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B i o S y e n t   I n c .

2020
A N N U A L
R E P O R T

BioSyent Corporate Profile

BioSyent is a Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company 

focused on sourcing, acquiring or in-licensing and 

further developing innovative pharmaceutical and other 

healthcare products that improve the lives of patients and 

support their healthcare providers. BioSyent’s strategy is 

focused on generating long-term growth through portfolio 

diversification while maintaining profitability.

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Table of Contents

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Financial Highlights

BioSyent’s Business Units

Letter From The Chairman 

Board of Directors

Leadership Team

New Products – Driving Future Growth

Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Introduction

Forward-Looking Statements

Overview, Vision, Strategy, and Products

New Capabilities and Awards

Key Performance Measures

Results of Operations for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019

Financial Resources and Liquidity

Risk Management

Disclosure of Outstanding Share Data

Commitments

Disclosure Controls

Investor Relations Activities

Related Party Transactions

Legal Proceedings

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements
Management’s Responsibility for Financial Reporting

Independent Auditor’s Report

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements – For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019

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Pictured from left: René C. Goehrum, President & CEO; Joost van der Mark, VP, 
Corporate Development; Neelu Atwal, Director, Human Resources; Navid Ashrafi, 
M.D., Director, Medical and Regulatory Affairs; Kevin Wilson, VP, Community 
and Women’s Health Business Unit; Ramesh Moothan, Director, International 
Business Unit; Robert J. March, VP, Finance & CFO; Sharan Raghubir, Director, 
Specialty Business Unit.

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Financial Highlights

We invested in new products during 
2020 and are continuing to do so. 
While impacting our profit margin 
in the near term, these launch 
investments will fuel sales growth 
and profitability in our Canadian 
pharmaceutical business over the 
long-term. 

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$22.3 million

10 products

Net Income After Tax (NIAT)
Year Ending December 31

Diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS)
Year Ending December 31

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2019

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$5.6 million

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As at December 31

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Return On Equity (ROE)
Year Ending December 31

Cash and Short-Term Investments
As at December 31

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BioSyent’s Business Units

Community and Women’s Health Business 

The Community and Women’s Health Business Unit is focused on commercializing and marketing 
pharmaceutical products which improve family and women’s health in Canada. Currently, these products 
include Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 and FeraMAX® Powder oral iron supplements, RepaGyn® and Proktis-M 
sodium hyaluronate suppositories, Tibella® women’s health product for hormone replacement therapy, and 
Combogesic® pain reliever.

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   Rectal Suppositories Sodium Hyaluronate

Specialty Business

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The Specialty Business Unit markets pharmaceutical and healthcare products to Canadian hospitals and 
specialist clinics which improve the quality of patient care and support healthcare professionals. These 
products currently include Cathejell® lidocaine hydrocholoride jelly, the Aguettent System® line of pre-filled 
syringes for use in urgent care, and Cysview® for use in blue-light cystoscopic procedures.

2% lidocaine hydrochloride jelly, USP

International Business

FeraMAX® is currently approved for sale in a total of six markets outside of Canada. The International 
Business Unit, through BioSyent Pharma International Inc. and a network of distribution partners, 
distributes FeraMAX® capsules and FeraMAX® Powder to these international markets primarily in the 
Middle East Region.

Legacy Business 

Through its subsidiaries, Hedley Technologies Ltd. and Hedley Technologies (USA) Inc., BioSyent operates 
its Legacy Business marketing Protect-It®, a bio-friendly grain insecticide used in agricultural food 
production for more than twenty years, to customers in Canada and the United States.

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Letter From The Chairman 

Dear fellow shareholder:

One year ago, in April 2020, we faced great uncertainty in our 
lives, our economy, and our world as COVID-19 swept across 
the globe with devastating results. At BioSyent, we also faced 
uncertainty in our business in the midst of the “first wave” of the 
COVID-19 pandemic. One year later, in April 2021, we now 
face a “third wave” of rising COVID-19 and variant infection 
rates in Canada as this virus continues to be as unpredictable as it 
is resilient. During these challenging times, at BioSyent, we feel 
confidence in our Canadian pharmaceutical business which has 
also shown remarkable resilience, delivering double-digit revenue 
growth in 2020. 

2020 was a year of significant milestones in our business when 
much planning and effort culminated in the launch of a new 
platform for our Feramax® products as well as three new products 
within a six-month timeframe. While we navigated through the 
immediate challenges of COVID-19, we forged ahead with the 
launch of Tibella® in July 2020, Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 in 
November 2020, and Combogesic® in December 2020, expanding 
our product offerings to Canadians and laying the foundations for 
long-term future growth in our Canadian pharmaceutical business.

We invested in these new products during 2020 and are continuing 
to do so. While impacting our profit margin in the near term, 
these launch investments will fuel sales growth and profitability 
in our Canadian pharmaceutical business over the long-term as 
more consumers and patients discover the benefits of using these 
innovative new products. 

With the launch of Tibella®, we have built on our portfolio of 
women’s health products by offering this effective treatment for 
Canadian women who are suffering from the vasomotor symptoms 
of menopause. We were also excited to launch Feramax® Pd during 
2020, a new oral iron delivery system for the treatment of iron 
deficiency based on a proprietary Polydextrose Iron Complex 
formulation. Building on BioSyent’s leadership in the treatment of 
iron deficiency in Canada and the trust that physicians, pharmacists 
and patients have in our FeraMAX® brand, Feramax® Pd gives 
BioSyent a stable, homogeneous polysaccharide platform for future 
product developments. 

Late in 2020, we also launched Combogesic®, the first of its kind 
in Canada: a fixed-dose combination of acetaminophen and 
ibuprofen in a single tablet for the short-term management of 
acute pain. We are proud to make this innovative product available 
to Canadians. 

Our combined efforts, including substantial investment in the 
planning, launch and promotion of our new products, delivered 
$0.29 EPS during 2020, despite the substantial impact of 
COVID-19 on our international pharmaceutical business. We also 
continued to deploy capital in a share buyback program, renewing 

a Normal Course 
Issuer Bid for 
a third straight 
year starting in 
December 2020. 
To date, we have 
repurchased and 
cancelled 1.67 
million common 
shares, benefitting 
BioSyent 
shareholders. In 
2020, even with this 
capital deployment 
in new product 
launches and share 
buybacks, we 
generated $3.6 million in net cashflows. As a result of continued 
cash generation, our balance sheet remains strong, with a high cash 
to total assets ratio and zero financial debt. 

Healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry have been in sharp 
focus since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic as policy 
makers, government bodies, healthcare professionals, and vaccine 
producers work together to tackle the unprecedented healthcare 
challenge presented by COVID-19. At BioSyent, our success 
over the years has been inextricably linked to our relationships 
with healthcare professionals at all levels and in various healthcare 
settings across Canada and with whom we share a commitment to 
patient care. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to thank 
these healthcare professionals and front-line workers for their 
ongoing dedication to patient care and their tireless service during 
the difficult circumstances of the last several months. 

I also want to thank our teams here at BioSyent who adapted to a 
changing operating environment to continue to provide Canadians 
with essential products and therapies through the challenges of 
COVID-19 while maintaining a focus on the future by making 
innovative new products available to improve the quality of life of 
Canadian patients. I am optimistic about the future of our business 
regardless of the challenges the next twelve months may bring as 
the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve. I look forward to 
reporting on the progress of our launch products over the next 
twelve months. 

On behalf of the Board of Directors, 

René C. Goehrum, Chairman, President & CEO

April 13, 2021

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Board of Directors

René C. Goehrum  
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Larry Andrews  
Independent Director (Compensation, Human Resources and Nominating Committee)

Larry Andrews is an accomplished senior executive with more than thirty-eight years of experience 
in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Andrews was President and CEO of Cipher Pharmaceuticals, a 
TSX-listed Canadian pharmaceutical company, between 2004 and 2014. He previously served as 
President of AltiMed Pharmaceutical Company, as well as various other senior leadership roles with 
major pharmaceutical companies, including Hoffman La Roche, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Eli 
Lilly Canada.  Mr. Andrews holds an Honours B.Sc. from Memorial University. Mr. Andrews recently 
served as a Board Director for GMD Distribution Inc., a logistics service provider for the life sciences 
industry, which was acquired by McKesson Canada in 2017. 

Joseph Arcuri  
Independent Director (Audit Committee, Disclosure Policy Committee)

Joseph Arcuri, CPA, CA, is currently Chief Financial Officer of NRStor Inc., which provides 
energy storage project development and construction services. He previously served as Executive 
Vice President, Operations and Finance, Content Group, at St. Joseph Communications, a marketing 
communications firm. Between 2013 and 2016, Mr. Arcuri served as Chief Operating Officer and 
Chief Financial Officer at TableRock Media Ltd., a streaming service company. In 2012, Mr. Arcuri 
was Chief Financial Officer of GlassBOX Television Inc., a television service provider. Between 
2007 and 2011, Mr. Arcuri was President of AOL Canada Inc., an internet service provider and 
previously led Bell Canada’s managed services group. Mr. Arcuri started his professional career with 
PricewaterhouseCoopers within its assurance group and later transferred to its valuation, and mergers 
and acquisitions service team. He is also currently the treasurer and an executive board member of 
Villa Charities Inc.

Sara Elford  
Independent Director (Audit Committee, Disclosure Policy Committee)

Sara Elford brings a wealth of capital markets experience and financial expertise to the Board of 
Directors. She has enjoyed a long career in Canadian capital markets as a Director and Research 
Analyst with a major Canadian investment firm as well as in investment banking roles with Kidder 
Peabody and Wood Gundy. Ms. Elford is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder and holds a 
BBA from Bishop’s University. Ms. Elford also presently serves as an Independent Director of BQE 
Water Inc., a TSX.V-listed company specializing in water treatment and management for metals 
mining, smelting and refining; Xebec Adsorption Inc., a TSX-listed company specializing in renewable 
gases; and WeCommerce Holdings Inc., a TSX.V-listed company focused on owning, growing and 
acquiring businesses in the Shopify ecosystem. Ms. Elford previously served as an Independent 
Director of Pure Technologies Ltd., a TSX-listed infrastructure technology company; Carmanah 

Corporation, a TSX-listed solar and LED lighting company; Hydrogenics Corporation, a TSX and NASDAQ-listed fuel cell and 
hydrogen generation design and manufacturing company; and, TSO3 Inc., a TSX-listed healthcare technology company.

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Peter Lockhard |  
Independent Director (Lead Director, Compensation, Human Resources and Nominating Committee)

Peter Lockhard has extensive senior management experience with successful high-growth companies 
in the IT and marketing services industries, including VP Professional Services of Flo Network, a 
permission-based e-messaging service provider (acquired by DoubleClick, which is now a subsidiary 
of Google). Mr. Lockhard previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Points International 
Ltd., the global leader in reward currency management, providing multiple eCommerce and 
technology solutions to the world’s leading loyalty brands. Mr. Lockhard is also a Managing Director 
of Aquiam Partners Ltd., a private equity firm, and has been a BioSyent Director since June 2002. 

Stephen Wilton |  
Independent Director (Audit Committee, Disclosure Policy Committee)

A licensed pharmacist, Stephen Wilton earned a B.Sc. in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto 
and started his career working as a pharmacist in community and hospital pharmacy. After working 
in medical sales and marketing positions at Eli Lilly Canada he joined AstraZeneca Canada where 
he enjoyed a long and varied career. While at AstraZeneca, Mr. Wilton held leadership positions in 
Marketing where, as Executive Director, he led a team managing a $300 million specialty product 
portfolio, as well as three other assignments as Executive Director of Business Development, Executive 
Director of Pricing, Reimbursement and Healthcare Solutions, and Director of Regulatory Affairs. 
After his seventeen-year career at AstraZeneca, Mr. Wilton worked as Vice President of Pharmacy 
Affairs for the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores representing the interests of owners 
and pharmacists in the Canadian healthcare system. Mr. Wilton, who also holds an MBA from 
York University (Schulich School of Business) is presently President at Market Access Investment 
Advisors Inc.

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Leadership Team

René C. Goehrum | President & Chief Executive Officer 

René Goehrum is an experienced entrepreneur, leader and business builder with over thirty years 
of experience. Previously, Mr. Goehrum was the President and a co-founder of Bratch Goehrum 
Inc., a professional services firm that provided marketing and sales services to clients such as Procter 
& Gamble, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sandoz (n.k.a. Novartis), Kraft Foods, Coca Cola, and H.J. Heinz 
Company. He started his career with Procter & Gamble, a world leader in marketing consumer and 
healthcare brands. Mr. Goehrum currently also serves as the President and Managing Director of 
Aquiam Partners Ltd., a private equity firm. 

Robert J. March | Vice President & Chief Financial Officer 

Robert March is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA), a Certified Public Accountant 
(CPA, Illinois), holds a MBA from St. Mary’s University and a B.Sc. in Biochemistry, Microbiology 
and Immunology from Dalhousie University. Mr. March started his career at Ernst & Young in 
Audit and Assurance Services before being promoted to Manager in Transaction Advisory Services, 
where his experience included insolvency and restructuring as well as general transaction services 
such as mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining BioSyent, Mr. March accumulated over 15 years 
of progressive senior management experience in highly regulated industries including insurance, 
transportation and consumer packaged products in both Canada and the USA. 

Navid Ashrafi, M.D. | Director, Medical and Regulatory Affairs

Navid Ashrafi was educated as a Medical Doctor and practiced medicine for over eleven years before 
joining the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Ashrafi has more than ten years of international experience 
within the pharmaceutical business in sales, marketing, and medical positions, including Business 
Unit Head and Country Head for the Bayer Healthcare team in Iran. His areas of expertise include 
developing relations with thought leaders, health authorities, and external stake holders; providing 
strategic guidance to the company; and coaching and leadership to the team. Navid joined BioSyent 
in May 2014 and leads medical, regulatory, and quality control activities at BioSyent. 

Neelu Atwal | Director, Human Resources

Neelu Atwal is the Director of Human Resources for BioSyent Inc. She is responsible for overseeing 
the company’s Human Resource function and providing leadership to the people and culture 
elements of the business. Ms. Atwal brings more than twenty years of progressive hands-on human 
resource experience in start-ups, growth businesses, and manufacturing organizations. She sets the 
tone for BioSyent’s talent acquisition and management initiatives. Ms. Atwal holds a Bachelor’s Degree 
in Accounting from City University of New York and Certification in Human Resources from 
Ryerson University in Toronto.

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Ramesh Moothan | Director, International Business Unit

Ramesh Moothan manages the International Business for BioSyent. He joined BioSyent in October 
2013 and is responsible for business development and market entry strategy for the company’s 
brands outside of Canada. Mr. Moothan has over twenty years of experience managing branded 
pharmaceutical businesses in Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Prior to joining BioSyent, Mr. 
Moothan was associated with Alkem Labs, India as Senior General Manager (International) responsible 
for business in emerging markets. In the past he has held progressive roles as a Medical Representative, 
Product Manager, Head of Representation, and Business Head. Mr. Moothan holds an Honours B.Sc. 
(Chemistry) and an MBA (Marketing). 

Sharan Raghubir | Director, Hospital Business Unit 

Sharan Raghubir is the Director of the Hospital/Specialty Business Unit at BioSyent. He has over 
twenty years of pharmaceutical industry experience gained in progressive roles at Fournier Pharma 
(now AbbVie), and Hoffman-La Roche (Roche) Canada. At Fournier, Mr. Raghubir worked as 
a Medical Sales Representative, Sales Trainer, and District Manager in Canada and then General 
Manager (Country Head) in Asia. In Asia, he was first responsible for the respective divisions in 
Vietnam and Cambodia, and then Malaysia and Singapore. At Roche Canada, Mr. Raghubir was 
National Sales Manager, then Senior Product Manager, and finally Business Planning Manger - 
Strategy. Mr. Raghubir’s sales and marketing management jobs at Roche included a portfolio of five 
hospital brands with combined sales of greater than $95 million. Mr. Raghubir holds a B.Sc. from 
Queen’s University and a MBA from both Queen’s University and Cornell University.

Joost van der Mark | Vice President, Corporate Development

Joost van der Mark is a seasoned healthcare executive with over twenty years of experience in the 
biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining BioSyent, Mr. van der Mark was the Chief Business 
Officer for 3D Signatures and previously, he co-founded Orphan Canada, which subsequently sold 
its assets to Knight Therapeutics in 2014. Mr. van der Mark has held progressive positions in clinical 
research, sales, marketing, market access, strategy and business development at Bayer, Sanofi, Nycomed 
(n.k.a. Takeda) and Knight Therapeutics. He has a M.Sc. in Physiology/Pharmacology from Western 
University and a MBA from York University (Schulich). 

Kevin Wilson | Vice President, Community Business Unit

Kevin Wilson is the Vice-President of BioSyent Pharma Inc. leading the teams that develop product 
strategy, market, and promote the Company’s products to healthcare professionals across Canada. Mr. 
Wilson joined BioSyent in March 2012 and brings over twenty years of experience in healthcare 
sales, sales leadership and marketing across different healthcare businesses in such companies as Abbott, 
Searle Pharmacia, and Bayer.

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New Products – Driving Future Growth

Tibella®
 ƒ Rx women’s health product for hormone replacement therapy
 ƒ For short-term treatment of vasomotor symptoms resulting 

Feramax® Pd
Feramax® Pd platform introduced in October 2020

 ƒ Patented oral iron delivery system based on Polydextrose Iron 

from estrogen deficiency in postmenopausal women

Complex (PDIC) 

 ƒ Approximately 60 – 80% of postmenopausal women will 

 ƒ Replaces the previous generation Polysaccharide Iron Complex 

experience vasomotor symptoms, primarily hot flashes and 
night sweats*

 ƒ Launched in Canada in July 2020

*source: menopauseandU.ca

(PIC) system

 ƒ Foundation for future product developments

 ƒ Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 launched in November 2020 – 

the first product on the Feramax® Pd platform

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Combogesic®
 ƒ Double action of acetaminophen and ibuprofen in a single pill 

provides pain relief and fever reduction

 ƒ Superior efficacy versus acetaminophen or ibuprofen alone

 ƒ Convenience of a single pill simplifies dosage schedule

 ƒ Similar safety to acetaminophen or ibuprofen alone

 ƒ Effective in pain relief caused by various ailments

 ƒ Launched in Canada in December 2020

 ƒ Available in pharmacies across Canada

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BioSyent Inc.

Management’s 
Discussion and Analysis

For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019

March 16, 2021

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Introduction
The following discussion of BioSyent Inc.’s (“BioSyent” or the 
“Company”) operations, performance and financial condition is 
based on the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements 
for the years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 
(“Consolidated Financial Statements”), which were prepared 
in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards 

Forward-Looking Statements
This management’s discussion and analysis (“MD&A”) contains 
or incorporates forward-looking statements within the meaning 
of Canadian securities legislation (collectively, “forward-looking 
statements”). These forward-looking statements relate to, among 
other things, revenue, earnings, changes in costs and expenses, 
capital expenditures as well as changes in other objectives, strategic 
plans and business development goals, and may also include other 
statements that are predictive in nature or depend upon or refer 
to future events or conditions, and can generally be identified by 
words such as “may”, “will”, “expects”, “anticipates”, “intends”, 
“plans”, “believes”, “estimates” or similar expressions. In addition, 
any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other 
characterizations of future events or circumstances are forward-
looking statements. These statements are not historical facts, but 
instead represent only BioSyent’s expectations, estimates, and 
projections regarding future events.

Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such 
forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements are not 
guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and 

Accounting Estimates and Accounting Policies
The Company has not early adopted any standards, interpretations 
or amendments that have been issued but are not yet effective.

The preparation of the Company’s Consolidated Financial 
Statements requires management to make critical judgments, 
estimates, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of 
revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities, and the disclosure of 
contingent liabilities, at the reporting date. On an ongoing basis, 
management evaluates its judgments, estimates, and assumptions 
using historical experience and various other factors it believes to 
be reasonable under the given circumstances. In the future, actual 
experience may differ from these estimates and assumptions.

BioSyent’s significant accounting judgments and estimates include 
recoverability of asset carrying values, impairment of trade 
and other receivables, income taxes, the future useful lives and 
residual values of equipment, the useful lives of intangible assets, 
the fair value of share-based payments, the value of inventory, 
determination of the transaction price in revenue recognition, 
and determination of the incremental borrowing rate and lease 
term in leases. For a more detailed discussion of changes to the 
Company’s critical accounting estimates, please refer to Note 
4 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended 
December 31, 2020.

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(“IFRS”). The discussion of financial condition and results of 
operations should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated 
Financial Statements, including the notes thereto. Additional 
information relating to the Company, including the Consolidated 
Financial Statements and the accompanying notes can be found at 
www.sedar.com. 

uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Undue reliance should 
not be placed on such statements. Certain material assumptions 
are applied in making forward-looking statements and actual 
results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in 
such statements. Known and unknown factors could cause actual 
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the 
forward-looking statements. Important assumptions, influencing 
factors, risks, and uncertainties are referred to in the body of this 
MD&A, in the press release announcing the Company’s financial 
results for the three months and full years ended December 31, 
2020 and December 31, 2019 and in BioSyent’s annual and interim 
financial statements and the notes thereto. These documents are 
available at www.sedar.com.

The forward-looking statements contained in this MD&A are 
made as at the date of this MD&A and, accordingly, are subject to 
change after such date. Except as required by law, BioSyent does 
not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-
looking statements made or incorporated in this MD&A, whether 
as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Non-IFRS Financial Measures
This MD&A makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures. 
These non-IFRS measures are not recognized measures under 
IFRS and do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS 
and are unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented 
by other companies. When used, these measures are defined in 
such terms as to allow the reconciliation to the closest IFRS 
measure. These measures are provided as additional information 
to complement those IFRS measures by providing a further 
understanding of the Company’s results of operations from 
management’s perspective. 

Accordingly, these measures should not be considered in isolation 
nor as a substitute for analyses of the Company’s financial 
information reported under IFRS. Management uses non-IFRS 
measures such as Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation 
and Amortization (“EBITDA”) and Compound Annual Growth 
Rate (“CAGR”) to provide investors with supplemental measures 
of the Company’s operating performance and thus highlight 
trends in the Company’s core business that may not otherwise 
be apparent when relying solely on IFRS financial measures. 
Management also believes that securities analysts, investors, and 
other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures in the 

evaluation of issuers. Management also uses non-IFRS measures 
in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from 
period to period, prepare annual operating budgets, and to 
assess the Company’s ability to meet future debt service, capital 

expenditure, and working capital requirements. The definition 
and a reconciliation of EBITDA, as used and presented by the 
Company, to the most directly comparable IFRS measures follows 
later in this MD&A.

Hedley Technologies (USA) Inc., also wholly owned subsidiaries 
of BioSyent, operate the Company’s legacy business, marketing 
biologically and health friendly non-chemical insecticides (the 
“Legacy Business”). BioSyent’s issued and outstanding common 
shares (the “Common Shares”) are listed for trading on the TSX 
Venture Exchange under the symbol “RX”.

