聯合 國

證券 交易委員會

華盛頓, 特區20549

 

形式 20-F

 

根據1934年證券交易所法第12(b)或(g)條的登記聲明

 

 

根據1934年證券交易法第13或15(d)條提交的年度報告

 

爲 日終了的財政年度 6月30日, 2024

 

 

根據1934年證券交易法第13或15(d)條提交的過渡報告

 

 

殼牌公司根據1934年證券交易法第13或15(d)條提交的報告

 

日期 要求該空殼公司報告從_的過渡期的事件

  

委員會 文件號: 001-42277

 

全球 引擎集團控股有限公司

(確切的 章程中規定的註冊人名稱)

 

不適用

(翻譯 將註冊人姓名翻譯成英文)

 

英國 維爾京群島

(管轄權 公司或組織)

 

房間 C,19/F, 世界科技中心,

95 觀塘巧明街, 九龍, 香港

(地址 主要行政辦公室)

 

先生 李一龍安德魯

電話: +852 3955 2300

電子郵件: andrew. globalengine.com.hk
19樓C室, 世界科技中心,

95 觀塘巧明街, 九龍, 香港

(Name, 公司聯繫人的電話、電子郵件和/或傳真號碼和地址)

 

證券 根據該法案第12(b)條登記或即將登記:

 

標題 各班

  交易代碼   註冊的每個交易所的名稱

普通股

每股面值0.0000625美元

  GLE   納斯達克股市有限責任公司

 

證券 根據該法案第12(g)條登記或即將登記:

 

沒有一
(班級名稱)

 

證券 根據該法案第15(d)條有報告義務的:

 

沒有一
(班級名稱)

 

 

 

指示 截至所涉期間結束時發行人每種資本類別或普通股的已發行股份數量 根據年度報告:

 

截至2024年6月30日,發行人已 16,000,000 已發行普通股。

 

指示 如果註冊人是《證券法》第405條規定的知名經驗豐富的發行人,則勾選標記。是的 不是

 

如果 本報告爲年度報告或過渡報告,如果註冊人無需根據第節提交報告,則用複選標記表示 1934年證券交易法第13或15(d)條。是的 不是

 

指示 勾選註冊人是否:(1)已提交證券交易所第13或15(d)條要求提交的所有報告 過去12個月內的1934年法案(或要求登記人提交此類報告的較短期限內),和(2) 在過去90天內一直遵守此類提交要求。 沒有

 

指示 檢查註冊人是否已以電子方式提交了根據規則需要提交的所有交互數據文件 在過去12個月內(或要求註冊人提交此類文件的較短期限內)S-t法規第405條。 沒有

 

指示 通過勾選註冊人是大型加速文件管理者、加速文件管理者、非加速文件管理者還是新興增長者 公司請參閱「大型加速文件夾」、「加速文件夾」和「新興成長型公司」的定義 在《交易法》第120億.2條中。

 

大型加速文件服務器 加速文件管理器
非加速文件服務器 新興成長型公司

 

如果 根據美國公認會計原則編制財務報表的新興成長型公司,用複選標記表示註冊人 已選擇不使用延長的過渡期,以遵守根據 《交易法》第13(A)條。

 

術語 「新的或修訂的財務會計準則」是指財務會計準則委員會發布的任何更新 2012年4月5日之後將其納入會計準則法典。

 

指示 檢查註冊人是否已提交其管理層對其有效性評估的報告和證明 根據《薩班斯-奧克斯利法案》(15 USC)第404(b)條對其財務報告的內部控制7262(b)由註冊人 編制或出具審計報告的公共會計師事務所。是的否  

 

如果 證券是根據該法案第12(b)條登記的,通過複選標記表明登記人的財務報表是否 文件中包含的內容反映了對之前發佈的財務報表錯誤的更正。

 

表明 通過複選標記是否有任何錯誤更正是需要對基於激勵的薪酬進行恢復分析的重述 根據第240.10D-1(B)節,註冊人的任何執行人員在相關的恢復期間收到的。☐

 

表明 通過勾選標記,註冊人使用了哪種會計基礎來編制本備案文件中包含的財務報表:

 

美國公認會計原則  

國際 國際會計準則理事會發布的財務報告準則

  其他☐

 

* 如果「其他」 已針對上一問題進行勾選,通過勾選標記表明登記人選擇了哪個財務報表項目 跟隨。項目17項目18

 

如果 這是一份年度報告,通過勾選標記表明註冊人是否爲空殼公司(定義見交易所規則120億.2 法案)。是的否

 

(適用 僅針對過去五年內參與銀行破產程序的發行人)

 

指示 勾選註冊人是否已提交證券第12、13或15(d)條要求提交的所有文件和報告 根據法院確認的計劃分配證券後的1934年交易法。是否

 

 

 

 

 

 

表 內容 

 

引言 ii
第一部分   1
第1項。 董事、高級管理人員和顧問的身份 1
第二項。 報價統計數據和預期時間表 1
第三項。 關鍵信息 1
第四項。 關於該公司的信息 42
項目4A。 未解決的員工意見 56
第五項。 經營和財務回顧與展望 57
第六項。 董事、高級管理人員和員工 68
第7項。 大股東及關聯方交易 74
第八項。 財務信息 78
第九項。 報價和掛牌 78
第10項。 附加信息 79
第11項。 關於市場風險的定量和定性披露 86
第12項。 除股權證券外的其他證券說明 86
     
第二部分   87
第13項。 違約、拖欠股息和拖欠股息 87
第14項。 對擔保持有人的權利和收益的使用作出實質性修改 87
第15項。 控制和程序 87
第16項。 已保留 88
項目16A。 審計委員會財務專家 88
項目16B。 道德準則 88
項目16C。 首席會計師費用及服務 88
項目16D。 豁免審計委員會遵守上市標準 89
項目16E。 發行人及關聯購買人購買股權證券 89
項目16F。 更改註冊人的認證會計師 89
項目16G。 公司治理 89
第16H項。 煤礦安全信息披露 89
項目16I。 關於妨礙檢查的外國司法管轄區的披露 89
項目16J。 內幕交易政策 89
項目16K。 網絡安全 89
     
第三部分   90
第17項。 財務報表 90
第18項。 財務報表 90
項目19. 展品 90
     
合併財務報表索引 F-1

 

i

 

 

引言

 

除非 另有說明,本年度報告20-F表格(「年度報告」)中包含的數字已受到影響 到四捨五入調整。因此,各個表格中顯示爲總數的數字可能不是數字的算術彙總 在他們之前。

 

爲 爲了清晰起見,本年度報告遵循香港姓氏後名的命名慣例,無論是否 個人姓名爲中文或英文。本年度報告包括統計數據以及其他行業和市場數據 摘自行業出版物和第三方進行的研究、調查和研究。行業出版物和第三方 研究、調查和研究通常表明,他們的信息是從據信可靠的來源獲得的,儘管 他們不保證此類信息的準確性或完整性。雖然我們相信這些行業出版物和第三方 研究、調查和研究是可靠的,請注意不要過度重視這些信息。

 

  「BVI」是爲了 「英屬維爾京群島」;

 

  《英屬維爾京群島法案》是 《英屬維爾京群島商業公司法》(2020年法律修訂版)(經修訂);
     
  「BVI Sub」是 致BVI公司Global Engine Holdings Limited;

 

  「中國」或 「中華人民共和國」指中華人民共和國,包括香港特別行政區和 僅用於年度報告的澳門;;

 

  「公司」 或「通用電氣集團」是指Global Engine Group Holding Limited,一家BVI公司;

 

  「中國大陸」 前往中華人民共和國大陸;

 

  「凝膠」是爲了 Global Engine Limited,一家香港公司;

 

  「香港」 就本年度報告而言,是向中華人民共和國香港特別行政區提交的 僅;
     
  「ICT」是爲了 信息通信技術;

 

  「HKD」或「HK 美元」是香港的法定貨幣;

 

  「$,」 「美元」、「美元」或「美元」是美國的法定貨幣;
     
  「股份」 或「普通股」指Global Engine Group Holding Limited的普通股,每股面值0.0000625美元;
     
  “美國 GAAP“是美國普遍接受的會計原則;和
     
  「我們」, 本年度報告中的「我們」指的是Global Engine Group Holding Limited(一家BVI公司)及其子公司,除非 上下文另有指示。

 

本年度報告包含以下翻譯版本 爲了方便讀者,某些外幣兌換成美元。合併報表中金額的折算 資產負債表、綜合損益表、綜合現金流量表和題爲 “薪酬--主管人員的薪酬於截至2024年6月30日止年度由港幣兌換成美元 完全是爲了方便讀者,是按1美元兌7.8083港元的匯率計算的 聯邦儲備委員會於2024年6月28日發佈的H.10統計數據中提出了這一點。本年度報告包含以下翻譯版本 爲了方便讀者,某些外幣兌換成美元。沒有任何關於港幣金額的陳述 可以或可以按該匯率或任何其他匯率兌換、變現或結算成美元。我們沒有。 我們是一家控股公司,通過我們的香港子公司在香港開展業務 Gel,使用港幣,香港的貨幣。環球引擎集團控股有限公司的報告貨幣爲香港 美元。

 

ii

 

 

前瞻性 信息

 

這 年度報告包含前瞻性陳述。這些聲明是根據第#節的「安全港」條款作出的。 經修訂的1934年證券交易法21E條。這些前瞻性陳述可以通過諸如「將」之類的術語來識別。 「期待」、「預見」、「未來」、「打算」、「計劃」、「相信」 「估計」、「可能」、「打算」、「有可能」、「受」等 發言。除其他事項外,題爲「項目3.關鍵信息--D.風險因素」、“項目4.信息 本年度報告中的第5項「經營和財務回顧及展望」,以及我們的戰略 和業務計劃,都包含前瞻性陳述。非歷史事實的陳述,包括關於我們信仰的陳述 和預期,都是前瞻性陳述,可能會發生變化,這種變化可能是實質性的,可能會有實質性的和 對我們的財務狀況和一個或多個前幾個時期的經營結果產生不利影響。前瞻性陳述涉及 固有的風險和不確定性。許多重要因素可能導致實際結果與所包含的結果大不相同, 無論是明示還是暗示,在本年度報告的任何前瞻性陳述中。本年度提供的所有信息 報告和附件中的信息是截至本年度報告日期的,我們不承擔任何更新該等信息的義務, 除非適用法律另有要求。

 

iii

 

 

部分 我

 

項目 1.董事、高級管理人員和顧問的身份

 

不 適用因

 

項目 2.報價統計和預期時間表

 

不 適用因

 

項目 3.關鍵信息

 

A. [保留]

 

B. 資本化和負債化

 

不 適用因

 

C. 提供和使用收益的原因

 

不 適用因

 

D. 風險因素

 

1

 

 

總結 危險因素

 

投資 我們的證券涉及高度風險。您應該仔細考慮以下描述的風險以及所有其他風險 在做出投資決定之前,本年度報告中包含的信息。下文描述的風險和不確定性代表 我們已知的業務面臨重大風險。如果實際發生以下任何風險,我們的業務、財務狀況或結果 的運營可能會受到影響。在這種情況下,您可能會失去全部或部分投資。

 

風險 與我們的業務有關。見“項目3.關鍵信息-風險因素-與我們業務相關的風險” 從本年度報告第6頁開始。

 

風險 與我們的業務和行業相關的不確定性包括但不限於以下幾點:

 

  變化 資本市場、併購活動、法律或監管要求、一般經濟狀況和貨幣或 地緣政治破壞以及我們無法控制的其他因素可能會減少對我們的執業產品或服務的需求, 在這種情況下,我們的收入和盈利能力可能會下降。

 

  我們 收入、營業收入和現金流可能會波動。

 

  我們 客戶集中度很高,數量有限的客戶佔我們收入的很大一部分。
     
  我們 面臨客戶的信用風險。

 

  我們 依賴有限數量的供應商。這些供應商中的任何一家的流失都可能會對我們的業務產生重大負面影響。

 

  不足 或不準確的外部和內部信息(包括預算和規劃數據)可能導致財務預測不準確 以及不當的財務決策。
     
  我們 可能無法創新或創建符合不斷變化的市場和客戶需求的新解決方案。

 

  我們 可能無法有效管理我們的增長,我們的盈利能力可能會受到影響。
     
  我們 有限的運營歷史可能無法爲判斷我們未來的前景和運營結果提供足夠的基礎。
     
  一 我們的信息技術或IT系統的故障可能會導致我們的服務中斷,破壞 我們的服務、擾亂我們的業務、損害我們的聲譽並造成損失。
     
  我們 可能無法保護我們的知識產權。

 

  我們 可能會受到知識產權侵權索賠,辯護成本可能很高,並且可能會擾亂我們的業務和運營。
     
  我們 主要股東對我們公司有重大影響力,他們的利益可能與我們的利益不一致 其他股東。

 

  如果我們 直接受到最近涉及美國的審查、批評和負面宣傳的影響上市的中國公司,我們可能 必須花費大量資源來調查和解決可能損害我們業務運營、股價的問題 和聲譽,並可能導致您對我們普通股的投資損失,特別是如果此類問題無法得到解決 並順利解決。

 

  如果我們 如果無法有效競爭,我們可能會錯過新的商業機會或失去現有客戶以及我們的收入和盈利能力 可能會下降。

 

2

 

 

風險 與我們的人民有關。見“項目3.關鍵信息-風險因素-與我們的員工相關的風險” 從本年度報告第20頁開始。

 

我們 也會受到與我國人民有關的風險和不確定因素的影響,包括但不限於:

 

  我們 未能招聘和留住合格的專業人士可能會對我們的財務業績和爲客戶配備員工的能力產生負面影響 參與、維護與客戶的關係並推動未來增長。
     
  員工人數 在我們的服務需求減少期間減少管理成本可能會對我們的業務產生負面影響 長期。
     
  員工 可能會讓我們的公司組建或加入競爭對手,並且我們可能沒有或可能選擇不對此類競爭對手尋求法律追索權 專業人士

 

風險 與收購有關。見“項目3.關鍵信息-風險因素-與收購相關的風險” 從本年度報告第21頁開始。

 

我們 也會受到與我們潛在收購相關的風險和不確定性的影響,包括但不限於:

 

  我們 可能難以整合收購或說服客戶允許將其業務分配給我們,這可能會減少 我們從收購中獲得的好處。
     
  一個 收購在短期內或根本不會產生增值。
     
  我們 可能與我們收購的公司或其母公司擁有不同的治理和管理體系,這可能會導致專業人士 他們從收購的公司加入我們,然後離開我們。
     
  由於 由於我們的股價波動,收購候選人可能不願意接受我們的普通股作爲收購價格對價, 使用我們的股份作爲購買價格對價可能會稀釋,或者我們尋求收購的某些公司的所有者可能會堅持 關於股價保證。

 

風險 與我們的公司結構有關。見“項目3.關鍵信息-風險因素-與我們相關的風險 公司結構“從本年度報告的第22頁開始。

 

我們 也會受到與我們的公司結構相關的風險和不確定因素的影響,包括但不限於:

 

  我們 可能依賴我們子公司支付的股息和其他股權分配來爲我們可能的任何現金和融資需求提供資金 對我們的子公司向我們付款的能力的任何限制都可能對我們的能力產生重大不利影響 來開展我們的業務。
     
  雖然 我們目前在大陸沒有業務,中國,我們相信我們不受中國政府的直接 中國,對於我們在中國大陸以外開展業務活動的方式,我們不能保證 中國政府在任何時候都不會試圖干預或影響Gel的運營。如果凝膠成爲研究對象 這種監督、酌情決定權或控制,包括對海外發行證券和/或外國投資的監督、酌情決定權或控制,可能會導致 在凝膠業務發生重大不利變化時,顯著限制或完全阻礙通用電氣集團提供 或者繼續向投資者提供證券,導致通用電氣集團的證券價值大幅縮水或一文不值, 這將對投資者的利益產生重大影響。也不能保證中國政府不會干預 或者對通用電氣集團在其組織內轉移或分配現金的能力施加限制,這可能導致 不能或禁止向香港以外的實體進行轉移或分發,並對其業務造成不利影響。
     
  那裏 對於我們是否需要獲得中國當局的批准才能在中國發行證券,仍存在一些不確定性。 未來,如果需要,我們無法向您保證我們將能夠獲得此類批准。

 

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  我們的 對財務報告缺乏有效的內部控制可能會影響我們準確報告財務結果或 防止可能影響我們普通股市場和價格的欺詐行爲。

 

  如果 如果我們不再符合外國私人發行人的資格,我們將被要求完全遵守交易所的報告要求 適用於美國國內發行人的法案,我們將承擔大量額外的法律、會計和其他費用 不會作爲外國私人發行人發生。

 

  我們 是《證券法》含義內的「新興成長型公司」,如果我們利用某些豁免 從新興成長型公司的披露要求來看,這可能會使比較我們的業績變得更加困難 與其他上市公司合作。
     
  AS 作爲適用法律下的「新興成長型公司」,我們將受到較低的披露要求的約束。這樣減少了 披露信息可能會降低我們的普通股對投資者的吸引力。

 

  我們 由於成爲一家上市公司,成本將增加,特別是在我們不再有資格成爲「新興增長型」之後 公司。”

 

  我們 在某些情況下,董事會可以拒絕登記普通股的轉讓。

 

風險 與在香港做生意有關。見“項目3.關鍵信息-風險因素-與行爲相關的風險 業務在香港“從本年度報告的第25頁開始。

 

基本 我們的所有業務均在香港,因此我們面臨着與在香港開展業務相關的風險和不確定性,包括, 但不限於以下內容:

 

  雖然我們和我們的子公司 我們的總部不在大陸中國,鑑於中國政府最近的擴張,我們在大陸也沒有業務中國 ,我們可能會對中國政府或當局未來在香港的任何行動感到不確定。 香港,而且所有與總部設在中國並在中國開展業務相關的法律和運營風險 也可能適用於未來在香港的業務。不能保證經濟不會有任何變化, 香港的政治和法律環境。中國政府可能會干預或影響我們目前和未來在 香港,或可能對海外進行的發行和/或對像我們這樣的發行人的外國投資施加更多控制。 這種政府行爲,如果發生下列情況:(1)可能會大大限制或完全阻礙我們繼續 運營;(Ii)可能大大限制或阻礙我們向投資者發售或繼續發售我們的普通股的能力; 以及(Iii)可能導致我們普通股的價值大幅縮水或變得一文不值。
     
  仍有一些不確定因素 至於我們未來是否需要獲得中國當局的批准才能發行證券,如果需要的話, 我們不能向您保證我們將能夠獲得這樣的批准。
     
  可能很難做到 境外股東和/或監管機構在中國內部進行調查或取證。
     
  凝膠的很大一部分 業務在香港進行。然而,由於現行中國法律法規中的長臂條款,中國政府 可能對我們的業務行爲行使重大監督和自由裁量權,並可能干預或影響我們的運營 這可能導致我們的業務和/或我們普通股的價值發生重大變化。中華人民共和國政府 也可能干預或限制我們將資金轉移出香港以分配收益和支付股息的能力 或再投資於我們在香港以外的業務。政策、法規、規則和法律執行方面的變化 中國政府可能也很快,幾乎沒有提前通知,我們對中國施加的風險的斷言和信念也是如此 法律和監管系統不能確定。
     
  您可能會招致額外的費用 送達法律程序文件、強制執行外國判決或在香港提起訴訟的費用及程序障礙 根據香港法律,對本年度報告中點名的我們或我們的管理層提出指控。

 

  法律的頒佈 中華人民共和國關於維護香港特別行政區國家安全(「香港國家安全 法律」)可能會影響我們的香港控股子公司。

 

  存在政治風險 與在香港開展業務有關。

 

  我們可能會受到 香港的聯繫匯率制度。

 

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風險 與我們的普通股有關。見“項目3.關鍵信息-風險因素-與我們日常生活相關的風險 股份“從本年度報告的第33頁開始。

 

在 除了上述風險外,我們還面臨與普通股相關的一般風險和不確定性,包括,但 不限於以下內容:

 

  雖然審計報告 本年度報告由定期接受PCAOB檢查的美國核數師編寫,沒有 保證未來的審計報告將由PCAOB檢查的核數師編寫,因此,未來投資者可以 被剝奪了這種檢查的好處。此外,根據HFCA法案,如果出現以下情況,我們的證券交易可能被禁止 美國證券交易委員會隨後認定,我們的審計工作是由審計署無法徹底檢查或調查的核數師執行的, 因此,納斯達克等美國全國性證券交易所可能決定將我們的證券退市。此外,在 2021年6月22日,美國參議院通過了AHFCAA,如果獲得通過,將修改HFCA法案,並要求美國證券交易委員會禁止 如果發行人的核數師連續兩次沒有接受PCAOB檢查,發行人的證券就不能在任何美國證券交易所交易 三年而不是三年,從而縮短了觸發交易禁令的時間。

 

  近期 美國證券交易委員會的聯合聲明、納斯達克提交的擬議規則變更以及美國參議院和美國衆議院通過的法案 代表們都呼籲對新興市場公司適用額外、更嚴格的標準。這些發展 可能會給我們的業務運營、股價和聲譽增加不確定性。

 

  我們普通 股票交易量可能很少,如果您需要出售普通股,您可能無法以或接近要價出售,或者根本無法出售 籌集資金或以其他方式希望清算您的股份。

 

  我們的市場價格 股票可能波動較大。
     
  價格波動 我們的普通股可能會使我們面臨證券訴訟。

 

  未來大量銷售 我們的普通股或對未來在公開市場上出售我們的普通股的預期可能會導致我們的價格上漲 普通股下跌。

 

  我們 不打算在可預見的未來支付股息。
     
  市場 我們普通股的價格可能會波動。

 

  作爲外國私人發行人, 我們被允許並且將依賴某些適用的納斯達克證券交易所公司治理標準的豁免 對美國國內發行人。這可能會減少對我們股票持有人的保護。
     
  如果我們不再有資格 作爲外國私人發行人,我們必須完全遵守適用的《交易法》的報告要求 美國國內發行人,我們將承擔我們不會承擔的大量額外法律、會計和其他費用 作爲外國私人發行人。
     
  我們可能會經歷極端的 股價波動與我們的實際或預期經營業績、財務狀況或前景無關,因此很難 供投資者評估我們普通股快速變化的價值。

 

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風險 因素

 

風險 與我們的業務相關

 

變化 資本市場、併購活動、法律或監管要求、一般經濟狀況以及貨幣或地緣政治 中斷以及我們無法控制的其他因素可能會減少對我們的實踐產品或服務的需求,在這種情況下,我們的 收入和盈利能力可能會下降。

 

不同 我們無法控制的因素可能會影響對某一部門的業務和我們服務的需求。這些措施包括:

 

  美國和/或全球經濟的波動,包括經濟低迷或衰退以及任何總體經濟復甦的強度和速度;

 

國家或企業產生的槓桿水平;

 

併購活動;

 

重大商業訴訟的頻率和複雜性;

 

超過 企業擴張造成財務困難;

 

業務和管理危機,包括涉嫌欺詐或非法活動和做法的發生;

 

新的和複雜的法律和法規,廢除現有法律和法規或改變法律、規則和法規的執行,包括對擬議併購交易的反壟斷/競爭審查;

 

其他經濟、地理或政治因素;以及

 

一般業務條件。

 

我們 無法預測未來事件或美國或全球經濟的變化將對我們的 業務或任何特定細分市場的業務。金融、信貸、併購方面的波動、變化和中斷 和其他市場、政治不穩定和一般商業因素可能會影響各個部門的運營,並可能影響 這樣的操作是不同的。上述因素的變化,以及其他事件,例如 區域經濟,或特定國家的經濟,貿易限制,貨幣制度,銀行,房地產和零售業或 其他行業;企業或國家的債務或信用困難或違約;法律法規的新的、廢除的或變化的, 包括修改美國或其他國家的破產法和競爭法;侵權改革;銀行改革; 實施或採用新的法律或法規,或在政府執法、訴訟或金錢損害賠償或補救措施中 尋求;或政治不穩定可能對我們的一個或多個細分市場或服務、實踐或行業產品產生不利影響。

 

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我們的 營收、營業收入和現金流可能會波動。

 

我們 經歷我們收入和成本結構以及由此產生的運營收入和現金流的波動,並預計這 將在未來繼續發生。我們的年度和季度財務業績可能會出現波動,包括 收入、營業收入和每股收益,原因可能包括:(1)類型和複雜性、數量、規模、時機 和客戶接觸的持續時間;(2)根據美國公認會計原則確認收入的時間;(3)利用 創收專業人員,包括能夠適當調整員工水平以適應業務和 適用細分市場和實踐的前景;(Iv)我們客戶的地理位置或服務所在位置 (V)計費費率和費用安排,包括成功達到里程碑的機會和能力以及 完成並收取成功費用和其他根據結果或業績而定的費用;(6)開具帳單和收取費用的期限 可能無法收回的週期和數額變化;(7)政府監管的頻率和複雜性的變化 和執法活動;(8)商業和資產收購;(9)各種貨幣匯率的波動 對美元;(X)因以下原因續簽到期服務合同或接受新客戶時的費用調整 根據我們精細化的業務戰略調整範圍;以及(Xi)我們無法控制的經濟因素。

 

的 不同部門和實踐的結果可能會受到上述因素的不同影響。 某些事件的積極影響 某些部門和實踐的因素或因素可能不足以克服這些相同事件或因素的負面影響 我們業務的其他部分。此外,我們的實踐服務組合增加了預測收入和結果的任務的複雜性 在不斷變化的商業週期和經濟環境中管理我們的人員配備水平和支出。

 

我們的 業績受季節性和其他類似因素的影響。雖然我們在每個季度末評估我們的年度指導並更新 當我們認爲這是適當的、不可預見的未來波動時,這種指導可能會導致實際結果與我們的 指導意見,即使指導意見反映了一系列可能的結果,並已更新,以考慮到部分年度的結果。

 

我們 客戶集中度很高,數量有限的客戶佔我們收入的很大一部分。 

 

我們得出了一個重要的 我們收入的一部分來自幾個主要客戶。截至2024年6月30日的年度,三大第三方客戶:(I) Intelino Tech Sdon Bhd、(Ii)vNet Group,Inc.和(Iii)Aisly Global Inc.分別佔63.3%、15.8%和15.7% 該公司的總收入。截至2023年6月30日的年度,三大第三方客戶:(I)vNet Group,Inc.;(Ii) 泰利根國際有限公司和Aisly Global Inc.分別佔總股本的33.9%、15.5%和13.2% 公司總收入,以及關聯方客戶中國信息技術發展有限公司(本公司擁有 分別與Macro Systems Limited及DataCube Research Centre Limited訂立協議及所得收入 來自這兩個實體的信息已被合併並報告給它們的母公司中國信息技術開發公司 有限公司),佔公司總收入的19.0%。截至2022年6月30日的年度,兩家主要第三方 客戶,(I)vNet Group,Inc.和(Ii)Aisly Global Inc.,分別佔公司客戶總數的33.1%和23.8% 總收入,關聯方客戶中國信息技術發展有限公司佔總營收的21.9% 公司的總收入。與Intelino Tech Sdon Bhd的合同日期爲2023年6月1日,經修訂,合同期限爲十二年 第二份合同的日期爲2024年8月9日,期限爲3個月,將於11月到期 142024年。與世紀互聯集團有限公司的合同日期爲2019年10月4日,期限約爲7年零6個月 並將於2027年3月31日到期。與迪一仙網有限公司的合同日期爲2020年1月1日,期限爲一年, 於2020年12月31日到期,之後我們將繼續向客戶提供服務,而無需書面約定定期 基礎。與泰利根國際有限公司的合同日期爲2023年6月1日,爲期一個月,於6月30日到期。 2023年。我們已與Aisly Global Inc.簽訂了兩(2)份合同。第一份合同最初日期爲2021年1月1日,經修訂後, 合同期限爲23個月,於2022年11月30日到期,第二份合同日期爲2023年8月30日,期限爲8個月 於2024年4月30日到期。我們與Macro Systems Limited簽訂了四(4)份合同,其中一份合同的日期爲2020年9月1日 (2021年6月30日到期),一份日期爲2021年3月19日的合同(2021年12月31日到期),一份日期爲2021年3月19日的合同 (2022年6月30日到期)和一份日期爲2021年3月1日的合同(2022年12月31日到期)。與DataCube研究中心有限公司的合同最初日期爲2021年8月27日,經修訂後,有 爲期24個月,原定於2024年3月31日到期,但表示合同於2023年9月30日終止。

 

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固有 當總收入的很大一部分集中在有限數量的客戶時,就會存在風險。不可能 我們預測這些客戶或未來需求對我們的產品和服務產生的未來需求水平 這些客戶在市場上爲我們的產品提供服務。如果這些客戶中的任何一位因市場原因而出現銷售下降或延遲, 經濟或競爭條件下,我們可能會被迫降低價格,或者他們可能會減少我們產品的採購數量 和服務,這可能會對我們的利潤率和財務狀況產生不利影響,並可能對我們的收入和 運營結果。如果我們的任何最大客戶終止購買我們的產品和服務,此類終止將嚴重影響 對我們的收入、運營業績和財務狀況產生負面影響。

 

許多 我們的客戶簽訂了期限爲一年或以下的短期合同,不提供自動續約, 要求客戶選擇延長期限。我們的客戶沒有義務續簽、升級或擴展其協議 在現有協議條款到期後與我們合作。如果我們的一個或多個客戶終止與我們的合同, 無論是爲了方便、在我們違約的情況下違約,還是出於我們合同中規定的其他原因(如適用); 如果我們的客戶選擇不與我們續簽合同;或者如果我們的客戶與我們續簽合同安排的時間更短 合同期限或範圍縮小;我們的業務和運營業績可能會受到不利影響。這種不利影響將 對於代表我們收入或業務運營重要部分的客戶來說,這一點甚至更加明顯。

 

我們 面臨客戶的信用風險。

 

我們 財務狀況和盈利能力取決於我們客戶的信譽。因此,我們接觸到客戶的 信用風險。無法保證我們未來不會遇到可疑或壞賬。由於香港的經濟狀況 香港,特別是應對通脹的貨幣和財政政策風險,香港企業普遍節省現金 或面臨更大的財務和信貸壓力。因此,我們可能會遇到客戶和借款人付款較慢的情況, 應收賬款賬齡增加和/或壞賬增加。如果我們遇到任何意外的延誤或困難 從客戶或借款人收取的款項、我們的現金流和財務業績將受到不利影響。

 

我們 依賴數量有限的供應商。這些供應商中的任何一家的流失都可能會對我們的業務產生重大負面影響。

 

我們依靠的是有限的數量 供應商的數量。在截至2024年6月30日的年度內,(I)Nexsen Limited和(Ii)MDT Innovation(Labuan)Ltd. 分別佔公司總採購量的77.7%和17.4%。截至2023年6月30日的年度,兩家供應商:(I)Nexsen Limited; 和(Ii)MDT Innovation(Labuan)Ltd.分別佔公司總採購量的73.0%和17.2%。這一年的 截至2022年6月30日,以下三家供應商:(I)MDT Innovation Sdn Bdh和MDT Innovation(Labuan)Ltd.;(Ii)Nexsen Limited;和(Iii)FlexStream 分別佔本公司總購買量的40.2%、34.9%及12.5%。與邏輯網絡的契約 2019年11月1日、2020年5月1日和2021年11月15日的不同服務限制將於2027年3月31日到期或到期(適用於 任期爲7年零4個月)、2020年12月31日(任期8個月)和2022年11月14日(任期1年), 分別進行了分析。我們與Nexsen Limited有四份合同,其中一份日期爲2020年1月2日(於2020年12月31日到期);一份日期爲 2021年7月2日(2022年6月30日到期);2022年4月1日(2024年3月31日到期);2023年9月25日(到期) 2024年3月31日)..與FlexStream Asia Limited的合同日期爲2021年6月1日,爲期13個月,於2022年6月30日到期。 此後,FlexStream Asia Limited將繼續按月爲我們提供服務。我們已經與MDT簽訂了五份合同 用於不同服務的Innovative Sdon BDH:一份日期爲2020年9月1日,爲期10個月(2021年6月30日到期),一份日期爲12月 2020年15日到期6個月(2021年6月30日到期),2021年4月17日到期8個半月(2021年12月31日到期), 一份於2021年7月2日屆滿,爲期12個月(於2022年6月30日屆滿),另一份於2021年9月29日屆滿(任期由2021年7月1日至12月 31,2021年)。我們之前與Intelino Sdon Bhd簽訂了一份合同,日期爲2020年11月16日,合同期限約爲7年半 月,於2021年6月30日到期。我們與MDT創新(拉布安)有限公司簽訂了兩(2)份合同:一份合同日期爲8月30日, 2023年,期限8個月,將於2024年4月30日到期,以及一份日期爲2022年1月2日的合同,期限12個月 並於2022年12月31日到期。*這種對有限數量供應商的依賴增加了我們的風險,因爲我們目前 除了這些關鍵供應商之外,經過驗證的可靠替代方案或替代供應商。如果我們經歷了對我們的 產品,或者如果我們需要更換現有供應商,我們可能無法以可接受的條款補充服務或更換它們, 可能會削弱我們及時向客戶交付產品的能力。確定和批准合適的供應商可能是一項 廣泛的流程,要求我們對他們的質量控制、技術能力、響應能力和服務感到滿意, 金融穩定、監管合規以及勞工和其他道德行爲。因此,任何重要供應商的損失都將 對我們的業務、財務狀況和經營結果產生不利影響。此外,我們的供應商可能面臨供應鏈 這些風險和限制可能會影響我們產品的供應和定價以及我們的毛利率。

 

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不足 或不準確的外部和內部信息(包括預算和規劃數據)可能會導致不準確的財務預測和 不恰當的財務決策。

 

我們 財務預測取決於有關預算和規劃數據、市場增長、匯率的估計和假設 以及我們產生足夠的現金流來再投資業務、資助內部增長並履行債務義務的能力。我們 財務預測基於歷史經驗和我們管理層認爲合理的各種其他假設 在這種情況下和做出它們的時候。然而,如果我們的外部和內部信息不充分,我們的實際結果 可能與我們的預測存在重大差異,並導致我們做出不當的財務決策。我們的財務狀況之間的任何重大差異 預測和我們的實際業績也可能對我們未來的盈利能力、股價和股東信心產生不利影響。

 

我們 可能無法創新或創建符合不斷變化的市場和客戶需求的新解決方案。

 

AS 綜合解決方案提供商,包括提供產品和服務,包括(I)提供全面的服務 向電信運營商,(Ii)向雲和數據中心提供業務規劃、開發、技術和運營諮詢計劃 供應商,以及(Iii)向科技公司提供系統設計、規劃、開發和運營服務,我們預計將遇到 提供此類產品和服務的公司經常遇到的一些挑戰、風險、困難和不確定性 在快速發展的市場中。其中一些挑戰包括我們有能力增加我們服務的總用戶數或適應 以適應市場的變化和競爭的發展。我們的員工必須不斷了解供應商和市場的最新情況 技術進步,創建可集成不斷髮展的供應商產品和服務以及服務和解決方案的解決方案 我們提供,以滿足不斷變化的市場和客戶的需求。我們未能創新併爲客戶提供價值,可能會侵蝕我們的 競爭地位和市場份額,並可能導致收入和財務業績下降。

 

在 我們所有的市場、我們的一些競爭對手都比我們擁有更多的財務、技術、營銷和其他資源。此外, 其中一些競爭對手可能能夠更快地對新的或不斷變化的機會、技術和客戶要求做出反應。 許多當前和潛在的競爭對手從事更廣泛的促銷營銷和廣告活動,提供更有吸引力的產品 向客戶提供條件,並採取比我們更積極的定價和信貸政策。我們可能無法成功實現收入增長, 這可能會對我們未來的整體經營業績產生重大不利影響。

 

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我們的 企業可能面臨客戶違約的風險。

 

一些 我們的客戶中有一部分是正在經歷或面臨潛在財務困境、面臨複雜挑戰、參與其中的企業 訴訟或監管程序中,或面臨抵押品止贖或資產清算。上述情況 鑑於當前不確定的微觀經濟狀況,這種情況可能會在我們現有和潛在客戶中變得越來越普遍 和/或COVID-19導致的潛在經濟放緩或衰退。此類客戶可能沒有足夠的資金繼續運營 或支付我們的服務費用。在開始提供服務之前,我們並不總是收到預付費。在我們收到的案件中 保留者,我們無法保證保留者將充分支付我們所提供服務的費用。

 

我們 通常對我們的費用提供固定費用安排。我們未能有效管理業務或收取費用可能會暴露 我們在此類交易中損失的風險更大。向客戶提供與實際成本無關的服務可能會產生負面影響 影響我們此類業務的盈利能力,並對我們業務的財務業績產生不利影響。我們處理未付費用 我們無法根據客觀證據收集作爲覈銷,並且不會調整或接受重新談判。我們的費用規定 在現有的服務合同中,即使不可能收取費用,也不得進行調整。管理層定期 監控未付費用,努力及時收取未付費用,並審查覈銷的充分性以儘量減少 潛在付款違約的影響。

