cancellation, termination, surrender or assignment of a contract of insurance; (d) the exercise of a right under a contract of insurance; (e) the change in any term or condition of a contract of insurance; or (f) the making or settlement of an insurance claim; or |
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| ● | giving advice in relation to (a) the making of an application or proposal for a contract of insurance; (b) the issuance, continuance or renewal of a contract of insurance; (c) the cancellation, termination, surrender or assignment of a contract of insurance; (d) the exercise of a right under a contract of insurance; (e) the change in any term or condition of a contract of insurance; or (f) the making or settlement of an insurance claim (such advice is referred to as “Regulated Advice”). |
Types of Licensed Insurance Brokers
The licensing regime under the IO prescribes two types of licensed insurance brokers: licensed insurance broker companies and licensed technical representatives (broker).
| ● | A licensed insurance broker company is a company which is granted an insurance broker company license under section 64ZA of the IO to carry on regulated activities in one or more lines of business, and to perform the act of negotiating or arranging an insurance contract as an agent of any policy holder or potential policy holder. |
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| ● | A licensed technical representative (broker) is an individual who is granted a technical representative (broker) license under section 64ZC of the IO to carry on regulated activities in one or more lines of business, as an agent of any licensed insurance broker company. |
A license granted under section 64ZA or 64ZC of the IO is valid for 3 years or, if the HKIA considers it appropriate in a particular case, another period determined by the HKIA, beginning on the date on which it is granted.
Responsible Officer
Under section 64ZF of the IO, a licensed insurance broker company should appoint a fit and proper person to discharge his or her responsibilities as a responsible officer of the insurance broker company, and should provide sufficient resources and support to that person for discharging his or her responsibilities. Prior approval of the HKIA is required for appointment of the responsible officer.
Transitional Arrangements for Insurance Brokers
To facilitate a smooth transition, all insurance brokers who were validly registered with The Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers or Professional Insurance Brokers Association immediately before September 23, 2019 are deemed as licensed insurance brokers under the IO for a period of three years. The incumbent chief executives of the insurance broker companies are also eligible for the transitional arrangements. The HKIA will, staggered over the three-year transitional period, invite deemed licensees to submit applications to the HKIA for granting of formal licenses and approvals.
“Fit and Proper” Requirements
Under the IO, a person who is, is applying to be, or is applying for a renewal of a license to be, a licensed insurance broker is required to satisfy the HKIA that he/she/it is a fit and proper person. In addition, the responsible officer(s), controller(s), and director(s) (where applicable) of a licensed insurance broker company are also required to be fit and proper persons. These “fit and proper” requirements aim at ensuring that the licensed insurance brokers are competent, reliable and financially sound, and have integrity. Pursuant to the IO, in determining whether a person is a fit and proper person, the HKIA must consider, among others, the following factors:
| ● | the person’s education or other qualifications or experience; |
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| ● | the person’s ability to carry on a regulated activity competently, honestly and fairly; |
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| ● | the persons’ reputation, character, reliability and integrity; |
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| ● | the person’s financial status or solvency; |
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| ● | whether any disciplinary action has been taken against the person by the Monetary Authority, the Securities and Futures Commission, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority; or any other authority or regulatory organization (in Hong Kong or elsewhere) with functions similar to those of the HKIA; |
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| ● | if the person is a company in a group of companies, any information in the possession of the HKIA relating to any other company in the group of companies or any controller or director of the person or of such company; |
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| ● | the state of affairs of any other business which the person carries on or proposes to carry on; and |
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| ● | in respect of an application to be licensed as a licensed insurance broker company or renewal of such license, any information in the possession of the HKIA relating to (i) any current or prospective employees or affiliates of the person, or any other person acting for or on behalf of the person, in each case, for the purposes of carrying on regulated activities and (ii) the question as to whether the person has established effective internal control procedures and risk management systems to ensure its compliance with the HKIA. |
The HKIA also issued the Guideline on “Fit and Proper” Criteria for Licensed Insurance Intermediaries under the Insurance Ordinance (Cap. 41) to further explain the criteria that the HKIA would adopt in determining whether a person is a fit and proper person. In addition, continuing professional development is part of the fit and proper requirement and the HKIA issued the Guideline on Continuing Professional Development for Licensed Insurance Intermediaries to provide guidance for complying with the continuing professional development requirements.
Financial and Other Requirements for Licensed Insurance Broker Companies
A licensed insurance broker company is required to comply with the Insurance (Financial and Other Requirements for Licensed Insurance Broker Companies) Rules (“Broker Rules”), which set out, inter alia, some of the key requirements in relation to:
| ● | Share Capital and Net Assets |
A licensed insurance broker company must at all times maintain a paid-up share capital of not less than $500,000 and net assets of not less than $500,000, subject to the transitional arrangements mentioned above, pursuant which, the insurance broker company is required to maintain the amount of paid-up share capital and net assets of (i) not less than $100,000 for the period from September 23, 2019 to December 31, 2021 and (ii) not less than $300,000 for the period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023.
| ● | Professional Indemnity Insurance |
A licensed insurance broker company must maintain a professional indemnity insurance policy that provides coverage for claims made against the company for liabilities arising from breaches of duty in the course of carrying on its regulated activities.
A licensed insurance broker company that receives or holds client monies must maintain at least one client account with an authorized institution in the name of the licensed insurance broker company in the title of which the word “client” appears.
A licensed insurance broker company must keep, in relation to its business which constitutes the carrying on of regulated activities, where applicable, sufficient accounting and other records (including records relating to the assets or affairs of the company’s clients).
Licensed insurance broker companies are required to file their audited financial statements and auditor’s compliance reports to the HKIA annually, which statements and reports are reviewed by the HKIA annually. Any issue noted or qualified opinion expressed by the auditor will be followed up and where applicable, further actions will be taken as the HKIA considers necessary.
The Broker Rules also provide certain exemptions for the broker insurance companies subject to the transitional requirements referenced above during the specified transitional period in complying with the requirements in relation to professional indemnity insurance, client monies reconciliation and audited financial statements.
Conduct Requirements
Licensed insurance brokers are required to comply with the statutory conduct requirements set out in sections 90 and 92 of the IO. The HKIA also issued the Code of Conduct for Licensed Insurance Brokers (“Code of Conduct”) to set out the general principles, together with the standards and practices relating to each general principle, serving as the minimum standards of professionalism to be met by licensed insurance brokers when carrying on regulated activities.
The general principles that a licensed insurance broker should comply with include:
| ● | acting honestly, ethically, with integrity and in good faith; |
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| ● | acting in the best interests of its clients and treating its clients fairly; |
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| ● | acting with due care, skill and diligence; |
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| ● | possessing appropriate levels of professional knowledge and experience and only carrying on regulated activities in respect of which the broker has the required competence; |
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| ● | providing clients with accurate and adequate information to enable them to make informed decisions; |
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| ● | providing Regulated Advice suitable for the client taking into account the client’s circumstances; |
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| ● | using best endeavors to avoid conflicts of interests and when such conflicts cannot be avoided, and managing them with appropriate disclosure to ensure clients are treated fairly at all times; and |
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| ● | having sufficient safeguards in place to protect client assets received by the broker or which are in the broker’s possession. |
A licensed insurance broker company is required to have proper controls and procedures in place to ensure that the broker company and its licensed technical representatives (broker) meet the general principles, standards and practices set out in the Code of Conduct.
The Code of Conduct does not have the force of law, in that it is not subsidiary legislation, and should not be interpreted in a way that would override the provision of any law. A failure by a licensed insurance broker to comply with the Code of Conduct shall not by itself render the broker liable to any judicial or other proceedings. However, in any proceedings under the IO before a court, the Code of Conduct is admissible in evidence, and if a provision in the Code of Conduct appears to the court to be relevant to a question arising in the proceedings, the court must, in determining the question, take into account any compliance or non-compliance with the Code of Conduct.
Regulation of Mandatory Provident Fund Intermediaries
With the implementation of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Amendment) Ordinance 2012, a new statutory regulatory regime for MPF intermediaries came into operation as of November 1, 2012. Under this statutory regime, only registered MPF intermediaries (such as our operating subsidiary) are allowed to engage in conducting sales and marketing activities and giving advice in relation to MPF schemes.
Under the statutory regime, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (“MPFA”) is the authority to administer MPF intermediaries, issue guidelines on compliance with statutory requirements applicable to registered MPF intermediaries, and impose disciplinary sanctions. On the other hand, the HKIA is given the statutory role for monitoring the compliance of the registered MPF intermediaries. As a frontline regulator, the HKIA supervises the conduct requirements stipulated in the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Cap.485) (“MPFSO”). If the HKIA has reasonable cause to believe that the registered MPF intermediaries may have failed to comply with the statutory conduct requirements, it may exercise the investigation powers under the MPFSO for investigating the suspected non-compliance.
Registered MPF intermediaries must comply with a set of statutory conduct requirements when they engage in conducting sales and marketing activities and giving advice in relation to MPF schemes. The MPFA has issued the Guidelines on Conduct Requirements for Registered Intermediaries to assist the registered MPF intermediaries in understanding how to comply with the conduct requirements.
The minimum standards of conduct that a registered MPF intermediary should adopt include:
| ● | acting honestly, fairly, in the best interests of the client and with integrity; |
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| ● | acting with care, skill and diligence; |
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| ● | advising on matters within competence; |
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| ● | having regard to client’s particulars as is necessary; |
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| ● | disclosing necessary information to the client; |
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| ● | disclosing conflict of interest; |
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| ● | prompt and proper accounting for client assets; |
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| ● | keeping records of regulated activities; |
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| ● | establishing, maintaining and observing proper controls and procedures for securing compliance by the principal intermediary; and |
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| ● | appointing a responsible officer to use his or her best endeavors to carry out specified responsibilities in relation to the principal intermediary. |
Regulation Related to Business Registration
The Business Registration Ordinance (Chapter 310 of the Laws of Hong Kong) requires every person carrying on any business in Hong Kong to make an application to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue in the prescribed manner for the registration of that business, unless it is exempt under the Business Registration Ordinance. The Commissioner of Inland Revenue must register each business for which a business registration application is made and as soon as practicable after the prescribed business registration fee and levy are paid and issue a business registration certificate or branch registration certificate for the relevant business or the relevant branch, as the case may be.
Regulation Related to Employment and Labor Protection
Employment Ordinance (Chapter 57 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The Employment Ordinance (Chapter 57 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the EO, is an ordinance enacted for, amongst other things, the protection of the wages of employees and the regulation of the general conditions of employment and employment agencies. Under the EO, an employee is generally entitled to, amongst other things, notice of termination of his or her employment contract; payment in lieu of notice; maternity protection in the case of a pregnant employee; not less than one rest day in every period of seven days; severance payments or long service payments; sickness allowance; statutory holidays or alternative holidays; and paid annual leave of up to 14 days depending on the period of employment.
Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Chapter 282 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Chapter 282 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the ECO, is an ordinance enacted for the purpose of providing for the payment of compensation to employees injured in the course of employment. As stipulated by the ECO, no employer shall employ any employee in any employment unless there is in force in relation to such employee a policy of insurance issued by an insurer for an amount not less than the applicable amount specified in the Fourth Schedule of the ECO in respect of the liability of the employer. According to the Fourth Schedule of the ECO, the insured amount shall be not less than HK$100,000,000 (approximately $12,900,000) per event if a company has no more than 200 employees. Any employer who contravenes this requirement commits a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of HK$100,000 (approximately $12,900) and imprisonment for two years. An employer who has taken out an insurance policy under the ECO is required to display a prescribed notice of insurance in a conspicuous place on each of its premises where any employee is employed. Any employer who, without reasonable cause, contravenes this requirement commits a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of HK$10,000 (approximately $1,290). We believe that we have taken sufficient employee compensation insurance for our employees required under the ECO.
Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Chapter 485 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The MPFSO is an ordinance enacted for the purposes of providing for the establishment of non-governmental mandatory provident fund schemes, or the MPF Schemes. The MPFSO requires every employer of an employee (other than exempt persons) of 18 years of age or above but under 65 years of age to take all practical steps to ensure the employee becomes a member of a registered MPF Scheme. Subject to the minimum and maximum relevant income levels, it is mandatory for both employers and their employees to contribute 5% of the employee’s relevant income to the MPF Scheme. For a monthly-paid employee, the maximum relevant income level is HK$30,000 (approximately $3,870) per month and the maximum amount of contribution payable by the employer to the MPF Scheme is HK$1,500 (approximately $193). Any employer who, without reasonable cause, contravenes this requirement commits a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of HK$350,000 (approximately $45,200) and imprisonment for three years, and to a daily penalty of HK$500 (approximately $65) for each day on which the offence is continued. As of the date of this prospectus, the Company believe it has made all contributions required of PAM under the MPFSO. We believe that we have made all contributions required under the MPFSO.
Regulations Related to Hong Kong Taxation
Inland Revenue Ordinance (Chapter 112 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
Under the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Chapter 112 of the Laws of Hong Kong), where an employer commences to employ in Hong Kong an individual who is or is likely to be chargeable to tax, or any married person, the employer shall give a written notice to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue not later than three months after the date of commencement of such employment. Where an employer ceases or is about to cease to employ in Hong Kong an individual who is or is likely to be chargeable to tax, or any married person, the employer shall give a written notice to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue not later than one month before such individual ceases to be employed in Hong Kong.
Tax on Dividends
Under the current practice of the Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong, no tax is payable in Hong Kong in respect of dividends paid by the Company.
Capital Gains and Profit Tax
No tax is imposed in Hong Kong in respect of capital gains from the sale of shares. However, trading gains from the sale of shares by persons carrying on a trade, profession or business in Hong Kong, where such gains are derived from or arise in Hong Kong, will be subject to Hong Kong profits tax which is imposed at the rates of 8.25% on assessable profits up to HK$2,000,000 (approximately US$258,000) and 16.5% on any part of assessable profits over HK$2,000,000 (approximately US$258,000) on corporations from the year of assessment of 2018/2019 onwards. Certain categories of taxpayers (for example, financial institutions, insurance companies and securities dealers) are likely to be regarded as deriving trading gains rather than capital gains unless these taxpayers can prove that the investment securities are held for long-term investment purposes.
