-----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, UJ6LBZ1DzuttoPDnvVVf+vEX0SuhVhEElQy5jGZo/yOldVrgFfQZrUHtCzjBd74K CTgOXx6IywAKTNGvPXmgZQ== 0000897101-05-002173.txt : 20061208 0000897101-05-002173.hdr.sgml : 20061208 20051018152312 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000897101-05-002173 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20051018 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INTRICON CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000088790 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS & ACCESSORIES [3670] IRS NUMBER: 231069060 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1260 RED FOX ROAD CITY: ARDEN HILLS STATE: MN ZIP: 55112 BUSINESS PHONE: 6516369770 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1260 RED FOX ROAD CITY: ARDEN HILLS STATE: MN ZIP: 55112 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: SELAS CORP OF AMERICA DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm IntriCon Corporation Correspondence dated October 18, 2005




October 18, 2005

By EDGAR and Facsimile to (202) 772-9218

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Mail Stop 6010
Washington, D.C. 20549

Attn: Mr. Jay Webb, Reviewing Accountant

RE:

IntriCon Corporation
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004
Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2005
File No. 001-05005


Dear Mr. Webb:

        The Company hereby submits the Company’s responses to comments raised in the Staff’s letter, dated October 7, 2005 (the “Comment Letter”). The responses set forth below are numbered and correspond to the comment numbers in the Comment Letter.

Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2004

Item 9-A – Controls and Procedures, page 19

1.   We note your response to prior comment 1, which indicates that “the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide a reasonable level of assurance that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports the Company files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the specified time periods in the Security and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms.” Please revise future filings to clarify, if true, that your officers concluded that your disclosure controls and procedures are also effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that you file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to your management, including your chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. See Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e).






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October 18, 2005
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  RESPONSE:   The Company will revise future filings to clarify that applicable officers concluded that disclosure controls and procedures are also effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Exchange Act are accumulated and communicated to management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, all in accordance with Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e).

Note 4 – Acquisition, page 37

2.   We note your response to prior comment 5. Please address the following additional information:

 

Provide us with a schedule that details the specific assets and liabilities you acquired and fair value for each (please also specifically indicate how the indicated fair values were determined),


 

Tell us the amount of the gain or loss you recognized in 2005 related to the SWT sale, and


 

Tell us the carrying value of the Selas name and technology prior to your 2003 write-off.


  We may have further comments after reviewing your response.

 

Provide us with a schedule that details the specific assets and liabilities you acquired and fair value for each (please also specifically indicate how the indicated fair values were determined),


  RESPONSE:   At the time of the reacquisition in August 2004 the balance sheet of SWT appeared as provided below. The Company reviewed the value of the assets, determined the values were reasonable, and recorded the assets and liabilities at estimated fair market value which in the Company’s estimation was equivalent to the recorded book values. As the balance sheet indicates, cash and cash equivalents represented over half of the asset value. The Company paid the French courts $10,508, recording a gain of $683,630 as reported in Footnote 4 of the Company’s Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the 2004 Annual Report in accordance with paragraphs 44 and 45 of Financial Accounting Standards (“FAS”) 141 “Business Combinations.”






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October 18, 2005
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Assets US$ Liabilities US$

Current assets          Current liabilities         

    Cash and cash equivalents   $ 560,628       Trade accounts payable   $ 101,206  

    Trade accounts receivable    181,399       Intercompany accounts payable    1,349  

    Intercompany receivables           Accrued liabilities    40,903  

    Inventories    188,744       Customer advance payments    70,052  

    Vendor advances on contracts           Other current liabilities            153,018  

    Other current assets            83,963           Total current liabilities    366,528  

        Total current assets    1,014,734  

           Shareholders’ equity       

Net property, plant, equipment            45,932       Common or capital shares    956,994  

         Total assets    1,060,666       Retained earnings (deficit)    41,954  

                Translation adjustment            (304,810 )

                    Total shareholders’ equity    694,138  

 

             Total liabilities and shareholders’
    Equity
    1,060,666  


 

Tell us the amount of the gain or loss you recognized in 2005 related to the SWT sale, and


  RESPONSE:   As specified in the Asset Purchase Agreement between the Company and Selas Heat Technology Company LLC (Buyer), the Buyer purchased substantially all of the assets of the Company’s heat technology, including all of the outstanding stock of SWT. The aggregate purchase price paid to the Company for its heat technology assets included assets of SWT, among other heat technology assets located at multiple sites. As such, given the aggregate nature of the purchase price paid for the heat technology business assets, a gain or loss specifically identifiable to the SWT operation cannot be determined.