Overview, Vision, Strategy, and Products

Overview
BioSyent is a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company 
which, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, BioSyent Pharma 
Inc. (“BioSyent Pharma”) and BioSyent Pharma International 
Inc., sources, acquires or in-licences and further develops 
pharmaceutical and other healthcare products for sale in Canada 
and certain international markets. Hedley Technologies Ltd. and 

BioSyent’s Vision
BioSyent’s vision is to be the leading independent Canadian 
healthcare company focused on commercializing innovative 
products improving patient lives and supporting healthcare 
providers.

BioSyent is focused on innovative products that are sourced 
through international partnerships. These products are unique due 
to manufacturing complexities, novel technologies, therapeutic 
advantages and/or strong, defendable intellectual property rights. 
The Company’s strategy allows it to commercialize these products 
as brands acquired or licensed to it by partners. The Company 
intends for its products to be differentiated and to improve 
patient lives. The Company works with, and supports, healthcare 
practitioners in achieving this objective.

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BioSyent’s Strategy
BioSyent has four key elements to achieving its strategic objectives:

1.  Expand the product portfolio

2.  Build sales and marketing teams

3.  Maximize profit with international distribution of FeraMAX®

4.  Maintain profitable growth

• In-license and/or acquire 

proven products

• Manage risk
• Focus on differentiated 

products
• Strengthen 

competitive position

Expand
Product
Portfolio

Build Sales
& Marketing
Teams

• Reinvest to drive 

sustainable 
long-term EPS 
growth

Maintain 
Profitable 
Growth

Maximize Profit 
with International
Distribution of 
FeraMAX®

• Put in place when 

needed and expand 
when product sales 
can support

• Optimize resources 
against product 
portfolio

• Capitalize on 

opportunities to 
partner on 
FeraMAX® product 
in territories outside 
of Canada
• 100% owned 
international 
subsidiary

BioSyent has developed sourcing arrangements with partners from 
around the world. The Company has a flexible format for such 
arrangements. 

The Company seeks long-term buy-sell agreements or in-licensing 
arrangements with or without royalties or payments linked to 
milestone events such as regulatory approvals or reimbursement by 
formularies. 

The Company exercises diligence when sourcing new products. 
Some of the steps in this process involve reviewing market data 
and market trends, interviewing key healthcare practitioners or 
medical advisory boards and obtaining opinions on reimbursement 
possibilities with payers. Once the Company has decided to 
proceed with a new product opportunity, it acquires or licenses 
exclusive Canadian and/or international market rights to that 
product. After the acquisition or in-licensing of the product, 
the Company manages the product through the regulatory and 
product registration process and, once approved, commercializes 
the product in Canada and/or international markets. 

The Company uses various means of reducing risk in the 
marketplace. The Company adopts a gradually accelerating 
investment approach in promoting its products in the marketplace 

by balancing its investment behind brands with brand revenue and 
growth and by segmenting the market into immediate and long-
term growth opportunities. It pursues possible reimbursement 
avenues for its products in both the private and public sectors. 
The Company uses various marketing techniques throughout the 
product life cycle, as it deems appropriate, including healthcare 
practitioner detailing, direct to patient information through various 
media, product differentiation materials, and expansion of patient 
and healthcare practitioner support services to increase awareness 
of product efficacy and safety. The Company employs a salesforce 
of qualified sales professionals across Canada with experience in 
pharmaceutical detailing to healthcare practitioners and hospitals.

The Company focuses on medications that occupy a niche in 
the market and are unique due to manufacturing complexities or 
novel technological and therapeutic advantages or are backed by 
strong partners holding defendable intellectual property rights. 
This strategy allows the Company to market these medications as 
brands it owns or licenses. By virtue of its strong growth record, 
the Company is able to attract partners for new products that have 
niche positioning.

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Evolution of Strategy
From time to time, the Company may acquire or in-license 
opportunities in late-stage development with which it, or its 
partners, have significant prior experience. Such experience and 
competency of the Company and its partners give the Company 
the ability to gauge risk in some depth. The Company may also 
seek in-licensing opportunities for new products launched in 
countries outside of Canada that require additional research and 

Pharmaceutical Business

FeraMAX® 150

In keeping with its strategy, the 
Company, through BioSyent 
Pharma, launched FeraMAX® 
150 to the Canadian healthcare 
market in 2007. FeraMAX® 150 

is also distributed in several markets outside of Canada. FeraMAX® 
150 is an oral hematinic indicated for the prevention and treatment 
of iron deficiency anaemia. This non-ionic polysaccharide-iron 
complex formulation reduces adverse side effects common with 
other iron formulations. In 2015, the Company developed and 
launched a Certified Vegan formulation of FeraMAX® 150. 
In 2016, the Company developed a 100 mg formulation of 
FeraMAX® capsules (“FeraMAX® 100”) for distribution in certain 
markets outside of Canada. 

FeraMAX® 150 was replaced by Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 at 
Canadian pharmacies starting in November 2020.

Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150

In November 2020, BioSyent 
Pharma Inc. launched Feramax® 
Pd Therapeutic 150 in Canada, 
the first product launched 
under a new patented delivery 
system for the treatment of 

iron deficiency anemia based on a Polydextrose Iron Complex 
(“PDIC”) formulation. Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 in both a 
30 capsule-count carton or a 100 capsule-count bottle replaces 
FeraMAX® 150 at Canadian pharmacies. Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 
150 is Vegan Certified and is also recognized by the Society of 
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. 

development work before being launched in the Canadian market. 
The Company considers opportunities where there is a high 
probability that additional research and development work is likely 
to extend the lifecycle of portfolio products. Such studies might 
include in vitro or in vivo studies (including bio-equivalency 
studies, efficacy studies, or safety studies).

Cathejell®

2% lidocaine hydrochloride jelly, USP

In July 2011, BioSyent 
Pharma received marketing 
approval from Health 

Canada for Cathejell®. Cathejell® was in-licensed by BioSyent 
Pharma from Pharmazeutische Fabrik Montavit. Shipments of 
Cathejell® commenced in May 2012. In April 2017, BioSyent 
Pharma extended its in-license agreement with Pharmazeutische 
Fabrik Montavit, giving BioSyent Pharma exclusive Canadian 
rights to the Cathejell® product until March 31, 2024. 

Cathejell® is an innovative pharmaceutical product that combines a 
sterile gel with lidocaine in a unique collapsible applicator syringe 
providing a safe and effective solution for patients to ease the 
discomfort of a range of medical procedures. Cathejell® is indicated 
for surface anesthesia and lubrication for various procedures 
including male and female cystoscopies, catheterizations and other 
endourethral operations, endoscopies, proctoscopies, rectoscopies, 
and tracheal intubations. 

Cathejell® can also be used for the symptomatic treatment of pain 
in connection with cystitis and urethritis. Cathejell® has a unique 
collapsible syringe design with a trauma-free applicator tip that 
makes it easy to use for healthcare professionals and makes the 
application of the drug more comfortable for the subject patient. 

FeraMAX® Powder

In July 2012, BioSyent Pharma 
received marketing approval from 
Health Canada for its unique 
oral iron supplement FeraMAX® 
Powder. FeraMAX® Powder is the only oral iron product available 
in Canada in a dissolvable powder and comes in pleasant tasting 
grape and raspberry flavoured crystals, which can be conveniently 
dosed by diluting them in water or mixing them with soft foods. 
This innovative product is based upon the same non-ionic 
polysaccharide-iron complex technology found in FeraMAX® 150. 

Other oral iron products made from common ferrous salts 
intended for infants and children either have an unpleasant heavy 
metallic taste which deters patient compliance, or they come in 
formulations containing alcohol which healthcare professionals 
and caregivers prefer to avoid. The Canadian market launch of 
FeraMAX® Powder in May 2013 was the global introduction 
of this product and provides BioSyent Pharma with a unique 
offering for international marketing partners. The Company has 
also launched the product in several international markets through 
distribution agreements.

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Aguettant System®

Proktis-M®

Rectal Suppositories Sodium Hyaluronate

In March 2014, the Company 
entered into an in-licensing 
agreement for exclusive 

marketing and distribution rights in Canada of Proktis-M® 
rectal suppositories with Farma-Derma s.r.l. Proktis-M® rectal 
suppositories are designed to help the healing of the anus and 
rectum. Proktis-M® rectal suppositories, which were launched by 
the Company in November 2014, have been studied and tested 
in conditions such as operated severe internal hemorrhoids, anal 
fissures, and prevention of radiation-induced proctitis. 

Proktis-M® rectal suppositories are formulated with sodium 
hyaluronate, a naturally occurring compound, and offer a 
temporary matrix to facilitate cell proliferation which enhances 
wound healing. Proktis-M® rectal suppositories can be used on 
their own or in combination with other products. Proktis-M® 
rectal suppositories are supported by clinical evidence and 
have been successfully used to treat men and women in several 
European countries.

Cysview®

In August 2015, BioSyent 
Pharma signed a Distribution 
and Supply Agreement with 

Photocure ASA granting BioSyent Pharma an exclusive license to 
import, promote and sell the Cysview® product in Canada. 

Cysview® is a patented, innovative technology that aids in the 
diagnosis and management of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. 
It is designed to selectively target malignant cells in the bladder 
and induce fluorescence during cystoscopic procedures using a 
blue-light enabled cystoscope. 

This technology can lead to a 25% improvement in the detection 
of bladder cancer tumors as compared with traditional white 
light cystoscopy (Burger et al. 2013), leading to a reduced risk of 
recurrence. Cysview® has been successfully marketed in the U.S. 
and Europe and was approved by Health Canada in January 2015. 
The Company commenced the Canadian promotional launch of 
Cysview® in November 2015. 

In August 2012, BioSyent Pharma signed 
an exclusive Licensing and Distribution 
Agreement (the “Aguettant Agreement”) 
with Laboratoire Aguettant S.A.S. 
(“Laboratoire Aguettant”). Pursuant to 
the Aguettant Agreement, the Company in-
licensed pre-filled syringe (“PFS”) products 

which are medical syringes pre-filled with a specific dosage of 
medication and three of which are marketed to hospitals and acute 
care settings. 

The Aguettant System® for PFS offers a patented innovation 
that can be used for a variety of injectable medications. The 
Aguettant System® for PFS features a needleless, glassless, sterile 
plastic syringe with a ready-to-use dual tamper-evident seal. These 
products provide hospitals, clinics and healthcare professionals with 
improved patient safety as well as operational efficiencies.

Aguettant System® – Atropine Sulphate
One Aguettant System® urgent care product contains atropine 
sulphate, a commonly used drug in emergency situations and 
anaesthetic procedures. The Company commenced distribution of 
this product in February 2015.

Aguettant System® – Phenylephrine Hydrochloride
Phenylephrine hydrochloride injection is indicated for the 
treatment of clinically important hypotensive states, including 
overcoming peripheral vascular failure (shock, or shock-like 
states), maintenance of blood pressure in the setting of anesthesia, 
drug-induced hypotension, or hypersensitivity with circulatory 
compromise. The Company commenced distribution of this 
product in November 2016.

RepaGyn®

®

In October 2013, the 
Company signed an exclusive 
Canadian Licensing and 

Distribution Agreement with Farma-Derma s.r.l. (the “RepaGyn 
Agreement”). Pursuant to the RepaGyn Agreement, the 
Company distributes a women’s health product, RepaGyn®, which 
is an innovative vaginal suppository that has received approval from 
Health Canada. RepaGyn® helps relieve dryness and promotes 
healing of the vaginal mucosa. It is also recommended in situations 
where tissue repair is required after invasive vaginal surgeries and 
biopsy procedures. RepaGyn® vaginal suppositories can be used 
with or without local hormone therapy. 

RepaGyn® is formulated with sodium hyaluronate, a naturally 
occurring compound, and offers a hormone-free treatment 
alternative proven to deliver symptom relief, restoration of pH 
balance and tissue repair all in one ovule. 

RepaGyn® is supported by clinical evidence of both efficacy 
and symptom relief and has been recommended by doctors 
and successfully used by women in several European countries 
including Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark and Poland 
for over 10 years under the brand names Cicatridine®, Cicatridina®, 
Cikatridina®, and Repadina®.

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Tibella® 

Combogesic®

In November 2016, the Company 
signed an exclusive License and 
Supply Agreement with a European 
partner for a prescription product 
in the women’s health therapeutic area for the Canadian market 
– Tibella®. Tibella® is a hormone replacement therapy (“HRT”) 
consisting of tibolone. Tibella® is indicated for the short-term 
treatment of vasomotor symptoms due to estrogen deficiency in 
postmenopausal women, more than one year after menopause. 
Though new to the Canadian market, Tibolone has been 
successfully marketed in Europe for over 30 years and is also 
approved and marketed in other countries around the world. 

The Company received regulatory approval from Health Canada 
for Tibella® in May 2019 and launched the product to the 
Canadian market in July 2020 with the first shipments to Canadian 
customers.

In November 2019, the Company 
signed a License and Exclusive 
Supply Agreement with AFT 

Pharmaceuticals Ltd for a portfolio of pain management products 
for the Canadian market. These products will be marketed 
in Canada under the Combogesic® trademark. Combogesic® 
combines two well-known and effective medicines, acetaminophen 
and ibuprofen, in a single form that has been demonstrated to 
synergistically provide pain relief. Health Canada approved the 
first form of Combogesic® in 2019. The Company launched 
Combogesic® to the Canadian market in December 2020 with the 
first shipments to Canadian wholesalers.

New Women’s Health Product
On October 1, 2020, BioSyent Pharma Inc. signed an exclusive 
License and Supply Agreement with a European partner for 
a new women’s health product for the Canadian market. The 
product has been approved for sale in Canada, the U.S.A., Europe 
and in several other markets around the world. The Company is 
currently preparing for the launch of this innovative product to the 
Canadian market. 

Pharmaceutical Product Cycle 
The Company organizes its product lifecycle into six stages: (i) 
the in-license stage, (ii) the regulatory stage, (iii) the pre-launch 
stage, (iv) the launch stage, (v) the growth stage, and (vi) the 
maturity stage. 

Product Cycle

In-License

Identify
Due Diligence 
Negotiate 
Sign Deal

Regulatory
Prepare Dossier
File with Health 
Canada
Approval

Pre-Launch
Differentiate 
Med. Advisory 
Board
Reimbursement
Production
• New Women’s 
Health Product

Launch
Field Staff Training
Develop Selling Aids
Detail HCP’s
• FeraMAX® Pd 

Therapeutic 150

• Tibella®
• Combogesic®

Growth

Marketing 
Investment
Service HCP’s & 
Hospitals
• Cathejell® 

Maturity

Maintain
Life Cycle 
Management
• Proktis-M®  
• FeraMAX® 
Powder
• RepaGyn®
• Cysview®
• Aguettant 
System®

In Market

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The Company currently has six products in the maturity stage 
(Proktis-M, FeraMAX® Powder, RepaGyn®, Cysview®, and 
Aguettant System® Atropine and Phenylephrine), one product in 
the growth stage (Cathejell®), three products in the launch stage 

Pharmaceutical Product Pipeline 
The Company is committed to expanding its product portfolio 
and accelerating its product pipeline with a focus on innovative 
products that are unique. Although launched in markets outside of 

Pharmaceutical Business Structure
The Company has three pharmaceutical business units: (i) 
the Community and Women’s Health Business Unit which 
commercializes pharmaceutical products focused on improving 
family and women’s health in Canada (the “Community 
Business”); (ii) the Specialty Business Unit (formerly, the 

(Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150, Tibella®, and Combogesic®), and 
one product in the pre-launch stage (a New Women’s Health 
Product).

Canada, some of these products may require additional investment 
before the Company seeks approval from Health Canada for the 
Canadian.

“Specialty / Hospital Business Unit”) which sells pharmaceutical 
and healthcare products to Canadian hospitals and specialists (the 
“Specialty Business”); and (iii) the International Pharmaceutical 
Business Unit which sells Feramax® to markets outside of Canada 
(the “International Business”).

Pharmaceutical Business

Community
& Women’s
Health

Specialty

International

Legacy
Business

+

Finance
Supply Chain and Logistics
Medical and Regulatory

Corporate Operations
Information Technology
Business Development
Market Access

Human Resources
Business Intelligence
Legal

These three business units, collectively, the “Pharmaceutical 
Business”, are supported by the Company’s Corporate 
Operations, including the finance, supply chain and logistics, 
medical and regulatory affairs, information technology, business 
development, market access, human resources, business intelligence, 
and legal functions. As the Company expands its product portfolio 
into new therapeutic areas, new business units may be established 
as part of the pharmaceutical business structure as and when 
considered appropriate. 

Legacy Business

Protect-It®
The Company continues to manufacture and market Protect-It®, a 
bio-friendly, non-chemical, food-safe grain insecticide. Protect-It® 
was developed through collaborative research between the Cereal 
Research Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Protect-
It® is used as a preventative treatment against insect infestations in 

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stored grains. The Legacy Business provides an additional source 
cash flows for the Company allowing it to focus on its strategic 
areas of growth in the Pharmaceutical Business.

On October 15, 2020, BioSyent was named to the 
Growth List ranking of Canada’s fastest-growing 
companies by Canadian Business and Maclean’s for 
the eighth consecutive year based on a five-year 
revenue growth rate of 75% (2014 – 2019). 

On November 5, 2020, 
BioSyent Pharma Inc. launched 
Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 
in Canada, the first new product 
under the new Feramax® Pd 
delivery system, which replaces 

FeraMAX® 150 at Canadian pharmacies. 

In December 2020, the 
Company launched 
Combogesic® to Canada. 
Combogesic® is the first fixed-dose combination of acetaminophen 
and ibuprofen in a single tablet available in Canada.

New Capabilities and Awards

2 020

On May 1, 2020, the Company’s Feramax® 
brand was named the #1 Pharmacist and 
Physician recommended over-the-counter oral 
iron supplement brand in Canada for the fifth 
consecutive year (EnsembleIQ Healthcare Group: 
Pharmacy Practice + Business, The Medical Post, 
Profession Santé, CanadianHealthcareNetwork.
ca, and ProfessionSanté.ca 2020 Survey on OTC Counselling and 
Recommendations).

In July 2020, the Company launched 
Tibella®, a Health Canada approved 
prescription hormone replacement 
therapy (“HRT”) consisting of 
tibolone. Tibella® substitutes for the loss of estrogen production in 
postmenopausal women and alleviates menopausal symptoms. This 
drug is marketed in Canada as part of the Company’s women’s 
health product portfolio.

On October 1, 2020, BioSyent Pharma Inc. signed and exclusive 
License and Supply Agreement with a European partner for a new 
women’s health product for the Canadian market. The product 
has been approved for sale in Canada, the U.S.A., Europe and in 
several other markets around the world. The Company is currently 
preparing for the launch of this product to the Canadian market.

On October 5, 2020, BioSyent 
Pharma Inc. introduced 
Feramax® Pd, a patented oral 
iron supplement delivery system 
for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia based on a proprietary 
Polydextrose Iron Complex (“PDIC”) formulation. 

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Key Performance Measures
Key performance measures for the fourth quarter (“Q4”) and full 
year (“FY”) ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 are 
presented in the tables below along with the preceding three quarters:

Key Performance 
Indicator

FY 2020

% Change 
vs. FY 
2019

% to Total 
Company 
Sales

CAGR*  
(FY 2018 - 
FY 2020)

Q4 2020

% Change 
vs. Q4 
2019

% to Total 
Company 
Sales

Q3 2020

Q2 2020

Q1 2020

Canadian 
Pharma Sales
International 
Pharma Sales
Legacy Business 
Sales
Total Total 
Company Sales

Gross Profit

EBITDA

NIAT

Diluted EPS

Net Change in 
Cash, Short-term 
Investments

21,237,461 

12%

95%

 5,395,431 

7%

94%  5,470,569 

 4,415,900 

 5,955,561 

 225,139 

-84%

 869,568 

-16%

1%

4%

 56,668 

-87%

1%

 6,306 

 94,197 

 67,968 

 274,229 

180%

5%

 294,864 

 261,158 

 39,317 

22,332,168 

4%

100%

2%  5,726,328 

3%

100%  5,771,739 

 4,771,255 

 6,062,846 

17,423,847 

 5,577,206 

 3,795,335 

 0.29 

 3,604,229 

5%

-3%

-13%

-6%

78%

25%

17%

 4,399,715 

 1,116,856 

-18%

 665,702 

 0.05 

 1,875,305 

1%

-34%

-43%

-38%

77%  4,494,094 

 3,728,295 

 4,801,743 

20%  1,399,781 

 1,062,582 

 1,997,987 

12%

 955,909 

 722,206 

 1,451,518 

 0.07 

 0.06 

 0.11 

 2,234,657 

 276,242 

 (781,975)

Key Performance 
Indicator

FY 2019

% Change 
vs. FY 
2018

% to Total 
Company 
Sales

CAGR*  
(FY 2017 - 
FY 2019)

Q4 2019

% Change 
vs. Q4 
2018

% to Total 
Company 
Sales

Q3 2019

Q2 2019

Q1 2019

Canadian 
Pharma Sales
International 
Pharma Sales
Legacy Business 
Sales
Total Total 
Company Sales

Gross Profit

EBITDA

NIAT

Diluted EPS

Net Change in 
Cash, Short-term 
Investments

18,946,758 

2%

88%

 5,042,899 

0%

91%  4,789,629 

 4,844,090 

 4,270,140 

 1,441,691 

-35%

 1,035,875 

33%

7%

5%

 428,620 

-50%

8%  1,013,071 

 - 

 - 

 97,767 

286%

2%

 417,048 

 312,386 

 208,674 

21,424,324 

0%

100%

2%  5,569,286 

-6%

100%  6,219,748 

 5,156,476 

 4,478,814 

16,646,255 

 5,747,706 

 4,369,295 

 0.31 

(2,451,624)

0%

-22%

-23%

-21%

78%

27%

20%

 4,362,645 

 1,700,840 

-8%  1,167,845 

 0.08 

 2,161,146 

-3%

-19%

-30%

-27%

78%  4,692,397 

 4,070,823 

 3,520,390 

31%  1,985,461 

 860,259 

 1,201,146 

21%  1,532,426 

 690,843 

 978,181 

0%

 0.11 

 0.05 

 0.07 

 (87,528)

(2,559,074)

(1,966,168)

*CAGR – Compound Annual Growth Rate – See “Non-IFRS Financial Measures”

The Canadian pharmaceutical business showed continued growth 
and resilience through Q4 2020, with sales increasing by 7% 
over Q4 2019. The Company also launched two new Canadian 
pharmaceutical products, Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 and 
Combogesic®, in Q4 2020. However, the Company’s overall sales 
growth in the quarter was negatively impacted by continued 
challenges in the largest export market of the International 
pharmaceutical business due to COVID-19, with Q4 2020 
international pharmaceutical sales decreasing by 87% versus 
Q4 2019. 

This decline in Q4 2020 international pharmaceutical sales 
combined with significant marketing investment in Q4 2020 in 
three launch-stage products of approximately $694,000 (Tibella®, 
Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150, and Combogesic®), resulted in a 
43% decline in Q4 2020 NIAT versus Q4 2019. After adjusting for 

a $626,006 write-down of intangible assets in the comparative Q4 
2019 period, NIAT for Q4 2020 would have decreased by 59% 
versus Q4 2019.