Stamp Duty
Hong Kong stamp duty, currently charged at the ad valorem rate of 0.1% on the higher of the consideration for or the market value of the shares, will be payable by the purchaser on every purchase and by the seller on every sale of Hong Kong shares (in other words, a total of 0.2% is currently payable on a typical sale and purchase transaction of Hong Kong shares). In addition, a fixed duty of HK$5 is currently payable on any instrument of transfer of Hong Kong shares. Where one of the parties is a resident outside Hong Kong and does not pay the ad valorem duty due by it, the duty not paid will be assessed on the instrument of transfer (if any) and will be payable by the transferee. If no stamp duty is paid on or before the due date, a penalty of up to ten times the duty payable may be imposed.
Regulations Related to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Chapter 615 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The AMLO imposes requirements relating to client due diligence and record-keeping and provides regulatory authorities with the powers to supervise compliance with the requirements under the AMLO. In addition, the regulatory authorities are empowered to (i) ensure that proper safeguards exist to prevent contravention of specified provisions in the AMLO; and (ii) mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks.
Drug Trafficking (Recovery of Proceeds) Ordinance (Chapter 405 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The Drug Trafficking (Recovery of Proceeds) Ordinance (Chapter 405 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the DTROP, contains provisions for the investigation of assets suspected to be derived from drug trafficking activities, the freezing of assets on arrest and the confiscation of the proceeds from drug trafficking activities. It is an offence under the DTROP if a person deals with any property knowing, or having reasonable grounds to believe, it to be the proceeds from drug trafficking. The DTROP requires a person to report to an authorized officer if he/she knows or suspects that any property (directly or indirectly) is the proceeds from drug trafficking or is intended to be used or was used in connection with drug trafficking, and failure to make such disclosure constitutes an offence under the DTROP.
Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Chapter 455 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Chapter 455 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the OSCO, empowers officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department to investigate organized crime and triad activities, and it gives the Hong Kong courts jurisdiction to confiscate the proceeds from organized and serious crimes, to issue restraint orders and charging orders in relation to the property of defendants of specified offences. The OSCO extends the money laundering offence to cover the proceeds of all indictable offences in addition to drug trafficking.
United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance (Chapter 575 of the Laws of Hong Kong)
The United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance (Chapter 575 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the UNATMO, provides that it is a criminal offence to: (i) provide or collect funds (by any means, directly or indirectly) with the intention or knowledge that the funds will be used to commit, in whole or in part, one or more terrorist acts; or (ii) make any funds or financial (or related) services available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of a person knowing that, or being reckless as to whether, such person is a terrorist or terrorist associate. The UNATMO also requires a person to report his knowledge or suspicion of terrorist property to an authorized officer, and failure to make such disclosure constitutes an offence under the UNATMO.
GL3: Guideline on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing
The Guideline on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing is issued by the HKIA, and it sets out the relevant anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) statutory and regulatory requirements. It also prescribes the AML/CFT standards which authorized insurers and reinsurers carrying on long term business, and licensed individual insurance agents, licensed insurance agencies and licensed insurance broker companies carrying on regulated activities in respect of long term business (hereinafter referred to as “insurance institutions” (“IIs”)), should meet in order to comply with the statutory requirements under the AMLO and the IO. Compliance with this Guideline is enforced through the AMLO and the IO. IIs which fail to comply with this Guideline may be subject to disciplinary or other actions under the AMLO and/or the IO for non-compliance with the relevant requirements.
PRC Regulations
Enforceability of Civil Liabilities
Half of our officers and directors are residents of China and a substantial portion of their assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult or impossible for a stockholder to effect service of process within the United States upon us or these persons, or to enforce against us or them judgments obtained in United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States. It may also be difficult for a stockholder to enforce judgments obtained in U.S. courts based on the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws against us and our executive officers and directors.
Our counsel as to PRC law has advised us that there is uncertainty as to whether PRC courts would (i) recognize or enforce judgments of United States courts obtained against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States, or (ii) entertain original actions brought in each respective jurisdiction against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.
Our counsel as to PRC law has further advised us that the PRC Civil Procedures Law governs the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. PRC courts may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the PRC Civil Procedures Law based either on treaties between China and the country where the judgment is made or on principles of reciprocity between jurisdictions.
The PRC does not have any treaties or other agreements with the United States that provide for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. In addition, according to the PRC Civil Procedures Law, courts in the PRC will not enforce a foreign judgment against us or our directors and officers if they determine that the judgment violates the basic principles of PRC law or national sovereignty, security or public interest. As a result, it is uncertain whether a PRC court would enforce a judgment rendered by a court in the United States. Under the PRC Civil Procedures Law, foreign stockholders may originate actions based on PRC law against us in the PRC, if they can establish sufficient nexus to the PRC for a PRC court to have jurisdiction, and meet other procedural requirements, including, among others, the plaintiff must have a direct interest in the case, and there must be a concrete claim, a factual basis and a cause for the suit.
MANAGEMENT
The following table sets forth the names, ages, positions and date appointed of our current board members and executive officers:
Name | | | Age | | Positions | | Date First Appointed |
Huihe Zheng | | | 41 | | Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President | | April 8, 2020 |
Tim Shannon | | | 60 | | Chief Financial Officer | | April 8, 2020 |
Timothy Miles | | | 75 | | Director | | April 8, 2020 |
Huili Shen | | | 39 | | Secretary and director | | April 8, 2020 |
Biographical Information
Huihe Zheng has more than twenty years of experience in investment and wealth management. Mr. Zheng has served as President, Treasurer and Secretary of Sleepaid Holding Co., a company incorporated in Nevada since March 2020, a director of the company since March 2019 and is a principal stockholder of the company. Mr. Zheng has also served as Chairman of Shanghai Dingchan Industrial Co., Ltd., a company primarily engaged in wholesale and distribution of computer equipment and components since he founded the company in November 2013. Mr. Zheng has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Shanghai Hewu Investment Management Co., Ltd., an investment company, since he founded the company in January 2016. Mr. Zheng has also served as a director, Chief Executive Officer and President of 24/7 Kid, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary since March 2020. From 1999 to 2016, Mr. Zheng primarily focused on securities trading in stock markets in China and abroad for his own account. We believe Mr. Zheng’s experience in business management, investment and capital market qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
Tim Shannon has served as the Chief Financial Officer of 24/7 Kid, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, since June 2005 and director of 24/7 Kid from inception until May 2020. Mr. Shannon served as President and Chief Executive Officer of 24/7 Kid from November 1998 until March 2020. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Shannon was an investment advisor with Great Western Securities and Hearn Financial Services in Orlando, Florida. In 1995, he co-founded Shannon/Rosenbloom Marketing, a marketing and investor relations company, with Brian Rosenbloom, a former director of 24/7 Kid and served as its Vice President July 1995 until November 1998. Mr. Shannon spent six years as a system engineer and marketing representative with IBM after graduating in 1983 from the University of South Florida’s Engineering College with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
Timothy Miles has been the president and owner of Happiness Now Hypnosis, a hypnotherapy company, since 2016. Mr. Miles has also served as a director of 24/7 Kid since January 2020. From 1999 through 2016, Mr. Miles was the president of Littlepond Enterprises, Inc., a business consulting firm. Mr. Miles attended the University of California at Davis, but did not receive a degree. We believe Mr. Miles’ decades’ experience in business management and consulting qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
Huili Shen has served as the managing graphic designer at Ctrip Travel Network Technology Co., Ltd., a travel services company, since November 2010. From May 2006 to October 2010, Ms. Shen was an assistant graphic designer at Huiguang Technology Co., Ltd, a software company. Ms. Shen worked as a graphic designer at Haotian Technology Shanghai Co., Ltd., a software company, from September 2003 to April 2006. Ms. Shen graduated from Sanda University with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design. We believe Ms. Shen’s experience in management qualified her to serve on our board of directors.
Director Independence
We are not currently listed on a national stock exchange and not required to maintain a majority of independent directors. However, we believe that Timothy Miles qualifies as an independent director as defined under the rules of the OTCQB Marketplace.
Family Relationships
There are no family relationships among our directors and executive officers.
The Board and Committees
We do not have any independent directors. We are not required to maintain a majority of independent directors or the foregoing committees under the rules applicable to companies that do not have securities listed or quoted on a national securities exchange. Our board of directors does not maintain a separate audit, nominating, or compensation committee. Functions customarily performed by such committees are performed by our board of directors as a whole.
Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings
None of our directors and executive officers have been involved in any of the following events during the past ten years:
| ● | any bankruptcy petition filed by or against such person or any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time; |
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| ● | any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses); |
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| ● | being subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining him from or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities or to be associated with any person practicing in banking or securities activities; |
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| ● | being found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action, the SEC 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; |
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| ● | being subject of, or a party to, any federal or state judicial or administrative order, judgment decree, or finding, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, relating to an alleged violation of any federal or state securities or commodities law or regulation, any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies, or any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity; or |
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| ● | being subject of or party to any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended, or vacated, of any self-regulatory organization, any registered entity or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or organization that has disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member. |
Executive Compensation
Summary Compensation Table
The following table sets forth the cash and non-cash compensation awarded to or earned by each individual who served as the executive officer during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021.
Summary of Executive Compensation Table
Name and Principal Position | | Year | | Salary ($) | | Stock Awards ($) | | Option Awards ($) | | Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings ($) | | All Other Compensation ($) | | Total ($) |
Huihe Zheng | | | 2022 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Chief Executive Officer , President and Chairman | | | 2021 | | | | — | | | | 5,000 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 5,000 | |
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Tim Shannon (1) | | | 2022 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Chief Financial Officer and director | | | 2021 | | | | — | | | | 5,000 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 5,000 | |
(1) | Mr. Shannon received additional compensation for his services as a director. See “- Director Compensation.” |
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End
The Company did not have any outstanding equity awards as of September 30, 2022.
Director Compensation of the Company
Directors received stock compensation in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 in the form of shares of common stock. All directors are reimbursed for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in attending any meeting of the board of directors or otherwise incurred in their capacities as directors. The following table shows for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, certain information with respect to the compensation of our directors:
Name | | Compensation($) |
Tim Shannon | | | 6,000 | |
Timothy Miles | | | 6,000 | |
Huihe Zheng | | | — | |
Huili Shen | | | — | |
On April 12, 2021, the Board of Directors approved an annual cash compensation of $6,000 to each of Tim Shannon, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and Timothy Miles, a director of the Company to retain their services. The annual cash compensation of Mr. Shannon and Mr. Miles is paid on a quarterly basis in advance, commencing on April 1, 2021. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, each of Messrs. Miles and Shannon was paid a cash fee of $6,000.
Employment Agreements
The Company presently does not have any employment agreements or other compensation arrangements with its executive officers.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Three and Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
Related Parties
Name of related parties | | Relationship with the Company |
Siu Ping Lo | | Responsible officer of YeeTah |
Huihe Zheng | | Principal Stockholder, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company |
YeeTah Financial | | A company controlled by Siu Ping Lo |
Ouya Properties Group Ltd. (“OPG”) | | A company controlled by Huihe Zheng |
Related Party Transactions
| (i) | During the three and six months ended September 30, 2022, YeeTah Financial charged YeeTah US$12,993 and US$22,683 (2021: US$18,608 and US$30,218) commission expenses in relation to insurance referral services rendered by YeeTah Financial. |
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| (ii) | During the three and six months ended September 30, 2022, Huihe Zheng advanced US$95,628 and US$165,097 (2021: US$91,186 and US$210,991) to the Company to support its operations. |
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| (ii) | During the three and six months ended September 30, 2022, OPG advanced US$1,817 and US$1,817 (2021: US$ nil and US$ nil) to the Company to support its operations. |
Due to Related Party Balance
The Company’s due to related party balance as of September 30 and March 31, 2022 is as follows:
| | September 30, 2022 | | March 31, 2022 |
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Huihe Zheng | | | 976,357 | | | | 814,748 | |
OPG | | | 1,717 | | | | — | |
YeeTah Financial | | | 7,705 | | | | 3,937 | |
Total | | | 985,779 | | | | 818,685 | |
The due to related party balance is unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
Subscription Receivable Due from a Stockholder
The Company’s subscription receivable due from a stockholder balance as of September 30 and March 31, 2022 are as follows:
| | September 30, 2022 | | March 31, 2022 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 48,718 | | | | 48,718 | |
The due from stockholder balances represent the purchase price for shares of QDM BVI to be paid by Mr. Huihe Zheng. These due from stockholder balances at of the balance sheet dates were unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
We had the following related party transactions for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
| (i) | During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, YeeTah Financial charged YeeTah US$67,878 (2021: US$121,200) commission expenses in relation to insurance referral services rendered by YeeTah Financial. |
| (ii) | During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, Huihe Zheng paid nil (2021: US$240,000) on behalf of the Company for costs associated with the Share Exchange. |
| (iii) | During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, Huihe Zheng advanced US$302,142 (2021: US$385,504) to the Company to support its operations. |
The related party balances were unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
During the year ended March 31, 2022, Huihe Zheng, the Company principal stockholder, forgave $25,641 (2021: $44,872) stockholder advance balance that YeeTah owed to him. Since these were forgiveness of related party loans, the gains from the forgiveness of the loans were treated as capital transactions and the amounts were recorded in additional paid-in-capital.
