RE: AFC & Acciona !18 Apr 2024 10:28
Pommy
Have you ever thought about actually taking a dispassionate view on what the company has said it's going to do, and what it's actually delivered in the past, rather than just going "la la la...I don't like what you say, so I don't believe you!"
As an example, look at the ABB deal; this was trumpeted as the great "next big thing" and great play was made about the wonderful £4.0M contract. Even when the accounts were published last year (you know, the ones which were late, because the company "had to take advice from their auditors" over the matter of deferred income) everyone here assumed (or, was in fact led to believe) that the element of the contract which want discounted by the share giveaway would be released as income in the current year, and the Ubers used this as justification to say that all is well and on target. What now transpires is that the amount of contractual income wasn't released in 2023 as anticipated, but has been kicked into the long grass, apparently to be released as a discount on sales to ABB, which are, of course non contractual, and indeed haven't even been factored into the pie inn the sky £27 Million....
Answer me this.......in your opinion, are AFC, under the terms of the contract entitled to receive the balance of the £1.4M deferred income upon achieving milestones, or has the contract been altered so that it form a part of the discount structure? No matter which way you cut it, the company has been less than transparent in respect of this particular contract, and it's things like this which generate the climate of suspicion that you are so afraid of.