-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, CYpgkfwdX9QZZ6BKfH9hGKyMiveKtJZs2ycAwdtQLSzMvzNFLfqgdoyB00GVXeTi N36NvBxQL4HEbJKrtR+S4w== 0000000000-06-018627.txt : 20061027 0000000000-06-018627.hdr.sgml : 20061027 20060420143657 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-06-018627 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060420 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FOG CUTTER CAPITAL GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001048566 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798] IRS NUMBER: 522081138 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1631 SW COLUMBIA STREET CITY: PORTLAND STATE: OR ZIP: 97201 BUSINESS PHONE: 5037216500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1310 S W 17TH ST CITY: PORTLAND STATE: OR ZIP: 97201 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: WILSHIRE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19971027 LETTER 1 filename1.txt April 20, 2006 Mail Stop 4561 VIA U.S. MAIL AND FAX 1-503-7214-6501 Mr. R. Scott Stevenson Chief Financial Officer Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries 1410 SW Jefferson Street Portland, OR 97201 RE: Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 File no. 0-23911 Dear Mr. Stevenson: We have reviewed the above referenced filings and have the following comments. We have limited our review to only your financial statements and related disclosures and will make no further review of your documents. In our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. After reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. Form 10K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Note 4 - Business Combinations, page F-12 1. We note that you acquired controlling interests in Fatburger Holdings, Inc. and Centrisoft Corporation and consolidate the operations into your financial statements. Tell us how you accounted for the minority interests of Fatburger and Centrisoft Corporation on your Consolidated Financial Statements. Reference is made to ARB 51 paragraph 15. Note 25 - Subsequent Events, page F-31 2. We note that you sold seven stand-alone retail locations subsequent to year end. Tell us what these locations relate to and how you have considered paragraph 30 of FAS 144 in accounting for these locations as held-for sale on your December 31, 2005 Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition and discontinued operations on your Consolidated Statements of Operations. In addition, please tell us the amount of gain or loss recognized on the sale. Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules, page 44 3. Considering your significant investments in real estate assets, we do not understand why you have excluded Schedule III from your Form 10-K. Please explain how you considered the requirements of Rule 5- 04 of Regulation S-X in determining that the schedule was not required or applicable. Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition, page F-4 4. Please advise us why you have not presented a classified balance sheet as required by Rule 5-02 of Regulation S-X or revise your presentation accordingly. Consolidated Statements of Operations, page F-5 5. Please revise the presentation of your statements of operations to comply with Rule 5-03 of Regulation S-X. In doing so, please reclassify gains on sales of investment property and interest earned on non-operating assets, such as cash and loans to executive officers, as non-operating income. Please note the presentation of results on an operating segment basis should be limited to your SFAS 131 disclosure in the notes to the financial statements. * * * * As appropriate, please respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please file your response on EDGAR. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your responses to our comments. We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to be certain that they have provided all information investors require for an informed decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company`s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made. In connection with responding to our comments, please provide, in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that: * the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; * staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filings; and * the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. In addition, please be advised that the Division of Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filings or in response to our comments on your filings. You may contact Kelly McCusker, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551- 3433 or the undersigned at (202) 551-3403 if you have questions. Sincerely, Steven Jacobs Branch Chief Mr. Stevenson Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc. April 20, 2006 Page 1 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----