 

我們 可能無法有效管理我們的增長,我們的盈利能力可能會受到影響。

 

我們 經歷我們不同細分市場、業務或服務的增長波動,包括快速增長或下降增長的時期。句號 快速擴張可能會給我們的管理團隊或人力資源和信息系統帶來壓力。要成功管理增長,我們可能需要 增加合格的經理和員工,並定期更新我們的運營、財務和其他系統以及我們的內部程序 和控制。我們還必須有效地激勵、培訓和管理更多的專業人員。如果我們不能添加或保留合格的 經理、員工和承包商在需要時估計成本或有效管理我們的增長、我們的業務、財務結果和 財務狀況可能會受到影響。

 

我們 無法確保我們能夠成功地管理增長並在增長過程中實現盈利。在增長放緩時期,利用不足 員工和承包商可能會導致費用和成本佔收入的比例更大。在這種情況下,我們必須 權衡減少勞動力或限制服務提供和節省成本的好處與我們可能造成的損害 失去有價值的專業人士及其行業專業知識和客戶的經歷。

 

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我們的 聲譽和品牌認知度對我們的業務至關重要。任何對我們聲譽的損害或未能提高我們的品牌認知度都可能 對我們的業務、財務狀況和經營結果產生實質性的不利影響。

 

我們的 聲譽和品牌認可度,這取決於贏得和保持我們現有或潛在客戶的信任和信心, 對我們的業務至關重要。我們的聲譽和品牌容易受到許多難以控制或不可能控制的威脅,以及 昂貴的或無法補救的。由客戶或其他第三方、員工發起的監管查詢或調查、訴訟 不當行爲、對利益衝突的看法和謠言等可能會嚴重損害我們的聲譽,即使它們 毫無根據或得到令人滿意的解決。此外,任何關於我們行業或產品或服務的負面媒體宣傳 行業內其他公司的質量問題,包括我們的競爭對手,也可能對我們的聲譽和品牌產生負面影響。如果我們 無法保持良好的聲譽或進一步提升我們的品牌認知度,我們吸引和留住客戶的能力和關鍵 員工可能會受到傷害,因此,我們的業務和收入將受到實質性的不利影響。

 

我們 可能無法以歷史增長速度增長,如果我們未能有效管理增長,我們的業務可能會嚴重惡化 並受到不利影響。

 

我們 預計在可預見的未來將出現顯着的持續增長。然而,我們無法向您保證我們將在歷史上成長 增長率。我們的快速增長已經並將繼續給我們的管理、人員、系統和 資源爲了適應我們的增長,我們需要實施各種新的和升級的運營和系統程序, 控制,包括改進我們的會計和其他內部管理系統。我們還需要招募、培訓、管理 並激勵員工並管理我們與越來越多客戶的關係。此外,當我們推出新服務或進入 進入新市場時,我們可能會面臨我們可能無法成功應對的不熟悉的市場和運營風險和挑戰。我們可能 無法有效管理我們的增長,這可能會對我們的業務產生重大不利影響。

 

我們的 有限的經營歷史可能無法提供足夠的基礎來判斷我們未來的經營前景和結果。

 

我們的 有限的運營歷史使預測未來的運營結果變得困難,因此,過去實現的運營結果 我們不應將其視爲未來可預期的增長率(如果有的話)的指標。因此,您應該考慮 根據早期公司在快速發展和日益增長的環境中所經歷的風險和不確定性,我們的未來前景 香港競爭激烈的市場。

 

我們 可能無法獲得或保持所有必要的許可證、許可和批准,以及進行所有必要的登記和備案 對於我們在多個司法管轄區的活動以及與當地居民相關的活動。

 

我們 在受監管的行業中運營,可能需要在不同司法管轄區獲得各種許可證、許可和批准 來開展我們的業務。我們的客戶包括居住在我們沒有當地監管機構頒發的許可證的司法管轄區的人 身體。這些司法管轄區的當局可能會採取這樣的立場,即我們被要求獲得許可證或其他 遵守我們認爲對我們的業務活動不必要或不適用的法律和法規。如果我們不遵守 監管要求,我們可能會遇到被取消現有業務資格或被拒絕續簽的風險 監管當局在我們的資格到期時對我們的資格以及其他處罰、罰款或制裁。此外,在尊重 對於我們可能考慮的任何新業務,我們可能無法獲得發展該等新業務的相關批准,如果 我們沒有遵守相關法規和監管要求。因此,我們可能無法按計劃發展新業務, 否則,我們可能會在這類業務上落後於競爭對手。

 

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一 我們的信息技術或IT系統的故障可能會導致我們的服務中斷,破壞我們的響應能力 服務、擾亂我們的業務、損害我們的聲譽並造成損失。

 

我們的 IT系統支持我們運營的所有階段,包括營銷、客戶開發和提供客戶支持服務, 是我們技術基礎設施的重要組成部分。如果我們的系統無法運行,我們可能會遇到運營中斷, 響應時間較慢或客戶滿意度降低。我們必須處理、記錄和監控大量的交易和我們的業務 這在很大程度上依賴於我們技術系統的完整性以及我們及時增強和增加我們系統的能力。 系統中斷、錯誤或停機可能由多種原因造成,包括客戶使用模式的更改、技術 故障、我們系統的更改、與第三方系統的鏈接以及電源故障。我們的系統很容易受到來自 人爲錯誤、執行錯誤、模型中的錯誤(如用於風險管理和合規的模型)、員工不當行爲、未經授權 交易、外部欺詐、計算機病毒、分佈式拒絕服務攻擊、計算機病毒或網絡攻擊、恐怖襲擊、 自然災害、停電、容量限制、軟件缺陷、影響主要業務合作伙伴和供應商的事件以及類似的重大事件。

 

它 在發生意外情況時,可能需要較長時間才能恢復我們的技術或其他操作系統的全部功能 這可能會影響我們處理和結算客戶交易的能力。此外,欺詐或其他不當行爲的情況 除了可能導致的任何直接損失外,還可能對我們的聲譽和客戶對我們的信心產生負面影響 實例。儘管我們努力識別風險領域,監督涉及風險的業務領域,並執行政策和程序 爲了管理這些風險,我們不能保證不會遭受意外損失、聲譽損害或監管 由於技術或其他操作故障或錯誤而採取的行動,包括我們的供應商或其他第三方。

 

如果 我們未能防止安全漏洞、不當訪問或披露我們的數據或用戶數據,或其他黑客攻擊和攻擊,我們可能會 失去用戶,我們的業務、聲譽、財務狀況和運營結果可能會受到重大不利影響。

 

我們 業務涉及專有信息和敏感或機密數據(包括個人信息)的存儲和傳輸 其員工、客戶和其他人。此外,我們還爲其託管技術基礎設施的客戶運營數據中心 並且可以存儲和傳輸關鍵業務數據和機密信息。與我們的服務業務有關,一些 我們的員工還可以訪問客戶的機密數據和其他信息。

 

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我們 制定了旨在防止安全漏洞的隱私和數據安全政策,並且我們已部署了大量資源 制定針對違規行爲的安全措施。然而,隨着新技術的發展以及服務提供商的投資組合 隨着該公司與越來越多的人共享機密信息,我們可能會面臨更大的安全漏洞風險, 其他非法或欺詐行爲,包括網絡攻擊。鑑於新的複雜方法,此類威脅的性質不斷變化 被犯罪分子和網絡恐怖分子使用,包括計算機病毒、惡意軟件、網絡釣魚、虛假陳述、社會工程和僞造, 這使得預測和充分減輕這些風險變得越來越具有挑戰性。

 

我們 在未來很可能會受到這些類型的攻擊。如果我們無法避免這些攻擊和安全漏洞,我們可以 承擔重大的法律和財務責任,我們的聲譽將受到損害,我們可能遭受重大收入損失。 由於銷售額的損失和客戶的不滿。我們可能沒有足夠的資源或技術成熟來迅速預測或預防 不斷演變的網絡攻擊類型。網絡攻擊可能針對我們、我們的供應商、客戶或其他參與者,或互聯網基礎設施 這是我們所依賴的。實際或預期的攻擊和風險可能會導致我們招致更高的成本,包括部署成本 增加人員和網絡保護技術,培訓員工,並聘請第三方網絡專家和顧問。因爲我們 不投保網絡安全保險,我們將無法減輕對任何第三方的此類風險。網絡安全漏洞不會 這不僅會損害我們的聲譽和業務,還會大幅減少我們的收入和淨利潤。

 

我們 可能無法保護我們的知識產權。

 

我們 無法保證我們爲保護知識產權而採取的措施足以阻止挪用 專有信息,或者我們將能夠檢測到未經授權的使用並採取適當措施來執行我們的知識產權 產權

 

我們 可能受到知識產權侵權索賠,這可能是昂貴的辯護,並可能擾亂我們的業務和運營。

 

我們 不能確定我們的業務或業務的任何方面不會或不會侵犯或以其他方式違反商標, 第三方擁有的版權、專有技術或其他知識產權。我們可能會在未來不時地受到 與他人知識產權有關的法律訴訟和索賠。此外,還可能有第三方商標, 被我們的產品、服務或業務的其他方面侵犯的版權、專有技術或其他知識產權 在我們不知情的情況下。這些知識產權的持有者可以在香港、美國等地尋求對我們行使這些權利。 各州或其他司法管轄區。如果對我們提出任何第三方侵權索賠,我們可能會被迫轉移一些資源 從我們的業務和運營中對這些索賠進行辯護,無論其是非曲直。

 

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此外, 香港知識產權法的適用和解釋以及授予程序和標準 香港的商標、版權、專有技術或其他知識產權仍在發展中且不確定,我們不能 確保香港法院或監管機構同意我們的分析。如果我們被發現違反了知識分子 他人的財產權,我們可能會對我們的侵權活動承擔責任或可能被禁止使用該知識產權 財產,我們可能會產生許可費或被迫開發我們自己的替代方案。因此,我們的業務和經營業績 可能會受到重大不利影響。

 

妥協 泄露機密或專有信息可能會損害我們的聲譽,損害我們的業務,並對我們的財務業績造成不利影響。

 

我們 我們自己的機密和專有信息以及我們客戶的信息可能會被泄露,無論是有意還是無意, 由我們的員工、顧問或供應商提供。我們信息技術系統的安全性受到損害,導致盜竊或濫用 我們自己或我們客戶的專有或機密信息,或其他人公開披露或使用此類信息, 可能導致損失、針對我們的第三方索賠和聲譽損害,包括客戶損失。盜竊或妥協 我們或我們客戶的信息可能會對我們的聲譽、財務業績和前景產生負面影響。此外,如果我們的聲譽 由於數據安全漏洞而受損,我們吸引新業務和客戶的能力可能會受到損害,或者我們可能會受到影響 損害賠償或處罰,這可能會對我們的業務、財務業績或財務狀況產生負面影響。

 

增加 香港的勞動力成本可能會對我們的業務和經營業績產生不利影響。

 

這個 近年來,香港經濟經歷了通脹和勞動力成本的上升。因此,香港的平均工資 預計將繼續增加。此外,香港法律法規要求我們保留各種法定僱員 福利,包括強制性公積金計劃和工傷保險,以提供法定的有薪病假, 年假和產假,以及支付遣散費或長期服務金。有關政府機構可審查是否 僱主已遵守這些規定,不遵守規定的僱主即屬刑事罪行,可被 可判處罰款和/或監禁。我們預計,我們的勞動力成本,包括工資和員工福利,將繼續增加。除非 我們能夠控制我們的勞動力成本,或者通過增加我們服務的費用,將這些增加的勞動力成本轉嫁給我們的用戶 財務狀況和經營業績可能會受到不利影響。

 

我們 沒有任何商業保險承保。

 

目前, 我們沒有任何商業責任或中斷保險來承保我們的運營。我們已經確定保險成本 由於這些風險和與以商業上合理的條款獲得此類保險相關的困難使得 我們有這樣的保險。任何未保險的業務中斷都可能導致我們承擔巨額成本和資源轉移, 這可能會對我們的運營業績和財務狀況產生不利影響。

 

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我們 主要股東對我們公司有重大影響力,他們的利益可能與我們其他股東的利益不一致 股東

 

李一龍安德魯(「先生。 Lee」)目前是6,960,000股普通股或我們已發行股份的38.0%的受益擁有人。李先生將能夠 對我們的業務施加重大投票影響,包括有關合並、合併和全部或大部分出售的決定 我們所有的資產、董事選舉和其他重大公司行爲。即使遭到反對,也可能採取這些行動 由我們的其他股東,包括我們的公衆股東。此外,這種所有權集中可能會阻礙、推遲或阻止 我們公司控制權發生變化,這可能會剝奪我們的股東獲得其股份溢價的機會 出售我們公司的行爲,並可能會降低我們普通股的價格。

 

我們 面臨與自然災害、健康流行病和其他疫情相關的風險,這可能會嚴重擾亂我們的運營。

 

我們 容易受到自然災害和其他災難的影響。火災、洪水、颱風、地震、斷電、電信 故障、入侵、戰爭、騷亂、恐怖襲擊或類似事件可能會導致服務器中斷、故障、系統故障 可能導致數據丟失、損壞或故障的故障、技術平台故障或互聯網故障 軟件或硬件,並對我們在我們的平台上提供產品和服務的能力產生不利影響。此外,我們的 如果任何健康疫情對香港整體經濟造成損害,經營結果可能會受到不利影響。一個 在香港或世界其他地方長時間爆發任何疾病或其他不利的公共衛生事態發展可能會對 對我們的業務運營造成實質性的不利影響。此類疫情可能會嚴重擾亂我們的運營,並對我們的 業務、財務狀況和經營業績。我們的總部設在香港,我們的管理層和員工都在這裏 目前居住在。因此,如果任何自然災害、衛生流行病或其他公共安全問題影響到香港, 或造成進出香港或其周邊地區的旅行限制,我們的業務可能會受到實質性的干擾, 這可能會對我們的業務、財務狀況和經營業績產生實質性的不利影響。2022年2月24日, 俄羅斯聯邦發動了對烏克蘭的入侵,對全球經濟產生了直接影響,導致能源價格上漲 某些原材料、商品和服務的價格和更高的價格,這反過來又加劇了 美國和全球其他國家的金融市場受到嚴重干擾。我們沒有任何手術或 然而,我們在俄羅斯或烏克蘭的業務可能會間接受到它造成的任何重大幹擾的不利影響 並可能繼續升級。這些事件中的任何一個或多個都可能阻礙我們的運營和交付努力,並對我們的 銷售結果,甚至是很長一段時間,這可能會對我們的業務、財務狀況產生實質性的不利影響 條件和操作結果。

 

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儘管到目前爲止我們的業務運營 由於我們的業務性質,我們沒有受到冠狀病毒(COVID-19)爆發的重大不利影響,因此可能存在 不保證我們的業務運營不會受到COVID-19大流行的持續影響的重大不利影響 在未來

 

呼吸道疾病的爆發 新型冠狀病毒引起的疾病(通常稱爲「COVID-19」)於2019年底出現,並已在全球蔓延。COVID-19 被認爲具有高度傳染性,並構成嚴重的公共衛生威脅。世界衛生組織將COVID-19疫情標記爲 鑑於其威脅超出了該組織宣佈的國際關注的公共衛生緊急情況,因此將於2020年3月11日定爲大流行病 2020年1月30日。

 

爲應對COVID-19 疫情爆發後,許多國家、州、城市和其他地理區域的政府已採取預防或保護行動, 例如對旅行和商業運營實施限制。已下令暫時關閉企業,數量衆多 其他企業已暫時自願關閉。這些行動的範圍和影響可能會繼續擴大。這些措施, 雖然旨在保護人類生命,但預計將對國內外經濟產生重大不利影響 嚴重程度和持續時間。當前COVID-19的爆發或持續傳播可能會導致經濟放緩,這可能會 導致全球經濟衰退。爲減輕COVID-19影響而採取的經濟穩定努力的有效性 疫情目前尚不確定。

 

一場公共衛生大流行, 包括COVID-19,可能構成公司或其附屬公司、員工、供應商、客戶和其他人可能受到阻止的風險 無限期地開展商業活動,包括由於停工、旅行限制和其他原因 政府當局可能要求或授權的行動。此類行爲可能會阻止公司訪問設施 其客戶交付產品和提供服務。此外,我們的客戶可能會選擇推遲或放棄 我們因此類行爲而提供產品和/或服務。

 

雖然新冠肺炎的爆發 到目前爲止,由於我們的業務性質是基於技術平台和資源,因此尚未對我們的業務運營造成實質性影響 (例如,與製造業不同),不能保證它不會對我們、我們的員工、 供應商,或未來的客戶。例如,如果我們的大量員工或員工和第三方履行 包括我們的首席執行官和董事會成員在內的主要職能部門生病,我們的業務可能會受到進一步的不利影響。在……裏面 此外,我們還修改了我們的業務做法(包括員工出差、員工工作地點和取消實際參與 在會議、活動和會議中),我們可以根據政府當局的要求或我們決定的進一步行動 符合我們的員工、客戶、合作伙伴和供應商的最佳利益。這種修改後的業務做法(包括延期 遠程工作安排)可能會對我們的員工和我們的it系統構成挑戰,並增加運營風險,包括網絡 安全和IT系統管理風險,並削弱我們管理業務的能力。運營挑戰的增加可能會 對我們的業務、財務狀況和經營結果產生實質性的不利影響。

 

我們的流動性可能是負面的 如果這些情況持續很長一段時間,我們可能被要求尋求額外的融資來源,就會受到影響 獲得流動資金、維持適當的庫存水平並履行我們的財務義務。我們獲得任何所需的能力 融資沒有保證,並且在很大程度上取決於不斷變化的市場條件和其他因素。取決於持續影響 由於COVID-19爆發,可能需要採取進一步行動來改善我們的現金狀況和資本結構。我們無法向閣下保證 我們將能夠以對我們有利或根本有利的條件採取任何這些行動,這些行動將會成功, 允許我們履行預定的債務償還義務或滿足我們的資本要求,或者允許這些行動 根據我們現有或未來債務協議的條款。

 

我們也可能會受到衝擊 由於市場低迷和對我們產品和服務的需求變化,與大流行的恐懼和對我們勞動力的影響 新冠肺炎的結果。如果新冠肺炎在我們的市場上爆發得更加明顯,或者如果另一場重大自然災害或大流行 如果未來發生此類事件,我們在受此類事件影響地區的運營可能會因以下原因而遭受進一步的不利財務影響 市場變化和其他隨之而來的事件和情況。新冠肺炎疫情對我們運營結果的影響程度, 財務狀況和現金流將取決於高度不確定和無法預測的未來發展,包括新的 可能出現的關於新冠肺炎的嚴重性、新冠肺炎的壽命以及遏制新冠肺炎或治療新冠肺炎的行動的信息 它的影響,以及恢復正常經濟和運營條件的速度和程度。儘管很難預測 新冠肺炎的爆發對我們業務的影響和最終的影響,在未來,新冠肺炎的影響很可能是不利的 影響我們下一財年的經營業績、財務狀況和現金流。

 

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子變體的影響 COVID-19的Omicron變種的傳播速度可能比原始Omicron變種更快,以及任何新變種的影響 以及可能開發的子變體,包括政府採取的任何行動,可能會減緩我們在香港的銷售。

 

此外,即使在 COVID-19疫情已經平息,我們的業務可能會因COVID-19疫情對全球經濟的影響而受到影響, 包括我們、我們的客戶和供應商已經或可能發生的任何經濟衰退或衰退或其他長期影響 在未來

 

未能遵守 適用於我們業務的法律和法規可能會使我們受到罰款和處罰,還可能導致我們失去客戶 否則損害我們的業務。

 

我們 業務受到香港多個政府機構的監管,包括負責監督和執行的機構 遵守各種法律義務,例如與隱私和數據保護相關的法律法規、知識產權法, 就業和勞動法、工作場所安全、政府貿易法、進出口管制、反腐敗和反賄賂法、 和稅收法律法規。在某些司法管轄區,這些監管要求可能比香港更嚴格。這些法律 法規給我們的業務帶來了額外的成本。不遵守適用法規或要求可能會使我們面臨:

 

調查、執法 行動和制裁;

 

對我們的網絡進行強制更改 和產品;

 

    返還利潤、罰款和損害賠償;
     
  民事和刑事處罰或禁令;

 

我們的客戶索賠損失 或渠道合作伙伴;

 

合同終止;

 

未能獲得、維持 或更新開展我們運營所需的某些許可證、批准、許可、登記或文件;以及

 

暫時或永久禁賽 從銷售到公共服務組織。

 

如果 任何政府制裁被施加,或者如果我們在任何可能的民事或刑事訴訟中沒有勝訴,我們的業務、結果 業務和財務狀況可能會受到不利影響。此外,對任何行動的響應都可能導致顯著的 轉移我們管理層的注意力和資源,並增加專業費用。執法行動和制裁可能 對我們的業務、經營結果和財務狀況造成實質性損害。

 

任何 監管機構或立法機構的審查可能會導致大量監管罰款、改變我們的商業實踐,以及其他 處罰,這可能會對我們的業務和運營結果產生負面影響。社會、政治和監管條件的變化 或在法律和政策中管理廣泛的主題,可能會導致我們改變我們的商業實踐。此外,我們將擴展爲 各種新油田也可能引發一些新的監管問題。這些因素可能會對我們的業務和業績產生負面影響 以物質的方式運作。

 

此外, 我們面臨着管理層、員工和與我們合作的各方不當行爲、錯誤和未能履行職能的風險, 可能不時受到訴訟和監管調查和訴訟或面臨潛在責任 以及與不遵守適用法律和法規相關的處罰,這可能損害我們的聲譽和業務。

 

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如果我們直接受到最近的 涉及美國的審查、批評和負面宣傳中國上市公司,我們可能不得不花費大量資源來調查 並解決可能損害我們的業務運營、股價和聲譽並可能導致您的投資損失的問題 在我們的普通股中,特別是如果此類問題無法得到有利的解決和解決。

 

最近,美國上市公司 基本上所有業務都在中國(包括香港)的公司一直受到嚴格的審查、批評和 投資者、財經評論員和監管機構,如美國證券交易委員會的負面宣傳。大部分的審查、批評和 負面宣傳集中在財務和會計方面的違規和錯誤,缺乏有效的內部控制 財務會計、不適當的公司治理政策或不遵守這些政策,以及在許多情況下對欺詐的指控。 由於受到審查、批評和負面宣傳,許多美國上市中國公司的上市股票大幅 價值下降,在某些情況下,幾乎變得一文不值。這些公司中的許多現在都受到股東的訴訟 和美國證券交易委員會執法行動,並正在對這些指控進行內部和外部調查。目前還不清楚會有什麼影響 這種全行業的審查、批評和負面宣傳將對我們的公司、我們的業務和我們的股票價格產生影響。儘管從本質上講 我們所有的業務都設在香港,我們的客戶和供應商都不在內地,中國,如果我們成爲主題的話 對於任何不利的指控,無論這些指控被證明是真是假,我們都要花費大量資源 調查此類指控和/或爲我們的公司辯護。這種情況將是昂貴和耗時的,並會分散我們的管理層的注意力 來發展我們的公司。

 

我們可能被要求確認損害 對我們的長期資產和其他無形資產收取費用,這可能會對我們的財務業績產生重大影響。

 

我們評估我們的長期資產 和其他無形資產,根據美國公認會計原則的要求確定其是否出現損害,如果出現損害,則進行適當記錄 減損費用。我們考慮的因素包括相對於預期的歷史或預測的未來運營表現嚴重不佳 結果和重大負面的行業或經濟趨勢。我們可能被要求記錄重大損失 未來的費用。此類費用已經並可能對我們的運營業績產生不利影響。

 

如果我們無法接受客戶參與 由於真實或感知到的關係問題,我們的收入、增長、客戶參與度和前景可能會受到負面影響。

 

我們無法接受訂婚 來自現有或潛在客戶,代表與相同或競爭項目或任何要求相關的多個客戶 我們從客戶合約中辭職可能會對我們的收入、增長和財務業績產生負面影響。當我們遵循內部慣例時 評估我們的客戶、項目、細分市場、實踐和專業人士之間的關係中存在的實際和潛在問題, 這樣的擔憂不可能總是避免。例如,在同一件事上,我們一般不會代表相互敵對的各方。 我們將考慮未來的戰略性或機會性收購。在這些情況下,可能適用以下部分或全部風險。 收購可能需要我們退出客戶合約,因爲目前無法確定的關係問題。在……裏面 此外,我們收購的企業或加入我們的員工可能無法自由接受他們在 我們的收購或僱傭是因爲關係問題。

 

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Claims involving our services could harm our overall professional reputation and our ability to compete and attract business or hire or retain qualified professionals.

 

Our engagements involve matters that may result in a severe impact on a client’s business, cause the client a substantial monetary loss or prevent the client from pursuing business opportunities. Our ability to attract new clients and generate new and repeat engagements or hire professionals depends upon our ability to maintain a high degree of client satisfaction, as well as our reputation among industry professionals. As a result, any claims against us involving the quality of our services may be more damaging than similar claims against businesses in other industries.

 

We may incur significant costs and may lose engagements as a result of claims by our clients regarding our services.

 

Many of our engagements involve complex analysis and the exercise of professional judgment. Therefore, we are subject to the risk of professional and other liabilities. Damages and/or expenses resulting from any successful claim against us, for indemnity or otherwise, in excess of the amount of insurance coverage will be borne directly by us and could harm our profitability and financial resources. Any claim by a client or third party against us could expose us to reputational issues that adversely affect our ability to attract new or maintain existing engagements or clients or qualified professionals or other employees, consultants or contractors.

 

We may not have, or may choose not to pursue, legal remedies against clients that terminate their engagements.

 

The engagement letters that we typically have with clients do not obligate them to continue to use our services and permit them to terminate the engagement without penalty at any time. Even if the termination of an ongoing engagement by a client could constitute a breach of the client’s engagement agreement, we may decide that preserving the overall client relationship is more important than seeking damages for the breach and, for that or other reasons, decide not to pursue any legal remedies against a client, even though such remedies may be available to us. We make the determination whether to pursue any legal actions against a client on a case-by-case basis.

 

If we fail to compete effectively, we may miss new business opportunities or lose existing clients, and our revenues and profitability may decline.

  

The market for some of our services is highly competitive. We do not compete against the same companies across all of our segments, practices, services, industries or geographic regions. Instead, we compete with different companies or businesses of companies depending on the particular nature of a proposed engagement and the types of requested services and the location of the client or delivery of the services. Our operations are highly competitive.

 

Our competitors include large organizations, such as the global IT consulting and software companies, which offer niche services that are the same or similar to services or products offered by one or more of our segments; and small firms and independent contractors that focus on specialized services. Some of our competitors have significantly more financial resources, a larger national or international presence, larger professional staffs and greater brand recognition than we do. Some have lower overhead and other costs and can compete through lower cost-service offerings. 

 

If we cannot compete effectively or if the costs of competing, including the costs of hiring and retaining professionals, become too expensive, our revenue growth and financial results could be negatively affected and may differ materially from our expectations.

 

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Risks Related to Our People

 

Our failure to recruit and retain qualified professionals could negatively affect our financial results and our ability to staff client engagements, maintain relationships with clients and drive future growth.

 

We deliver sophisticated professional services to our clients. Our success is dependent, in large part, on our ability to keep our supply of skills and resources in balance with client demand around the world. To attract and retain clients, we need to demonstrate professional acumen and build trust and strong relationships. Our professionals have highly specialized skills. They also develop strong bonds with the clients they serve. Our continued success depends upon our ability to attract and retain professionals who have expertise, a good reputation and client relationships critical to maintaining and developing our business. We face intense competition in recruiting and retaining qualified and experienced professionals to drive our organic growth and support expansion of our services and geographic footprint. We cannot assure that we will be able to attract or retain qualified professionals to maintain or expand our business. If we are unable to successfully integrate, motivate and retain qualified professionals, our ability to continue to secure work may suffer. Moreover, competition has caused our costs of retaining and hiring qualified professionals to increase, a trend that could continue and could adversely affect our operating margins and financial results.

 

Despite fixed terms or renewal provisions, we could face retention issues during and at the end of the terms of those agreements and large compensation expenses to secure extensions. There is no assurance we will enter into new or extend employment agreements with our professionals. We monitor contract expirations carefully to commence dialogues with professionals regarding their employment in advance of the actual contract expiration dates. Our goal is to renew employment agreements when advisable and to stagger the expirations of the agreements if possible. Because of the concentration of contract expirations in certain years as we expand our business, we may experience high turnover or other adverse consequences, such as higher costs, loss of clients and engagements or difficulty in staffing engagements, if we are unable to renegotiate employment arrangements or the costs of retaining qualified professionals become too high. The implementation of new compensation arrangements may result in the concentration of potential turnover in future years.

 

Headcount reductions to manage costs during periods of reduced demand for our services could have negative impacts on our business over the longer term.

 

During periods of reduced demand for our services, or in response to unfavorable changes in market or industry conditions, we may seek to align our cost structure more closely with our revenues and increase our utilization rates by reducing headcount and eliminating or consolidating underused locations in affected business segments or practices. Following such actions, in response to subsequent increases in demand for our services, including as a result of favorable changes in market or industry conditions, we may need to hire, train and integrate additional qualified and skilled personnel and may be unable to do so to meet our needs or our clients’ demands on a timely basis. If we are unable to manage staffing levels on a timely basis in light of changing opportunities or conditions, our ability to accept or service business opportunities and client engagements, take advantage of positive market and industry developments, and realize future growth could be negatively affected, which could negatively impact our revenues and profitability. In addition, while increased utilization resulting from headcount reductions may enhance our profitability in the near term, it could negatively affect our business over the longer term by limiting the time our professionals have to seek out and cultivate new client relationships and win new projects.

 

Employees may leave our Company to form or join competitors, and we may not have, or may choose not to pursue, legal recourse against such professionals.

 

我們的員工通常擁有 基於他們的專業知識以及個人信任和信心的紐帶,與他們所服務的客戶建立密切的關係。因此,障礙是 對於我們的員工來說,尋求獨立的商業機會或加入我們的競爭對手應該被認爲是很低的。雖然我們的客戶 通常與我們作爲一個公司簽訂服務合同,而不是與個別員工簽訂合同,如果員工離職,如 客戶可能會決定繼續與特定人員合作,而不是與我們公司合作。如果一名員工 離開並以我們認爲違反其競業禁止或競業禁止協議的方式行事,我們將考慮任何合法的 我們可以在個案的基礎上針對這類人採取補救措施。我們可能會決定保持合作和專業關係 與前僱員或客戶的關係,或其他擔憂,超過了任何可能的法律追索的好處。我們也可以決定 成功的可能性不能證明尋求法律補救的成本是合理的。因此,有時我們可能會決定不再追查 法律行動,即使我們可以獲得。

 

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與收購相關的風險 

 

我們將考慮未來的戰略 或機會主義收購。在這些情況下,以下部分或全部風險可能適用。

 

我們可能很難整合收購 或者說服客戶允許將他們的業務分配給我們,這可能會減少我們從收購中獲得的好處。

 

管理和 將收購整合到我們現有的運營中可能會導致不可預見的運營困難,並可能需要大量的財務、 運營和管理資源原本可用於我們現有的運營、開發和有機擴展 運營如果我們誤判了正確管理和整合收購的能力,我們可能會很難實現 我們的運營、戰略和財務目標。

 

收購還可能涉及 一些特殊的財務、業務和運營風險,例如:

 

整合困難 多元化的企業文化和管理風格;

 

不同的政策和做法;

 

客戶關係問題;

 

期間利用率下降 整合過程;

 

現有或獲得的密鑰丟失 人員;

 

改善或增加成本 協調管理、運營、財務和行政系統;

 

稀釋性股票發行 爲收購融資的證券,包括可轉換債務證券;

 

承擔法律責任;

 

未來的盈利付款或 其他價格調整;

 

潛在的未來註銷 與善意或其他收購無形資產的減損或資產的重新估值有關;

 

難以或無法收集 應收賬款;和

 

未披露的負債。

 

除了整合之外 上述挑戰,我們對非美國公司的收購帶來了與外國法律和 政府法規,包括稅收和員工福利法,以及與在非國家/地區運營相關的其他因素 美國,我們在這些風險因素的其他地方已經解決了這一問題。

 

資產交易可能需要 我們尋求客戶同意將其業務分配給我們或子公司。所有客戶可能不同意分配。在 在某些情況下,例如政府合同和破產契約,直到收購之後才能徵求客戶的同意 已經關閉。此外,此類業務可能會受到我們可能不遵守的安全審查要求或投標條款的約束 能夠遵守。不保證被收購實體或地方、州、聯邦或外國政府的客戶會同意 更新或將其合同轉讓給我們。

 

我們還可能會僱用團體 從另一家公司挑選的專業人士。在這種情況下,加入我們的專業人士的能力可能會受到限制 競爭並致力於客戶互動。此外,我們可能會與這些專業人士的前僱主達成安排 關於他們的工作限制,直到任何時間限制過去。在這種情況下,我們無法保證會進入 與任何前僱主達成雙方同意的安排,而此類專業人士的利用可能會受到限制,而我們的財務狀況 結果可能會受到負面影響,直到限制結束。我們還可能面臨集團僱用的訴訟風險。

 

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收購在短期內或根本不會產生增值作用。

 

競爭市場情況 可能要求我們支付代表收購收入或利潤較高倍數的價格。由於這些競爭 動態、收購成本或其他因素,某些收購可能不會對我們的整體財務業績產生增值作用 收購時或根本。

 

我們可能有不同的治理體系 以及我們收購的公司或其母公司的管理層,這可能會導致從收購公司加入我們的專業人士離開 我們

 

我們的治理和管理 政策和實踐不會反映被收購公司或其母公司的政策和實踐。在某些情況下,不同的管理 做法和政策可能會導致加入我們公司的專業人士對工作場所感到不滿。一些專業人士可能 選擇不加入我們公司或加入後離開。現有的專業人士也可能會離開我們。關鍵專業人士的流失可能 損害我們的業務和財務業績,並導致我們無法實現收購的預期利益。

 

由於我們的股價波動, 收購候選人可能不願意接受我們的普通股作爲收購價格對價,使用我們的股份作爲收購價格 對價可能會被稀釋,或者我們尋求收購的某些公司的所有者可能會堅持提供股價擔保。

 

我們可能會進行收購 以普通股支付部分購買價格。作爲對價發行的股份數量通常基於平均值 收購結束前數天每股普通股的收盤價。股市波動,一般來說,或 具體來說,股價波動可能會導致收購候選人不願意接受我們的股份作爲對價。以這樣 在情況下,如果股票構成對價的一部分,我們可能必須發行更多股票,提供股價保證,支付全部購買費用 以現金定價或協商替代價格結構。結果可能是收購成本增加。概不保證 收購候選人不會就未來收購談判股價保證,這可能會增加成本 這樣的收購。

 

與我們的公司結構相關的風險

 

我們可以依靠分紅和其他分配。 關於我們子公司爲我們可能有的任何現金和融資需求支付的股本,以及對我們子公司能力的任何限制 向我們付款可能會對我們開展業務的能力產生實質性的不利影響。

 

我們是一家控股公司 在英屬維爾京群島,我們可能依賴子公司支付的股息和其他股權分配來獲取我們的現金, 融資要求,包括向我們的股東支付股息和其他現金分配以****何 我們可能承擔的債務。如果我們的任何子公司未來代表自己產生債務,則管理債務的工具可能會限制 其向我們支付股息或進行其他分配的能力。

 

根據目前的做法 根據香港稅務局的規定,我們無需就支付的股息在香港繳納任何稅款。請參閱“項目 10 -附加信息- E. 稅務-香港利得稅”,載於本年度報告第84頁.任何 對我們香港子公司向我們支付股息或進行其他分配的能力的限制可能會造成重大不利影響 限制我們的增長、進行可能對我們的業務有利的投資或收購、支付股息或以其他方式籌集資金的能力 並開展我們的業務。

 

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我們缺乏有效的內部控制 過度財務報告可能會影響我們準確報告財務業績或防止欺詐的能力,從而影響市場 我們普通股的價格和價格。

 

執行第404條 2002年的薩班斯-奧克斯利法案,美國證券交易委員會通過了規則,要求上市公司包括一份關於公司 財務報告的內部控制。在IPO之前,我們是一傢俬人公司,會計人員和其他資源有限 解決我們對財務報告的內部控制。我們的管理層尚未完成對我們的 財務報告的內部控制和我們的獨立註冊會計師事務所沒有對我們的內部 對財務報告的控制。然而,關於對我們截至2024年6月30日的合併財務報表的審計 和2023年,我們和我們的獨立註冊會計師事務所發現了我們在財務內部控制方面的重大弱點 報告以及上述期間的其他控制缺陷。如PCAOB建立的標準中所定義的, 「實質性缺陷」是指財務報告的內部控制存在缺陷或缺陷的組合,例如 我們的年度或中期財務報表存在重大錯報的合理可能性不會得到防止 或及時發現。查明的重大弱點涉及:一)某些關鍵職能的職責分工不充分 由於工作人員和資源有限;二)缺乏足夠的財務報告和會計人員,具備適當的知識 美國公認會計准則和美國證券交易委員會的報告要求,以正規化財務報告的關鍵控制並編制合併財務報表 和相關披露;三)缺乏獨立董事和審計委員會,以建立正式的風險評估程序和內部 控制框架;iv)缺乏監控服務組織所執行的系統操作和管理的控制或程序; 影響信息技術通用控制(ITGC)的特權訪問和系統更改;以及v)缺乏 文檔化的策略和控制(包括IT控制和網絡安全框架),使管理層和其他人員能夠 了解並履行其內部控制責任。

 

In connection with our IPO, we have appointed independent directors, established an audit committee and strengthened corporate governance. In addition, we intend to implement other measures designed to improve our internal control over financial reporting to address the underlying causes of these material weaknesses, including i) hiring more qualified staff to fill up the key roles in the operations; ii) setting up a financial and system control framework with formal documentation of polices and controls in place; iii) appointed independent directors, established an audit committee and strengthened corporate governance; and iv) restricting and managing types of access rights and number of users in the applications hosted by service organizations and the application used for financial reporting based on individuals with their corresponding business roles and responsibilities.

