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Accounting Rules
Form and Content of Financial Statements

Regulation S-X





Rule 3-11 -- Financial Statements of an Inactive Registrant


If a registrant is an inactive entity as defined below, the financial statements required by this regulation for purposes of reports pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 may be unaudited. An inactive entity is one meeting all of the following conditions:

    (a) Gross receipts from all sources for the fiscal year are not in excess of $100,000;


    (b) The registrant has not purchased or sold any of its own stock, granted options therefore, or levied assessments upon outstanding stock;


    (c) Expenditures for all purposes for the fiscal year are not in excess of $100,000;


    (d) No material change in the business has occurred during the fiscal year, including any bankruptcy, reorganization, readjustment or succession or any material acquisition or disposition of plants, mines, mining equipment, mine rights or leases; and


    (e) No exchange upon which the shares are listed, or governmental authority having jurisdiction, requires the furnishing to it or the publication of audited financial statements.


Regulatory History


45 FR 63687, Sept. 25, 1980



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