For FY 2020, Canadian pharmaceutical sales increased by 12% 
over FY 2019, while international pharmaceutical sales decreased 
by 84% and legacy business sales decreased by 16%. As a result, total 
Company sales increased by 4% overall in FY 2020 over FY 2019. 
Sales CAGR between FY 2018 and FY 2020 was 2%.

Net Income After Tax (“NIAT”) decreased by 13% in FY 2020 
versus FY 2019. FY 2019 NIAT was negatively impacted by 
impairment write-downs on intangible assets of $870,947. 
FY 2020 NIAT was negatively impacted by the decrease in 
international pharmaceutical sales as well as substantial marketing 
investment of approximately $1,711,000 in new product launches 
in 2020. NIAT CAGR between FY 2018 and FY 2020 was -18%.

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Results of Operations for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019

Sales

Total Company Sales:

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019

Total Company sales for Q4 2020 were $5,726,328, increasing by 
3% compared to total Company sales for Q4 2019 of $5,569,286. 

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019

Total Company sales for FY 2020 were $22,332,168, increasing by 
4% compared to total Company sales for FY 2019 of $21,424,324. 

Canadian Pharmaceutical Sales:

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019

Canadian pharmaceutical sales for Q4 2020 were $5,395,431, 
increasing by 7% compared to Canadian pharmaceutical sales for 
Q4 2019 of $5,042,899. The table below summarizes the Q4 2020 
versus Q4 2019 percentage change in sales volumes (units) by 
product:

Product

FeraMAX®

RepaGyn®

Tibella®

Combogesic®

Aguettant System®

Cathejell®

Cysview®

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019 

Change

+5%

-%

*

*

+2%

+13%

-60%

*Newly-launched products – $nil comparative sales for Q4 2019

In the Community Business, Q4 2020 Canadian sales volumes 
(units) of FeraMAX® increased by 5% as compared to Q4 2019. 
The Company launched Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 in 
November 2020, which replaces FeraMAX® 150 at Canadian 
pharmacies. Sales volumes (units) of RepaGyn® were flat in Q4 
2020 versus Q4 2019. In July 2020, the Community Business 
launched Tibella® to the Canadian market, which was revenue-
generating throughout Q4 2020. The Combogesic® product 
was launched in Canada late in Q4 2020 with the first sales to 
Canadian wholesaler customers in December 2020.

As a result of the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 
Canada, the Community Business’ field salesforce continued to 
experience in-person access limitations to healthcare professionals 
during Q4 2020, utilizing various means of virtual engagement to 
the extent possible. 

In the Specialty Business, Q4 2020 Canadian sales volumes (units) 
of Aguettant System® PFS products increased by 2% as compared 
to Q4 2019. Sales volumes (units) of Cathejell® increased by 
13% in Q4 2020 over Q4 2019. As COVID-19 infection rates 
across Canada increased during Q4 2020, the Company observed 

an overall decline in the scheduling of blue-light cystoscopy 
procedures, resulting in a 60% decrease in sales volumes (units) of 
Cysview® during Q4 2020 as compared to Q4 2019. 

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019

Canadian pharmaceutical sales for FY 2020 were $21,237,461, 
increasing by 12% compared to Canadian pharmaceutical sales 
for FY 2019 of $18,946,758. The table below summarizes the FY 
2020 versus FY 2019 percentage change in sales volumes (units) by 
product: 

Product

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019 

Change

FeraMAX®

RepaGyn®

Tibella®

Combogesic®

Aguettant System®

Cathejell®

Cysview®

+10%

+6%

*

*

+21%

+15%

-28%

*Newly-launched products – $nil comparative sales for FY 2019

In the Community Business, FY 2020 Canadian sales volumes 
(units) of FeraMAX® increased by 10% as compared to FY 2019. 
Sales volumes (units) of the RepaGyn® product increased by 6% in 
FY 2020 versus FY 2019. Following sales growth in the months 
of January and February 2020 and a rapid acceleration in sales 
volumes in March 2020 at the outset of the COVID-19 crisis 
due to increased demand for its products from consumers, as well 
as some accumulation of safety stock of these products by retail 
pharmacies and wholesalers, the Community Business experienced 
a marked decline in sales volumes in April 2020, followed by a 
normalization in the months of May and June 2020, and continued 
growth during the second half of 2020. Tibella®, launched in 
late July 2020, also contributed modestly to sales growth in the 
Community Business in the second half of 2020.

The further impact of COVID-19 on the selling activities of 
the Community Business’ field salesforce, consumer behaviour, 
and demand for pharmaceutical products in the community 
is uncertain. Nonetheless, the Company has not experienced 
any significant negative impact to cumulative sales volumes 
of established brands in its Community Business as a result of 
COVID-19 over the duration of the pandemic from March 2020 
to the date hereof. 

In the Specialty Business, FY 2020 Canadian sales volumes 
(units) of Aguettant System® PFS products increased by 21% 
as compared to FY 2019. Sales volumes (units) of Cathejell® 
increased by 15% in FY 2020 versus FY 2019 while sales volumes 
(units) of Cysview® decreased by 28% in FY 2020 versus FY 
2019. Following a decline in Q2 2020 sales of Cathejell® and 
Cysview® due to a reduction in elective procedures occurring in 

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certain Canadian hospitals in response to the COVID-19 crisis, 
the Specialty Business observed an increase in the frequency of 
such procedures in late Q2 2020 and throughout Q3 2020. In 
Q4 2020, as COVID-19 infection rates increased across Canada, 
while sales of Cathejell® grew by 13% over Q4 2019, sales of 
Cysview declined by 60% versus Q4 2019. Although new hospital 
sites implemented Cysview in Q3 2020, the Company observed 
a decline in the frequency of blue-light cystoscopy procedures 
scheduled among Canadian hospitals in Q4 2020.

Subsequent to FY 2020, in January 2021, the Company shipped a 
FeraMAX® order valued at approximately $1,140,000 to its largest 
export market, marking the Company’s first significant sale to this 
market after more than 12 months. Notwithstanding this recent 
activity, as the Company’s local distributors continue to navigate 
the challenges of the business environment in its largest export 
market, including COVID-19, management expects continued 
uncertainty in the timing and extent of international Feramax® 
sales to persist. 

There remains an ongoing risk that increased COVID-19 infection 
rates could affect demand for Aguettant System® PFS products, 
Cathejell®, and Cysview® in Canadian hospitals in 2021.

Legacy Business Sales Trend

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019

International Pharmaceutical Sales:

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019
International FeraMAX® sales for Q4 2020 were $56,668, as 
compared to sales of $428,620 for Q4 2019 – an 87% decrease.

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019
International FeraMAX® sales for FY 2020 were $225,139 as 
compared to sales of $1,441,691 for FY 2019 – an 84% decrease. 
In FY 2020, the International Business Unit shipped far less 
FeraMAX® product to its largest export market than it did in FY 
2019. While this market has historically been a significant source 
of demand for FeraMAX® outside of Canada, business activity 
and the servicing of consumer demand in this market have been 
hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the International 
Business Unit increased sales of FeraMAX® to certain other 
markets in FY 2020 versus FY 2019, such sales, on a cumulative 
basis, were not sufficient to offset the decline in FY 2020 sales to 
its largest export market. 

Legacy Business sales for Q4 2020 were $274,229, increasing by 
180% compared to Legacy Business sales for Q4 2019 of $97,767.

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019

Legacy Business sales for FY 2020 were $869,568, decreasing by 
16% overall compared to Legacy Business sales for FY 2019 of 
$1,035,875. While sales of Protect-It® to customers in the United 
States increased by 33% in FY 2020 versus FY 2019, sales to 
Canadian customers decreased by 26% during this period, due 
to a carryover of customers’ inventory of the product from the 
prior year, some COVID-19 impact on demand, as well as general 
economic and trade conditions. 

Legacy Business customers are generally less responsive to 
marketing and promotion, with demand for grain insecticides 
influenced more by weather conditions, prices of agricultural 
inputs, the quality and quantity of the food grain harvest, and the 
level of infestation of stored grain. 

Expenses

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019

Cost of goods sold 

Selling and marketing 

General and administration

New business development costs

Finance costs

Subtotal

Finance income

Three months ended December 31,

2020

2019

% Change vs. 
Prior Period

 $1,326,613 

 $1,206,641 

 $2,268,725 

 $1,301,548 

 $1,141,252 

 $1,489,204 

 $6,312 

 $22,656 

 $10,832 

 $24,472 

 $4,765,558 

 $4,032,697 

$(75,360)

$(132,564)

10%

74%

-23%

-42%

-7%

18%

-43%

Total expenses for Q4 2020 were $4,765,558, increasing by 18% 
versus Q4 2019 expenses of $4,032,697. The ratio of total expenses 
to sales for Q4 2020 was 83%, higher than a ratio of 72% for Q4 
2019, such ratio increasing as a result of a significant increase in 
selling and marketing expenses related to launch-stage products, 
offset to some extent by savings on travel and other selling 
expenses as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.

Selling and marketing expenses for Q4 2020 were $2,268,725, 
increasing by 74% as compared to Q4 2019 selling and marketing 
expenses of $1,301,548. The ratio of selling and marketing 

expenses to sales for Q4 2020 was 40%, increasing from a ratio of 
23% in Q4 2019. The increase in selling and marketing expenses 
relative to sales in Q4 2020 was due to significant advertising and 
promotion expenditures on Tibella® (launched in July 2020) and 
Combogesic® (launched in December 2020). While both of these 
products generated sales during Q4 2020, further sales growth and 
more material sales are expected in the future. The level of launch-
stage selling and marketing expenditures for these two products 
was high relative to their Q4 2020 sales. Management expects the 
ratio of selling and marketing expenses to sales for Tibella® and 

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Combogesic® to remain relatively high in 2021, as compared to the 
Company’s established brands, but to normalize over the long term 
as these products establish footholds in their respective markets. 

General and administration expenses for Q4 2020 were 
$1,141,252, decreasing by 23% as compared to Q4 2019 general 
and administration expenses of $1,489,204. After adjusting for 
non-recurring impairment write-downs on intangible assets 
of $626,006 incurred in Q4 2019, general and administration 
expenses would have increased by 32% in Q4 2020 over Q4 2019 
due primarily to increased employee costs and unrealized foreign 
exchange losses on USD and EUR-denominated monetary assets 
incurred in Q4 2020. After adjusting for the effect of the non-
recurring impairment write-downs incurred in Q4 2019, the ratio 
of general and administration expenses to sales would have been 
15% in Q4 2019 as compared to 20% in Q4 2020. 

Finance costs for Q4 2020 were $22,656, decreasing slightly from 
finance costs for Q4 2019 of $24,472. These costs are related to 
the Company’s head office lease which commenced in September 
2019 and which is accounted for in accordance with IFRS 16 
Leases.

Finance income for Q4 2020 was $75,360, decreasing by 43% 
as compared to Q4 2019 finance income of $132,564. Finance 
income was composed primarily of interest income which 
decreased by 45% to $55,310 in Q4 2020 as compared to $99,865 
in Q4 2019. This decrease in interest income was primarily a result 
of significantly lower market interest rates in Q4 2020 as compared 
to Q4 2019. 

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019

Cost of goods sold 

Selling and marketing 

General and administration

New business development costs

Finance costs

Subtotal

Finance income

Full year ended December 31,

2020

2019

% Change vs. 
Prior Period

 $4,908,321 

 $4,778,069 

 $7,423,311 

 $5,750,624 

 $4,905,190 

 $5,417,376 

 $65,322 

 $92,942 

 $90,114 

 $32,456 

 $17,395,086 

 $16,068,639 

$(299,897)

$(514,846)

3%

29%

-9%

-28%

186%

8%

-42%

Total expenses for FY 2020 were $17,395,086, increasing by 8% 
compared to FY 2019 expenses of $16,068,639. The ratio of total 
expenses to sales for FY 2020 was 78%, higher than a ratio of 
75% for Q4 2019, such ratio increasing as a result of a significant 
increase in selling and marketing expenses related to launch-stage 
products, including Tibella® and Combogesic®, and to a lesser 
extent, Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150.

Selling and marketing expenses for FY 2020 were $7,423,311, 
increasing by 29% as compared to FY 2019 selling and marketing 
expenses of $5,750,624, driven largely by increased marketing 
expenditures made in the second half of FY 2020 on launch 
products. The ratio of selling and marketing expenses to sales for 
FY 2020 was 33%, increasing from a ratio of 27% in FY 2019. The 
increase in this ratio is a result of significant additional advertising 
and promotion expenditures related to product launches in the 
second half of 2020, including Tibella (launched in July 2020), 
Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150 (launched in November 2020), and 
Combogesic® (launched in December 2020). These additional 
expenditures were offset to some extent by reductions in certain 
selling and travel expenses of the Company’s field salesforce as a 
result of COVID-19 restrictions. 

The Company will make further selling and marketing investment 
in long-term growth initiatives in 2021 related to Tibella®, 
Combogesic®, Feramax® Pd, and a new women’s health product. 
Management expects the ratio of selling and marketing expenses 
to sales to remain higher relative to historic levels until these new 
products gain traction in the market. Management expects the 

ratio of selling and marketing expenses to total sales to rebalance 
over the long-term, as the overall contribution of these growth 
products to Company sales increases.

General and administration expenses for FY 2020 were 
$4,905,190, decreasing by 9% as compared to FY 2019 general 
and administration expenses of $5,417,376. After adjusting 
for impairment write-downs on intangible assets of $870,947 
incurred in FY 2019, general and administration expenses would 
have increased by 8% in FY 2020 over FY 2019 due primarily 
to research and product development expenditures of $222,361 
incurred in FY 2020 and no such expenses incurred in the 
comparative prior period, as well as an overall increase in employee 
costs in FY 2020 over FY 2019. While the Company also incurred 
higher depreciation expense on property, equipment and a lease 
right-of-use asset related to the Company’s head office lease, this 
increase was offset by a decline in certain other corporate expenses 
in FY 2020 versus FY 2019. After adjusting for the effect of the 
impairment write-downs on intangible assets incurred in FY 2019, 
the ratio of general and administration expenses to sales would 
have been 21% in FY 2019 as compared to 22% in FY 2020.

While the Company has limited certain discretionary expenditures 
in response to COVID-19 uncertainty, it will continue to invest 
corporate resources in long-term growth initiatives in 2021, 
including launch-stage and pre-launch stage products.

The Company recorded finance costs of $92,942 in FY 2020 as 
compared to $32,456 in FY 2019 related to its head office lease 
which commenced in September 2019. As a result of applying the 

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requirements of IFRS 16 Leases, the Company recorded 12 months 
of lease interest expense in FY 2020 as compared to 4 months in 
FY 2019. 

Finance income for FY 2020 was $299,897, decreasing by 
42% as compared to FY 2019 finance income of $514,846. 
Finance income was composed primarily of interest income 

which decreased by 41% to $263,137 in FY 2020 as compared 
to $447,011 in FY 2019. This decrease in interest income was 
primarily a result of a significant decline in market interest rates 
during the period precipitated by the impact of COVID-19 on the 
economy and monetary policy measures effected by central banks 
in response.

Net Income After Taxes (NIAT)

Q4 2020 vs. Q4 2019

NIAT for Q4 2020 of $665,702 decreased by 43% compared 
to NIAT for Q4 2019 of $1,167,845 which decreased by 30% 
compared to Q4 2018. The Company incurred impairment losses 
on the write-down of intangible assets in Q4 2019 of $626,006. 
While no impairment losses were incurred in Q4 2020, the 

Company increased its selling and marketing expenditures in new 
products launched in the second half of 2020, including Tibella®, 
Combogesic®, and Feramax® Pd Therapeutic 150. As a result of 
this additional selling and marketing investment in new products, 
the Company’s NIAT margin for Q4 2020 declined to 12% as 
compared to a NIAT margin of 21% in Q4 2019.

 7,000,000

 6,000,000

5,910,965 

Sales and Net Income Before & After Tax
For the three months ended December 31

5,569,286 

5,726,328 

 5,000,000

 4,000,000

D
A
C

 3,000,000

 2,000,000

 1,000,000

 -

0%

-6%

+3%

2,168,171 

1,671,410 

1,669,153 

+11%

+15%

1,167,845 

-23%

-30%

1,036,130 

-38%

665,702 

-43%

Q4 2018

Q4 2019

Q4 2020

Sales

Net Income Before Tax

Net Income After Tax

during FY 2020 contributed to a decline in the Company’s NIAT 
margin to 17% in FY 2020 as compared to 20% in FY 2019. 
Management expects the Company’s NIAT margin to normalize 
over the long-term, as the overall contribution of 2020 launch 
products to total Company sales increases.

Including currency translation losses of $32,053, total 
comprehensive income for Q4 2020 was $633,649, decreasing by 
41% compared to total comprehensive income for Q4 2019 of 
$1,070,070. 

FY 2020 vs. FY 2019

NIAT for FY 2020 of $3,795,335 decreased by 13% compared 
to NIAT for FY 2019 of $4,369,295 which decreased by 23% 
compared to FY 2018. The Company incurred impairment losses 
on the write-down of intangible assets in FY 2019 of $870,947. 
While no impairment losses were incurred in FY 2020, the 
decline in international pharmaceutical sales in FY 2020 and the 
substantial increase in selling and marketing expenditures on three 
new product launches in the Canadian pharmaceutical business 

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 25,000,000

Sales and Net Income Before & After Tax
For the twelve months ended December 31

21,527,028 

21,424,324 

 20,000,000

+4%

0%

22,332,168 

+4%

 15,000,000

D
A
C

 10,000,000

 5,000,000

 -

7,546,806 

5,705,386 

5,870,531 

+10%

+10%

4,369,295 

-22%

-23%

5,236,979 

3,795,335 

-11%

-13%

FY 2018

FY 2019

FY 2020

Sales

Net Income Before Tax

Net Income After Tax

Including currency translation losses of $61,405, total 
comprehensive income for FY 2020 was $3,733,930, decreasing 
by 13% compared to total comprehensive income for FY 2019 of 
$4,278,729. 

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA)
EBITDA is a non-IFRS financial measure. The term EBITDA 
does not have any standardized meaning under IFRS and therefore 
may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other 
companies. The Company defines EBITDA as earnings before 
interest income and/or expense, income taxes, depreciation and 
amortization. A summary of the Company’s EBITDA for the three 
and twelve months ended December 30, 2018, 2019, and 2020 is 
provided in the graph below: 

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8,000,000

7,000,000

6,000,000

5,000,000

D
A
C

4,000,000

3,000,000

2,000,000

1,000,000

0

EBITDA for the three and twelve months ended December 31

7,405,988

+7%

5,747,706

-22%

5,577,206

-3%

2,109,998

+8%

1,700,840

-19%

1,116,856

-34%

2018

2019

2020

Q4 EBITDA

FY EBITDA

EBITDA for Q4 2020 of $1,116,856 decreased by 34% compared 
to EBITDA for Q4 2019 of $1,700,840. This decrease in EBITDA 
was a result of a decrease in Net Income Before Taxes of 38% 

from $1,669,153 in Q4 2019 to $1,036,130 in Q4 2020. A 
reconciliation of EBITDA to NIAT for the three months ended 
December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 is provided in the table below:

RECONCILIATION OF EBITDA TO NIAT
FOR THE THREE MONTHS (Q4) ENDED DECEMBER 31

Q4 EBITDA

 $1,116,856 

 $1,700,840 

 $2,109,998 

2020

2019

2018

Add: 

Interest Income 

 55,310 

 99,865 

 109,164 

Less:

Depreciation of Property and Equipment

Amortization of Intangible Assets

Interest Expense

Income Tax Expense

 (84,015)

 (29,365)

 (22,656)

 (81,743)

 (25,337)

 (24,472)

 (26,494)

 (24,497)

 - 

 (370,428)

 (501,308)

 (496,761)

Q4 NIAT

 $665,702 

 $1,167,845 

 $1,671,410 

EBITDA for FY 2020 of $5,577,206 decreased by 3% compared 
to EBITDA for FY 2019 of $5,747,706. This decrease in EBITDA 
was a result of a decrease in Net Income Before Taxes of 11% from 
$5,870,531 in FY 2019 to $5,236,979 in FY 2020 which was 
partially offset by an increase in non-cash expenses in FY 2020, 
including amortization of intangible assets as well as depreciation 
and lease interest expense arising from the Company’s 2019 office 
lease and leasehold improvements. A reconciliation of EBITDA to 
NIAT for the full years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 
is provided in the table below:

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RECONCILIATION OF EBITDA TO NIAT
FOR THE FULL YEAR (FY) ENDED DECEMBER 31

FY EBITDA

 $5,577,206 

 $5,747,706 

 $7,405,988 

2020

2019

2018

Add: 

Interest Income 

 263,137 

 447,011 

 326,103 

Less: 

Depreciation of Property and Equipment

Amortization of Intangible Assets

Interest Expense

Income Tax Expense

 (334,186)

 (176,236)

 (92,942)

 (193,578)

 (98,152)

 (32,456)

 (87,295)

 (97,990)

 - 

 (1,441,644)

 (1,501,236)

 (1,841,420)

FY NIAT 

 $3,795,335 

 $4,369,295 

 $5,705,386

Earnings per Share (EPS)
Below is a summary of the Company’s quarterly sales, NIAT, and 
EPS for the eight most recently completed quarters:

Q4 2020

Q3 2020

 Q2 2020

 Q1 2020

Q4 2019

Q3 2019

Q2 2019

Q1 2019

Sales ($)

5,726,328

5,771,739

4,771,255

6,062,846

5,569,286

6,219,748

5,156,476

4,478,814

Net Income After Taxes ($)

665,702

955,909

722,206

1,451,518

1,167,845

1,532,426

690,843

978,181

Earnings Per Share – Basic ($)

Earnings Per Share – Diluted ($)

0.05

0.05

0.07

0.07

0.06

0.06

0.11

0.11

0.08

0.08

0.11

0.11

0.05

0.05

0.07

0.07

Diluted EPS for Q4 2020 was $0.05, decreasing by $0.03 
compared with diluted EPS of $0.08 for Q4 2019. 

Diluted EPS for FY 2020 was $0.29, decreasing by $0.02 
compared with diluted EPS of $0.31 in FY 2019.

Financial Resources and Liquidity
Working capital, defined here as the difference between current 
assets and current liabilities, increased to $24,635,207 as at 
December 31, 2020 from $23,486,067 as at December 31, 2019. 
Cash and short-term investments of $25,577,706 accounted for 
104% of working capital as at December 31, 2020 as compared 
with cash and short-term investments of $21,973,477 accounting 
for 94% of working capital as at December 31, 2019. While the 
ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s 
business operations, sales, and resultant cash flows is uncertain, 
the Company has sufficient cash and working capital to maintain 
its operating activities and to fund its planned growth and 
development activities.

