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NATURE OF OPERATIONS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Nature of Operations

Nature of Operations

 

Beam is a clean technology innovator based in San Diego, California; Broadview, Illinois and Kraljevo, Serbia. We develop, design, engineer, manufacture and sell high-quality, renewably energized infrastructure products for electric vehicle (“EV”) charging, outdoor media and branding, and energy security and disaster preparedness as well as safe and compact, highly energy-dense battery solutions. Beam’s products enable vital and highly valuable energy production in locations where it is either too expensive or too impactful to connect to the utility grid, or where the requirements for electrical power are so important that grid failures, like blackouts, are intolerable. Beam’s energy storage products provide high energy density in a safe, compact and bespoke form-factors ideal for the rapidly increasing numbers of mobile and stationary equipment and products which require electrical energy without being connected to the electrical grid.

 

Beam’s products and proprietary technology solutions target four markets that are experiencing significant growth with annual global spending in the billions of dollars:

 

  · electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure;
     
  · energy storage solutions;
     
  · energy security and disaster preparedness; and
     
  · outdoor media advertising.

 
Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation

 

The interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included herein have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) for interim financial statements and are in the form prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. In management’s opinion, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments and reclassifications) necessary to present fairly our results of operations and cash flows for the three months ending March 31, 2024 and 2023, and our financial position as of March 31, 2024, have been made. The results of operations for such interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the operating results to be expected for the full year.

 

Certain information and disclosures normally included in the notes to the annual financial statements have been condensed or omitted from these interim financial statements. Accordingly, these interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2023. The December 31, 2023 balance sheet is derived from those statements.

 
Use of Estimates

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates in the accompanying financial statements include the allowance for credit losses (CECL), valuation of inventory and standard cost allocations, depreciable lives of property and equipment, valuation of contingent consideration liability, valuation of intangible assets, estimates of loss contingencies, estimates of the valuation of lease liabilities and the related right of use assets, valuation of share-based costs, and the valuation allowance on deferred tax assets.

 
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In October 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-06, “Disclosure Improvements” (“ASU 2023-06”), which amends the disclosure or presentation requirements related to various subtopics in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (the “Codification”). The ASU was issued in response to the SEC’s disclosure update and simplification initiative issued in August 2018. The effective date for the amendments for each topic will be the date on which the SEC’s removal of that related disclosure from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K becomes effective, with early adoptions prohibited.

  

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” (“ASU 2023-09”). ASU 2023-09 requires disaggregated information about a company’s effective tax rate reconciliation and information on income taxes paid. This standard is effective for Beam beginning with our annual financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the updated standard will have on our consolidated financial statements. 

 
Concentrations

Concentrations

 

Credit Risk

 

Financial instruments that potentially subject us to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash and accounts receivable.

 

The Company maintains its cash in banks and financial institutions that at times may exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts from inception through March 31, 2024. As of March 31, 2024, approximately $4.8 million of the Company’s cash deposits were greater than the federally insured limits.

 

Major Customers

 

The Company continually assesses the financial strength of its customers. We are not aware of any material credit risks associated with our customers. 84% of our first quarter revenues were derived from pre-funded federal, state and local government programs, and the remaining 16% were derived from commercial customers that we believe have good credit or, alternatively, favorable payment terms which minimizes our credit risk with respect to such customers. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, two customers accounted for 30% and 18% of total revenues, with no other single customer accounting for more than 10% of total revenues. At March 31, 2024, accounts receivable from three customers accounted for 22%, 18% and 14% of total accounts receivable with no other single customer accounting for more than 10% of the accounts receivable balance. At December 31, 2023, accounts receivable from four customers accounted for 11%, 10%, 10% and 10% of total accounts receivable each with no other single customer accounting for more than 10% of the accounts receivable balance. For the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company’s sales to federal, state and local governments represented 84% and 86% of revenues, respectively.

 
Fair Value Measurement

Fair Value Measurement

 

The Company follows the authoritative guidance that establishes a formal framework for measuring fair values of assets and liabilities in the consolidated financial statements that are already required by generally accepted accounting principles to be measured at fair value. The guidance defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price). The transaction is based on a hypothetical transaction in the principal or most advantageous market considered from the perspective of the market participant that holds the asset or owes the liability.

 

The Company utilizes market data or assumptions that market participants who are independent, knowledgeable, and willing and able to transact would use in pricing the asset or liability, including assumptions about risk and the risks inherent in the inputs to the valuation technique. These inputs can be readily observable, market corroborated or generally unobservable. The Company attempts to utilize valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

 

The Company is able to classify fair value balances based on the observability of those inputs. The guidance establishes a formal fair value hierarchy based on the inputs used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to Level 1 measurements and the lowest priority to level 3 measurements, and accordingly, Level 1 measurement should be used whenever possible.

 

The hierarchy is broken down into three levels based on the reliability of inputs as follows:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities or published net asset value for alternative investments with characteristics similar to a mutual fund.

Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly.

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.

 

The methods used may produce a fair value calculation that may not be indicative of net realizable value or reflective of future fair values. Furthermore, while management believes its valuation methods are appropriate, the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a difference fair value measurement at the reporting date. There were no changes in the Company’s valuation methodologies from the prior year.

 

For purpose of this disclosure, the carrying amounts for financial assets and liabilities such as cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable – trade, other prepaid expenses and current assets, accounts payable and other current liabilities, all approximate fair value due to their short-term nature as of March 31, 2024. The Company had Level 3 liabilities as of March 31, 2024. There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period.

 

Fair value of contingent consideration  Level 1   Level 2   Level 3 
Contingent Consideration as of December 31, 2023  $–   $–   $4,725 
Additions   –    –    – 
Change in fair value   –    –    (147)
Contingent Consideration as of March 31, 2024  $–   $–   $4,578 

  
Significant Accounting Policies

Significant Accounting Policies

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2024, there were no changes to our significant accounting policies as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.

 
Net Loss Per Share

Net Loss Per Share

 

Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the periods presented. Diluted net loss per share of common stock is computed using the weighted average number of common stock outstanding for the period, and, if dilutive, potential common stock outstanding during the period. Potential common stock outstanding consists of shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options, stock warrants, or other common stock equivalents. Potentially common stock outstanding are excluded from the computation if their effect is anti-dilutive.

 

Options to purchase 592,658 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 570,718 shares of common stock were outstanding at March 31, 2024. Options to purchase 346,758 common shares and warrants to purchase 624,306 shares of common stock were outstanding at March 31, 2023. These options and warrants were not included in the computation of diluted loss per share for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 because the effects would have been anti-dilutive. These options and warrants may dilute future earnings per share.

 
Segments

Segments

 

The Company assesses its segment reporting based on how it internally manages and reports the results of its business to its chief operating decision maker. Management reviews financial results, manages the business and allocates resources on an aggregate basis. Therefore, financial results are reported in a single operating segment.