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Because of inherent limitations, disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, and not absolute, assurance that the objectives of disclosure controls and procedures are met.
−Removed: A&F’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer of A&F (who serves as Principal Executive Officer of A&F) and the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of A&F (who serves as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of A&F), evaluated the effectiveness of A&F’s design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2021.
−Removed: The Chief Executive Officer of A&F (in such individual’s capacity as the Principal Executive Officer of A&F) and the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of A&F (in such individual’s capacity as the Principal Financial Officer of A&F) concluded that A&F’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable level of assurance as of July 31, 2021.
−Removed: REMEDIATION OF PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED MATERIAL WEAKNESS
−Removed: As previously disclosed within “ITEM 9A.
−Removed: CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES” of the Company’s Fiscal 2020 Form 10-K, A&F did not design and maintain effective controls over the presentation and disclosure of activities in its Condensed Statements of Cash Flows.
−Removed: Specifically, A&F did not design and maintain controls to research and apply relevant accounting guidance in assessing the appropriate classification of cash flow activities associated with new transaction types.
−Removed: This material weakness resulted in the restatement of the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the interim periods ended May 2, 2020, August 1, 2020, and October 31, 2020.
−Removed: As part of A&F’s efforts to remediate the material weakness described above, new procedures have been designed and implemented to research and apply relevant accounting guidance regarding the classification of cash flow activities associated with new transaction types and to document A&F management’s conclusions with respect to such analysis.
−Removed: Based on the evidence obtained in validating the operating effectiveness of the implemented control, management has concluded that the previously disclosed material weakness has been remediated as of July 31, 2021.
+Added: A&F’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer of A&F (who serves as Principal Executive Officer of A&F) and the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of A&F (who serves as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of A&F), evaluated the effectiveness of A&F’s design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal quarter ended October 30, 2021.
+Added: The Chief Executive Officer of A&F (in such individual’s capacity as the Principal Executive Officer of A&F) and the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of A&F (in such individual’s capacity as the Principal Financial Officer of A&F) concluded that A&F’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable level of assurance as of October 30, 2021.
CHANGES IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
−Removed: There were no changes in A&F’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during A&F’s fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2021 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, A&F’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: There were no changes in A&F’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during A&F’s fiscal quarter ended October 30, 2021 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, A&F’s internal control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
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