Position: I believe it is obvious that this agreement is applicable to the treatment of ASC 730-20 as a research and development arrangement based on ASC 730-20-20’s definitions. It now becomes important to determine the nature of the obligation and distinguish if the funding is a liability to repay the PEI or an obligation to perform contractual services. According to ASC 730-20-25-4, “To conclude that a liability does not exist, the transfer of the financial risk involved with research and development from the entity to the other parties must be substantive and genuine.” You can then look to ASC 730-20-25-6 for the four conditions that will lead to the presumption that the entity will repay the other party. If any of these conditions are met, the funding would create a liability. The fact that Pharmagen has no indent to repay the…
Direct Drugs Inc. (Direct) has created a plan for the acquisition of SolvGen Inc. (SolvGen), which is a publicly owned company. Direct has engaged an audit team to review agreement and procedures dealing with two separate material agreements. The first agreement is a research and development agreement and the second is a licensing and distribution agreement. The contract states that SolvGen entered into a five year research and development agreement with Careway Pharma Inc. on January 1, 2010. The agreement states that SolvGen will use its best efforts to develop a proprietary instrument system. They are expected to be ready for launch in the near future. SolvGen and Careway also entered in an agreement for a five year license and distribution. This agreement was entered in on January 1, 2010 as well. The terms of the research and development agreement state that SolvGen holds all intellectual rights that correspond with the research and development of the contract. Also with this agreement SolvGen is entitled to nonrefundable milestone payments from Careway and they are as follows:…
1. Since there is no obligation to the nonrefundable repayment of the $500 million of funding and Pharma retains intellectual rights (no financial risk for Pharma as per ASC 730-20-25-4), it can be seen as a Research and Development and expensed as incurred according to ASC 730-20-35-1 because no future service can be made. The funding for product X is specified by the investor to be used only for R&D of product X which is not commercialized and not for a future project. The royalties that come from product X are not for a defined period. Product Y is for a defined period. In both cases, both aren’t measured as to how much royalties will be received and whether it can be estimated. Unless there is royalties, the investor gets nothing Since royalties aren’t measurable and are obligations only if product is developed and entity actually receives it, R&D are expensed as incurred for product X as R&D. Incremental funding has the same appearance to be expensed because no future obligation is required.…
These royalties represents a form of contingent payment. The agreement does not specify that Pharmagen is committed to repay a liability but the conditions of the case infers this and can be argued that Pharmagen is committed to repay since the investors (PEI) are entitled to these royalties. Also an entity that is a party to an arrangement through which R&D is funded by other parties usually incurs an obligation when it enters into an agreement; which in this case the obligation is the royalties to PEI (investor). It would appear as if PEI (investors) is seeking some additional form of payment guarantees (royalty payments) for the use of the asset (ASC 730-20-05). Pharmagen is not transferring all financial risk involved with R&D to PEI. According to ASC 730-20-25 in order to consider this not to be a liability the financial risk involved from the entity to the other parties must be substantive and…
Pharmagen should recognize the royalty that it owes the PEI for future royalties associated with an existing…
GlaxoSmithKline is a U.K.-based pharmaceutical powerhouse formed by a merger in the late 90’s, with the most important merger being that between Glaxo Wellcome and Smith Kline Beecham. The merger created a pharmaceutical industry giant with operations in over 100 countries and annual sales over $25 billion. In the U.S. alone, prescription drugs account for 10% of all medical costs with sales tripling over the past decade and price increases of 150 percent.…
* • Partnership with Pharma. As is almost always the case in biotech, the team was in…
Merck & Company has been presented with an opportunity to invest $30 million for the purchasing rights of an obesity and high cholesterol lowering drug, KL-798 from Kappa Labs. Based on the expected probabilities of success through each product-development phase for this new drug, as well as the costs involved, the net present value of the project is -$1.16 million and is therefore recommended that Merck passes on the investment. Sensitivity analysis also show that adjusting the probabilities of successfully passing each approval process to more realistic expectations has a drastically negative affect on the project NPV.…
Pfizer is the worlds’ largest research based pharmaceutical company. This company faces many challenges are many challenges just as other major companies do. This company has an estimated $65 billion in world -wide revenue with market cap of $140 billion. The assumption is that the company has a solid financial portfolio, trading 8 billion shares daily, and retaining $7 billion in capital. The company does not fund project by project, it prioritizes the present products to determine which to fund first using a productivity index metric to measure the cost to manufacture the anticipated return on investment. As stated by Emmitt, each product bears unique risks. The patent process protects the company and allows the company to sell the product exclusively on the market. Team B will reflect on some of the corporate finance challenges faced by Pfizer.…
PharmaCARE’s investors expect to receive full disclosure of material information from publicly traded companies. This information includes financial reports, changes in senior management, and product delays. Management is liable to shareholders, owners, and partners (Dukkha, 2009).…
The media constantly bombards viewers with the so-called “war on drugs”; indeed the issue that many nations face is one of concern. Due to competition among drug cartels, innocent people suffer injuriously; therefore, these nations wage a theoretical war against the spread and corruption of drugs. However, aside from there being a “war on drugs”, it seems that in today’s modern quest for perfect health, or at least prolonged health, the drug industries in the United States (also addressed as Big Pharma) compete to find and sell the next big drug. These drug industries do not wage war against drugs, instead a “war for drugs”.…
a certain time to repay the cost of the drugs back) the drug to a…
Using the decision tree with the cash flows and the probability of each scenario, we calculated the expected net value of this drug license to be $13.98 million at year 2000 (Appendix 1). In addition, Merck’s patents on its current drugs will soon…
Pear, R., (2012, January 17) Fees To Doctors By Drug Makers To Be Disclosed:[National Desk]…
This should be maintained for this deal as well. Hence the most Merck could pay as licensing fee is = 37.84%…