During FY 2020, there was a net increase in cash and short-
term investments of $3,604,229 compared to a net decrease 
of $2,451,624 during FY 2019. While the Company’s NIAT 
decreased to $3,795,335 in FY 2020 from $4,369,295 in FY 
2019, as a result of a net decrease in non-cash working capital, 
the Company generated cash from operations of $6,894,425 
during FY 2020 as compared to $4,401,713 during FY 2019. 
The Company expended $2,648,194 for the repurchase and 
cancellation of the Company’s own common shares under a 
Normal Course Issuer Bid (“NCIB”) and a further $493,818 on 
the purchase of common shares for the Company’s Restricted 

Share Unit (“RSU”) Plan adopted by the Board of Directors on 
March 4, 2020. Comparatively, during FY 2019, the Company 
expended $6,351,603 for the repurchase and cancellation of 
common shares under its NCIB, resulting in the overall decrease in 
cash in FY 2019. 

The graph below illustrates the company’s cash, cash equivalents 
and short-term investments as of December 31, 2018, 2019, and 
2020 as well as the growth over the comparative prior year period: 

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Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments at December 31

30,000,000

25,000,000

24,425,101

20,000,000

25,577,706

21,973,477

)
s
’
0
0
0
(

D
A
C

15,000,000

+26%

-10%

+16%

10,000,000

5,000,000

0

2018

2019

2020

Total shareholders’ equity increased by 4% to $26,795,956 at 
December 31, 2020 from $25,794,510 at December 31, 2019. 
While the Company generated comprehensive income of 
$3,733,930 during FY 2020, it repurchased and cancelled 594,275 
of its own common shares during the year under the NCIB and 
a further 132,200 common shares held as treasury shares in trust 
for future settlements under its RSU Plan, reducing shareholders’ 
equity by $3,006,072 as a result.

The Company’s total assets at December 31, 2020 were 
$33,571,214, increasing by 8% compared to total assets of 
$30,965,314 as at December 31, 2019. This compares to a decrease 
of 1% in total assets to $30,965,314 at December 31, 2019 from 
total assets of $31,188,491 at December 31, 2018. 

The Company has no short-term or long-term debt; however, 
the Company has credit facilities available with Royal Bank of 
Canada totaling $3,090,000, including a foreign exchange facility 
of $1,500,000, a credit card facility of $90,000, and a revolving 
demand credit facility of $1,500,000 which had not been utilized 
as of December 31, 2020. This credit facility bears interest at 
a variable rate of Royal Bank prime plus 0.75% and has been 
secured with a General Security Agreement constituting a first 
ranking security interest of the Bank in the Company’s property. 
The Company is subject to maintaining certain financial covenants 
if the demand credit facility is drawn upon. The Company has 
available additional foreign exchange facilities of $2,500,000 with 
other Canadian financial institutions.

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Risk Management
The Company’s risk management policies and financial results 
are presided over by the Company’s Audit Committee, which 
reports to the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”). 
The pharmaceutical industry in which the Company operates is 
exposed to several risks due to a strict regulatory environment, an 
enhanced level of quality consciousness, competition from generic 
drug companies and heightened intellectual property litigation. 
The Company cannot predict or identify all risk factors nor can 
it accurately predict the impact, if any, of the risk factors on its 
business operations or the extent to which a factor, event or any 
such combination may materially change future results of the 
Company’s financial position from those reported or projected 

1.  COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization characterized 
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) as a pandemic. The COVID-19 
pandemic has impacted and is likely to continue to impact the 
Company’s operations in the following key areas: 

a.  Workforce:

The Company will continue to follow the recommendations of 
public health and government authorities and to take all necessary 
precautions, including remote work arrangements, the ongoing 
practice of physical distancing, making personal protective 
equipment available to employees, and ensuring employees’ 
understanding of good hygiene practices and infection risks, in 
order to protect the health and safety of its workforce, both in its 
head office and in the field.

b.  Access to Healthcare Professionals:

COVID-19 restrictions have affected the ability of the Company’s 
field salesforce to access healthcare professionals in the community 
and in hospitals for the purposes of product detailing. While the 
extent and duration of such access restrictions varies by region in 
Canada, such restrictions may have an impact on the Company’s 
Canadian pharmaceutical sales during the time they are in place. 

2.  Sourcing and Revenue Concentration
Some raw materials used in production are sourced from 
a single supplier and the Company is exposed to the same 
business risks that the supplier may experience. In line with 

3.  Foreign Exchange Risk
The Company currently earns revenue in Canadian dollars 
(“CAD”), U.S. dollars (“USD”), and Euros (“EUR”) and incurs 
costs in Canadian dollars, U.S. dollars, and Euros. Management 
monitors the U.S. dollar and Euro net liability position on 
an ongoing basis during the period and adjusts the total net 
monetary liability balance accordingly. When it is appropriate to 
de-risk future foreign exchange transactions, the Company uses 

in any forward-looking statements. Accordingly, the Company 
cautions the reader not to rely on reported financial information 
and forward-looking statements to predict actual future results. 

This report and the accompanying financial information should 
be read in conjunction with this statement concerning risks and 
uncertainties. Some of the risks, uncertainties and events that may 
affect the Company, its business, operations and results are given in 
this section. However, the factors and uncertainties are not limited 
to those stated.

The Company has policies and practices mandated by the Board to 
manage the Company’s risks. Such risks include the following:

c.  Demand for Products:

To the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic affects patient 
volumes (both in community clinics and in hospitals) and the 
nature of procedures performed in Canadian hospitals, this will 
affect the consumption of the Company’s urgent care products as 
well as its hospital products used in elective procedures. 

Additionally, to the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic and 
safety restrictions affect consumer buying behaviour, this will 
affect demand for the Company’s pharmaceutical products in the 
community. The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on consumer 
demand for the Company’s products in the short-term and long-
term is uncertain.

Finally, given the global scale of COVID-19, demand for the 
Company’s products in international markets may also be affected, 
depending on the extent of local infection rates, the measures 
implemented by local governments in response, and the overall 
impact of the pandemic on business activity in these international 
markets. 

d.  Supply Chain:

The Company sources its products globally. Given the global 
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and varying localized impacts, 
this could result in interruptions to the Company’s supply chains, 
including the manufacturing, transportation, and delivery of 
products to customers.

other pharmaceutical companies, the Company sells its products 
primarily through a limited number of wholesalers and retail 
pharmacy chains.

Dual Currency Deposits, foreign exchange options, and forward 
purchase contracts to manage foreign exchange transaction 
exposure.

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4.  Interest Rate Risk
Cash flow interest rate risk is the risk that the future cash flow of 
a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in interest 
rates. Some of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents as at the 
date of the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Financial 
Position are invested in redeemable guaranteed investment 
certificates (each, a “GIC”), which earn interest at fixed rates 
during their tenure. The Company’s short-term investments consist 
of non-redeemable GICs which also earn interest at fixed rates 
during their tenure. These GICs all have terms of one year or less.

5.  Credit Risk
Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Company if a 
customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to 
meet its contractual obligations and arises principally from the 
Company’s cash and cash equivalents, short term investments, 
trade and other receivables, and loans receivable. The carrying 
amount of financial assets represents maximum credit exposure. 
As the Company invests in GICs with Canadian Chartered Banks, 
its credit risk on this account is negligible. The Company’s loans 
receivable (see Note 13 of the Consolidated Financial Statements) 
are full recourse and secured by a pledge of common shares of the 
Company purchased by the Borrowers, who are key management 
personnel. Based on these factors, the Company considers the 
credit risk associated with these loans receivable to be low. There 
are no factors at the end of the period to indicate a significant 
increase in credit risk has occurred and there are no defaults on the 
loans receivable.

a.  Aging of Receivables

The majority of the Company’s current customers are 
corporations with whom the Company has transacted for several 
years. In assessing the credit risk of its trade accounts receivable, the 
Company considers historical default rates and payment patterns, 
the nature of its customer base, and forward-looking information 
including any anticipated changes to its customer base, credit 
terms, and pricing. 

The Company’s gross trade accounts receivable decreased to 
$1,665,738 at December 31, 2020 from $1,850,325 at December 
31, 2019. 

The Company monitors its credit risk on an ongoing basis. The 
Company has provided for an expected credit loss of $66,710. 
Given the pervasive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
general economic conditions and liquidity, there may be an 
increased risk of customer default on trade receivables in this 
environment; however, given the nature of size of the Company’s 
customer base, the risk of material default on trade accounts 
receivable is still considered low.

b.  Concentration of Receivables

As of December 31, 2020, one customer represents 43% of trade 
receivables (December 31, 2019 - 19%) while another customer 
represents 19% of trade receivables (December 31, 2019 - 31%), 
a third customer represents 15% of trade receivables (December 

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The Company manages its interest rate risk by maximizing the 
interest income earned on excess funds while maintaining the 
liquidity necessary to conduct operations on a day-to-day basis. 
Fluctuations in market rates of interest when these GICs are 
renewed may have an impact on the Company’s Finance Income 
for the period. Changes to the Bank of Canada’s Policy Interest 
Rate in response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 
pandemic will affect market rates of interest and the rate of interest 
earned on the Company’s GICs. 

31, 2019 - 18%), and a fourth customer represents 4% of trade 
receivables (December 31, 2019 – 13%). There have been no past 
defaults by any of these four customers. 

c.  Loans Receivable

The Company advanced loan proceeds totalling $391,500 on 
May 26, 2017, and a further $175,000 on December 11, 2018, in 
accordance with the terms of the MSLP for the purchase of the 
Company’s common shares by the Borrowers. 

Each MSLP participant’s loan (collectively, the “MSLP Participant 
Loans”) bears interest at a rate of 1% - 2% per annum and is 
secured by a pledge of the common shares purchased under the 
MSLP by the Borrowers. 

The MSLP Participant Loans are repayable by the Borrowers upon 
any sale of pledged shares by the Borrower in proportion to the 
then outstanding loan principal balance plus accrued interest. The 
remaining MSLP Participant Loan principal plus accrued interest 
must be fully repaid by the Borrowers no later than five years from 
the date the loan proceeds were advanced (the “Maturity Date”), 
specifically, May 26, 2022 for loans advanced on May 26, 2017 and 
December 11, 2023 for loans advanced on December 11, 2018.

If a Borrower ceases to be employed by the Company prior to the 
end of the five-year Maturity Date, all outstanding loan obligations 
shall become due and payable on the 30th day following the 
date of termination. In addition, in the event of a default by 
the Borrower of the terms of the loan, the loan obligations will 
become due and payable immediately. 

As the loans are full recourse loans, they have not been accounted 
for as stock-based compensation, but as financial instruments 
within the scope of IFRS 9, Financial Instruments.

d.  Cash and Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are maintained 
with Canadian financial institutions and the wholly owned 
subsidiaries of these financial institutions. Deposits held with banks 
may exceed the amount of insurance provided on such deposits. 
Generally, these deposits may be redeemed upon demand and 
are maintained with financial institutions of reputable credit and 
therefore bear minimal credit risk.

6.  Liquidity Risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to 
meet its obligations as they fall due. The Company manages 
its liquidity risk by forecasting cash flows from operations and 
anticipated investing and financing activities. Senior management 
is actively involved in the review and approval of planned 
expenditures. All contractual maturities of accounts payable and 
accrued liabilities are due within one year. The Company has no 
other liabilities.

7.  Information Technology (IT)
The integrity, reliability, and security of information in all forms 
are critical to the Company’s operations and inaccurate, incomplete 
or unavailable information could lead to incorrect financial 
reporting, poor decisions, privacy breaches, and/ or inappropriate 
disclosure of sensitive information.

The Company is reliant on the integrity of its IT systems, 
hardware, software and certain other IT infrastructure in 
maintaining business continuity and in securing proprietary 
and sensitive information as well as certain of its financial assets. 
The Company has implemented comprehensive IT security 
policies and controls in order to safeguard its assets and sensitive 
information and to maintain business continuity in the event of 
potential disruptions. The integrity of the Company’s IT systems 

8.  Competition
The Pharmaceutical Business is characterized by intense 
competition and the Company is faced with the risk of enhanced 
competitive activity which may impact operational results.

9.  Climatic Conditions
The Legacy Business is dependent on agricultural production 
which, in turn, is impacted by climatic variations which may affect 
demand for its products.

10. General Economic Conditions
The Company has no control over changes in inflation and 
interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and controls or other 
economic factors affecting its businesses, including uncertainty 
surrounding the economic impact of disease epidemics and 
pandemics and the risk of supply chain interruptions related 

11. Innovation
The competitiveness of the Company’s products is subject to 
continuous innovation within the pharmaceutical industry. The 
Company tries to maintain the relevance of its products to the 
market but is exposed to new improved innovations that can 
undermine the competitiveness of its products.

The Company generates sufficient cash from operating activities 
to fund its operations and fulfill its obligations as they become 
due. The Company has credit facilities available with Royal Bank 
of Canada totalling $3,090,000, including a revolving demand 
credit facility of $1,500,000 which it has not drawn down as at 
the date hereof, a foreign exchange facility of $1,500,000, and 
credit card facilities totalling $90,000. The Company has available 
additional foreign exchange facilities of $2,500,000 with other 
Canadian financial institutions. The Company’s funds have not 
been committed in any way, except as set out in Note 24 of the 
Consolidated Financial Statements.

is exposed to a risk of malicious and unauthorized breaches by 
outside parties acting unlawfully. While extensive, the Company’s 
IT security policies and controls cannot guarantee that such 
unauthorized breaches, whether targeted or opportunistic in 
nature, will not occur in the future. Such a breach could result in 
loss of financial assets through fraud, loss of sensitive information, 
reputational loss, or disruption of operations and business 
continuity. 

The Company monitors its exposure to IT security risks on a 
continual basis and modifies its IT security policies, practices, 
infrastructure and insurance coverage as needed to address the 
assessed level of such risk.

thereto, or the possibility of political unrest, legal or regulatory 
changes in jurisdictions in which the Company or its customers 
operate. These factors could negatively affect the Company’s future 
results of operations.

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12. Width of Product Portfolio
While the Company continuously strives to increase the portfolio 
of products in its commercialization pipeline, the high cost of 
acquiring new products and the long lead-time for bringing these 
products to market creates a dependency on a limited range of 
products at this time.

13. Agreements Relating to the Development and Distribution of Products
The Company currently has several collaboration or distribution 
agreements relating to the marketing and distribution of 
FeraMAX® products in international markets. The Company 
relies on these agreements because it does not wish to market its 
products directly in these markets. The Company intends to secure 
additional agreements relating to the marketing and distribution 
of FeraMAX® and any other product for which it may receive 
commercial rights outside of Canada. 

The Company may be unable to enter into in-licensing 
agreements for the development of new products and out-
licensing agreements for the distribution of its existing products. 
The Company also faces and will continue to face, significant 
competition in seeking appropriate collaborators and marketing 
and distribution partners. Moreover, collaboration and distribution 
arrangements are complex and time-consuming to negotiate, 
document and implement.

Reliance on these agreements exposes the Company to a number 
of risks, including the following:

 ƒ Collaborators and marketing and distribution partners may 

not devote sufficient resources to the Company’s products or 
product candidates;

 ƒ Disputes may arise with respect to payments that the Company 
believes are due under such distribution and collaboration 
agreements;

 ƒ Unwillingness on the part of collaborators and marketing and 
distribution partners to provide updates regarding the progress 
of its development, commercialization or marketing activities, 
or to permit public disclosure of these activities;

14. Regulatory Risks
With respect to BioSyent’s Legacy Business, regulatory and 
legislative requirements affect the development, manufacture and 
distribution of BioSyent’s products, including the testing and 
planting of seeds containing its biotechnology traits and the import 
of crops grown from those seeds. Non-compliance can harm 
sales and profitability. The failure to receive necessary permits or 
approvals could have near and long-term effects on BioSyent’s 
ability to produce and sell some current and future products.

With respect to BioSyent’s Pharmaceutical Business, the sale of 
pharmaceutical products is highly regulated, which significantly 
increases the difficulty and costs involved in obtaining and 
maintaining regulatory approval for marketing new and existing 
products. 

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 ƒ Collaborators and marketing and distribution partners may 

terminate the relationship; disputes may arise in the future with 
respect to the ownership of rights to technology developed 
with collaborators;

 ƒ Disagreements with collaborators and marketing and 

distribution partners could result in litigation or arbitration;

 ƒ Collaborators may elect to pursue the development of any 
additional product candidates and pursue technologies or 
products either on their own or in collaboration with other 
parties, including competitors;

 ƒ Collaborators and marketing and distribution partners may 

pursue higher priority programs or change the focus of their 
programs, which could affect the collaborators’ and marketing 
and distribution partners’ commitment to their respective 
territories; 

 ƒ Collaborators and marketing and distribution partners 

may develop or distribute products that compete with the 
Company’s products; and 

 ƒ The Company’s pharmaceutical products are distributed to 

international markets where political and economic risks and 
uncertainties may exist. These risks and uncertainties could 
adversely affect the distribution of the Company’s products to 
such markets. 

The occurrence of any of these or other events may impair 
commercialization of the Company’s products.

Various business interruption risks inherent to the pharmaceutical 
industry, like product recalls, adverse drug reactions, quality issues 
and issues relating to good manufacturing practices may impact the 
financial results if they transgress regulatory boundaries.

The regulatory approval process can be long and may involve 
significant delays despite the Company’s best efforts. There is 
also a risk that the Company’s products may be withdrawn from 
the market and the required approvals suspended as a result of 
non-compliance with regulatory requirements. The extent of 
such regulation is increased for products designated by Health 
Canada as Controlled Substances, such as the Tibella® women’s 
health product. As a result, the Company’s costs of regulatory 
compliance and risks associated with non-compliance are higher 
for such Controlled Substances than for other non-controlled 
pharmaceutical products which it markets and sells. 

Furthermore, there can be no assurance that the regulators will 
not require modification to any submissions, which may result in 
delays or failure to obtain regulatory approvals. Any delay or failure 
to obtain regulatory approvals could adversely affect the ability of 

the Company to utilize its technology, thereby adversely affecting 
operations. Further, there can be no assurance that the Company’s 
products will prove to be safe and effective in clinical trials or 
receive the requisite regulatory approval.

15. Specific Risks
The Company has insurance policies in place against risks relating 
to general commercial liability, product liability, product recall, 
loss of Company assets, IT security, and business interruption. 
The Company reviews its insurance coverage on a regular basis 
as part of its risk management program and adjusts this coverage 

Disclosure of Outstanding Share Data
The authorized share capital of the Company consists of 
100,000,000 common shares without par value and 25,000,000 
preferred shares without par value. The holders of the preferred 
shares as a class shall not be entitled to receive notice of, to attend 
or to vote at any meeting of the shareholders of the Company.

as appropriate, based its current risk profile and operations. The 
Company is exposed to the potential risk that claims made on 
the Company or losses incurred may be in excess of the level of 
insurance coverage undertaken by the Company.

As at March 16, 2021 the following common shares, stock options, 
and Restricted Share Units were outstanding:

Issued common shares

Treasury shares: RSU Plan in Trust 

Outstanding common shares

Stock options outstanding

RSUs outstanding

Fully Diluted at March 16, 2021

No. of Shares

Exercise Price Range

12,872,975

 (132,200)

12,740,775

173,230

129,125

13,043,130

$6.20 - $ 10.97

Normal Course Issuer Bid 
On December 11, 2019, the Company announced that the TSX 
Venture Exchange had accepted its Notice of Intention to Make 
a NCIB for a 12-month period ending on December 16, 2020 
during which the Company would be permitted to purchase up to 
800,000 of its own common shares for cancellation. The Company 
repurchased and cancelled 645,275 common shares under this 
NCIB, of which 594,275 common shares were repurchased and 
cancelled during FY 2020.

On December 11, 2020, the Company announced that the TSX 
Venture Exchange had accepted its Notice of Intention to Make 
a NCIB for a further 12-month period ending on December 
16, 2021 during which the Company would be permitted to 
purchase up to 950,000 of its own common shares for cancellation. 
65,000 common shares have been repurchased under this NCIB 
subsequent to December 31, 2020 to the date hereof.

Restricted Share Unit Plan 
On March 4, 2020, the Board of Directors adopted a Restricted 
Share Unit (“RSU”) Plan which was approved by shareholders 
on May 27, 2020 and which was subsequently approved by the 
TSX Venture Exchange. The RSU Plan was established as a vehicle 
by which equity-based incentives may be granted to eligible 
employees, consultants, directors and officers of the Company to 
recognize and reward their contributions to the long-term success 
of the Company including aligning their interests more closely 
with the interests of the Company’s shareholders. The RSU Plan 
is a fixed plan which reserves for issuance a maximum of 800,000 
common shares of the Company.

During FY 2020, the Company purchased 132,200 of its own 
common shares pursuant to its RSU Plan with such shares held in 
trust for future settlement of vested RSUs granted to employees, 
senior management, and directors of the Company.

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Commitments

Office Leases
The Company’s office lease agreement commenced on September 
1, 2019 and extends to August 31, 2029. 

The Company’s undiscounted minimum future rental payments 
and occupancy costs (including certain operating costs and realty 
taxes) for the next five fiscal years under this lease agreement as of 
the date hereof are approximately as follows: 

2021

2022

2023

2024

Fiscal Year 

 Annual Rent and Occupancy Costs 

 $ 269,089 

 $ 360,542 

 $ 364,056 

 $ 364,056 

 $ 1,781,624 

 $ 3,139,367 

Beyond Next 5 Fiscal Years

Total

Purchase Commitments
In the normal course of business, the Company has minimum 
purchase commitments with certain of its suppliers.

Disclosure Controls
The Company constantly endeavours to allow for greater 
segregation of duties and operating level controls within the 
constraints of its operating infrastructure. While intending to 
strengthen both these aspects of internal control, the Company 
believes that strong management supervisory controls minimize 
the possibility of erroneous financial reporting.

Investor Relations Activities
Investor relations functions were accomplished through personnel 
whose duties include dissemination of news releases, investor 
communications and general day-to-day operations of the 
Company. Mr. René Goehrum, President and CEO, Mr. Robert 
March, Vice President and CFO, and Mr. Joost van der Mark, Vice 
President, Corporate Development, assist in the implementation of 
the Company’s investor relations program.

The certifying officers of the Company have opted not to certify 
the design and evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls 
and procedures (“DC&P”) and internal control over financial 
reporting (“ICFR”). Inherent limitations on the ability of the 
certifying officers to design and implement (on a cost-effective 
basis) DC&P and ICFR for the Company may result in additional 
risks to the quality, reliability, transparency and timeliness of 
interim and annual filings and other reports provided under 
securities legislation.

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Related Party Transactions

Key Management Personnel Compensation
The table below summarizes compensation for key management 
personnel of the Company for the three months and years ended 
December 31, 2020 and 2019:

Number of Key Management Personnel

Salary, Benefits, and Bonus

Share-Based Payments

Three months ended December 31,

Years ended December 31,

2020

6

$702,826

$84,778

2019

6

2020

6

2019

6

$479,675

$59,124

$1,635,408

$1,360,493

$207,785

$233,138

During FY 2020, the Company recorded share-based payment 
expense of $207,785 (2019 - $233,138) related to the amortization 
of RSUs and the vesting of options granted to key management 
personnel under the Company’s RSU Plan and SOP, respectively, 
as well as the Company’s contributions to the ESPP for the 
purchase of common shares on behalf of participating key 
management personnel. 