 

As a public company, we are subject to the requirement that we maintain internal controls and that management performs periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal controls. Effective internal control over financial reporting is important to prevent fraud. As a result, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, as well as the market for and trading price of our Ordinary Shares, may be materially and adversely affected if we do not have effective internal controls. The absence of internal controls over financial reporting may inhibit investors from purchasing our Ordinary Shares and may make it more difficult for us to raise funds in a debt or equity financing.

 

Additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies may be identified in the future. If we identify such issues or if we are unable to produce accurate and timely financial statements, our stock price may decline and we may be unable to maintain compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rules.  

 

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If we cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer, we would be required to comply fully with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, and we would incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses that we would not incur as a foreign private issuer.

 

As a foreign private issuer, we will be exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of proxy statements, and our officers, directors and principal shareholders will be exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act. In addition, we will not be required under the Exchange Act to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as United States domestic issuers, and we will not be required to disclose in our periodic reports all of the information that United States domestic issuers are required to disclose. However, we may cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer in the future.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act, and if we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available to emerging growth companies, this could make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public companies.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act. Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised, and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used. If some investors find our Ordinary Shares less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our Ordinary Shares and our share price may be more volatile.

 

We will incur increased costs as a result of being a public company, particularly after we cease to qualify as an “emerging growth company.”

 

We will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses as a public company that we did not incur as a private company. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the SEC, impose various requirements on the corporate governance practices of public companies. We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act and will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial public offering, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.235 billion, or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our Ordinary Shares that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30th, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during the prior three-year period. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced reporting and other requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies. These provisions include exemption from the auditor attestation requirement under Section 404 in the assessment of the emerging growth company’s internal control over financial reporting and permission to delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies.

 

Compliance with these rules and regulations increases our legal and financial compliance costs and makes some corporate activities more time-consuming and costly. After we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” or until five years following the completion of our initial public offering (the “IPO”), whichever is earlier, we expect to incur significant expenses and devote substantial management effort toward ensuring compliance with the requirements of Section 404 and the other rules and regulations of the SEC. For example, as a public company, we are required to have independent directors and adopt policies regarding internal controls and disclosure controls and procedures. We may incur additional costs in obtaining director and officer liability insurance. In addition, we incur additional costs associated with our public company reporting requirements. We cannot predict or estimate with any degree of certainty the amount of additional costs we may incur as a public company or the timing of such costs.

 

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Our board of directors may decline to register transfers of Ordinary Shares in certain circumstances.

 

Our board of directors may, in its sole discretion, decline to register any transfer of any Ordinary Share which is not fully paid up or on which we have a lien. Our directors may also decline to register any transfer of any share unless (i) the instrument of transfer is lodged with us, accompanied by the certificate for the shares to which it relates and such other evidence as our board of directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; (ii) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares; (iii) the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required; (iv) in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the share is to be transferred does not exceed four; (v) the shares conceded are free of any lien in favor of us; or (vi) a fee of such maximum sum as Nasdaq Capital Market may determine to be payable, or such lesser sum as our board of directors may from time to time require, is paid to us in respect thereof. 

 

If our directors refuse to register a transfer they shall, within one month after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged, send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal. The registration of transfers may, on 14 days’ notice being given by advertisement in such one or more newspapers or by electronic means, be suspended and the register closed at such times and for such periods as our board of directors may from time to time determine, provided, however, that the registration of transfers shall not be suspended nor the register closed for more than 30 days in any year.

 

Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong

 

Although we and our subsidiaries are not based in mainland China and we have no operations in mainland China, the PRC government may intervene or influence our current and future operations in Hong Kong at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in issuers like ourselves. It may result in a material adverse change in GEL’s operations, significantly limit or completely hinder GE Group’s ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of GE Group’s securities to significantly decline or become worthless, which would materially affect the interests of the investors.

 

我們和我們的子公司 沒有常駐大陸的中國,也沒有在大陸的業務中國。此外,我們的客戶和供應商都不在 內地中國。我們目前沒有也沒有打算在大陸設立任何子公司中國,或預計沒有必要與 與VIE簽訂的任何合同安排都是爲了在內地建立VIE架構中國。截至2024年6月30日及6月30日止年度, 到2023年,我們分別約有21.0%和78.1%的收入來自香港。根據《基本法》,這是一個全國性的法律 中華人民共和國法律和香港的憲法文件,除下列情況外,中華人民共和國全國性法律不在香港實施 列於《基本法》附件三,並以公佈或本地立法的方式在當地實施。《基本法》明確規定: 可列入《基本法》附件三的中華人民共和國全國性法律限於國防和外交方面的法律。 香港自治範圍以外的事務和其他事項。中華人民共和國對香港特別行政區的基本方針 《基本法》規定香港實行高度自治,實行行政、立法和獨立 司法權,包括在「一國兩制」原則下的終審權。

 

However, in light of the PRC government’s recent expansion of authority in Hong Kong, we may be subject to uncertainty about any future actions of the PRC government or authorities in Hong Kong, and it is possible that all the legal and operational risks associated with being based in and having operations in the PRC may also apply to operations in Hong Kong in the future. There is no assurance that there will not be any changes in the economic, political and legal environment in Hong Kong. The PRC government may intervene or influence our current and future operations in Hong Kong at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in issuers like ourselves. Such governmental actions, if and when they occur: (i) could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to continue our operations; (ii) could significantly limit or hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our Ordinary Shares to investors; and (iii) may cause the value of our Ordinary Shares to significantly decline or become worthless.

 

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There remain some uncertainties as to whether we will be required to obtain approvals from Chinese authorities to offer securities in the future, and if required, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain such approval. 

 

The Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Companies by Foreign Investors (the “M&A Rules”), adopted by six PRC regulatory agencies in 2006 and amended in 2009, requires an overseas special purpose vehicle formed for listing purposes through acquisitions of PRC domestic companies and controlled by PRC companies or individuals to obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and trading of such special purpose vehicle’s securities on an overseas stock exchange.

 

We are also aware that recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in certain areas in mainland China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over mainland-China-based companies listed overseas using variable interest entity structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement. For example, on July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued a document to crack down on illegal activities in the securities market and promote the high-quality development of the capital market, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental authorities to strengthen cross-border oversight of law-enforcement and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over mainland-China-based companies listed overseas, and to establish and improve the system of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws.

 

On December 28, 2021, the CAC and other PRC authorities promulgated the Cybersecurity Review Measures, which took effect on February 15, 2022. In addition, the Cybersecurity Law, which was adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on November 7, 2016 and came into force on June 1, 2017, and the Cybersecurity Review Measures, or the “Review Measures”, provide that personal information and important data collected and generated by a critical information infrastructure operator in the course of its operations in mainland China must be stored in mainland China, and if a critical information infrastructure operator purchases internet products and services that affect or may affect national security, it should be subject to national security review by the CAC together with competent departments of the State Council. In addition, for critical information infrastructure operators, or the “CIIOs”, that purchase network-related products and services, the CIIOs shall declare any network-related product or service that affects or may affect national security to the Office of Cybersecurity Review of the CAC for cybersecurity review. Due to the lack of further interpretations, the exact scope of what constitutes a “CIIO” remains unclear. Further, the PRC government authorities may have wide discretion in the interpretation and enforcement of these laws. In addition, the Review Measures stipulates that any online platform operators holding more than one million users/users’ individual information shall be subject to cybersecurity review before listing abroad. As of the date of this Annual Report, we have not received any notice from any authorities identifying us as a CIIO or requiring us to undertake a cybersecurity review by the CAC. Further, as of the date of this Annual Report, we have not been subject to any penalties, fines, suspensions, investigations from any competent authorities for violation of the regulations or policies that have been issued by the CAC. 

 

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2021年6月10日, 全國人大常委會公佈了《數據安全法》,自2021年9月1日起施行。 《數據安全法》要求,不得以盜竊或其他非法手段收集數據,並規定了數據分類 和分級保護制度。數據分類和分級保護系統根據數據的重要性對數據進行保護 在經濟和社會發展中,以及可能對國家安全、公共利益或者合法權益造成的損害 如果數據被僞造、損壞、披露、非法獲取或非法使用,個人和組織的利益將受到哪些保護 預計在不久的將來,國家將爲數據安全建設系統。2021年11月14日,中國民航總局發佈了《條例》 關於數據安全管理草案,或《數據安全條例草案》,徵求公衆意見和意見。 根據數據安全條例草案,海外首次公開募股將由處理個人信息的數據處理器進行 超過100萬人的信息應申請網絡安全審查。數據處理員是指個人或組織 在數據處理活動和數據處理活動中獨立決定處理的目的和方式 指收集、保留、使用、處理、傳輸、提供、披露或刪除數據等活動。目前 我們預計檢討措施不會對我們的香港附屬公司Gel的業務及營運造成影響,因爲:(I)Gel 中國在香港註冊成立及營運,在內地並無任何附屬公司或VIE架構,目前尚不清楚該檢討是否 措施適用於香港公司;(Ii)截至本年報日期,凝膠尚未收集或儲存爲個人 內地中國任何個人客戶的資料;及(Iii)截至本年報日期,GELL尚未獲 任何中國政府當局不得要求其爲我們的首次公開募股提交網絡安全審查。基於目前的法律法規 自本年度報告之日起在中國有效,我們認爲GELL不需要通過CAC的網絡安全審查 爲了讓我們的普通股在美國上市。

 

此外,12月24日, 2021年,中國證監會發布《國務院關於證券境外發行上市的管理規定》 境內企業(《管理規定草案》)和《境外發行證券和 境內企業上市備案(徵求意見稿)(「備案辦法草案」),統稱爲《草案》 有關海外上市的規則。《海外上市規則草案》旨在爲兩者制定備案監管安排 直接和間接境外上市,明確境外市場間接境外上市的確定標準。根據 在向海外股市提出初步申請後,加入《海外上市規則草案》等 首次公開發行股票或上市的,所有中國內地公司均應在三個工作日內向中國證監會備案。

 

2023年2月17日, 中國證監會發布《境內公司境外發行上市試行管理辦法》(試行 管理辦法》),於2023年3月31日起施行。與備案辦法草案相比,試行行政管理 《辦法》進一步明確並強調,對境外間接發行上市行爲的綜合認定 中國境內公司「應遵守」實質重於形式“的原則,特別是發行人應 同時符合下列條件的,需按《試行管理辦法》辦理備案手續: A)發行人的營業收入、利潤總額、資產總額或淨資產的50%或以上 最近一個會計年度的財務報表由中國境內公司覈算,以及b)發行人的主要部分 經營活動在內地進行的中國,或其主要經營地點設在內地的中國,或其高級管理人員 負責其業務運營和管理的大多是中國公民或在內地定居的中國。同日,中國證監會 召開《試行管理辦法》發佈新聞發佈會,印發《關於備案管理的通知》 境內公司在海外發行和上市,其中包括爲符合以下條件的發行人提供豁免,使其不必立即提交申請 A)在生效前已在包括美國市場在內的外國證券市場上市或已註冊但尚未上市 試行管理辦法之日,b)不要求與相關境外監管機構重新履行監管程序 C)將於2023年9月30日前完成境外證券發行和上市。 但發行人在隨後進行再融資或參與再融資時,應按規定辦理備案手續。 其他需要向中國證監會備案的情形。此外,試行管理辦法及其配套指南還規定 禁止在海外上市的發行人類型的負面清單,發行人遵守國家安全措施的義務 和個人數據保護法,以及某些其他事項,如發行人(I)在以下時間內向中國證監會提交的要求 在向海外主管監管機構提交首次公開募股申請後三個工作日,以及(Ii)隨後提交 在海外上市後向中國證監會報告重大事件,包括控制權變更和自願或被迫退市,以及 正在掛牌。

 

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作爲審判行政機關 雖然這些措施是新頒佈的,但如何解釋或執行仍然存在不確定性。因此,我們不能向您保證 當公司符合該等備案要求時,我們將能夠及時獲得中國證監會的批准,或 所有,儘管我們認爲所有明確禁止海外上市和發行的情況都不適用於我們。基座 關於截至本年度報告日期在中國有效的法律法規,我們認爲GELL不需要獲得 經中國證監會批准或根據《試行管理辦法》辦理備案手續後方可發行普通股 未來可以在美國上市或發行,因爲a)公司不直接或間接擁有或控制任何實體或 中國在內地的附屬公司;及b)本公司的業務活動均非在內地進行,而本公司的 主要營業地點不在內地中國,負責本公司業務運營的高級管理人員 管理層大多不是中國公民,也不是中國在大陸的戶籍。

 

由於這些擬議的規則, 聲明和監管行動是新的,立法或行政監管制定機構何時採取行動是高度不確定的 將做出回應,以及將修改或頒佈哪些現有或新的法律或法規或詳細實施和解釋, 如有我們未能完全遵守新的監管要求可能會嚴重限制或完全阻礙我們的能力 要約或繼續要約普通股,對我們的業務運營造成重大幹擾,嚴重損害我們的聲譽, 對我們的財務狀況和經營業績產生重大不利影響,並導致普通股大幅下跌 要麼變得毫無價值。

 

截至本年度的日期 (I)本公司並無直接或間接擁有或控制任何內地實體或附屬公司中國, 亦非由任何中國內地公司或個人直接或間接控制;。(Ii)本公司及其附屬公司不 在內地有任何業務經營中國;(三)本公司目前沒有或打算設立任何附屬公司或進入 訂立任何與內地任何實體建立可變權益實體架構的合約安排;。(Iv)沒有任何 本公司及其附屬公司的客戶及供應商均位於內地中國及(V)本公司及其附屬公司擁有 在中國境內不超過百名萬人士的個人信息,且不掌握任何中國的核心數據或重要數據,或任何 影響或可能影響中華人民共和國國家安全的信息,我們不需要獲得中華人民共和國當局的批准 在美國交易所經營業務或上市並提供證券;具體地說,我們目前不需要獲得任何 中國證監會、中國民航總局或任何其他中國政府機構允許或批准經營我們的業務或將我們的證券上市 在美國證券交易所上市或向外國投資者發行證券。然而,如果我們和我們的子公司(I)沒有收到或維護 此類批准,如果中國政府將來需要批准,(Ii)無意中得出這樣的批准是 不需要,或(Iii)適用的法律、法規或解釋發生變化,我們需要在未來獲得此類批准, 我們的運營和財務狀況可能會受到實質性的不利影響,我們向投資者提供證券的能力可能會 受到嚴重限制或完全受阻,當前提供的證券可能會大幅貶值,併成爲 一文不值。

 

儘管如此,由於這些 聲明和監管行動都是新的,立法或行政監管機構多快制定規則是高度不確定的 將作出回應,將修改或頒佈哪些現有或新的法律或法規或詳細的實施和解釋, 如果有的話。這種修改或新的法律法規將對通用電氣集團的日常生活產生什麼潛在影響也是高度不確定的 業務運營,其接受外國投資的能力,以及我們的普通股在美國或其他外國交易所上市。 如果內地中國和香港之間目前的政治安排發生重大變化,中國政府將進行干預或 影響像我們這樣在香港經營的公司的運作,或通過改變有關發行的法律和法規來施加更多控制 對我們這樣的發行人進行海外和/或外國投資,可能會導致我們的業務和/或價值發生實質性變化 我們正在登記待售的證券,或可能顯著限制或完全阻礙我們提供或繼續提供的證券 這會導致我們普通股的價值大幅縮水或變得一文不值。他說:

 

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GEL的所有業務均在香港 Kong.然而,由於現行中國法律法規的長臂條款,中國政府可能會行使重大 對我們的業務行爲的監督和自由裁量權,並可能隨時干預或影響我們的運營,這可能會導致 我們的運營和/或普通股價值發生重大變化。中國政府也可能進行干預或施加限制 關於我們將資金轉移出香港以分配收益和支付股息或再投資於香港以外的業務的能力 Kong.中國政府的政策、法規、規則和法律執行的變化也可能很快,進展甚微 通知以及我們對中華人民共和國法律和監管體系所施加的風險的斷言和信念無法確定。

 

GE集團是一家控股公司, 我們在香港的業務是透過在香港成立的全資附屬公司Gel進行的。我們幾乎所有的業務 中國位於香港,我們的客戶或供應商都不在內地。截至本年度報告日期,我們 不要指望受到中國政府最近表示有意施加更多監督和控制的聲明的實質性影響 針對境外和/或外國投資於總部位於中國的內地發行人的發行。然而,由於長臂條款, 根據現行的中國法律和法規,在實施和解釋方面仍然存在監管上的不確定性 中國的律法。中華人民共和國政府可以選擇行使重大監督和自由裁量權, 而我們受制於的中華人民共和國政府法律的執行可能會迅速改變,而不會事先通知我們或我們的 股東們。因此,在中國適用、解釋和執行新的和現有的法律和法規往往是 不確定。此外,這些法律和法規可能會被不同的機構或當局解釋和適用不一致, 並可能與我們目前的政策和做法不符。中國新的法律、法規和其他政府指令可能 遵守成本也很高,這種遵守或任何相關的查詢或調查或任何其他政府行動可能:

 

拖延、阻礙我國發展的;

 

導致負面宣傳 或增加我們的運營成本;

 

需要管理層作出重大 時間和注意力;和/或

 

使我們接受補救措施、行政措施 可能損害我們業務的處罰甚至刑事責任,包括對我們當前或歷史運營評估的罰款, 或要求或命令我們修改甚至停止我們的業務行爲。

 

我們了解到,最近, 中國政府發起一系列監管行動和聲明,以規範內地某些地區的業務運營 中國幾乎沒有提前通知,包括打擊證券市場非法活動,加強對內地監管 海外上市公司採用可變利益實體結構,採取新措施擴大網絡安全審查範圍, 加大反壟斷執法力度。由於這些聲明和監管行動是新的,因此存在高度不確定性 立法或行政法規制定機構何時做出回應,以及現有或新的法律或法規或詳細說明 實施和解釋將被修改或頒佈(如果有的話),以及此類修改或新法律法規的潛在影響 在我們的日常業務運營中,將有能力接受外國投資並在美國或其他外匯交易所上市。

 

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中華人民共和國政府可能會介入 或隨時影響我們的業務,或可能對在海外進行的發行和以香港爲基地的外國投資施加控制 這可能會導致我們的業務和/或我們普通股的價值發生重大變化。例如,目前有 香港法律對港元兌換外幣及貨幣轉讓沒有限制或限制 香港和中國有關貨幣兌換管制的法律和法規目前對 最終控股公司GE Group與香港全資運營子公司Gel之間的現金轉移。然而, 未來,中國政府可能會對我們將資金轉移出香港進行分配的能力施加限制或限制 並向我們組織內的其他實體支付股息,或再投資於我們在香港以外的業務。 該等限制及限制,如日後實施,可能會延誤或阻礙我們在香港以外地區的業務擴展,以及 可能會影響我們從Gel獲得資金的能力。頒佈新的法律或法規,或對現有法律進行新的解釋 在每一種情況下,限制或以其他方式不利影響我們開展業務的能力或方式的法規可能要求 我們需要改變我們業務的某些方面以確保合規性,這可能會減少對我們服務的需求,減少收入,增加 成本,需要我們獲得更多的許可證、許可證、批准或證書,否則我們將承擔額外的責任。在一定程度上 任何新的或更嚴格的措施被要求實施,我們的業務、財務狀況和經營結果可能是 這些措施可能會大幅降低我們普通股的價值,有可能使其一文不值。

 

海外股東可能很難 和/或監管機構在中國境內進行調查或收集證據。 

 

股東要求或監管機構 在美國常見的調查,從法律或實際角度來看,在中國很難追究。爲 例如,在中國,提供監管調查或訴訟所需的信息存在重大的法律和其他障礙 在中國之外發起的。儘管中國有關部門可與證監會建立監管合作機制 另一個國家或地區的主管部門實施跨境監督管理,與證券公司等合作 在缺乏相互和實際合作機制的情況下,美國的監管當局可能效率不高。此外, 根據2020年3月生效的《中華人民共和國證券法》第177條或第177條,海外證券監管機構 被允許在中華人民共和國境內直接進行調查或者取證活動。雖然詳細的解釋 根據第177條的規定或實施細則尚未頒佈,海外證券監管機構無法直接 在中國內部進行調查或取證活動可能會進一步增加您在保護您的 興趣。

 

我們的主要業務運營 在香港進行。如果美國監管機構對我們進行調查並且有必要進行調查 或在中華人民共和國境內收集證據,美國監管機構可能無法進行此類調查或取證 根據中國法律直接在中國進行。美國監管機構可能考慮與證券監管機構進行跨境合作 通過司法協助、外交渠道或與證券監管機構建立的監管合作機制等方式向中國提供 中華人民共和國的權威。

 

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您可能會產生額外的費用和程序費用 在送達法律程序、執行外國判決或在香港針對我們或我們的管理層提起訴訟方面遇到障礙 本年度報告中根據香港法律命名。

 

目前,我們所有的業務 是在美國以外進行的,我們所有的資產都位於美國以外。我們所有的董事和官員 是否香港國民或香港居民,而他們的資產大部分位於美國以外的香港。你 在送達法律程序、強制執行外國判決或提起訴訟方面可能會招致額外的費用和程序障礙 在香港對本年報所指名的我們或我們的管理層提起訴訟,因爲在美國作出的判決可以在香港執行 只適用於普通法。如果你想在香港強制執行美國的判決,那就必須是終局判決 關於民事案件中的違約金,而不是關於稅款、罰款、罰款或類似收費的索賠的是非曲直, 獲得判決的訴訟程序並不違反自然正義,判決的執行也不違反 香港的公共政策。這樣的判決必須是一筆固定金額的判決,而且還必須來自所確定的「主管」法院。 根據香港法院適用的國際私法規則。

 

《中華人民共和國保障法》的制定 香港特別行政區的國家安全(「香港國家安全法」)可能會影響我們 香港控股子公司。

 

2020年6月30日,站立 中華人民共和國全國人民代表大會委員會通過香港《國家安全法》。這部法律規定了政府的職責和 香港《國家安全法》中維護國家安全的機構和四類罪行 - 分裂國家, 顛覆、恐怖活動、與外國或外部分子勾結危害國家安全 - 和 他們相應的處罰。2020年7月14日,前美國總統總裁唐納德·特朗普簽署了《香港自治法案》, 使之成爲法律,授權美國政府對決心擁有 對香港自治權的侵蝕起到了實質性的作用。2020年8月7日,美國政府實施了香港機場管理局授權的制裁 包括香港特別行政區行政長官林鄭月娥在內的11名個人。2020年10月14日,美國國務院向有關部門提交了 國會委員會香港機場管理局要求提交的報告,找出對「政府失靈」有重大影響的人士 中國履行《聯合聲明》或《基本法》規定的義務。香港機管局進一步授權二次制裁, 包括對故意進行重大交易的外國金融機構實施封鎖制裁 與根據這一權力受到制裁的外國人員的關係。實施制裁可能會直接影響到外國金融機構 以及與任何目標外國金融機構進行交易的任何第三方或客戶。很難預測 香港國家安全法和香港機管局對香港和位於香港的公司的全面影響。如果我們的香港子公司 被主管當局認定爲違反香港國家安全法或香港機場管理局,我們的業務運作, 財務狀況和業務結果可能會受到重大不利影響。

 

中國政府可能會干預 或隨時影響我們的運營,或者可能對海外進行的發行和外國在中國的投資施加更多控制權 發行人,這可能會導致我們的運營和/或普通股價值發生重大變化。此外,政府 監管幹預可能會嚴重限制或完全阻礙我們向投資者提供或繼續提供證券的能力 並導致該證券的價值大幅下降或一文不值。

 

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存在與之相關的政治風險 在香港開展業務。

 

當我們經營我們的業務時 在香港和東南亞地區,我們的業務主要以香港爲基地。因此,我們的業務運營 而財政狀況將受到香港政治和法律發展的影響。在財務報告所涵蓋的期間 根據本年報所載資料,我們幾乎所有收入均來自香港的業務。任何不利的經濟, 社會和/或政治條件、物質社會動亂、罷工、騷亂、內亂或不服從,以及重大自然 災難,可能會對我們的業務運營造成不利影響。香港是中華人民共和國的一個特別行政區,基本方針政策 《基本法》,即香港的憲制文件,規定香港 香港享有高度自治權、行政權、立法權和獨立的司法權,包括 「一國兩制」方針。然而,不能保證經濟不會有任何變化, 香港未來的政治和法律環境。由於我們的大部分業務都以香港爲基地,因此任何變化 這樣的政治安排可能會對香港的經濟穩定構成即時威脅,從而直接和不利地 影響我們的經營業績和財務狀況。

 

如果中華人民共和國試圖改變 它同意允許香港自治運作,這可能會影響香港的普通法法律制度, 反過來可能會帶來不確定性,例如我們合同權利的執行。反過來,這可能會產生物質上的不利影響 影響我們的業務和運營。此外,香港的知識產權和保密保護可能不 與美國或其他國家一樣有效。因此,我們無法預測香港未來發展的影響 香港法律體系,包括新法律的頒佈、現有法律的變更或其解釋或執行,或 國家法律優先考慮地方法規。這些不確定性可能會限制我們可用的法律保護,包括我們的 有能力執行我們與客戶的協議。

 

香港抗議 始於****年的香港持續抗議活動(「****」)是由逃犯的引入引發的 香港政府的修訂法案。如果獲得通過,該法案將允許引渡被通緝的犯罪逃犯 在目前與香港沒有簽訂引渡協議的地區,包括中國大陸。這導致人們擔心, 該法案將使香港居民和訪客受到中國大陸的司法管轄和法律制度的約束,從而破壞 地區自治和人民公民自由。由於香港經濟的各個領域都受到了不利影響 抗議活動變得越來越暴力。最值得注意的是,航空、零售和房地產行業的銷售額均出現下降。

 

根據《中華人民共和國基本法》 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區Republic of China香港專責管治香港內部事務 和對外關係,而中華人民共和國政府負責其外交和國防事務。作爲單獨的關稅區, 香港保持和發展與外國和地區的關係。基於最近的某些發展,包括法律 常務委員會印發的人民Republic of China關於維護香港特別行政區國家安全的意見 中華人民共和國全國人大常委會在2020年6月,美國國務院表示,美國沒有 Long認爲香港有很大的自治權,不受中國和總裁的影響特朗普簽署了一項行政命令和香港機管局取消 香港的優惠貿易地位,並授權美國政府對個人實施阻撓制裁 以及那些被認定對侵蝕香港自治權有重大貢獻的實體。美國可能會對 對香港出口商品徵收的關稅和其他貿易限制與對大陸中國的商品徵收的關稅和其他貿易限制相同。這些和其他最近的 這些行動可能代表着涉及美國、中國和香港的政治和貿易緊張局勢的升級,這可能會造成潛在的損害 我們的生意。

 

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我們的收入很容易受到影響 對於持續發生的影響香港社會、經濟和政治穩定的事件或因素。任何過激的 事件可能會對我們的業務運營產生不利影響。此類不利事件可能包括經濟狀況和監管環境的變化, 社會和/或政治狀況、內亂或不服從,以及重大自然災害。考慮到相對的 香港幅員遼闊,任何此類事件都可能對我們的商業運作產生廣泛的影響,進而可能 對我們的業務、經營結果和財務狀況產生不利和實質性的影響。很難預測全面的影響 香港機管局和我們這樣在香港有業務的公司。此外,在以下方面的立法或行政行動 中國與美國關係的惡化可能會給包括我們在內的受影響發行人以及我們普通股的市場價格帶來投資者不確定性 可能會受到不利影響。

 

我們可能受到聯繫匯率制度的影響。 在香港。

 

自1983年以來,港元 已與美元掛鉤,匯率約爲7.80港元至1.00美元。我們無法向您保證這項政策不會 未來會改變。如果掛鉤制度崩潰,港元貶值,我們的支出成本就會增加 以外幣計價的可能會增加。這反過來又會對我們業務的運營和盈利能力產生不利影響。

 

與我們普通股相關的風險

 

儘管這份報告中包含的審計報告 年度報告是由接受PCAOB定期檢查的美國核數師編寫的,不能保證未來 審計報告將由PCAOB檢查的核數師編寫,因此,未來投資者可能會被剝奪這一好處 這樣的檢查。此外,如果美國證券交易委員會隨後決定我們的證券交易,根據HFCA法案,我們的證券交易可能被禁止 審計工作是由PCAOB無法徹底檢查或調查的核數師執行的,因此,美國國家證券 交易所,如納斯達克,可能決定將我們的證券退市。此外,2021年6月22日,美國參議院通過了AHFCAA, 如果獲得通過,該法案將修改HFCA法案,並要求美國證券交易委員會禁止發行人的證券在任何美國股票上交易 如果核數師連續兩年而不是三年不接受PCAOB檢查,就可以進行交易所,從而縮短了時間段 因爲觸發了交易禁令。

 

作爲一名公司核數師 在美國證券交易委員會註冊並在美國上市的公司和一家在美國上市公司會計準則委員會註冊的公司,我們的前身和 根據美國法律,目前的核數師Friedman LLP和Marcum Asia CPAS LLP分別必須遵守 PCAOB進行檢查,以評估其遵守美國法律和專業標準的情況。弗裏德曼律師事務所一直是 在2022年9月1日Friedman LLP與Marcum LLP合併之前接受PCAOB定期檢查。馬庫姆亞洲註冊會計師 我們會定期接受PCAOB的檢查,我們在大陸沒有業務中國。然而,如果有顯著的 目前內地與香港之間的政治安排發生變化,像我們這樣在香港運營的公司可能會面臨類似的情況 中國,我們不能向您保證,我們目前的核數師的工作將繼續 能夠接受PCAOB的檢查。

 

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作爲持續監管的一部分 在美國,重點是獲取審計和其他目前受國家法律保護的信息,特別是大陸中國的信息, 2019年6月,一個由兩黨議員組成的小組在美國國會參衆兩院提出了法案,如果獲得通過,將要求 美國證券交易委員會將保留一份上市公司審計委員會無法檢查或調查外國公共會計審計工作的發行人名單 完全堅固。關於確保境外上市公司在我國交易所上市的信息質量和透明度的建議(「公平」) 該法案規定了對這些發行人更高的披露要求,並從2025年開始從美國國家證券公司退市 納斯達克等交易所發行人連續三年被納入美國證券交易委員會名單,縮短了申請時間 觸發交易禁令。目前尚不清楚這項擬議的立法是否會獲得通過。此外,最近還出現了 美國政府內部考慮可能限制或限制中國的公司進入美國資本 市場。2020年5月20日,美國參議院通過了HFCA法案,其中要求美國證券交易委員會識別其審計的發行人 由核數師執行的工作,PCAOB由於非美國機構的限制而無法完全檢查或調查。 核數師在當地管轄範圍內的權威機構。美國衆議院於2020年12月2日通過了HFCA法案, HFCA法案於2020年12月18日簽署成爲法律。此外,2020年7月,美國總裁金融市場工作組 爲行政部門、美國證券交易委員會、PCAOB或其他聯邦機構和部門可以採取的行動發佈建議 關於在美國證券交易所上市的中國公司及其審計事務所,以努力保護在美國的投資者 各州。作爲回應,美國證券交易委員會於2020年11月23日發佈指導意見,強調了某些風險(及其對美國投資者的影響) 與對中國發行人的投資相關,並總結美國證券交易委員會建議中國發行人關於以下方面的強化披露 這樣的風險。2021年3月24日,美國證券交易委員會通過了關於實施某些披露和文件的暫行最終規則 《HFCA法案》的要求。如果美國證券交易委員會將我們識別爲不檢驗,我們將被要求遵守這些規則 在「美國證券交易委員會」隨後確定的一個進程中,這一年(定義見「暫行最後規則」)已經完成。美國證券交易委員會正在評估如何落實 《HFCA法案》的其他要求,包括上述禁止上市和交易的要求。根據HFCA法案,我們的 如果我們的核數師沒有接受PCAOB的檢查,可能會被禁止在納斯達克或其他美國證券交易所進行證券交易 連續三年,這最終可能導致我們的普通股退市。此外,2021年6月22日,美國 參議院通過了AHFCAA,如果獲得通過,將修改HFCA法案,並要求美國證券交易委員會禁止發行人的證券 在任何美國股市上交易。證券交易所,如果其核數師連續兩年而不是三年不接受PCAOB檢查,則 縮短觸發禁止交易的期限。2021年9月22日,PCAOB通過了實施 AHFCAA,它爲PCAOB提供了一個框架,供其在根據AHFCAA的設想確定董事會是否無法 因所持職位而檢查或調查位於外國司法管轄區的註冊會計師事務所 由該司法管轄區內的一個或多個當局提出。2021年11月5日,美國證券交易委員會批准了PCAOB規則6100,董事會決定 根據《追究外國公司責任法案》。規則6100提供了一個框架,供PCAOB在確定時使用,如預期的那樣 根據AHFCAA,它是否無法檢查或調查位於外國司法管轄區的完全註冊的公共會計師事務所 因爲該司法管轄區內的一個或多個當局所採取的立場。2021年12月2日,美國證券交易委員會發布修正案,最終敲定 實施AHFCAA中提交和披露要求的規則。該規則適用於美國證券交易委員會認定爲 提交由位於外國司法管轄區的註冊會計師事務所出具的審計報告的年報 而且,由於外國司法管轄區當局採取的立場,PCAOB無法完全檢查或調查。在……上面 2021年12月16日,美國證券交易委員會宣佈,PCAOB指定內地中國和香港爲PCAOB不在的管轄區 根據《HFCA法案》的規定,允許進行全面和完整的審計檢查。根據《議定書聲明》,PCAOB對選定的登記公衆進行了檢查 2022年9月至2022年11月期間在香港須提交厘定報告的會計師事務所。2022年12月15日, PCAOB董事會宣佈,它已經完成了檢查,確定它有完全的權限進行檢查或完全調查 註冊會計師事務所總部設在內地和香港的中國,並投票決定騰出認定報告。結果 公告稱,任何經總部設在內地中國和香港的註冊會計師事務所審計的公司將不會 目前面臨交易禁令的直接威脅。然而,如果中國監管機構未來採取的任何監管變化或步驟 禁止PCAOB查閱內地和香港註冊會計師事務所中國的審計文件,或PCAOB 因今後對《議定書》聲明的執行有任何妨礙而重新評估其決心,然後 根據以下規定,這些註冊會計師事務所審計的公司可能在美國市場受到交易禁令 《HFCA法案》。2022年12月29日,《2023年綜合撥款法》(以下簡稱《民政法》)由總裁簽署成爲法律 拜登。除其他事項外,CAA包含與AHFCAA相同的規定,減少了連續不檢查的次數 根據《HFCA法案》觸發禁令所需的年限從三年增加到兩年。

 

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我們目前的核數師位於美國, 並定期接受PCAOb檢查。然而,如果後來確定PCAOb無法檢查 或者完全調查我們當前的核數師,因爲外國司法管轄區的當局採取了立場,那麼缺乏 檢查可能會導致我們的證券交易根據HFCA法案被禁止,並最終導致證券做出決定 交易所將我們的證券退市。我們的普通股退市將迫使我們的普通股持有人出售其普通股 股由於這些高管的預期負面影響,我們普通股的市場價格可能會受到不利影響 或採取立法行動,無論這些行政或立法行動是否得到實施,也無論我們的實際情況如何 經營業績。

 

SEC正在評估如何 實施AHFCAA的其他要求,包括上述上市和交易禁止要求。未來發展 關於增加美國監管機構對審計信息的獲取是不確定的,因爲立法發展受到 立法程序和監管發展受規則制定程序和其他行政程序的約束。

 

美國證券交易委員會最近的聯合聲明提出 納斯達克提交的規則變更以及美國參議院和美國衆議院通過的一項法案都呼籲額外 並對新興市場公司適用更嚴格的標準。這些事態發展可能會給我們的產品和業務增加不確定性 運營、股價和聲譽。

 

美國上市公司 他們在中國(包括香港)的幾乎所有業務都受到了嚴格審查、批評和 投資者、金融評論員和SEC等監管機構的負面宣傳。大部分審查、批評和 負面宣傳集中在財務和會計違規行爲和錯誤、缺乏有效的財務內部控制等方面 報告、公司治理政策不充分或缺乏遵守,以及在許多情況下存在欺詐指控。

 

2018年12月7日,SEC 和PCAOb發表聯合聲明,強調美國監管機構在金融監督方面持續面臨挑戰 對美國的報表審計-在中國擁有大量業務的上市公司。2020年4月21日,SEC主席Jay Clayton和PCAOB 主席威廉·D Duhnke III與SEC其他高級工作人員發表了一份聯合聲明,強調了與投資相關的風險 在包括中國在內的新興市場或擁有大量業務的公司中,重申SEC和PCAOb過去關於 包括在中國檢查會計師事務所和審計工作試卷的困難以及欺詐風險較高等問題 新興市場以及提起和執行SEC、司法部和其他美國監管行動的困難,包括 在欺詐情況下,一般在新興市場。

 

2020年5月20日,美國 參議院通過了《HFCA法案》,要求外國公司證明其不是由外國政府擁有或控制的,如果PCAOb是 無法審計指定報告,因爲公司使用不受PCAOb檢查的外國核數師。如果PCAOb無法 連續三年檢查公司核數師,發行人的證券禁止在全國範圍內交易 交易所2020年12月2日,美國衆議院批准了《HFCA法案》。

 

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2021年5月21日,納斯達克提出 與美國證券交易委員會提出的三項提案:(i)對主要在「限制性」中運營的公司適用最低發行規模要求 市場”,(ii)禁止限制性市場公司直接在納斯達克資本市場上市,僅允許其 與直接上市有關的納斯達克全球精選或納斯達克全球市場上的列表,以及(iii)申請其他和更多 根據公司核數師的資格對申請人或上市公司提出嚴格的標準。

 

作爲這種審查的結果, 批評和負面宣傳,許多在美國上市的中國公司的上市股票大幅縮水,在一些公司 案件,已經變得幾乎一文不值。其中許多公司現在受到股東訴訟和美國證券交易委員會執法行動的影響 正在對這些指控進行內部和外部調查。目前還不清楚這種全行業的審查、批評會產生什麼影響 負面宣傳將對我們、我們的產品、業務和我們的股價產生負面影響。如果我們成爲任何不利指控的對象, 無論這些指控被證明是真是假,我們都必須花費大量資源來調查這些指控 和/或捍衛我們的公司。這種情況將是昂貴和耗時的,並會分散我們的管理層對發展我們增長的注意力。如果 這樣的指控並不是沒有根據的,我們和我們的業務運營將受到嚴重影響,您可以維持顯著的 我們股票的價值下降了。

 

Our Ordinary Shares may be thinly traded and you may be unable to sell at or near ask prices or at all if you need to sell your shares to raise money or otherwise desire to liquidate your shares.

