18 - Sale of Assets of Discontinued Operations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Sale of Assets of Discontinued Operations

As part of the Company’s strategy to focus on its higher growth potential communications business, the Company decided during the first quarter to exit the Government services segment which derived its revenues mainly from contracts with federal government Dept of Defense agencies either as prime contractor or as a subcontractor to another prime contractor. On April 2, 2013, we entered an Asset Purchase Agreement (“Purchase Agreement”) with Blackwatch International, Inc. (“Blackwatch”), a Virginia corporation, pursuant to which we primarily sold our government Dept. of Defense (DoD) contract vehicles for approximately $1.2 million. These assets essentially comprised our Government services segment operations. The Company retained the residual assets and liabilities of Lattice Government services, Inc. The Company recorded a gain of to $521,443 on the sale of these assets during the quarter ended June 30 2013, which represents the excess of the sales price over the book or carrying value of the assets sold detailed in tabular form below:

On April 2, 2013 Company entered into an Asset Purchase agreement With Blackwatch International, Inc as follows :

Consideration received from sale of Government assets:
Cash	$	200,000
Seller notes assumed by buyer		282,456
Note receivable from buyer**		700,000
Total consideration	$	1,182,456
Other Contingencies considerations:
3% of gross revenues on Phase II of an SBIR contract for 24 months if awarded.		–
Pay up to $100,000 for each of the next two years in the event that certain contract are rebid and funded		–
Total consideration received on sale of assets		1,182,456
Carrying value of Lattice Government assets sold (see below)		661,013
Gain (loss) on sale of Government segment assets	$	521,443
Carrying value of assets disposed of:
Goodwill and intangibles	$	842,933
Non-controlling interest		(120,133	)
Deferred tax liability		(61,787	)
	$	661,013

** 3% annum interest rate, 12 equal quarterly installments payments of $61,216.03 over a 3 year period first installment being 7/31/2013 with each successive payment being on the 15th day of the month following close each calendar quarter.

With the Company’s decision to exit the Government services business, the results of operations and cash flows from this business have been classified as discontinued operations.

The following table shows the results of operations of Lattice Government Services segment for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 which are included in the net income (loss) from discontinued operations: 

	Twelve Months Ended December 31,
	2013			2012
Revenue	$	603,616		$	3,243,377
Cost of Revenue		300,033			1,901,592
Gross Profit		303,583			1,341,785
		50.3%			41.5%
Selling, general and administrative expenses		749,086			1,107,967
Amortization expense		80,448			321,792
Income (loss) from operations		(525,951	)		(87,974	)
Interest expense		(10,179	)		(134,073	)
Gain on sale of discontinue operation		521,443			–
Income (Loss) before taxes		(14,687	)		(222,047	)
Income taxes (benefit)		(32,397	)		(129,587	)
Net income (loss) from Discontinued operations	$	17,710		$	(92,460	)

As a result of the decision to exit the Government services business, the assets and liabilities to be disposed of are comprised of the following:

	December 31,		December 31,
	2013		2012
Goodwill		–		690,871
Intangible assets, net		–		232,510
Note payable		–		281,456
Deferred tax liability		–		94,184
Non-controlling interest		–		120,133