Transactions with Directors
During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
paid cash fees to its directors in the amount of $54,376 (2019 - 
$142,600) and share-based payments of $22,022 (2019 - $15,899). 

Legal Proceedings
From time to time the Company may be exposed to claims and 
legal actions in the normal course of business. As of the date 
hereof, the Company was not aware of any litigation or threatened 
claims either outstanding or pending.

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BioSyent Inc.

Audited Consolidated 
Financial Statements

For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019

March 16, 2021

Expressed in Canadian Dollars

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Management’s Responsibility for Financial Reporting
To the Shareholders of BioSyent Inc.:

Management is responsible for the preparation and presentation of the accompanying consolidated financial 
statements for BioSyent Inc. (the “Company”), including significant accounting judgments and estimates 
in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, as issued by the International Accounting 
Standards Board. This responsibility includes selecting appropriate accounting principles and methods, and making 
decisions affecting the measurement of transactions in which objective judgment is required. The consolidated 
financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 are compliant with International Financial 
Reporting Standards (“IFRS”), as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”).

In discharging its responsibilities for the integrity and fairness of the consolidated financial statements, 
management designs and maintains the necessary accounting systems and related internal controls to provide 
reasonable assurance that transactions are authorized, assets are safeguarded and financial records are properly 
maintained to provide reliable information for the preparation of consolidated financial statements.

The Board of Directors and the Audit Committee are composed primarily of Directors who are neither 
management nor employees of the Company. The Board is responsible for overseeing management in the 
performance of its financial reporting responsibilities. The Board fulfils these responsibilities by reviewing 
the financial information prepared by management and discussing relevant matters with management and 
external auditors. The Board and Audit Committee are also responsible for recommending the appointment 
of the Company’s external auditors. The Board of Directors has approved the information contained in the 
accompanying consolidated financial statements.

MNP LLP, an independent firm of Chartered Professional Accountants, is appointed by the shareholders to audit 
the consolidated financial statements and report directly to them; their report follows. The external auditors have 
full and free access, and meet periodically and separately with the Board, Audit Committee and management to 
discuss their audit findings.

Robert March

Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, BioSyent Inc.

March 16, 2021

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Independent Auditor’s Report
To the Shareholders of BioSyent Inc.:

Opinion
We have audited the consolidated financial statements of BioSyent Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”), 
which comprise the consolidated statements of financial position as at December 31, 2020 and December 31, 
2019, and the consolidated statements of comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity 
for the years then ended, and notes to the consolidated financial statements, including a summary of significant 
accounting policies.

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the 
consolidated financial position of the Company as at December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, and its 
consolidated financial performance and its consolidated cash flows for the years then ended in accordance with 
International Financial Reporting Standards.

Basis for Opinion
We conducted our audits in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Our responsibilities 
under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated 
Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the ethical 
requirements that are relevant to our audits of the consolidated financial statements in Canada, and we have 
fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit 
evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Other Information
Management is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises:

 ƒ Management’s Discussion and Analysis

 ƒ The information, other than the consolidated financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon, in the 

Annual Report.

Our opinion on the consolidated financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not and 
will not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other 
information identified above and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent 
with the consolidated financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audits or otherwise appears to be 
materially misstated.

We obtained Management’s Discussion and Analysis prior to the date of this auditor’s report. If, based on the 
work we have performed on this other information, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this 
other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

The Annual Report is expected to be made available to us after the date of the auditor’s report. If, based on the 
work we will perform on this other information, we conclude that there is a material misstatement therein, we 
are required to communicate the matter to those charged with governance.

Responsibilities of Management and Those Charged with Governance for the Consolidated Financial 
Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements 
in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, and for such internal control as management 
determines is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material 
misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

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In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability to 
continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of 
accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative 
but to do so.

Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Company’s financial reporting process.

Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements as a whole are free 
from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. 
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with 
Canadian generally accepted auditing standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists.  Misstatements can 
arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected 
to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these consolidated financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards, we exercise professional judgment 
and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:

 ƒ Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or 
error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and 
appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is 
higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, 
or the override of internal control.

 ƒ Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate 
in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal 
control.

 ƒ Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related 

disclosures made by management.

 ƒ Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit 
evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt 
on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are 
required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements or, if 
such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to 
the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a 
going concern.

 ƒ Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the consolidated financial statements, including the disclosures, 
and whether the consolidated financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that 
achieves fair presentation.

 ƒ Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the entities or business activities 

within the Company to express an opinion on the consolidated financial statements. We are responsible for the direction, 
supervision and performance of the group audit. We remain solely responsible for our audit opinion.

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of 
the audits and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our 
audits.

We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements 
regarding independence, and communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to 
bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.

The engagement partner on the audit resulting in this independent auditor’s report is Pierrette Dosanjh.

Toronto, Ontario   

Chartered Professional Accountants

March 16, 2021  

Licensed Public Accountants

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BioSyent Inc. 
Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)

AS AT  December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents (Note 6)

Short-term investments (Note 7)

Trade and other receivables (Note 8)

Inventory (Note 9)

Prepaid expenses and deposits

CURRENT ASSETS

Property and equipment (Note 11)

Intangible assets (Note 12)

Loans receivable (Note 13)

Deferred tax asset (Note 25)

TOTAL NON CURRENT ASSETS

TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

Contract liability (Note 14)

Customer advances (Note 15)

Lease liability - current (Note 16)

Derivative liability (Note 10)

Income tax payable (Note 25)

CURRENT LIABILITIES 

Deferred tax liability (Note 25)

Lease liability - non current (Note 16)

TOTAL NON CURRENT LIABILITIES

Share capital (Note 17)

Contributed surplus

Cumulative translation adjustment

Retained earnings

Total Equity

 $20,291,421 

 $13,441,817 

 5,286,285 

 1,815,015 

 2,073,561 

 307,599 

 8,531,660 

 2,083,723 

 2,139,127 

 648,781 

 29,773,881 

 26,845,108 

 2,161,698 

 1,007,822 

 597,332 

 30,481 

 2,482,266 

 1,023,378 

 588,467 

 26,095 

3,797,333

 4,120,206 

$33,571,214

 $30,965,314 

 $3,723,486 

 $2,916,834 

 246,124 

 688,312 

 151,949 

 78,608 

 250,195 

 99,141 

 - 

 144,253 

 43,861 

 154,952 

 5,138,674 

 3,359,041 

 79,672 

 1,556,912 

 1,636,584 

6,392,428

 1,494,419 

 (166,705)

19,075,814

26,795,956

 102,902 

 1,708,861 

 1,811,763 

 7,179,617 

 1,235,549 

 (105,300)

 17,484,644 

 25,794,510 

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

$33,571,214

 $30,965,314 

Contingencies (Note 20)
Commitments (Note 21)
Related party transactions (Note 22)
Subsequent event (Note 27)

APPROVED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

René Goehrum 

DIRECTOR 

March 16, 2021 

Peter Lockhard 

DIRECTOR

March 16, 2021

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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BioSyent Inc. 
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)

Net revenues from contracts with customers (Note 26)

 $22,332,168 

 $21,424,324 

For the years ended December 31

 2020 

 2019 

Cost of goods sold (Notes 9, 18)

Gross profit

Selling, general and administration expenses (Note 18)

New business development costs (Note 18)

Operating profit

Finance costs (Notes 16, 18)

Finance income (Note 18)

NET INCOME BEFORE TAXES

Current income tax (Note 25)

Deferred tax recovery (Note 25)

NET INCOME AFTER TAXES

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

Currency translation losses

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR

 4,908,321 

 4,778,069 

 17,423,847 

 16,646,255 

 12,328,501 

 11,168,000 

 65,322 

 90,114 

 5,030,024 

 5,388,141 

 92,942 

 (299,897)

 32,456 

 (514,846)

 5,236,979 

 5,870,531 

 1,469,260 

 (27,616)

 3,795,335 

 1,748,337 

 (247,101)

 4,369,295 

 (61,405)

 (90,566)

 $3,733,930 

 $4,278,729 

Basic weighted average number of shares outstanding (Note 19)

12,997,456

13,945,147

Basic earnings per share (Note 19)

 $0.29 

 $0.31 

Diluted weighted average number of shares outstanding (Note 19)

13,094,300

13,945,222

Diluted earnings per share (Note 19)

 $0.29 

 $0.31 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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BioSyent Inc. 
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars) 

OPERATING ACTIVITIES 

Net income after taxes 
Items not affecting cash: 

Depreciation - property and equipment (Notes 11, 18)
Amortization - intangible assets (Notes 12, 18)
Impairment loss on intangible assets
Expected credit losses
Share-based payments (Note 17)
Change in derivative liability (Note 10)
Net finance income 
Loan Interest receivable (Note 13)
Deferred tax recovery (Note 25)

Net change in non-cash working capital items: 

Trade and other receivables
Inventory
Prepaid expenses and deposits
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Contract liability
Customer advances (Note 15)
Income tax payable (Note 25)
Cash provided by operating activities 

INVESTING ACTIVITIES 

Additions to property and equipment (Note 11)
Additions to intangible assets (Note 12)
Decrease (Increase) in short term investments (Note 7)
Interest received

Cash provided by (used in) investing activities 

FINANCING ACTIVITIES 

Payments - lease liability principal (Note 16)
Payments - lease liability interest (Note 16)
Repurchase of common shares - NCIB (Note 17)
Purchase of RSU Plan shares - held in trust (Note 17)
Proceeds from stock options exercised

Cash used in financing activities 

For the years ended December 31, 

2020

2019

 $3,795,335 

 $4,369,295 

 334,186 
 176,236 

 -   

 37,174 
 266,173 
 34,747 
 (206,955)
 (8,865)
 (27,616)

 214,132 
 65,566 
 341,182 
 942,592 
 146,983 
 688,312 
 95,243 
 6,894,425 

 (13,618)
 (160,680)
 3,245,375 
 317,299 
 3,388,376 

 (144,253)
 (92,942)
 (2,648,194)
 (493,818)
 7,415 
 (3,371,792)

 193,578 
 98,152 
 1,050,947 
 36,591 
 263,245 
 71,205 
 (482,390)
 (11,538)
 (247,101)

 119,596 
 (655,735)
 (347,960)
 123,840 
 (13,212)

 -   

 (166,800)
 4,401,713 

 (504,336)
 (229,795)
 (939,328)
 357,772 
 (1,315,687)

 (23,278)
 (16,255)
 (6,351,603)

 - 

 4,724 
 (6,386,412)

Effect of foreign currency translation adjustment 

 (61,405)

 (90,566)

INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS - END OF YEAR 

 6,849,604 
 13,441,817 
 $20,291,421 

 (3,390,952)
 16,832,769 
 $13,441,817 

SUPPLEMENTARY DISCLOSURE: 
NET CHANGE IN CASH AND SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS 
Cash and short term investments, beginning of year 
Increase (decrease) in short term investments 
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 

CASH AND SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS - END OF YEAR 

 $21,973,477 
 (3,245,375)
 6,849,604 
 $25,577,706 

 $24,425,101 
 939,328 
 (3,390,952)
 $21,973,477 

 CASH PAID FOR TAXES

$(1,374,017) 

$(1,915,137) 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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BioSyent Inc. 
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)

Share Capital

Contributed  
Surplus

Cumulative Currency 
Translation 
Adjustment

Retained  
Earnings

Total Shareholders’ 
Equity

Balance as of January 1, 2020

 $ 7,179,617 

 $ 1,235,549 

 $ (105,300)

 $ 17,484,644 

$ 25,794,510 

Comprehensive Income for the year

Common shares repurchased under 
Normal Course Issuer Bid (Note 17)

Common shares purchased and held in 
RSU Plan Trust (Note 17)

Effect of Share-based payments: 
Options vested (Note 17)

Effect of Share-based payments: 
Options exercised (Note 17)

Effect of Share-based payments: 
RSU expense (Note 17)

 - 

 (308,089)

 (493,818)

 - 

 - 

 - 

  - 

 154,387 

 14,718 

 (7,303)

 - 

 111,786 

 (61,405)

 3,795,335 

 3,733,930 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 (2,204,165)

 (2,512,254)

 - 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 (493,818)

 154,387 

 7,415 

 111,786 

Balance as of December 31, 2020

$ 6,392,428 

 $ 1,494,419 

 $ (166,705)

 $ 19,075,814  

 $ 26,795,956  

Share Capital

Contributed  
Surplus

Cumulative Currency 
Translation 
Adjustment

Retained  
Earnings

Total Shareholders’ 
Equity

Balance as of January 1, 2019

 $ 7,654,993 

 $ 976,957 

 $ (14,734)

 $ 18,988,446 

$ 27,605,662 

Comprehensive Income for the year

Common shares repurchased under 
Normal Course Issuer Bid (Note 17)

Effect of Share-based payments: 
Options granted / vested (Note 17)

Effect of Share-based payments: 
Options exercised (Note 17)

 - 

 (484,753)

 - 

 - 

  - 

 263,245 

 9,377 

 (4,653)

 (90,566)

 4,369,295 

 4,278,729 

 - 

 - 

 - 

 (5,873,097)

 (6,357,850)

 - 

 - 

 263,245 

 4,724 

Balance as of December 31, 2019

 $ 7,179,617 

 $ 1,235,549 

 $ (105,300)

 $ 17,484,644 

 $ 25,794,510 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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BioSyent Inc. 
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements – For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars) 

1.  General Information
BioSyent Inc. (“BioSyent” or the “Company”), is a publicly 
traded specialty pharmaceutical company which, through its 
wholly-owned subsidiaries, BioSyent Pharma Inc. (“BioSyent 
Pharma”) and BioSyent Pharma International Inc., acquires or 
licences and further develops pharmaceutical and other healthcare 
products for sale in Canada and certain international markets. 
Hedley Technologies Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioSyent, 
operates the Company’s legacy business marketing biologically and 
health friendly non-chemical insecticides. BioSyent’s issued and 
outstanding common shares (the “Common Shares”) are listed 
for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “RX”. 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements (the 
“Financial Statements”) of BioSyent include the accounts of 
BioSyent Inc. and its four wholly owned subsidiaries: BioSyent 
Pharma Inc., BioSyent Pharma International Inc., Hedley 
Technologies Ltd., and Hedley Technologies (USA) Inc. (“Hedley 
USA”).

2.  Basis of Presentation
The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation 
of these Financial Statements on a historical cost basis, with the 
exception of those financial assets and liabilities at fair value 
through profit or loss (FVTPL), are set out below. The policies have 
been consistently applied to all the years presented.

Certain amounts in the prior period have been reclassified to 
conform with the presentation of the current period financial 
statements. These reclassifications had no effect on the reported 
results of operations.

Statement of Compliance
These consolidated financial statements for the years ended 
December 31, 2020 and 2019 have been prepared and are in 
compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards 
(“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards 
Board (“IASB”). 

3.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Financial Instruments
All financial assets and financial liabilities, in respect of financial 
instruments, are recognized on the Company’s statements of 
financial position when the Company becomes a party to the 
contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and financial liabilities are initially measured at 
fair value. Transaction costs that are incremental and are directly 
attributable to the acquisition or issue of financial assets and 
financial liabilities (other than financial assets and financial 
liabilities measured at fair value through profit or loss) are added to 
or deducted from the fair value of the financial assets or financial 
liabilities, as appropriate, on initial recognition. Transaction 

The Company changed its name from “Hedley Technologies Inc.” 
to “BioSyent Inc.” on June 13, 2006 to reflect the Company’s 
forward focus on the pharmaceutical market. BioSyent Pharma 
was incorporated on April 6, 2006 under the Canada Business 
Corporations Act and commenced operations in 2006. Hedley 
Technologies Ltd. was incorporated on January 30, 1996 in 
the province of British Columbia, Canada. Hedley USA was 
incorporated on May 13, 1994 in the state of Washington, USA. 
BioSyent Pharma International Inc. was incorporated on April 18, 
2016 in Barbados. 

BioSyent’s principal place of business is located at 2476 Argentia 
Road, Suite 402, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6M1.

These Financial Statements were approved by the Board of 
Directors on March 16, 2021.

Basis of Consolidation
All inter-company transactions have been eliminated in these 
Financial Statements.

Functional and Presentation Currency
The presentation currency of these Financial Statements is 
the Canadian dollar (“CAD”). The functional currency of the 
Company and two of its subsidiaries, BioSyent Pharma and Hedley 
Technologies Ltd., is the Canadian dollar. The functional currency 
of Hedley USA and BioSyent Pharma International Inc. is the U.S. 
dollar (“USD”).

All financial information has been rounded to the nearest dollar 
except where otherwise indicated.

costs directly attributable to the acquisition of financial assets or 
financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss are recognized 
immediately in profit or loss.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount 
presented in the statements of financial position when, and only 
when, the Company has a legal right to offset the amounts and 
intends either to settle on a net basis or to realize the asset and 
settle the liability simultaneously.

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The Company derecognizes a financial asset when the contractual 
rights to the cash flows from the asset expire, or it transfers the 
rights to receive the contractual cash flows on the financial asset 
in a transaction in which substantially all the risks and rewards of 
ownership of the financial asset are transferred.

The classification of financial instruments dictates how these 
assets and liabilities are measured subsequently in the Company’s 
consolidated financial statements.

Financial Instruments Measured at Fair Value Through Profit or 
Loss (FVTPL)
Financial instruments are classified as FVTPL when they are 
held for trading. A financial instrument is held for trading if it 
was acquired for the purpose of sale in the near term. Derivative 
financial instruments that are not designated and effective as 
hedging instruments are classified as FVTPL. Financial instruments 
classified as FVTPL are stated at fair value with any changes in fair 
value recognized in earnings for the year. Financial assets in this 
category include certain short-term investments and derivatives. 
The Company may enter into derivative financial instruments to 
manage exposure to foreign exchange fluctuations and to improve 
the returns on its cash assets. These instruments are non-hedge 
derivative instruments.

Financial Assets Measured at Amortized Cost
Financial assets measured at amortized cost are financial assets 
whereby the business model objective is to collect contractual 
cash flows and the cash flows represent SPPI (Solely Payments of 
Principal and Interest). Such assets are initially recognized at fair 
value plus any directly attributable transaction costs. Subsequent to 
initial recognition, these financial assets are measured at amortized 
cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment losses. 
Financial assets in this category include cash and cash equivalents, 
short-term investments, trade receivables, other receivables, and 
loans receivable.

Loans receivable consist of full recourse loans issued to employees, 
as described in Note 12. As the loans are full recourse, they are not 
recorded as share-based payments, but instead as loans, which fall 
within the scope of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments.

Impairment of Financial Assets
The Company assesses at each statement of financial position date 
whether there is objective evidence that a financial asset or group 
of financial assets is impaired.

The Company recognizes expected credit losses (“ECLs”) for 
trade receivables based on the simplified approach under IFRS 
9. The simplified approach to the recognition of expected losses 
does not require the Company to track the changes in credit risk; 
rather, the Company recognizes a loss allowance based on lifetime 
expected credit losses at each reporting date from the date of the 
trade receivable. 

Evidence of impairment may include indications that a debtor or 
a group of debtors is experiencing significant financial difficulty, 
default or delinquency in interest or principal payments, the 
probability that they will enter bankruptcy or other financial 
reorganization and where observable data indicates that there is 

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a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows, such as 
changes in arrears or economic conditions that correlate with 
defaults. Trade receivables are reviewed qualitatively on a case-by-
case basis to determine whether they need to be written off.

The Company recognizes loss allowances for ECLs on its financial 
assets measured at amortized cost, including loans receivable. ECLs 
are a probability-weighted estimate of credit losses. The Company 
applies a three-stage approach to measure ECLs. The Company 
measures an ECL:

 ƒ at an amount equal to 12 months of expected losses for 

performing loans receivable if the credit risk at the reporting 
date has not increased significantly since initial recognition 
(Stage 1); 

 ƒ at an amount equal to lifetime expected losses on loans 

receivable that have experienced a significant increase in credit 
risk since origination (Stage 2); and

 ƒ at an amount equal to lifetime expected losses which are credit 

impaired (Stage 3). 

The Company considers a significant increase in credit risk to have 
occurred if contractual payments are more than 30 days past due 
and considers the loans receivable to be in default if they are 90 
days past due. A significant increase in credit risk or default may 
have also occurred if there are other qualitative factors (including 
forward looking information) to consider; such as borrower 
specific information (i.e. change in credit assessment). Such factors 
include consideration relating to whether the counterparty is 
experiencing significant financial difficulty, there is a breach of 
contract, concessions are granted to the counterparty that would 
not normally be granted, or it is probable the counterparty will 
enter into bankruptcy or a financial reorganization.

Financial Liabilities Measured at Amortized Cost
Financial liabilities measured at amortized cost are recognized 
initially at fair value net of any directly attributable transaction 
costs. Subsequent to initial recognition, these financial liabilities 
are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest method. 
Other financial liabilities are de-recognized when the obligations 
are discharged, cancelled or expired. Financial liabilities in this 
category include accounts payable and accrued liabilities.

Fair Value Measurement
Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or 
paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market 
participants at the measurement date. The fair value hierarchy 
establishes three levels to classify the inputs to valuation techniques 
used to measure fair value, by reference to the reliability of the 
inputs used to estimate the fair values.

Level 1 – quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical 
assets or liabilities.

Level 2 – inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 
that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (i.e., as 
prices) or indirectly (i.e., derived from prices); and 

Level 3 – inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on 
observable market data (unobservable inputs).

The Company’s forward foreign exchange contract derivatives are 
measured at fair value through profit or loss using Level 2 inputs. 
The Company’s cash and cash equivalents are measured at fair 
value through profit or loss using Level 1 inputs. There were no 
transfers between Levels 1 or 2 during the year.

bringing the asset to the location and condition necessary for it to 
be capable of operating in the manner intended by management. 
The Company records depreciation of property and equipment 
at the following rates and methods based on the assets’ estimated 
useful economic lives:

Revenue Recognition
In accordance with IFRS 15 Revenue, The Company applies the 
following 5-step revenue recognition model based on the principle 
that an entity should recognize revenue as performance obligations 
are satisfied based on the transfer of promised goods or services to 
customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which 
the entity expects to be entitled:

 ƒ Step 1: Identify the contract(s) with a customer;

 ƒ Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract;

 ƒ Step 3: Determine the transaction price;

 ƒ Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance 

obligations in the contract; and

 ƒ Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a 

performance obligation.

Revenue from the sale of goods is recognized at the point when 
the Company has satisfied its performance obligations in the 
contract and control is transferred to the customer, generally upon 
shipment or delivery of the goods to the customer. Revenue is 
recognized at an amount that reflects the consideration to which 
the Company ultimately expects to be entitled in exchange for 
those goods. In the Company’s Canadian Pharmaceutical Business, 
promised consideration from a wholesaler customer can vary due 
to product returns, discounts, volume rebates, refunds, credits, price 
concessions, incentives, or similar items. Revenue is recorded net 
of these amounts. Where the consideration promised in a contract 
with a customer includes a variable amount, the Company 
estimates the amount of consideration to which it ultimately 
expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring the promised 
goods or services to the customer and the amount of revenue 
recognized is adjusted accordingly. 

