2013 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 37 - TRADE REGULATION
Chapter 05B - Franchise Investment
§ 37-5B-8 Start-up financial statements.
37-5B-8. Start-up financial statements. For the purposes of § 37-5B-7, a start-up franchise system that does not yet have audited financial statements, may phase-in the use of audited financial statements by providing, at a minimum, the following statements in the times indicated below:
(1) The franchisor's first partial or full fiscal year selling franchises: an unaudited opening balance sheet;
(2) The franchisor's second fiscal year selling franchises: audited balance sheet opinion as of the end of the first partial or full fiscal year selling franchises; and
(3) The franchisor's third and subsequent fiscal years selling franchises: all required financial statements for the previous fiscal year, plus any previously disclosed audited statements that still must be disclosed such as the franchisor's balance sheet for the previous two fiscal year-ends before the disclosure document issuance date and statements of operations, stockholders equity, and cash flows for each of the franchisor's previous three fiscal years.
Source: SL 2008, ch 203, § 8.
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