Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. 10-Q

ITEM 4. Controls and Procedures Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) or our internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of the controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error and mistake. Controls can also be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls is based in part on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness of controls and procedures to future periods are subject to the risk that the controls and procedures may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the controls and procedures may have deteriorated. In accordance with Rule 13a-15(b) of the Exchange Act, as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, an evaluation was carried out under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based on that evaluation, and due to the previously identified material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting that is described below, which is still being remediated, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2023. As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 1, 2023, we identified a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting for the year ended December 31, 2022 due to Diamond. Diamond, which was privately owned prior to our acquisition in August 2021 and, accordingly, not a reporting company under the Exchange Act, did not adequately identify, design and implement the process-level controls for its significant processes that are necessary for compliance with the requirements for reporting companies pursuant to the Exchange Act and Diamond did not have appropriate information technology controls for its information technology systems or such controls did not operate for a sufficient period of time prior to the assessment date. These deficiencies neither pertained to, nor impacted, any of the processes, controls or procedures related to the historical business of the Company outside of Diamond. Additionally, the material weakness did not result in any identified misstatements to our financial statements, and there were no changes to previously released financial results. Notwithstanding the previously identified material weakness, which continues to be remediated, management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, believes the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly present, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP. Ongoing Remediation Efforts to Address the Previously Identified Material Weakness Management has enhanced, and will continue to enhance, the risk assessment process and design and implementation of internal controls over financial reporting at Diamond. The remediation measures to correct the previously identified material weakness include enhancing the design and implementation of existing controls and creating new controls as needed to address identified risks and providing additional training to personnel including the appropriate level of documentation to be maintained to support internal controls over financial reporting. The previously identified material weakness will not be considered remediated until the applicable controls operate for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. We expect that the material weakness will be remediated by the end of 2023. Changes in Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting Other than with respect to the remediation efforts described above in connection with the previously identified material weakness, there were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting. 38 Table of Contents 39 Table of Contents PART II OTHER INFORMATION Item 1. Legal Proceedings Information with respect to this item may be found in Note 17: Commitments and Contingencies , to our condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.