 

Tell us the carrying value of the Selas name and technology prior to your 2003 write-off.


  RESPONSE:   Footnote 3 of the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-Q for the third quarter of 2003 reflected a loss on the abandonment of the European assets which consisted of Selas SAS and its subsidiaries in the amount of $2,176,929. The assets and liabilities of SWT were embedded in the details of that loss. A summary of the SWT balance sheet that was written off the books of the Company at the time of the abandonment is as follows. Note that no specific values were indicated for the Selas name or technology.






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October 18, 2005
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Assets US$ Liabilities US$

Current assets          Current liabilities         

    Cash and cash equivalents   $ 349,905       Trade accounts payable   $ 425,883  

    Trade accounts receivable    539,172       Intercompany accounts payable    301,413  

    Intercompany receivables    613,914       Accrued liabilities    41,439  

    Inventories    146,401       Income taxes    19,781  

    Vendor advances on contracts    306,766       Other current liabilities            79,356  

    Other current assets            9,798           Total current liabilities    867,872  

        Total current assets    1,965,956  

          Shareholders’ equity        

Net property, plant, equipment            57,527       Common or capital shares    956,994  

        Total assets    2,023,483       Retained earnings (deficit)    (113,624 )

                Translation adjustment            312,241  

                    Total shareholders’ equity    1,155,611  

 

            Total liabilities and shareholders’
        Equity
    2,023,483  


Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005

Note 4 – Discontinued Operations, page 9

3.   We see that you recorded a purchase price adjustment of $352,000 related to the heat technology segment sale. Please tell us and revise future filings to describe the nature of this adjustment and explain how the adjustment was determined.

  RESPONSE:   As specified in Section 2.2 to the Asset Purchase Agreement between the Company and the Selas Heat Technology Company LLC (Buyer), “in the event that the Net Total Assets as of the Closing Date is less than the Target Net Total Assets of $2,430,000, the Purchase Price shall be reduced by the amount by which the Target Net Total Assets exceeds the Closing Net Total Assets which is the final calculation of the difference between the book value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed. In the event that the Closing Net Total Assets is more than the Target Net Total Assets, the Purchase Price shall be increased by the amount by which the Closing Net Total Assets exceeds the Target Net Total Assets. The adjustment to the Purchase price affected by this Section is referred to as the Purchase Price Adjustment.”






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  In July, 2005, the Company calculated a final purchase price adjustment related to the heat technology segment sale pursuant to the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement indicated above. Such adjustment, which unfavorably impacted the gain on sale, was comprised of $225,000 for a tax liability discovered at the heat technology segment’s German subsidiary, and $127,255 in miscellaneous liabilities previously unrecorded on the heat technology segment’s balance sheet.

  The previously unrecorded German tax liability, as well as the miscellaneous other liabilities, were discovered through an audit conducted by Buyer’s accountants on the closing balance sheet of the heat technology segment subsequent to the acquisition of such business by Buyer.

  To the extent that any further adjustments are recorded, the Company will revise future filings to describe the nature of the adjustment and how such adjustment was determined. The Company does not believe that further adjustments will be material to the financial statements.



The Company acknowledges that:

The Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;


Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; 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.


If any member of the Staff has questions, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at (651) 604-9638.

Sincerely,

/s/   William J. Kullback

William J. Kullback
Chief Financial Officer

CC:
Mark S. Gorder, CEO
Francis E. Dehel, Counsel
Christin R. Cerullo, Counsel
Nicholas A. Giordano, Audit Committee Chair




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