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Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Our Chief Executive Officer, President
−Removed: and General Counsel, as our principal executive officer (“Chief Executive Officer”), and our Chief Financial Officer,
−Removed: as our principal financial officer (“Chief Financial Officer”), evaluated the effectiveness of our “disclosure
−Removed: controls and procedures,”
−Removed: as such term is defined in Rules 13a - 15(e) and 15d - 15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange
−Removed: Act of 1934, as amended, (“Exchange Act”).
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that the information
−Removed: required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit to the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act are recorded, processed,
−Removed: summarized and reported within the period specified by the Commission’s rules and forms and are accumulated and communicated
−Removed: to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
−Removed: Based upon this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of January 31,
−Removed: 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to the material weaknesses in internal control over financial
+Added: Our Chief Executive Officer, President and General
+Added: Counsel, as our principal executive officer (“Chief Executive Officer”), and our Chief Financial Officer, as our principal
+Added: financial officer (“Chief Financial Officer”), evaluated the effectiveness of our “disclosure controls and procedures,”
+Added: as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure
+Added: that the information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit to the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act are
+Added: recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the period specified by the Commission’s rules and forms and are accumulated
+Added: and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required
+Added: Based upon this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of July 31,
+Added: 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting,
+Added: below described in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
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.
−Removed: the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be
−Removed: considered relative to their costs.
−Removed: Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide
−Removed: absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.
−Removed: These inherent
−Removed: limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns can occur because of simple
−Removed: error or mistake.
−Removed: Also, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people
−Removed: or by management override of the controls.
−Removed: The design of any system of controls is also based in part upon certain assumptions
−Removed: about the likelihood of future events.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under
−Removed: all potential future conditions.
−Removed: Management’s Report on Internal
−Removed: Controls over Financial Reporting
+Added: Further, the design
+Added: of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative
+Added: to their costs.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that
+Added: all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.
+Added: These inherent limitations include the realities
+Added: that judgments in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.
+Added: Also, controls can be
+Added: circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls.
+Added: design of any system of controls is also based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events.
+Added: There can be no
+Added: assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
+Added: Management’s Report on Internal Controls
+Added: over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing
−Removed: and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting as that term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and
−Removed: Our internal controls over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability
−Removed: of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S.
+Added: and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting as that term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f).
+Added: Our internal controls over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
+Added: and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S.
+Added: A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination
+Added: of deficiencies, in internal controls over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement
+Added: of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected in a timely basis.
Under the supervision and with the participation
−Removed: of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our
−Removed: internal controls over financial reporting as of January 31, 2021 based on the criteria outlined in Internal Control-Integrated
−Removed: Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) and identified
−Removed: the following material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting:
−Removed: Insufficient procedures and control documentation to implement control procedures including lack of timely contract preparation and review.
−Removed: We have developed procedures to provide ample review time of financial information, including contract preparation and review by qualified personnel as well as management.
−Removed: We have implemented these procedures, determined they are still insufficient and will continue to review these procedures to determine ways to further improve them.
+Added: of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal
+Added: controls over financial reporting as of July 31, 2021 based on the criteria outlined in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued
+Added: by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) and identified the following material weaknesses
+Added: in internal controls over financial reporting:
Insufficient segregation of duties of the Chief Financial Officer.
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Based upon the results of this review process, we intend to implement the required remediation measures when it is reasonable to do so.
−Removed: Because of these material weaknesses, our
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of January 31, 2021, our internal controls over financial
−Removed: reporting were not effective based on the COSO criteria.
−Removed: We are in the process of investigating
−Removed: new procedures and controls for the balance of fiscal year 2021.
−Removed: At the appropriate time we plan to make changes to our procedures
−Removed: and controls that we believe are reasonable and reasonably likely to strengthen and materially affect our internal controls over
−Removed: financial reporting.
−Removed: Prior to the remediation of these material
−Removed: weaknesses, there remains risk that the processes and procedures on which we currently rely will fail to be sufficiently effective,
−Removed: which could result in material misstatement of our financial position or results of operations and require a restatement.
