Company: GCL
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-024502
Chunk: 171

Company: GCL Global Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DRS
Chunk 171
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 of console game by approximately $0.6 million and increased gross profit from others by approximately $0.2 million for the year ended March 31, 2024.

For the years ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, our overall gross margin decreased from 17.9% to 13.7%. The 4.2 % decrease was attributable to (1) 3.1 % decreased in gross margin from sales of console game as we experienced higher cost in purchasing console game for resale due to price increase from our vendor, (2) 2.0% decrease in gross profit margin from game publishing due to certain games requiring a higher percentage of revenue to be distributed to developers as part of their development fee structure, and (3) 4.1% decrease in the gross profit margin from advertising services due to less revenue from video marketing campaign services and less advertising income from social media.

Operating Expenses

Total operating expenses increased by approximately $5.5 million, or 53.4%, to approximately $15.7 for the year ended March 31, 2024 from approximately $10.2 million for the year ended March 31, 2023. The increase was mainly attributable to the following:

Approximately $0.1 million, or 3.2%, decrease in selling expense was mainly attributable to approximately $0.6 million decrease in advertising and marketing expense as we received more compensation from our vendors related to qualify reimbursable expense during the year ended March 31, 2024, offset by $0.5 million increase in in sales commission and salary to sales department employees due to expansion of our business.

Approximately $5.6 million, or 73.5%, increase in general and administrative expense was mainly attributable to increase of approximately $1.5 million in director fee to compensate our director for service performed, approximately $2.2 million increase in salary expenses, entertainment expenses, website maintenance expense, rent expense and other miscellaneous expenses due to our current business expansion, approximately $1.0 million increase in other professional fee as we are currently in the process to become a listed public company in the United States, approximately $0.7 million increase in amortization expense from intangible asset as we acquired additional intangible assets from business combination, and approximately $0.2 million increase in bad debt expense as we made additional allowance for credit loss against long aging accounts receivable.

Other expense, net

For the year ended March 31, 2024