Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001401914-25-000012
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Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 commercial viability of our product candidates, the extent to which we establish and maintain intellectual property rights, the extent to which we establish and maintain license, collaboration, or other arrangements. As a result, we cannot accurately determine the duration and completion costs of development projects or if, when and to what extent we will generate revenue from any products we develop.

License Fee Expenses

License fee expenses consist of up-front license fees and annual license fees due under our in-licensing arrangements.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses consist of personnel costs, facility expenses, expenses for outside professional services, including legal, audit and accounting services, commercial-readiness expenses, and milestone expenses. Personnel costs consist of salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation. Facility expenses consist of rent and other related costs. Commercial-readiness expenses consist of consultant and advisor costs. Milestone expenses consist of amounts that become due to third parties under our in-license or other agreements under which we acquired rights to technology or other intellectual property we use in a product based on the product's achievement of commercial milestones specified therein.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards 

A description of recently issued accounting pronouncements that may potentially impact our financial position, results of operations and cash flows is discussed in Note 2 to our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements that we prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Preparing these financial statements requires management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and expenses, and related disclosures. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate these estimates and judgments. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various assumptions we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. These estimates and assumptions form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and the recording of expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates. Historically, revisions to our estimates have not resulted in a material change to our financial statements. 

While our significant account policies are described in more detail in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included herein, we believe that the following accounting policies are most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and require management's most difficult, subjective and complex judgments.

•Revenue Recognition;

•Stock-Based Compensation; 

•Sale of Future Payments;

•Grant Funding; and

•Clinical Trial Expense Acc