Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures
−Removed: are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted
−Removed: under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required
−Removed: to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including
−Removed: our Chief Executive Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and
−Removed: controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our Exchange Act reports is recorded,
−Removed: processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information
−Removed: is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer or persons
−Removed: performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting
−Removed: officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal quarter
−Removed: ended March 31, 2021, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Based on this
−Removed: evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer have concluded that during the period covered
−Removed: by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level and, accordingly, provided reasonable
−Removed: assurance that the information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized
−Removed: and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.
−Removed: Changes in Internal Control over Financial
−Removed: the most recently completed fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2021, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
+Added: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted
+Added: an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal quarter ended September 30,
+Added: 2023, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Based upon that evaluation, our chief executive
+Added: officer and chief financial officer have concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: were not effective.
+Added: controls are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed
+Added: under the Exchange Act, such as this report, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time period specified in the
+Added: SEC’s rules and forms.
+Added: Disclosure controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated
+Added: and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely
+Added: decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer (our “Certifying Officers”),
+Added: the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2023, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Based upon that evaluation, our Certifying Officers concluded that, as of September 30, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: were not effective, due to the previously disclosed material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting relating to the
+Added: accounting treatment for complex financial instruments and the failure to properly account for and disclose such instruments, in addition
+Added: to a material weakness in internal control related to the lack of review controls over financial reporting , required filings and
+Added: related disclosures.
+Added: Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
+Added: required by SEC rules and regulations implementing Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, our management is responsible for establishing
+Added: and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide
+Added: reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for
+Added: external reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.
+Added: Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures
+Added: pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of
+Added: the assets of our company,
+Added: provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in
+Added: accordance with GAAP, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management
+Added: and directors, and
+Added: provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that
+Added: could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect errors or misstatements in our consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may
+Added: become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree or compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: Management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: In making these assessments,
+Added: management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control
+Added: — Integrated Framework (2013).
+Added: Based on our assessments and those criteria, management determined that we did not maintain effective
+Added: internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2023, due to the material weakness in our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting relating to the Company’s accounting for complex financial instruments and related disclosure in addition to a material
+Added: weakness in internal control related to the lack of review controls over financial reporting, required filings and related disclsoures.
+Added: has implemented remediation steps to improve our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Specifically, we expanded and improved our
+Added: review process for complex securities and related accounting standards.
+Added: We plan to further improve this process by enhancing access to
+Added: accounting literature, identification and consideration of third-party professionals with whom to consult regarding complex accounting
+Added: applications and implementing additional layers of reviews in the financial close process.
+Added: in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
+Added: was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended September 30, 2023 covered by this
+Added: Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting, with the exception of the below.
+Added: noted a lack of review controls over the financial accounting close, required filings and reporting process that resulted in an erroneously
+Added: filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q which is being corrected with this amended filing.
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer performed additional accounting and financial analyses and other post-closing procedures
+Added: including consulting with subject matter experts related to the accounting for temporary and permanent equity and the restatement of
+Added: the Prior Financials.
+Added: The Company’s management has expended, and will continue to expend, a substantial amount of effort and resources
+Added: for the remediation of the material weakness and improvement of our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: The Company’s management
+Added: will review the financial statement close process and perform a more thorough review of the closing process, financial statements, filing
+Added: and related workbooks and schedules.
+Added: While we have processes to properly identify and evaluate the appropriate accounting technical pronouncements
+Added: and other literature for all significant or unusual transactions, we have expanded and will continue to improve these processes to ensure
+Added: that the nuances of such transactions are effectively evaluated in the context of the increasingly complex accounting standards.
+Added: II - OTHER INFORMATION
Legal Proceedings
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