Item 4. Controls and Procedures
ITEM
4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our
management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”),
evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as of September 30, 2025. Our disclosure controls and procedures are
designed to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange
Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding
required disclosures, and is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules
and forms. Based on this evaluation, and as a result of the material weakness described below, our CEO and CFO have concluded that our
disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of September 30, 2025. In light of this determination, our management has performed
additional analyses, reconciliations, and other post-closing procedures and has concluded that, notwithstanding the material weakness
in our internal control over financial reporting, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the periods covered by
and included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly state, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations
and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP.
Material
Weakness in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A
material weakness, as defined in the standards established by Sarbanes-Oxley, is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal
control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or unaudited
condensed consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
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 in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In our assessment of the effectiveness of internal control
over financial reporting as of September 30, 2025, we determined that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was
not effective due to the lack of sufficient accounting personnel and, as a result, the Company is unable to maintain proper segregation
of duties. The material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting was present as of December 31, 2024, and continued
to exist as of September 30, 2025.
Management’s
Plan to Remediate the Material Weakness
The
Company is implementing enhancements to its internal controls to remediate the identified material weakness in its internal control over
financial reporting. Specifically, the Company:
●
has
engaged external third parties for assistance as needed;
●
has
contracted to implement a new ERP system allowing for systemic enforcement of segregation of duties rules; and
●
will
be enhancing, designing and implementing process-level and general information technology controls relevant to the financial reporting
process within the new ERP system.
Additionally,
the Company plans to hire additional accounting and finance personnel with the requisite skills, knowledge and expertise to address identified
control deficiencies.
The
Company is committed to maintaining a strong internal control environment and believes these remediation efforts will represent significant
improvements in its controls over the control environment. These steps will take time to be fully implemented and confirmed to be effective
and sustainable. Additional controls may also be required over time. While the Company believes that these efforts will improve its internal
control over financial reporting, the Company will not be able to conclude whether the steps the Company is taking will remediate the
material weakness in internal control over financial reporting until a sufficient period of time has passed to allow management to test
the design and operational effectiveness of the new and enhanced controls. Until the remediation steps set forth above are fully implemented
and tested, the material weakness described above will continue to exist.
Changes
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Other
than described above, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the three months
ended September 30, 2025, that have materially affected, or that are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over
financial reporting.
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