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Accounting Policies, by Policy (Policies)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying financial statements are presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC.

Reclassifications

Reclassifications

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified due to an immaterial correction of an error and for consistency with the current period presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on the reported results of operations. An adjustment for $244,777 has been made to Class A common stock subject to possible redemption and Accumulated deficit as of December 31, 2022 to correct the total amount redeemable to stockholders.

In the Form 10-Q for three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company discovered an error in the Statement of Cash Flows for the presentation of restricted cash. The error was not corrected and persisted in the statements of cash flows in the quarterly reports on 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2023 and September 30, 2023. These errors had no impact on the balance sheets or the statements of operations in those periods. This error is corrected in the statement of cash flows in the Company’s December 31, 2023 audited financial statements.

Emerging Growth Company

Emerging Growth Company

The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

Use of Estimates

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.

Making estimates requires management to exercise significant judgment. Such estimates may be subject to change as more current information becomes available and accordingly the actual results could differ significantly from those estimates. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of a condition, situation or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the financial statements, which management considered in formulating its estimate, could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company did not have any cash equivalents as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

 

Restricted Cash

Restricted Cash

The Company considers all cash to be held for a specific purpose restricted cash. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had $0 and $41,665,974 in restricted cash, respectively. The restricted cash as of December 31, 2022 was intended to satisfy stockholder redemption payments. The cash and restricted cash balances included in the balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, are comprised of the following:

   December 31, 
   2023   2022 
         
Cash  $96,873   $475,870 
Restricted cash   
    41,665,974 
Total cash and restricted cash  $96,873   $42,141,844 
Money Market Funds Held in Trust Account

Money Market Funds Held in Trust Account

At December 31, 2023, the assets held in Trust Account were held in money market funds that invested in U.S. Treasury securities. At December 31, 2022, substantially all of the assets held in the Trust Account were held as cash. The Company’s investments held in the Trust Account are classified as trading securities. Trading securities are presented on the balance sheets at fair value at the end of each reporting period. Gains and losses resulting from the change in fair value of investments held in the Trust Account and interest earned on marketable securities are included in the accompanying statements of operations. The estimated fair values of investments held in the Trust Account are determined using available market information.

Shareholder Redemption Liability

Shareholder Redemption Liability

On December 20, 2022, in connection with the Company’s special meeting held to consider the First Charter Amendment, the Company’s stockholders redeemed 16,211,702 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption at $10.20 per share redemption value, plus a pro rata share of interest earned. Of the total amount redeemed, payments for 2,581,004 shares of Class A common stock totaling $26,481,101 plus a true-up payment of $1,361,646 for a total liability of $27,842,747 were subsequently paid to redeeming stockholders on January 3, 2023. Therefore, a portion of the total redemption payment has been classified as a stockholder redemption liability in the accompanying balance sheet as of December 31, 2022.

Offering Costs Associated with the IPO

Offering Costs Associated with the IPO

Offering costs, including additional underwriting fees associated with the underwriter’s partial exercise of the over-allotment option, consist principally of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs directly related to the IPO. Offering costs, including those attributable to the underwriter’s partial exercise of the over-allotment option, amounted to $12,729,318. This amount was charged to stockholders’ deficit upon the completion of the IPO.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution, which, at times, may exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation coverage limit of $250,000. At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities reflects management’s estimate of amounts that the Company would have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and liabilities:

Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.

 

Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.

Level 3: Unobservable inputs based on the Company’s assessment of the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The Company complies with the accounting and reporting requirements of ASC 740, “Income Taxes” (“ASC 740”), which requires an asset and liability approach to financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts, based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

ASC 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of December 31, 2023 and 2022. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties at December 31, 2023 and 2022. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals, or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.

Deferred tax liabilities and assets are determined based on the difference between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities, using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. Current income taxes are based on the year’s income taxable for federal and state income tax reporting purposes. Total tax provision may differ from the statutory tax rates applied to income before provision for income taxes due principally to expenses charged which are not tax deductible.