Our due to related party balance as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 is as follows:
| | March 31, | | March 31, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 814,748 | | | | 552,007 | |
YeeTah Financial | | | 3,937 | | | | 22,907 | |
Total | | | 818,685 | | | | 574,914 | |
The due to related party balances were unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
Subscription Receivable Due from a Stockholder
The Company’s subscription receivable due from a stockholder balance as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 are as follows:
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 48,718 | | | | 48,718 | |
The due from stockholder balances represent the purchase price for shares of QDM BVI to be paid by Mr. Huihe Zheng. These due from stockholder balances as of the balance sheet dates are unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS
The following table sets forth certain information known to us with respect to the beneficial ownership of common stock by (i) each person, entity or group (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of common stock, (ii) each of our directors and executive officers, and (iii) all of our directors and executive officers as a group. The percentage of class is based on 209,993 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of the date of this prospectus.
The following table reflects shares of common stock that may be purchased in this offering by certain of our existing stockholders and their affiliated entities, including HW FUND, a Cayman Islands exempted company, of which Huihe Zheng, our President and Chief Executive Officer is the controlling shareholder, who has indicated an interest in purchasing up to an aggregate of 12,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering, and Willington Capital Limited, a Hong Kong limited company, of which Huili Shen, our director, is the sole shareholder and director , who has indicated an interest in purchasing up to an aggregate of 5,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering.
Name of Beneficial Owner | | Number of Shares of Common Stock Owned Before the Offering | | Percentage of Shares of Common Stock Owned Before the Offering | | Number of Shares of Common Stock Owned Assuming Maximum Offering | | Percentage of Shares of Common Stock Owned Assuming Maximum Offering | | Number of Shares of Series B Preferred Stock Owned | | Percentage of Shares of Series B Preferred Stock Owned | | Number of Shares of Series C Preferred Stock Owned | | Percentage of Shares of Series C Preferred Stock Owned | | Percentage of Aggregate Voting Power Before the Offering | | Percentage of Aggregate Voting Power Assuming Maximum Offering |
5% Stockholders | | | | |
HW FUND(3) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 12,000,000 | | | | 39.7 | % | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 37.8 | % |
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Willington Capital Limited(4) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 5,000,000 | | | | 16.6 | % | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 15.7 | % |
Ruiyin Capital Limited(5) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 3,000,000 | | | | 9.9 | % | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 9.4 | % |
Bakelai Capital Limited(6) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 2,000,000 | | | | 6.6 | % | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 6.3 | % |
Directors and Officers | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Huihe Zheng(3) | | | 158,810 | | | | 75.6 | % | | | 12,158,810 | | | | 40.2 | % | | | 13,500 | | | | 100 | % | | | 531,886 | | | | 100 | % | | | 97.1 | % | | | 43.2 | %(1)(2) |
Tim Shannon(7) | | | 196 | | | | * | | | | 196 | | | | * | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | * | | | | * | |
Huili Shen(4) | | | 167 | | | | * | | | | 5,000,167 | | | | 16.6 | % | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | | | | 15.7 | % |
Timothy Miles(8) | | | 167 | | | | * | | | | 167 | | | | * | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | * | | | | * | |
All officers and directors as a group (four persons) | | | 159,340 | | | | 75.9 | % | | | 17,159,340 | | | | 56.8 | % | | | 13,500 | | | | 100 | % | | | 531,886 | | | | 100 | % | | | 97.1 | % | | | 58.9 | % |
(1) | Each share of Series B Preferred Stock entitles the holder to 100 votes on all corporate matters submitted for stockholder approval. |
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(2) | Each 30 shares of Series C Preferred Stock entitle the holder to 11 votes on all corporate matters submitted for stockholder approval (each share of Series C Preferred Stock is initially entitled to 11 votes for each share of common stock before the Reverse Stock Split). |
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(3) | 12,000,000 shares of common stock directly held by HW FUND, of which Huihe Zheng, our Chief Executive Officer and President, is the controlling shareholder and holds the voting and dispositive power over the shares of common stock held by such entity. The address for this stockholder is Vistra (Cayman) Limited, P.O. Box 31119, Grand Pavilion, Hibiscus Way, 802 West Bay Road, Grand Cayman, KY1-1205, Cayman Islands. |
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(4) | 5,000,000 shares of common stock directly held by Willington Capital Limited, of which Huili Shen, our director, is the sole shareholder and director and holds the voting and dispositive power over the shares of common stock held by such entity. The address for this stockholder is Rm 4F, 15/F, Sunwise Industrial Building, 16-26 Wang Wo Tsai Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. |
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(5) | Erkai Wang is the sole shareholder and director of Ruiyin Capital Limited. The address for this stockholder is Rm 4G, 15/F, Sunwise Industrial Building, 16-26 Wang Wo Tsai Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. |
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(6) | Shimei Zhou is the sole shareholder and director of Bakelai Capital Limited. The address for this stockholder is Rm 4, 15/F, Sunwise Industrial Building, 16-26 Wang Wo Tsai Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. |
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(7) | The address for this stockholder is 2035 Highway A1A, #306 Indian Harbour Beach, FL 32937. |
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(8) | The address for this stockholder is PO Box 30, Dundee, MI 48131. |
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
The following description of our capital stock does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to our Articles of Incorporation and bylaws, as they may be amended from time to time, any certificates of designations through which we may establish the terms and conditions of particular series of preferred stock, other documents governing the terms and conditions of particular securities and applicable provisions of Florida law.
Common Stock
As of the date of this prospectus, we are authorized to issue 200,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of which 209,993 shares of common stock were issued and outstanding. Each share of our common stock is entitled to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders, including the election of directors. Generally, all matters to be voted on by stockholders must be approved by a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by all shares of common stock that are present in person or represented by proxy. Holders of common stock representing a majority of our capital stock issued, outstanding and entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, are necessary to constitute a quorum at any meeting of our stockholders. Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any outstanding preferred stock, the holders of our common stock are entitled to receive ratably all dividends, if any, as may be declared from time to time by our Board of Directors out of the funds legally available. Our Articles of Incorporation do not provide for cumulative voting in the election of directors. Holders of common stock have no pre-emptive or conversion rights and there are no redemption provisions applicable to the common stock.
Preferred Stock
Our Board of Directors has the authority, without action by our stockholders, to designate and issue up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series or classes and to designate the rights, preferences and privileges of each series or class, which may be greater than the rights of our common stock. Of the 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, 1,000,000 shares are designed as Series A Preferred Stock, 2,000,000 are designated as Series B Preferred and 900,000 are designated as Series C Preferred Stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of preferred stock could include dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, redemption rights, liquidation preferences, the number of shares constituting any class or series and the designation of the class or series. Terms selected by our Board of Directors in the future could decrease the amount of earnings and assets available for distribution to holders of shares of common stock or adversely affect the rights and powers, including voting rights, of the holders of shares of common stock without any further vote or action by the stockholders. As a result, the rights of holders of our common stock will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, and Series C Preferred Stock or any other preferred stock that may be issued by us in the future, which could have the effect of decreasing the market price of our common stock.
Series A Preferred Stock
We are authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, none of which was outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. Holders of Series A Preferred Stock are not entitled to receive dividends and are subordinated to our common stock and debt obligations. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into ten shares of common stock after a one-year holding period. In addition, holders of Series A Preferred Stock have the co-sale right and right of first refusal and will not be required to sell their shares of Series A Preferred Stock on the same terms or conditions of a sale by a majority stockholder. However, holders of Series A Preferred Stock do not have any pre-emptive rights or voting rights.
Series B Preferred Stock
We are authorized to issue 2,000,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, of which 13,500 shares were outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is entitled to 100 votes on all corporate matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders. Generally, all matters to be voted on by stockholders must be approved by a majority of the shares entitled to vote. Holders of Series B Preferred Stock are not entitled to receive dividends and are subordinated to our common stock and debt obligations. Holders of Series B Preferred Stock have the co-sale right and right of first refusal and will not be required to sell their shares of Series B Preferred Stock on the same terms or conditions of a sale by a majority stockholder. However, holders of Series B Preferred Stock do not have any conversion rights, pre-emptive rights or voting rights.
Series C Preferred Stock
We are authorized to issue 900,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, of which 531,886 shares were outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. Some of the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions applicable to the Series C Preferred Stock are described below.
Dividend. The holders of Series C Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive any dividends or distributions paid in respect of the common stock on an as-converted basis.
Voting. Except as provided in the Certificate of Designation or as otherwise required by law, holders of Series C Preferred Stock will be entitled to vote, together with the holders of common stock, on an as-converted basis on all matters submitted to a vote of the holders of common stock.
Conversion. Each share of Series C Preferred Stock is convertible into common stock at a conversion rate of 30-for-11 (1-for 11 before the Reverse Stock Split). The conversion rate is subject to proportionate adjustments for stock splits, reverse stock splits and similar events. However, the Company will not effect any conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock if, after giving effect to such conversion, the Company will fail to maintain a freely traded public float of at least 10% of the total shares issued and outstanding of its common stock trading on OTCQB (or a freely traded public float of at least 5% if the Company has a minimum of $2 million in market value of the public float) under the Standards for Continued Eligibility of the OTCQB Standards.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
Upon effectiveness of the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, we will conduct the sale of the securities we are offering on a self-underwritten “no minimum” basis. This offering will be conducted on a best-efforts basis utilizing the efforts of our officers and directors.
Our officers and directors are not subject to a statutory disqualification as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(39) of the Exchange Act. They will rely on Rule 3a4-1 to sell our securities without registering as a broker-dealer. Our officers and directors perform substantial duties for or on our behalf otherwise than in connection with transactions in securities and will continue to do so at the end of the offering, and have not been a broker or dealer, or an associated person of a broker or dealer, within the preceding 12 months, and have not nor will not participate in the sale of securities for any issuer more than once every 12 months. They will not receive commissions in connection with her participation.
We plan to offer shares of our common stock for a fixed public offering price of $0.081, with no aggregate minimum amount being required to be sold. There is a material disparity between the offering price of the shares of our common stock being offered under this prospectus and the market price of the common stock as of the date of this prospectus. We believe that the market price of our common stock at the date of this prospectus is not the appropriate public offering price for the shares of our common stock, because the market price is affected by a number of factors. The principal factors considered by us in determining the final public offering price included:
| ● | the recent trading history of our common stock on the OTCQB Marketplace, including market prices quoted and trading volume of our common stock; |
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| ● | the current market price of our common stock quoted on the OTCQB Marketplace; |
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| ● | the information set forth or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and otherwise available to the investors; |
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| ● | we have not generated meaningful revenue and incurred losses for the past three years, which generated significant accumulative deficits; |
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| ● | we have very limited liquidity and capital resources; |
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| ● | our past and present financial performance and an assessment of our management; |
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| ● | our prospects for future earnings and the present state of our insurance brokerage business; |
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| ● | our history and prospects, and the history and prospects of the industry in which we compete; |
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| ● | the general condition of the securities markets at the time of this offering; and |
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| ● | other factors deemed relevant by the investors and us. |
The final public offering price stated on the cover page of this prospectus should not be considered an indication of the actual value of the shares of common stock sold in this offering. That price is subject to change as a result of market conditions and other factors and we cannot assure you that the shares of common stock sold in this offering can be resold at or above the public offering price.
Certain of our existing stockholders and entities that are affiliated with our officers and directors, including HW FUND, a Cayman Islands exempted company, of which Huihe Zheng, our President and Chief Executive Officer is the controlling shareholder, and Willington Capital Limited, a Hong Kong limited company, of which Huili Shen, our director, is the sole shareholder and director, have indicated their interests in purchasing up to an aggregate of approximately $1.377 million worth of shares of common stock in this offering at the public offering price. However, because indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase, the existing stockholders and their affiliated entities could determine to purchase more, less or no shares of common stock in this offering.
We will keep the offering open until we sell all of the securities registered, or for three months from the date of this offering, whichever occurs first, although we have the right to discontinue or terminate this offering at any time without notice in our sole discretion. There can be no assurance that we will sell all or any of the shares offered. We have no arrangement or guarantee that we will sell any shares.
In order to comply with the applicable securities laws of certain states, the securities may not be offered or sold unless they have been registered or qualified for sale in such states or an exemption from such registration or qualification requirement is available and with which we have complied. The purchasers in this offering and in any subsequent trading market must be residents of such states where the shares have been registered or qualified for sale or an exemption from such registration or qualification requirement is available. As of the date of this prospectus, we do not intend to offer any shares of our common stock registered in this prospectus in any state in the United States; instead we intend to offer our shares of common stock upon effectiveness of this prospectus in the PRC pursuant to applicable laws and regulations of the PRC. However, no legal or natural persons of the PRC may directly or indirectly purchase any shares of our common stock or any beneficial interest therein without obtaining all prior PRC’s governmental approvals that are required, whether statutorily or otherwise. Persons who come into possession of this prospectus are required by the Company and its representatives to observe these restrictions. For the purpose of this paragraph, PRC does not include Taiwan and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
Investors can purchase the shares in this offering by contacting the company. In order to invest, you must execute and deliver to us securities purchase agreement, a form of which will be filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. We will accept payments in the form of cash payments made in United States currency either by wire transfer, personal check, bank draft, or cashier’s check. There is no minimum securities purchase requirement. We expressly reserve the right to either accept or reject any subscription. All accepted subscription agreements are irrevocable. Any subscription rejected will be returned to the subscriber within five (5) business days of the rejection date, without interest or deduction. Furthermore, once a securities purchase agreement is accepted, it will be executed without reconfirmation to or from the subscriber. Once we accept a subscription, the subscriber cannot withdraw it.
Finders Arrangements
We reserve the right to engage FINRA registered broker-dealers for services in connection with introducing qualified investors to us for this offering. As consideration for such services, we may pay such finders a cash fee equal to no more than 8% of the gross proceeds of received by us by any investor connected to us by such finder. We may also pay certain expenses to such finders that are incurred in connection with their services.
LEGAL MATTERS
Certain legal matters with respect to the shares of common stock offered hereby will be passed upon by Jonathan D. Leinwand, P.A.
