Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Warrant Liabilities

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Warrant Liabilities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
WARRANT LIABILITIES

NOTE 6 – WARRANT LIABILITIES

 

On September 17, 2021, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 4,800,000 Units at a price of $5.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $24,000,000, with each Unit consisting of one share of common stock, $0.0001 par value, and one redeemable Public Warrant. Each redeemable Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of common stock at a price of $6.25 per share which will expire five years from issuance.

 

Simultaneously with the consummation of the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company issued the underwriters a total of 240,000 Representative Warrants that are exercisable for six months from the date of its Initial Public Offering at an exercise price of $6.25 with a five-year expiration term.

 

The Company evaluated the Public and Representative Warrants (collectively, the “Warrants”) as either equity-classified or liability-classified instruments based on an assessment of the warrants’ specific terms and applicable authoritative guidance in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (“ASC 480”) and ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (“ASC 815”). The assessment considers whether the warrants are freestanding financial instruments pursuant to ASC 480, meet the definition of a liability pursuant to ASC 480, and whether the warrants meet all of the requirements for equity classification under ASC 815, including whether the warrants are indexed to the Company’s own common stock, among other conditions for equity classification. Pursuant to such evaluation, the Company further evaluated the Warrants under ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging — Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity, and concluded that the Warrants do not meet the criteria to be classified in stockholders’ equity.

 

Certain adjustments to the settlement amount of the Warrants are based on a variable that is not an input to the fair value of an option as defined under ASC 815 — 40, and thus the Warrants are not considered indexed to the Company’s own stock and not eligible for an exception from derivative accounting. The accounting treatment of derivative financial instruments requires that the Company record a derivative liability upon issuance of the Warrants at the closing of the Initial Public Offering. Accordingly, the Company classifies each Warrant as a liability at its fair value, with subsequent changes in their respective fair values recognized in the statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss) at each reporting date.

 

During November 2021, 1,120,000 public warrants were exercised at a price of $6.25 per share for total proceeds of $7,000,000. As of December 31, 2021, the fair value of the Public Warrants was approximately $0.37 per Public Warrant which was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions: exercise price of $6.25, dividend yield of 0%, term of 5 years, volatility of 61.1%, and risk-free rate of 1.22%. The fair value of the Representatives’ Warrants was approximately $0.38 per Representative Warrant which was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions: exercise price of $6.00, dividend yield of 0%, term of 5 years, volatility of 61.1%, and risk-free rate of 1.22%.