CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f)
−Removed: and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Our management is also required to assess and report on the effectiveness of our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
−Removed: Management assessed the effectiveness of our
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021.
−Removed: In making this assessment, we used the criteria set forth by the Committee
−Removed: of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013).
−Removed: During our assessment
−Removed: of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021, management identified significant deficiencies
−Removed: related to (i) our internal audit functions and (ii) a lack of segregation of duties within accounting functions.
−Removed: Therefore, our internal
−Removed: controls over financial reporting were not effective as of September 30, 2022.
−Removed: has determined that our internal audit function is significantly deficient due to insufficient qualified resources to perform internal
−Removed: audit functions.
−Removed: due to our size and nature, segregation of all conflicting duties may not always be possible or economically feasible.
−Removed: However, to the
−Removed: extent possible, we are implementing procedures to assure that the initiation of transactions, the custody of assets and the recording
−Removed: of transactions will be performed by separate individuals.
−Removed: believe that the foregoing steps will remediate the significant deficiency identified above, and we will continue to monitor the effectiveness
−Removed: of these steps and make any changes that our management deems appropriate.
−Removed: Due to the nature of this significant deficiency in our internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting, there is more than a remote likelihood that misstatements which could be material to our annual or
−Removed: interim financial statements could occur that would not be prevented or detected.
−Removed: material weakness (within the meaning of PCAOB Auditing Standard No.
−Removed: 5) is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial
−Removed: statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies,
−Removed: in internal control over financial reporting that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by
−Removed: those responsible for oversight of the company’s financial reporting.
−Removed: of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
−Removed: Projections of any evaluation
−Removed: of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that
−Removed: the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: in Internal Controls
−Removed: have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 that have materially
−Removed: affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.
+Added: In accordance with Rule 13a-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
+Added: amended (“Exchange Act”) we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management,
+Added: including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), of the effectiveness and design
+Added: of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act), as of the end of the period
+Added: covered by this report.
+Added: Based on such evaluation, our CEO and CFO have concluded that as of March 31, 2023, our disclosure controls and
+Added: procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or
+Added: submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms,
+Added: and is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding
+Added: required disclosure.
+Added: Inherent Limitations on Controls.
+Added: Management, including the CEO and CFO, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: will prevent or detect all errors and fraud.
+Added: Any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, is based upon certain assumptions
+Added: and can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that its objectives will be met.
+Added: Further, no evaluation of controls can provide
+Added: absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any,
+Added: within the Company have been detected.
+Added: The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and
+Added: the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
+Added: Changes in internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: There has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting
+Added: during our fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2023 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
+Added: controls over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
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