Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of
−Removed: Our management, including
−Removed: our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud.
−Removed: A control system, no matter how well-designed and operated,
−Removed: can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met.
−Removed: The design of a control system
−Removed: must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
−Removed: because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements
−Removed: due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.
−Removed: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures are designed to ensure that information we are required to disclose in reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act
−Removed: is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information
−Removed: is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate,
−Removed: to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed
−Removed: and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance.
−Removed: Our management, with
−Removed: the participation of our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this Report.
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, concluded that as of March
−Removed: 31, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.
−Removed: Our current staffing resources in our finance department are insufficient
−Removed: to support the complexity of our financial reporting requirements.
−Removed: As a result, we have had an inadequate level of precision, evidence
−Removed: or timeliness in the performance of review controls.
−Removed: Changes in Internal Control over Financial
−Removed: There were no changes in our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting (as the term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the nine months ended
−Removed: March 31, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
+Added: management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and
+Added: procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud.
+Added: A control system, no matter
+Added: how well-designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will
+Added: The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be
+Added: considered relative to their costs.
+Added: Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can
+Added: provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud,
+Added: if any, have been detected.
+Added: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information we are required to disclose in reports we file or submit under
+Added: the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms,
+Added: and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal
+Added: financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Management recognizes that any controls and
+Added: procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance.
+Added: management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our
+Added: disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered
+Added: by this Report.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, concluded
+Added: that as of September 30, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.
+Added: Our current staffing resources in our finance
+Added: department are insufficient to support the complexity of our financial reporting requirements.
+Added: As a result, we have had an inadequate
+Added: level of precision, evidence or timeliness in the performance of review controls.
+Added: in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
+Added: were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as the term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange
+Added: Act) during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our
+Added: internal control over financial reporting.
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