−Removed: of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls - even where we conclude the controls are operating
−Removed: effectively - can provide absolute assurance that all control issues, including instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.
−Removed: These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision making can be faulty and breakdowns can occur because
−Removed: of simple error or mistake.
−Removed: Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of a person, by collusion of two
−Removed: or more people, or by management override of the controls.
−Removed: The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain
−Removed: assumptions about the likelihood of future events;
−Removed: accordingly, there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving
−Removed: its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
−Removed: Over time, our control systems, as we develop them, may become inadequate
−Removed: because of changes in conditions or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
−Removed: Because of the inherent
−Removed: limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected and could be
−Removed: material to our financial statements.
−Removed: Changes in Internal Controls over
−Removed: Financial Reporting
−Removed: There were no changes in our internal controls
−Removed: over financial reporting during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
−Removed: affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: Because of these material weaknesses, our Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of July 31, 2021, our internal controls over financial reporting
+Added: were not effective based on the COSO criteria.
+Added: We are in the process of investigating new procedures
+Added: and controls for fiscal year 2022.
+Added: We plan to make changes to our procedures and controls that we believe are reasonably likely to strengthen
+Added: and materially affect our internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: Prior to the remediation of these material weaknesses,
+Added: there remains risk that the processes and procedures on which we currently rely will fail to be sufficiently effective, which could result
+Added: in material misstatement of our financial position or results of operations and require a restatement.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations
+Added: in all control systems, no evaluation of controls - even where we conclude the controls are operating effectively - can provide absolute
+Added: assurance that all control issues, including instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.
+Added: These inherent limitations include the realities
+Added: that judgments in decision making can be faulty, and breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.
+Added: Additionally, controls can
+Added: be circumvented by the individual acts of a person, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the controls.
+Added: design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events;
+Added: accordingly, there
+Added: can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
+Added: Over time, our control
+Added: systems, as we develop them, may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures
+Added: may deteriorate.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur
+Added: and not be detected and could be material to our financial statements.
+Added: Changes in Internal Controls over Financial
+Added: There were no changes
+Added: in our internal control over financial reporting during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably
+Added: likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
The Certifications of our Principal Executive
−Removed: Officer and Principal Financial Officer required in accordance with Rule 13a-14(a) under the Exchange Act and Section 302 of the
−Removed: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Certifications”) are attached to this Report.
−Removed: The disclosures set forth in this Item 4
−Removed: contain information concerning:
−Removed: (i) the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, and changes in internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting, referred to in paragraph 4 of the Certifications;
−Removed: and (ii) material weaknesses in the design or operation
−Removed: of our internal control over financial reporting, referred to in paragraph 5 of the Certifications.
−Removed: The Certifications should be
−Removed: read in conjunction with this Item 4 for a more complete understanding of the matters covered by the Certifications.
−Removed: PART II –
−Removed: OTHER INFORMATION
+Added: and Principal Financial Officer required in accordance with Rule 13a-14(a) under the Exchange Act and Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
+Added: Act of 2002 (“Certifications”) are attached to this Report.
+Added: The disclosures set forth in this Item 4 contain information concerning:
+Added: (i) the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, and changes in internal control over financial reporting, referred to in
+Added: paragraph 4 of the Certifications;
+Added: and (ii) material weaknesses in the design or operation of our internal control over financial reporting,
+Added: referred to in paragraph 5 of the Certifications.
+Added: The Certifications should be read in conjunction with this Item 4 for a more complete
+Added: understanding of the matters covered by the Certifications.
+Added: PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Legal Proceedings.
−Removed: We are not currently a party to any material
−Removed: pending legal proceedings.
−Removed: There are no material legal proceedings to which any property of ours is subject.
+Added: There is no material
+Added: litigation currently pending against us or any of our subsidiaries or to which any of our or our subsidiaries’ property is subject.
+Added: To our knowledge, there is no material litigation against any of our officers or directors in their capacity as such, and no such litigation
+Added: is contemplated by any governmental authorities.
+Added: Risk Factors.
+Added: The information called for by Item 1A is not required
+Added: for a smaller reporting company.
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