Item 4. Controls and Procedures
ITEM
4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation
of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We
have established disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that
we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules
and forms and is accumulated and communicated to management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer,
to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our
principal executive officer and principal financial officer, with the assistance of other members of our management, have evaluated the
effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)
under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report. Based upon this evaluation, our principal executive
officer and principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are not effective to ensure 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 in the Commission’s rules and forms and is accumulated and communicated to our management, including
its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes
in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
During
our transition period ended December 31, 2023 , our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our internal
control over financial reporting was not effective due to the material weaknesses described below.
1.
We lack sufficient resources in our accounting department restricting
our ability to review and approve certain material journal entries which increases the likelihood that a material misstatement of interim
or annual financial statements might not be prevented. Management evaluated our current process of review and approval of certain material
journal entries and concluded this deficiency represented a material weakness.
2.
We lack sufficient resources in our accounting department,
which restricts our ability to review certain material reconciliations related to financial reporting in a timely manner. Due to our
size and nature, segregation of all conflicting duties may not always be possible and may not be economically feasible. Management evaluated
the impact of our failure to have proper segregation between the preparation, review and approval of account reconciliations and concluded
that this control deficiency represented a material weakness.
3.
Due to resource restrictions, we have not established a three-way
match of documents or other controls precise enough to detect a material misstatement in revenue. Management evaluated our current process
of determining the occurrence of revenue and concluded this deficiency represented a material weakness.
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Planned
Remediation
We
continue to work on improving and simplifying our internal processes and implement enhanced controls to address the material weaknesses
in our internal control over financial reporting discussed above and to remedy the ineffectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures.
We are addressing our accounting resource requirements to help remediate the segregation of duties and plan to implement a concise “three-way”
document matching procedure. These material weaknesses will not be considered as remediated until the applicable remediated controls
are operating for a sufficient period and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
Despite
the material weaknesses identified above, we believe that the consolidated financial statements included in the period covered by this
report on Form 10-Q fairly present, in all material aspects, our financial conditions, results of operations and cash flows for the periods
presented in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
During
the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2024, there were no additional changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term
is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially
affect our internal control over financial reporting.
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