EXPERTS
The audited financial statements of the Company as of and for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 appearing in this prospectus have been included herein in reliance upon the report of ZH CPA, LLC, an independent registered public accounting firm, appearing elsewhere herein, and upon the authority of ZH CPA, LLC as experts in accounting and auditing.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
We have filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC for our common stock offered in this offering. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement. You should refer to the registration statement and its exhibits for additional information. Whenever we make references in this prospectus to any of our contracts, agreements or other documents, the references are not necessarily complete and you should refer to the exhibits attached to the registration statement for the copies of the actual contract, agreement or other document.
Our fiscal year ends on March 31. We are a reporting company and file annual, quarterly, and current reports, and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any reports, statements, or other information we file at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F. Street, N.E., Washington D.C. 20549. You can request copies of these documents, upon payment of a duplicating fee by writing to the SEC. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference rooms. Our SEC filings are also available to the public on the SEC’s Internet site at http://www.sec.gov. Information contained in or accessible through our website is not and should not be considered a part of this prospectus and you should not rely on that information in deciding whether to invest in our common stock.
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Unaudited Financial Statements for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 | |
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Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30 and March 31, 2022 | F-2 |
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the Three and Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 | F-3 |
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Deficit for the Three and Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 | F-4 |
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 | F-5 |
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements | F-6 |
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Audited Financial Statements for the Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 | |
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Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 6413) | F-15 |
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Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 | F-16 |
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Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 | F-17 |
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Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit for the Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 | F-18 |
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 | F-19 |
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements | F-20 |
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
AS OF SEPTEMBER 30 AND MARCH 31, 2022
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| | September 30, 2022 | | March 31, 2022 |
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ASSETS | | | | | | | | |
Current assets: | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 154,380 | | | $ | 69,658 | |
Accounts receivable | | | 2,014 | | | | 2,474 | |
Prepaid expenses | | | 60,969 | | | | 46,575 | |
Deferred assets | | | 64,003 | | | | 30,000 | |
Total current assets | | | 281,366 | | | | 148,707 | |
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Right of use assets | | | 94,562 | | | | 113,108 | |
Long-term prepaids | | | — | | | | 5,128 | |
Property and equipment, at cost, net | | | 20,004 | | | | 3,700 | |
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Total assets | | $ | 395,932 | | | $ | 270,643 | |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities: | | | | | | | | |
Accounts payable & accrued liabilities | | $ | 7,438 | | | $ | 14,579 | |
Lease liabilities - current | | | 38,481 | | | | 37,551 | |
Due to related parties | | | 985,779 | | | | 818,685 | |
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Total current liabilities | | | 1,031,698 | | | | 870,815 | |
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Lease liabilities – non current | | | 54,324 | | | | 73,800 | |
Total liabilities | | | 1,086,022 | | | | 944,615 | |
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Stockholders’ equity deficit: | | | | | | | | |
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized, 545,386 and 545,386 issued and outstanding, respectively | | | 54 | | | | 54 | |
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized, 209,993 and 209,993 shares issued and 209,521 and 209,521 shares outstanding, respectively | | | 624 | | | | 624 | |
Subscription receivable | | | (48,718 | ) | | | (48,718 | ) |
Treasury stock, 473 and 473 shares at cost | | | (60,395 | ) | | | (60,395 | ) |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 9,618,667 | | | | 9,468,667 | |
Accumulated deficit | | | (10,204,958 | ) | | | (10,035,537 | ) |
Accumulated other comprehensive income | | | 4,636 | | | | 1,333 | |
Total stockholders’ deficit | | | (690,090 | ) | | | (673,972 | ) |
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Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit | | $ | 395,932 | | | $ | 270,643 | |
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AND 2021
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Revenue | | $ | 13,181 | | | $ | 18,608 | | | $ | 22,963 | | | $ | 30,218 | |
Cost of sales | | | 13,181 | | | | 18,608 | | | | 22,963 | | | | 30,218 | |
Gross profit | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
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Operating expenses | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
General & administrative expenses | | $ | 74,822 | | | $ | 75,580 | | | $ | 171,447 | | | $ | 183,703 | |
Total operating expenses | | | 74,822 | | | | 75,580 | | | | 171,447 | | | | 183,703 | |
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Loss from operations | | | (74,822 | ) | | | (75,580 | ) | | | (171,447 | ) | | | (183,703 | ) |
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Other (income) expense | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Finance costs | | | 186 | | | | 64 | | | | 743 | | | | 960 | |
Other (income) expense, net | | | (1,743 | ) | | | — | | | | (2,769 | ) | | | — | |
Total other expense (income) | | | (1,557 | ) | | | 64 | | | | (2,026 | ) | | | 960 | |
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Income(loss) before income taxes | | | (73,265 | ) | | | (75,644 | ) | | | (169,421 | ) | | | (184,663 | ) |
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Net income(loss) | | $ | (73,265 | ) | | $ | (75,644 | ) | | $ | (169,421 | ) | | $ | (184,663 | ) |
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Other comprehensive income | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Currency translation adjustment | | | 1,776 | | | | — | | | | 3,303 | | | | — | |
Total comprehensive income (loss) | | $ | (71,489 | ) | | $ | (75,644 | ) | | $ | (166,118 | ) | | $ | (184,663 | ) |
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Earnings per common stock: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Basic | | $ | (0.35 | ) | | $ | (0.36 | ) | | $ | (0.81 | ) | | $ | (1.08 | ) |
Diluted | | $ | (0.35 | ) | | $ | (0.36 | ) | | $ | (0.81 | ) | | $ | (1.08 | ) |
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Weighted average basic & diluted shares outstanding: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Preferred stocks | | | 545,386 | | | | 545,386 | | | | 545,386 | | | | 548,080 | |
Common | | | 209,520 | | | | 207,553 | | | | 209,520 | | | | 170,831 | |
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AND 2021
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| | | | | | | | Preferred | | Common | | | | Additional | | | | | | Accumulated Other | | |
| | Preferred | | Common | | Treasury | | Stock | | Stock | | Treasury | | Paid-in | | Subscription | | Accumulated | | Comprehensive | | |
| | Stock | | Stock | | Stock | | Amount | | Amount | | Amount | | Capital | | Receivable | | Deficit | | Income | | Total |
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Balance June 30, 2021(unaudited) | | | 545,386 | | | | 207,951 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,443,219 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (9,766,391 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | (431,607 | ) |
Net loss | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (75,644 | ) | | | — | | | | (75,644 | ) |
Share issuance due to reverse-split round up | | | — | | | | 132 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | ) |
Balance September 30, 2021 (Unaudited) | | | 545,386 | | | | 208,083 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,443,219 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (9,842,035 | ) | | | — | | | $ | (507,251 | ) |
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Balance June 30, 2022(unaudited) | | | 545,386 | | | | 209,993 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,468,667 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (10,131,693 | ) | | $ | 2,860 | | | $ | (768,601 | ) |
Net loss | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (73,265 | ) | | | — | | | | (73,265 | ) |
Investment from stockholder | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 150,000 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 150,000 | |
Other comprehensive income | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 1,776 | | | | 1,776 | |
Balance September 30, 2022 (Unaudited) | | | 545,386 | | | | 209,993 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,618,667 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (10,204,958 | ) | | $ | 4,636 | | | $ | (690,090 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Accumulated | | |
| | | | | | | | Preferred | | Common | | | | Additional | | | | | | Other | | |
| | Preferred | | Common | | Treasury | | Stock | | Stock | | Treasury | | Paid-in | | Subscription | | Accumulated | | Comprehensive | | |
| | Stock | | Stock | | Stock | | Amount | | Amount | | Amount | | Capital | | Receivable | | Deficit | | Income | | Total |
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Balance March 31, 2021 | | | 913,500 | | | | 56,268 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 91 | | | $ | 169 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,337,310 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (9,657,372 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | (428,915 | ) |
Net loss | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (184,663 | ) | | | — | | | | (184,663 | ) |
Share offering costs | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (94,173 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (94,173 | ) |
Conversion to common stocks | | | (368,114 | ) | | | 134,975 | | | | — | | | | (37 | ) | | | 405 | | | | — | | | | (368 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Common stock issued | | | — | | | | 16,708 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 50 | | | | — | | | | 200,450 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 200,500 | |
Share issuance due to reverse-split round up | | | — | | | | 132 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Balance September 30, 2021 (Unaudited) | | | 545,386 | | | | 208,083 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,443,219 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (9,842,035 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | (507,251 | ) |
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Balance March 31, 2022 | | | 545,386 | | | | 209,993 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,468,667 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (10,035,537 | ) | | $ | 1,333 | | | $ | (673,972 | ) |
Net loss | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (169,421 | ) | | | — | | | | (169,421 | ) |
Investment from stockholder | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 150,000 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 150,000 | |
Other comprehensive income | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 3,303 | | | | 3,303 | |
Balance September 30, 2022 (Unaudited) | | | 545,386 | | | | 209,993 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,618,667 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (10,204,958 | ) | | $ | 4,636 | | | $ | (690,090 | ) |
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AND 2021
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| | September 30, 2022 | | September 30, 2021 |
| | (Unaudited) | | (Unaudited) |
Cash flows from operating activities: | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (169,421 | ) | | $ | (184,663 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | | | | | | | | |
Depreciation | | | 3,453 | | | | — | |
Net (gain)/loss from write-off of fixed assets | | | — | | | | — | |
Changes in working capital: | | | | | | | | |
Accounts receivable & other receivable | | | 461 | | | | (3,307 | ) |
Prepaid expenses | | | (14,393 | ) | | | 20,601 | |
Accounts payable & accrued liabilities | | | (6,855 | ) | | | 14,253 | |
Due to a related party | | | 3,768 | | | | (40,738 | ) |
Net cash used in operating activities | | | (182,987 | ) | | | (193,854 | ) |
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Cash flows from investing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Purchase of property and equipment | | | (14,628 | ) | | | — | |
Net cash used in investing activities | | | (14,628 | ) | | | — | |
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Cash flows from financing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds borrowed from related parties | | | 166,846 | | | | 210,991 | |
Payments to related parties | | | — | | | | (200,500 | ) |
Share issuance proceeds | | | — | | | | 200,500 | |
Deferred costs related to equity financing | | | (34,003 | ) | | | (23,500 | ) |
Contribution from stockholders | | | 150,000 | | | | — | |
Net cash provided by financing activities | | | 282,843 | | | | 187,491 | |
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EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE CHANGES ON CASH | | | (506 | ) | | | — | |
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH | | | 84,722 | | | | (6,363 | ) |
CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD | | $ | 69,658 | | | $ | 35,605 | |
CASH, END OF PERIOD | | | 154,380 | | | | 29,242 | |
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SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES: | | | | | | | | |
Cash paid for interest | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Cash paid for income taxes | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
QDM International Inc.
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
September 30, 2022 and 2021
1. Organization and principal activities
QDM International Inc. (“QDM,” and collectively with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) was incorporated in Florida in March 2020 and is the successor to 24/7 Kid Doc, Inc. (“24/7 Kid”), which was incorporated in Florida in November 1998. The Company conducts its business through an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary, YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited (“YeeTah”), a licensed insurance brokerage company located in Hong Kong, China. YeeTah sells a wide range of insurance products, consisting of two major categories: (1) life and medical insurance, such as individual life insurance; and (2) general insurance, such as automobile insurance, commercial property insurance, liability insurance, homeowner insurance. In addition, as a Mandatory Provident Fund (“MPF”) Intermediary, YeeTah also assists its customers with their investment through the MPF and the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance schemes (“ORSO”) in Hong Kong, both of which are retirement protection schemes set up for employees.
On October 21, 2020, the Company entered into a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with QDM Holdings Limited, a BVI company (“QDM BVI”), and Huihe Zheng, the sole shareholder of QDM BVI (the “QDM BVI Shareholder”), who is also the Company’s principal stockholder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to acquire all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI in exchange for the issuance to the QDM BVI Shareholder 900,000 shares of a newly designated Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series C Preferred Stock”), with each Series C Preferred Stock initially being convertible into 11 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, subject to certain adjustments and limitations (the “Share Exchange”). The Share Exchange closed on October 21, 2020.
As a result of the consummation of the Share Exchange, the Company acquired all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI and its subsidiaries, QDM Group Limited, a Hong Kong corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of QDM BVI (“QDM HK”) and YeeTah.
The Company was a shell company prior to the reverse acquisition which occurred as a result of the consummation of the transaction contemplated by the Share Exchange Agreement, and QDM BVI was a private operating company. The reverse acquisition by a non-operating public shell company of a private operating company typically results in the owners and management of the private company having actual or effective voting and operating control of the combined company. Therefore, the reverse acquisition is considered a capital transaction in substance. In other words, the transaction is a reverse recapitalization, equivalent to the issuance of stock by the private company for the net monetary assets of the shell company accompanied by a recapitalization. Therefore, the acquisition was accounted for as a recapitalization and QDM BVI is considered the acquirer for accounting and financial reporting purposes. The assets and liabilities of QDM BVI have been brought forward at their book value and no goodwill has been recognized.
Accordingly, the reverse acquisition has been treated as a corporate restructuring (reorganization) of entities under common control and thus the current capital structures of QDM BVI and its wholly-owned subsidiary QDM HK and its wholly-owned subsidiary, YeeTah, have been retrospectively presented in prior periods as if such structures existed at that time and in accordance with ASC 805-50-45-5.
As a result of the Share Exchange, the Company ceased to be a shell company.
On November 3, 2021, the Company acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of QDMI Software Group Limited (“QDMS”), a company incorporated on February 6, 2020 in Cyprus. The Company acquired QDMS through an intermediary holding company, Lutter Global Limited (“LGL”), which was incorporated on July 29, 2021 in the BVI. Before the acquisition, Huihe Zheng was the sole shareholder of QDMS. As part of the acquisition, Mr. Zheng sold all the shares of QDMS to LGL for a consideration of EUR5,000 in November 2021 and at the same time the sole shareholder of LGL, Mengting Xu, transferred all her shares in LGL to the Company for a consideration of USD$1.00. As a result, the Company acquired a 100% ownership of LGL, which, in turn, owns 100% of QDMS. Accordingly, the acquisition has been treated as a corporate restructuring (reorganization) of entities under common control and thus the current capital structures of QDMS and LGL have been retrospectively presented in prior periods as if such structures existed at that time and in accordance with ASC 805-50-45-5.
