Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
ITEM
3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
Not
Applicable to Smaller Reporting Companies.
ITEM
4T. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
(a) Evaluation
of disclosure controls and procedures . We conducted an evaluation, under
the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and
our Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of
our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and
15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) as of the end
of the period covered by this annual report.
Based on
this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer
concluded that as of the evaluation date our disclosure controls and procedures
were generally effective. Our procedures have been designed to ensure that the
information relating to our company required to be disclosed in our SEC reports
is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in SEC rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to our
management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer,
as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required
disclosure.
Nonetheless,
we believe that further steps are warranted to better assure the effectiveness
of these disclosure controls and procedures, specifically as it relates to
Flint’s operations resulting from the reverse merger with Semotus on October 1,
2008. The reverse merger with Semotus resulted in additional accounting
personnel and financial reporting procedures to be assimilated, combined and/or
consolidated together with Semotus’ existing disclosure controls and
procedures. We have implemented certain steps in furtherance of this
objective and believe, subject to our continuing evaluation and review of these
further steps, that additional steps may be warranted.
Additional
steps
that the Company believes it must undertake are to further design and implement
adequate systems of accounting and financial statement disclosure controls for
Flint’s operations during the current fiscal year to comply with the
requirements of the SEC. We believe that the ultimate success of our plan to
improve our internal controls over financial reporting and disclosure controls
and procedures for Flint’s operations will require a combination of additional
financial resources, outside consulting services, legal advice, additional
personnel, further reallocation of responsibility among various persons, and
substantial additional training of those of our officers, personnel and others,
including certain of our newly appointed directors, who are charged with
implementing and/or carrying out our plan.
It should
be noted that the design of any system of controls is based in part upon certain
assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance
that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential
future conditions, regardless of how remote.
(b) Changes in internal control over
financial reporting. There were changes in our internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected our internal control over
financial reporting. These changes are due to the reverse merger with Semotus,
which resulted in additional accounting personnel and financial reporting
procedures to be assimilated, combined and/or consolidated together from both
Flint and Semotus.
In future
filings we will disclose any further change 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.
We are
not a party to any legal proceedings.
ITEM
1A. RISK FACTORS.
Not
Applicable to Smaller Reporting Companies.
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