The Company may also offer other discount programs, including 
retail coupons and copay discount cards for the purchase of certain 
of its products by end-consumers. The Company estimates the 
amount of such discounts based on historical experience and the 
specific terms of each program. Revenue is recorded net of these 
amounts. The estimated amounts of such discounts are recorded as 
these retail coupons and copay discount cards are distributed. 

The total of all variable consideration amounted to $1,154,781 in 
the year ($1,214,057 in 2019). 

The Company recognizes a contract liability based on its estimate 
of the amount of consideration it expects to refund to its 
customers. This contract liability is updated at the end of each year 
for any changes in circumstances.

Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are recorded at historical cost less 
accumulated depreciation. The cost of property and equipment is 
its purchase price, together with any costs directly attributable to 

Furniture and fixtures

Equipment

Computer equipment

Computer software

Lease right-of-use asset

Leasehold improvements

20%

20%

30%

30%

declining balance method

declining balance method

declining balance method

declining balance method 

Straight-line over 10-year 
term of lease

Straight-line over 10-year 
term of lease

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the 
proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognized within the 
Statements of Comprehensive Income.

Cash and Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments
Cash and cash equivalents include cash held at financial institutions 
and highly liquid deposits with the ability to be converted into 
cash within 90 days or less of their acquisition date.

Short term investments are comprised of deposits with Chartered 
Canadian banks with original maturities of more than 90 days. 
These investments are held in Canadian dollars or in foreign 
currencies and are interest bearing.

Inventory
Inventory is measured on a first-in, first-out basis at the lower 
of cost and net realizable value. When inventories are sold, the 
carrying amount of those inventories is recognized as an expense 
in the period in which the related revenue is recognized. 

Intangible Assets
Intangible assets with definite useful lives consist of: 

 ƒ new product dossier and filing costs, which represent 

professional, consulting, and regulatory fees incurred in 
obtaining regulatory approvals of products for marketing and 
manufacturing purposes; 

 ƒ product licenses and rights, which represent contractual 

milestone payments and professional fees incurred in acquiring 
product licenses and distribution rights; 

 ƒ new product development, which represents expenditure on 
materials and services in the development of new products; 

 ƒ trademarks and patents, which represent legal and application 
fees incurred in registering trademarks and patents in various 
jurisdictions; and 

 ƒ trade certifications, which represent legal and registration 

fees incurred in obtaining international trade certifications of 
products. 

Following initial recognition, intangible assets are carried at 
cost less any accumulated amortization and any accumulated 
impairment losses. Amortization commences when the intangible 
asset is available for use. The amortization period and the 

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amortization method for an intangible asset with a definite useful 
life are reviewed at least annually at the end of each financial 
reporting year. Intangible assets with definite useful lives are 
amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives 
(see Note 12). New product dossier and filing costs are amortized 
over the estimated economic lives of the underlying products 
commencing upon their availability for use. Product licenses and 
rights are amortized over the expected useful life. New product 
development costs are amortized over the estimated economic 
useful life of the product commencing upon its availability for use. 
Trademarks and patents are amortized over the period covered by 
the registration period, ranging between 10 and 15 years, unless 
the economic life is shorter.

Development Costs
Research costs are expensed as incurred. Development costs are 
also expensed unless the Company can demonstrate the following:

 ƒ the technical feasibility of completing the intangible asset so 

that it will be available for use or sale;

 ƒ its intention to complete the intangible asset and use or sell it;

 ƒ its ability to use or sell the intangible asset;

 ƒ how the intangible asset will generate probable future 

economic benefits;

 ƒ the availability of resources to complete the development of the 

asset; and

 ƒ the ability to measure reliably the expenditure during 

development.

Impairment of Non-Financial Assets
Equipment and intangible assets are reviewed for impairment 
at the end of each annual reporting period for events or 
circumstances that indicate that the carrying value of an asset 
may not be recoverable. In such cases where an indicator of 
impairment exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated 
to determine whether there is an impairment loss. The recoverable 
amount of an asset is first tested on an individual basis.

Impairment exists when the carrying value of an asset or cash 
generating unit (“CGU”) exceeds its recoverable amount, which 
is the higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value in use. 
The fair value less costs to sell calculation is based on available 
market data less incremental costs for disposing of the asset. The 
value in use calculation is based on a discounted cash flow model. 
These calculations require the use of estimates and forecasts of 
future cash flows. Qualitative factors, including market presence 
and trends, strength of customer relationships, strength of local 
management, strength of debt and capital markets, and degree of 
variability in cash flows, as well as other factors, are considered 
when making assumptions with regard to future cash flows and the 
appropriate discount rate. The recoverable amount is most sensitive 
to the discount rate used for the discounted cash flow model as 
well as the expected future cash inflows and the growth rate used 
for extrapolation purposes. A change in any of the significant 
assumptions or estimates used to evaluate non-financial assets could 
result in a material change to the results of operations.

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Foreign Currency Translation
Items included in the financial records of each consolidated 
entity are measured using the currency of the primary economic 
environment in which the entity operates (the “functional 
currency”). Foreign currency transactions are translated into the 
functional currency using the exchange rates prevailing at the dates 
of the transaction. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from 
the settlement of such transactions and from the translation of 
monetary assets and liabilities not denominated in the functional 
currency of an entity are recognized in net income.

Assets and liabilities of entities with functional currencies other 
than Canadian dollars are translated at the year-end rates of 
exchange, and the results of their operations are translated at 
average rates of exchange for the year. The resulting translation 
adjustments are included in cumulative translation adjustment in 
shareholders’ equity. Additionally, foreign exchange gains and losses 
related to certain intercompany loans that are net investments in a 
foreign operation are included in cumulative translation adjustment 
account, as part of other comprehensive income.

Taxation
Tax expense comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognized 
in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income except 
to the extent it relates to items recognized in other comprehensive 
income or directly in equity.

Current Tax:

Current tax expense is based on the results for the year as adjusted 
for items that are not taxable or not deductible. Current tax is 
calculated using tax rates and laws that are enacted or substantively 
enacted at the end of the year. Management periodically evaluates 
positions taken in tax returns with respect to situations in which 
applicable tax regulation is subject to interpretation. Provisions are 
established where appropriate on the basis of amounts expected to 
be paid to the tax authorities.

Deferred Tax:

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for temporary 
differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities 
for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for 
taxation purposes. The amount of deferred tax provided is based 
on the expected manner of realization or settlement of the 
carrying amount of assets and liabilities, using tax rates enacted or 
substantively enacted at the financial position reporting date. 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized where the carrying 
amount of an asset or liability differs from its tax base, except for 
taxable temporary differences arising on the initial recognition 
of goodwill and temporary differences arising from investments 
in subsidiaries that are not expected to reverse in the foreseeable 
future.

Recognition of deferred tax assets for unused tax losses, tax 
credits and deductible temporary differences is restricted to those 
instances where it is probable that future taxable profit will be 
available against which the deferred tax asset can be utilized. 

Deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and are 
reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that the related 
tax benefit will be realized.

Share-Based Payments
The Company has equity-settled share-based payment plans, 
including a Restricted Share Unit (“RSU”) Plan, an Incentive 
Stock Option Plan, and an Employee Share Purchase Plan 
(“ESPP”) which are described in Note 17. The Company accounts 
for share-based payments under these plans in accordance with 
IFRS 2, Share-based payment.

RSU Plan

For RSUs granted to employees and directors, the Company 
recognizes an expense over the vesting period of the RSUs equal 
to the fair value at the grant date based on the closing market price 
of the Company’s common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange 
and an estimate of the number of RSUs expected to vest.

The Company classifies outstanding RSUs as equity instruments in 
accordance with IAS 32, Financial instruments: presentation. Over the 
vesting period of RSUs, as the Company recognizes an expense, it 
also recognizes a corresponding increase in contributed surplus for 
the fair value of such RSUs. 

RSUs are settled with the issuance to RSU holders of common 
shares of the Company, either newly issued or purchased by the 
Company in the open market. Common shares purchased in the 
open market by the Company for future RSU settlements are 
held in an RSU Trust until the time of settlement when they are 
released to RSU holders. These common shares held in the RSU 
Trust are classified as equity and accounted for as Treasury Shares 
in accordance with IAS 32 and are measured at the price paid in 
the open market. Upon settlement of the RSUs and the release 
of the common shares to RSU holders, these common shares are 
reclassified to share capital.

Incentive Stock Option Plan

Compensation costs attributable to all stock options granted 
to employees and directors are measured at fair value, using 
the Black-Scholes option pricing model, at the grant date and 
expensed over the vesting period with a corresponding increase to 
contributed surplus. For options with graded vesting, the fair value 
of each tranche is recognized over its respective vesting period.

Any consideration paid by employees upon the exercise of any 
stock options increases share capital. The Company does not 
repurchase stock options from option holders.

Options granted to non-employees are measured at the fair value 
of the goods and services received or to be received.

ESPP

Any Company matching of employee contributions to the ESPP is 
accounted for as an expense at the time of the cash contribution. 

Repurchase of Shares under Normal Course Issuer Bid (“NCIB”)
Repurchases by the Company of its own common shares under 
a NCIB are accounted for in accordance with IAS 32, Financial 
Instruments: Presentation. Upon reacquiring shares under a NCIB, 

the Company deducts from equity the purchase price of these 
shares and any costs to acquire such shares. Any such shares held 
by the Company are considered treasury shares until they are 
cancelled.

Earnings per Share
Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing the net 
income after taxes by the weighted average number of common 
shares outstanding during the year. Diluted earnings per share 
information is calculated assuming the deemed exercise of all 
in-the-money stock options and that all deemed proceeds to the 
Company are used to repurchase the Company’s stock at the 
average market price during the year. No adjustment to diluted 
earnings per share is made if the result of this calculation is anti-
dilutive.

Leases
The Company accounts for its leases in accordance with IFRS 16, 
Leases. All contracts that meet the definition of a lease are recorded 
in the statement of financial position with a “right of use” asset 
and a corresponding liability. The asset is accounted for as property, 
plant and equipment and is depreciated on a straight-line basis over 
the term of the lease contract. The liability is unwound using the 
interest rate inherent in the lease. The Company has recognized a 
right-of-use asset and a lease liability in respect of its lease for head 
office space (see Notes 11 and 16). The Company has elected not 
to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for short-term 
leases of 12 months or less and for leases of low-value assets. 

Accounting Pronouncements Issued but not yet Effective
The Company has not early adopted any standards, interpretations 
or amendments that have been issued but are not yet effective.

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4.  Use of Estimates and Accounting Judgments by Management
The preparation of these Financial Statements requires 
management to make critical judgments, estimates and assumptions 
that affect the reported amounts of revenues, expenses, assets 
and liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent liabilities, at the 
reporting date. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its 
judgments, estimates and assumptions using historical experience 
and various other factors it believes to be reasonable under the 
given circumstances. In the future, actual experience may differ 
from these estimates and assumptions.

Judgments
a.  Recoverability of asset carrying values

The Company assesses its equipment and intangible assets for 
impairment if there are events or changes in circumstances that 
indicate that carrying values may not be recoverable at each 
statement of financial position date. Such indicators include 
changes in the Company’s business plans, changes in the market 
and evidence of physical damage.

Determination as to whether and how much an asset is impaired 
involves management’s judgment on highly uncertain matters 
such as future selling and purchasing prices, the effects of inflation 
on operating expenses, discount rates, and economics of different 
pharmaceutical or medical products.

b.  Impairment of trade and other receivables

The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its 
customers and grants credit based on a review of historical 
collection experience, current aging status, financial condition 
of the customer, and anticipated industry conditions. Customer 
payments are regularly monitored and ECLs are established in 
accordance with IFRS 9.

c.  Income taxes

The Company is subject to income tax assessment in multiple 
jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining 
the provision for income taxes. There are many transactions and 
calculations undertaken in the ordinary course of business for 
which the ultimate tax determination is uncertain.

The Company recognizes liabilities based on the Company’s 
current understanding of tax laws as applied to the Company’s 
circumstances. Where the final outcome of these matters is 
different from the amounts that were initially recorded, such 
differences will impact the current and deferred tax provisions in 
the period in which such determination is made.

The Company computes an income tax provision in each of the 
jurisdictions in which it operates. Actual amounts of income tax 
expense only become final upon filing and acceptance of the tax 
return by the relevant authorities, which occur subsequent to the 
issuance of these Financial Statements. Additionally, estimating 
income taxes includes evaluating the recoverability of deferred tax 
assets based on an assessment of the ability to use the underlying 
future tax deductions against future taxable income before such 
deductions expire. The assessment is based upon existing tax laws 

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and estimates of future taxable income. To the extent estimates 
differ from the final tax return, earnings would be affected in a 
subsequent period.

Estimates
The most significant estimates made by management include the 
following:

a.  Depreciation

Depreciation of the Company’s equipment involves estimates of 
future useful lives and residual values. These estimates may change 
as more experience is obtained or as general market conditions 
change, thereby impacting the value of the Company’s equipment.

b.  Amortization of intangible assets

The amortization of the Company’s intangible assets involves 
estimates of their useful lives. Such estimates may change as more 
experience is obtained or as general market conditions change, 
thereby impacting the value of the Company’s intangible assets.

c.  Share-based payments

Grants of RSUs and stock options are measured at their fair value 
on the grant date. 

Management estimates the fair value of RSUs by reference 
to the closing price of the Company’s common shares on the 
TSX Venture Exchange at the grant date. Management uses the 
Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of 
stock options determined at the grant date for options granted 
to employees and directors. Significant assumptions affecting the 
valuation of options include the term allowed for option exercise, 
a volatility factor relating to the Company’s historical share price, 
dividend yield, forfeiture rate and risk-free interest rate. 

The estimated forfeiture rate also affects the valuation of RSUs.

d.  Inventory

Management has estimated the value of inventory based upon its 
assessment of the net realizable value. All slow-moving merchandise 
has been provided for by management.

e.  Determination of transaction price 

As a result of the existence of elements of variable consideration 
in the Company’s contracts with customers arising from returns, 
discounts, rebates, retail coupons, copay discount cards, and other 
price incentives, the Company is required to estimate the amount 
of variable consideration from the customer to which it ultimately 
expects to be entitled and to adjust the transaction price and 
amount of revenue recognized accordingly. 

The Company estimates the extent of future product returns, 
retail coupon and copay discount card redemptions, discounts 
and volume rebates to be awarded to customers based on 
historical, current and forecast information available, taking into 
consideration the type of customer, the type of transaction and the 
specifics of each arrangement. 

f.  Determination of incremental borrowing rate

When the Company enters into leases as lessee and where the 
interest rate implicit in a lease cannot be readily determined, the 
Company determines its incremental borrowing rate in order to 
measure its lease liability. The incremental borrowing rate is the 
rate of interest that a lessee would have to pay to borrow over 
a similar term, and with similar security, the funds necessary to 
obtain an asset of a similar value to the right-to-use asset in a 
similar economic environment. In determining its incremental 
borrowing rate, the Company considers the term of the lease, 
the nature of the leased asset, and its level of indebtedness with 
reference to market risk-free interest rates. 

g.  Determination of lease term

When the Company enters into leases as lessee, it determines the 
lease term as the non-cancellable period of the lease together with 
periods covered by an option to extend the lease if it reasonably 
expects to exercise such option and periods covered by an option 
to terminate the lease if it reasonably expects not to exercise such 
option. In assessing whether it is reasonably certain to exercise 
an option to extend a lease, or not to exercise an option to 
terminate a lease, the Company considers: the contractual terms 
and conditions for the optional periods compared with market 
rates; whether any significant leasehold improvements have been 
undertaken; the costs of terminating the lease; the importance 
of the underlying asset to the Company’s operations; and any 
conditionality associated with exercising the option (see Note 16). 

5.  COVID-19
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization characterized 
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) as a pandemic. The COVID-19 
pandemic has impacted and is likely to continue to impact the 
Company’s operations in the following key areas: 

a.  Workforce:

The Company will continue to follow the recommendations of 
public health and government authorities and to take all necessary 
precautions, including remote work arrangements, the ongoing 
practice of physical distancing, making personal protective 
equipment available to employees, and ensuring employees’ 
understanding of good hygiene practices and infection risks, in 
order to protect the health and safety of its workforce, both in its 
head office and in the field.

b.  Access to Healthcare Professionals:

COVID-19 restrictions have affected the ability of the Company’s 
field salesforce to access healthcare professionals in the community 
and in hospitals for the purposes of product detailing. While the 
extent and duration of such access restrictions varies by region in 
Canada, such restrictions may have an impact on the Company’s 
Canadian pharmaceutical sales during the time they are in place. 

c.  Demand for Products:

To the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic affects patient 
volumes (both in community clinics and in hospitals) and the 
nature of procedures performed in Canadian hospitals, this will 
affect the consumption of the Company’s urgent care products as 
well as its hospital products used in elective procedures. 

Additionally, to the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic and 
safety restrictions affect consumer buying behaviour, this will 
affect demand for the Company’s pharmaceutical products in the 
community. The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on consumer 
demand for the Company’s products in the short-term and long-
term is uncertain.

Finally, given the global scale of COVID-19, demand for the 
Company’s products in international markets may also be affected, 
depending on the extent of local infection rates, the measures 
implemented by local governments in response, and the overall 
impact of the pandemic on business activity in these international 
markets. 

d.  Supply Chain:

The Company sources its products globally. Given the global 
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and varying localized impacts, 
this could result in interruptions to the Company’s supply chains, 
including the manufacturing, transportation, and delivery of 
products to customers.

6.  Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of the following:

Cash on deposit in banks

Redeemable GICs

Total cash and cash equivalents

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

$10,326,877

$10,887,130

9,964,544

2,554,687

$20,291,421

$13,441,817

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7.  Short-term Investments
Short term investments consist of the following:

Non-redeemable GICs

Dual Currency Deposits (Note 10)

Total short term investments

8.  Trade and Other Receivables
Trade and other receivables are summarized as follows:

Trade accounts receivable (Note 10)

Other receivables

Total trade and other receivables

9.  Inventory
Inventory is comprised of the following:

Raw and Packaging Materials

Finished Goods

Total inventory

Cost of goods sold is comprised of the following:

Raw and Packaging Materials and Finished Goods

Freight

Total cost of goods sold

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

$4,043,968

1,242,317

$5,286,285

$6,543,728

1,987,932

$8,531,660

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

$1,599,028

$1,814,914

215,987

268,809

$1,815,015

$2,083,723

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

$366,757

1,706,804

$273,942

1,865,185

$2,073,561

$2,139,127

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

$4,772,303

$4,649,956

136,018

128,113

$4,908,321

$4,778,069

10. Financial Instruments and Financial Risk Management

Fair Value Measurement 

 ¾ Foreign Exchange Instruments:

Fair Value Estimation of Financial Instruments

The carrying value of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents, 
short term investments, derivative assets/liabilities, trade and other 
receivables, loans receivable, and accounts payable and accrued 
liabilities approximate their fair values.

Risks

The Company is exposed to a variety of financial risks by virtue 
of its activities: market risk (including foreign exchange risk, 
interest rate risk, and credit risk) and liquidity risk. The overall 
risk management program focuses on the unpredictability of 
financial markets and seeks to minimize potential adverse effects 
on financial performance. Risk management is carried out under 
the policies described below. Management is charged with the 
responsibility of establishing controls and procedures to ensure that 
financial risks are mitigated with the approved policies. 

The Company periodically enters into foreign exchange options 
and forward contracts with financial institutions with investment 
grade credit ratings to manage its foreign exchange risk on 
contracts denominated in U.S. dollars and Euros. Such instruments 
are classified as derivative financial instruments and measured at 
fair value through profit and loss. 

Options:

As at December 31, 2020, the Company entered into foreign 
exchange options to purchase up to a total of USD 900,000 and 
USD 1,350,000 (December 31, 2019 – USD 2,550,000 and USD 
3,825,000) at an exchange rate expressed in CAD per USD of 
1.3100 which will be settled on various dates from January 2021 
to June 2021. The Company’s right to buy USD 900,000 on the 
respective settlement dates is subject to the spot exchange rate 
on the settlement dates being below a rate of 1.3900 CAD per 
USD. The Company’s obligation to buy USD 1,350,000 on the 
respective settlement dates is subject to the spot exchange rate on 
the settlement dates being below a rate of 1.2775 CAD per USD.

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Forward Contracts:

As at December 31, 2020, the Company entered into foreign 
exchange forward contracts to purchase a total of USD 650,000 
(December 31, 2019 – USD Nil) at exchange rates expressed in 
CAD per USD ranging from 1.3084 to 1.3215 which will be 
settled on various dates from April 2021 to October 2021. 

As at December 31, 2020, the Company also entered into foreign 
exchange forward contracts to purchase a total of EUR 450,000 
(December 31, 2019 – EUR Nil) at exchange rates expressed in 
CAD per EUR ranging from 1.5532 to 1.5578 which will be 
settled on various dates from January 2021 to March 2021. 

December 31, 2020

Level 1

Foreign Exchange Instruments

December 31, 2019

Level 1

Foreign Exchange Instruments

 ¾ Dual Currency Deposits:

-

-

The Company also invests in dual currency deposits (“DCD”). 
A DCD is a CAD or foreign currency denominated transaction 
that provides an enhanced guaranteed interest payment at maturity. 
However, the original denominated currency is converted to 
another specified currency at a specified exchange rate depending 

December 31, 2020

Level 1

DCDs

DCDs

December 31, 2019

Level 1

-

-

At December 31, 2020, the Company had the following CAD 
denominated DCD that was convertible into USD:

The fair value of foreign exchange instruments is estimated based 
on quoted values from financial institutions. The Company’s 
foreign exchange instruments resulted in a derivative liability of 
$78,608 as at December 31, 2020 (December 31, 2019 – $43,861).

The following table illustrates the Company’s investment in foreign 
exchange instruments that are measured at fair value through profit 
and loss (“FVTPL”):

Level 2

($78,608)

Level 2

($43,861)

Level 3

Level 3

-

-

on whether the spot rate on the maturity date is above or below a 
specified fixed exchange rate. The fair value of DCDs is estimated 
based on quoted values from financial institutions.

The following table illustrates the Company’s investment in DCDs 
measured at fair value through profit and loss:

Level 2

$1,242,317

Level 2

$1,987,932

Level 3

Level 3

-

-

Type of Financial 
Instrument

Spot Rate on 
Transaction Date 

Principal (CAD)

Net Fair Value (CAD)

Guaranteed Interest 
Rate

Maturity Date

Fixed Maturity 
Conversion Rate

DCD

1.2965

$1,250,000

$1,242,317

3.26%

January 4, 2021

1.2850

At December 31, 2019, the Company had the following CAD 
denominated DCD that was convertible into USD:

Type of Financial 
Instrument

Spot Rate on 
Transaction Date 

Principal (CAD)

Net Fair Value (CAD)

Guaranteed Interest 
Rate

Maturity Date

Fixed Maturity 
Conversion Rate

DCD

1.3160

$2,000,000

$1,987,932

3.01% February 3, 2020

1.3000

The fair value of dual currency deposits is estimated based on 
quoted values from financial institutions. 

