This was brought up in the QA session in Q1 presentation and PW asked Ronny to answer (time 00:33)
http://webtv.hegnar.no/presentation.php?webcastId=84032843
Transcript
Question: in connection with listing of the shares in oslo stock exchange, I believe one of the requirements that you had to meet was making it obvious that you could finance the company for a minimum of 12 months, now as part of meeting that criteria, which assumptions did you include in the application to the Oslo stock exchange regarding the pivotal phase 2 and the execution and financing of that.
PW: Do you wanna to answer that question Ronny, this is really your area
Ronny: Yes ahh back to you question, as we have said in both the annual report and previous periods (he pulled slide 16 of Q1 presentation on the screen) we have not financed the pivotal study but we have cash to do the preparation for the pivotal study and the annual report was settled in mid March on the assumption for the ongoing concern, so I don’t see any issue with your question
***My interpretation:
I personally did not understand what he meant in the first place, however:
By referring to the annual report that was settled in March ( http://pcibiotech.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2017-PCI-Biotech-Annual-report.pdf) I can read the following under financial statement (Page 44):
Liquidity risk:
One of the most important objectives of PCI Biotech’s finance policy is to ensure that the group has financial freedom to act in the short and long-term in order to attain strategic and operational goals. PCI Biotech shall have sufficient funds to cover expected capital requirements during the forthcoming 12 month period in addition to a strategic reserve. Cash flow in research and development depends mainly on the activity level of the clinical programmes and the activity levels are adjustable without substantial long term commitments. The finance department monitors the cash flows in a short- and long term perspective. PCI Biotech’s most important source of finance are future royalty and milestones associated with licence agreements, government grants and the capital market. The capital market is used as a source of liquidity when this is appropriate and the conditions in these markets are competitive. The finance department continually evaluate other sources of financing. PCI Biotech does not have any debt agreements with key business ratio requirements (covenants).
***My conclusion:
This is covered in the company’s finance policy even before listing on OSE, and I have checked all annual reports from 2008 up to 2017 and all of them have this statement “PCI Biotech shall have sufficient funds to cover expected capital requirements during the forthcoming 12-months period in addition to a strategic reserve”
Therefore, they will have to do what it takes to have the liquidity available so I don’t worry about it too much