Going Concern
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which assumes the Company will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business for the foreseeable future. The Company has incurred a loss since inception resulting in an accumulated deficit as of September 30, 2022. Accordingly, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
The ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the Company generating revenue and profit in the future and/or to obtain necessary financing to meet its obligations and repay its liabilities arising from normal business operations when they come due. Management intends to finance operating costs over the next twelve months primarily through financings from the Company’s major stockholder, although the Company may seek other sources of funding, including public and private offerings of securities.
These consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the Company were unable to continue as a “going concern.” While management believes that the actions already taken or planned, including adjusting its operating expenditures and obtaining financial supports from its principal stockholder, will mitigate the adverse conditions and events which raise doubt about the validity of the “going concern” assumption used in preparing these financial statements, there can be no assurance that these actions will be successful. If the Company were unable to continue as a “going concern,” then substantial adjustments would be necessary to the reported amounts of its liabilities, the reported expenses and the consolidated balance sheet classifications used.
2. Summary of significant accounting policies
Basis of Presentation
The Company’s unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements reflect all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring items, which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair statement of the results of operations for the periods shown and are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 29, 2022.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with the U.S. GAAP requires the Company to make certain 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. The reported amounts of revenues and expenses may be affected by the estimates that management is required to make. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Foreign Currency and Foreign Currency Translation
The Company’s reporting currency is the United States Dollar (“US$” or “$”). The Company’s operations are principally conducted in Hong Kong where Hong Kong dollar is the functional currency. The functional currency of the Company’s two subsidiaries, Lutter Global Limited and QDMI Software Group Limited, is the Euro.
Transactions denominated in other than the functional currencies are re-measured into the functional currency of the entity at the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the applicable functional currencies are translated into the functional currency at the prevailing rates of exchange at the balance sheet date. The resulting exchange differences are reported in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The exchanges rates used for translation from Hong Kong dollar to US$ was 7.8000, a pegged rate determined by the linked exchange rate system in Hong Kong. This pegged rate was used to translate Company’s balance sheets, income statement items and cash flow items for both the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
The exchanges rates used for translation from Euro to US$ are as follows:
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| | | September 30, 2022 | | | September 30, 2021 | |
Period-end spot rate | | | EUR 1 = US$0.9783 | | | EUR 1 = US$1.1577 | | |
Average rate | | | EUR 1 = US$1.0353 | | | EUR 1 = US$1.1917 | | |
Certain Risks and Concentration
The Company’s financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and receivables, and other assets. As of September 30, 2022, substantially all of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were held in major financial institutions located in Hong Kong, which management considers to being of high credit quality.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of petty cash on hand and cash held in banks, which are highly liquid and have original maturities of three months or less and are unrestricted as to withdrawal or use.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable represents trade receivable and are recognized initially at fair value and subsequently adjusted for any allowance for doubtful accounts and impairment.
The Company makes impairment loss for bad and doubtful debts based on assessments of the recoverability of the trade and other receivables based on individual account analysis, including the current creditworthiness and the past collection history of each debtor. Impairments arise when there is an objective evidence indicate that the balances may not be collectible. The identification of bad and doubtful debts, in particular of a loss event, requires the use of judgment and estimates, which involve the estimates of specific losses on individual exposures, as well as a provision on historical trends of collections. Based on management of customers’ credit and ongoing relationship, management makes conclusions whether any balances outstanding at the end of the period will be deemed uncollectible on an individual basis and on aging analysis basis. The provision is recorded against accounts receivables balances, with a corresponding charge recorded in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss. Delinquent account balances are written-off against the allowance for doubtful accounts after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.
The Company historically did not have material bad debts in accounts receivable. There were no bad debt expenses for the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 and there was no provision for doubtful accounts as of September 30 and March 31, 2022.
Revenue Recognition
The Company generates revenue primarily by providing insurance brokerage services in Hong Kong. The Company sells insurance products underwritten by insurance companies operating in Hong Kong to its individual customers and is compensated for its services by commissions paid by insurance companies, typically based on a percentage of the premium paid by the insured.
ASC 606 provides for a five-step model for recognizing revenue from contracts with customers. These five steps include:
| (ii) | Identify performance obligations |
| (iii) | Determine transaction price |
| (iv) | Allocate transaction price |
The Company enters into insurance brokerage contracts with customers (insurance companies). Performance obligation for these insurance brokerage contracts is to help insurance company customers to promote, coordinate and complete subscriptions of insurance policies offered by customers.
Under ASC 606, revenue is recognized when the customer obtains control of a good or service. A customer obtains control of a good or service if it has the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from that good or service. The transfer of control of the Company’s brokerage services generally occurs at a point in time on the effective date of the associated insurance contract when the policy transfers to the customer. The insurance policy entered between the insurance company and the insured customer generally contains a cool-off period of one to two months. When the cool-off period elapses and the insured customer does not withdraw from the insurance policy, the policy becomes effective. Once the transfer of control of a service occurs, the Company has satisfied its insurance brokerage performance obligation and recognizes revenue.
Fair Value Measurement
Fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required or permitted to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact and it considers assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.
The established fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. A financial instrument’s categorization within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value as follows:
| Level 1: | | Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. |
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| Level 2: | | Observable, market-based inputs, other than quoted prices, in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. |
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| Level 3: | | Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the assets or liabilities. |
The Company’s financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, due from related parties, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, lease liabilities and due to related party. The carrying amounts of these financial instruments approximate their fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments.
The Company noted no transfers between levels during any of the periods presented. The Company did not have any instruments that were measured at fair value on a recurring nor non-recurring basis as of September 30, 2022.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are recorded at cost, less accumulated depreciation and impairment. Depreciation of property and equipment is calculated on a straight-line basis, after consideration of expected useful lives and estimated residual values. The estimated annual deprecation rate of these assets are generally as follows:
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Category | | Depreciation rate | | Estimated residual value | |
Office equipment | | 3 years | | | Nil | | |
Leasehold improvements | | Shorter of lease term or 3 years | | | Nil | |
Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are expensed as incurred. Gains and losses on disposals are the differences between net sales proceeds and carrying amount of the relevant assets and are recognized in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company evaluates its long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability is measured by comparison of the carrying amounts to the expected future undiscounted cash flows attributable to these assets. If it is determined that an asset is not recoverable, an impairment loss is recorded in the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the expected discounted cash flows arising from those assets.
There were no impairment losses for the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
Leases
Arrangements meeting the definition of a lease are classified as operating or finance leases, and are recorded on the consolidated balance sheet as both a right of use asset and lease liability, calculated by discounting fixed lease payments over the lease term at the rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate. Lease liabilities are increased by interest and reduced by payments each period, and the right of use asset is amortized over the lease term. For operating leases, interest on the lease liability and the amortization of the right of use asset result in straight-line rent expense over the lease term.
In calculating the right of use asset and lease liability, the Company elects to combine lease and non-lease components as permitted under ASC 842. The Company excludes short-term leases having initial terms of 12 months or less from the new guidance as an accounting policy election and recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Taxation
Current income taxes are provided on the basis of net profit for financial reporting purposes, adjusted for income and expense items which are not assessable or deductible for income tax purposes, in accordance with the regulations of the relevant tax jurisdictions.
Deferred income taxes are recognized for temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their reported amounts in the financial statements, net operating loss carryforwards and credits. 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. Current income taxes are provided in accordance with the laws of the relevant taxing authorities. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted rates expected to apply to taxable income in which temporary differences are expected to be reversed or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of changes in tax rates is recognized in the statement of operations and comprehensive income in the period of the enactment of the change.
The Company considers positive and negative evidence when determining whether a portion or all of its deferred tax assets will more likely than not be realized. This assessment considers, among other matters, the nature, frequency and severity of current and cumulative losses, forecasts of future profitability, the duration of statutory carry-forward periods, its experience with tax attributes expiring unused, and its tax planning strategies. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon its ability to generate sufficient future taxable income within the carry-forward periods provided for in the tax law and during the periods in which the temporary differences become deductible. When assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, the Company has considered possible sources of taxable income including (i) future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, (ii) future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carry-forwards, (iii) future taxable income arising from implementing tax planning strategies, and (iv) specific known trend of profits expected to be reflected within the industry.
The Company recognizes a tax benefit associated with an uncertain tax position when, in its judgment, it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination by a taxing authority. For a tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company initially and subsequently measures the tax benefit as the largest amount that the Company judges to have a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with a taxing authority. The Company’s liability associated with unrecognized tax benefits is adjusted periodically due to changing circumstances, such as the progress of tax audits, case law developments and new or emerging legislation. Such adjustments are recognized entirely in the period in which they are identified. The Company’s effective tax rate includes the net impact of changes in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits and subsequent adjustments as considered appropriate by management. The Company classifies interest and penalties recognized on the liability for unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company recognizes stock-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC 718, Stock Compensation. ASC 718 requires that the cost resulting from all share-based transactions be recorded in the financial statements. It establishes fair value as the measurement objective in accounting for share-based payment arrangements and requires all entities to apply a fair-value-based measurement in accounting for share-based payment transactions with employees. ASC 718 also establishes fair value as the measurement objective for transactions in which an entity acquires goods or services from non-employees in share-based payment transactions.
Earnings per share
Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income attributable to holders of common stock by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period using the two-class method. Under the two-class method, net income is allocated between shares of common stock and other participating securities based on their participating rights. Net loss is not allocated to other participating securities if based on their contractual terms they are not obligated to share in the losses. Diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income attributable to holders of common stock by the weighted average number of common and dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during the period. Common equivalent shares are not included in the denominator of the diluted loss per share calculation when inclusion of such shares would be anti-dilutive.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
The Company has reviewed all the recent accounting pronouncements issued to date of the issuance of these financial statements, and does not believe any of these pronouncements will have a material impact on the Company.
3. Deferred Asset
Deferred assets of $64,003 and $30,000 as of September 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022, respectively, represented prepaid professional fees and filing fees. The amounts will be charged against share capital when the respective equity financing is completed.
4. Equity
Reverse Stock Split
On August 10, 2021, the Company effected a reverse stock split of its common stock, without changing the par value per share, whereby each 30 issued and outstanding shares of common stock were consolidated into one share of common stock (the “Reverse Split”). The Company has retrospectively accounted for the change in the current and prior period financial statements that are presented in the condensed interim financial statements.
Common Stock
On April 29, 2021, the Company consummated a closing of a “best efforts” self-underwritten public offering of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Offering”), in which the Company issued and sold an aggregate of 16,708 shares (501,250 shares before the Reverse Split) of its common stock at a price of $12 per share ($0.40 before the Reverse Split) to certain investors, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $200,307. Share offering costs of $94,173 were offset against the share capital in relation to the Offering.
On November 11, 2020, the Company’s board approved to issue an aggregate of 667 shares (20,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of common stock to its directors and officers as equity compensation for services they provided in 2020.
There were no treasury stock transactions during the three and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
Additional paid-in-capital
On July 22, 2022, Huihe Zheng invested additional share capital of $150,000 (HKD$1,170,000) into Company’s subsidiary, YeeTah. The additional contribution was recorded into additional paid-in-capital.
Preferred Stock
On May 17, 2021, upon receipt of a conversion notice from Huihe Zheng, the Company issued 134,976 shares (4,049,254 shares before the Reverse Split) of the Company’s common stock upon conversion of an aggregate of 368,114 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at a conversion ratio of 30 for 11 (1-for-11 before the Reverse Split), pursuant to the terms of the Certification of Designation for the Series C Preferred Stock.
5. Related Party Transaction
Related Parties
Name of related parties | | Relationship with the Company |
Siu Ping Lo | | Responsible officer of YeeTah |
Huihe Zheng | | Principal Stockholder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Company |
YeeTah Financial Group Co., Ltd. (“YeeTah Financial”) | | A company controlled by Siu Ping Lo |
Ouya Properties Group Ltd. (“OPG”) | | A company controlled by Huihe Zheng |
Related Party Transactions
| (i) | During the three and six months ended September 30, 2022, YeeTah Financial charged YeeTah US$12,993 and US$22,683 (2021: US$18,608 and US$30,218) commission expenses in relation to insurance referral services rendered by YeeTah Financial. |
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| (ii) | During the three and six months ended September 30, 2022, Huihe Zheng advanced US$95,628 and US$165,097 (2021: US$91,186 and US$210,991) to the Company to support its operations. |
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| (ii) | During the three and six months ended September 30, 2022, OPG advanced US$1,817 and US$1,817 (2021: US$ nil and US$ nil) to the Company to support its operations. |
Due to Related Party Balance
The Company’s due to related party balance as of September 30 and March 31, 2022 is as follows:
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| | September 30, 2022 | | March 31, 2022 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 976,357 | | | | 814,748 | |
OPG | | | 1,717 | | | | — | |
YeeTah Financial | | | 7,705 | | | | 3,937 | |
Total | | | 985,779 | | | | 818,685 | |
The due to related party balance is unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
Subscription Receivable Due from a Stockholder
The Company’s subscription receivable due from a stockholder balance as of September 30 and March 31, 2022 are as follows:
| | September 30, 2022 | | March 31, 2022 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 48,718 | | | | 48,718 | |
The due from stockholder balances represent the purchase price for shares of QDM BVI to be paid by Mr. Huihe Zheng. These due from stockholder balances at of the balance sheet dates were unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
6. Income Taxes
Hong Kong
Under the current Hong Kong Inland Revenue Ordinance, the Company’s Hong Kong subsidiaries are subject to a 16.5% income tax on their taxable income generated from operations in Hong Kong. On December 29, 2017, Hong Kong government announced a two-tiered profit tax rate regime. Under the two-tiered tax rate regime, the first HK$2.0 million assessable profits will be subject to a lower tax rate of 8.25% and the excessive taxable income will continue to be taxed at the existing 16.5% tax rate. The two-tiered tax regime becomes effective from the assessment year of 2018/2019, which was on or after April 1, 2018. The application of the two-tiered rates is restricted to only one nominated enterprise among connected entities.
