Quarterly report pursuant to sections 13 or 15(d)

STOCK WARRANTS AND OPTIONS

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STOCK WARRANTS AND OPTIONS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Notes to Financial Statements  
STOCK WARRANTS AND OPTIONS

 

Warrant activity. We issued 266,667 warrants in connection with the sale of common stock during the quarter ended June 30, 2011, respectively. We have accounted for these warrants as equity instruments in accordance with EITF 00-19 (ASC 815-40), Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to, and Potentially Settled in, a Company’s Own Stock, and as such, will be classified in stockholders’ equity as they meet the definition of “…indexed to the issuer’s stock” in EITF 01-06 (ASC 815-40) The Meaning of Indexed to a Company’s Own Stock. We have estimated the fair value of the warrants issued in connection with the sale of common stock at $42,549 for the year ended December 31, 2011, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

 

    Warrants issued year ended December 31, 2011
Expected volatility     146 %
Expected dividend yield     0.00 %
Risk-free rate over the estimated expected life of the warrants     0.0066 %
Expected term (in years)     3.0  

 

A summary of changes in share purchase warrants during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 is as follows:

 

    Common Stock Warrants   Weighted Average Exercise Price
  Outstanding, January 1, 2012       2,017,382     $ 0.43  
  Issued              
  Exercised              
  Expired       (686,429 )     0.40  
  Outstanding, September 30, 2012       1,330,953     $ 0.45  

 

 

Stock options. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, we issued 285,000 and 323,750 stock options, respectively. Stock options issued to members of our Board of Directors were 185,000 and 323,750 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. For our Board of Directors, the stock options were valued at the fair market value of the services performed that resulted in an expense of $8,000 and $12,000 for each nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

 

In July 2012, we issued our Chief Financial Officer 100,000 stock options at an exercise price equal to the closing price of our common stock on the trading day prior to the grant date ($0.25). The stock options granted were calculated to have a fair value of $17,415 using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

 

    Nine-months ended September 30, 2012
Dividend yield     0 %
Expected volatility     118 %
Risk free interest rate     0.33 %
Expected life (years)     3.00  

 

The cost of the options issued to the members of our Board of Directors and our Chief Financial Officer have been classified as share based compensation for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

 

A summary of changes in stock options during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 is as follows:

 

    Stock Options   Weighted Average Exercise Price
  Outstanding, January 1, 2012       615,000     $ 0.36  
  Issued       285,000       0.23  
  Exercised              
  Expired       (522,500 )     0.37  
  Outstanding, September 30, 2012       377,500     $ 0.25