SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

In preparing financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates include estimated useful lives and potential impairment of property and equipment, along with the collectability of some receivables from customers.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid temporary cash investments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. On December 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023, the Company had cash and cash equivalents totaling $424,588 and $2,166,118 respectively.

Accounts Receivable

We record accounts receivable at net realizable value. This value includes an appropriate allowance for estimated uncollectible accounts to reflect any loss anticipated on the accounts receivable balances and is charged to bad debt expense. We calculate this allowance based on our history of write-offs, the level of past-due accounts based on the contractual terms of the receivables, and our relationships with, and the economic status of, our customers. With over eighty-nine percent of year end accounts receivable balance from Federal contracts that require payment, and the uncollectable amount historically has been less than 1%. As of December 31, 2024, and 2023, an allowance for estimated uncollectible accounts was determined to be unnecessary.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are recorded at cost. Expenditures for major additions and improvements are capitalized, and minor replacements, maintenance, and repairs are charged to expense as incurred. When property and equipment are retired or otherwise disposed of, the cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is included in the results of operations for the respective period. Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the related assets using the straight-line method for financial statement purposes. The Company uses other depreciation methods (generally accelerated) for tax purposes where appropriate. The estimated useful life for Machinery and Equipment, and Vehicles is 5 years, Leased vehicles based on lease term, with Leasehold improvements useful life is 15 Years.

Operating Leases

In February 2016, FASB ASU No. 2016-02 established ASC Topic 842, Leases, which sets out the principles for recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of leases for both lessees and lessors. Effective December 31, 2022, we have implemented ASU No. 2016-02 and booked the operating lease asset and the related liability.

The Company is a lessee with Enterprise Lease Management for vehicles used in operations, under an all-inclusive master lease. The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease, or contains a lease, at inception of a contract and when the terms of an existing contract are changed. The Company recognizes a lease liability and a right-of-use (ROU) asset at the commencement date. The lease liability is initially and subsequently recognized based on the present value of its future lease payments. Variable payments are included in the future lease payments when those variable payments depend on an index or a rate. The discount rate is the interest rate that equates the present value of future lease payments to the Right-of-Use (ROU) asset or lease liability. The leasehold amortization was calculated using an incremental borrowing rate based on the 7-year risk-free Treasury rate as of January 3, 2024, set at 3.95%. This rate was applied to determine the present value of the lease payments and record the right-of-use asset and lease liability as recorded on the balance sheet as detailed in Note 6.

The Company has elected, for all underlying classes of assets, not to recognize ROU assets and lease liabilities for short-term leases that have a lease term of 12 months or less at lease commencement. As of December 31, 2024, the Company does not have any leases that qualify for this election.

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenue under ASC 606, Revenue from contracts with customers. The core principle of the revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled for those services. There are five steps or qualifiers that determine the timing and amount of Revenue Recognition. Those five steps are:

Identifying the contract with a customer.

Identifying the performance obligation in the contract.

Determine the transaction price.

Allocate the transaction price to performance obligations.

Recognize the revenue when the entity satisfies the performance obligation.

The Company generates and recognizes revenue in three sales categories. Those being, Formal Contracts, Sales Agreements and Retail activities. For the retail activities, the revenue is recognized on a cash basis at the time of sale. For the other two categories, the customers are billed at the end of the month the services have been performed.

The formal contract and sales agreements stipulate the exact services to be performed and the rate the services are to be billed, as per steps 1, 2 and 3. The Company provides details of services provided with each billing invoice for customer review and approval. Any differences are resolved prior to payment, Step 4. The Company recognizes revenue in the month the services stipulated in the agreement have been provided, Step 5.

Ninety eight percent of revenues are billed monthly and recognized in the month the services were provided. Refunds and returns, which are minimal, are recorded as a reduction of revenue. The Company has not recorded a reserve for returns on December 31, 2024, or 2023 since it does not believe such returns will be material.

Net Income/(Loss) per Share

Net income/(loss) per common share is computed by dividing net income or loss by the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period as defined by Financial Accounting Standards, ASC Topic 260, “Earnings per Share”. Basic earnings/(loss) per common share (“EPS”) calculations are determined by dividing net income/(loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the year. Diluted earnings per common share calculations are determined by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares and dilutive common share equivalents outstanding.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The Company applies the accounting guidance under Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 820-10, “Fair Value Measurements”, as well as certain related FASB staff positions. This guidance defines fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact business and considers assumptions that marketplace participants would use when pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions, and risk of non-performance.

The guidance also establishes a fair value hierarchy for measurements of fair value as follows:

	●	Level 1 - quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

	●	Level 2 - inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

	●	Level 3 - unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

The carrying amount of the Company’s financial instruments approximates their fair value as of December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2024, due to the short-term nature of these instruments.

AMERIGUARD SECURITY SERVICES, INC. 10-K