The Company did not have current income tax expenses for the three months and six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 since it did not have taxable incomes in these two periods.
BVI
Under the current laws of the BVI, the Company is not subject to tax on income or capital gain. Additionally, upon payments of dividends to the shareholders, no BVI withholding tax will be imposed.
Cyprus
Under the current laws of the Cyprus, the Company’s Cyprus subsidiary is subject to a standard income tax rate of 12.5% on income accrued or derived from all sources in Cyprus and abroad.
US
Under the current Florida state and US federal income tax, the Company does not need to pay income taxes as Florida state does not levy income tax. The federal income tax is based on a flat rate of 21% for the calendar year of 2022 (2021: 21%).
Uncertain tax positions
The Company evaluates each uncertain tax position (including the potential application of interest and penalties) based on the technical merits, and measure the unrecognized benefits associated with the tax positions. As of September 30, 2022, the Company did not have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions.
7. Commitments and Contingencies
Other than an office lease with a lease term of 3 years that the Company entered into in February 2022 as below, the Company did not have significant commitments, long-term obligations, or guarantees as of September 30, 2022.
Operating lease
The weighted average remaining lease term of the operating lease is 3 years and discount rate used for the operating lease is 4.9%.
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2023 | | $ | 21,086 | |
2024 | | | 42,172 | |
2025 | | | 35,143 | |
Total future minimum lease payments | | $ | 98,400 | |
Less: imputed interest | | | (5,596 | ) |
Total operating lease liability | | $ | 92,805 | |
Less: operating lease liability - current | | | 38,481 | |
Total operating lease liability – non current | | $ | 54,324 | |
Contingencies
The Company is subject to legal proceedings and regulatory actions in the ordinary course of business. The results of such proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, but the Company does not anticipate that the final outcome arising out of any such matter will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, cash flows or results of operations taken as a whole. As of September 30, 2022, the Company is not a party to any material legal or administrative proceedings.
8. Subsequent Events
In accordance with ASC 855-10, the Company has analyzed its operations subsequent to September 30, 2022 through the date of issuance of the financial statements and has determined that it does not have any other material subsequent events to disclose in these financial statements.
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of
QDM International Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of QDM International Inc. and the subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, consolidated statements of stockholders’ deficit, and consolidated statements of cash flows for the two years period ended March 31, 2022, and the related notes and schedules (collectively referred to as the financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the two years period ended March 31, 2022, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Going Concern Matter
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations that raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
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.
/s/ ZH CPA, LLC |
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2021. |
Denver, Colorado |
June 29, 2022 |
1600 Broadway, Suite 1600, Denver, CO, 80202, USA. Phone: 1.303.386.7224 Fax: 1.303.386.7101 Email: admin@zhcpa.us
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
AS OF MARCH 31, 2022 AND 2021
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
ASSETS | | | | | | | | |
Current assets: | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 69,658 | | | $ | 35,605 | |
Accounts receivable | | | 2,474 | | | | 2,250 | |
Prepaid expenses | | | 46,575 | | | | 42,526 | |
Deferred assets | | | 30,000 | | | | 70,673 | |
Total current assets | | | 148,707 | | | | 151,054 | |
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Right of use assets | | | 113,108 | | | | — | |
Long-term prepaids | | | 5,128 | | | | — | |
Property and equipment, at cost, net | | | 3,700 | | | | — | |
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Total assets | | $ | 270,643 | | | $ | 151,054 | |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities: | | | | | | | | |
Accounts payable & accrued liabilities | | $ | 14,579 | | | $ | 5,055 | |
Lease liabilities - current | | | 37,551 | | | | — | |
Due to related parties | | | 818,685 | | | | 574,914 | |
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Total current liabilities | | | 870,815 | | | | 579,969 | |
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Lease liabilities – non current | | | 73,800 | | | | — | |
Total liabilities | | | 944,615 | | | | 579,969 | |
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Stockholders’ equity deficit: | | | | | | | | |
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized, 545,386 and 913,500 issued and outstanding | | | 54 | | | | 91 | |
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized, 209,993 and 56,268 shares issued and 209,521 and 55,795 shares outstanding | | | 624 | | | | 169 | |
Subscription receivable | | | (48,718 | ) | | | (48,718 | ) |
Treasury stock, 473 and 473 shares at cost | | | (60,395 | ) | | | (60,395 | ) |
Additional paid-in capital | | | 9,468,667 | | | | 9,337,310 | |
Accumulated deficit | | | (10,035,537 | ) | | | (9,657,372 | ) |
Accumulated other comprehensive income | | | 1,333 | | | | — | |
Total stockholders’ deficit | | | (673,972 | ) | | | (428,915 | ) |
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Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit | | $ | 270,643 | | | $ | 151,054 | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEARS ENDED MARCH 31, 2022 AND 2021
| | For the Years Ended |
| | March 31 |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
Revenue | | $ | 68,969 | | | $ | 123,438 | |
Cost of sales | | | 68,836 | | | | 123,046 | |
Gross profit | | | 133 | | | | 392 | |
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Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
General & administrative expenses | | $ | 376,968 | | | $ | 333,284 | |
Total operating expenses | | | 376,968 | | | | 333,284 | |
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Loss from operations | | | (376,835 | ) | | | (332,892 | ) |
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Other expense | | | | | | | | |
Interest expenses | | | 1,330 | | | | 231 | |
Other income | | | — | | | | (7,004 | ) |
Total other expense (income) | | | 1,330 | | | | (6,773 | ) |
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Loss before income taxes | | | (378,165 | ) | | | (326,119 | ) |
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Net loss | | $ | (378,165 | ) | | $ | (326,119 | ) |
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Other comprehensive income (loss) | | | | | | | | |
Currency translation adjustment | | | 1,333 | | | | — | |
Total comprehensive income (loss) | | $ | (376,832 | ) | | $ | (326,119 | ) |
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Earnings (loss) per share of common stock: | | | | | | | | |
Basic loss per share | | $ | (1.99 | ) | | | (5.89 | ) |
Diluted loss per share | | $ | (1.99 | ) | | | (5.89 | ) |
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Weighted average basic & diluted shares outstanding: | | | | | | | | |
Preferred | | | 546,733 | | | | 411,577 | |
Common | | | 190,170 | | | | 55,384 | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
FOR THE YEARS ENDED MARCH 31, 2022 AND 2021
| | Preferred Stock | | Common Stock | | Treasury Stock | | Preferred Stock Amount | | Common Stock Amount | | Treasury Amount | | Additional Paid-in Capital | | Subscription Receivable | | Accumulated Deficit | | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income | | Total |
March 31, 2020 | | | 13,500 | | | | 55,589 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 1 | | | $ | 167 | | | $ | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,503,807 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (9,331,253 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | 63,609 | |
Net loss | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (326,119 | ) | | | — | | | | (326,119 | ) |
Share issuance | | | — | | | | 667 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 2 | | | | — | | | | 19,998 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 20,000 | |
Preferred stock issuance | | | 900,000 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 90 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (90 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Contribution from stockholders | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 19,947 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 19,747 | |
Forgiveness of stockholders advances | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 44,872 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 44,872 | |
Reverse-split round up | | | | | | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | | | |
Reverse Take-over transaction costs | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (251,024 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (251,024 | ) |
March 31, 2021 | | | 913,500 | | | | 56,268 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 91 | | | $ | 169 | | | $ | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,337,310 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (9,657,372 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | (428,915 | ) |
Net loss | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (378,165 | ) | | | — | | | | (378,165 | ) |
Other comprehensive income | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 1,333 | | | | 1,333 | |
Share issuance for reverse split round-up | | | — | | | | 2,041 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Conversion of preferred stocks to common stocks | | | (368,114 | ) | | | 134,976 | | | | — | | | | (37 | ) | | | 405 | | | | — | | | | (368 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Share offering costs | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (94,173 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | (94,173 | ) |
Shares of common stockissued | | | — | | | | 16,708 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 50 | | | | — | | | | 200,257 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 200,307 | |
Forgiveness of stockholder advances | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 25,641 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 25,641 | |
March 31, 2022 | | | 545,386 | | | | 209,993 | | | | (473 | ) | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 624 | | | | (60,395 | ) | | $ | 9,468,667 | | | $ | (48,718 | ) | | $ | (10,035,537 | ) | | $ | 1,333 | | | $ | (673,972 | ) |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
QDM INTERNATIONAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED MARCH 31, 2022 AND 2021
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
Cash flows from operating activities: | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (378,165 | ) | | $ | (326,119 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | | | | | | | | |
Depreciation | | | — | | | | 335 | |
Non-cash lease expenses | | | (1,757 | ) | | | — | |
Share-based payments | | | — | | | | 20,000 | |
Write-off of fixed assets | | | — | | | | 543 | |
Changes in assets and liabilities: | | | | | | | | |
(Increase) decrease in accounts receivable & other receivables | | | (224 | ) | | | 7,615 | |
(Increase) decrease in prepaid expenses | | | (4,049 | ) | | | (28,854 | ) |
(Increase) decrease in long-term prepaid | | | (5,128 | ) | | | — | |
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued liabilities | | | 9,683 | | | | (14,218 | ) |
Increase (decrease) in due to related party | | | (18,970 | ) | | | (28,447 | ) |
Net cash used in operating activities | | | (398,610 | ) | | | (369,145 | ) |
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Cash flows from investing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Purchase of property and equipment | | | (3,700 | ) | | | — | |
Net cash provided by (used) investing activities | | | (3,700 | ) | | | — | |
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Cash flows from financing activities: | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from related parties | | | 289,556 | | | | 643,921 | |
Share issuance proceeds | | | 200,307 | | | | — | |
Reverse take-over transaction costs | | | — | | | | (251,024 | ) |
Deferred costs related to equity financing | | | (53,500 | ) | | | (70,673 | ) |
Contribution from stockholder | | | — | | | | 19,746 | |
Net cash provided by (used) in financing activities | | | 436,363 | | | | 341,970 | |
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Net increase (decrease) in cash | | | 34,053 | | | | (27,175 | ) |
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Cash and cash equivalents, beginning | | | 35,605 | | | | 62,780 | |
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Cash and cash equivalents, ending | | $ | 69,658 | | | $ | 35,605 | |
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Supplemental cash flow information: | | | | | | | | |
Cash paid for interest | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Cash paid for income taxes | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Non-cash transactions: | | | | | | | | |
Forgiveness of stockholder advances | | $ | 25,641 | | | $ | 44,872 | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
QDM International Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
March 31, 2022 and 2021
1. Organization and principal activities
QDM International Inc. (“we,” the “Company” or “QDM”) was incorporated in Florida in March 2020 and is the successor to 24/7 Kid Doc, Inc. (“24/7 Kid”), which was incorporated in Florida in November 1998. The Company conducts its business through an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary, YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited (“YeeTah”), a licensed insurance brokerage company located in Hong Kong, China. YeeTah sells a wide range of insurance products, consisting of two major categories: (1) life and medical insurance, such as individual life insurance; and (2) general insurance, such as automobile insurance, commercial property insurance, liability insurance, homeowner insurance. In addition, as a Mandatory Provident Fund (“MPF”) Intermediary, YeeTah also assists its customers with their investment through the MPF and the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance schemes (“ORSO”) in Hong Kong, both of which are retirement protection schemes set up for employees.
On October 21, 2020, the Company entered into a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with QDM Holdings Limited, a BVI company (“QDM BVI”), and Huihe Zheng, the sole shareholder of QDM BVI (the “QDM BVI Shareholder”), who is also the Company’s principal stockholder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to acquire all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI in exchange for the issuance to the QDM BVI Shareholder 900,000 shares of a newly designated Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series C Preferred Stock”), with each Series C Preferred Stock initially being convertible into 11 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, subject to certain adjustments and limitations (the “Share Exchange”). The Share Exchange closed on October 21, 2020.
As a result of the consummation of the Share Exchange, the Company acquired all the issued and outstanding capital stock of QDM BVI and its subsidiaries, QDM Group Limited, a Hong Kong corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of QDM BVI (“QDM HK”) and YeeTah.
The Company was a shell company prior to the reverse acquisition which occurred as a result of the consummation of the transaction contemplated by the Share Exchange Agreement, and QDM BVI was a private operating company. The reverse acquisition by a non-operating public shell company by a private operating company typically results in the owners and management of the private company having actual or effective voting and operating control of the combined company. Therefore, the reverse acquisition is considered a capital transaction in substance. In other words, the transaction is a reverse recapitalization, equivalent to the issuance of stock by the private company for the net monetary assets of the shell company accompanied by a recapitalization. Therefore, the acquisition was accounted for as a recapitalization and QDM BVI is considered the acquirer for accounting and financial reporting purposes. The assets and liabilities of QDM BVI have been brought forward at their book value and no goodwill has been recognized.
Accordingly, the reverse acquisition has been treated as a corporate restructuring (reorganization) of entities under common control and thus the current capital structures of QDM BVI and its wholly-owned subsidiary QDM HK and its wholly-owned subsidiary, YeeTah, have been retrospectively presented in prior periods as if such structures existed at that time and in accordance with ASC 805-50-45-5.
As a result of the Share Exchange, the Company ceased to be a shell company.
