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20-F/A — Amendment to Annual Report of a Foreign Private Issuer
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Israel
(Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
5 Haplada Street, Or Yehuda 60218, Israel
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Guy Bernstein, CEO, 5 Haplada Street, Or Yehuda 60218, Israel
Tel: 972 3 5389487, Fax: 972 3 5389645
(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile Number and Address of Company Contact Person)
_________________
Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of Each Class
Name of Each Exchange On Which Registered
Ordinary Shares, NIS 1 par value
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
American Depositary Shares
NASDAQ Global Market
Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act:
None
As of December 31, 2009, the registrant had 13,200,000 outstanding ordinary shares, NIS 1 par value, of which 719,546 were represented by American Depositary Shares as of such date.
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Yes o No x
If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yes o No x
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes x No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).
Yes o No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer o Accelerated filer o Non-accelerated filer x
Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:
U.S. GAAP x
International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting
Standards Board o
Other o
If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow.
Item 17 o Item 18 o
If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
Yes o No x
Explanatory Note
This amendment No. 2 on Form 20-F/A, referred to as Amendment No. 2, is being filed by Formula Systems (1985) Ltd., referred to as Formula, to amend the annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, filed on April 29, 2010, as amended on May 10, 2010, referred to as the Original 20-F. This Amendment No. 2 is being filed solely for the purpose of (i) amending the disclosure of subsection (a) of Item 15T, “Disclosure Controls and Procedures”; and (ii) revising the audit opinions for Magic Benelux B.V. and Magic (Onyx) Magyarország Szoftverház Kft. This Amendment No. 2 has not been updated to reflect events occurring subsequent to the filing of the Original 20-F. The filing of this Amendment No. 2 shall not be deemed an admission that the Original
20-F, when filed, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make a statement not misleading.
ITEM 15T. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
(a) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports under the Securities Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our management carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a–15(e) and 15d–15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act, as of December 31, 2009. Based on the evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2009.
(b) Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for us. Formula’s internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation and fair presentation of our consolidated financial statements.
Our chief executive officer and chief financial officer assessed the effectiveness of Formula’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009. In making this assessment, they used the criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this assessment, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that, as of December 31, 2009, Formula’s internal control over financial reporting was effective based on those criteria.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, all internal control systems no matter how well designed have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective may not prevent or detect misstatements and can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
(c) Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm. This annual report does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the SEC that permit us to provide only management’s report in this annual report.
(d) Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. During the period covered by this report, there were no changes in Formula’s internal controls over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, Formula’s internal control over financial reporting.
We have audited the accompanying balance sheets as at December 31, 2009 and 2008 and the related statements of operations for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 of Magic Benelux B.V., Houten.
Management’s responsibility
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements and for the preparation of the management board report, both in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. This responsibility includes: designing, implementing and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.
Auditor’s responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). The standards require that we p1an and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit on the company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.
VERSTEGEN ACCOUNTANTS EN ADVISEUR BV -K.V.K. NR. 24342109
Opinion
In our opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of Magic Benelux B.V. as at December 31, 2009 and 2008, and of its related statements of operations for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009 in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
The Netherlands, Dordrecht, January 29, 2010 Verstegen accountants en adviseurs,
Drs. L.K. Hodgendoorn RA MGA
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Magic (Onyx) Magyarország Szoftverház. Kft.
We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Magic (Onyx) Magyarország Szoftverház Kft. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related statements operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, 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. An audit also includes examining, on a test
basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits and the reports of other auditors provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, based on our audits, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company and at December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related statements operations, changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F/A and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this amendment to the annual report on its behalf.
