Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item
4. Controls and Procedures
Changes
in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.
None.
Disclosure
Controls and Procedures
We
maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) defines
such term. We have designed these controls and procedures to reasonably assure that information required to be disclosed in our
reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Form 10-Q, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the periods
specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. We have also designed our disclosure controls to provide reasonable assurance that
such information is accumulated and communicated to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Vice President/Controller,
as appropriate, to allow them to make timely decisions regarding our required disclosures.
Our
management has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange
Act) as of December 31, 2015. Based on this evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, as co-principal
executive officers, and Vice President/Controller acting as principal financial officer, concluded that our Company’s disclosure
controls and procedures, including the accumulation and communication of disclosures to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive
Vice President, and Vice President/Controller, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, were effective
as of this date to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or
submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s
rules and forms. Based on this evaluation, we have concluded that there are no material weaknesses in our disclosure controls
and procedures and they were effective.
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Management’s
Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting .
Our
management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule
13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes.
Because
of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even
those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives. Our management,
including our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, as co-principal executive officers, and Vice President/Controller
acting as principal financial officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal controls will
prevent all error or fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute,
assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that
there are resource constraints and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Due to 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, have been detected. Management believes that the financial statements included in this report fairly present in all material
respects our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented.
Our
management, with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, as co-principal executive officers,
and Vice President/Controller acting as principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2015. In making this assessment, our management used the criteria set forth
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) in Internal Control – Integrated
Framework. As a result of its review, management identified a material weakness in the internal control over financial reporting
as described in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2015. Based on this evaluation, our management concluded
that, as of December 31, 2015, our internal control over financial reporting was not comprehensive. Management acknowledges that
as a smaller reporting entity, it is difficult to have adequate accounting staff to perform appropriate additional reviews of
the financial statements.
PART
II – OTHER INFORMATION
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