The total provision benefit for income taxes is comprised of the following:

     December 31,
2023
   December 31,
2022
 
Current expense  $(94,819)  $(599,159)
Deferred tax benefit        
Change in valuation allowance        
Total income tax (expense) benefit  $(94,819)  $(599,159)

The net deferred tax assets in the accompanying balance sheets included the following components:

   December 31,
2023
   December 31,
2022
 
Deferred tax assets  $607,516   $596,692 
Deferred tax liabilities        
Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets   (607,516)   (596,692)
Net deferred tax assets  $   $ 

The deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 were comprised of the tax effect of cumulative temporary differences as follows:

   December 31,
2023
   December 31,
2022
 
General and administration expenses before business combination  $607,516   $596,692 
Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets   (607,516)   (596,692)
Total  $   $ 

 

In assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which temporary differences representing net future deductible amounts become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax assets, projected future taxable income and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. For the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the valuation allowance was $607,516 and $596,692, respectively.

A reconciliation of the statutory federal income tax provision (benefit) to the Company’s effective tax rate is as follows:

   December 31,
2023
   December 31,
2022
 
Statutory federal income tax rate   21.0%   21.0%
State taxes, net of federal tax benefit   0.0%   0.0%
Valuation allowance   (17.33)%   852.7%
Income tax provision (benefit)   3.67%   873.7%
Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

The Company accounts for its Class A common stock subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480. Shares of Class A common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as a liability instrument and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable Class A common stock (including Class A common stock that features redemption rights that are within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, Class A common stock is classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s Class A common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at December 31, 2023 and 2022, 764,957 and 1,288,298 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ deficit section of the Company’s balance sheets.

The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and adjusts the carrying value of redeemable Class A common stock to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Increases or decreases in the carrying amount of redeemable common stock are affected by charges against additional paid in capital and accumulated deficit.

At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Class A common stock subject to possible redemption reflected in the balance sheets is reconciled in the following table:

Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2021  $178,500,000 
Plus: Accretion of carrying value to redemption value   2,662,553 
Less: redemption of shares   (167,693,708)
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2022  $13,468,845 
Less: Redemption   (5,638,880)
Plus: Accretion of carrying value to redemption value   606,346 
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, December 31, 2023  $8,436,311 
Net Loss per Common Stock

Net Loss per Common Stock

The Company has two classes of shares, which are referred to as Class A common stock and Class B common stock (the “Class B common stock” or the “Founder Shares”). Earnings and losses are shared pro rata between the two classes of shares. Public Warrants (see Note 3) and Private Placement Warrants (see Note 4) to purchase an aggregate of 9,192,500 shares of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share were issued on October 29, 2021. At December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, no Public Warrants or Private Placement Warrants have been exercised. The 9,192,500 shares of Class A common stock underlying outstanding Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants were excluded from diluted net income per share for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 because they are contingently exercisable, and the contingencies have not yet been met. As a result, diluted net income per common stock is the same as basic net income per common stock for the period. The tables below present a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator used to compute basic and diluted net income per share for each class of stock.

   For the Year Ended December 31, 
   2023   2022 
   Class A
common stock
   Class B
Common stock
   Class A
common stock
   Class B
Common stock
 
Basic and diluted net income per share:                
Numerator:                
Allocation of net income  $(1,641,020)  $(895,213)  $(531,288)  $(136,448)
Denominator:                    
Weighted average shares outstanding   4,224,247    2,304,421    17,896,428    4,596,250 
Basic and diluted net income per share  $(0.39)  $(0.39)  $(0.03)  $(0.03)

 

Accounting for Warrants

Accounting for Warrants

The Company accounts for warrants as either equity-classified or liability-classified instruments based on an assessment of the instruments’ specific terms and applicable authoritative guidance in ASC 480 and ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging. The assessment considers whether the instruments are free standing financial instruments pursuant to ASC 480, meet the definition of a liability pursuant to ASC 480, and whether the instruments meet all of the requirements for equity classification under ASC 815, including whether the instruments are indexed to the Company’s own common stock and whether the instrument holders could potentially require “net cash settlement” in a circumstance outside of the Company’s control, among other conditions for equity classification. This assessment, which requires the use of professional judgment, was conducted at the time of warrant issuance and as of each subsequent period end date while the instruments are outstanding. Management has concluded that the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants issued pursuant to the warrant agreement qualify for equity accounting treatment.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09), which requires disclosure of incremental income tax information within the rate reconciliation and expanded disclosures of income taxes paid, among other disclosure requirements. ASU 2023-09 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company’s management does not believe the adoption of ASU 2023-09 will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.

Management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards if currently adopted would have a material effect on the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements.