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NATURE OF OPERATIONS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2024

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

NATURE OF OPERATIONS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

1.	NATURE OF OPERATIONS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Nature of Operations

References in this Report to “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” or “Beam” means Beam Global, a Nevada corporation, and its subsidiaries.

Beam is a sustainable technology innovation company based in San Diego, California; Broadview, Illinois; Belgrade and Kraljevo, Serbia. We develop, design, engineer, manufacture and sell high-quality, renewably energized infrastructure products for electric vehicle (“EV”) charging, energy security and disaster preparedness. We also manufacture highly energy-dense battery solutions in safe, compact and unique form-factors. Additionally, we manufacture street lighting, communications and energy infrastructure products. 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, which we believe are ideal for the rapidly growing mobile and stationary equipment product market which often requires electrical energy without being connected to the electrical grid.

Beam’s products and proprietary technology solutions target the following markets:

	·	electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure;

	·	energy storage solutions;

	·	energy security and disaster preparedness;

	·	mobile and stationary equipment;

	·	transportation infrastructure products; and

	·	power electronics and telecommunications equipment

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 and nine months ending September 30, 2024 and 2023, and our financial position as of September 30, 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

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 certain expected 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

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 November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-07 requiring enhanced segment disclosures. ASU 2023-07 requires disclosure of significant segment expenses regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) included within segment operating profit or loss. Additionally, ASU 12 2023-07 requires a description of how the CODM utilizes segment operating profit or loss to assess segment performance. The requirements of ASU 2023-07 are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company's annual reporting requirements will be effective for the year ending 2024 and interim reporting requirements will be effective beginning with the first quarter of fiscal 2025. Early adoption is permitted, and retrospective application is required for all periods presented. The Company is in the process of analyzing the impact of ASU 2023-07 on its related Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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 will be 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

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 September 30, 2024. As of September 30, 2024, approximately $4.1 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. 52% of our third quarter revenues were derived from pre-funded federal, state and local government programs, and the remaining 48% 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 September 30, 2024, no single customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenues and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, one customer accounted for 18% of total revenues, with no other single customer accounting for more than 10% of total revenues. At September 30, 2024, accounts receivable from two customers accounted for 19% and 11% 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 September 30, 2023, the Company’s sales to federal, state and local governments represented 82% of revenues.

A summary of the allowance for credit losses for the nine months ending September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023:

Summary of allowance for credit losses		September 30,				December 31,
(Dollars in thousands)		2024				2023
Allowance for credit losses:
Beginning of period		$	448			$	–
Net provision for credit losses			(7	)			448
(Charge-offs)/recoveries, net			(117	)			–
End of Period		$	324			$	448

Allowance for credit losses as a % of total Accounts Receivable			2.9%				2.8%

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 September 30, 2024. The Company had Level 3 liabilities as of September 30, 2024. There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period.

Schedule of contingent consideration
		Level 1				Level 2				Level 3
Contingent Consideration as of December 31, 2023		$	–			$	–			$	4,725
Additions			–				–				276
Change in fair value			–				–				(4,545	)
Contingent Consideration as of September 30, 2024		$	–			$	–			$	456

Significant Accounting Policies

During the nine months ended September 30, 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 Earnings (Loss) Per Share

Basic net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing the net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the periods presented using the treasury stock method for options, restricted stocks and warrants. Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed By giving effect to all potential dilutive common share equivalents outstanding for the period. For periods in which Beam has reported net losses, diluted loss per share is the same as basic loss per share, as the effects of common stock equivalents outstanding and shares issuable upon conversion of convertible debt instruments are antidilutive and, therefore, excluded from the calculation of diluted loss per share.

Options to purchase 703,658 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 200,000 shares of common stock were outstanding at September 30, 2024. Options to purchase 363,598 common shares and warrants to purchase 618,395 shares of common stock were outstanding at September 30, 2023.

The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted loss per share:


		Three Months Ended								Nine Months Ended
		September 30,								September 30,
		2024				2023				2024				2023
		(in thousands, except per share data)
Numerator:
Numerator for basic and diluted loss per share - net income (loss)		$	1,297			$	(3,629	)		$	(6,656	)		$	(10,990	)
Denominator:
Number of shares used in basic computation			14,702				13,936				14,558				13,939
Denominator for diluted loss per share - weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding			14,711				13,936				14,558				13,939
Loss per share
Basic		$	0.09			$	(0.26	)		$	(0.46	)		$	(0.79	)
Diluted		$	0.09			$	(0.26	)		$	(0.46	)		$	(0.79	)

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.