Item 4. Controls and Procedures
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Controls and Procedures
The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we conducted an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based on the evaluation of these disclosure controls and procedures, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that the previously reported material weakness has been remediated.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our internal control over financial reporting, specifically the review controls over the evaluation of complex, non-routine transactions, were previously determined to be insufficient to detect the proper accounting and reporting for the public warrants and private placement warrants previously issued by Thunder Bridge (collectively, the “Warrants”), which were outstanding and recorded on our consolidated financial statements at the time of the Business Combination. Management identified this error when the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement (the “Statement”) on the accounting and reporting considerations for warrants issued by special purpose acquisition companies on April 12, 2021. The Statement addresses certain accounting and reporting considerations related to warrants of a kind similar to the Warrants. This control deficiency resulted in the Company having to restate certain of our audited consolidated financial statements contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the quarterly periods included therein, and if not remediated, could have resulted in a material misstatement to future annual or interim consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected. Accordingly, management previously determined that this control deficiency constituted a material weakness during the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Since the restatement, management has implemented remediation steps to address that material weakness and to improve our internal control over financial reporting. Specifically, we expanded and improved our review process for
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complex securities and related accounting standards. We have further improved this process by enhancing access to accounting literature, identification of third-party professionals with whom to consult regarding complex accounting applications and consideration of additional staff with the requisite experience and training to supplement existing accounting professionals. As of September 30, 2021, the control deficiency related to the restatement has been remediated.
Other than the remediation efforts relating to the former material weakness described above, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) during the quarter ended September 30, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
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