Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
−Removed: Reference is made to pages F-1
−Removed: through F-51 comprising a portion of this report, which are incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: Reference is made to pages F-1 through F-52
+Added: comprising a portion of this report, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants
on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
−Removed: June 29, 2023, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.
−Removed: (“MHM”), the Company’s registered public accounting firm, informed the Company
−Removed: that it resigned, effective June 29, 2023.
−Removed: audited the Company’s financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021.
−Removed: MHM’s audit reports on
−Removed: the Company’s financial statements as of, and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, dated March 8, 2023, did not
−Removed: contain any adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting
−Removed: the Company’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the subsequent interim period through July 6, 2023, there were
−Removed: no disagreements between the Company and MHM on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing
−Removed: scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of MHM, would have caused MHM to make reference to the subject
−Removed: matter of the disagreements in connection with its audit reports on the Company’s financial statements for such periods.
−Removed: the Company’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the subsequent interim period through July 6, 2023, there were
−Removed: no “reportable events”, as defined in Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(1)(v), except as previously disclosed in the Company’s
−Removed: Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: MHM identified a material weakness in internal controls in connection
−Removed: with a lack of staff (a) to maintain optimal segregation of duties and to provide optimal levels of oversight in order to process financial
−Removed: information in a timely manner, analyze and account for complex, non-routine transactions, and prepare financial statements and (b) to
−Removed: timely identify, approve or report related party transactions.
−Removed: The Company is taking steps to remediate that material weakness.
−Removed: July 6, 2023, the Audit Committee appointed EisnerAmper LLP (“EisnerAmper”) to serve as the Company’s independent registered
−Removed: public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, and related interim periods.
−Removed: The decision to engage EisnerAmper was
−Removed: approved by the Company’s Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
−Removed: During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years and
−Removed: the subsequent interim period through July 6, 2023, the Company did not consult EisnerAmper with respect to any of the matters or events
−Removed: listed in Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(2).
+Added: On October 15, 2024, EisnerAmper LLP (“EA”)
+Added: submitted its resignation as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective upon the Company’s filing
+Added: of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
+Added: The Company’s Audit
+Added: Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”) appointed EA to serve as the Company’s independent registered public
+Added: accounting firm on July 6, 2023 (the “Appointment Date”).
+Added: EA’s audit report on the Company’s financial statements
+Added: as of, and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, dated April 11, 2024, did not contain any adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion,
+Added: nor was it qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, other than that it contained an explanatory
+Added: paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: From the Appointment
+Added: Date to the date of EA’s resignation (the “Engagement Period), there were no disagreements between the Company and EA on any
+Added: matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if
+Added: not resolved to the satisfaction of EA, would have caused EA to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection
+Added: with its audit reports on the Company’s financial statements for such periods.
+Added: During the Engagement
+Added: Period, there were no “reportable events”, as defined in Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(1)(v), except as previously disclosed
+Added: in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and the Company’s Quarterly Reports
+Added: on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2024, June 30, 2024, and September 30, 2024, Company management identified certain material
+Added: weaknesses in internal controls as follows:
+Added: (a) the Company did not maintain an effective control environment with adequate segregation
+Added: of duties with respect to cash disbursements;
+Added: (b) the Company did not have an effective risk assessment process and effective monitoring
+Added: of compliance with established accounting policies and procedures, and did not demonstrate a sufficient level of precision in the application
+Added: of the Company’s controls, including the maintenance of board committee minutes and unanimous written consents;
+Added: (c) the Company’s
+Added: controls over the approval and reporting of expenses paid with the Company’s credit cards and certain bank wires were not designed
+Added: and maintained to achieve the Company’s objectives;
+Added: (d) the Company lacked accounting resources to maintain optimal segregation
+Added: of duties, maintain adequate controls over the approval and posting of journal entries, and to provide optimal levels of oversight in
+Added: order to process financial information in a timely manner, analyze and account for complex, non-routine transactions, and prepare financial
+Added: (e) the Company did not maintain adequate controls for the timely identification, approval or reporting of related party transactions,
+Added: and (f) the Company did not maintain effective controls to ensure information technology policies and procedures set the tone at the top,
+Added: to mitigate risks and achieve information technology objectives and ITGCs in the change management, logical security and computer
+Added: operations domains.
+Added: Effective February 13, 2025, the Audit Committee
+Added: authorized the appointment of MaloneBailey LLP (“ MaloneBailey ”) as the Company’s new independent registered public
+Added: accounting firm for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and MaloneBailey was appointed as the Company’s independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm.
+Added: During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the subsequent interim
+Added: period through February 13, 2025, neither the Company nor anyone acting on behalf of the Company had consulted MaloneBailey regarding
+Added: (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion
+Added: that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, nor did MaloneBailey provide a written report or oral advice to the
+Added: Company that MaloneBailey concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing
+Added: or financial reporting issues;
+Added: or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a “disagreement” (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv)
+Added: of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) or a “reportable event” (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).
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