 

我們的普通股可能是 「成交稀少」,指有興趣以買入價或接近買入價購買本公司普通股的人數。 任何給定的時間都可能相對較小或根本不存在。這種情況可能歸因於一些因素,包括 我們相對不爲股票分析師、股票經紀人、機構投資者和投資界其他人所知,他們創造了 或者影響銷售量,即使我們引起了這些人的注意,他們往往是厭惡風險的,可能不情願 跟蹤像我們這樣未經證實的公司,或者購買或建議購買我們的股票,直到我們變得更加老練。 因此,我們的股票可能會有幾天或更長時間的交易活動微乎其微或根本不存在。 對於經驗豐富的發行人,其擁有大量和穩定的交易量,通常將支持持續銷售,而不會產生不利的影響 對股價的影響。我們普通股的廣泛或活躍的公開交易市場可能不會發展或持續下去。

 

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我們普通股的市場價格 可能不穩定。

 

我們的交易價格 普通股可能會波動,可能會因爲我們無法控制的因素而大幅波動。這可能是因爲廣泛的 市場和行業因素,如市場價格的表現和波動,或表現不佳或財務狀況惡化 總部位於香港的公司或中國近年來在美國上市的公司的業績。證券 其中一些公司自首次公開募股以來經歷了巨大的波動,在某些情況下,包括 他們的交易價格下跌。其他香港或中國內地公司的證券發行後的交易表現 可能會影響投資者對香港或在美國上市的中國公司的態度,從而可能會影響 我們普通股的交易業績,與我們的實際經營業績無關。此外,任何負面消息或看法 有關其他香港或中國人的公司管治常規不足或會計舞弊、公司結構或其他事宜 無論如何,公司也可能對投資者對香港或中國公司(包括我們)的態度產生負面影響。 我們是否進行了任何不適當的活動。此外,證券市場可能不時經歷重大的 與我們的經營業績無關的價格和交易量波動,這可能會對市場產生重大不利影響 我們普通股的價格。除上述因素外,我們普通股的價格和交易量可能會有很大的波動 由於多種因素,包括以下因素:

 

  與我們的可變利益實體安排有關的監管不確定性;
     
  與我們或我們競爭對手的產品和服務相關的研究和報告的公告;
     
  季度運營業績的實際或預期波動以及預期業績的變化或修訂;
     
  證券研究分析師財務估計的變動;
     
  負面宣傳、研究或報道;
     
  我們有能力趕上行業內的技術創新;
     
  我們或我們的競爭對手宣佈新產品和服務、收購、戰略關係、合資企業或資本承諾;
     
  關鍵人員的增減;
     
  對我們、我們的管理層或我們的行業不利的負面宣傳;
     
  港元與美元之間的匯率波動;
     
  解除或終止對我們已發行普通股的鎖定或其他轉讓限制;以及
     
  額外普通股的銷售或預期潛在銷售。

 

Substantial future sales of our Ordinary Shares or the anticipation of future sales of our Ordinary Shares in the public market could cause the price of our Ordinary Shares to decline.

 

Sales of substantial amounts of our Ordinary Shares in the public market or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our Ordinary Shares to decline. Sales of these shares into the market could cause the market price of our Ordinary Shares to decline.

 

We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.

 

We currently intend to retain all available funds and future earnings, if any, for the operation and expansion of our business and do not anticipate declaring or paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination related to our dividend policy will be made at the discretion of our board of directors after considering our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, contractual requirements, business prospects and other factors the board of directors deems relevant, and subject to the restrictions contained in any future financing instruments.

 

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GEL has distributed dividends to our shareholders as follows: On September 28, 2020, GEL declared a per share dividend of HKD10,000 (US$1,280) to its shareholders (the “FYE June 30, 2020 Dividend”), which was paid in full in a total amount of HKD1.0 million (US$128,069) to shareholders on October 6, 2020. On November 2, 2020 and February 22, 2021, GEL declared a per share dividend of HKD30,000 (US$3,842) and HKD35,000 (US$4,482), respectively, to its shareholders (the “FYE June 30, 2021 Dividend”), which was paid in full in a total amount of HKD6.5 million (US$832,448) to shareholders on June 29, 2021. On September 1, 2021, GEL declared a per share dividend of HKD15,000 (US$1,921) to its shareholders, which was paid in full in a total amount of HKD1.5 million (US$192,103) to shareholders on January 14, 2022.

 

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or if they publish a negative report regarding our Ordinary Shares, the price of our Ordinary Shares and trading volume could decline.

 

The trading market for our Ordinary Shares may depend in part on the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade us, the price of our Ordinary Shares would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause the price of our Ordinary Shares and the trading volume to decline.

 

Volatility in the price of our Ordinary Shares may subject us to securities litigation.

 

The market for our Ordinary Shares may have, when compared to seasoned issuers, significant price volatility and we expect that our share price may continue to be more volatile than that of a seasoned issuer for the indefinite future. In the past, plaintiffs have often initiated securities class action litigation against a company following periods of volatility in the market price of its securities. We may, in the future, be the target of similar litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and liabilities and could divert management’s attention and resources.

 

You may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through U.S. courts may be limited, because we are incorporated under British Virgin Islands law.

 

We are a company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands. Our corporate affairs are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, the BVI Act and the common law of the British Virgin Islands. The rights of shareholders to take action against our directors, actions by our minority shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors to us under the British Virgin Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the British Virgin Islands. The common law of the British Virgin Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the British Virgin Islands as well as from the common law of England, the decisions of whose courts are of persuasive authority, but are not binding, on a court in the British Virgin Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors under the British Virgin Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the British Virgin Islands has a less developed body of securities laws than the United States. Some U.S. states, such as Delaware, have more fully developed and judicially interpreted bodies of corporate law than the British Virgin Islands. In addition, British Virgin Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in a federal court of the United States.

 

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Certain corporate governance practices in the British Virgin Islands, where our holding company was incorporated, differ significantly from requirements for companies incorporated in other jurisdictions such as the United States. We can rely on home country practice with respect to our corporate governance after we complete this offering. If we choose to follow the British Virgin Islands’ practice in the future, our shareholders may be afforded less protection than they otherwise would under rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers. See “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Our Ordinary Shares – As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to, and we will, rely on exemptions from certain Nasdaq Stock Exchange corporate governance standards applicable to domestic U.S. issuers. This may afford less protection to holders of our shares.” on page 39 of this Annual Report.

 

As a result of all of the above, public shareholders may have more difficulties in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by our management, or members of our board of directors, than they would as public shareholders of a company incorporated in the United States.

 

As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to, and we will, rely on exemptions from certain Nasdaq Stock Exchange corporate governance standards applicable to domestic U.S. issuers. This may afford less protection to holders of our shares.

 

We are exempted from certain corporate governance requirements of the Nasdaq listing rules by virtue of being a foreign private issuer. We are required to provide a brief description of the significant differences between our corporate governance practices and the corporate governance practices required to be followed by domestic U.S. companies listed on the Nasdaq. The standards applicable to us are considerably different than the standards applied to domestic U.S. issuers. For instance, we are not required to:

 

    have a majority of the board be independent (although all of the members of the audit committee must be independent under the Exchange Act);

 

    have a compensation committee or a nominating or corporate governance committee consisting entirely of independent directors;
     
  have regularly scheduled executive sessions with only independent directors; or
     
  have executive sessions of solely independent directors each year.

 

We have relied on and intend to continue to rely on some of these exemptions. As a result, you may not be provided with the benefits of certain corporate governance requirements of the Nasdaq.

 

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If we cannot continue to satisfy the continuous listing requirements and other rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, although we are exempt from certain corporate governance standards applicable to US issuers as a Foreign Private Issuer, our securities may be delisted, which could negatively impact the price of our securities and your ability to sell them.

 

Even though our securities are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we cannot assure you that our securities will continue to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

 

In order to maintain our listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will be required to comply with certain rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, including those regarding minimum stockholders’ equity, minimum share price and certain corporate governance requirements. Although we have initially met the listing requirements and other applicable rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, we may not be able to continue to satisfy these requirements and applicable rules. If we are unable to satisfy the Nasdaq Capital Market criteria for maintaining our listing, our securities could be subject to delisting.

 

If the Nasdaq Capital Market delists our securities from trading, we could face significant consequences, including:

 

    a limited availability for market quotations for our securities;
     
  reduced liquidity with respect to our securities;
     
  a determination that our Ordinary Shares are a “penny stock,” which will require brokers trading in our Ordinary Share to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our Ordinary Shares;
     
  limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and
     
  a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.

 

Because our business is conducted in Hong Kong dollars and the price of our Ordinary Shares is quoted in United States dollars, changes in currency conversion rates may affect the value of your investments.

 

Our business is conducted in Hong Kong, our books and records are maintained in Hong Kong dollars, which is the currency of Hong Kong, and the financial statements that we file with the SEC and provide to our shareholders are presented in United States dollars. Changes in the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and U.S. dollar affect the value of our assets and the results of our operations in United States dollars. The value of the Hong Kong dollar against the United States dollar and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in Hong Kong’s political and economic conditions and perceived changes in the economy of Hong Kong and the United States. Any significant revaluation of the Hong Kong dollar may materially and adversely affect our cash flows, revenue and financial condition. Further, although our listed Ordinary Shares are denominated in United States dollars, we will need to convert the net proceeds we receive into Hong Kong dollars in order to use the funds for our business. Changes in the conversion rate between the United States dollar and the Hong Kong dollar will affect that amount of proceeds we will have available for our business.

 

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We may experience extreme stock price volatility unrelated to our actual or expected operating performance, financial condition or prospects, making it difficult for prospective investors to assess the rapidly changing value of our Ordinary Shares.

 

Recently, there have been instances of extreme stock price run-ups followed by rapid price declines and strong stock price volatility with a number of recent initial public offerings, especially among companies with relatively smaller public floats. As a relatively small-capitalization company with relatively small public float, we may experience greater stock price volatility, extreme price run-ups, lower trading volume and less liquidity than large-capitalization companies. In particular, our Ordinary Shares may be subject to rapid and substantial price volatility, low volumes of trades and large spreads in bid and ask prices. Such volatility, including any stock-run up, may be unrelated to our actual or expected operating performance, financial condition or prospects, making it difficult for prospective investors to assess the rapidly changing value of our Ordinary Shares.

 

In addition, if the trading volumes of our Ordinary Shares are low, persons buying or selling in relatively small quantities may easily influence prices of our Ordinary Shares. This low volume of trades could also cause the price of our Ordinary Shares to fluctuate greatly, with large percentage changes in price occurring in any trading day session. Holders of our Ordinary Shares may also not be able to readily liquidate their investment or may be forced to sell at depressed prices due to low volume trading. Broad market fluctuations and general economic and political conditions may also adversely affect the market price of our Ordinary Shares. As a result of this volatility, investors may experience losses on their investment in our Ordinary Shares. A decline in the market price of our Ordinary Shares also could adversely affect our ability to issue additional Ordinary Shares or other securities and our ability to obtain additional financing in the future. No assurance can be given that an active market in our Ordinary Shares will develop or be sustained. If an active market does not develop, holders of our Ordinary Shares may be unable to readily sell the Ordinary Shares they hold or may not be able to sell their Ordinary Shares at all.

 

There can be no assurance that we will not be a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”), for U.S. federal income tax purposes for any taxable year, which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. holders of our Ordinary Shares.

 

A non-U.S. corporation will be a PFIC for any taxable year if either (1) at least 75% of its gross income for such year consists of certain types of “passive” income; or (2) at least 50% of the value of its assets (based on an average of the quarterly values of the assets) during such year is attributable to assets that produce passive income or are held for the production of passive income, or the asset test. Based on our current and expected income and assets (taking into account the cash proceeds and the market capitalization following the IPO), we do not presently expect to be a PFIC for the current taxable year or the foreseeable future. However, no assurance can be given in this regard because the determination of whether we are or will become a PFIC is a fact-intensive inquiry made on an annual basis that depends, in part, upon the composition of our income and assets. In addition, there can be no assurance that the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, will agree with our conclusion or that the IRS would not successfully challenge our position. Fluctuations in the market price of our Ordinary Shares may cause us to become a PFIC for the current or subsequent taxable years because the value of our assets for the purpose of the asset test may be determined by reference to the market price of our Ordinary Shares. The composition of our income and assets may also be affected by how, and how quickly, we use our liquid assets and the cash raised in the IPO. If we were to be or become a PFIC for any taxable year during which a U.S. Holder holds our Ordinary Shares, certain adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences could apply to such U.S. Holder and such U.S. Holder may be subject to additional reporting requirements. For a more detailed discussion of the application of the PFIC rules to us and the consequences to U.S. taxpayers if we were or are determined to be a PFIC, see “Taxation — Passive Foreign Investment Company.” Beginning on page 82 of this Annual Report.

 

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Item 4. INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY

 

A. History and Development of the Company

 

GEL is an operating company incorporated in Hong Kong on May 3, 2018 and Mr. Lee was its sole shareholder until March 30, 2021. In order to prepare for the IPO of the Company, Mr. Lee, through his fully owned entity, formed BVI Sub on March 5, 2021. Subsequently, on March 30, 2021, Mr. Lee sold his equity interest in GEL to BVI Sub for nominal cash consideration resulting in BVI Sub being the sole shareholder of GEL.  On September 7, 2021, GE Group was incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands for the purpose of being a public company after the IPO and the holding company of BVI Sub. On January 5, 2022, then-existing shareholders of BVI Sub transferred their equity interests in BVI Sub to GE Group resulting in GE Group being the parent company of BVI Sub and the indirect parent company of GEL.

 

On October 18, 2022, we filed our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs to increase our authorized shares from 50,000 Ordinary Shares, par value of $1.00 per share, to 800,000,000 Ordinary Shares, par value of $0.0000625 per share and effectuated a forward split of all issued and outstanding shares at a ratio of 16,000-for-1.

 

On September 23, 2024, we consummated the IPO of 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares (the “IPO Shares”). The Company completed the IPO on a firm commitment basis pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File No. 333-266919) (the “F-1”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), which was declared effective by the Commission on September 16, 2024. The IPO Shares were priced at a price of $4.00 per share. The Company has also granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 300,000 Ordinary Shares to cover over-allotments, if any (the “Over-Allotment Option”). The Ordinary Shares were approved for listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market on September 19, 2024 and commenced trading under the symbol “GLE” on September 20, 2024.

 

On October 18, 2024, upon the underwriters’ full exercise of the Over-Allotment Option, the Company sold 300,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of $4.00 per share accordingly. As a result, the Company has raised gross proceeds of $9,200,000 in the IPO, including the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses.

 

Our Corporate Structure

 

The following diagram illustrates our corporate structure as of the date of this Annual Report:

 

 

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Name   Background   Ownership   Principal activities
Global Engine Group Holding Limited (“GE Group”)   ●  A BVI company
●  Incorporated on September 7, 2021
  -   Investment holding
Global Engine Holdings Limited (“BVI Sub”)   ●  A BVI company
●  Incorporated on March 5, 2021
  100% owned by GE Group   Investment holding
Global Engine Limited (“GEL”)   ●  A Hong Kong company
●  Incorporated on May 3, 2018
  100% owned by BVI Sub   Integrated solutions provider in ICT, system integration and other technical consultation services

 

For details of each shareholder’s ownership, please refer to the beneficial ownership table in the section captioned “Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions — A. Major Shareholders.”

 

Dividend Distributions or Assets Transfer among the Holding Company and Its Subsidiaries

 

GE Group is permitted under the laws of British Virgin Islands to provide funding to our subsidiary in Hong Kong through loans or capital contributions without restrictions on the amount of the funds. There are no restrictions or limitation on GE Group’s ability to distribute earnings from its businesses, including subsidiaries, to the U.S. investors.

 

我們的股權結構是 直接控股結構,即擬在美國上市的境外實體GE集團直接控股BVI Sub,持股100% 我們在香港的營運實體Gel的股份。現金通過本組織以下列方式轉賬:(1)資金可 從在英屬維爾京群島註冊成立的控股公司GE集團以資本形式通過BVI Sub轉讓給Gel 出資或股東貸款(視情況而定);及(Ii)股息或其他分派可通過以下方式以凝膠方式支付給通用電氣集團 英屬維爾京群島子公司根據香港法律,Gel可以不受限制地通過股息分配向GE集團提供資金 關於資金的數額或者外匯限制。如果通用電氣集團打算向股東分配股息,它將 根據香港的法律和法規從Gel向BVI Sub支付股息,BVI Sub將轉移 支付給GE集團的股息,以及GE集團將按比例分別分配給所有股東的股息 他們持有的股票,無論股東是美國投資者還是其他國家或地區的投資者。如果凝膠引起 未來,管理這類債務的工具可能會限制Gel支付股息、進行分配的能力 或將資金轉移到Gel Group。截至本年度報告日期,我們的子公司均未進行任何股息或分配 致通用電氣集團。截至本年度報告發布之日,尚未向任何美國投資者派發股息或分紅。通用電氣集團和 Gel目前打算保留所有可用資金和未來收益,如果有的話,用於我們業務的運營和擴展,並 在可預見的未來,不預期宣佈或支付任何股息。未來任何與我們的股息政策相關的決定都將 由我們的董事會在考慮我們的財務狀況、經營結果、資本要求、 合同要求、業務前景和董事會認爲相關並受限制的其他因素 包含在任何未來的融資工具中。

 

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在我們的直接控制範圍內 結構上,我們集團內的跨境資金轉移合法並符合英國法律法規 維爾京群島和香港。未來,包括本次發行在內的海外融資活動的現金收益可以直接 轉讓給BVI Sub,然後通過注資或股東貸款轉讓給下屬運營實體GEL,作爲 情況而定

 

在所列報告期內 本年度報告中,公司及其子公司之間未發生現金和其他資產轉讓。

 

目前,基本上所有 我們的業務有一半在香港。我們沒有或打算設立任何附屬公司或訂立任何合約安排,以建立 與內地任何實體的VIE架構中國。既然香港是中華人民共和國的特別行政區,基本方針 《基本法》規定香港實行高度自治和行政、立法。 獨立的司法權,包括「一國兩制」下的終審權。這個 大陸中國的法律法規目前對GE集團向Gel或從Gel轉移現金沒有任何實質性影響 致通用電氣集團和美國投資者。

 

受《英屬維爾京群島法案》的約束, 我們修訂和重述的組織章程大綱和章程,我們的董事會可以授權並向股東宣佈股息 如果他們有合理理由信納股息後立即 我們的資產價值將超過我們的負債,我們將能夠償還到期的債務。沒有進一步 BVI對我們可以通過股息分配的資金金額的法定限制。

 

截至本年度的日期 據報道,Gel向股東發放的股息如下:2020年9月28日,Gel宣佈每股股息10,000港元 (1,280美元)向股東派發股息(「2020財年6月30日股息」),股息總額爲HKD100萬 (128,069美元),於2020年10月6日向股東支付。於2020年11月2日及2021年2月22日,Gel宣佈每股派息30,000港元 (3,842美元)和35,000港元(4,482美元),已支付給股東(「2021年6月30日財政年度股息」) 於2021年6月29日向股東全數支付港幣650元萬(832,448美元)。2021年9月1日,Gel宣佈每股 向股東派發15,000港元(1,921美元)的股息,並以總額港幣150萬(192,103美元)全數支付給股東 2022年1月14日。如果我們決定在未來支付任何普通股的股息,作爲一家控股公司,我們將依賴於 在收到我們香港子公司Gel的資金後。根據香港稅務局目前的做法,不徵收遺產稅 須於香港就本公司支付的股息支付。

 

有 香港法律對港元兌換外幣沒有任何限制或限制,以及 將貨幣匯出香港。

 

參見「股息政策」 第78頁和“風險因素-與我們的公司結構相關的風險- 我們可能依賴股息和其他分配 我們的子公司爲資助我們可能的任何現金和融資需求而支付的股權,以及對我們子公司能力的任何限制 向我們付款可能會對我們開展業務的能力產生重大不利影響.”請參閱第22頁了解更多信息。

 

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新興成長型公司的地位

 

作爲一家資產不足的公司 我們上一財年的收入爲12.35億美元,根據《跳板》,我們有資格成爲「新興增長公司」 我們的2012年創業法案,或《JOBS法案》。新興成長型公司可能會利用指定的減少報告和其他 與通常適用於上市公司的要求相比。這些規定包括但不限於 致:

 

  在我們的美國證券交易委員會備案文件中,只能提交兩年的經審計的財務報表和兩年的相關管理層對財務狀況和經營結果的討論和分析;

 

  未被要求遵守薩班斯-奧克斯利法案第404條的核數師認證要求;

 

  減少定期報告、委託書和登記說明書中關於高管薪酬的披露義務;以及

 

  免除對高管薪酬進行不具約束力的諮詢投票的要求,以及股東批准之前未批准的任何金降落傘支付的要求。

 

《就業法案》還規定 新興成長型公司不需要遵守任何新的或修訂的財務會計準則,直到 私營公司在其他方面被要求遵守這種新的或修訂的會計準則。我們已選擇使用延長過渡期 《就業法案》規定的期限。因此,我們的財務報表可能無法與上市公司的財務報表相比。 符合這種新的或修訂的會計準則的公司。

 

我們將仍然是新興的 成長型公司直到(a)財年的最後一天(最早),在此期間我們的年度總收入至少爲 12.35億美元;(b)IPO五週年後我們財年的最後一天;(c)我們在 前三年期間,發行了超過10億美元的不可轉換債務;或(d)我們被視爲 根據修訂後的1934年證券交易法或即將發生的交易法,成爲「大型加速備案人」 截至本財年末,如果非關聯公司持有的普通股市值超過70000萬美元, 我們最近完成的第二財年最後一個工作日。一旦我們不再是一家新興成長型公司,我們就會 無權享受上述《JOBS法案》規定的豁免。

 

外國私人發行商地位

 

我們成立於 英屬維爾京群島,超過50%的已發行和未發行投票證券並非由居民直接或間接持有 美國的因此,我們是《證券法》和《規則》第405條規定的「外國私人發行人」 根據《交易法》30億.4I。因此,我們不受與美國國內發行人相同的要求的約束。根據《交易法》, 我們承擔的報告義務在某種程度上比美國國內報告更寬鬆、更頻繁 企業例如:

 

  我們不需要像國內上市公司那樣頻繁地提供交易法報告或定期報告和當前報告;

 

  對於中期報告,我們被允許只遵守我們本國的要求,這些要求沒有適用於國內上市公司的規則那麼嚴格;

 

  我們不需要在某些問題上提供相同水平的披露,例如高管薪酬;

 

  我們獲豁免遵守旨在防止發行人選擇性披露重要資料的FD規例的條文;

 

  我們不需要遵守《交易法》中規範就根據《交易法》登記的證券徵求委託書、同意或授權的條款;以及

 

  我們不需要遵守《交易法》第16條的規定,該條款要求內部人士提交其股份所有權和交易活動的公開報告,並規定內幕人士對從任何短期交易中實現的利潤承擔內幕責任。

 

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企業信息

 

我們的主要行政辦公室 位於香港九月二十二日街95號世界科技中心19樓C室,電話號碼爲+852 3955 2300.我們在英屬維爾京群島的註冊辦事處位於Vista Corporate Services Center,Wickhams Cay II,Road Town,Tortola, VG 1110,英屬維爾京群島。我們維護一個網站:www.globalengine.com.hk。包含或可從我們的 網站或任何其他網站不構成本年度報告的一部分。

 

B. 業務概述

 

業務概述

 

我們是綜合解決方案 通過使用信息通信技術(「ICT」)解決方案爲組織提供可操作成果的提供商 推動業務成果和創新。利用我們的業務開發和諮詢人才,我們評估、設計、交付、安全, 並管理由符合客戶需求的領先技術組成的解決方案。

 

通用電氣集團是一家控股公司 在英屬維爾京群島註冊成立,沒有重大業務。我們的業務由我們的間接全資子公司在香港進行, GEL是一家香港公司,由我們的直接全資子公司BVI Sub(一家BVI公司)全資擁有。

 

我們的目標客戶群 包括但不限於以下內容:

 

    「電信運營商」--爲電信運營商提供全面的服務,包括從電信許可申請服務到交鑰匙網絡設置的一站式採購,以及適應每個客戶特定需求的服務外包。我們特別針對尋求香港和東南亞市場增長和擴張的中小電信運營商和ICT服務提供商客戶;

 

    「數據中心和雲計算服務提供商」-提供針對雲計算和數據中心提供商的業務規劃、開發、技術和運營諮詢計劃。我們當前的諮詢項目包括在香港和東南亞地區建立和收購數據中心設施的技術和監管可行性研究;以及

 

    「物聯網(IoT)解決方案提供商、經銷商和用戶」-爲尋求通過採用IoT技術和平台來轉變其服務產品的科技公司提供系統設計、規劃、開發和運營服務。

 

我們提供多種產品 併爲客戶提供服務,以滿足他們的特定ICT需求,因爲我們努力成爲他們的主要ICT解決方案和服務提供商。一些 我們的產品包括:

 

    「ICT解決方案服務」包括雲平台部署、IT系統設計和配置服務、維護服務、數據中心託管服務和雲服務。我們相信,我們的服務將技術採購視爲集成解決方案,而不是離散的產品和服務類別,我們的大部分銷售額都來自涉及客戶數據中心、網絡和協作基礎設施的集成解決方案;

 

    「技術服務」包括數據中心和雲計算基礎設施、移動和固定網絡通信以及物聯網項目的技術開發、支持和外包服務;

 

    「項目管理服務」可提高生產力和協作管理,併爲客戶成功實施和採用解決方案。

 

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我們的主要重點是交付 全面的ICT解決方案是提供定製的解決方案,滿足客戶的業務和財務需求,同時 利用我們經驗豐富的團隊的專業知識,以及我們與電信運營商、供應商和監管機構的密切聯繫。我們開始 與我們的客戶進行諮詢,以便更好地了解他們的業務需求,然後設計、部署和管理與 這樣的需求。爲了提供定製的解決方案,我們利用雲、安全、網絡、數據中心、 在協調和自動化、數據管理、數據可視化、分析、網絡現代化、 邊緣計算等創新新興技術。我們擁有廣泛的工程和運營經驗以及關係 與衆多領先的ICT服務提供商合作,使我們能夠提供經過優化的定製多供應商ICT解決方案 爲我們的每一個客戶的具體要求。

 

此外,我們的技術資源 使我們能夠繼續投資工程和技術資源,以保持技術趨勢的前沿。我們的專業知識 在ICT行業,我們強大的諮詢、專業和託管服務組合使我們能夠保持值得信賴的 我們客戶的顧問。這種廣泛的專業知識組合使我們能夠爲涵蓋以下領域的客戶提供廣泛的服務 從快速交付具有價格競爭力的產品和服務,到後續的運營和維護服務。這種方法允許 我們將部署更加複雜的解決方案,使我們的客戶能夠實現他們的業務目標。

 

截至6月30日的一年中, 2024年,我們的收入爲4950萬港元(630萬美元),比2014年的4470萬港元增加了480萬港元(60萬美元) 截至2023年6月30日止年度產生的收入。截至2024年6月30日止年度,我們的淨利潤爲260萬港元(30萬美元), 比截至2023年6月30日止年度的2.7億港元減少7萬港元(0.9萬美元)。截至2023年6月30日止年度, 我們產生的收入爲4470萬港元,比年底收入5460萬港元減少990萬港元 2022年6月30日。截至2023年6月30日止年度,淨利潤爲270萬港元,比820萬港元減少550萬港元 截至2022年6月30日的年度。

 

截至6月30日的一年中, 2024年,我們約63.3%的收入來自馬來西亞,21.0%來自香港,15.7%來自臺灣。

 

行業概述

 

我們的目標客戶群體 包括:(1)電信運營商;(2)數據中心和雲計算服務提供商;(3)物聯網解決方案提供商、經銷商和 用戶.

 

對於電信運營商來說, 我們特別針對在香港和南方尋求增長和擴張的中小型運營商的客戶 東亞市場。儘管新冠肺炎疫情帶來社會和經濟挑戰,香港電訊業 市場保持旺盛活力,保持強勁增長勢頭。香港是全球最先進的電訊市場之一。 擁有全球最高的本地移動和固定寬帶普及率之一。截至2023年3月,中國5G網絡覆蓋 香港覆蓋了超過90%的香港人口,核心商業區的人口比例高達99%,覆蓋主要 位於市區和地鐵(地鐵)線的地點。香港的固定寬頻網絡已達99%以上 家庭普及率,其中85%的家庭通過光纖享受高速寬帶服務。(來源:P.6, 《2022/23年電訊管理局營運基金報告》,香港通訊事務管理局,2023年9月。

 

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適用於數據中心和雲 作爲計算服務提供商,我們爲他們提供業務規劃、開發、技術和運營諮詢計劃。全球雲 託管服務市場規模在2023年爲888.6億,預計到2028年將達到1545.6億,呈現出複合年增長率 從2024年開始增長12.0%。(資料來源:“雲託管服務全球市場報告2024-按服務類型(託管業務服務、 託管網絡服務、託管安全服務、託管基礎架構服務、託管移動服務、託管通信 和協作服務)、按部署(公共雲、私有云)、按組織規模(大型企業、中小型企業 企業(中小企業),按最終用戶(政府、零售業、IT和電信、製造業、BFSI、醫療保健、能源和公用事業) -2024-2033年市場規模、趨勢和全球預測,The Business Research Company,2024年1月)。東南亞雲計算 受不斷增長的需求推動,到2025年,市場收入預計將達到403.2美元億,2018年至2025年的複合年增長率爲12.3% 適用於該地區新興的中小型企業組織中的雲計算。(資料來源:“東南亞 2017年按部署(公共雲、私有云、混合雲)、按產品(IaaS、PaaS、SaaS)、按組織劃分的雲計算市場規模 (小型、中型、大型)按應用(IT和電信、BFSI、航空航天和國防、醫療保健、製造、政府和公用事業、 零售、消費電子等)、 按 地區、 趨勢 和 預測 2018年 至 2025年“, Adroit Market Research,2018年12月)。

 

對於物聯網解決方案提供商而言, 經銷商和用戶,我們的目標客戶包括爲技術提供系統設計、規劃、開發和運營服務的提供商 尋求通過在香港和南方採用物聯網技術和平台來轉變其服務產品的公司 東亞地區。預計到2025年,亞太地區的物聯網支出將達到4370美元億,2021年的複合年增長率爲12.1%。(來源: “國際數據公司期待Internet of Things Spending in Asia Pacific to Reach $437 billion in 2025“, 國際數據公司(IDC),2022年1月)。他說:

 

以下是主要趨勢 我們相信正在影響香港和東南亞市場的ICT市場:

 

    加快向雲遷移的速度.我們預計,COVID-19大流行將加速雲的採用,這不僅是一種技術轉變,而且是一種運營模式,因爲公司認識到當前環境的侷限性,並努力應對疫情對其當今業務的影響。我們預計這種轉變將是巨大的,並因此將採用曲線從幾十年壓縮到短短几年。我們認爲,最直接的影響是向遠程工作的大規模轉變,因爲全球數百萬公司正在過渡到這種新的居家現實。

 

    多雲戰略.在過去的幾年裏,雲架構和雲支持的框架(無論是公共的、私有的還是混合的)已成爲現代ICT的核心基礎。爲了利用這一趨勢,我們專注於幫助客戶評估、定義、部署和管理符合其業務需求的私有云和混合雲。該策略利用了我們在部署私有云方面的優勢,同時還融入了公共雲的元素。通過評估客戶的應用程序、工作負載、業務要求等,我們部署利用最佳可用技術平台和消費模型的解決方案。例如,我們可能會構建私有云解決方案來託管任務關鍵型應用程序,同時利用公共雲解決方案進行開發、協作或災難恢復。我們的雲戰略與我們所有關鍵戰略計劃(包括安全和數字工作空間)緊密一致。

 

    需要第三方服務.我們相信,客戶越來越依賴我們等第三方服務提供商來管理其技術環境的重要方面,從設計、實施、售前和售後支持,到維護、工程、雲管理、安全運營和其他服務。

 

    減少ICT解決方案提供商數量.我們的觀點是,客戶正在尋求減少與其開展業務的解決方案提供商的數量,以改善供應鏈和內部效率、增強問責制、改善供應商管理實踐並降低成本。因此,客戶正在尋找能夠爲其ICT需求提供一整套解決方案的ICT解決方案提供商。

 

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    大中型企業缺乏足夠的內部ICT資源,某些高需求學科ICT人員稀缺.我們認爲,小型、中型和大型企業的ICT部門面臨着交付新興技術和業務成果的壓力,但缺乏訓練有素的員工以及僱用具有高需求學科(例如安全和數據分析)的人員的能力。與此同時,安全威脅的普遍存在;雲計算、軟件定義網絡、新架構和快速軟件開發框架的使用增加;移動設備和自帶設備(BYOD)政策的激增;以及多供應商解決方案的複雜性,使這些部門難以實施高質量的ICT解決方案。

 

    顛覆性技術正在給客戶和供應商帶來複雜性和挑戰.顛覆性技術的快速發展及其影響組織技術平台的速度使客戶難以有效設計、採購、實施和管理自己的ICT系統。此外,預算壓力增加、內部資源減少、供應商格局分散以及快速實現價值的期望使客戶設計、實施和管理安全、高效且具有成本效益的ICT環境具有挑戰性。客戶越來越多地轉向ICT解決方案提供商來實施複雜的服務產品,包括雲計算、融合和超融合基礎設施、大數據分析和閃存存儲。

 

    It安全漏洞和網絡攻擊的複雜性和發生率不斷增加。在過去的幾年裏,網絡攻擊變得更加複雜、數量更多、範圍更廣。組織發現,越來越難以有效地保護其機密和個人信息,使其免受源源不斷的內部和外部高級威脅。此外,網絡威脅已經從不協調的個人努力轉變爲犯罪組織和民族國家行爲者的高度協調和資金充足的攻擊。對於大多數組織來說,網絡攻擊不再是會不會發生的問題,問題是網絡攻擊會在何時發生,會對組織產生什麼影響。我們相信,我們的客戶關注網絡安全的方方面面,包括信息和物理安全、知識產權以及與行業和政府法規相關的合規要求。要應對當前和未來的安全威脅,企業必須實施安全控制和技術解決方案,以利用集成的服務和產品來幫助監控、緩解和補救安全威脅和攻擊。

 

    客戶ICT決策正在從ICT部門轉向業務線人員.隨着ICT消費從傳統的本地基礎設施轉向敏捷的「按需」和「即服務」解決方案,客戶採購決策正在從傳統的ICT人員轉向業務線人員,這正在改變客戶參與模式和滿足客戶需求所需的諮詢服務類型。此外,許多服務會創造隨着時間的推移支付的經常性收入來源,而不是前期收入。

 

競爭優勢

 

我們擁有某些屬性 這使我們脫穎而出,成爲香港ICT解決方案提供商。我們的主要競爭優勢包括:

 

龐大的可訪問市場 ICT複雜性不斷提高推動增長機會

 

我們參與大型 ICT市場特別關注數據中心、網絡、雲、安全、虛擬化和行業新興細分市場, 由我們專業和託管的服務解決方案推動。我們相信我們在複雜的高增長IT解決方案中處於有利地位 部門提供與私有、混合和公共數據中心實施、網絡安全管理、事件響應相關的服務 和補救、軟件定義的廣域網(SD-Wan)、Iot和複雜網絡項目。

 

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我們的服務目標較小 以及中型企業公司和電信服務提供商。根據我們的經驗,這些部門中的ICT部門 公司和組織無法向最終用戶提供不斷增加的服務範圍,導致依賴性增加 針對可以提供複雜諮詢服務的第三方,例如我們公司。

 

在中小型企業中 對於商務部門,我們相信對我們的服務有很大的需求。我們相信我們將能夠利用我們的其他競爭優勢 通過我們的服務獲取這一新的信息和通信技術支出的很大一部分。

 

服務於整個ICT生命週期的商業模式-評估, 設計和架構解決方案、採購、實施解決方案、專業和託管服務以及安全

 

我們相信我們是值得信賴的 通過提供差異化的產品和服務,爲客戶提供ICT顧問,使客戶能夠滿足日益複雜的ICT需求 要求.我們可以從評估ICt問題開始,提供與整個ICt生命週期相一致的完整、交鑰匙解決方案, 設計和創建架構解決方案,幫助採購所需的ICT解決方案,協助實施 此類解決方案並提供持續的專業和諮詢服務。

 

先進技術的深厚專業知識, 應對雲、安全、數字基礎設施和其他新興IT趨勢

 

我們相信我們的客戶選擇 根據我們提供頂級解決方案、提供增值服務的記錄,我們滿足他們複雜的ICT服務需求, 我們與中國信息技術發展等行業成熟和新興公司建立了密切的關係 有限公司(「CITD」)、VNEt Group,Inc.、和Nexsen Limited。

 

Location Advantages

 

GEL is located in Hong Kong, which is one of the major ICT hubs in the PRC and South East Asia regions. Hong Kong provides a pro-business environment backed by a legal system that fosters a vibrant startup ecosystem for the ICT sector. Hong Kong’s geographic proximity to mainland China and South East Asian region makes it a strategic location that accommodates doing business with booming markets. As a leading digital economy, Hong Kong possesses a robust ICT infrastructure sustained by the continued investment into telecommunications technology and online security technology. Hong Kong is also home to a talented pool of ICT professionals, who possess scientific and business expertise, in addition to the ability to speak English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

 

Strategic Ability to Design and Integrate Cloud Solutions Across Multiple Partners

 

We believe our expertise in architecting data center and cloud environments allows us to provide differentiated offerings that help our customers transition significant portions of their business—and sometimes all of their critical business workloads—to the cloud. Combined with our strong foundations in networking and security, we are uniquely poised to help customers adopt a multi-cloud strategy that utilizes our cloud cost management framework to help overcome the inherent challenges. We also leverage our strategic business relationships with companies such as CITD, VNET Group, Inc., and Nexsen Limited in conjunction with our professional, managed, and lifecycle services to help our customers achieve their desired business outcomes.