 ¾ Foreign Exchange Risk:

The Company currently earns revenue in Canadian dollars, U.S. 
dollars and Euros and incurs costs in Canadian dollars, U.S. dollars 
and Euros. Management monitors the foreign currency net liability 
position on an ongoing basis during the year and adjusts the total 
net monetary liability balance accordingly. When it is appropriate 
to de-risk future foreign exchange transactions, the Company uses 
foreign exchange options, forward contracts, and DCDs to manage 
foreign exchange transaction exposure.

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The following tables present foreign exchange sensitivity analyses 
for the assets and liabilities of the Company denominated in 
foreign currencies: 

Foreign Exchange Sensitivity Analysis - USD

Description of Asset/(Liability)

USD

USD

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

Cash and cash equivalents

Short term investments

Trade receivables

Less: Accounts payable

Net Total 

 1,551,272 

 975,744 

 17,292 

 (591,928)

 418,262 

 1,529,178 

 78,254 

 (698,811)

 1,952,380 

 1,326,883 

Foreign Exchange Rate CAD per USD at the end of the year

1.2732

1.2988

At December 31, 2020, if the U.S. dollar had been stronger or 
weaker by 10% against the Canadian dollar with all other variables 
held constant, comprehensive income would have been $182,704 
higher or lower on an after-tax basis, respectively (December 31, 
2019 - $126,667 higher or lower, respectively).

Foreign Exchange Sensitivity Analysis - EUR

Description of Asset/(Liability)

EUR

EUR

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

Cash and cash equivalents

Less: Customer deposits

Less: Accounts payable 

Net Total

 743,512 

 (441,000)

 (85,563)

 216,949 

 673,066 

 (84,048)

 589,018 

Foreign Exchange Rate CAD per EUR at the end of the year

1.5608

1.4583

At December 31, 2020, if the Euro had been stronger or weaker 
by 10% against the Canadian dollar with all other variables held 
constant, comprehensive income would have been $25,877 higher 
or lower on an after-tax basis, respectively (December 31, 2019 - 
$63,134 higher or lower, respectively).

 ¾ Interest Rate Risk:

Cash flow interest rate risk is the risk that the future cash flow of 
a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in interest 
rates. Some of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents as at the 
date of the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Financial 
Position are invested in redeemable guaranteed investment 
certificates (each, a “GIC”), which earn interest at fixed rates 
during their tenure. The Company’s short-term investments consist 
of non-redeemable GICs which also earn interest at fixed rates 
during their tenure. These GICs all have terms of one year or less.

The Company manages its interest rate risk by maximizing the 
interest income earned on excess funds while maintaining the 
liquidity necessary to conduct operations on a day-to-day basis. 
Fluctuations in market rates of interest when these GICs are 
renewed may have an impact on the Company’s Finance Income 
for the period.

 ¾ Credit Risk:

Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Company if a 
customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its 
contractual obligations and arises principally from the Company’s 
cash and cash equivalents, short term investments, trade and other 
receivables, and loans receivable. The carrying amount of financial 
assets represents maximum credit exposure. As the Company 
invests in GICs with Canadian Chartered Banks, its credit risk 
on this account is negligible. The Company’s loans receivable (see 
Note 13) are full recourse and secured by a pledge of common 
shares of the Company purchased by the Borrowers, who are key 
management personnel. Based on these factors, the Company 
considers the credit risk associated with these loans receivable to 
be low. There are no factors at the end of the period to indicate 
a significant increase in credit risk has occurred and there are no 
defaults on the loans receivable.

The majority of the Company’s current customers are 
corporations with whom the Company has transacted for several 
years. In assessing the credit risk of its trade accounts receivable, the 
Company considers historical default rates and payment patterns, 
the nature of its customer base, and forward-looking information 
including any anticipated changes to its customer base, credit 
terms, and pricing. 

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Aged Trade Accounts Receivable

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

 $1,444,432 

 $1,328,854 

 110,964 

 22,783 

 87,559 

(66,710)

 329,815 

 80,438 

 111,218 

(35,411)

 $1,599,028 

 $1,814,914 

 1,665,738 

 1,850,325

Current

Past due 1-30 days

Past due 31-60 days

Over 60 days 

Expected Credit Losses

Closing Balance

Maximum Credit Risk

As of December 31, 2020, one customer represents 43% of trade 
receivables (December 31, 2019 - 19%) while another customer 
represents 19% of trade receivables (December 31, 2019 - 31%), 
a third customer represents 15% of trade receivables (December 
31, 2019 - 18%), and a fourth customer represents 4% of trade 
receivables (December 31, 2019 – 13%). There have been no past 
credit losses from these four customers. 

The Company’s expected credit loss of $66,710 (December 31, 
2019 - $35,411) is related to trade receivables from Canadian 
pharmaceutical wholesale customers for which collection was 
uncertain. 

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are maintained 
with Canadian financial institutions and the wholly owned 
subsidiaries of these financial institutions. Deposits held with banks 
may exceed the amount of insurance provided on such deposits. 
Generally, these deposits may be redeemed upon demand and 
are maintained with financial institutions of reputable credit and 
therefore bear minimal credit risk.

 ¾ Liquidity Risk:

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to 
meet its obligations as they fall due. The Company manages 
its liquidity risk by forecasting cash flows from operations and 
anticipated investing and financing activities. Senior management 
is actively involved in the review and approval of planned 
expenditures. All contractual maturities of accounts payable and 
accrued liabilities are due within one year. The Company has no 
other financial liabilities not carried at fair value.

The Company generates sufficient cash from operating activities 
to fund its operations and fulfill its obligations as they become due. 
The Company has credit facilities available with Royal Bank of 
Canada totalling $3,090,000, including a revolving demand credit 
facility of $1,500,000 which it has not drawn down as at the date 
hereof, a foreign exchange facility of $1,500,000, and credit card 
facilities totalling $90,000. The Company has available additional 
foreign exchange facilities of $2,500,000 with other Canadian 
financial institutions.

There were no changes to the Company’s exposure to liquidity 
risk, credit risk, or interest rate risk or to its approach to managing 
these risks during the year ended December 31, 2020.

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11. Property and equipment 

Furniture and 
Fixtures

Equipment

Computer 
Equipment

Computer 
Software

Right-of-Use 
Asset  
(see Note 16)

Leasehold 
Improvements

Total

COST:

December 31, 2018

 $104,149 

 $89,028 

 $231,225 

 $290,472 

 $-   

 $-   

 $714,874 

2019 Additions 

2019 Disposals

 161,546 

 131,050 

 35,539 

 80,593 

 1,330,455 

 680,511 

 2,419,694 

 (15,635)

 -   

 -   

 -   

 -   

 -   

 (15,635)

December 31, 2019

 $250,060 

 $220,078 

 $266,764 

 $371,065 

 $1,330,455 

 $680,511 

 $3,118,933 

2020 Additions

 4,879 

 -   

 8,739 

 -   

 -   

 -   

 13,618 

December 31, 2020

 $254,939 

 $220,078 

 $275,503 

 $371,065 

 $1,330,455 

 $680,511 

 $3,132,551 

ACCUMULATED DEPRECIATION:

December 31, 2018

 $(67,703)

 $(37,324)

 $(141,089)

 $(196,973)

 $-   

 $-   

 $(443,089)

Changes in 2019

 (20,317)

 (24,572)

 (32,372)

 (49,610)

 (44,349)

 (22,358)

 (193,578)

December 31, 2019

 $(88,020)

 $(61,896)

 $(173,461)

 $(246,583)

 $(44,349)

 $(22,358)

 $(636,667)

Changes in 2020

 (32,896)

 (33,546)

 (29,302)

 (37,345)

 (133,046)

 (68,051)

 (334,186)

December 31, 2020

 $(120,916)

 $(95,442)

 $(202,763)

 $(283,928)

 $(177,395)

 $(90,409)

 $(970,853)

CARRYING AMOUNT

December 31, 2018

 $36,446 

 $51,704 

 $90,136 

 $93,499 

 $-   

 $-   

 $271,785 

December 31, 2019

 $162,040 

 $158,182 

 $93,303 

 $124,482 

 $1,286,106 

 $658,153 

 $2,482,266 

December 31, 2020

 $134,023 

 $124,636 

 $72,740 

 $87,137 

 $1,153,060 

 $590,102 

 $2,161,698

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12. Intangible Assets

COST:

New Product 
Dossier and Filing 
Costs

Product Licenses 
and Rights

New Product 
Development

Trademarks and 
Patents

Trade Certifications

Total

December 31, 2018

 $1,282,757 

 $893,020 

 $69,065 

 $85,326 

 $3,936 

 $2,334,104 

2019 Additions 

 219,450 

 -   

 2,885 

 7,460 

 -   

 229,795 

December 31, 2019

 $1,502,207 

 $893,020 

 $71,950 

 $92,786 

 $3,936 

 $2,563,899 

2020 Additions 

 29,851 

 60,000 

 60,549 

 10,280 

 -   

 160,680 

December 31, 2020

 $1,532,058 

 $953,020 

 $132,499 

 $103,066 

 $3,936 

 $2,724,579 

ACCUMULATED AMORTIZATION:

December 31, 2018

 $(41,042)

 $(218,052)

Changes in 2019

 (13,061)

 (79,742)

December 31, 2019

 $(54,103)

 $(297,794)

 $-   

 -   

 $-   

 $(8,568)

 $-   

 $(267,662)

 (4,553)

 $(13,121)

 (796)

 $(796)

 (98,152)

 $(365,814)

Changes in 2020

 (87,395)

 (81,513)

December 31, 2020

 $(141,498)

 $(379,307)

 (1,504)

 $(1,504)

 (5,031)

 $(18,152)

 (793)

 (176,236)

 $(1,589)

 $(542,050)

ACCUMULATED IMPAIRMENT LOSSES:

December 31, 2018

 $(123,760)

 $-   

Changes in 2019

 (589,581)

 (461,366)

December 31, 2019

 $(713,341)

 $(461,366)

Changes in 2020

 -   

 -   

December 31, 2020

 $(713,341)

 $(461,366)

CARRYING AMOUNT

 $-   

 -   

 $-   

 -   

 $-   

 $-   

 -   

 $-   

 -   

 $-   

 $-   

 $(123,760)

 -   

 $-   

 -   

 $-   

 (1,050,947)

 $(1,174,707)

 -   

 $(1,174,707)

December 31, 2018

 $1,117,955 

 $674,968 

December 31, 2019

 $734,763 

 $133,860 

December 31, 2020

 $677,219 

 $112,347 

 $69,065 

 $71,950 

 $130,995 

 $76,758 

 $79,665 

 $84,914 

 $3,936 

 $1,942,682 

 $3,140 

 $1,023,378 

 $2,347 

 $1,007,822

New Product Dossier and Filing Costs
Cumulatively, the Company has incurred product dossier and filing 
costs of $1,532,058 (December 31, 2019 – $1,502,207) to date on 
several products. The filing costs incurred in respect of launched 
products are being amortized on a straight-line basis over their 
estimated finite useful lives based on marketability, ranging from 1 
to 15 years. 

this product. Such costs are included in intangible assets as New 
Product Dossier and Filing Costs and are being amortized on 
a straight-line basis over the 8-year estimated useful life of the 
product. In addition to an initial EUR 20,000 license fee upon 
signing this agreement, the Company is committed to certain 
annual license fee payments to its European partner contingent 
upon the future sales of the product (see Note 20). 

On November 7, 2016, the Company entered into a License 
and Supply Agreement with a European partner to acquire 
the exclusive Canadian rights to use the product registration 
documentation of a women’s health pharmaceutical product and a 
license to sell, market and distribute this product in Canada under 
the brand name Tibella®. On May 10, 2019, the Company received 
regulatory approval from Health Canada for the Tibella® product 
which was subsequently launched in Canada in July 2020. The 
Company has incurred $466,123 in development costs related to 

In November 2019, the Company entered into a License and 
Exclusive Supply Agreement with AFT Pharmaceuticals Ltd 
(“AFT”) to acquire a license to market, sell and distribute a 
portfolio of pain management products in Canada. The Company 
launched the Combogesic® product in Canada in December 2020. 
The Company has directly incurred $202,367 in development 
costs related to these products. Such costs are included in 
intangible assets as New Product Dossier and Filing Costs and 
are being amortized over the 15-year estimated useful life of the 

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Combogesic® product. During the 15-year term of the License 
and Exclusive Supply Agreement, the Company is committed to 
purchase certain minimum quantities from AFT as well as certain 
royalty payments based on the net sales of the products in Canada 
(see Note 20).

For the year ended December 31, 2020, $87,395 of amortization 
expense on New Product Dossier and Filing Costs (2019 - 
$13,061) has been included in selling, general and administration 
expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of 
Comprehensive Income in respect of these assets (see Note 18). 

In June 2019, the Company withdrew regulatory filings submitted 
to Health Canada for two cardiovascular pharmaceutical products 
for which the Company acquired exclusive Canadian distribution 
rights in 2016. Subsequent to receiving a Notice of Deficiency 
from Health Canada, the Company and its European partner 
decided to withdraw the regulatory filings for these two products 
and not to further pursue regulatory approval. As such, the 
Company recognized an impairment loss of $424,941 related 
to these products in 2019, representing regulatory filing costs 
incurred. Subsequent to the withdrawal of regulatory filings for 
these two products, the Company recovered $180,000 from its 
European partner as reimbursement for certain regulatory filing 
costs incurred by the Company. The net impairment loss related 
to these products of $244,941 was included in selling, general and 
administration expenses in the Company’s 2019 Consolidated 
Statement of Comprehensive Income.

In December 2019, due to uncertainty in obtaining approval for 
new product dossier and filing costs in a certain international 
market from the local regulatory authority, the Company 
recognized an impairment loss of $164,640 representing the excess 
of the carrying amount of costs incurred in developing this asset 
over its estimated recoverable amount which is its value in use. This 
impairment loss was included in selling, general and administration 
expenses in the Company’s 2019 Consolidated Statement of 
Comprehensive Income.

Product Licenses and Rights
Cumulatively, the Company has incurred costs related to the 
acquisition of product licenses and rights totalling $953,020 
(December 31, 2019 – $893,020).

On August 18, 2015, the Company entered into a Distribution 
and Supply Agreement with Photocure ASA (the “Distribution 
and Supply Agreement”) to acquire the exclusive rights to market, 
promote, distribute and sell the Cysview® product in Canada 
including an exclusive right to use the Cysview® trademark and a 
license to use the patents associated with the product in Canada. 
The Company incurred costs totalling $859,400 (December 31, 
2019 - $859,400) related to the acquisition and commercialization 
of Cysview®, which was launched in the Canadian market in 
November 2015. This asset has a finite life and is being amortized 
on a straight-line basis over the remaining eighteen-month 
estimated economic life. 

In addition to the upfront payment made by the Company to 
Photocure ASA, certain future payments are also required by 
the Company under the Distribution and Supply Agreement 
contingent on the achievement of specific milestones (see Note 20). 

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In 2019, due to the underperformance of sales growth of the 
Cysview® product against management’s expectations, the 
Company recognized an impairment loss of $461,366 related 
to the Cysview® product license representing the excess of the 
carrying amount of this asset over its estimated recoverable amount 
which is the asset’s value in use. This impairment loss was included 
in selling, general and administration expenses in the Company’s 
2019 Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income.

On October 1, 2020, the Company entered into an exclusive 
License and Supply Agreement to acquire the exclusive rights to 
distribute a women’s health product in Canada and a license of 
certain trademarks and technology related thereto. The product has 
not yet been launched by the Company and amortization of the 
asset has not yet commenced. 

For the year ended December 31, 2020, $81,513 of amortization 
expense on product licenses and rights (2019 - $79,742) has been 
included in selling, general and administration expenses in the 
Company’s Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income in 
respect of this asset (see Note 18).

New Product Development
The Company has incurred cumulative new product development 
costs consisting of labour, laboratory and professional fees to date 
totalling $132,499 (December 31, 2019 - $71,950) relating to the 
development of new products. The Company has commenced 
amortization of certain of these costs upon the completion of 
development. For the year ended December 31, 2020, $1,504 
of amortization expense (2019 - $nil) has been included in 
selling, general and administration expenses in the Company’s 
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income in respect of 
these development costs (see Note 18). 

Trademarks and Patents
The Company has incurred cumulative trademark and patent 
application and filing costs of $103,066 (December 31, 2019 
- $92,786) relating to product registration application costs in 
various jurisdictions. These assets have finite lives and are being 
amortized on a straight-line basis over the terms of the respective 
trademarks and patents (ranging from 10 to 15 years). For the year 
ended December 31, 2020, $5,031 of amortization expense (2019 
- $4,553) has been included in selling, general and administration 
expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of 
Comprehensive Income in respect of these assets (see Note 18).

Trade Certifications
The Company has incurred legal and other costs in obtaining 
certain international trade certifications and permits totalling 
$3,936 (2019 - $3,936). This asset is being amortized over its 
5-year estimated useful life. For the year ended December 31, 
2020, $793 of amortization expense (2019 - $796) has been 
included in selling, general and administration expenses in the 
Company’s Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income in 
respect of these development costs (see Note 18). 

13. Loans Receivable
On December 8, 2016, the Board of Directors approved a 
Management Share Loan Program (“MSLP”) under which the 
Company offered one-time, secured loans to certain management 
personnel employed by the Company (each a “Borrower”) up to 
a maximum of fifty percent of each Borrower’s base annual salary 
for the sole purpose of their purchase of the Company’s issued and 
outstanding common shares at prevailing market prices through 
the facilities of the TSX Venture Exchange. 

 Loans Receivable ($) 

Balance, December 31, 2018 

Accrued Interest 

Balance, December 31, 2019 

Accrued Interest 

Balance, December 31, 2020 

576,929 

11,538 

588,467 

8,865 

597,332

The Company advanced loan proceeds totalling $391,500 on 
May 26, 2017, and a further $175,000 on December 11, 2018, in 
accordance with the terms of the MSLP for the purchase of the 
Company’s common shares by the Borrowers. 

14. Contract Liability
The Company recognizes a contract liability based on its estimate 
of the amount of consideration it expects to refund to its 
customers, including consideration payable resulting from coupons 
and volume rebates. This contract liability is updated at the end of 
each year for any changes in circumstances.

The table below summarizes changes in the contract liability for 
the years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019: 

Each MSLP participant’s loan (collectively, the “MSLP Participant 
Loans”) bears interest at a rate of 1% - 2% per annum and is 
secured by a pledge of the common shares purchased under 
the MSLP by the Borrowers. Interest receivable of $8,865 was 
accrued on the loans for the year ended December 31, 2020 
(2019 - $11,538) and has been included in finance income on the 
Company’s Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.

The MSLP Participant Loans are repayable by the Borrowers upon 
any sale of pledged shares by the Borrower in proportion to the 
then outstanding loan principal balance plus accrued interest. The 
remaining MSLP Participant Loan principal plus accrued interest 
must be fully repaid by the Borrowers within five years from the 
date the loan proceeds were advanced (the “Maturity Date”), 
specifically, May 26, 2022 for loans advanced on May 26, 2017 and 
December 11, 2023 for loans advanced on December 11, 2018.

If a Borrower ceases to be employed by the Company prior to the 
end of the five-year Maturity Date, all outstanding loan obligations 
shall become due and payable on the 30th day following the 
date of termination. In addition, in the event of a default by 
the Borrower of the terms of the loan, the loan obligations will 
become due and payable immediately. 

As the loans are full recourse loans, they have not been accounted 
for as stock-based compensation, but as financial instruments 
within the scope of IFRS 9, Financial Instruments.

Balance, January 1, 2019

Estimated variable consideration

Settlement of variable consideration

Balance, December 31, 2019

Estimated variable consideration

Settlement of variable consideration

Balance, December 31, 2020

Contract Liability ($)

112,353

484,436

(497,648)

99,141

680,797

(533,814)

246,124

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The Company’s future undiscounted lease payments under this 
lease agreement are as follows: 

Fiscal Year 

 Lease Payments 

2021

2022

2023

2024 

2025 

Beyond next 5 fiscal years

Total

 $ 237,195 

 $ 238,952 

 $ 242,466 

 $ 242,466 

 $ 245,980 

 $ 927,696

 $ 2,134,755

Not included in the lease liability, the Company incurred 
occupancy costs related to its office leases of $123,504 for the year 
ended December 31, 2020 (2019 - $118,376) which have been 
included in selling, general and administration expenses in the 
Company’s Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.

15. Customer Advances
The customer advance of $688,312 as of December 31, 2020 
(December 31, 2019 - $Nil) represents a prepayment made by a 
customer for a future shipment of product. Upon shipment of the 
product, this customer advance will be recognized as revenue. 

16. Lease Liability
The Company leases its head office space in Mississauga, Ontario, 
Canada. The Company’s current office lease commenced on 
September 1, 2019 and extends to August 31, 2029. The Company 
has an option to extend this lease beyond the 10-year non-
cancellable term for a further term of 5 years. As per IFRS 16 
Leases, adopted by the Company effective January 1, 2019, the 
Company has recognized a right-of-use asset in respect of this 
office lease based on a 10-year lease term (see Note 11).

The Company has also recognized a lease liability for this office 
lease based on a weighted average incremental borrowing rate of 
5.20%. The carrying amount of the Company’s lease liability for 
this office lease is summarized in the table below:

 Lease Liability ($) 

Opening lease liability – office lease 

Interest expense 

Payments 

Balance, December 31, 2019 

Interest expense

Payments

Balance, December 31, 2020

Current portion, December 31, 2020 

Long-term portion, December 31, 2020 

Current portion, December 31, 2019 

Long-term portion, December 31, 2019 

1,860,191 

32,456 

(39,533)

1,853,114

92,942

(237,195)

1,708,861

151,949 

1,556,912

144,253 

1,708,861

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17. Share Capital
a.  Authorized

The authorized share capital of the Company consists of 
100,000,000 common shares without par value and 25,000,000 
preferred shares without par value. The holders of the preferred 
shares as a class shall not be entitled to receive notice of, to attend 
or to vote at any meeting of the shareholders of the Company. 

b.  Issued and outstanding common shares 

Balance, Outstanding Shares, December 31, 2018 

Shares repurchased under NCIB and held in Treasury at 
December 31, 2018 (d) 

Number of 
Common Shares 

Amount 

 14,458,583 

 $7,665,644 

(20,068)

(10,651)

Balance, Excluding Treasury Shares, December 31, 2018 

 14,438,515 

 $7,654,993 

Options exercised (c) 

Shares repurchased under NCIB and cancelled (d) 

Balance, Outstanding Shares, December 31, 2019 

Shares repurchased under NCIB and held in Treasury at 
December 31, 2019 (d) 

 762 

(878,832)

 9,377 

(468,828)

 13,560,445 

 $7,195,542 

(30,000)

(15,925)

Balance, Excluding Treasury Shares, December 31, 2019 

 13,530,445 

 $7,179,617 

Options exercised (c) 

Shares repurchased under NCIB and cancelled (d) 

Balance, Issued Shares, December 31, 2020 

Share purchased for RSU Plan Trust and held in Treasury at 
December 31, 2020 (e) 

 1,196 

(594,275)

 14,718 

(308,089)

 12,937,366 

 $6,886,246 

(132,200)

(493,818)

Balance, Outstanding Shares, December 31, 2020 

 12,805,166 

 $6,392,428

c.  Options exercised

During the year ended December 31, 2020, 1,196 common shares 
were issued against options exercised (2019 – 762 common shares) 
for total proceeds of $7,415 (2019 - $4,724) and $7,303 in fair 
value was transferred from contributed surplus to share capital 
(2019 - $4,653).

d.  Normal Course Issuer Bid (NCIB)

Pursuant to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, the 
Company may be permitted from time to time to repurchase its 
own common shares for cancellation under a NCIB. The policies 
of the TSX Venture Exchange permit an issuer, upon the approval 
of the TSX Venture Exchange, to purchase by normal market 
purchases up to 2% of a class of its own shares in a given 30-day 
period up to a maximum, in a 12 month period, of the greater of 
5% of the outstanding shares or 10% of the Public Float, as such 
term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange.

