SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies) |
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| Accounting Policies [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organization and Nature of Operations |
Organization and Nature of Operations The Company is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development, marketing and sales of innovative treatments and therapies primarily for rare and orphan diseases. On July 17, 2019, we completed a merger transaction with EMI Holding, Inc., formerly known as Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (“EMI”), into a subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”), with EMI surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Immediately after completion of the Merger, we changed our name to “Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc.” The Merger was treated as a reverse recapitalization under the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. For accounting purposed, EMI was considered to have acquired us. The Merger is intended to qualify as a tax-free reorganization for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In connection with and prior to the Merger, we contributed and transferred to Telemynd, Inc. (“Telemynd”), a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, all or substantially all our historical business, assets and liabilities and our board of directors declared a stock dividend of one share of the Telemynd common stock held by the Company for each outstanding share of our common stock after giving effect to a 1-for-6 reverse stock split of our outstanding shares of common stock. As a result of the spin-off and the Merger, our ongoing business became EMI’s business, which is that of a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, marketing and sale of innovative treatments and therapies, including those in the rare and orphan disease categories. |
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| Principles of consolidation |
Principles of consolidation—The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, EMI and EMI’s wholly‑owned subsidiary, Emmaus Medical, Inc., and Emmaus Medical, Inc.’s wholly‑owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires the use of management estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses for the reported period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. |
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| Reclassification of prior year presentation |
Reclassification of prior year presentation—Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior period amounts to confirm with the current year presentation. |
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| Restricted cash |
Restricted cash — Restricted cash includes proceeds received from the sales of shares of Telcon RF Pharmaceutical, Inc., a Korean corporation (formerly, Telcon Inc. and herein “Telcon”) earmarked for the purchase of Telcon convertible bond per the December 23, 2019 agreement with Telcon. See Note 5 for the additional details. Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalent and restricted cash are as follows:
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| Net loss per share |
Net loss per share — In accordance with ASC 260, “Earnings per Share,” the basic loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding. Dilutive loss per share is computed in a manner similar to basic loss per common share except that the denominator is increased to include the number of additional common shares that would have been outstanding if the potential common shares had been issued and if the additional common shares were dilutive. As of September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, the Company had outstanding potentially dilutive securities exercisable for or convertible into 19,276,395 shares and 13,457,963 shares, respectively, of Company common stock. No potentially dilutive securities were included in the calculation of diluted net loss per share since their effect would be anti-dilutive for all periods presented. |
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