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Stock Based Compensation
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Compensation Related Costs [Abstract]  
Stock Based Compensation

Note 2. Stock Based Compensation

 

Our Company follows FASB ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation, and uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to calculate the grant-date fair value of an award. At September 30, 2023, our Company did not have an active stock option plan. There was no unrecognized portion of expense related to stock option grants at September 30, 2023.

 

As part of an employment agreement, the Company granted an executive a one-time equity award of 1,000,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock valued at $3,580,000, fair value, which award shall vest in its entirety on August 18, 2024. The fair market value of the restricted stock award was determined based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the grant date and is being amortized on a straight-line basis to general and administrative expense as stock based compensation over the one year vesting term. The Company recorded stock based compensation expense of $420,600 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. To the extent the Company has not established an employee equity compensation plan on or prior to August 18, 2024, the restricted shares may be converted, at the election of the executive, in full or in part, into cash compensation, at a rate of $3.10 per share of common stock, which was the fair market value of the common stock on August 18, 2023, which was the commencement date of the employment agreement. Since the issuance of the restricted stock can be settled in cash, the monthly amortization of the $3,580,000 fair value of the restricted stock grant is recorded as stock compensation payable. If the restricted stock grant is settled in shares of the Company’s common stock, then the stock compensation payable will be reclassified to additional paid in capital.