On December 4, 2018, the Company announced that the TSX 
Venture Exchange had accepted its Notice of Intention to Make a 
NCIB, pursuant to which the Company was permitted to purchase 
up to 950,000 of its own common shares for cancellation over a 
12-month period commencing on December 10, 2018 and ending 
on December 9, 2019. 

On December 11, 2019, the Company announced that the TSX 
Venture Exchange had accepted its renewal of the NCIB, pursuant 
to which the Company would be permitted to purchase up to 
800,000 of its own common shares for cancellation over a further 
12-month period commencing on December 17, 2019 and ending 
on December 16, 2020. Purchases of shares by the Company under 
the NCIB were made through the facilities of the TSX Venture 
Exchange or alternative Canadian trading systems at the market 
price of the shares at the time of acquisition.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company 
repurchased 908,832 of its common shares for an aggregate 
price of $6,346,262 and incurred costs of $11,588 related to the 
repurchase of these shares. 878,832 of these repurchased shares 
were cancelled as of December 31, 2019, with the remaining 
30,000 shares held in Treasury pending cancellation. These 30,000 
shares were subsequently cancelled upon payment of $153,507 
for settlement in January, 2020. The Company’s retained earnings 
were reduced by $5,873,097 upon the repurchase of these shares, 
representing the excess of the aggregate repurchase price over the 
reduction in share capital of $484,753.

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On December 11, 2020, the Company announced that the TSX 
Venture Exchange had accepted its renewal of the NCIB, pursuant 
to which the Company would be permitted to purchase up to 
950,000 of its own common shares for cancellation over a further 
12-month period commencing on December 17, 2020 and ending 
on December 16, 2021. Purchases of shares by the Company under 
the NCIB are made through the facilities of the TSX Venture 
Exchange or alternative Canadian trading systems at the market 
price of the shares at the time of acquisition.

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
repurchased 594,275 of its common shares for an aggregate 
price of $2,503,810 and incurred costs of $8,444 related to the 
repurchase of these shares. The Company’s retained earnings 
were reduced by $2,204,165 upon the repurchase of these shares, 
representing the excess of the aggregate repurchase price over the 
reduction in share capital of $308,089.

e.  During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
purchased 132,200 of its common shares pursuant to its 
Restricted Share Unit (“RSU”) Plan (see Note 17(g)) for an 
aggregate purchase price of $493,818. 132,200 shares are held 
in trust as of December 31, 2020 for future settlement of vested 
RSUs granted to employees, senior management, and directors 
of the Company.

f.  There are nil preferred shares outstanding as of December 31, 

2020 (December 31, 2019 – nil).

g.  Share-Based Payments

Restricted Share Unit (“RSU”) Plan
The Board adopted a Restricted Share Unit Plan on March 4, 
2020, which was approved by shareholders on May 27, 2020 
and subsequently approved by the TSX Venture Exchange. The 
RSU Plan was established as a vehicle by which equity-based 
incentives may be granted to eligible employees, consultants, 
directors and officers of the Company to recognize and reward 
their contributions to the long-term success of the Company 
including aligning their interests more closely with the interests of 
the Company’s shareholders. The RSU Plan is a fixed plan which 
reserves for issuance a maximum of 800,000 common shares of the 
Company.

On March 31, 2020, a total of 129,125 RSUs were granted 
to certain employees, senior management, and directors of the 
Company with a fair value of $3.61 per unit, being the grant date 
closing (TSX Venture Exchange) market price per share. Certain 
of these units shall vest fully in three years’ time on March 31, 
2023 and certain of these units shall vest quarterly in three years’ 
time on March 31, 2023, June 30, 2023, September 30, 2023, and 
December 31, 2023.

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
recorded net share-based payment expense of $111,786 (2019 - 
$nil) relating to RSUs granted.

As at December 31, 2020, there were 129,125 RSUs outstanding 
(December 31, 2019 – nil), as shown below:

Outstanding, beginning of year 

Granted 

Outstanding, end of year

December 31, 2020

 December 31, 2019 

Number of RSUs 

Weighted average 
grant price 

 Number of RSUs 

 Weighted average 
grant price 

 - 

129,125 

 129,125 

-

$3.61 

$3.61 

-

-

 - 

-

-

-

granted with an exercise price of $8.22 per option, has been 
determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using 
the following assumptions:

Share price at the date of grant

Risk-free interest rate

Dividend yield

Volatility factor of expected market price of 
Company’s shares

Average expected option life (years)

Weighted-average grant date fair value of 
options granted

Forfeiture rate

$8.22

1.75%

0%

111.59%

9.26

$7.54

2.20%

The weighted-average remaining contractual life of the 129,125 
RSUs outstanding is 2.68 years.

Incentive Stock Option Plan
On March 11, 2014, the Board approved an incentive stock option 
plan (the “SOP”) which was adopted by the shareholders of the 
Company on June 13, 2014. The Board approved an amended 
SOP on March 4, 2020 which was approved by shareholders on 
May 27, 2020. The purpose of the SOP is to assist the Company 
in attracting, retaining and motivating directors, officers, employees 
and other persons who provide ongoing services to the Company 
and its affiliates and to closely align the personal interests of 
such participants with those of the Company’s shareholders, by 
providing them with the opportunity to acquire common shares of 
the Company, and thereby a proprietary interest in the Company 
and its subsidiaries, through the exercise of share purchase options.

On March 20, 2019, options totalling 34,211 were granted by the 
Company to senior management and officers of the Company 
under the SOP. These options shall vest in annual increments 
over four years to March 20, 2023. The fair value of these options 

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The volatility factor used by the Company is based on its historical 
share prices. 

No options were granted by the Company during the year ended 
December 31, 2020.

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
recorded net share-based payment expense of $154,387 (2019 
- $263,245) relating to previous option grants to employees, 

directors, officers and advisors under the SOP, which are included 
in selling, general and administration expenses in the Consolidated 
Statements of Comprehensive Income.

As at December 31, 2020, there were 173,839 options outstanding 
(December 31, 2019 – 177,512), as shown below:

Outstanding, beginning of year 

Granted 

Expired or forfeited 

Exercised 

Outstanding, end of year 

December 31, 2020

 December 31, 2019 

Number of options 

 Weighted average 
exercise price 

Number of options 

 Weighted average 
exercise price 

 177,512 

-

(2,477) 

(1,196) 

173,839 

$8.30 

-

$7.78 

$6.20 

$8.32 

 144,624 

 34,211 

(561) 

(762) 

 177,512 

$8.30 

$8.22 

$7.18 

$6.20 

$8.30

Of the total number of options outstanding as of December 31, 
2020, options totalling 124,120 have vested and are exercisable 
by the option holders (December 31, 2019 – 103,770). These 
exercisable options have a weighted average exercise price of $8.21 
(December 31, 2019 - $8.12). 

The weighted-average remaining contractual life of the 173,839 
(December 31, 2019 – 177,512) options outstanding is 6.26 years 
(December 31, 2019 – 7.22 years) and the range of exercise prices 
for these options is $6.20 - $10.97 (December 31, 2019 - $6.20 - 
$10.97). 

1,196 options were exercised during the year ended December 31, 
2020 (2019 – 762). The weighted average share price on the date 
of exercise of options exercised during the year ended December 
31, 2020 was $7.22 (2019 - $6.62).

Employee Share Purchase Plan 
On January 1, 2017, the Company introduced an Employee Share 
Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). Under the ESPP, eligible BioSyent 
employees, including certain key management personnel, are 
permitted to contribute up to a maximum of 10 per cent of 
their gross base salary to purchase the Company’s common shares 
in the open market through the facilities of the TSX Venture 
Exchange. The contributions are matched by the Company up to 
a maximum of 2.5 percent of the applicable employee’s gross base 
salary. 

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
recorded share-based payment expense of $19,908 (2019 - 
$78,681) relating to the Company’s contributions to the ESPP 
for the purchase of common shares on behalf of participating 
employees. Company and employee contributions to the ESPP 
were temporarily suspended during the year. This expense is 
included in selling, general and administration expenses in the 
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.

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18. Expenses by Nature
The expenses on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive 
Income have been grouped by function to focus reader attention 
on the macro movements in cost from period to period while 
giving the reader an option to see the detail of expenses according 
to their nature, which are included below: 

Cost of goods sold

Selling and marketing

Advertising, Promotion and Selling Costs

Employee Costs

Logistics, Quality Control & Regulatory

Share-based Payments

General and administration

Employee Costs 

Corporate Expenses

Depreciation – Property and Equipment (Note 11)

Share-based Payments

Research and Development

Amortization – Intangible Assets (Note 12)

Professional Fees

Information Technology

Insurance

Net Foreign Exchange (Gains) Losses

Expected credit losses

Impairment Losses: Intangible Assets 

Year ended December 31,

2020

2019

 $4,908,321 

 $4,778,069 

 $7,423,311 

 $5,750,624 

 4,077,082 

 2,759,299 

 571,802 

 15,128 

 2,825,146 

 2,598,158 

 289,115 

 38,205 

 $4,905,190 

 $5,417,376 

 2,842,532 

 2,553,059 

 501,070 

 334,186 

 270,954 

 222,361 

 176,236 

 165,883 

 154,570 

 104,635 

 95,589 

 37,174 

 - 

 857,520 

 193,578 

 303,721 

 - 

 98,152 

 162,603 

 134,671 

 98,207 

 108,327 

 36,591 

 870,947 

New business development costs

 $65,322 

 $90,114 

Finance costs 

Interest expense - lease liability (Note 16)

Finance income

Interest Income

Foreign Exchange Gains - Investing

 $92,942 

 92,942 

 $32,456 

 32,456 

$ (299,897)

$ (514,846)

 (263,137)

 (36,760)

 (447,011)

 (67,835)

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19. Earnings per Share
The following table reconciles the numerator and denominator for 
the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

Numerator

Net income attributable to common shareholders

 $3,795,335 

 $4,369,295 

Year ended December 31, 

2020

2019

Denominator

Basic

Weighted average number of shares outstanding

 12,997,456 

 13,945,147 

Effect of dilutive securities

Diluted

 96,844 

 75 

Weighted average number of shares outstanding 

 13,094,300 

 13,945,222 

 $0.29 

 $0.29 

 $0.31 

 $0.31

(see Note 12), the Company will make annual license fee payments 
to its European partner in each of the first four years of the 
Agreement equal to 1% of the Company’s net sales of the product 
in Canada. For the year ended December 31, 2020, such fees 
have been accrued and included in accounts payable and accrued 
liabilities on the Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.

Pain Management Products License and Exclusive Supply 
Agreement
Under the terms of the November 25, 2019 License and Exclusive 
Supply Agreement, the Company is required to make royalty 
payments to AFT Pharmaceuticals based on net sales of the pain 
management products in Canada and contingent on the market 
share of competing products in Canada over the 15-year term 
of the agreement. The royalty rates range from 0% to 6.5% on 
net sales of one product formulation and from 0% to 12.5% on 
net sales of another product formulation. For the year ended 
December 31, 2020, such royalties have been accrued and included 
in accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the Consolidated 
Statements of Financial Position.

Basic earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share

20. Contingencies

Litigations
From time to time, the Company may be exposed to claims and 
legal actions in the normal course of business. As at December 31, 
2020, the Company was not aware of any litigation or threatened 
claims either outstanding or pending.

Cysview® Distribution and Supply Agreement
Under the terms of the August 18, 2015 Distribution and 
Supply Agreement between the Company and Photocure ASA 
in respect of the Cysview® product (see Note 12), milestone 
payments averaging $213,968(USD 168,055) per year for three 
consecutive years are potentially required to be made by the 
Company to Photocure ASA between December 31, 2020 and 
December 31, 2022 dependent upon the achievement of certain 
events. The Company will record these amounts as the events 
occur. Management believes no such payment was required as of 
December 31, 2020.

Women’s Health Product License and Supply Agreement
Under the terms of the November 7, 2016 License and Supply 
Agreement between the Company and its European partner in 
respect of the Tibella® women’s health pharmaceutical product 

21. Commitments

Office Lease
The Company’s current office lease agreement commenced on 
September 1, 2019 and extends to August 31, 2029 (see Note 16). 

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The Company’s undiscounted minimum future rental payments 
and estimated occupancy costs (including certain operating costs 
and realty taxes) for the next five fiscal years under this lease 
agreement are approximately as follows: 

Purchase Commitments
In the normal course of business, the Company has minimum 
purchase commitments with certain suppliers.

Fiscal Year 

Annual Rent and Estimated 
Occupancy Costs 

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Beyond Next 5 Fiscal Years

Total

22. Related Party Transactions 

 $ 358,785 

 $ 360,542 

 $ 364,056 

 $ 364,056 

 $ 367,570 

 $ 1,414,055 

 $ 3,229,064 

Key Management Personnel Compensation
Key management personnel are those persons having authority and 
responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities 
of the Company and/or its subsidiaries, directly or indirectly.

The table below summarizes compensation for key management 
personnel of the Company for the years ended December 31, 2020 
and 2019:

Number of Key Management Personnel

Salary, Benefits, and Bonus

Share-Based Payments

Year ended December 31, 

2020

6

2019

6

$1,635,408

$1,360,493

$207,785

$233,138

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
recorded share-based payment expense of $207,785 (2019 - 
$233,138) related to the amortization of RSUs and the vesting 
of options granted to key management personnel under the 
Company’s RSU Plan and SOP, respectively, as well as the 
Company’s contributions to the ESPP for the purchase of 
common shares on behalf of participating key management 
personnel. 

As at December 31, 2020, there were loans receivable under the 
MSLP from key management personnel of $546,335 (December 
31, 2019 – $538,227). Interest accrued on these MSLP loans 
during the year totalled $8,108 (2019 – $10,553).

Transactions with Directors
During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company 
paid cash fees to its directors in the amount of $54,376 (2019 - 
$142,600) and share-based payments of $22,022 (2019 - $15,899). 

23. Capital Disclosures
For capital management purposes, the Company defines capital 
as its shareholders’ equity that includes share capital, contributed 
surplus, cumulative translation adjustment and retained earnings. 

The amounts included in the Company’s capital for the relevant 
years are as follows:

December 31, 2020 

$26,795,956

December 31, 2019 

$25,794,510

The Company’s principal objectives in managing capital are:

 ƒ to ensure that it will continue to operate as a going concern;

 ƒ to be flexible in order to take advantage of contract and growth 
opportunities that are expected to provide satisfactory returns 
to its shareholders;

 ƒ to maintain a strong capital base in order to maintain customers, 

investors, creditors and market confidence; and

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 ƒ to provide an adequate rate of return to its shareholders.

The Company manages and adjusts its capital structure in light of 
changes in economic conditions. 

In order to maintain or adjust its capital structure, the Company 
may issue debt or new shares. Financing decisions are generally 
made on a specific transaction basis and depend on such things as 
the Company’s needs, capital markets and economic conditions 
at the time of the transaction. Management reviews its capital 
management approach on an ongoing basis and believes that this 
approach is reasonable, given the size of the Company.

The Company does not have any externally imposed capital 
compliance requirements at December 31, 2020. There were no 
changes in the Company’s approach to capital management during 
the year.

24. Credit Facilities
The Company has credit facilities available with Royal Bank of 
Canada totalling $3,090,000, including a revolving demand credit 
facility of $1,500,000, which has not been utilized as of December 
31, 2020, a foreign exchange facility of $1,500,000, and credit 
card facilities totalling $90,000. The revolving demand credit 
facility bears interest at a variable rate of Royal Bank prime plus 
0.75% and has been secured with a General Security Agreement 

25. Taxes
The Company computes an income tax provision in each of the 
jurisdictions in which it operates. Actual amounts of income tax 
expense only become final upon filing and acceptance of the tax 
return by the relevant authorities, which occur subsequent to the 
issuance of the financial statements. 

Additionally, estimation of income taxes includes evaluating the 
recoverability of deferred tax assets based on an assessment of the 
ability to use the underlying future tax deductions before they 
expire against future taxable income. 

Net Income Before Taxes

Combined statutory income tax rate

Expected income tax expense at current rate

Foreign tax differential

Change in exchange rates

Non-deductible expenses

Non-taxable portion of capital gains

Prior year tax income tax recovery

Investment tax credits

Tax rate changes and other adjustments

Provision for tax

Current income tax expense

Deferred tax recovery

constituting a first ranking security interest of the Bank in the 
Company’s property. The Company is subject to maintaining 
certain financial covenants if the demand credit facility is drawn 
upon. The Company has available additional foreign exchange 
facilities of $2,500,000 with other Canadian financial institutions 
which have not been utilized as of December 31, 2020.

The assessment is based upon existing tax laws and estimates of 
future taxable income. To the extent estimates differ from the final 
tax return, earnings would be affected in a subsequent period. The 
operations are subject to income tax rates of 26.5% (2019 – 26.5%) 
in the Canadian jurisdiction, 21.0% (2019 – 21.0%) in the U.S. 
jurisdiction, and 2.5% (2019 – 2.5%) in the Barbados jurisdiction.

The reconciliation of the combined Canadian federal and 
provincial statutory tax rate of 26.5% (2019 – 26.5%) to the 
effective tax rate is as follows:

2020

2019

5,236,979

5,870,531

26.50%

1,387,799

21,719

-

47,708

(4,871)

42,866

(53,577)

-

1,441,644

1,469,260

(27,616)

1,441,644

26.50%

1,555,691

(87,827)

(3,148)

86,707

(18,959)

-

-

(31,228)

1,501,236

1,748,337

(247,101)

1,501,236

Current income tax payable

(250,195)

(154,952)

Deferred tax:
Deferred tax assets have been offset where they relate to income 
taxes levied by the same taxation authority and the Company has 
the legal right and intent to offset.

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2020

2019

(76,807)

27,616

(49,191)

(323,908)

247,101

(76,807)

2020

2019

20,040

47,704

29,623

452,847

550,214

(293,844)

(305,561)

(599,405)

26,095

-

-

-

26,095

(102,902)

-

(102,902)

Movement in net deferred tax assets (liabilities):

Balance at the beginning of the year

Recognized in profit/loss

Balance at the end of the year

Deferred tax balances:

Net operating losses carried forward

Contract liability

RSU shares in trust

Lease liability

Deferred tax assets

Equipment and intangibles

Right of Use Asset

Deferred tax liabilities

The potential benefit of the carry-forward net operating losses 
in the United States have been recognized in these financial 
statements as it is probable that sufficient future tax profit will 
allow the deferred tax assets to be recovered.

The Company’s United States net operating losses expire as 
follows:

Expiry

United States (in CAD)

2024

2026

2031

42,387

28,997

 187

 $ 71,571

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26. Segment Reporting
A segment is a component of the Company:

i.  that engages in business activities from which it may earn 

revenue and incur expenses;

ii.  whose operating results are reviewed by the board of directors; 

and

iii. for which discrete financial information available.

Though the Company has a legacy business in biologically and 
health friendly insecticides, management of the Company is 
primarily focused on growing the pharmaceutical business and 
does not account for administrative overhead separately for the 
insecticide business. Consequently, the Company recognizes one 
business segment for all of its operations.

The revenue breakdown by business is provided below:

a.  for both the pharmaceutical and insecticide business; and

b.  for both Canadian and international jurisdictions

Canada

Pharmaceutical Business

Insecticide Business

Total Canada

International Jurisdictions

Pharmaceutical Business - Middle East

Insecticide Business - United States

Total International Jurisdictions   

Year ended December 31,

2020

2019

$21,237,461

$18,946,758

644,668 

866,615 

$21,882,129

$19,813,373

$225,139

224,900 

$450,039

$1,441,691

169,260 

$1,610,951

Total Revenue 

$22,332,168

$21,424,324

For the year ended December 31, 2020, in the Canadian 
Pharmaceutical Business, revenue from transactions with three 
major customers individually amounted to 10% or more the 
Company’s total revenues. The amount of revenues from each 
of these three customers totalled $8,286,429, $6,226,428, and 
$4,405,043, respectively, during 2020 (2019 - $8,068,686, 
$4,759,588, and $4,295,741, respectively).

Non-Current Assets consist of equipment, intangible assets, loans 
receivable, and deferred tax asset. As indicated in the table below, 
Non-Current Assets are located in Canada and international 
jurisdictions.

Canada

United States

Barbados

Total Non-current Assets

27. Subsequent Event
In January 2021, the Company shipped an order to an 
international customer valued at $1,140,279 against which the 
customer’s advance of $688,312 (Note 15) was applied in full.

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

$3,703,260

$4,029,824

20,040 

74,033 

26,095 

64,287 

$3,797,333

$4,120,206

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Registrar and Transfer Agent
Computershare Trust Company Canada  
100 University Avenue, 
Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2Y1  
Canada

Auditors
MNP LLP 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Solicitors 
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP  
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Caravel Law 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Harridyal Sodha & Associates 
St. Michael, Barbados

Banks
Royal Bank of Canada 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce  
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

City National Bank 
Los Angeles, California, USA

Stock Listing 
TSX Venture Exchange  
Trading symbol: RX 
Mississauga, Ontario

Corporate Information

Registered Office
Suite 402 
2476 Argentia Road 
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6M1

Telephone  
Facsimile  
Email 
Website 

905.206.0013 
905.206.1413 
info@biosyent.com 
www.biosyent.com

Board of Directors
Larry Andrews 
Ontario, Canada

Joseph Arcuri 
Ontario, Canada

Sara Elford 
British Columbia, Canada

René C. Goehrum (Chair) 
Ontario, Canada

Peter D. Lockhard (Lead Director) 
Ontario, Canada

Stephen Wilton 
Ontario, Canada

Officers
René C. Goehrum 
President and  
Chief Executive Officer

Robert J. March 
Vice-President and  
Chief Financial Officer

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BioSyent Inc.
Corporate Office
Suite 402
2476 Argentia Road
Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 6M1
Canada

Telephone 905.206.0013
Facsimile 905.206.1413

Email: info@biosyent.com
Web: www.biosyent.com