 

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Growth Strategy

 

Our growth strategies include:

 

Growth in the area of IoT and Cloud Computing

 

GEL will further develop its business in the South East Asian region, with a strategic focus on IoT and Cloud Computing, by partnering with fast-growing technologies companies in the domestic markets.

 

Merger &Acquisition and Investment in New Business Ventures

 

Our goal is to become a leading international ICT consulting services enterprise that provides a full range of ICT consulting and project management services to telecom carriers, data center operators, ICT solution providers, and multi-national corporations in Hong Kong and South East Asia regions. To this end, we intend to invest in new business ventures to facilitate the growth of our business and create more sources of revenue.

 

Build Our Geographic Footprint

 

We seek to expand our customer base and geographic reach and improve our technology and consulting services offerings. We intend to expand our business from Hong Kong to the South East Asian region.

 

Recruit, Retain, and Develop Employees

 

Due to the nature of our business, we have been able to make strategic costing-sharing arrangement with related entity to utilize experienced professionals to satisfy the needs of our operation while reduce employment costs. GEL entered into a cost assignment agreement with Boxasone Limited, a related entity associated with Mr. Lee on June 30, 2019 pursuant to which GEL shares 50% of salaries expense of an employee of Boxasone Limited from July 1, 2019 based on the estimated services and hours that such employee would provide to GEL. With the growth of our business, on January 1, 2020, GEL entered into a new cost assignment agreement with Boxasone Limited to have two additional employees of Boxasone Limited to work for GEL, for whom GEL shares one-fourth (1/4) of their staff expenses with Boxasone Limited (the “Boxasone Cost Agreement”) based on the estimated services and hours that these employee would provide to GEL from January 1, 2020. On July 1, 2022 we amended the Boxasone Cost Agreement, pursuant to which we agreed to share the portion of staff expenses with Boxasone Limited, at a rate of HKD20,000 per month for three Boxasone Limited employees, based on the estimated services and hours these employees would provide to us from July 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023.

 

In addition to the staffs GEL shares with Boxasone Limited, Mr. Lee is the CEO of GEL and GE Group. GE Group has a chief financial officer. With the continuous growth of our business and expanded customer base, we plan to allocate 25% of the proceeds of the IPO for recruiting additional experienced staff, including administrative, executive and accounting personnel, with solid industry backgrounds that can support the operation of our multiple lines of business.

 

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Inorganic Growth

 

We actively seek and plan to selectively pursue acquisitions that complement our strategy. We routinely evaluate acquisition opportunities aligned with our strategic expansion goals and will continue to target and pursue such acquisitions that expand our service offerings and capabilities, add differentiated talent and expand our client base.

 

Competition

 

The market for ICT solutions is highly competitive and fragmented, subject to macro-economic cycles and the entry of new competitors. Additionally, the consolidation of existing market participants can create significantly larger competitors and is also affected by disruptive technologies and other market activities of industry participants. We expect to continue to compete in all areas of our business against any vendors and service providers. Some of our competitors are direct marketers, which can place downward pressure on product pricing. In addition, many ICT vendors may sell or lease equipment directly to our customers, and our continued ability to compete effectively may be affected by such vendors. We face indirect competition from potential customers’ internal development efforts and must overcome potential customers’ reluctance to move away from legacy systems, processes, and solution providers.

 

Some of our competitors have greater financial, technical, marketing, and other resources than we do. In addition, some of these competitors may be able to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities, technologies, and customer requirements. Many current and potential competitors also engage in more extensive promotional marketing and advertising activities, offer more attractive terms to customers, and adopt more aggressive pricing policies than we do.

 

Intellectual Property

 

We regard our copyrights, domain names, know-how, proprietary technologies, and similar intellectual property as critical to our success, and we rely on copyright, trademark and patent law in Hong Kong, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions with our employees, contractors and others to protect our proprietary rights.

 

Global Engine Limited registered the domain name of “www.globalengine.com.hk”.

 

Employees

 

As of June 30, 2024, we have 4 full-time employees. In addition, we entered into a cost assignment agreement with Boxasone Limited, a related entity associated with Mr. Lee on June 30, 2019 pursuant to which we share 50% of salary expense of an employee of Boxasone Limited from July 1, 2019 based on the estimated services and hours such employee would provide to us. With the growth of our business, on January 1, 2020, we entered into a new cost assignment agreement with Boxasone Limited (the “Boxasone Cost Agreement”) to have two additional employees of Boxasone Limited work for us, for whom, we share one-fourth (1/4) of their staff expenses with Boxasone Limited based on the estimated services and hours these employees would provide to us from January 1, 2020. On July 1, 2022 we amended the Boxasone Cost Agreement, pursuant to which we agreed to share the portion of staff expenses with Boxasone Limited, at a rate of HKD20,000 per month for three Boxasone Limited employees, based on the estimated services and hours these employees would provide to us from July 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023.

 

No employees are represented by a labor union, and we believe that we have good relations with our employees.

 

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Facilities

 

Our principal executive office is located at Room C, 19/F, World Tech Centre, 95 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. GEL leased an aggregate of 1,414 square feet of property from an unrelated third party pursuant to the terms of a lease agreement. The duration of the current lease is for two years, from June 2022 until June 2024. We cannot terminate the lease early during this two-year lease period. The Company renewed the lease arrangement in May 2024. The new lease started on June 4, 2024 and will expire on June 3, 2025.

 

The operating lease expenses amounted to HKD388,807 (US$49,794) and HKD402,063 for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

 

The Company’s commitment for minimum lease payment under its operating lease for its office facility as of June 30, 2024 was as follows:

 

Years ending June 30,  Amount
(HKD)
   Amount
(US$)
 
2025  $385,000   $49,307 

 

We believe our facilities are sufficient for our business operations.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

We are currently not a party to any material legal or administrative proceedings. We may from time to time be subject to various legal or administrative claims and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. Litigation or any other legal or administrative proceeding, regardless of the outcome, is likely to result in substantial cost and diversion of our resources, including our management’s time and attention.

 

Governmental Regulations

 

Our operations are subject to numerous laws of Hong Kong and regulations in a number of areas including, but not limited to, areas of labor and employment, immigration, advertising, e-commerce, tax, import and export requirements, data privacy requirements, anti-competition, and environmental, health, and safety. We have implemented policies and procedures designed to help comply with applicable laws and regulations. We strive to stay up to date on any new laws or regulations that affect the Company or our customers in order to provide custom IT solutions that comply with such laws and regulations.

 

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Regulations Related to our Business Operations in Hong Kong

 

Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) of Hong Kong), or the PDPO

 

The PDPO imposes a statutory duty on data users to comply with the requirements of the six data protection principles (the “Data Protection Principles”) contained in Schedule 1 to the PDPO. The PDPO provides that a data user shall not do an act, or engage in a practice, that contravenes a Data Protection Principle unless the act or practice, as the case may be, is required or permitted under the PDPO. The six Data Protection Principles are:

 

  Principle 1—purpose and manner of collection of personal data;
     
  Principle 2—accuracy and duration of retention of personal data;
     
  Principle 3—use of personal data;
     
  Principle 4—security of personal data;
     
  Principle 5—information to be generally available; and
     
  Principle 6—access to personal data.

 

Non-compliance with a Data Protection Principle may lead to a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (the “Privacy Commissioner”). The Privacy Commissioner may serve an enforcement notice to direct the data user to remedy the contravention and/ or instigate prosecution actions. A data user who contravenes an enforcement notice commits an offense which may lead to a fine and imprisonment.

 

The PDPO also gives data subjects certain rights, inter alia:

 

  the right to be informed by a data user whether the data user holds personal data of which the individual is the data subject;
     
  if the if the data user holds such data, to be supplied with a copy of such data; and
     
  the right to request correction of any data they consider to be inaccurate.

 

The PDPO criminalizes, including but not limited to, the misuse or inappropriate use of personal data in direct marketing activities, non-compliance with a data access request and the unauthorized disclosure of the right to request correction of any data they consider to be inaccurate.

 

Employment Ordinance (Chapter 57 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the EO

 

The Employment Ordinance (Chapter 57 of the Laws of Hong Kong), is an ordinance enacted for, amongst other things, the protection of the wages of employees and the regulation of the general conditions of employment and employment agencies. Under the EO, an employee is generally entitled to, amongst other things, notice of termination of his or her employment contract; payment in lieu of notice; maternity protection in the case of a pregnant employee; not less than one rest day in every period of seven days; severance payments or long service payments; sickness allowance; statutory holidays or alternative holidays; and paid annual leave of up to 14 days depending on the period of employment.

 

Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Chapter 282 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the ECO

 

The Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Chapter 282 of the Laws of Hong Kong), is an ordinance enacted for the purpose of providing for the payment of compensation to employees injured in the course of employment. As stipulated by the ECO, no employer shall employ any employee in any employment unless there is in force in relation to such employee a policy of insurance issued by an insurer for an amount not less than the applicable amount specified in the Fourth Schedule of the ECO in respect of the liability of the employer. According to the Fourth Schedule of the ECO, the insured amount shall be not less than HKD100,000,000 (approximately $12,900,000) per event if a company has no more than 200 employees. Any employer who contravenes this requirement commits a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment. An employer who has taken out an insurance policy under the ECO is required to display a prescribed notice of insurance in a conspicuous place on each of its premises where any employee is employed.

 

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Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Chapter 485 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or the MPFSO

 

The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Chapter 485 of the Laws of Hong Kong), is an ordinance enacted for the purposes of providing for the establishment of non-governmental mandatory provident fund schemes, or the MPF Schemes. The MPFSO requires every employer of an employee of 18 years of age or above but under 65 years of age to take all practical steps to ensure the employee becomes a member of a registered MPF Scheme. Subject to the minimum and maximum relevant income levels, it is mandatory for both employers and their employees to contribute 5% of the employee’s relevant income to the MPF Scheme. Any employer who contravenes this requirement commits a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine and imprisonment.

 

Inland Revenue Ordinance (Chapter 112 of the Laws of Hong Kong)

 

Under the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Chapter 112 of the Laws of Hong Kong), where an employer commences to employ in Hong Kong an individual who is or is likely to be chargeable to tax, or any married person, the employer shall give a written notice to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue not later than three months after the date of commencement of such employment. Where an employer ceases or is about to cease to employ in Hong Kong an individual who is or is likely to be chargeable to tax, or any married person, the employer shall give a written notice to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue not later than one month before such individual ceases to be employed in Hong Kong.

 

Regulations Related to the British Virgin Islands

 

Regulations related to the British Virgin Islands Data Protection Act, 2021

 

The Data Protection Act, 2021 (the “BVI DPA”) came into force in the British Virgin Islands on 9 July 2021. The DPA establishes a framework of rights and duties designed to safeguard individuals’ personal data, balanced against the need of public authorities, businesses and organizations to collect and use personal data for lawful purposes. The BVI DPA is centered around seven data protection principles (the General Principle, the Notice and Choice Principle, the Disclosure Principle, the Security Principle, the Retention Principle, the Data Protection Principle and the Access Principle) which require among other things that:

 

  personal data must not be processed without consent unless specific conditions are met and must not be transferred outside the British Virgin Islands, unless there is proof of adequate data protection safeguards or consent from the data subject;
     
  where consent has been given to processing of personal data, the data subject may at any time withdraw his or her consent;
     
  a data controller must inform a data subject of specific matters, for instance the purposes for which it is being collected and further processed;
     
  personal data must not be disclosed for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was to be disclosed at the time of collection or a purpose directly related thereto or to any party other than a third party of a class previously notified to the data subject;
     
  a data controller shall, when processing personal data, take practical steps to protect personal data from loss, misuse, modification, unauthorized or accidental access or disclosure, alteration or destruction;
     
  personal data must not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purpose;
     
  personal data must be accurate, complete, not misleading and kept up to date; and
     
  a data subject must be given access to his or her own personal data and be able to correct that data where it is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or not up to date, except where a request for such access or correction is refused under the BVI DPA.

 

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The BVI DPA imposes specific obligations on data controllers, including the duty to (i) apply the data protection principles; and (ii) respond in a timely fashion to requests from data subjects in relation to their personal data.

 

The Information Commissioner is the regulator responsible for the proper functioning and enforcement of the BVI DPA. Offences under the BVI DPA include:

 

  processing sensitive personal data in contravention of the BVI DPA;
     
  willfully obstructing the Information Commissioner or an authorized officer in the conduct of his or her duties and functions;
     
  willfully disclosing personal information in contravention of the BVI DPA; and
     
  collecting, storing or disposing of personal information in a manner that contravenes the BVI DPA.

 

Offences committed under the BVI DPA may result in fines (up to US$500,000 in certain cases) or imprisonment. Further, a data subject who suffers damage or distress as a result of their data being processed in contravention of the BVI DPA may institute civil proceedings in the British Virgin Islands courts.

 

C. Organizational Structure

 

See “Item 4. Information on the Company – A. History and Development of the Company.”

 

D. Property, Plants and Equipment

 

See “Item 4. Information on the Company – B. Business Overview – Facilities.”

 

Item 4A. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

 

Not applicable.

 

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Item 5. OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS 

 

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this annual report. The discussion below contains forward-looking statements that are based upon our current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to inaccurate assumptions and known or unknown risks and uncertainties, including those identified in “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and under “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this annual report. For the year ended June 30, 2024, the conversion from HKD into US$ are solely for the convenience of the readers and are calculated at the rate of US$1.00=HKD 7.8083 representing the exchange rate set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board on June 28, 2024.

 

Overview

 

Global Engine Group Holding Limited (the “Company” or “GE Group”) is a holding company incorporated on September 7, 2021 under the BVI Business Companies Act (Law Revision 2020) (the “BVI Act”). The Company has no substantial operations other than holding all of the outstanding share capital of Global Engine Holdings Limited (“BVI Sub”), which was incorporated under the BVI Act on March 5, 2021. BVI Sub is also a holding company holding of all the equity interest of Global Engine Limited (“GEL”), a Hong Kong company incorporated on May 3, 2018. The Company, through GEL, is an integrated solutions provider that delivers actionable outcomes for organizations by using information communication technologies (“ICT”) solutions to drive business outcomes and innovation. The Group offers: (i) “ICT Solution Services” which include the cloud platform deployment, IT system design and configuration services maintenance services, data center colocation service and cloud service; (ii) “Technical Services” which include the technical development, support, and outsourcing services for data center and cloud computing infrastructure, mobility and fixed network communications, as well as Internet-of-things projects; and (iii) “Project Management Services” which enhances productivity and collaboration management and enables successful implementations and adoption of solutions for customers. The Company’s headquarters is located in Hong Kong, China. The “Company” in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section refers to GE Group and its subsidiaries, to reflect the applicable information on a consolidated basis, unless the context otherwise indicates.

 

Each of GE Group and BVI Sub, our intermediate BVI holding entity, has no operations or activity other than being the holding company of their respective immediate subsidiary. The consolidated financial statements reflect the activities of GEL, our operating entity:

 

Name   Background   Ownership   Principal activities
Global Engine Group Holding Limited (“GE Group”)   ●   A BVI company
●   Incorporated on September 7, 2021
  -   Investment holding
Global Engine Holdings Limited (“BVI Sub”)   ●   A BVI company
●   Incorporated on March 5, 2021
  100% owned by GE Group   Investment holding
Global Engine Limited (“GEL”),   ●   A Hong Kong company
●   Incorporated on May 3, 2018
  100% owned by BVI Sub   integrated solutions provider in ICT, system integration and other technical consultation services

  

Key Factors that Affect Results of Operations 

 

The Company believes the key factors affecting its financial condition and results of operations include the following:

 

We may fail to innovate or create new solutions which align with changing market and customer demand.

 

Our business may face risks of clients’ default on payment.

 

We may not manage our growth effectively, and our profitability may suffer.

 

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Our reputation and brand recognition is crucial to our business. Any harm to our reputation or failure to enhance our brand recognition may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Increases in labor costs in Hong Kong may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

 

The above does not list all the material risk factors that may affect our financial condition and results of operations. The above-mentioned risks and others are discussed in more detail in the section titled “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this annual report.

 

Critical Accounting Estimates  

 

We prepare our consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, which requires us to make judgments, estimates and assumptions. To the extent that there are material differences between these estimates and actual results, our financial condition or results of operations would be affected. We base our estimates and assumptions on our own historical data and other assumptions that we believe are reasonable after taking account of our circumstances and expectations for the future based on available information. We evaluate these estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. 

 

Our expectations regarding the future are based on available information and assumptions that we believe to be reasonable and accurate, which together form our basis for making judgments about matters that are not readily apparent from other sources. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, our actual results could differ from those estimates. Some of our accounting policies require a higher degree of judgment than others in their application.

 

Our critical accounting policies and practices include the following: (i) revenue recognition. See Note 3—Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements for the disclosure of these accounting policies. We believe the following accounting estimates involve the most significant judgments used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.

 

Estimated provision for credit losses

 

We carry accounts receivable at the face amounts less a reserve for estimated credit losses. As of June 30, 2023, we recorded an allowance for doubtful accounts related to accounts receivable of HKDnil. We estimated our reserve for credit losses using relevant available information from internal and external sources relating to past events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. Consequently, to reflect the cumulative effects of the adoption of ASC 326, we recorded the balance of the reserve for credit losses of HKDnil as of July 1, 2023. During the year ended June 30, 2024, we recorded adjustments for credit losses of HKD99,775 (US$12,778) in the consolidated financial statements related to accounts receivable. As of June 30, 2024, the reserve for credit losses was HKD99,775 (US$12,778).

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

See the discussion of the recent accounting pronouncements contained in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”. 

 

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Results of Operations

 

The following table sets forth a summary of the consolidated results of operations of the Company for the periods indicated, both in absolute amount and as a percentage of its total revenues.

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2022  2023   2024 
Revenues  HKD   % of
Revenue
   HKD   % of
Revenue
   HKD   US$   % of
Revenue
 
                            
Cloud services and data center managed services                            
Third parties’ revenue  $35,636,864    65.2%  $15,112,472    33.8%  $39,604,258   $5,072,072    80.1%
Related parties’ revenue   11,975,000    21.9%   8,475,000    19%   1,800,000    230,524    3.6%
Telecommunication, consultancy and related services                                   
Third parties’ revenue   4,507,677    8.3%   21,096,677    47.2%   8,046,176    1,030,464    16.3%
Related parties’ revenue   2,500,000    4.6%        -%             -%
Total revenues   54,619,541    100.0%   44,684,149    100.0%   49,450,434    6,333,060    100.0%
Cost of revenues                                   
Third parties’ cost of revenues   37,694,232    69.0%   36,097,137    80.8%   40,980,168    5,248,283    82.9%
Related parties’ cost of revenues   2,991,456    5.5%   1,198,545    2.7%   1,140,000    145,998    2.3%
Total cost of revenues   40,685,688    74.5%   37,295,682    83.5%   42,120,168    5,394,281    85.2%
Gross profit   13,933,853    25.5%   7,388,467    16.5%   7,330,266    938,779    14.8%
Operating expenses                                   
General and administrative expenses   4,468,484    8.2%   4,244,637    9.5%   4,480,135    573,766    9.1%
Total operating expenses   4,468,484    8.2%   4,244,637    9.5%   4,480,135    573,766    9.1%
Income from operations   9,465,369    17.3%   3,143,830    7.0%   2,850,131    365,013    5.7%
Interest expense   (1,550)   0.0%   (34,551)   0.0%   (10,367)   (1,328)   0.0%
Other income   39,974    0.1%   23,403    0.0%   52,807    6,763    0.1%
Income before income taxes   9,503,793    17.4%   3,132,682    7.0%   2,892,571    370,448    5.8%
Income tax expense   1,342,379    2.5%   467,592    1.0%   297,067    38,045    0.6%
Net income  $8,161,414    14.9%  $2,665,090    6.0%  $2,595,504   $332,403    5.2%

 

Year ended June 30, 2024 compared to year ended June 30, 2023

 

Revenues

 

For the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company generated its revenues through two revenue streams by the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GEL: (i) cloud services and data center managed services and (ii) telecommunication, consultancy and related services.

 

The following table presented GEL’s revenues disaggregated by service lines for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2023   2024   2024   Change   Change 
Revenues  HKD   HKD   US$   HKD   % 
Cloud services and data center managed services  $23,587,472   $41,404,258   $5,302,596    17,816,786    75.5%
Telecommunication, consultancy and related services   21,096,677    8,046,176    1,030,464    (13,050,501)   (61.9)%
Total revenues  $44,684,149   $49,450,434   $6,333,060    4,766,285    10.7%

 

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The following table presented GEL’s revenues disaggregated by the timing of revenue recognition for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2023   2024   2024   Change   Change 
   HKD   HKD   US$   HKD   % 
Services transferred over time  $44,684,149   $49,450,434   $6,333,060   $4,766,285    10.7%

 

Revenue increased by HKD4.8 million, or 10.7%, to HKD49.5 million (US$6.3 million) for the year ended June 30, 2024 compared to $44.7 million for the year ended June 30, 2023.

  

Cloud services and data center services include offering business planning, development, technical and operations consulting programs structured to target the cloud and data center providers in the region. The Company also offers complementary offerings such as installations, warranty services and certain managed services including remote network services and data center monitoring to customers. The significant increase in cloud services and data center managed services was due to increase in revenue in Malaysia and Taiwan.

 

The decrease in revenue from telecommunication, consultancy and related services was mainly driven by the completion of performance obligations of certain consultancy projects in Hong Kong in the prior period and no similar project completed for the year ended June 30, 2024.

 

Cost of revenues

 

Cost of revenues included cost of consultants or subcontractors assigned to revenue-generating activities, employee compensation and other third-party costs directly attributable to our revenue-generating activities. For the year ended June 30, 2024, cost of revenues was HKD42.1 million (US$5.4 million), increased by HKD4.8 million from HKD37.3 million for the year ended June 30, 2023. The increase was due to the increase in subcontracting expenses as a result of the increase in number of projects. 

 

Gross profit

 

As a result of the foregoing, gross profit for the year ended June 30, 2024 was HKD7.3 million (US$0.9 million), a decrease of 0.8% from HKD7.4 million for the year ended June 30, 2023. The gross profit margin for the year ended June 30, 2024 was 14.8%, a decrease of 1.7% from 16.5% for the year ended June 30, 2023 due to the offering of competitive pricing package to open new markets.

 

General and administrative expenses

 

General and administrative expenses consisted primarily of motor car expenses, IT expenses, depreciation, legal and professional fees, accounting fee, director’s fee, salaries and employee benefits and others.

 

The Company’s major general and administrative expenses were comprised of the following items during the periods indicated:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2023   2024   2024   Change   Change 
   HKD   HKD   US$   HKD   (%) 
Motor car expenses  $33,918   $6,373   $816   $(27,545)   (81.2)%
Depreciation of property and equipment   326,261    325,944    41,743    (317)   (0.1)%
Amortization of right-of-use assets   402,063    353,807    45,312    (48,256)   (12.0)%
IT Expenses   664,107    664,366    85,085    259    0.0%
Accounting Fee   120,000    120,000    15,368    -    -%
Director’s Fee   240,000    240,000    30,737    -    -%
Salaries and employee benefits   500,325    751,106    96,193    250,781    50.1%
Legal and professional fees   1,782,289    1,649,878    211,298    (132,411)   (7.4)%
Insurance   38,938    55,220    7,072    16,282    41.8%
Exchange loss, net   2,664    17,092    2,189    14,428    541.6%
Others   134,072    296,349    37,953    162,277    121.0%
Total  $4,244,637   $4,480,135   $573,766   $235,498    5.5%

 

General and administrative expenses increased by HKD235,498 or 5.5% from HKD4.2 million in the year ended June 30, 2023 to HKD4.5 million (US$573,766) in the year ended June 30, 2024. The increase mainly driven by increase in salaries and employee benefits for the increase in headcount during the year and was partially offset by the decrease in legal and professional fee by HKD132,411 (US$16,958) in relation to the preparation of Company’s initial public offering in the United States.

 

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IT expenses

 

IT expenses primarily consisted of domain fee and server rental expenses for the Company’s information storage, processing and back up. The amount is comparable with prior year.

 

Others

 

Other expenses mainly included bank charges, transportation costs, travelling expenses, government licensing fee, company secretary expenses, entertainment expenses, sundry expenses and provision of credit losses. The increase in mainly due to the increase of provision of credit losses of HKD99,775 (US$12,778) during the year.

 

Allowance for credit losses

 

On July 1, 2023, the Company adopted ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASC 326”). ASC 326 requires the application of a credit loss model based prospectively on current expected credit losses (CECL), and replaces the previous model based retrospectively on past incurred losses. The Company adopted ASC 326 using the modified retrospective method for all financial assets measured at amortized cost, of which the Company reported only accounts receivable as of June 30, 2023. Results for reporting periods beginning July 1, 2023 are presented under ASC 326. The Company concludes that there is no impact over the initial adoption of CECL model, which should be treated as cumulative-effect adjustment on accumulated deficits as of June 30, 2023.

 

The Company carries accounts receivable at the face amounts less a reserve for estimated credit losses. The Company estimated its reserve for credit losses using relevant available information from internal and external sources relating to past events such as aging schedule of receivables, migration rate of receivables, assessment of receivables due from specific identifiable counterparties that are considered at risk or uncollectible, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. 

 

The table below sets forth the aging analysis of the Company’s gross accounts receivable at the end of each period:

 

   0-90
days
   91-182
days
   183-273
days
   273-365
days
   >365
days
   Total 
June 30, 2024 (US$)  $1,665,752   $515,912   $9,605   $6,403   $9,000   $2,206,672 
June 30, 2024 (HKD)   13,006,692    4,028,397    75,000    50,000    70,273    17,230,362 
June 30, 2023 (HKD)   6,116,962    94,000    2,505,205    -    -    8,716,167 
Change  (HKD)  $6,889,730   $3,934,397   $(2,430,205)  $50,000   $70,273   $8,514,195 

 

The table below sets forth the subsequent settlements related to Company’s accounts receivable as of June 30, 2024:

 

Year Ended June 30  0-90
days
   91-182
days
   183-273
days
   273-365
days
   >365
days
   Total 
2024 (US$)  $        -   $456,177   $      -   $            -   $2,635   $458,812 
2024 (HKD)   -    3,561,966    -    -    20,573    3,582,539 

 

The table below sets forth the accounts receivable balance net of subsequent settlements:

 

   0-90
days
   91-182
days
   183-273
days
   273-365
days
   >365
days
   Total 
June 30, 2024 (US$)  $1,665,752   $59,735   $9,605   $6,403   $6,365   $1,747,860 
June 30, 2024 (HKD)   13,006,692    466,431    75,000    50,000    49,700    13,647,823 

 

For the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company provided provision for expected credit losses of HKD99,775 (US$12,778) and HKDNil, respectively. As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, provision for credit losses were HKD99,775 (US$12,778) and HKDNil, respectively.

 

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Interest expense

 

Interest expense represented the bank overdraft interest. For the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, its interest expense was HKD10,367 (US$1,328) and HKD34,551, respectively.

 

Other income

 

Other income was primarily comprised of the interest income and government grants. For the year ended June 30, 2024, we recognized interest income of HKD52,807 (US$6,763). For the year ended June 30, 2023, we recognized interest income of HKD15,403 and government grants of HKD8,000.

 

Income tax expense

 

Income tax expense was HKD297,067 (US$38,045) for the year ended June 30, 2024, as compared to HKD467,592 for the year ended June 30, 2023. The decrease in its income tax expense by HKD170,525 due to the decrease in income from operations as discussed aforementioned.

 

Net income

 

As a result of the above discussed, the Company recorded a net income of HKD2,595,504(US$332,403) for the year ended June 30, 2024, representing a decrease of HKD69,586 or 2.6% from a net income of HKD2,665,090 for the year ended June 30, 2023.

 

Year ended June 30, 2023 compared to year ended June 30, 2022

 

Revenues

 

For the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company generated its revenues through two revenue streams by the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GEL: (i) cloud services and data center managed services and (ii) telecommunication, consultancy and related services.

 

The following table presented GEL’s revenues disaggregated by service lines for the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2022   2023   Change   Change 
Revenues  HKD   HKD   HKD   % 
Cloud services and data center managed services  $47,611,864   $23,587,472   $(24,024,392)   (50.5)%
Telecommunication, consultancy and related services   7,007,677    21,096,677    14,089,000    201.1%
Total revenues  $54,619,541   $44,684,149   $(9,935,392)   (18.2)%

 

The following table presented GEL’s revenues disaggregated by the timing of revenue recognition for the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2022   2023   Change   Change 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   % 
Services transferred over time  $54,619,541   $44,684,149   $(9,935,392)   (18.2)%

 

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Revenue decreased by HKD9.9 million, or 18.2%, to HKD44.7 million for the year ended June 30, 2023 compared to $54.6 million for the year ended June 30, 2022.

 

Cloud services and data center services include offering business planning, development, technical and operations consulting programs structured to target the cloud and data center providers in the region. The Company also offers complementary offerings such as installations, warranty services and certain managed services including remote network services and data center monitoring to customers. The significant decrease in cloud services and data center managed services was due to the sluggish demand in the services as a result of slow recovery of the domestic economy in China and tightening of credit control to customers in face of the uncertainties in the global economy.

 

The significant increase in revenue from telecommunication, consultancy and related services was mainly driven by the completion of performance obligations of certain consultancy projects during the year.

 

Cost of revenues

 

Cost of revenues included cost of consultants or subcontractors assigned to revenue-generating activities, employee compensation and other third-party costs directly attributable to our revenue-generating activities. For the year ended June 30, 2023, cost of revenues was HKD37.3 million, decreased by HKD3.4 million from HKD40.7 million for the year ended June 30, 2022. The decrease was due to the decrease in subcontracting expenses as a result of the decrease in number of projects. 

 

Gross profit

 

As a result of the foregoing, gross profit for the year ended June 30, 2023 was HKD7.4 million, a decrease of HKD6.5 million from HKD13.9 million for the for the year ended June 30, 2022. The gross profit margin for the year ended June 30, 2023 was 16.5%, a decrease of 9.0% from 25.5% for the year ended June 30, 2022 due to the offering of competitive pricing package to maintain the market share under the ongoing difficult market conditions.

 

General and administrative expenses

 

General and administrative expenses consisted primarily of motor car expenses, IT expenses, depreciation, legal and professional fees, rental expense, accounting fee, consultancy fee, director’s fee, salaries and employee benefits and others.

 

The Company’s major general and administrative expenses were comprised of the following items during the periods indicated:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2022   2023   Change   Change 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   (%) 
Motor car expenses  $-   $33,918   $33,918    100.0%
Depreciation of property and equipment   188,753    326,261    137,508    72.9%
Amortization of right-of-use assets   325,651    402,063    76,412    23.5%
IT Expenses   616,162    664,107    47,945    7.8%
Accounting Fee   120,000    120,000    -    -%
Director’s Fee   240,000    240,000    -    -%
Salaries and employee benefits   512,700    500,325    (12,375)   (2.4)%
Legal and professional fees   2,380,875    1,782,289    (598,586)   (25.1)%
Insurance   16,636    38,938    22,302    134.1%
Others   67,707    136,736    69,029    101.9%
Total  $4,468,484   $4,244,637   $(223,847)   (5.0)%

 

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General and administrative expenses decreased by HKD223,847 from HKD4.5 million in the year ended June 30, 2022 to HKD4.2 million in the year ended June 30, 2023. The decrease mainly driven by decrease in legal and professional fees by HKD598,586 in relation to the preparation of Company’s initial public offering in the United States and was partially offset by the increase in depreciation of property and equipment of HKD137,508.

 

IT expenses

 

IT expenses primarily consisted of domain fee and server rental expenses for the Company’s information storage, processing and back up.

 

Others

 

Other expenses mainly included bank charges, transportation costs, travelling expenses, government licensing fee, company secretary expenses, entertainment expenses and sundry expenses. The increase in expenses for the year ended June 30, 2023 was attributable to the increase in the company secretary expenses during the year.

 

Interest expense

 

Interest expense represented the bank overdraft interest. For the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, its interest expense was HKD34,551 and HKD1,550, respectively.

 

Other income

 

Other income was primarily comprised of the interest income, foreign currency exchange gain and government grants. For the year ended June 30, 2023, we recognized interest income of HKD15,403 (US$1,966) and government grants of HKD8,000 (US$1,021). For the year ended June 30, 2022, we recognized interest income of HKD59, government grants of HKD16,000 and gain on foreign currency of HKD23,915. The government grant is related to a COVID-19 subsidy from the government of Hong Kong SAR for employment.

