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ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ADVANCES TO AGGREGATORS
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Mar. 31, 2013
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| ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ADVANCES TO AGGREGATORS [Abstract] | |
| ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ADVANCES TO AGGREGATORS | NOTE 6. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ADVANCES TO AGGREGATORS
Accounts receivable consist of amounts due from Russian mobile operators. The cycle of business begins with TOT Money advancing funds to aggregators based on projected processing volumes. Aggregators then provide transactions to TOT Money for processing and billing to the mobile operators TOT Money has contracts with. The mobile operator contracts and associated receivables are with the three largest mobile telecommunications companies in Russia, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, MegaFon OJSC and OJSC VimpelCom. The Company does not reserve for these accounts receivable given our payment history with each mobile operator and the size of each mobile operator company. The collection cycle with mobile operators is approximately 45 days. Advances to aggregators are repaid with new business and TOT Money then re-advances to aggregators of content providers for expected new business. In this way, advances are continually rolling over and the outstanding balance per aggregator should approximate, at any point in time, one month of business volume that TOT Money expects the aggregator will provide going forward.
As of March 31, 2013, the Company had accounts receivables and advances to aggregators of approximately $11.9 million and $8.1 million (net of reserve of approximately $1 million), respectively. The Company subsequently collected the majority of amounts due from mobile operators. Due to limited experience with advances to aggregators, a loan loss provision of approximately 10% of the outstanding balance is maintained against advances to aggregators, since the Company was unable to obtain financial information from the aggregators to perform a full credit review. A loan loss provision charge of $406,585 was recorded for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 to maintain the 10% loss reserve. The total loss provision for advances to aggregators at March 31, 2013 is $956,585.
As of December 31, 2012, the Company had accounts receivables and advances to aggregators of approximately $10.9 million and $4.8 million (net of reserve of approximately $550,000), respectively. |