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<td style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" nowrap="nowrap" align="left"><font style="text-decoration: underline;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">Basis of Presentation</font></font></td>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">Morgan Group Holding Co. (“Holding” or “the Company”) was incorporated in November 2001 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of LICT Corporation (“LICT”) to serve, among other business purposes, as a holding company for LICT's controlling interest in The Morgan Group, Inc. (“Morgan”). On January 24, 2002, LICT spun off <font>2,820,051</font> shares of Holding common stock through a pro rata distribution (“Spin-Off”) to its stockholders and retained <font>235,294</font> shares.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2016 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2016. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from these estimates.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">The Company is a “C” corporation for Federal tax purposes, and has provided for deferred income taxes for temporary differences between the financial statement and tax bases of its assets and liabilities. The Company has recorded a full valuation allowance against its deferred tax asset of approximately $<font>235,636</font> arising from its temporary basis differences and tax loss carryforward, as its realization is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the period when such losses would be deductible.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">Pursuant to Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code, annual use of any of the Company's net operating loss carry forwards may be limited if cumulative changes in ownership of more than 50% occur during any three year period.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">From time to time the Company may be subject to certain asserted and unasserted claims. It is the Company's belief that the resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on its financial position.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">The Company has not guaranteed any of the obligations of Morgan and believes it currently has no commitment or obligation to fund any creditors.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">At the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 8, 2014, its stockholders voted to amend the Company's Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock, par value $<font>0.01</font> per share, from <font>10,000,000</font> to <font>100,000,000</font>. In order to economize costs until necessary, the Company has not yet filed the Amended Certificate of Incorporation</font><i><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2"> </font></i><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">with its state of incorporation, Delaware, to effectuate the authorization.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">On December 21, 2012, the Company and Jonathan P. Evans, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, entered into a Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement, whereby the Company granted to Mr. Evans an option (the “Option”) to purchase <font>800,000</font> shares of the Company's Common Stock at an exercise price of $<font>0.15</font> per share of Common Stock, which was the closing price of the Common Stock as quoted on the OTC Markets' inter-dealer quotation service on December 20, 2012. These options were exercisable at any time and the exercise period expired on December 21, 2015. As of March 31, 2015, these were the only options outstanding and as of March 31, 2016, there are no options outstanding. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="2">On December 21, 2012, the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to <font>1,000,000</font> shares of the Company's Common Stock at $<font>1.00</font> per share to Jonathan P. Evans in exchange for $<font>10,000</font>, which was received in 2013. In addition on that date, the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to <font>200,000</font> shares of the Company's Common Stock to Robert E. Dolan, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in exchange for $<font>2,000</font>. Both warrants are exercisable currently through December 21, 2017.</font></p>
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