UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM
10-K/A
(Amendment
No. 1)
Annual
Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934
FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
2005
Commission
file number: 000-27305
TELKONET,
INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Utah
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87-0627421
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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(IRS
Employee Identification No.)
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20374
Seneca Meadows Parkway
Germantown,
MD 20876
(Address
of principal executive offices)
(240)
912-1800
(Issuer’s
telephone number)
Securities
Registered pursuant to section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate
by check mark if the registrant is a well-know seasoned issuer, as defined
in
Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
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X
No
Indicate
by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(b) of the Act.
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Yes
X
No
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 and 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.
X
Yes
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Check
if
disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not
contained in this form, and no disclosure will be contained, to the best of
Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements
incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to
this
Form 10-K.
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See the definition of
“accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act.
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Large Accelerated Filer
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X Accelerated
Filer
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Non-Accelerated Filer
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule
12b-2 of the Exchange Act)
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Yes
X
No
Aggregate
market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as
of
March 1 2006: $155,184,856
Number
of
outstanding shares of the registrant’s par value $0.001 common stock
as
of
March 1, 2006: 46,316,539.
EXPLANATORY
NOTE
Telkonet,
Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A
(this “Amendment”) to its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2005, which was originally filed on March 16, 2006
(the “Original Filing”), to amend and restate in its entirety Part II,
Item 9A—Controls and Procedures, to include management’s report on internal
control over financial reporting, which was inadvertently omitted from the
Original Filing. The Report from the Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm, which has not been amended, is included as originally filed.
This
Amendment amends and restates in its entirety only the Part II, Item 9A—Controls
and Procedures. This Amendment does not affect any other parts of, or exhibits
to, the Original Filing, and those unaffected parts or exhibits are not included
in this Amendment.
This
Amendment continues to speak as of the date of the Original Filing and the
Company has not updated the disclosure contained herein to reflect events that
have occurred since the filing of the Original Filing. Accordingly, this
Amendment should be read in conjunction with the Company’s other filings, if
any, made with the Securities and Exchange Commission subsequent to the filing
of the Original Filing, including any amendments to those filings, if
any.
PART
II
ITEM
9A. CONTROLS
AND PROCEDURES.
Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.
Under
the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the
effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and
procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)). Disclosure controls and procedures
are the controls and other procedures that we designed to ensure that we record,
process, summarize and report in a timely manner the information we must
disclose in reports that we file with or submit to the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Exchange Act. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive
Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls
and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this
report.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
During
the fourth quarter of 2005, there was no change in our internal control over
financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the
Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Management
Report On Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
Our
management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal
control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting
is
defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act as a process designed by,
or
under the supervision of, our principal executive and principal financial
officers and effected by our board of directors, management and other personnel,
to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
and includes those policies and procedures that:
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pertain
to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately
and
fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our
assets;
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provide
reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary
to permit
preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and
that
our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with
authorization of management and directors;
and
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provide
reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could
have
a material effect on the financial
statements.
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Because
of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may
not
prevent or detect misstatements. 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.
Under
the
supervision and with the participation of our management, including our
principal executive and principal financial officers, we assessed, as of
December 31, 2005, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial
reporting. This assessment was based on criteria established in the framework
in
Internal Control-Integrated Framework
issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based
on our assessment, our management concluded that our internal control over
financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2005.
Our
assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting
as of December 31, 2005 has been audited by Russell Bedford Stefanou Mirchandani
LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report
which is included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K/A.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d)of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this amended report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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TELKONET,
INC. |
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By: |
/s/ E.
Barry
Smith |
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E.
Barry Smith
Chief Financial
Officer
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Date:
March 29, 2006
RUSSELL
BEDFORD STEFANOU MIRCHANDANI LLP
CERTIFIED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
REPORT
OF
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Board
of
Directors
Telkonet,
Inc.
Germantown,
MD
We
have
audited management's assessment, included in the accompanying Management's
Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, that Telkonet, Inc. and
its
wholly-owned subsidiary (the Company) maintained effective internal control
over
financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on criteria established
in
Internal Control-Integrated Framework
issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
The Company's management is responsible for maintaining effective internal
control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness
of
internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is to express
an
opinion on management's assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Company's internal control over financial reporting 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 effective
internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material
respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control
over
financial reporting, evaluating management's assessment, testing and evaluating
the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing
such
other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe
that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
A
company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to
provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control
over
financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain
to
the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly
reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2)
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are
being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors
of
the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely
detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's
assets that could have a material effect on the financial
statements.
Because
of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may
not
prevent or detect misstatements. 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.
In
our
opinion, management's assessment that Telkonet, Inc. and its wholly-owned
subsidiary maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as
of
December 31, 2005, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on criteria
established in Internal
Control Integrated Framework
issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
Also, in our opinion, Telkonet, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary,
maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial
reporting as of December 31, 20005, based on criteria
established in
Internal Control-Integrated Framework
issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
(COSO).
We
also
have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of Telkonet,
Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and
the
related consolidated statements of losses, stockholders' equity, and cash flows
for the three-years ended December 31, 2005, and our report dated February
2,
2006 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial
statements,
/s/
RUSSELL BEDFORD
STEFANOU MIRCHANDANI LLP
Russell
Bedford
Stefanou Mirchandani LLP
Certified
Public
Accountants
McLean,
Virginia
February
2, 2006