CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our
−Removed: reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in
−Removed: the SEC’s rules and forms.
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to
−Removed: ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated
−Removed: to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted
+Added: under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required
+Added: to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including
+Added: our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As required by Rules 13a-15
and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness
−Removed: of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2023.
−Removed: Based upon their evaluation, our Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 (e) and
−Removed: 15d-15 (e) under the Exchange Act) were not effective.
−Removed: Controls Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or
−Removed: submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized, and
−Removed: reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such information
−Removed: is accumulated and communicated to our management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: management, with the participation and supervision of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the
−Removed: effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the
−Removed: end of the period covered by this quarterly report.
−Removed: Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: have concluded that as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were not, in design and operation, effective as of December
−Removed: 31, 2023 at a reasonable assurance level due to the material weaknesses and significant deficiency in internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting described below:
−Removed: Material Weakness
−Removed: did not have qualified full-time personnel with appropriate levels of accounting knowledge and experience to address complex U.S.
−Removed: accounting issues and to prepare and review financial statements and related disclosures under U.S.
−Removed: did not have comprehensive written control policies in place;
−Removed: we did not have an internal audit function or IT function to ensure the
−Removed: internal controls are properly designed and implemented.
−Removed: lacked evidence of certain review and approval procedures performed.
−Removed: material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, within the meaning of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
−Removed: Auditing Standard AS 2201, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material
−Removed: misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: the identification of the material weaknesses, we plan to take remedial measures including:
−Removed: qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
−Removed: GAAP and SEC reporting experience and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting
−Removed: function and to set up a financial and system control framework;
−Removed: ● implementing
−Removed: regular and continuous U.S.
+Added: of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2024.
+Added: Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive
+Added: Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 (e) and 15d-15 (e)
+Added: under the Exchange Act) were not effective.
+Added: Management’s Controls Over Financial
+Added: Our disclosure controls and
+Added: procedures are designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities
+Added: Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods
+Added: specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated
+Added: to our management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Our management, with the participation
+Added: and supervision of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly
+Added: Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of such date, our disclosure
+Added: controls and procedures were not, in design and operation, effective as of March 31, 2024 at a reasonable assurance level due to the material
+Added: weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting described below:
+Added: Material Weaknesses
+Added: We did not have qualified full-time personnel with appropriate levels of accounting knowledge and experience to address complex U.S.
+Added: GAAP accounting issues and to prepare and review financial statements and related disclosures under U.S.
+Added: We did not have comprehensive written control policies in place;
+Added: we did not have an internal audit function or IT function to ensure the internal controls are properly designed and implemented.
+Added: We lacked evidence of certain review and approval procedures performed.
+Added: A material weakness is a deficiency,
+Added: or a combination of deficiencies, within the meaning of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standard AS 2201, in internal
+Added: control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial
+Added: statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
+Added: Following the identification
+Added: of the material weaknesses, we plan to take remedial measures including:
+Added: hiring qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S.
+Added: GAAP and SEC reporting experience and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting function and to set up a financial and system control framework;
+Added: implementing regular and continuous U.S.
GAAP accounting and financial reporting training programs for our accounting and financial reporting personnel;
−Removed: ● establishing
−Removed: internal audit function by engaging an external consulting firm to assist us with assessment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 compliance
−Removed: requirements and improvement of overall internal control;
−Removed: ● strengthening
−Removed: corporate governance.
−Removed: believe, however, that a controls system, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives
−Removed: of the controls systems are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of
−Removed: fraud or error, if any, within a company have been detected.
−Removed: in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: The Company is in the process of implementing certain changes in its
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting to remediate the material weaknesses described above.
−Removed: The implementation of the material aspects
−Removed: of this plan began in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, and the Company is planning to remediate the material weaknesses described
−Removed: above by the end of fiscal year 2024.
−Removed: As a result, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting.
−Removed: II - OTHER INFORMATION
+Added: establishing internal audit function by engaging an external consulting firm to assist us with assessment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 compliance requirements and improvement of overall internal control;
+Added: strengthening corporate governance.
+Added: We believe, however, that
+Added: a controls system, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the controls systems
+Added: are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud or error, if any,
+Added: within a company have been detected.
+Added: Changes in Internal Control over Financial
+Added: The Company is in the process
+Added: of implementing certain changes in its internal control over financial reporting to remediate the material weaknesses described above.
+Added: The implementation of the material aspects of this plan began in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, and the Company is planning to
+Added: remediate the material weaknesses described above by the end of fiscal year 2024.
+Added: As a result, there has been no change in the Company’s
+Added: internal control over financial reporting during the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, that has materially affected, or is reasonably
+Added: likely to materially affect, its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
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