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The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the Company’s reports under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the quarterly period ended June 30, 2023, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the quarterly period ended September 30, 2023, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the period covered by this report due to material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting, described below.
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We have identified and begun to implement several steps, as further described below, designed to remediate the foregoing material weaknesses and to enhance our overall control environment.
−Removed: To remediate these material weaknesses, we began the year ending December 31, 2023 with the appropriate level of resources and technical expertise in finance, accounting, financial reporting and tax departments compared to the first half of the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: To remediate these material weaknesses, we began the year ending December 31, 2023 with the appropriate level of resources and technical expertise in finance, accounting,
+Added: financial reporting and tax departments compared to the year ended December 31, 2022.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, we implemented Blackline’s Modern Accounting Playbook software to bolster our internal controls over balance sheet account reconciliations in 2023.
As part of the 2022 year end close, we performed enhanced revenue reconciliation procedures in response to the errors identified and disclosed in our the Current Report on Form 8-K that the Company filed with the SEC on February 22, 2023, and will continue these practices throughout fiscal year 2023.
−Removed: first and second quarters of fiscal year 2023, we implemented new internal controls to address the segregation of duties related to select system access findings previously identified.
+Added: Through the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, we implemented new internal controls to address the segregation of duties related to select system access findings previously identified.
We expanded the use of our financial reporting team’s SEC experts to ensure technical accounting memos and related documentation were prepared and reviewed timely with regard to significant unusual transactions.
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The material weaknesses cannot be fully remediated until the applicable remedial controls operate for a sufficient period and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
−Removed: As planned and anticipated, we are on schedule to execute our testing plans during the third and fourth quarters of 2023.
+Added: As planned and anticipated, we began to execute our testing plans during the third quarter of 2023.
(b) Changes in Internal Controls
−Removed: Other than the actions taken to remediate the material weakness described above, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) which occurred during the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Other than the actions taken to remediate the material weakness described above, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) which occurred during the third quarter ended September 30, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Part II - Other Information
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