Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures
As of March 31, 2024, and under the direction of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based upon this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded as of March 31, 2024, that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective because of the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting that was disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 (“Form 10-K”).
As discussed in Part II, Item 9A, “Controls and Procedures” in our Form 10-K, we identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting in the following areas:
(i) information technology (“IT”) general controls.
We did not maintain effective controls over (i) user access to ensure appropriate segregation of duties and adequately restrict user and privileged access to financial applications, programs and data to the appropriate personnel; (ii) program change management for financial applications to ensure that IT program and data changes affecting financial IT applications and underlying accounting records are identified, tested, authorized and implemented appropriately; and (iii) IT operations controls to ensure that critical interface jobs are monitored.
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Status of Remediation Efforts
In response to the material weakness identified and described above, our management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, will continue through 2024 to dedicate significant efforts and resources to further improve our control environment and to take steps to remediate this material weakness.
Changes in internal control over financial reporting
Except for the implementation of our remediation plans in connection with our ineffective disclosure controls and procedures described above, there have been no significant changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the three month period ended March 31, 2024, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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