On November 3, 2021, the Company acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of QDMI Software Group Limited (“QDMS”), a company incorporated on February 6, 2020 in Cyprus. The Company acquired QDMS through an intermediary holding company, Lutter Global Limited (“LGL”), which was incorporated on July 29, 2021 in the BVI. Before the acquisition, Huihe Zheng was the sole shareholder of QDMS. As part of the acquisition, Mr. Zheng sold all the shares of QDMS to LGL for a consideration of EUR5,000 in November 2021 and at the same time the sole shareholder of LGL, Mengting Xu, transferred all her shares in LGL to the Company for a consideration of USD$1.00. As a result, the Company acquired a 100% ownership of LGL, which, in turn, owns 100% of QDMS. Accordingly, the acquisition has been treated as a corporate restructuring (reorganization) of entities under common control and thus the current capital structures of QDMS and LGL have been retrospectively presented in prior periods as if such structures existed at that time and in accordance with ASC 805-50-45-5.
Unless the context specifically requires otherwise, the term “Company” used herein means QDM International Inc. together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries described above.
Going Concern
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which assumes the Company will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business for the foreseeable future. The Company has incurred a loss since inception resulting in an accumulated deficit as of March 31, 2022. Accordingly, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
The ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the Company generating revenue and profit in the future and/or to obtain necessary financing to meet its obligations and repay its liabilities arising from normal business operations when they come due. Management intends to finance operating costs over the next twelve months primarily through financings from the Company’s major stockholder, although the Company may seek other sources of funding, including public and private offerings of securities.
These consolidated financial statements do not reflect adjustments that would be necessary if the Company were unable to continue as a “going concern.” While management believes that the actions already taken or planned, including adjusting its operating expenditures and obtaining financial supports from its principal stockholder, will mitigate the adverse conditions and events which raise doubt about the validity of the “going concern” assumption used in preparing these financial statements, there can be no assurance that these actions will be successful. If the Company were unable to continue as a “going concern,” then substantial adjustments would be necessary to the reported amounts of its liabilities, the reported expenses and the consolidated balance sheet classifications used.
2. Summary of significant accounting policies
Basis of Presentation
On October 21, 2020, the Company’s board of directors approved a change to its fiscal year end from December 31 to March 31, which is the fiscal year end of YeeTah, to align its reporting periods to be more consistent with YeeTah.
The consolidated financial statements of the Company are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”).
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires us to make certain 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. The reported amounts of revenues and expenses may be affected by the estimates that management is required to make. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Foreign Currency and Foreign Currency Translation
The Company’s reporting currency is the US$. The Company’s operations are principally conducted in Hong Kong where Hong Kong dollar is the functional currency. The functional currency of the Company’s two subsidiaries, Lutter Global Limited and QDMI Software Group Limited, is the Euro.
Transactions denominated in other than the functional currencies are re-measured into the functional currency of the entity at the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the applicable functional currencies are translated into the functional currency at the prevailing rates of exchange at the balance date. The resulting exchange differences are reported in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The exchanges rates used for translation from Hong Kong dollar to US$ was 7.8000, a pegged rate determined by the linked exchange rate system in Hong Kong. This pegged rate was used to translate Company’s balance sheets, income statement items and cash flow items for both 2022 and 2021.
The exchanges rates used for translation from Euro to US$ are as follows:
| | | March 31, 2022 | | | | March 31, 2021 | |
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Year-end spot rate | | | EUR1= US$1.1093 | | | | EUR1= US$1.1743 | |
Average rate | | | EUR1= US$1.1627 | | | | EUR1= US$1.1661 | |
Certain Risks and Concentration
The Company’s financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and receivables, and other assets. As of March 31, 2022, substantially all of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were held in major financial institutions located in Hong Kong, which management considers to being of high credit quality.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of petty cash on hand and cash held in banks, which are highly liquid and have original maturities of three months or less and are unrestricted as to withdrawal or use.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable represents trade receivable and are recognized initially at fair value and subsequently adjusted for any allowance for doubtful accounts and impairment.
The Company makes impairment loss for bad and doubtful debts based on assessments of the recoverability of the trade and other receivables based on individual account analysis, including the current creditworthiness and the past collection history of each debtor. Impairments arise when there is an objective evidence indicate that the balances may not be collectible. The identification of bad and doubtful debts, in particular of a loss event, requires the use of judgment and estimates, which involve the estimates of specific losses on individual exposures, as well as a provision on historical trends of collections. Based on management of customers’ credit and ongoing relationship, management makes conclusions whether any balances outstanding at the end of the period will be deemed uncollectible on an individual basis and on aging analysis basis. The provision is recorded against accounts receivables balances, with a corresponding charge recorded in the statements of income and comprehensive income. Delinquent account balances are written-off against the allowance for doubtful accounts after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.
The Company historically did not have material bad debts in accounts receivable. There were no bad debt expenses for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and there was no provision for doubtful accounts as of March 31, 2022 and 2021.
Revenue Recognition
The Company generates revenue primarily by providing insurance brokerage services in Hong Kong. The Company sells insurance products underwritten by insurance companies operating in Hong Kong to its individual customers and is compensated for its services by commissions paid by insurance companies, typically based on a percentage of the premium paid by the insured. The Company adopted ASC 606 for its fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach. There were no material unfinished contracts with customers on the adoption date of ASC 606.
Prior to the adoption of ASC 606, under ASC 605, the basic criteria necessary for revenue recognition were:
| (i) | Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, |
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| (ii) | Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered |
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| (iii) | The selling price is fixed or determinable, and |
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| (iv) | Collectability is reasonably assured. |
Revenue is recognized when the brokerage services are rendered under ASC 605.
ASC 606 provides for a five-step model for recognizing revenue from contracts with customers. These five steps include:
| (i) | Identify the contract |
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| (ii) | Identify performance obligations |
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| (iii) | Determine transaction price |
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| (iv) | Allocate transaction price |
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| (v) | Recognize revenue |
The Company enters into contracts with our customers (insurance companies) primarily through written contracts. Performance obligation for these insurance brokerage contracts is to help our insurance company customers to promote, coordinate and complete subscriptions of insurance policies offered by our customers.
Under ASC 606, revenue is recognized when the customer obtains control of a good or service. A customer obtains control of a good or service if it has the ability to direct the use of and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from that good or service. The transfer of control of the Company’s brokerage services generally occurs at a point in time on the effective date of the associated insurance contract when the policy transfers to the customer. The insurance policy entered between the insurance company and the insured customer generally contains a cool-off period of one to two months. When the cool-off period elapses and the insured customer does not withdraw from the insurance policy, the policy becomes effective. Once the transfer of control of a service occurs, the Company has satisfied its insurance brokerage performance obligation and recognizes revenue.
Fair Value Measurement
Fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required or permitted to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact and it considers assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.
The established fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. A financial instrument’s categorization within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value as follows:
| Level 1: | | Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. |
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| Level 2: | | Observable, market-based inputs, other than quoted prices, in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. |
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| Level 3: | | Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the assets or liabilities. |
The Company’s financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, due from related parties, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, due to related party and lease liabilities. The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, due from related parties, accounts payable and accrued liabilities and due to related party approximate their fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments. For lease liabilities, fair value approximates their carrying value at the yearend as the interest rates used to discount the host contracts approximate market rates.
The Company noted no transfers between levels during any of the periods presented. The Company did not have any instruments that were measured at fair value on a recurring nor non-recurring basis as of March 31, 2022.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are recorded at cost, less accumulated depreciation and impairment. Depreciation of property and equipment is calculated on a straight-line basis, after consideration of expected useful lives and estimated residual values. The estimated annual deprecation rate of these assets are generally as follows:
Category | | Depreciation rate | | Estimated residual value |
Office equipment | | 20% | | Nil |
Leasehold improvements | | Shorter of lease term or 20% | | Nil |
Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are expensed as incurred. Gains and losses on disposals are the differences between net sales proceeds and carrying amount of the relevant assets and are recognized in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company evaluates its long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability is measured by comparison of the carrying amounts to the expected future undiscounted cash flows attributable to these assets. If it is determined that an asset is not recoverable, an impairment loss is recorded in the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the expected discounted cash flows arising from those assets.
There were no impairment losses for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021.
Leases
Arrangements meeting the definition of a lease are classified as operating or financing leases, and are recorded on the consolidated balance sheet as both a right of use asset and lease liability, calculated by discounting fixed lease payments over the lease term at the rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate. Lease liabilities are increased by interest and reduced by payments each period, and the right of use asset is amortized over the lease term. For operating leases, interest on the lease liability and the amortization of the right of use asset result in straight-line rent expense over the lease term.
In calculating the right of use asset and lease liability, the Company elects to combine lease and non-lease components as permitted under ASC 842. The Company excludes short-term leases having initial terms of 12 months or less from the new guidance as an accounting policy election and recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Taxation
Current income taxes are provided on the basis of net profit for financial reporting purposes, adjusted for income and expense items which are not assessable or deductible for income tax purposes, in accordance with the regulations of the relevant tax jurisdictions.
Deferred income taxes are recognized for temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their reported amounts in the financial statements, net operating loss carryforwards and credits. 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. Current income taxes are provided in accordance with the laws of the relevant taxing authorities. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted rates expected to apply to taxable income in which temporary differences are expected to be reversed or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of changes in tax rates is recognized in the statement of operations and comprehensive income in the period of the enactment of the change.
The Company considers positive and negative evidence when determining whether a portion or all of its deferred tax assets will more likely than not be realized. This assessment considers, among other matters, the nature, frequency and severity of current and cumulative losses, forecasts of future profitability, the duration of statutory carry-forward periods, its experience with tax attributes expiring unused, and its tax planning strategies. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon its ability to generate sufficient future taxable income within the carry-forward periods provided for in the tax law and during the periods in which the temporary differences become deductible. When assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, the Company has considered possible sources of taxable income including (i) future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, (ii) future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carry-forwards, (iii) future taxable income arising from implementing tax planning strategies, and (iv) specific known trend of profits expected to be reflected within the industry.
The Company recognizes a tax benefit associated with an uncertain tax position when, in its judgment, it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination by a taxing authority. For a tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company initially and subsequently measures the tax benefit as the largest amount that the Company judges to have a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with a taxing authority. The Company’s liability associated with unrecognized tax benefits is adjusted periodically due to changing circumstances, such as the progress of tax audits, case law developments and new or emerging legislation. Such adjustments are recognized entirely in the period in which they are identified. The Company’s effective tax rate includes the net impact of changes in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits and subsequent adjustments as considered appropriate by management. The Company classifies interest and penalties recognized on the liability for unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense.
Stock-Based Compensation
We recognize stock-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC 718, Stock Compensation. ASC 718 requires that the cost resulting from all share-based transactions be recorded in the financial statements. It establishes fair value as the measurement objective in accounting for share-based payment arrangements and requires all entities to apply a fair-value-based measurement in accounting for share-based payment transactions with employees. ASC 718 also establishes fair value as the measurement objective for transactions in which an entity acquires goods or services from non-employees in share-based payment transactions.
Earnings per share
Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income attributable to holders of shares of common stock by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period using the two-class method. Under the two-class method, net income is allocated between shares of common stock and other participating securities based on their participating rights. Net loss is not allocated to other participating securities if based on their contractual terms they are not obligated to share in the losses. Diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income attributable to holders of shares of common stock by the weighted average number of common and dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during the period. Common equivalent shares are not included in the denominator of the diluted loss per share calculation when inclusion of such shares would be anti-dilutive.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
The Company has reviewed all the recent accounting pronouncements issued to date of the issuance of these financial statements, and does not believe any of these pronouncements will have a material impact on the Company.
3. Deferred Asset
Deferred assets of $30,000 as of March 31, 2022 represented prepaid legal fees. The amounts will be charged against share capital when the respective equity financing is completed. Deferred assets of $70,673 as of March 31, 2021 was charged to share transactions completed in the year ended March 31, 2022.
4. Equity
Reverse Stock Split
In May 2020, the Company effected a reverse stock split whereby each 100 issued and outstanding shares of common stock were consolidated into one share of common stock and each 100 issued and outstanding shares of preferred stock were consolidated into one share of preferred stock (the “2020 Reverse Stock Split”). As a result of the 2020 Reverse Stock Split, additional 391 shares were issued due to round-up effects.
On August 10, 2021, the Company effected a reverse stock split of its common stock, without changing the par value per share, whereby each 30 issued and outstanding shares of common stock were consolidated into one share of common stock (the “2021 Reverse Stock Split”). The Company has retrospectively accounted for the change in the current and prior period financial statements that are presented in the condensed interim financial statements.
Common Stock
On April 29, 2021, the Company consummated a closing of a “best efforts” self-underwritten public offering of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Offering”), in which the Company issued and sold an aggregate of 16,708 shares (501,250 shares before the 2021 Reverse Stock Split) of its common stock at a price of $12 per share ($0.40 before the 2021 Reverse Stock Split) to certain investors, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $200,307. Share offering costs of $94,173 were offset against the share capital in relation to the Offering.
On November 11, 2020, the Company’s board approved to issue an aggregate of 667 shares (20,000 shares before the 2021 Reverse Stock Split) of common stock to its directors and officers as equity compensation for services they provided in 2020.
There were no treasury stock transactions during the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2022.
Preferred Stock
On May 17, 2021, upon receipt of a conversion notice from Huihe Zheng, the Company issued 134,976 shares (4,049,254 shares before the 2021 Reverse Stock Split) of the Company’s common stock upon conversion of an aggregate of 368,114 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at a conversion ratio of 30 for 11 (1-for-11 before the Reverse Stock Split), pursuant to the terms of the Certification of Designation for the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock.
On October 21, 2020, as part of the Share Exchange with QDM BVI, the Company issued 900,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock to Huihe Zheng, the sole shareholder of QDM BVI and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
On October 8, 2020, the Company filed an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation to designate 900,000 shares of its authorized preferred stock as Series C Preferred Stock. The holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock are entitled to receive any dividends or distributions paid in respect of the common stock on an as-converted basis. Holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock are entitled to vote, together with the holders of common stock, on an as-converted basis on all matters submitted to a vote of the holders of common stock. Each Series C Preferred Stock is convertible into common stock at a conversion rate of 30 for 11 (1-for-11 before the Reverse Stock Split).