 

Income tax expense

 

Income tax expense was HKD467,592 (US$59,670) for the year ended June 30, 2023, as compared to HKD1,342,379 for the year ended June 30, 2022. The decrease in its income tax expense by HKD874,787 or 65.2% due to the decrease in our revenues and gross profit margin as discussed aforementioned.

 

Net income

 

As a result of the above discussed, the Company recorded a net income of HKD2,665,090 (US$340,095) for the year ended June 30, 2023, representing a decline of HKD5,496,324 or 67.3% from a net income of HKD8,161,414 for the year ended June 30, 2022. A decrease in its net income in the year ended June 30, 2023 was due to decrease in gross profit as previously discussed.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

The Company financed its daily operations and business development through cash generated from the operations of GEL. As of June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022, its cash balance was HKD8,406,293(US$1,076,584), HKD6,245,104 and HKD6,011,035, respectively.

  

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The following table set forth a summary of its cash flows for the periods indicated:

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Net cash provided by operating activities  $7,107,540   $670,536   $1,810   $231 
Net cash used in investing activities   (1,483,088)   (28,397)   -    - 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities  $(1,357,771)  $(408,070)  $2,159,379   $276,550 

 

Cash provided by operating activities:

 

For the year ended June 30, 2024, net cash provided by operating activities of HKD1,810 (US$231) was primarily resulted from the net income of HKD2,595,504 (US$332,403) as adjusted for non-cash items and change in operating activities. Adjustments for non-cash items consisted of depreciation of property and equipment of HKD325,944 (US$41,743), amortization of right-of-use assets of HKD353,807 (US$45,312) and provision for expected credit losses of HKD99,775 (US$12,778). Change in operating activities included decrease in prepaid tax of HKD553,941 (US$70,943), increase in account payables of HKD7,253,390 (US$928,933) due to the increase in projects for sub-contracting and partially offset by increase in accounts receivable of HKD8,514,195 (US$1,090,403) due to less settlement from our customers, increase in prepayment and deposits of HKD143,218 (US$18,342), decrease in contract liabilities of HKD2,152,957 (US$275,727) and payment to our lessor, HKD370,181 (US$47,409).

 

For the year ended June 30, 2023, net cash provided by operating activities of HKD670,536 was primarily resulted from the net income of HKD2,665,090 as adjusted for non-cash items and change in operating activities. Adjustments for non-cash items consisted of depreciation of property and equipment of HKD326,261, amortization of right-of-use assets of HKD402,063 and deferred offering costs of HKD277,759 for change of underwriter. Change in operating activities included decrease in prepayment, deposits and other receivables of HKD3,556,643 due to the decrease in advance payment to our vendors, increase in account payables of HKD4,437,252 due to the increase in order near the year end and partially offset by increase in accounts receivable of HKD7,539,058 due to sales were made near the year end, increase in prepaid income tax of HKD722,140 due to the payment of provisional income tax during the year, decrease in contract liabilities of HKD2,106,124 and payment to our lessor, HKD384,985.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2022, net cash provided by operating activities of HKD7,107,540 was primarily resulted from the net income of HKD8,164,414) as adjusted for non-cash items and change in operating activities. Adjustments for non-cash items consisted of depreciation of property and equipment of HKD188,753 and depreciation of right-of-use assets of HKD325,651. Change in operating activities included decrease in accounts receivable of HKD1,957,627 due to settlement from our customers, increase in account payables of HKD1,147,675 as a result of an increase in cost of revenue during the year, decrease in contract assets of HKD955,105 and partially offset by increase in prepayment, deposits and other receivables of HKD3,317,058 due to the increase in advance payment to our vendors, decrease in income tax payable of HKD1,347,483 due to the payment of income tax during the year, decrease in contract liabilities of HKD637,789 and payment to our lessor, HKD326,355.

 

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Cash used in investing activities:

 

For the year ended June 30, 2023, net cash used in investing activities was HKD28,397 for the purchases of property and equipment.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2022, net cash used in investing activities was HKD1,483,088 for the purchases of property and equipment.

 

Cash (used in) provided by financing activities:

 

For the year ended June 30, 2024, net cash provided by financing activities of HKD2,159,379 (US$276,550) consisted of decrease in balance with related parties of HKD16,201 (US$2,075), proceed of amount due to a director of HKD7,140 (US$914), collection of payment on behalf of a customer of HKD3,530,000 (US$452,083) and payments for deferred IPO costs of HKD1,361,560 (US$174,372).

 

For the year ended June 30, 2023, net cash used in financing activities of HKD408,070 consisted of decrease in balance with related parties of HKD1,049,199, repayment of amount due to a director of HKD158,277 and payments for deferred IPO costs of HKD1,298,992.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2022, net cash used in financing activities of HKD1,357,771 consisted of, decrease in balance with related parties of HKD3,706,968, repayment of amount due to a director of HKD359,910, payments for deferred IPO costs of HKD3,204,829 and dividend payments of HKD1,500,000.

 

The following table set forth a summary of the Company’s working capital as of June 30, 2024 and 2023:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Current assets  $15,885,949   $26,050,835   $3,336,300 
Current liabilities   9,910,269    18,161,460    2,325,917 
Working capital  $5,975,680   $7,889,375   $1,010,383 

 

Current assets as of June 30, 2024 was HKD26,050,835 (US$3,336,300). Out of this balance, the Company had cash in an amount of HKD8,406,293 (US$1,076,584) of which approximately HKD5,947,009 was denominated in Hong Kong Dollar and approximately HKD2,459,284 was denominated in US Dollar. The entire cash balance was deposited in financial institutions in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, PRC. The current asset balance also included accounts receivable, net of HKD17,130,587 (US$2,193,894), prepayment, deposits and other receivables of HKD345,756 (US$44,281) and prepaid tax of HKD168,199 (US$21,541). 

 

Current liabilities as of June 30, 2024 was HKD18,161,460 (US$2,325,917). This amount was composed of account payables of HKD12,838,317 (US$1,644,189), accrued expenses and other payables of HKD3,542,000 (US$453,620), amount due to a director of HKD39,591 (US$5,070), amount due to a related party of HKD2,422 (US$310) and contract liabilities of HKD1,739,130 (US$222,728). 

 

Current assets as of June 30, 2023 was HKD15,885,949. Out of this balance, the Company had cash in an amount of HKD6,245,104 of which approximately HKD5,657,524 was denominated in Hong Kong Dollar and approximately HKD587,580 was denominated in US Dollar. The entire cash balance was deposited in financial institutions in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, PRC. The current asset balance also included accounts receivable, net of HKD8,716,167, prepayment, deposits and other receivables of HKD202,538 and prepaid tax of HKD722,140. 

 

Current liabilities as of June 30, 2023 was HKD9,910,269. This amount was composed of account payables of HKD5,584,927, accrued expenses and other payables of HKD12,000, amount due to a director of HKD32,451, amount due to a related party of HKD18,623, current portion of operating lease obligation of HKD370,181 and contract liabilities of HKD3,892,087. 

 

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We will have sufficient working capital to meet our present requirements and for the next 12 months from the date of this Annual Report.

  

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

The Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements, including arrangements that would affect its liquidity, capital resources, market risk support, and credit risk support or other benefits.

 

Future Financings

 

The Company may sell its common shares in order to fund its business growth. Issuances of additional shares will result in dilution to existing shareholders. There is no assurance that the Company will achieve sales of the equity securities or arrange for debt or other financing to fund its growth in case it is necessary, or if the Company is able to do so, there is no guarantee that existing shareholders will not be substantially diluted.  

 

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Item 6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES

 

A. Directors and Senior Management

 

Below is a list of our directors, senior management and any employees upon whose work we are dependent as of the date of this Annual Report, and a brief account of the business experience of each of them. The business address for our directors and officers is Room C, 19/F, World Tech Centre, 95 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

Name   Age   Position(s)
Andrew, LEE Yat Lung   55   Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
SUNG Pui Hei   39   Chief Financial Officer and Director
CHAN Kin Wah   52   Independent Director
HUNG Man Ching   51   Independent Director
CHEUNG Chi Hung   58   Independent Director

 

The following is a brief biography of each of our executive officers and directors:

 

Andrew, LEE Yat Lung, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director. Mr. Lee is the founder of the Company and he currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of the Company and Director. Mr. Lee has served as Chief Executive Officer of GEL since May 2018. Mr. Lee has over 25 years of experience in the information and communication technologies industry. In this regard, Mr. Lee worked at 21Vianet Group Limited, a Nasdaq-listed company (Nasdaq: VNET), from September 2015 to March 2018 as managing director. From October 2002 to March 2014, Mr. Lee worked at Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong Limited, a main board listed company in Hong Kong (stock code: 215), serving in various positions with his last position being commercial director. Mr. Lee has extensive experience in sales, marketing, business development, project management, and merger and acquisition activities. Mr. Lee obtained his Master of Business Administration from the University of Surrey in October 1998.

 

SUNG Pui Hei, Chief Financial Officer and Director. Mr. Sung has served as Chief Financial Officer and a Director of the Company since September 16, 2024. Mr. Sung has over 15 years of experience in professional auditing, corporate accounting and financial management. In this regard, Mr. Sung worked at Ernst & Young Hong Kong from September 2008 to July 2015, with his last position being a manager. Mr. Sung was the chief financial officer and the company secretary of Shenglong Splendecor International Limited, a company listed on GEM of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (stock code: 8481), from September 2015 to July 2018. He then worked at EFT Solutions Holdings Limited, a company listed on GEM of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong limited (stock code: 8062), from August 2018 to March 2019, with his last position being the chairman assistant. Mr. Sung is currently the chief financial officer of Maxgrand Limited, a company specialising in the supply of lighting fittings, since April 2019. Mr. Sung obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in accountancy and a minor in finance from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in October 2008, and he is currently a practicing and fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“HKICPA”). He was admitted as a member and was advanced as a fellow of HKICPA in September 2012 and October 2019, respectively.

 

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CHAN Kin Wah, Independent Director. Mr. Chan has served as an independent non-executive Director of the Company since September 16, 2024. Mr. Chan currently serves as a general manager in NWS Holdings Limited, a main board listed company in Hong Kong (stock code: 659) and a director of certain subsidiaries of its group. Mr. Chan is primarily responsible for various businesses in its group including logistics facilities, retail business and healthcare services. Before joining the listed public company, Mr. Chan worked in several major corporations in Hong Kong including Hutchison Global Communications Limited, a telecom conglomerate, Modern Terminals Limited, a container terminal operator and Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, a railway operator. Mr. Chan has extensive experience in accounting, corporate governance, finance and project management, project development, investment, and merger and acquisition activities. Mr. Chan obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in accountancy, from the University of Wollongong in Australia. He was admitted as a member of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants (now known as HKICPA) and the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants (now known as CPA Australia).

 

HUNG Man Ching, Independent Director.  Mr. Hung has served as an independent non-executive Director of the Company since September 16, 2024. Mr. Hung has over 20 years of experience in the information technology and software development spaces. Mr. Hung currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Crossover International Co. Ltd., a company engaged in information technology consulting, business consulting, due diligence, advisory for tech start-up, software development, web and apps development, event management and training, and has served in such capacity since August 2002. In addition, Mr. Hung has been serving as Charter President of the Rotary Club of Peninsula East, Ltd., a non-profit organization since April 2019. From September 1994 to April 1997, Mr. Hung was employed as an IT consultant with HSBC Asset Management, a global asset management company. From May 1997 to October 1998, Mr. Hung was employed as a system analyst with Wilco International, a software development company, in its London, U.K. office working in the settlement system division. From November 1998 to November 2001, Mr. Hung worked as a Senior Consultant with HSBC Asset Management, in its Hong Kong office. From December 2001 to August 2002, Mr. Hung worked as a project manager with UBS Private Bank, a private banking financial institution, in its Hong Kong office. Mr. Hung obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in computer science from The University of Hong Kong in 1994. Mr. Hung obtained Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Information Systems Management degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 2001. Mr. Hung currently serves as a part-time lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.

 

CHEUNG Chi Hung, Independent Director. Mr. Cheung has served as an independent non-executive Director of the Company since September 16, 2024. Mr. Cheung has over 30 years in the telecommunication and technologies spaces with extensive experience in business development, product marketing, and corporate management. Mr. Cheung is an entrepreneur for numbers of start-ups in the technology, media, and telecom (“TMT”) market across the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Cheung is the founder and currently serves as executive director and chief executive officer of ARDGO Labs Limited, an investment firm specialized in high-technologies incubation and investments. Mr. Cheung has been employed by ARDGO Labs Limited since September 2021. Mr. Cheung is also the co-founder and currently serves as executive director of M800 Group Limited, which included M800 Limited, a TMT infrastructure service provider to global carriers, and Cinnox Limited, a customer engagement SaaS service provider to global enterprises. Mr. Cheung has served as executive director of M800 Limited and Cinnox Limited since August 2008 and October 2021, respectively. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Cheung was the business development director for China at a public-listed telecom infrastructure company in Hong Kong. Mr. Cheung obtained his Higher Certificate in Electronic Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1988.

 

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Family Relationships

 

None of the directors or executive officers have a family relationship as defined in Item 401 of Regulation S-K.

 

B. Compensation

 

Compensation of Executive Officers

 

For the year ended June 30, 2024, we paid an aggregate of HKD240,000 (US$30,736)   in cash to our executive officers and directors. We have not set aside or accrued any amount to provide pension, retirement or other similar benefits to our directors and executive officers. 

 

Andrew, LEE Yat Lung Employment Agreement

 

On September 16, 2024, we entered into an executive employment agreement with Mr. Andrew, LEE Yat Lung as Chief Executive Officer which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Annual Report. Pursuant to the employment agreement, the term of the employment shall commence on September 16, 2024 and shall end on September 16, 2026, unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the employment agreement. Upon expiration of this initial term of employment, the employment shall be automatically extended for successive 12-month periods unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the employment agreement. Mr. Lee’s shall receive annual cash compensation of HKD1,458,000. The executive’s salary, remuneration and benefits shall be reviewed by the board (or its designated compensation committee) and/or the management of the Company in accordance with the relevant policies adopted by the Company from time to time. We may terminate the employment for cause, at any time, by summary notice in writing with immediate effect without payment in lieu of notice, for certain acts of the executive, including but not limited to: (i) commission of any act of fraud or gross negligence by in the course of his employment; (ii) willful material misrepresentation at any time by the executive to the board; (iii) the willful failure or refusal to comply with any of the executive’s material obligations or to comply with a reasonable and lawful instruction of the board; or (iv) engagement by the executive in any misconduct or the commission by the executive of any act that is materially injurious or detrimental to the substantial interest of the Company and/or its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, as determined by the board. The executive has agreed, throughout the term of the employment and at all times thereafter, that the executive shall keep in strict confidence and not to use all non-public information relating to the technology, business, financial condition and other aspects of the Company. In addition, the executive has agreed to be bound by non-competition and non-solicitation restrictions during the term of his employment and for six (6) months following termination of the employment.

 

SUNG Pui Hei Employment Agreement

 

On September 16, 2024, we entered into an executive employment agreement with Mr. SUNG Pui Hei as Chief Financial Officer which is filed as Exhibit 4.2 to this Annual Report. Pursuant to the employment agreement, the term of the employment shall commence on September 16, 2024 and shall end on September 16, 2026, unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the employment agreement. Upon expiration of this initial term of employment, the employment shall be automatically extended for successive 12-month periods unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the employment agreement. Mr. Sung’s shall receive annual cash compensation of HKD1,338,000. The executive’s salary, remuneration and benefits shall be reviewed by the board (or its designated compensation committee) and/or the management of the Company in accordance with the relevant policies adopted by the Company from time to time. We may terminate the employment for cause, at any time, by summary notice in writing with immediate effect without payment in lieu of notice, for certain acts of the executive, including but not limited to: (i) commission of any act of fraud or gross negligence by in the course of his employment; (ii) willful material misrepresentation at any time by the executive to the board; (iii) the willful failure or refusal to comply with any of the executive’s material obligations or to comply with a reasonable and lawful instruction of the board; or (iv) engagement by the executive in any misconduct or the commission by the executive of any act that is materially injurious or detrimental to the substantial interest of the Company and/or its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, as determined by the board. The executive has agreed, throughout the term of the employment and at all times thereafter, that the executive shall keep in strict confidence and not to use all non-public information relating to the technology, business, financial condition and other aspects of the Company. In addition, the executive has agreed to be bound by non-competition and non-solicitation restrictions during the term of his employment and for six (6) months following termination of the employment.

 

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Compensation of Directors

 

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, we did not compensate our directors. However, after the IPO, each independent director would be entitled to receive an annual cash compensation in the amount of US$12,000, payable quarterly.

 

C. Board Practices

 

Board of Directors

 

Our board of directors consists of five directors. Our board of directors has determined that our three independent directors, CHAN Kin Wah, HUNG Man Ching and CHEUNG Chi Hung satisfy the “independence” requirements of Rule 5605(a)(2) of the Listing Rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market and Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act.

 

Duties of Directors

 

Under British Virgin Islands law, our directors owe fiduciary duties both at common law and under statute, including a statutory duty to act honestly, in good faith and with a view to our best interests. When exercising powers or performing duties as a director, our directors also have a duty to exercise the care, diligence and skills that a reasonable director would exercise in comparable circumstances, taking into account without limitation the nature of the company, the nature of the decision and the position of the director and the nature of the responsibilities undertaken by him. In exercising the powers of a director, the directors must exercise their powers for a proper purpose and shall not act or agree to the company acting in a manner that contravenes our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or the BVI Act. In fulfilling their duty of care to us, our directors must ensure compliance with our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. We have the right to seek damages if a duty owed by our directors is breached.

 

The functions and powers of our board of directors include, among others:

 

  appointing officers and determining the term of office of the officers;
     
  authorizing the payment of donations to religious, charitable, public or other bodies, clubs, funds or associations as deemed advisable;
     
  exercising the borrowing powers of the company and mortgaging the property of the company;
     
  executing checks, promissory notes and other negotiable instruments on behalf of the company; and
     
  maintaining or registering a register of relevant charges of the company.

 

Terms of Directors and Executive Officers

 

Each of our directors holds office until a successor has been duly elected and qualified unless the director was appointed by the board of directors, in which case such director holds office until the next following annual meeting of shareholders at which time such director is eligible for reelection. All of our executive officers are appointed by and serve at the discretion of our board of directors.

 

Qualification

 

There is currently no shareholding qualification for directors, although a shareholding qualification for directors may be fixed by our shareholders by ordinary resolution.

 

Insider Participation Concerning Executive Compensation

 

Our Board of Directors, which consists of five members, is making all determinations regarding executive officer compensation from the time the Company first entered into employment agreements with executive officers up until the time where the three independent directors will be installed.

 

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Committees of the Board of Directors

 

We have stablished three committees under the board of directors: An audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee. Even though we are exempted from corporate governance standards because we are a foreign private issuer, we have voluntarily adopted a charter for each of the three committees. Each committee’s members and functions are described below.

 

Audit Committee. Our audit committee consists of CHAN Kin Wah, HUNG Man Ching, and CHEUNG Chi Hung. CHAN Kin Wah is the chairman of our audit committee. We have determined that CHAN Kin Wah, HUNG Man Ching, and CHEUNG Chi Hung will satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act. Our board also has determined that CHAN Kin Wah qualifies as an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of the SEC rules or possesses financial sophistication within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The audit committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of the financial statements of our company. The audit committee is responsible for, among other things:

 

  appointing the independent auditors and pre-approving all auditing and non-auditing services permitted to be performed by the independent auditors;
     
  reviewing with the independent auditors any audit problems or difficulties and management’s response;
     
  discussing the annual audited financial statements with management and the independent auditors;
     
  reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our accounting and internal control policies and procedures and any steps taken to monitor and control major financial risk exposures;
     
  reviewing and approving all proposed related party transactions;
     
  meeting separately and periodically with management and the independent auditors; and
     
  monitoring compliance with our code of business conduct and ethics, including reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our procedures to ensure proper compliance.

 

Compensation Committee. Our compensation committee consists of CHAN Kin Wah, HUNG Man Ching, and CHEUNG Chi Hung. CHEUNG Chi Hung is the chairman of our compensation committee. The compensation committee assists the board in reviewing and approving the compensation structure, including all forms of compensation, relating to our directors and executive officers. Our chief executive officer may not be present at any committee meeting during which his compensation is deliberated. The compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:

 

  reviewing and approving to the board with respect to the total compensation package for our most senior executive officers;

 

  approving reviewing and recommending to the board with respect to the compensation of our directors; and overseeing the total compensation package for our executives other than the most senior executive officers;

 

  reviewing periodically and approving any long-term incentive compensation or equity plans;

 

  selecting compensation consultants, legal counsel or other advisors after taking into consideration all factors relevant to that person’s independence from management; and

 

  programs or similar arrangements, annual bonuses, employee pension and welfare benefit plans.

 

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Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Our nominating and corporate governance committee consists of CHAN Kin Wah, HUNG Man Ching, and CHEUNG Chi Hung. HUNG Man Ching is the chairperson of our nominating and corporate governance committee. The nominating and corporate governance committee assists the board of directors in selecting individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the board and its committees. The nominating and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:

 

  identifying and recommending nominees for election or re-election to our board of directors or for appointment to fill any vacancy;

 

  reviewing annually with our board of directors its current composition in light of the characteristics of independence, age, skills, experience and availability of service to us;

 

  identifying and recommending to our board the directors to serve as members of committees;

 

  advising the board periodically with respect to significant developments in the law and practice of corporate governance as well as our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and making recommendations to our board of directors on all matters of corporate governance and on any corrective action to be taken; and

 

  monitoring compliance with our code of business conduct and ethics, including reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our procedures to ensure proper compliance.

 

Corporate Governance

 

The business and affairs of the Company are managed under the direction of our Board. We have conducted Board meetings regularly since inception. Each of our directors has attended all meetings either in person, via telephone conference, or through written consent for special meetings. In addition to the contact information in this Annual Report, the Board has adopted procedures for communication with the officers and directors as the date hereof. Each shareholder will be given specific information on how he/she can direct communications to the officers and directors of the Company at our annual shareholders’ meetings. All communications from shareholders are relayed to the members of the Board. 

 

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

 

Our Board has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to our directors, officers and employees. A copy of this code was filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the F-1 filed in connection with our IPO, which is incorporate by reference to this Annual Report.

 

Clawback Policy

 

We have adopted a Clawback Policy (the “Clawback Policy”) providing that in connection with an accounting restatement of our previously issued financial statements, we have the discretion to recover from current and former executive officers of the Company of certain incentive-based compensation that otherwise would not have been paid had it been determined based on the restated financial statements. A copy of the Clawback Policy is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Annual Report.

 

Board Diversity Matrix

 

Board Diversity Matrix (As of June 30, 2024)

Country of Principal Executive Offices   Hong Kong 
Foreign Private Issuer   Yes 
Disclosure Prohibited Under Home Country Law   No 
Total Number of Directors   5 

 

   Female   Male   Non-
Binary
   Did Not Disclose
Gender
 
Part I: Gender Identity                
Directors  0   5   0   0 
                 
Part II: Demographic Background                
Underrepresented Individual in Home Country Jurisdiction          0     
LGBTQ+          0     
Did Not Disclose Demographic Background          0     

 

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D. Employees

 

As of the date of this Annual Report, we have a total of 4 full-time employees.

 

Our success depends on our ability to attract, motivate, train and retain qualified personnel. We believe we offer our employees competitive compensation packages and an environment that encourages self-development and, as a result, have generally been able to attract and retain qualified personnel and maintain a stable core management team.

 

Under Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance, an employer shall enroll their regular employees in Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes. Regular employees are those who are at between 18 and 65 years of age and have been employed for consecutive 60 days or more. An employer is required to make regular mandatory contributions at least 5% of the employee’s monthly income between HKD7,100 and HKD30,000 and HKD1,500 of the employee’s monthly income over HKD30,000.

 

We believe we maintain a good working relationship with our employees, and we have not experienced any material labor disputes. None of our employees is represented by a labor union.

 

E. Share Ownership

 

See Item 7 below.

 

F. Disclosure of a registrant’s action to recover erroneously awarded compensation

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 7. MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

A. Major Shareholders

 

The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership, within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s Ordinary Shares as of the date of this Annual Report for:

 

  each of the Company’s directors, and executive officers who beneficially own the Company’s Ordinary Shares; and

 

  each person known to the Company to own beneficially more than 5.0% of the Company’s Ordinary Shares.

 

Beneficial ownership includes voting or investment power with respect to the securities. Except as indicated below, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all Ordinary Shares shown as beneficially owned by them. Percentage of beneficial ownership of each listed person prior to the initial public offering of the Company is based on 18,300,000 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of the date of this Annual Report.

 

The number and percentage of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned after the initial public offering of the Company are based on 18,300,000 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of the date hereof. Information with respect to beneficial ownership has been furnished by each director, officer or beneficial owner of 5% or more of the Company’s Ordinary Shares. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally requires that such person have voting or investment power with respect to securities. In computing the number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by a person listed below and the percentage ownership of such person, Ordinary Shares underlying options, warrants or convertible securities held by each such person that are exercisable or convertible within 60 days of the date of this Annual Report are deemed outstanding, but are not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage ownership of any other person. As of the date of the Annual Report, the Company had 11 shareholders of record, none of which are located in the United States.

 

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   Ordinary Shares
Beneficially Owned
 
   Number   Percent 
Directors and Executive Officers(1):          
Andrew, LEE Yat Lung (2)   6,960,000    38.0%
SUNG Pui Hei (3)   960,000    5.3%
CHAN Kin Wah   -    -%
HUNG Man Ching   -    -%
CHEUNG Chi Hung   -    -%
All directors and executive officers as a group   7,920,000    43.3%
           
5% Principal Shareholders:          
Valuable Fortune Limited (2)   6,960,000    38.0%
Cosmic Solution Group Limited (3)   960,000    5.3%
Rosy Depot Limited (4)   1,600,000    8.7%
Best Digital Developments Limited (5)   960,000    5.3%
Elite Trade Developments Limited (6)   960,000    5.3%
Excel Elite Developments Limited (7)   960,000    5.3%

 

(1) Unless otherwise indicated, the business address of each of the individuals is Room C, 19/F, World Tech Centre, 95 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   
(2) Includes 6,960,000 Ordinary Shares owned through Valuable Fortune Limited, a BVI company of which Mr. Lee is the sole owner and a director. Mr. Lee has the voting, dispositive or investment powers over such Ordinary Shares. The address of Valuable Fortune Limited is Corporate Registrations Limited of Sea Meadow House, Blackburne Highway (P.O. Box 116), Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
   
(3) Includes 960,000 Ordinary Shares owned through Cosmic Solution Group Limited, a BVI company of which Mr. Sung is the sole owner and a director. Mr. Sung has the voting, dispositive or investment powers over such Ordinary Shares. The address of Cosmic Solution Group Limited is Vistra Corporate Services Centre, Wickhams Cay II, Road Town, Tortola, VG1110, British Virgin Islands.
   
(4) Rosy Depot Limited (“Rosy Depot”) is a BVI company wholly-owned by a Hong Kong listed company, China Information Technology Development Limited. Mr. WONG King Chiu Daniel is a director of Rosy Depot and is deemed to have the voting, dispositive or investment powers over such Ordinary Shares. The address of Rosy Depot is P.O. Box 957, Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
   
(5) Best Digital Developments Limited (“Best Digital”) is a BVI company, of which Mr. CHAN Chun Ying is the sole owner and a director. Mr. Chan has the voting, dispositive or investment powers over such Ordinary Shares. The address of Best Digital is Vistra Corporate Services Centre, Wickhams Cay II, Road Town, Tortola, VG1110, British Virgin Islands.
   
(6) Elite Trade Developments Limited (“Elite Trade”) is a BVI company, of which Ms. SIN Ka Ka is the sole owner and a director. Ms. Sin has the voting, dispositive or investment powers over such Ordinary Shares. The address of Elite Trade is Vistra Corporate Services Centre, Wickhams Cay II, Road Town, Tortola, VG1110, British Virgin Islands.
   
(7) Excel Elite Developments Limited (“Excel Elite”) is a BVI company, of which Mr. AU Wai Yin is the sole owner and a director. Mr. Au has the voting, dispositive or investment powers over such Ordinary Shares. The address of Excel Elite is Vistra Corporate Services Centre, Wickhams Cay II, Road Town, Tortola, VG1110, British Virgin Islands.

  

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We are not aware of any arrangement that may, at a subsequent date, result in a change of control of our Company.

 

As of the date of this Annual Report, there were 11 holders of record entered in our ordinary share register. The number of individual holders of record is based exclusively upon our share register and does not address whether a share or shares may be held by the holder of record on behalf of more than one person or institution who may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of a share or shares in our company.

 

To our knowledge, no other shareholder beneficially owns more than 5% of our shares. Our company is not owned or controlled directly or indirectly by any government or by any corporation or by any other natural or legal person severally or jointly. Our major shareholders do not have any special voting rights.

 

B. Related Party Transactions

 

Related Party Transactions 

 

The Group has commercial arrangements with related entities to provide or receive technical support and other services. For the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, no revenue was generated from Boxasone Limited (“BAO”) (Mr. Lee is the sole director and a shareholder). For the year ended June 30, 2022, the revenue generated from BAO amounted to HKD2,500,000. For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group received services from BAO and reflected in cost of revenue amounted to HKD615,000.

 

For the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Group purchased no computer equipment from BAO. For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group purchased computer equipment from BAO amounted to HKD250,000. The Group also remits management fees for the human resource services provided by BAO. During the year ended June 30, 2024, the Group remitted no fees for human resource services provided by BAO. During the years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, the Group recorded HKD119,000 and HKD204,000, respectively, for the human resource services fee, which are reflected in general and administrative expenses and HKD35,000 and HKD60,000, respectively, for the human resource services fee, which are reflected in cost of revenue on the consolidated statement of income.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2024, the Company generated revenue from DataCube Research Centre Limited, a subsidiary of China Information Technology Development Limited (“CITD”), amounting to HKD1,800,000 (US$230,524).   For the year ended June 30, 2023, the revenue generated from Macro Systems Limited and DataCube Research Centre Limited, both are subsidiaries of CITD, amounted to HKD1,275,000 and HKD7,200,000, respectively. For the year ended June 30, 2022, the revenue generated from Macro Systems Limited and DataCube Research Centre Limited amounted to HKD6,175,000 and HKD5,800,000, respectively. For the year ended June 30, 2024, the Group received services from Logic Network Limited (a subsidiary of CITD) and reflected in cost of revenue amounting to HKD1,140,000 (US$145,998). For the year ended June 30, 2023, the Group received services from Logic Network Limited and reflected in cost of revenue amounting to HKD1,198,545. For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group received services from Logic Network Limited and reflected in cost of revenue amounting to HKD2,316,456. CITD currently indirectly owns 10% of shares of the Group.

 

The following was a summary of related party’s balances as of June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022:

 

Mr. Lee, Yat Lung Andrew (“Mr. Lee”), a director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

 

As of June 30, 2023, the Company has contract liabilities of HKD1,800,000 with DataCube Research Centre Limited. As of June 30, 2023, the Company has prepayment with Logic Network Limited amounted to HKD100,000. 

 

As of June 30, 2022, the Company has contract liabilities of HKD1,275,000 and HKD1,200,000 with Macro Systems Limited and DataCube Research Centre Limited, respectively. The Company has prepayment with Logic Network Limited amounted to HKD1,098,545.

 

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Amount due from related parties

 

         As of June 30, 
Name of related parties  Relationship  Nature of transactions  2022   2023   2024 
         HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
BAO  Mr. Lee is a sole director and shareholder  The Company provided an interest free loan to BAO, which was repayable on demand. The amount was fully settled by October 2022.  $1,030,576   $   -   $    -   $     - 

 

Amount due to a related party

 

         As of June 30, 
Name of related parties  Relationship  Nature of transactions  2022   2023   2024 
         HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
BAO  Mr. Lee is a sole director and shareholder  BAO provides management services (human resources and consultation) to the Company. BAO is also reimbursed for certain expenses, including insurance and office expenses incurred on the Company’s behalf.  $      -    $     18,623   $2,422   $310 

 

Amount to a director

 

      As of June 30, 
Name of related parties  Nature of transactions  2022   2023   2024 
      HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Mr. Lee  Mr. Lee from time to time, provides advances to the Company for working capital purposes.  $190,728   $32,451   $39,591   $5,070 

 

Employment Agreements

 

See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees — B. Compensation — Compensation of Executive Officers

 

C. Interests of Experts and Counsel

 

Not applicable.

 

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Item 8. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

A. Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information

 

See Item 19 for our audited consolidated financial statements.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

Except as disclose above, from time to time, we are subject to legal proceedings, investigations and claims incidental to the conduct of our business. We are not currently a party to any legal proceeding or investigation which, in the opinion of our management, is likely to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

 

Dividend Policy

 

The holders of our Ordinary Shares are entitled to dividends out of funds legally available when and as declared by our board of directors. Our board of directors has never declared a dividend and does not anticipate declaring a dividend in the foreseeable future. Should we decide in the future to pay dividends, as a holding company, our ability to do so and meet other obligations depends upon the receipt of dividends or other payments from our operating subsidiaries and other holdings and investments. In addition, our operating subsidiaries may, from time to time, be subject to restrictions on their ability to make distributions to us, including as a result of restrictive covenants in loan agreements, restrictions on the conversion of local currency into U.S. dollars or other hard currency and other regulatory restrictions. In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of our Ordinary Shares are entitled to receive, ratably, the net assets available to shareholders after payment of all creditors.

 

B. Significant Changes

 

Except as disclosed elsewhere in this Annual Report, we have not experienced any significant changes since the date of our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report.

 

Item 9. THE OFFER AND LISTING

 

A. Offering and Listing Details.

 

Our Ordinary Shares are currently listed on Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “GLE” since September 20, 2024.

 

B. Plan of Distribution

 

Not applicable.

 

C. Markets

 

Our Ordinary Shares are currently listed on Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “GLE.”

 

D. Selling Shareholders

 

Not applicable.

 

E. Dilution

 

Not applicable.

 

F. Expenses of the Issue

 

Not applicable.

 

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Item 10. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

A. Share Capital

 

Not applicable.

 

B. Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association

 

The information required by Item 10.B of Form 20-F is included in the section titled “Description of Share Capital” in our F-1, which section is incorporated herein by reference. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association were filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the F-1 in connection with our IPO and are hereby incorporated by reference into this Annual Report.

 

C. Material Contracts

 

The information required by Item 10.C of Form 20-F is included in the sections titled “Our Business,” “Related Party Transactions,” and “Underwriting” in our F-1 in connection with the IPO, which sections are incorporated herein by reference.

 

D. Exchange Controls

 

Under the British Virgin Islands law, there are currently no restrictions on the export or import of capital, including foreign exchange controls or restrictions that affect the remittance of dividends, interest or other payments to nonresident holders of our Ordinary Shares.

 

E. Taxation

 

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences Applicable to U.S. Holders of Our Ordinary Shares

 

The following sets forth the material U.S. federal income tax consequences related to an investment in our Ordinary Shares. It is directed to U.S. Holders (as defined below) of our Ordinary Shares and is based upon laws and relevant interpretations thereof in effect as of the date of the Final Prospectus, all of which are subject to change. Unless otherwise noted in the following discussion, this section is the opinion of Messina Madrid Law PA, our U.S. tax counsel, insofar as it relates to legal conclusions with respect to matters of U.S. federal income tax law. This description does not deal with all possible tax consequences relating to an investment in our Ordinary Shares or U.S. tax laws, other than the U.S. federal income tax laws, such as the tax consequences under non U.S. tax laws, state, local and other tax laws.

 

The following brief description applies only to U.S. Holders (defined below) that hold Ordinary Shares as capital assets and that have the U.S. dollar as their functional currency. This brief description is based on the federal income tax laws of the United States in effect as of the date of the Final Prospectus and on U.S. Treasury regulations in effect or, in some cases, proposed, as of the date of the Final Prospectus, as well as judicial and administrative interpretations thereof available on or before such date. All of the foregoing authorities are subject to change, which change could apply retroactively and could affect the tax consequences described below.

 

The brief description below of the U.S. federal income tax consequences to “U.S. Holders” will apply to you if you are a beneficial owner of Ordinary Shares and you are, for U.S. federal income tax purposes:

 

  an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States;
     
  a corporation (or other entity taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia;
     
  an estate whose income is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or
     
  a trust that (1) is subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more U.S. persons for all substantial decisions or (2) has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.

 

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If a partnership (or other entity treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) is a beneficial owner of our Ordinary Shares, the tax treatment of a partner in the partnership will depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. Partnerships and partners of a partnership holding our Ordinary Shares are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding an investment in our Ordinary Shares.

 

WE URGE POTENTIAL PURCHASERS OF OUR ORDINARY SHARES TO CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS CONCERNING THE U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND NON-U.S. TAX CONSEQUENCES OF PURCHASING, OWNING AND DISPOSING OF OUR ORDINARY SHARES.

