Certara, Inc. 10-Q

Item 4. Controls and Procedures Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act as of the end of the period covered by this report. Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objective and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2022 due to a material weakness related to information technology general controls in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. This internal control deficiency was identified and reported in the section titled “Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 1, 2022. Notwithstanding the ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and the material weakness described in Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, our management concluded that the consolidated financial statements included in this report fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Management’s Plan to Remediate the Material Weakness The Company outlined a remediation plan in the section titled “Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 1, 2022. The Company is committed to developing and maintaining a strong internal control environment. Management has evaluated the material weakness described above and has made significant progress updating its design and implementation of internal controls to remediate the aforementioned control deficiency and enhance the Company’s internal control environment. The remediation plan is being implemented and includes the following: (i) implement a controlled process for the onboarding, offboarding, and access rights modifications in the application environment to ensure appropriate provisioning of rights on a least privileged basis; (ii) document the levels of privileged access roles with specific “allowed” capabilities warranting levels of access for specific roles; (iii) implement a quarterly log review by business owners to ensure that no privileged account access was provided and removed outside of documented service requests; (iv) implement a controlled process for application and system level changes in the application environment to ensure appropriate understanding of the changes on financial reporting; and (v) strengthen ownership and reporting through the IT Governance Process currently in place which will serve as the mechanism to monitor the remediation update. Management is committed to successfully implementing the remediation plan as promptly 47 ​ as possible, and currently expects that the remediation of this material weakness will be completed on or before December 31, 2022. Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during period ended June 30, 2022 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. PART II — OTHER INFORMATION Item 1. Legal Proceedings There have been no material changes to our legal proceedings as previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. ​ Item 1A. Risk Factors Except as described below, there have been no significant changes from the risk factors previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 that we believe are material to our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows or growth prospects. ​ Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds None Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities None. ​ Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures Not applicable. ​