Additional Paid-in Capital
During the year ended March 31, 2022, the Company did not receive any capital contribution from its principal stockholder for working capital uses.
During the year ended March 31, 2021, the Company received capital contribution of $19,747 from its principal stockholder for working capital uses. The capital contribution was recorded in additional paid-in capital.
On October 21, 2020, as a result of the Share Exchange with QDM BVI, the Company completed a reverse acquisition with QDM BVI. The transaction costs of $251,024 in connection with the reverse acquisition was recorded into additional paid-in capital.
During the year ended March 31, 2022, Huihe Zheng, the Company principal stockholder, forgave $25,641 (2021: $44,872) stockholder advance balance that YeeTah owed to him. Since these were forgiveness of related party loans, the gains from the forgiveness of the loans were treated as capital transactions and the amounts were recorded in additional paid-in-capital.
5. Related Party Transaction
Related Parties
Name of related parties | | Relationship with the Company |
Siu Ping Lo | | Responsible officer of YeeTah |
Huihe Zheng | | Principal Stockholder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Company |
YeeTah Financial | | A company controlled by Siu Ping Lo |
Tim Shannon | | Chief Financial Officer of the Company |
Related Party Transactions
| (i) | During the year ended March 31, 2022, YeeTah Financial charged YeeTah US$67,878 (2021: US$121,200) commission expenses in relation to insurance referral services rendered by YeeTah Financial. |
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| (ii) | During the year ended March 31, 2022, Huihe Zheng paid nil (2021: US$240,000) on behalf of the Company for costs associated with the Share Exchange. |
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| (iii) | During the year ended March 31, 2022, Huihe Zheng advanced US$302,142 (2021: US$385,504) to the Company to support its operations. |
Due to Related Party Balance
The Company’s due to related party balance as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 is as follows:
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 814,748 | | | | 552,007 | |
YeeTah Financial | | | 3,937 | | | | 22,907 | |
Total | | | 818,685 | | | | 574,914 | |
The due to related party balances were unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
Subscription Receivable Due from a Stockholder
The Company’s subscription receivable due from a stockholder balance as of March 31, 2022 and 2021 are as follows:
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Huihe Zheng | | | 48,718 | | | | 48,718 | |
The due from stockholder balances represent the purchase price for shares of QDM BVI to be paid by Mr. Huihe Zheng. These due from stockholder balances as of the balance sheet dates were unsecured, interest-free and due on demand.
6. Income Taxes
Hong Kong
Under the current Hong Kong Inland Revenue Ordinance, the Company’s Hong Kong subsidiaries are subject to a 16.5% income tax on their taxable income generated from operations in Hong Kong. On December 29, 2017, Hong Kong government announced a two-tiered profit tax rate regime. Under the two-tiered tax rate regime, the first HK$2.0 million assessable profits will be subject to a lower tax rate of 8.25% and the excessive taxable income will continue to be taxed at the existing 16.5% tax rate. The two-tiered tax regime becomes effective from the assessment year of 2018/2019, which was on or after April 1, 2018. The application of the two-tiered rates is restricted to only one nominated enterprise among connected entities.
The Company did not have current income tax expenses for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 since it did not have taxable incomes in these two years.
BVI
Under the current laws of the BVI, the Company is not subject to tax on income or capital gain. Additionally, upon payments of dividends to the stockholders, no BVI withholding tax will be imposed.
US
Under the current Florida state and US federal income tax, the Company does not need to pay income taxes as Florida state does not levy income tax. The federal income tax is based on a flat rate of 21% for the calendar year of 2022 (2021: 21%).
Uncertain tax positions
The Company evaluates each uncertain tax position (including the potential application of interest and penalties) based on the technical merits, and measure the unrecognized benefits associated with the tax positions. As of March 31, 2022, and 2021, the Company did not have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions.
7. Commitments and Contingencies
Other than an office lease with a lease term of 3 years that the Company entered into in February 2022 as below, the Company did not have significant commitments, long-term obligations, or guarantees as of March 31, 2022 and 2021.
Operating lease
The future aggregate minimum lease payments under the non-cancellable office operating lease are as follows:
2023 | | $ | 42,172 | |
2024 | | | 42,172 | |
2025 | | | 35,143 | |
Total future minimum lease payments | | $ | 119,486 | |
Less: imputed interest | | | (8,135 | ) |
Total operating lease liability | | $ | 111,351 | |
Less: operating lease liability - current | | | 37,551 | |
Total operating lease liability – non current | | $ | 73,800 | |
The weighted average remaining lease term of the operating lease is 3 years and discount rate used for the operating lease is 4.9%.
Contingencies
The Company is subject to legal proceedings and regulatory actions in the ordinary course of business. The results of such proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, but the Company does not anticipate that the final outcome arising out of any such matter will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, cash flows or results of operations taken as a whole. As of March 31, 2022, the Company is not a party to any material legal or administrative proceedings.
8. Loss Per Share
Basic and diluted net loss per share for each of the years presented are calculated as follows:
Basic loss per share is computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock and dilutive share equivalents outstanding during the period.
| | March 31, 2022 | | March 31, 2021 |
| | US$ | | US$ |
Numerator: | | | | | | | | |
Net loss attributable to holders of shares of common stock— basic and diluted | | | (378,165 | ) | | | (326,119 | ) |
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Denominator: | | | | | | | | |
Weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding— basic and diluted | | | 190,170 | | | | 55,384 | |
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Loss per share attributable to holders of shares of common stock —basic and diluted | | | (1.99 | ) | | | (5.89 | ) |
9. Subsequent Events
In accordance with ASC 855-10, the Company has analyzed its operations subsequent to March 31, 2022 has determined that it does not have any other material subsequent events to disclose in these financial statements.
You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give information that is not contained in this prospectus. This prospectus is not an offer to sell nor is it seeking an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. The information in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of these securities.
Up to 30,000,000 Shares of Common Stock
No Minimum Aggregate Offering
QDM International Inc.
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PROSPECTUS
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, 2022
PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
The following table sets forth the expenses in connection with this registration statement. All of such expenses are estimates, other than the filing fees payable to the SEC.
| | Amount to be paid |
SEC registration fee | | $ | 2,252.61 | |
Accounting fees and expenses | | | 7,500 | |
Legal fees and expenses | | | 79,250 | |
Printing and engraving expenses | | | 5,000 | |
Miscellaneous | | | 10,000 | |
Total | | $ | 104,002.61 | |
Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
The laws of Florida permit the indemnification of directors, employees, officers and agents of Florida corporations. Our Articles of Incorporation and bylaws provide that we shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by Florida law any person whom we may indemnify under that law.
The provisions of Florida law that authorize indemnification do not eliminate the duty of care of a director. In appropriate circumstances, equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will remain available. In addition, each director will continue to be subject to liability for (a) violations of criminal laws, unless the director has reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was lawful or had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful, (b) deriving an improper personal benefit from a transaction, (c) voting for or assenting to an unlawful distribution and (d) willful misconduct or conscious disregard for our best interests in a proceeding by or in our right to procure a judgment in its favor or in a proceeding by or in the right of a stockholder. The statute does not affect a director’s responsibilities under any other law, such as the federal securities laws.
The effect of the foregoing is to require us to indemnify our officers and directors for any claim arising against such persons in their official capacities if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in or not contrary to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company under Florida law or otherwise, we have been advised the opinion of the SEC is that such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
On January 22, 2020, 24/7 Kid converted its outstanding convertible notes including principal and accrued interest in the aggregate amount of $271,642 into 339,553 shares of common stock at a conversion price of $.8 per share.
On February 11, 2020, 24/7 Kid issued 1,040,000 shares of common stock to Timothy Shannon in lieu of accrued compensation. On February 13, 2020, 24/7 Kid cancelled 330,000 shares of common stock issued to Timothy Shannon.
The securities issued in the above transactions were issued pursuant to an exemption from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
On February 11, 2020, 24/7 Kid converted 100,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock into 100,000 shares of common stock. The issuance was made in reliance upon the exemption from registration under Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act.
On April 8, 2020, upon effectiveness of the Merger, we issued an aggregate of 1,667,658 shares of common stock and 13,500 shares of Series B Preferred Stock to the stockholders of 24/7 Kid in exchange for shares of common stock and Series B Preferred Stock of 24/7 Kid on a one-for-one basis.
On October 21, 2020, upon closing of the Share Exchange, we issued an aggregate of 900,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock to the QDM BVI Shareholder, with each share of Series C Preferred Stock initially being convertible into 11 shares of our common stock, subject to certain adjustments and limitations.
On November 11, 2020, we issued 20,000 shares of common stock to our directors and executive officers, with 5,000 shares of common stock issued to each person, for their services rendered as directors and executive officers for 2020.
The issuances of shares of Series C Preferred Stock and shares of common stock to our directors and executive officers were in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof.
On February 5, 2021, we entered into the Agreement with HeWuHuiYing. Pursuant to the Agreement with HeWuHuiYing, HeWuHuiYing will promote our brand, products and services in mainland China, including business development, market researches, referral and selection of business partners and clients, customer services and other related services. In consideration for such services, we agreed to issue to HeWuHuiYing an aggregate of 50,000 Compensation Shares (1,500,000 Compensation Shares before the Reverse Stock Split) (subject to equitable adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and the like, including to account for any equity securities into which such shares are exchanged or converted; provided, however, HeWuHuiYing shall only be entitled to (i) 50% of the Compensation Shares if we achieve a revenue of at least US$4 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022; and (ii) the remaining 50% of the Compensation Shares if we achieve a revenue of at least US$6 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023. The determination of whether or not the performance targets are achieved shall be based on our audited financial statements for the applicable period. The foregoing performance targets shall be met on an all-or-nothing basis, and there shall be no partial issuance. Upon satisfaction of the performance targets, the applicable portion of the Compensation Shares shall be issued to HeWuHuiYing in four equal installments on a quarterly basis beginning on the date of determination that the applicable target is met.
The issuance of the Compensation Shares will be in reliance upon an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof.
On May 17, 2021, upon receipt of a conversion notice from holders of the Series C Preferred Stock, the Company issued 134,975 shares (4,049,254 shares before the Reverse Stock Split) of the common stock, upon conversion of an aggregate of 368,114 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, at a conversion ratio of 30-for-11 (1-for 11 before the Reverse Stock Split), pursuant to the terms of the Certification of Designation for the Series C Preferred Stock. The issuance of shares of common stock upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock was deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act, in reliance on Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act.
Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
Exhibit No. | | Description |
2.1+* | | Share Exchange Agreement, dated October 21, 2020, by and among QDM International Inc., QDM Holdings Limited and Huihe Zheng, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 27, 2020 |
3.1* | | Articles of Incorporation, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12G3 filed on May 1, 2020 |
3.2* | | Articles of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of QDM International Inc., incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12G3 filed on August 16, 2021 |
3.3* | | Certification of Designation of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock filed on October 8, 2020, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 27, 2020 |
3.4* | | Bylaws, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K12G3 filed on May 1, 2020 |
5.1** | | Opinion of Jonathan D. Leinwand, P.A. |
10.1++* | | Broker Agreement dated November 16, 2015, by and between Company A and YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited, as supplemented, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 27, 2020 |
10.2++* | | Broker’s Contract, dated October 19, 2015, by and between Company B and YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited, as supplemented, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 27, 2020 |
10.3++* | | Agreement dated November 6, 2017, by and between Company C and YeeTah Insurance Consultant Limited, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 27, 2020 |
10.4** | | Form of Securities Purchase Agreement |
23.1** | | Consent of ZH CPA, LLC |
23.2** | | Consent of Jonathan D. Leinwand, P.A. (contained in Exhibit 5.1) |
24.1* | | Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement) |
101.INS | | Inline XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document |
101.SCH* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document |
101.CAL* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document |
101.DEF* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document |
101.LAB* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document |
101.PRE* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document |
104 | | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
107* | | Calculation of Filing Fee Tables |
* | Previously filed. |
** | Filed herewith. |
+ | The exhibits and schedules to this Exhibit have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Company hereby agrees to furnish a copy of any omitted schedules to the SEC upon request. |
++ | Portions of the exhibit have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K. The Company hereby agrees to furnish a copy of any omitted portion to the SEC upon request. |
Item 17. Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
| 1. | To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: |
| (i) | To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933; |
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| (ii) | To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement. |
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| (iii) | To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement. |
| 2. | For the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
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| 3. | To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. |
| 4. | For the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser: |
| (i) | If the registrant is relying on Rule 430B: |
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| (a) | Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and |
| (b) | Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or |
| (ii) | If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use. |
| 5. | For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective. |
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| 6. | For the purposes of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distributions of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser: |
| (i) | Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424; |
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| (ii) | Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant; |
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| (iii) | The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and |
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| (iv) | Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser. |
| 7. | The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that: |
| (i) | For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b) (1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective. |
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| (ii) | For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers and controlling persons pursuant to the provisions above, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities, other than the payment by us of expenses incurred or paid by one of our directors, officers, or controlling persons in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding, is asserted by one of our directors, officers, or controlling persons in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and we will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Shanghai, China, on December 21, 2022.
| QDM International Inc. |
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| /s/ Huihe Zheng |
| Name: | Huihe Zheng |
| Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| (Principal Executive Officer) |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature | | Title | | Date |
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/s/Huihe Zheng | | President and Chief Executive Officer | | December 21, 2022 |
Huihe Zheng | | (Principal Executive Officer) | | |
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* | | Chief Financial Officer | | December 21, 2022 |
Tim Shannon | | (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | | |
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* | | Director | | December 21, 2022 |
Timothy Miles | | | | |
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* | | Secretary and Director | | December 21, 2022 |
Huili Shen | | | | |
* By
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/s/ Huihe Zheng | |
Name: | Huihe Zheng | |
Title: | Attorney-in-fact | |
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