 

The following does not address the tax consequences to any particular investor or to persons in special tax situations such as:

 

  banks;
     
  financial institutions;
     
  insurance companies;
     
  Pension plans;
     
  cooperatives;
     
  regulated investment companies;
     
  real estate investment trusts;
     
  broker-dealers;
     
  traders that elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting;
     
  U.S. expatriates;
     
  Certain former U.S. citizens or long-term residents;
     
  tax-exempt entities (including private foundations);
     
  persons liable for alternative minimum tax;
     
  persons holding our Ordinary Shares as part of a straddle, hedging, conversion or integrated transaction;

 

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  persons that actually or constructively own 10% (by vote or value) or more of our voting shares (including by reason of owning our Ordinary Shares);
     
  persons who acquired our Ordinary Shares pursuant to the exercise of any employee share option or otherwise as compensation;
     
  persons holding our Ordinary Shares through partnerships or other pass-through entities;
     
  events, hip-hop, and marketing industries investment trusts;
     
  governments or agencies or instrumentalities thereof;
     
  beneficiaries of a Trust holding our Ordinary Shares; or
     
  persons holding our Ordinary Shares through a trust.

 

All of whom may be subject to tax rules that differ significantly from those discussed below.

 

The discussion set forth below is addressed only to U.S. Holders that purchase Ordinary Shares in this offering. Prospective purchasers are urged to consult their own tax advisors about the application of the U.S. federal income tax rules to their particular circumstances as well as the state, local, foreign and other tax consequences to them of the purchase, ownership and disposition of our Ordinary Shares.

 

Taxation of Dividends and Other Distributions on Our Ordinary Shares

 

Subject to the passive foreign investment company rules discussed below, the gross amount of distributions made by us to you with respect to the Ordinary Shares (including the amount of any taxes withheld therefrom) will generally be includable in your gross income as dividend income on the date of receipt by you, but only to the extent that the distribution is paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits (as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles). With respect to corporate U.S. Holders, the dividends will not be eligible for the dividends-received deduction allowed to corporations in respect of dividends received from other U.S. corporations.

 

With respect to non-corporate U.S. Holders, including individual U.S. Holders, dividends will be taxed at the lower capital gains rate applicable to qualified dividend income, provided that (1) the Ordinary Shares are readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States, or we are eligible for the benefits of an approved qualifying income tax treaty with the United States that includes an exchange of information program, (2) we are not a PFIC for either our taxable year in which the dividend is paid or the preceding taxable year, and (3) certain holding period requirements are met. Because there is No income tax treaty between the United States and the BVI, clause (1) above can be satisfied only if the Ordinary Shares are readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States. Under U.S. Internal Revenue Service authority, Ordinary Shares are considered for purpose of clause (1) above to be readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States provided they are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. You are urged to consult your tax advisors regarding the availability of the lower rate for dividends paid with respect to our Ordinary Shares, including the effects of any change in law after the date of the Final Prospectus.

  

Dividends will constitute foreign source income for foreign tax credit limitation purposes. If the dividends are taxed as qualified dividend income (as discussed above), the amount of the dividend taken into account for purposes of calculating the foreign tax credit limitation will be limited to the gross amount of the dividend, multiplied by the reduced rate divided by the highest rate of tax normally applicable to dividends. The limitation on foreign taxes eligible for credit is calculated separately with respect to specific classes of income. For this purpose, dividends distributed by us with respect to our Ordinary Shares will constitute “passive category income” but could, in the case of certain U.S. Holders, constitute “general category income.”

 

To the extent that the amount of the distribution exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits (as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles), it will be treated first as a tax-free return of your tax basis in your Ordinary Shares, and to the extent the amount of the distribution exceeds your tax basis, the excess will be taxed as capital gain. We do not intend to calculate our earnings and profits under U.S. federal income tax principles. Therefore, a U.S. Holder should expect that a distribution will be treated as a dividend even if that distribution would otherwise be treated as a non-taxable return of capital or as capital gain under the rules described above.

 

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Taxation of Dispositions of Ordinary Shares

 

Subject to the passive foreign investment company rules discussed below, you will recognize taxable gain or loss on any sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of a share equal to the difference between the amount realized (in U.S. dollars) for the share and your tax basis (in U.S. dollars) in the Ordinary Shares. The gain or loss will be capital gain or loss. If you are a non-corporate U.S. Holder, including an individual U.S. Holder, who has held the Ordinary Shares for more than one year, you will be eligible for reduced tax rates. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations. Any such gain or loss that you recognize will generally be treated as United States source income or loss for foreign tax credit limitation purposes.

 

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

 

Dividend payments with respect to our Ordinary Shares and proceeds from the sale, exchange or redemption of our Ordinary Shares may be subject to information reporting to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and possible U.S. backup withholding at a current rate of 24%. Backup withholding will not apply, however, to a U.S. Holder who furnishes a correct taxpayer identification number and makes any other required certification on U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or who is otherwise exempt from backup withholding. U.S. Holders who are required to establish their exempt status generally must provide such certification on U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9. U.S. Holders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the U.S. information reporting and backup withholding rules.

 

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Amounts withheld as backup withholding may be credited against your U.S. federal income tax liability, and you may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules by filing the appropriate claim for refund with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and furnishing any required information. We do not intend to withhold taxes for individual shareholders. However, transactions effected through certain brokers or other intermediaries may be subject to withholding taxes (including backup withholding), and such brokers or intermediaries may be required by law to withhold such taxes.

 

Under the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010, certain U.S. Holders are required to report information relating to our Ordinary Shares, subject to certain exceptions (including an exception for Ordinary Shares held in accounts maintained by certain financial institutions), by attaching a complete Internal Revenue Service Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets, with their tax return for each year in which they hold Ordinary Shares. Failure to report the information could result in substantial penalties. You should consult your own tax advisor regarding your obligation to file Form 8938.

 

Passive Foreign Investment Company (“PFIC”)

 

Based on our current and anticipated operations and the composition of our assets, we were not a passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes for the taxable year ended December 31, 2022 and the taxable year ended December 31, 2023. Depending on the amount of cash we raise in this offering, together with any other assets held for the production of passive income, it is possible that, for our taxable year ending December 31, 2024 or for any subsequent year, more than 50% of our assets may be assets which produce passive income, in which case we would be deemed a PFIC, which could have adverse US federal income tax consequences for US taxpayers who are shareholders. We will make this determination following the end of any particular tax year. PFIC status is a factual determination for each taxable year which cannot be made until the close of the taxable year. A non-U.S. corporation is considered a PFIC, as defined in Section 1297(a) of the US Internal Revenue Code, for any taxable year if either:

 

at least 75% of its gross income is passive income; or

 

at least 50% of the value of its assets (based on an average of the quarterly values of the assets during a taxable year) is attributable to assets that produce or are held for the production of passive income (the “asset test”).

 

We will be treated as owning our proportionate share of the assets and earning our proportionate share of income of any other corporation in which we own, directly or indirectly, at least 25% (by value) of the stock.

 

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We must make a separate determination each year as to whether we are a PFIC, however, and there can be No assurance with respect to our status as a PFIC for our current taxable year or any future taxable year. Depending on the amount of cash we raise in this offering, together with any other assets held for the production of passive income, it is possible that, for our current taxable year or for any subsequent taxable year, more than 50% of our assets may be assets held for the production of passive income. We will make this determination following the end of any particular tax year. In addition, because the value of our assets for purposes of the asset test will generally be determined based on the market price of our Ordinary Shares and because cash is generally considered to be an asset held for the production of passive income, our PFIC status will depend in large part on the market price of our Ordinary Shares and the amount of cash we raise in our initial public offering. Accordingly, fluctuations in the market price of the Ordinary Shares may cause us to become a PFIC. In addition, the application of the PFIC rules is subject to uncertainty in several respects and the composition of our income and assets will be affected by how, and how quickly, we spend the cash we raise in this offering. We are under No obligation to take steps to reduce the risk of our being classified as a PFIC, and as stated above, the determination of the value of our assets will depend upon material facts (including the market price of our Ordinary Shares from time to time and the amount of cash we raise in this offering) that may not be within our control. If we are a PFIC for any year during which you hold Ordinary Shares, we will continue to be treated as a PFIC for all succeeding years during which you hold Ordinary Shares. If we cease to be a PFIC and you did not previously make a timely “mark-to-market” election as described below, however, you may avoid some of the adverse effects of the PFIC regime by making a “purging election” (as described below) with respect to the Ordinary Shares.

 

If we are a PFIC for any taxable year during which you hold Ordinary Shares, you will be subject to special tax rules with respect to any “excess distribution” that you receive and any gain you realize from a sale or other disposition (including a pledge) of the Ordinary Shares, unless you make a “mark-to-market” election as discussed below. Distributions you receive in a taxable year that are greater than 125% of the average annual distributions you received during the shorter of the three preceding taxable years or your holding period for the Ordinary Shares will be treated as an excess distribution. Under these special tax rules:

 

    the excess distribution or gain will be allocated ratably over your holding period for the Ordinary Shares;
     
  the amount allocated to the current taxable year, and any taxable year prior to the first taxable year in which we were a PFIC, will be treated as ordinary income,
     
  the amount allocated to each other year will be subject to the highest tax rate in effect for that year and the interest charge generally applicable to underpayments of tax will be imposed on the resulting tax attributable to each such year, and
     
  ●  An additional tax equal to the interest charge generally applicable to underpayments of tax will be imposed on the tax attributable to each prior taxable year, other than a pre-PFIC year.

 

The tax liability for amounts allocated to years prior to the year of disposition or “excess distribution” cannot be offset by any net operating losses for such years, and gains (but not losses) realized on the sale of the Ordinary Shares cannot be treated as capital, even if you hold the Ordinary Shares as capital assets.

 

A U.S. Holder of “marketable stock” (as defined below) in a PFIC may make a mark-to-market election for such stock to elect out of the tax treatment discussed above. If you make a mark-to-market election for the Ordinary Shares, you will include in income each year an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the fair market value of the Ordinary Shares as of the close of your taxable year over your adjusted basis in such Ordinary Shares. You are allowed a deduction for the excess, if any, of the adjusted basis of the Ordinary Shares over their fair market value as of the close of the taxable year. However, deductions are allowable only to the extent of any net mark-to-market gains on the Ordinary Shares included in your income for prior taxable years. Amounts included in your income under a mark-to-market election, as well as gain on the actual sale or other disposition of the Ordinary Shares, are treated as ordinary income. Ordinary loss treatment also applies to the deductible portion of any mark-to-market loss on the Ordinary Shares, as well as to any loss realized on the actual sale or disposition of the Ordinary Shares, to the extent that the amount of such loss does not exceed the net mark-to-market gains previously included for such Ordinary Shares. Your basis in the Ordinary Shares will be adjusted to reflect any such income or loss amounts. If you make a valid mark-to-market election, the tax rules that apply to distributions by corporations which are not PFICs would apply to distributions by us, except that the lower applicable capital gains rate for qualified dividend income discussed above under “— Taxation of Dividends and Other Distributions on our Ordinary Shares” generally would not apply.

 

The mark-to-market election is available only for “marketable stock”, which is stock that is traded in other than de minimis quantities on at least 15 days during each calendar quarter (“regularly traded”) on a qualified exchange or other market (as defined in applicable U.S. Treasury regulations), including the Nasdaq Capital Market. If the Ordinary Shares are regularly traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market and if you are a holder of Ordinary Shares, the mark-to-market election would be available to you were we to be or become a PFIC.

 

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Alternatively, a U.S. Holder of stock in a PFIC may make a “qualified electing fund” election with respect to such PFIC to elect out of the tax treatment discussed above. A U.S. Holder who makes a valid qualified electing fund election with respect to a PFIC will generally include in gross income for a taxable year such holder’s pro rata share of the corporation’s earnings and profits for the taxable year. However, the qualified electing fund election is available only if such PFIC provides such U.S. Holder with certain information regarding its earnings and profits as required under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations. We do not currently intend to prepare or provide the information that would enable you to make a qualified electing fund election. If you hold Ordinary Shares in any year in which we are a PFIC, you will be required to file U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 8621 regarding distributions received on the Ordinary Shares and any gain realized on the disposition of the Ordinary Shares.

 

If you do not make a timely “mark-to-market” election (as described above), and if we were a PFIC at any time during the period you hold our Ordinary Shares, then such Ordinary Shares will continue to be treated as stock of a PFIC with respect to you even if we cease to be a PFIC in a future year, unless you make a “purging election” for the year we cease to be a PFIC. A “purging election” creates a deemed sale of such Ordinary Shares at their fair market value on the last day of the last year in which we are treated as a PFIC. The gain recognized by the purging election will be subject to the special tax and interest charge rules treating the gain as an excess distribution, as described above. As a result of the purging election, you will have a new basis (equal to the fair market value of the Ordinary Shares on the last day of the last year in which we are treated as a PFIC) and holding period (which new holding period will begin the day after such last day) in your Ordinary Shares for tax purposes.

 

IRC Section 1014(a) provides for a step-up in basis to the fair market value for our Ordinary Shares when inherited from a decedent that was previously a holder of our Ordinary Shares. However, if we are determined to be a PFIC and a decedent that was a U.S. Holder did not make either a timely qualified electing fund election for our first taxable year as a PFIC in which the U.S. Holder held (or was deemed to hold) our Ordinary Shares, or a mark-to-market election and ownership of those Ordinary Shares are inherited, a special provision in IRC Section 1291(e) provides that the new U.S. Holder’s basis should be reduced by an amount equal to the Section 1014 basis minus the decedent’s adjusted basis just before death. As such if we are determined to be a PFIC at any time prior to a decedent’s passing, the PFIC rules will cause any new U.S. Holder that inherits our Ordinary Shares from a U.S. Holder to not get a step-up in basis under Section 1014 and instead will receive a carryover basis in those Ordinary Shares.

 

You are urged to consult your tax advisors regarding the application of the PFIC rules to your investment in our Ordinary Shares and the elections discussed above.

 

Hong Kong Profits Taxation

 

Our subsidiary, GEL, is a Hong Kong entity subject to the two-tier profit tax rates system according to Hong Kong tax rules and regulations.

 

The two-tier profits tax rates system was introduced under the Inland Revenue (Amendment)(No.3) Ordinance 2018 (the “Ordinance”) of Hong Kong became effective for the assessment year 2018/2019. Under the two-tier profit tax rates regime, the profits tax rate for the first HKD 2 million of assessable profits of a corporation will be subject to the lowered tax rate, 8.25% while the remaining assessable profits will be subject to the legacy tax rate, 16.5%. The Ordinance only allows one entity within a group of “connected entities” is eligible for the two-tier tax rate benefit. An entity is a connected entity of another entity if (1) one of them has control over the other; (2) both of them are under the control (more than 50% of the issued share capital) of the same entity; (3) in the case of the first entity being a natural person carrying on a sole proprietorship business-the other entity is the same person carrying on another sole proprietorship business. Under the Ordinance, it is an entity’s election to nominate an entity that will be subject to the two-tier profits tax rate on its Profits Tax Return. The election is irrevocable.

 

GEL elected the two-tier profits tax rate for its tax years of 2021/2022; 2022/2023 and 2023/24.   

 

Under Hong Kong tax laws, our Hong Kong subsidiary is exempted from Hong Kong income tax on its foreign-derived income. In addition, payments of dividends from our Hong Kong subsidiary to us are not subject to any withholding tax in Hong Kong.

 

British Virgin Islands Taxation

 

The disclosure relating to tax consequences under British Virgin Islands law is the opinion of Forbes Hare, our counsel as to BVI law.

 

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The Government of the British Virgin Islands does not, under existing legislation, impose any income, corporate or capital gains tax, estate duty, inheritance tax, gift tax or withholding tax upon the Company or its shareholders who are not tax resident in the British Virgin Islands.

  

The Company and all distributions, interest and other amounts paid by the Company to persons who are not tax resident in the British Virgin Islands will not be subject to any income, withholding or capital gains taxes in the British Virgin Islands, with respect to the Ordinary Shares in the Company owned by them and dividends received on such shares, nor will they be subject to any estate or inheritance taxes in the British Virgin Islands.

 

No estate, inheritance, succession or gift tax, rate, duty, levy or other charge is payable by persons who are not tax resident in the British Virgin Islands with respect to any shares, debt obligations or other securities of the Company.

 

Except to the extent that we have any interest in real property in the British Virgin Islands, all instruments relating to transactions in respect of the shares, debt obligations or other securities of the Company and all instruments relating to other transactions relating to the business of the Company are exempt from the payment of stamp duty in the British Virgin Islands. 

 

There are currently no withholding taxes or exchange control regulations in the British Virgin Islands applicable to the Company or its shareholders.

 

There is no income tax treaty or convention currently in effect between the United States and the British Virgin Islands or between Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands.

 

British Virgin Islands Economic Substance Legislation

 

The British Virgin Islands, together with several other non-European Union jurisdictions, has introduced legislation aimed at addressing concerns raised by the Council of the European Union (the “EU”) as to offshore structures engaged in certain activities which attract profits without real economic activity. With effect from January 1, 2019, the Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) Act, 2018 (the “ES Act”) came into force in the British Virgin Islands introducing certain economic substance requirements for in-scope British Virgin Islands entities which are engaged in certain “relevant activities”.

 

Although it is presently anticipated that the ES Act will have little material impact on the Company or its operations, as the legislation is relatively new and remains subject to further clarification and interpretation, it is not currently possible to ascertain the precise impact of these legislative changes on the Company.

 

F. Dividends and Paying Agents

 

Not applicable.

 

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G. Statement by Experts

 

Not applicable.

 

H. Documents on Display

 

We have previously filed the F-1 and the Final Prospectus in connection with our IPO and the Resale Prospectus with the SEC.

 

We are subject to the periodic reporting and other informational requirements of the Exchange Act as applicable to foreign private issuers. Under the Exchange Act, we are required to file reports and other information with the SEC. Specifically, we are required to file annually a Form 20-F within four months after the end of each fiscal year. The SEC also maintains a web site at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding registrants that make electronic filings with the SEC using its EDGAR system. As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules of the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of quarterly reports and proxy statements, and our executive officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act. In addition, we are not required under the Exchange Act to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as U.S. companies whose securities are registered under the Exchange Act.

 

I. Subsidiary Information

 

For a listing of our subsidiaries, see “Item 4. Information on the Company — A. History and Development of the Company.”

 

J. Annual Report to Security Holders

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 11. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

We do not use financial instruments for speculative trading purposes, and do not hold any derivative financial instruments that could expose us to significant market risk. Our primary market risk exposures are changes in interest rates and foreign currency fluctuations.

 

Interest Rate Risk

 

Our exposure on exposure on cash flow interest rate risk mainly arises from our deposits with banks.

 

In respect of the exposure to cash flow interest rate risk arising from floating rate non-derivative financial instruments held by us, such as cash deposits and bank borrowings, at the end of the reporting period, we are not exposed to significant interest rate risk as the interest rates are not expected to change significantly.

 

Foreign Currency Risk

 

We are exposed to foreign currency risk primarily through sales that are denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of the operations to which they relate. The currencies giving rise to this risk are primarily US$. As HKD is currently pegged to US$, our exposure to foreign exchange fluctuations is minimal.

 

Item 12. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES OTHER THAN EQUITY SECURITIES

 

With the exception of Items 12.D.3 and 12.D.4, this Item 12 is not applicable for annual reports on Form 20-F. As to Items 12.D.3 and 12.D.4, this Item 12 is not applicable, as the Company does not have any American Depositary Shares.

 

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Item 13. DEFAULTS, DIVIDEND ARREARAGES AND DELINQUENCIES

 

None. 

 

Item 14. MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS AND USE OF PROCEEDS

 

See “Item 10. Additional Information” for a description of the rights of securities holders, which remain unchanged.

 

Use of Proceeds

 

The following “Use of Proceeds” information relates to the Registration Statement on Form F-1, in relation to our IPO of 2,300,000 Ordinary Shares, which included the full exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option to purchase 300,000 Ordinary Shares. The Ordinary Shares were sold at an offering price of $4.00 per share. We received aggregate gross proceeds of $9.2 million from the IPO, before deducting underwriting discounts and other related expenses.  

 

We have earmarked and have been using the proceeds of the IPO as follows: 25% on brand promotion and marketing; 25% on recruitment of talented personnel; 25% on strategic investments and acquisitions; and 25% on general working capital.

 

Item 15. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, we carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, which is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act, as of June 30, 2024. Based on that evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2024 were not effective at the reasonable assurance level due to the material weakness described below.

 

Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

In connection with the audit of our financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, we identified five material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, as defined in the standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States, as of June 30, 2024. The material weaknesses identified relate to (i) inadequate segregation of duties for certain key functions due to limited staff and resources; ii) a lack of sufficient financial reporting and accounting personnel with appropriate knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements to formalize key controls over financial reporting and to prepare consolidated financial statements and related disclosures; iii) a lack of independent directors and an audit committee to establish formal risk assessment process and internal control framework; iv) a lack of controls or procedures to monitor the system operation and management performed by the service organizations, which influences the Information Technology General Controls on privileged access and system changes; and v) a lack of documented policies and controls (including IT controls and cybersecurity framework) which enable management and other personnel to understand and carry out their internal control responsibilities.

 

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In response to the material weaknesses identified, we are in the process of implementing a number of measures to address the material weakness identified, including but not limited to (i) hiring more qualified staff to fill up the key roles in the operations; ii) setting up a financial and system control framework with formal documentation of polices and controls in place; iii) appointed independent directors, established an audit committee and strengthened corporate governance; and iv) restricting and managing types of access rights and number of users in the applications hosted by service organizations and the application used for financial reporting based on individuals with their corresponding business roles and responsibilities. See “Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors— Our lack of effective internal controls over financial reporting may affect our ability to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud, which may affect the market for and price of our Ordinary Shares.”

 

Notwithstanding there are material weaknesses identified as described above, we believe that our consolidated financial statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 20-F fairly present our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the years covered thereby in all material respects.

 

Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

We did not include an attestation report of the company’s registered public accounting firm in this Annual Report on Form 20-F due to rules of the SEC where domestic and foreign registrants that are non-accelerated filers, which we are, and “emerging growth companies” which we also are, are not required to provide the auditor attestation report.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Other than those disclosed above, there were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 20-F that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 16. RESERVED

 

Item 16A. AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT

 

Our Board of Directors has determined that CHAN Kin Wah is an audit committee financial expert as that term is defined in Item 16A(b) of Form 20-F, and “independent” as that term is defined in the Nasdaq listing standards.

 

Item 16B. CODE OF ETHICS

 

Our Board has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to our directors, officers and employees. A copy of this code was filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the registration statement filed in connection with our IPO, which is incorporate by reference to this Annual Report.

 

Item 16C. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

 

Effective September 1, 2022, Friedman LLP, our then independent registered public accounting firm, combined with Marcum LLP. On January 20, 2023, our Board of Directors approved the dismissal of Friedman LLP and the engagement of Marcum Asia CPAs LLP to serve as our independent registered public accounting firm. The services previously provided by Friedman LLP are now provided by Marcum Asia CPAs LLP.

 

The following table represents the approximate aggregate fees for services rendered by Marcum Asia CPAs LLP and Friedman LLP for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively:

 

   June 30,
2024
   June  30,
2023
 
   US$   US$ 
Audit Fees*  $200,850   $211,450 

 

*Audit Fees – This category includes the audit of our annual financial statements, review of interim financial statements and services that are normally provided by the independent registered public accounting firm in connection with engagements for those years and services that are normally provided by our independent registered public accounting firm in connection with statutory audits and SEC regulatory filings or engagements.

 

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The policy of our audit committee is to pre-approve all audit and non-audit services provided by our independent auditor including audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services.

 

Our Audit Committee evaluated and approved in advance the scope and cost of the engagement of an auditor before the auditor rendered its audit and non-audit services.

 

Item 16D. EXEMPTIONS FROM THE LISTING STANDARDS FOR AUDIT COMMITTEES

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16E. PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY THE ISSUER AND AFFILIATED PURCHASERS

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16F. CHANGE IN REGISTRANT’S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16G. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

See “Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees” for more information.

 

Item 16H. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16I. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 16J. INSIDER TRADING POLICIES

 

We have adopted the insider trading policy governing the purchase, sale, and other dispositions of the registrant’s securities by directors, senior management, and employees. A copy of the insider trading policy is filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report.

 

Item 16K. CYBERSECURITY

 

Risk Management and Strategy

 

We recognize the importance of developing, implementing, and maintaining appropriate and adequate administrative and technical measures to safeguard our information management security systems and protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. Therefore, we have developed and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity risk management program that focuses on monitoring, risk mitigation and risk response, in order to ensure the security and safety of our computer systems, networks, cloud services, software, and all data stored therein.

 

We have implemented protocols to protect against cybersecurity threats and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data. We conduct regular assessment of the Company’s cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, by identifying potential threats, assessing the likelihood and potential impact of cyberattacks. We also conduct ongoing evaluation of the industry trends and regulatory environments to ensure we are in full compliance with applicable cybersecurity laws and regulations in all jurisdictions where we operate. We have set in place an efficient risk mitigation and control and incident response protocols to identify potential risks, detect, effectively respond to, and recover from cybersecurity breaches. We also provide regular training programs to our employees to enhance their awareness about cybersecurity risks, and better understand their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding company assets and data.

 

Overall, we believe that we have established a robust framework to protect against cybersecurity threats, mitigate risks, preserve customer trust and reputation, and support the sustainable growth of our Company.

 

Governance

 

Our cybersecurity program is managed by our Chief Financial Officer, SUNG Pui Hei, for implementing company-wide cybersecurity policies, protocols, and procedures. Our Audit Committee is responsible for overseeing our cybersecurity program. The Chief Financial Officer reports to our board of directors and our Chief Executive Officer.

 

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Item 17. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

We have elected to provide financial statements pursuant to Item 18.

 

Item 18. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

The consolidated financial statements of Global Engine Group Holding Limited and its subsidiaries are included at the end of this Annual Report.

 

Item 19. EXHIBITS

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit   Exhibit title
1.1*   Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
2.1*   Specimen Certificate for Ordinary Shares
2.2   Description of Securities registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
4.1   Executive Employment Agreement between Registrant and CEO, dated as of September 16, 2024.
4.2   Executive Employment Agreement between Registrant and CFO, dated as of September 16, 2024.
4.3   Underwriting Agreement (Previously filed; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 filed with Form 6-K filed on September 24, 2024)
4.4*   Agreement with Aisly Global Inc, dated January 1, 2021, as amended by that two Supplementary Agreements, dated September 30, 2021 and June 22, 2022, respectively
4.5*   Cost Assignment Agreement with Boxasone Limited, dated January 1, 2020, as amended by that certain Cost Assignment Agreement, dated July 1, 2022.
4.6*   Agreement with Teligent International Limited, dated June 1, 2023
4.7*   Agreement with Intellino Tech Sdn Bhd, dated June 1, 2023, as amended by that certain Amendment to the Agreement, dated June 20, 2023 
4.8*   Agreement with Nexsen Limited, dated September 25, 2023
4.9*   Agreement with MDT Innovation (Labuan) Ltd, dated August 30, 2023
4.10*   Agreement with Aisly Global Inc., dated August 30, 2023
8.1   List of Subsidiaries
11.1*   Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of the Registrant
11.2   Insider Trading Policy of the Registrant
12.1   Certification of the Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended.
12.2   Certification of the Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended.
13.1   Certification of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
97.1   Clawback Policy
101.INS   Inline XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE   Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)

 

* Incorporated by reference to the identically named exhibit filed with Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-266919).

 

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SIGNATURES

 

The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this Annual Report on its behalf.

 

  Global Engine Group Holding Limited
     
  By: /s/ Andrew, LEE Yat Lung
  Name: Andrew, LEE Yat Lung
  Title: Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
     
  Dated:  October 31, 2024

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

  Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Marcum Asia CPAs LLP, PCAOB ID 5395) F-2
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Friedman LLP, PCAOB ID 711) F-3
Consolidated Balance Sheets – As of June 30, 2024 and 2023 F-4
Consolidated Statements of Income -For The Years Ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022 F-5
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity-For The Years Ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022 F-6
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows- For The Years Ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022 F-7
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements F-8

 

F-1

 

 

 

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of

Global Engine Group Holding Limited

 

Opinion on the Financial Statements

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Global Engine Group Holding Limited (the “Company”) as of June 30, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of June 30, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

Basis for Opinion

 

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

 

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

/s/ Marcum Asia CPAs LLP

 

Marcum Asia CPAs LLP

 

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2021 (such date takes into account the acquisition of certain assets of Friedman LLP by Marcum Asia CPAs LLP effective September 1, 2022).

 

New York, New York
October 31, 2024

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of

Global Engine Group Holding Limited

 

Opinion on the Financial Statements

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of Global Engine Group Holding Limited (the “Company”) for the year ended June 30, 2022, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2022, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

Basis for Opinion

 

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

 

Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

/s/ Friedman LLP

 

Friedman LLP

 

We served as the Company’s auditor from 2021 through 2022.

 

New York, New York
December 6, 2022

 

 

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GLOBAL ENGINE GROUP HOLDING LIMITED

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Assets            
Current assets            
Cash  $6,245,104   $8,406,293   $1,076,584 
Accounts receivable, net   8,716,167    17,130,587    2,193,894 
Prepayment and deposits   202,538    345,756    44,281 
Prepaid tax   722,140    168,199    21,541 
Total current assets   15,885,949    26,050,835    3,336,300 
                
Property and equipment, net   1,003,038    677,094    86,715 
Right-of-use assets   353,807    
-
    
-
 
Deferred IPO costs   4,226,062    5,587,622    715,600 
Total non-current assets   5,582,907    6,264,716    802,315 
Total assets  $21,468,856   $32,315,551   $4,138,615 
                
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity               
Current liabilities               
Account payables  $5,584,927   $12,838,317   $1,644,189 
Accrued expenses and other payables   12,000    3,542,000    453,620 
Amount due to a related party   18,623    2,422    310 
Amount due to a director   32,451    39,591    5,070 
Operating lease obligation, current portion   370,181    
-
    
-
 
Contract liabilities   3,892,087    1,739,130    222,728 
Total current liabilities   9,910,269    18,161,460    2,325,917 
                
Total liabilities   9,910,269    18,161,460    2,325,917 
                
Commitment and contingencies   
 
    
 
    
 
 
                
Shareholders’ equity               
Ordinary shares, US$0.0000625 par value, authorized 800,000,000 shares as of June 30, 2024 and 2023; 16,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively*
   7,766    7,766    1,000 
Shares subscription receivable   (7,666)   (7,666)   (987)
Retained earnings   11,558,487    14,153,991    1,812,685 
Total shareholders’ equity   11,558,587    14,154,091    1,812,698 
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity  $21,468,856   $32,315,551   $4,138,615 

 

*Giving retroactive effect to the 16,000-for-1 share split effected on October 18, 2022.

 

The accompany notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GLOBAL ENGINE GROUP HOLDING LIMITED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Revenues                
Cloud services and data center managed services                
Third parties’ revenue  $35,636,864   $15,112,472   $39,604,258   $5,072,072 
Related parties’ revenue   11,975,000    8,475,000    1,800,000    230,524 
Telecommunication, consultancy and related services                    
Third parties’ revenue   4,507,677    21,096,677    8,046,176    1,030,464 
Related parties’ revenue   2,500,000    
-
    
-
    
-
 
Total revenues   54,619,541    44,684,149    49,450,434    6,333,060 
                     
Cost of revenues                    
Third parties’ cost of revenues   37,694,232    36,097,137    40,980,168    5,248,283 
Related parties’ cost of revenues   2,991,456    1,198,545    1,140,000    145,998 
    40,685,688    37,295,682    42,120,168    5,394,281 
                     
Gross profit   13,933,853    7,388,467    7,330,266    938,779 
                     
Operating expenses                    
General and administrative expenses   4,468,484    4,244,637    4,480,135    573,766 
Total operating expenses   4,468,484    4,244,637    4,480,135    573,766 
                     
Income from operations   9,465,369    3,143,830    2,850,131    365,013 
                     
Other income (expenses)                    
Interest expense   (1,550)   (34,551)   (10,367)   (1,328)
Other income   39,974    23,403    52,807    6,763 
Total other income (expenses), net   38,424    (11,148)   42,440    5,435 
Income before income tax   9,503,793    3,132,682    2,892,571    370,448 
                     
Income tax expense   1,342,379    467,592    297,067    38,045 
Net income  $8,161,414   $2,665,090   $2,595,504   $332,403 
                     
Weighted average number of ordinary shares                    
Basic and diluted*   16,000,000    16,000,000    16,000,000    16,000,000 
                     
Earnings per share                    
Basic and diluted*  $0.510   $0.167   $0.162   $0.021 

 

*Giving retroactive effect to the 16,000-for-1 share split effected on October 18, 2022.

 

The accompany notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GLOBAL ENGINE GROUP HOLDING LIMITED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

       Shares         
   Ordinary Shares   subscription   Retained     
   Shares*   Par Value   receivable   Earnings   Total 
       HKD   HKD   HKD   HKD 
Balance, July 1, 2021   16,000,000   $7,766   $(7,666)  $2,231,983   $2,232,083 
Dividend paid   -    
-
    
-
    (1,500,000)   (1,500,000)
Net income   -    
-
    
-
    8,161,414    8,161,414 
Balance, June 30, 2022   16,000,000   $7,766   $(7,666)  $8,893,397   $8,893,497 
Net income   -    
-
    
-
    2,665,090    2,665,090 
Balance, June 30, 2023   16,000,000    7,766   $(7,666)  $11,558,487    11,558,587 
Net income   -    
-
    
-
    2,595,504    2,595,504 
Balance, June 30, 2024   16,000,000    7,766    (7,666)   14,153,991    14,154,091 
        US$1,000   US$(987)  US$1,812,685   US$1,812,698 

 

*Giving retroactive effect to the 16,000-for-1 share split effected on October 18, 2022.

 

The accompany notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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 GLOBAL ENGINE GROUP HOLDING LIMITED

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Cash flows from operating activities:                
Net income  $8,161,414   $2,665,090   $2,595,504   $332,403 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:                    
Depreciation of property and equipment   188,753    326,261    325,944    41,743 
Amortization of right-of-use assets   325,651    402,063    353,807    45,312 
Provision for expected credit losses   
-
    
-
    99,775    12,778 
Deferred offering costs   
-
    277,759    
-
    
-
 
Change in operation assets and liabilities                    
Accounts receivable   1,957,627    (7,539,058)   (8,514,195)   (1,090,403)
Prepayment and deposits   (3,317,058)   3,556,643    (143,218)   (18,342)
Contract assets   955,105    
-
    
-
    
-
 
Prepaid tax   
-
    (722,140)   553,941    70,943 
Account payables   1,147,675    4,437,252    7,253,390    928,933 
Income tax payable   (1,347,483)   (242,225)   
-
    
-
 
Contract liabilities   (637,789)   (2,106,124)   (2,152,957)   (275,727)
Operating lease obligation   (326,355)   (384,985)   (370,181)   (47,409)
Net cash provided by operating activities   7,107,540    670,536    1,810    231 
                     
Cash flow from investing activities:                    
Purchases of property and equipment   (1,483,088)   (28,397)   
-
    
-
 
Net cash used in investing activities   (1,483,088)   (28,397)   
-
    
-
 
                     
Cash flow from financing activities:                    
Payments of IPO costs   (3,204,829)   (1,298,992)   (1,361,560)   (174,372)
Proceeds (repayment) of amount due to a director   (359,910)   (158,277)   7,140    914 
Proceeds (repayment) of amount due from/to related parties   3,706,968    1,049,199    (16,201)   (2,075)
Collection of payment on behalf of a customer   
-
    
-
    3,530,000    452,083 
Dividend payments   (1,500,000)   
-
    
-
    
-
 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities   (1,357,771)   (408,070)   2,159,379    276,550 
                     
Change in cash   4,266,681    234,069    2,161,189    276,781 
                     
Cash, beginning of the year   1,744,354    6,011,035    6,245,104    799,803 
                     
Cash, end of the year  $6,011,035   $6,245,104   $8,406,293   $1,076,584 
                     
Supplemental cash flow information                    
Cash paid for income tax  $2,689,863   $1,431,957   $
-
   $
-
 
Cash received from tax refund  $
-
   $
-
   $256,874   $32,898 
Cash paid for interest expense  $1,550   $5,535   $1,049   $134 
Non-cash activities:                    
Operating lease right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities  $1,084,738   $
-
   $
-
   $
-
 

 

The accompany notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements 

 

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GLOBAL ENGINE GROUP HOLDING LIMITED

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 1 — Nature of business and organization

 

Global Engine Group Holding Limited (the “Company” or “GE Group”) is a holding company incorporated on September 7, 2021 under the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) law. The Company has no substantial operations other than holding all of the outstanding share capital of Global Engine Holdings Limited (“BVI Sub”) which was incorporated under BVI law on March 5, 2021. BVI Sub is also a holding company holding of all the equity interest of Global Engine Limited (“GEL”), a Hong Kong Company incorporated on May 3, 2018. The Company, through GEL, is an integrated solutions provider that delivers actionable outcomes for organizations by using information communication technologies (“ICT”) solutions to drive business outcomes and innovation. The Group offers: (i) “ICT Solution Services” provides cloud platform deployment, IT system design and configuration services, maintenance services, data center colocation service and cloud service; (ii) “Technical Services” include the technical development, support, and outsourcing services for data center and cloud computing infrastructure, mobility and fixed network communications, as well as Internet-of-things projects; and (iii) “Project Management Services” enhances productivity and collaboration management and enables successful implementations and adoption of solutions for customers. The Company’s headquarters is located in Hong Kong, China. All of the Company’s business activities are carried out by GEL.

