Item 4. Controls and Procedures
ITEM
4 – CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our
management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure
controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), as of November 30, 2022. Our
disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or
submit under the Exchange Act is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s
rules and forms, and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,
as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no
matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily
applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.
Based
on such evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of November 30, 2022, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer concluded that due to the existence of material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting, as discussed in
more detail in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures were not completely
effective as of November 30, 2022. Management has continued to monitor the implementation of the remediation plan described below.
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Material
Weakness
As
previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2022, management concluded that material weaknesses
existed in our internal control over financial reporting. Specifically, we determined that:
●
We
did not have written documentation of our internal control policies and procedures. Written documentation of key internal controls
over financial reporting is a requirement of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is applicable to us as a reporting company;
and
●
We
have limited segregation of duties and oversight of work performed as well as lack of compensating controls in the Company’s
finance and accounting functions due to limited personnel. As a result, segregation of all conflicting duties may not always be possible
and may not be economically feasible. Furthermore, we cannot provide reasonable assurance that receipts and expenditures are being
made only in accordance with management and director authorization. However, to the extent possible, the initiation of transactions,
the custody of assets and the recording of transactions should be performed by separate individuals.
In
order to remediate the documented material weaknesses, management has implemented corporate governance policies and charters that will
further align the Company’s governance procedures with the requirements noted in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including a Codes of Business
Conduct and Ethics, which reflects the overall corporate principles, policies and values that provides overall guidance for our control
procedures.
Management
is committed to improving our internal control processes and believes that the measures described above should remediate the material
weaknesses identified and strengthen internal control over financial reporting. As we continue to evaluate and improve internal control
over financial reporting, additional measures to remediate the material weaknesses or modifications to certain of the remediation procedures
described above may be necessary. The material weaknesses will not be considered remediated until the applicable remediated controls
operate for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
Notwithstanding the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we believe that our consolidated financial
statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly present our financial position, results of operations and cash flows
for the period covered thereby.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Except
for the remediation procedures being implemented by the Company as described above, there have been no other changes in our internal
control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during our fiscal
quarter ended November 30, 2022, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over
financial reporting.
PART
II – OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM
1 – LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The
Company is not a party to any pending legal proceeding. We are not aware of any pending legal proceeding to which any of our officers,
directors, affiliates or any beneficial holders of 5% or more of our voting securities are adverse to us or have a material interest
adverse to us.
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