 

On March 30, 2021, GEL’s initial shareholder, Andrew Lee sold his equity interest in GEL to BVI Sub for nominal cash consideration resulting in BVI Sub being the sole shareholder of GEL.  On January 5, 2022, then-existing shareholders of BVI Sub transferred their equity interests in BVI Sub to GE Group, resulting in GE Group being the parent company of BVI Sub and the indirect parent company of GEL.  GE Group, BVI Sub and GEL are under common control which results in the consolidation of BVI Sub and GEL at carrying value. The consolidated financial statements are prepared on the basis as if the reorganization became effective as of the beginning of the first period presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

The consolidated financial statements reflect the activities of each of the following entities:

 

Name  Background  Ownership  Principal activities
Global Engine Group Holding Limited (“GE Group”)  ●   A BVI company
●   Incorporated on September 7, 2021
  -  Investment holding
Global Engine Holdings Limited (“BVI Sub”)  ●   A BVI company
●   Incorporated on March 5, 2021
  100% owned by GE Group  Investment holding
Global Engine Limited (“GEL”)  ●   A Hong Kong company
●   Incorporated on May 3, 2018
  100% owned by BVI Sub  integrated solutions provider in ICT, system integration and other technical consultation services

 

Note 2 — Liquidity

 

In assessing the Company’s liquidity, the Company monitors and evaluates its cash and its operating and capital expenditure commitments. The Company’s liquidity needs are to meet its working capital requirements, operating expenses and capital expenditure obligations.

 

As of June 30, 2024, the Company had cash in an amount of HKD 8,406,293 (US$1,076,584) and net working capital of HKD 7,889,375 (US$1,010,383). To continue to sustain its ability to support the Company’s operation, the Company considered supplementing its sources of funding through the following:

 

  - cash generated from operations;

 

  - the Company seeks financing from banks and other financial institutions; and

 

  - financial support from the Company’s shareholders.

 

Based on the above considerations, management believes that the Company has sufficient funds to meet its operating and capital expenditure needs and obligations in the next 12 months. However, there is no assurance that the Company will be successful in implementing the foregoing plans or additional financing will be available to the Company on commercially reasonable terms. There are a number of factors that could potentially arise that could undermine the Company’s plans such as (i) changes in the demand for the Company’s services, (ii) government policies, and (iii) economic conditions in Hong Kong and worldwide. The Company’s inability to secure needed financing when required may require material changes to the Company’s business plan and could have a material impact on the Company’s financial conditions and result of operations.

 

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Note 3 — Summary of significant accounting policies

 

Basis of presentation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

 

Principles of consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All inter-company transactions and balances are eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Use of estimates and assumptions

 

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities including provision for doubtful accounts, and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods presented. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements include the estimates of provision for credit losses.

 

Earnings per share

 

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income attributable to the holders of ordinary shares by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during period presented. Diluted income per share is calculated by dividing net income attributable to the holders of ordinary shares as adjusted for the effect of dilutive ordinary share equivalents, if any, by the weighted average number of ordinary shares and dilutive ordinary share equivalents outstanding during the period. However, ordinary share equivalents are not included in the denominator of the diluted earnings per share calculation when inclusion of such shares would be anti-dilutive, such as in a period in which a net loss is recorded.

 

Foreign currency translation and transaction

 

The Company uses Hong Kong Dollar (“HKD”) as its reporting currency. The functional currency of the Company and its subsidiary in British Virgin Islands is United States Dollar (“US$”) and its subsidiary which is incorporated in Hong Kong is HKD, which is its respective local currency based on the criteria of ASC 830, “Foreign Currency Matters”.

 

In the consolidated financial statements of the Company, transactions in currencies other than the functional currency are measured and recorded in the functional currency using the exchange rate in effect at the date of the transaction. At the balance sheet date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are translated into the functional currency using the exchange rate at the balance sheet date. All gains and losses arising from foreign currency transactions are recorded in the income statements during the year in which they occur.

 

Convenience translation

 

Translations of balances in the consolidated balance sheets, consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, consolidated statements of changes in shareholders’ equity and consolidated statements of cash flows from HKD into US$ as of June 30, 2024 are solely for the convenience of the readers and are calculated at the rate of US$1.00=HKD 7.8083 representing the exchange rate set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board on June 28, 2024. No representation is made that the HKD amounts could have been, or could be, converted, realized or settled into US$ at such rate, or at any other rate.

 

F-9

 

 

Fair value measurement

 

The accounting standard regarding fair value of financial instruments and related fair value measurements defines financial instruments and requires disclosure of the fair value of financial instruments held by the Company.

 

The accounting standards define fair value, establish a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosures of fair value measurement and enhance disclosure requirements for fair value measures. The three levels are defined as follow:

 

  Level 1 inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

 

  Level 2 inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the assets or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instruments.

 

  Level 3 inputs to the valuation methodology are unobserved and significant to the fair value.

 

Financial instruments included in current assets and current liabilities are reported in the balance sheets at face value or cost because of the short period of time between the origination of such instruments and their expected realization and their current market rates of interest.

 

Related Parties

 

The Company accounts for related party transactions in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 850 (Related Party Disclosures). A party is considered to be related to the Company if the party directly or indirectly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Company. Related parties also include principal owners of the Company, its management, members of the immediate families of principal owners of the Company and its management and other parties with which the Company may deal if one party controls or can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests. A party which can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the transacting parties or if it has an ownership interest in one of the transacting parties and can significantly influence the other to an extent that one or more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests is also a related party.

 

Revenue recognition

 

The Company generates revenues from fees charged for the professional services, including cloud services and data center managed services, and telecommunication, consultancy and related services provided to its clients.

 

The Company adopted ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, for all periods presented. The five-step model defined by ASC Topic 606 requires the Company to (1) identify its contracts with customers, (2) identify its performance obligations under those contracts, (3) determine the transaction prices of those contracts, (4) allocate the transaction prices to its performance obligations in those contracts and (5) recognize revenue when each performance obligation under those contracts is satisfied.

 

Revenues are recognized when control of the promised services and deliverables are transferred to the Company’s clients in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to and receive in exchange for services and deliverables rendered.

 

The Company has elected to apply the practical expedient in paragraph ASC 606-10-50-14 and does not disclose information about remaining performance obligations that have original expected durations of one year or less.

 

The Company elected a practical expedient that it does not adjust the promised amount of consideration for the effects of a significant financing component if the Company expects that, upon the inception of revenue contracts, the period between when the Company transfers its promised services or deliverables to its clients and when the clients pay for those services or deliverables will be one year or less.

 

As a practical expedient, the Company elected to expense the incremental costs of obtaining a contract when incurred if the amortization period of the asset that the Company otherwise would have recognized is one year or less.

 

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Cloud services and data center managed services

 

Cloud services and data center managed services include offering system and software development, business planning, development, technical and operations consulting programs structured to target the cloud and data center providers in the region.

 

The revenues generated from cloud services and data center managed services are generally based on the fixed fee billing arrangements that require the clients to pay a pre-established fee in exchange for a predetermined set of services.

 

For the project development services, the Company designs systems based on clients’ specific needs which require the Company to perform services including design, development, and integration. The contract is typically fixed priced and does not provide any post contract client support or upgrades. The Company concludes there is only one performance obligation as a series of tasks within the contract are interrelated and are not separable or distinct, and the client cannot benefit from any standalone task. The Company recognizes revenue for this type of services over time by applying the input method.

 

For the recurring services, the Company delivers cloud services and data center managed services, and related maintenance service on a monthly basis throughout the contract terms. The Company concludes that each monthly service (1) is distinct, (2) meets the criteria for recognizing revenue over time, and (3) has the same method for measuring progress. In addition, the Company concludes that the services provided each month are substantially the same and result in the transfer of substantially the same service to the customers each month. That is, the benefit consumed by the customers is substantially the same for each monthly transaction, even though the exact volume of services may vary each month. Therefore, the Company concludes that the monthly cloud services and data center managed services satisfy the requirements of ASC 606-10-25-14(b) to be accounted for as a single performance obligation.  The entire transaction prices are allocated to the single performance obligation. The Company recognizes revenue on a straight-line basis since the customer receives value as the services are rendered continuously during the term of the contract.

 

There is no variable consideration, significant financing components or noncash consideration in the contracts. 

 

Telecommunication, consultancy and related services

 

The Company provides consultancy services to telecom operators, including one-stop telecom license application services adapted to each client’s specific needs. In these arrangements, the fees are based on the attainment of contractually defined objectives with the customers, such as completing a business transaction or assisting the client in obtaining a telecom license. There is only one performance obligation of the services as a series of tasks within the contract are interrelated and are not separable or distinct, and the client cannot benefit from any standalone task. The Company recognizes revenues over time by applying the input method.

 

The Company also provides maintenance services to telecom operators to assist them to fulfil the statutory requirements. The revenues generated from these services tendered on an annual basis and other agreed-upon services on non-recurring basis.

 

For the Company’s services rendered on an annual basis, the Company concludes that the services provided each month during the annual service term (1) are distinct, (2) meet the criteria for recognizing revenue over time, and (3) have the same method for measuring progress. In addition, the Company concludes that the services provided each month are substantially the same and result in the transfer of substantially the same services to the customers each month. That is, the benefits consumed by the customers are substantially the same for each monthly transaction, even though the exact volume of services may vary each month. Therefore, the Company concludes that the monthly telecommunication maintenance services satisfy the requirements of ASC 606-10-25-14(b) to be accounted for as a single performance obligation.  The Company recognizes revenue on a straight-line basis since the customer receives value as the services are rendered continuously during the term of the contract .

 

There is no variable consideration, significant financing components or noncash consideration in the contracts.

 

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Cost of Revenues

 

Cost of revenues consists of cost of consultants or subcontractors assigned to revenue-generating activities, employee compensation and other third-party costs directly attributable to the Company’s revenue-generating activities.

 

Cash

 

Cash primarily consist of bank deposits with original maturities of three months or less, which are unrestricted as to withdrawal and use. The Company maintains its bank accounts in Hong Kong.

 

Deposit accounts denominated in Hong Kong Dollars, or any other currencies at the banks and financial institutions who are the members of Deposit Protection Scheme will be covered up to a limit of HKD 500,000 (approximately US$64,034) per depositor per scheme member by Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board in an event of bank failure. As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, cash balances, HKD 7,406,293 (US$948,515) and HKD 5,629,509, respectively, held in the financial institutions in Hong Kong are uninsured. The Company has not experienced any losses in bank accounts and believe its credit risk is not significant.

 

Accounts receivable, net

 

On July 1, 2023, the Company adopted ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASC 326”). ASC 326 requires the application of a credit loss model based prospectively on current expected credit losses (CECL), and replaces the previous model based retrospectively on past incurred losses. The Company adopted ASC 326 using the modified retrospective method for all financial assets measured at amortized cost, of which the Company reported only accounts receivable as of June 30, 2023. Results for reporting periods beginning July 1, 2023 are presented under ASC 326. The Company concludes that there is no impact over the initial adoption of CECL model, which should be treated as cumulative-effect adjustment on accumulated deficits as of June 30, 2023.

 

The Company carries accounts receivable at the face amounts less a reserve for estimated credit losses. The Company estimated its reserve for credit losses using relevant available information from internal and external sources relating to past events such as aging schedule of receivables, migration rate of receivables, assessment of receivables due from specific identifiable counterparties that are considered at risk or uncollectible, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts.

 

As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company recognized provision for credit losses of HKD 99,775 (US$12,778) and HKDNil, respectively.

 

Prepayment and deposits

 

Prepayments are cash deposited or advanced to suppliers for the purchase of goods or services that have not been received or provided. This amount is refundable and bears no interest. Deposits consist of (i) security payments made to utilities companies and are refundable upon termination of services; (ii) security payments made to a lessor for the Company’s office lease agreement. The security deposit will be refunded to the Company upon the termination or expiration of the lease agreement as well as the delivery of the vacant leased properties to the lessor by the Company; and (iii) deposit to suppliers for providing the services, which are refundable. Other receivables include out of pocket expenses to be collected from the clients.

 

Deferred IPO costs

 

Pursuant to ASC 340-10-S99-1, IPO costs directly attributable to an offering of equity securities are deferred and would be charged against the gross proceeds of the offering as a reduction of additional paid-in capital. These costs include legal fees related to the registration drafting and counsel, consulting fees related to the registration preparation, the SEC filing and print related costs. As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, the accumulated deferred IPO cost was HKD 5,587,622 (US$715,600) and HKD 4,226,062, respectively.

 

F-12

 

 

Property and equipment, net

 

Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment if applicable. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method after consideration of the estimated useful lives. The estimated useful lives are as follows:

 

   Estimated
Useful Life
Leasehold improvements  Shorter of 2 years or the remaining lease term
Computer equipment  4 years
Furniture and fixtures  4 years
Motor Vehicles  5 years

 

The cost and related accumulated depreciation of assets sold or otherwise retired are eliminated from the accounts and any gain or loss is included in the statements of operations. Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to earnings as incurred, while additions, renewals and betterment, which are expected to extend the useful life of assets, are capitalized. The Company also re-evaluates the periods of depreciation to determine whether subsequent events and circumstances warrant revised estimates of useful lives.

 

Impairment for long-lived assets

 

Long-lived assets, including property and equipment with finite lives are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. When these events occur, the Company evaluates the impairment for the long-lived assets by comparing the carrying value of the assets with an estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated from the use of the assets and their eventual disposition. If the sum of the expected future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the assets, the Group recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying value of the assets over the fair value of the assets. As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, no impairment of long-lived assets was recognized.

 

Contract assets and contract liabilities

 

Billing practices for the Company’s contracts are governed by the contract terms of each project and are typically based on (i) progress toward completion approved by customers, (ii) achievement of milestones or (iii) pre-agreed schedules. Billings do not necessarily correlate with revenues recognized under the cost-to-cost input method (formerly known as the percentage-of-completion method). The Company records contract assets and contract liabilities to account for these differences in timing.

 

The contract asset, “Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts,” arises when the Company recognizes revenues for services performed, but the Company is not yet entitled to bill the customer under the terms of the contract.

 

The contract liability, “Billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings on uncompleted contracts,” represents the Company’s obligation to transfer to a customer goods or services for which the Company has been paid by the customer or for which the Company has billed the customer under the terms of the contract. Revenue for future services reflected in this account are recognized, and the liability is reduced, as the Company subsequently satisfies the performance obligation under the contract.

 

Employee benefits

 

Under Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance, an employer shall enroll their regular employees in Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes. Regular employees are those who are at between 18 and 65 years of age and have been employed for consecutive 60 days or more. An employer is required to make regular mandatory contributions at least 5% of the employee’s monthly income between HKD 7,100 and HKD 30,000 and HKD 1,500 of the employee’s monthly income over HKD 30,000.

 

Segment reporting

 

The Company operates and manages its business as a single segment, in accordance with ASC 280, Segment Reporting. The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is the Chief Executive Officer. The Company’s CODM assess the Company’s performance and results of operations on a consolidated basis. The Company generates substantially all of its revenues from clients in Hong Kong. Accordingly, no geographical segments are presented. Substantially all of the Company’s long-lived assets are located in Hong Kong.

 

F-13

 

 

Leases

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Leases (ASC Topic 842), which amends the leases requirements in ASC Topic 840, Leases. Under the new lease accounting standard, a lessee will be required to recognize a right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for most leases on the balance sheets. The new standard also modifies the classification criteria and accounting for sales-type and direct financing leases, and enhances the disclosure requirements. Leases will continue to be classified as either finance or operating leases. 

 

The Company adopted ASC Topic 842 using the modified retrospective transition method effective July 1, 2021. The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Lease assets and liabilities are recognized at the present value of the future lease payments at the lease commencement date. The interest rate used to determine the present value of the future lease payments is the Company’s incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date. The Company generally uses the base, non-cancellable lease term in calculating the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities.

 

The Company may recognize the lease payments in the consolidated statements of income on a straight-line basis over the lease terms and variable lease payments in the periods in which the obligations for those payments are incurred, if any. The lease payments under the lease arrangements are fixed.

 

The Company elected the practical expedients for an entity ongoing accounting and applied the short-term lease expedient for lease arrangements with a lease term of 12 months or less at commencement. Lease terms used to compute the present value of lease payments do not include any option to extend, renew or terminate the lease that the Company is not able to reasonably certain to exercise upon the lease inception. Accordingly, operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities do not include leases with a lease term of 12 months or less.

 

The Company did not adopt the practical expedient that allows lessees to treat the lease and non-lease components of a lease as a single lease component. Non-lease components include payments for building management, utilities and property tax. It separates the non-lease components from the lease components to which they relate.  

 

Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. For the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s operating lease expense was HKD 388,807 (US$49,794), HKD 402,063 and HKD 325,651, respectively.

 

The Company evaluates the impairment of its ROU assets consistent with the approach applied for its other long-lived assets. The Company reviews the recoverability of its long-lived assets when events or changes in circumstances occur that indicate that the carrying value of the asset may not be recoverable. The assessment of possible impairment is based on its ability to recover the carrying value of the asset from the expected undiscounted future pre-tax cash flows of the related operations. The Company has elected to include the carrying amount of finance and operating lease liabilities in any tested asset group and include the associated lease payments in the undiscounted future pre-tax cash flows. For the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company did not have any impairment loss against its operating lease ROU assets.

 

Income taxes

 

Global Engine Group Holding Limited and Global Engine Holdings Limited are not subject to tax on income or capital gains under the current laws of the British Virgin Islands. In addition, upon payments of dividends by the Global Engine Holdings Limited and the Company’s subsidiary in Hong Kong, Global Engine Limited to the Company’s shareholders, no British Virgin Islands withholding tax will be imposed.

 

Global Engine Limited is incorporated in and carries trade and business in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and is subject to Hong Kong profits tax under Inland Revenue Department Ordinance. Under relevant Hong Kong tax laws, tax case is normally subject to investigation by the tax authority for up to 6 years of assessment prior to the current year of assessment, if in a case of fraud or willful evasion, then the investigation can be extended to cover 10 years of assessment.

 

No taxable income was generated outside Hong Kong for the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022. The Company accounts for income tax in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Provision for income taxes consists of taxes currently due plus deferred tax.

 

The charge for taxation is based on the results for the fiscal year as adjusted for items, which are non-assessable or disallowed. It is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

 

Deferred tax is accounted for using the asset and liability method with respect to temporary differences arising from between the carrying amount of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the corresponding tax basis used in the computation of assessable tax profit. Deferred tax liabilities are recognized for all future taxable temporary differences. Deferred tax assets are recognized to the extent that it is probable that taxable income will be available against which deductible temporary differences can be utilized. Deferred tax is calculated using tax rates that are expected to apply to the period when the asset is realized or the liability is settled.

 

Deferred tax is charged or credited in the statement of operations, except when it is related to items credited or charged directly to equity. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Current income taxes are provided for in accordance with the laws of the relevant taxing authorities.

 

F-14

 

 

An uncertain tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. Penalties and interest incurred related to underpayment of income tax are classified as income tax expense in the period incurred. The Company had no uncertain tax position as of June 30, 2024 and 2023. The Company does not expect that its assessment regarding unrecognized tax positions will materially change over the next 12 months.

 

Commitments and Contingencies

 

In the normal course of business, the Company is subject to contingencies, including legal proceedings and claims arising out of the business that relate to a wide range of matters, such as government investigations and tax matters. The Company recognizes a liability for such contingency if it determines it is probable that a loss has occurred and a reasonable estimate of the loss can be made. The Company may consider many factors in making these assessments including historical and the specific facts and circumstances of each matter.

 

Concentration of Risks

 

Concentration of credit risk

 

Financial instruments that potentially expose the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and account receivable. The Company places its cash with financial institutions with high-credit ratings and quality. The Company’s credit risk with respect to cash is discussed under “Cash” in this section.

 

Accounts receivable primarily comprise of amounts receivable from the clients serviced. To reduce credit risk, the Company performs on-going credit evaluations of the financial condition of these service clients. The Company establishes a provision for credit losses based upon estimates, factors surrounding the credit risk of specific service clients and other relevant information.

 

Concentration of customers

 

As of June 30, 2024, a customer accounted for 90.0% of the Company’s total accounts receivable. As of June 30, 2023, three customers accounted for 45%, 28.7% and 22.5%, respectively, of the Company’s total accounts receivable.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2024, three major third-party customers accounted for 63.3%, 15.8% and 15.7%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenues. For the year ended June 30, 2023, three third-party customers accounted for 33.9%, 15.5% and 13.2%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenues, and one related-party customer accounted for 19.0% of the Company’s total revenues. For the year ended June 30, 2022, two major third-party customers accounted for 33.1% and 23.8%, respectively, of the Company’s total revenues, and one related-party customer accounted for 21.9% of the Company’s total revenues.

 

Concentration of vendors

 

As of June 30, 2024, a vendor accounted for 91.5% of the Company’s total accounts payable. As of June 30, 2023, two vendors accounted for 63.5% and 36.5%, respectively, of the Company’s total accounts payable.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2024, two vendors accounted for 77.7% and 17.4%, respectively, of the Company’s total purchases. For the year ended June 30, 2023, two vendors accounted for 73.0% and 17.2%, respectively, of the Company’s total purchases. For the year ended June 30, 2022, three vendors accounted for 40.2%, 34.9% and 12.5%, respectively, of the Company’s total purchases.

 

Recent accounting pronouncements

 

In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280), Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The amendments in ASU 2023-07 are intended to improve reportable segment disclosure primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. ASU 2023-07 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The amendments ASU 2023-07 should be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the disclosure impact that ASU 2023-07 may have on its condensed consolidated financial statement presentation and disclosures.

 

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740), Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The amendments in ASU 2023-09 are intended to increase transparency through improvements to income tax disclosures primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. ASU 2023-09 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the disclosure impact that ASU 2023-09 may have on its condensed consolidated financial statement presentation and disclosures.

 

The Company does not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, consolidated statements of income and consolidated statements of cash flows.

 

F-15

 

 

Note 4 — Revenues  

 

Revenues are recognized when control of the promised services and deliverables are transferred to the Company’s clients in an amount that reflects the considerations the Company expects to be entitled to and receive in exchange for services and deliverables rendered.

 

The following table presents the Company’s revenues disaggregated by service lines for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022: 

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Cloud services and data center managed services  $47,611,864   $23,587,472   $41,404,258   $5,302,596 
Telecommunication, consultancy and related services   7,007,677    21,096,677    8,046,176    1,030,464 
Total revenues  $54,619,541   $44,684,149   $49,450,434   $6,333,060 

 

The following table presents the Company’s revenues disaggregated by the timing of revenue recognition for the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022:

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Service transferred over time  $54,619,541   $44,684,149   $49,450,434   $6,333,060 

 

The amounts of transaction prices allocated to the remaining performance obligations (unsatisfied or partially unsatisfied) as of June 30 are as follows:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Amounts expected to be recognized as revenue:            
Within one year  $7,486,957   $2,086,957   $267,274 
After one year   5,739,130    3,652,174    467,730 
   $13,226,087   $5,739,131   $735,004 

 

The Company expects to recognize majority of the related revenue as it provides services to its clients, which is expected to occur within four years for a long-term telecommunication maintenance service. The Company elected to utilize the optional exemption to exclude from this disclosure the remaining performance obligations that have original expected duration of one year or less.

 

F-16

 

 

The following table shows the amounts of revenue recognized in the current reporting period that was included in contract liabilities at the beginning of the reporting period:

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Revenue recognized that was included in contract liabilities at the beginning of the reporting period:                
Cloud services and data center managed services  $4,446,000   $3,895,168   $1,876,000   $240,257 
Telecommunication, consultancy and related services   2,000,000    1,913,043    1,911,587    244,815 
Total revenues  $6,446,000   $5,808,211   $3,787,587   $485,072 

 

Note 5 — Accounts receivable, net

 

Accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Accounts receivable  $8,716,167   $17,230,362   $2,206,672 
Less: provision for credit losses   
-
    (99,775)   (12,778)
Accounts receivable, net  $8,716,167   $17,130,587   $2,193,894 

 

Movement of provision for credit losses is as follows:

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Beginning balance  $
   -
   $
-
   $
-
 
Provision   
-
    99,775    12,778 
Ending balance  $
-
   $99,775   $12,778 

 

For the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022, provision for credit losses were HKD 99,775 (US$12,778), HKDNil and HKDNil, respectively.

 

Note 6 — Prepayment and deposits

 

Prepayment and deposits, net included the following:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Prepayment  $125,938   $268,156   $34,343 
Deposits   76,600    77,600    9,938 
Total prepayment and deposits  $202,538   $345,756   $44,281 

 

Deposits include deposits to utilities companies such as telecommunication and electricity companies and to landlord for the office. Prepayment represented the advance payment to suppliers and vendors.

 

F-17

 

 

Note 7 — Property and equipment, net

 

Property and equipment consisted of the following:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Leasehold improvements  $36,000   $36,000   $4,610 
Computer equipment   289,958    289,958    37,135 
Furniture and fixtures   28,096    28,096    3,598 
Motor Vehicles   1,188,538    1,188,538    152,215 
Subtotal   1,542,592    1,542,592    197,558 
Less: accumulated depreciation   (539,554)   (865,498)   (110,843)
Total  $1,003,038   $677,094   $86,715 

 

Depreciation expense for property and equipment for the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022 amounted to HKD 325,944 (US$41,743), HKD 326,261 and HKD 188,753, respectively.

 

Note 8 — Accrued expenses and other payables

 

Accrued expenses and other payables consisted of the following:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Accrued professional fees  $12,000   $12,000   $1,537 
Other payables   
-
    3,530,000    452,083 
Total  $12,000   $3,542,000   $453,620 

 

Other payables represented the collection of payment on behalf of a customer, which HKD 3.15 million (US$403,417) has been paid to the customer on July 12, 2024 and the remaining collection would be paid off to the customer in the near future.

 

F-18

 

 

Note 9 — Taxes

 

British Virgin Islands

 

Global Engine Group Holding Limited and Global Engine Holdings Limited are incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and conduct all of the Company’s businesses through the Company’s subsidiary in Hong Kong, Global Engine Limited. Under the current laws of the British Virgin Islands, Global Engine Group Holding Limited and Global Engine Holdings Limited are not subject to tax on income or capital gains. In addition, upon payments of dividends by the Global Engine Holdings Limited and the Company’s subsidiary in Hong Kong, Global Engine Limited to the Company’s shareholders, no British Virgin Islands withholding tax will be imposed.

 

Hong Kong

 

Two-tier Profits Tax Rates

 

GEL is incorporated in Hong Kong and is subject to Hong Kong profits tax compliance.

 

The two-tier profits tax rates system was introduced under the Inland Revenue (Amendment)(No.3) Ordinance 2018 (“the Ordinance”) of Hong Kong became effective for the assessment year 2018/2019. Under the two-tier profit tax rates regime, the profits tax rate for the first HKD 2 million of assessable profits of a corporation will be subject to the lowered tax rate, 8.25% while the remaining assessable profits will be subject to the legacy tax rate, 16.5%. The Ordinance only allows one entity within a group of “connected entities” is eligible for the two-tier tax rate benefit. An entity is a connected entity of another entity if (1) one of them has control over the other; (2) both of them are under the control (more than 50% of the issued share capital) of the same entity; (3) in the case of the first entity being a natural person carrying on a sole proprietorship business-the other entity is the same person carrying on another sole proprietorship business. Under the Ordinance, it is an entity’s election to nominate an entity that will be subject to the two-tier profits tax rate on its Profits Tax Return. The election is irrevocable.

 

GEL elected the two-tier profits tax rate for its tax years of 2022, 2023 and 2024. GEL applies the two-tier profits tax rate for its provision for current income and deferred taxes.

 

For the tax years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong provided concessionary measures by providing tax reduction (“tax credit”) of profits tax up to HKD 10,000, HKD 6,000 and HKD 3,000, respectively, per case.

 

Net operating loss will be carried forward indefinitely under Hong Kong profits tax regulation. As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company did not generate net operating loss carry forwards available to offset future taxable income.

  

F-19

 

 

The income tax provision consisted of the following components:

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Current:                
Hong Kong  $1,342,379   $467,592   $297,067   $38,045 
Total provision for income taxes  $1,342,379   $467,592   $297,067   $38,045 

 

A reconciliation between the Company’s actual provision for income taxes and the provision at the Hong Kong statutory rate was as follows:

 

   For the years ended June 30 
   2022   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Income before income tax  $9,503,793   $3,132,682   $2,892,571   $370,448 
Hong Kong income tax rate   16.5%   16.5%   16.5%   16.5%
Income tax expense computed at statutory rate   1,568,456    516,893    477,274    61,124 
Preferential rate   (165,000)   (165,000)   (165,000)   (21,131)
Reconciling items:                    
Non-taxable items in Hong Kong   (82,221)   (9,975)   (30,394)   (3,893)
Expenses not deductible for tax   31,144    131,674    18,187    2,329 
Tax credit   (10,000)   (6,000)   (3,000)   (384)
Total income tax expense  $1,342,379   $467,592   $297,067   $38,045 
Effective tax rate   14.1%   14.9%   10.3%   10.3%

 

No deferred tax assets or liabilities has been recognized in the financial statements as the Company did not have material temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts as of June 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

The Company evaluates the level of authority for each uncertain tax position (including the potential application of interest and penalties) based on the technical merits, and measures the unrecognized benefits associated with the tax positions. As of and for the years ended June 30, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company did not have any unrecognized tax benefits. As of June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company had prepaid tax of HKD 168,199 (US$21,541) and HKD 722,140, respectively. Under relevant Hong Kong tax laws, tax case is normally subject to investigation by the tax authority for up to 6 years of assessment prior to the current year of assessment, if in a case of fraud or willful evasion, then the investigation can be extended to cover 10 years of assessment.

 

Note 10 — Related party transactions and balances

 

The Group has commercial arrangements with related entities to provide or receive technical support and other services.

 

Mr. Lee, Yat Lung Andrew (“Mr. Lee”), a director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

 

China Information Technology Development Limited (“CITD”) currently indirectly owns 10% of shares of the Group. For the year ended June 30, 2024, the revenue generated from DataCube Research Centre Limited, which is a subsidiary of CITD, amounted to HKD 1,800,000 (US$230,524). For the year ended June 30, 2024, the Group received services from Logic Network Limited (a subsidiary of CITD) and reflected in cost of revenue amounted to HKD 1,140,000 (US$145,998).

 

For the year ended June 30, 2023, the revenue generated from Macro Systems Limited and DataCube Research Centre Limited, both are subsidiaries of CITD, amounted to HKD 1,275,000 and HKD 7,200,000, respectively. For the year ended June 30, 2023, the Group received services from Logic Network Limited and reflected in cost of revenue amounted to HKD 1,198,545.

 

F-20

 

 

The Group remits management fees for the human resource services provided by Boxasone Limited (“BAO”) (Mr. Lee is the sole director and a shareholder). During the year ended June 30, 2023, the Group recorded HKD 119,000 for the human resource services fee, which are reflected in general and administrative expenses and HKD 35,000, which are reflected in cost of revenue on the consolidated statement of income.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group generated revenue from Macro Systems Limited and DataCube Research Centre Limited, both are subsidiaries of CITD, amounted to HKD6,175,000 and HKD5,800,000, respectively. For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group received services from Logic Network Limited (a subsidiary of CITD) and reflected in cost of revenue amounted to HKD2,316,456.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group generated revenue from BAO amounted to HKD2,500,000; and the Group received services from BAO and reflected in cost of revenue amounted to HKD 615,000.

 

For the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group purchased computer equipment from BAO amounted to HKD 250,000. The Group also remits management fees for the human resource services provided by BAO. During the year ended June 30, 2022, the Group recorded HKD 204,000, for the human resource services fee, which are reflected in general and administrative expenses and HKD 60,000, for the human resource services fee, which are reflected in cost of revenue on the consolidated statement of income.

 

The following was a summary of related party’s balances as of June 30, 2024 and 2023:

 

As of June 30, 2023, the Company has contract liabilities of HKD 1,800,000 with DataCube Research Centre Limited. The Company has prepayment with Logic Network Limited amounted to HKD 100,000.

 

Amount due to related parties

 

Name of        As of June 30, 
related parties  Relationship  Nature of transactions  2023   2024 
         HKD   HKD   US$ 
BAO  Mr. Lee is a sole director and shareholder  BAO provides management services (human resources and consultation) to the Company. BAO is also reimbursed for certain expenses, including insurance and office expenses incurred on the Company’s behalf.  $18,623   $2,422   $310 

 

Amount due to a director

 

Name of     As of June 30, 
related parties  Nature of transactions  2023   2024 
      HKD   HKD   US$ 
Mr. Lee  Mr. Lee from time to time, provides advances to the Company for working capital purposes.  $32,451   $39,591   $5,070 

 

 

F-21

 

 

Note 11 — Lease

 

Non-cancellable Operating Lease

 

The Company entered into a lease arrangement for its office facility in May 2022. The lease started on May 20, 2022 and expired on June 3, 2024. The Company renewed the lease arrangement in May 2024. The new lease started on June 4, 2024 and will expire on June 3, 2025. The Company applied the short-term lease expedient for lease arrangements with a lease term of 12 months or less at commencement under ASC 842-20-25-2, and accordingly, no operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized for the new lease.

 

The component of lease expense was as follows:

 

   For the years ended June 30, 
   2022   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Operating lease cost  $325,651   $402,063   $388,807   $49,794 

 

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:

 

   As of June 30, 
   2023   2023   2024 
   HKD   HKD   HKD   US$ 
Operating lease:                
Operating lease right-of-use assets  $755,870   $353,807   $
      -
   $
      -
 
                     
Current operating lease obligation  $384,985   $370,181   $
-
   $
-
 
Noncurrent operating lease obligation   370,181    
-
    
-
    
-
 
Total operating lease obligation  $755,166   $370,181   $
-
   $
-
 
Weighted average remaining lease term (in years):                    
Operating lease   1.9    0.93    
-
      
Weighted average discount rate:                    
Operating lease   5.0%   5.0%   
-
%     

 

F-22

 

 

The Company’s commitment for minimum lease payment under its operating lease for its office facility as of June 30, 2024 was as follows:

 

Years ending June 30,  Amount
(HKD)
   Amount
(US$)
 
2025  $385,000   $49,307 

 

Note 12 — Equity

 

Ordinary shares

 

The authorized number of shares was 50,000 shares with a par value of US$1.00 per share. On October 18, 2022, the company completed a share split. This share split increase the authorized shares from 50,000 Ordinary Shares, par value of US$1.00 per share, to 800,000,000 Ordinary Shares, par value of US$0.0000625 per share and effectuated a forward split of all issued and outstanding shares at a ratio of 16,000-for-1. All per share amounts and number of shares in the consolidated financial statements and related notes have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the share split. As of June 30, 2023 and 2024, 16,000,000 shares were issued and outstanding. 

 

Dividends

 

The Company declared a dividend of HKD 0.09375 per share totaling HKD 1,500,000 to its shareholders on September 1, 2021, which was paid in full to shareholders on January 14, 2022.

 

Note 13 — Commitments and Contingencies

 

In the ordinary course of business, the Company may be subject to certain legal proceedings, claims, and disputes that arise from the business operations. Although the outcomes of these legal proceedings cannot be predicted, the Company does not believe these actions, in the aggregate, will have a material adverse impact on its financial position, results of operations or liquidity. As of June 30, 2024, the Company had no material outstanding lawsuits nor claims.

 

Note 14 — Subsequent events

 

The Company evaluated all events and transactions that occurred after June 30, 2024 up through the date the Company issued the consolidated financial statements. Other than the event disclosed below, there was no other subsequent event occurred that would require recognition or disclosure in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

On September 20, 2024, the Company announced pricing of its initial public offering of 2,000,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of US$4.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of US$8.0 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and other offering expenses. The ordinary shares have been approved for listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the stock code “GLE”. The offering closed on September 23, 2024.

 

On October 18, 2024, the over-allotment option was fully exercised and the Company issued additional 300,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of US$4.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of US$1.2 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and other offering expenses.

 

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