Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well-designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system's objectives will be met. 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. Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
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As of the end of the period covered by this Amended Form 10-Q/A, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) pursuant to Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.
The Company has determined that it made an error in the presentation and accounting of its consolidated statement of cash flows in the Company’s annual and interim consolidated financial statements during 2021 and 2022. The management of the company has assessed its accounting policies as well as the presentation and accounting for the gain and loss on foreign currency and has concluded that it was necessary to restate its previously issued financial statements for the correction of this error related to incorrect classification of gain and loss on foreign currency in effect of exchange rate changes on cash instead of including such non-cash unrealized gains and losses in cash flows from operating activities. The effect of this error was to overstate net cash used in operating activities and effect of exchange rate changes on cash by $354 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and by $470 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2021, respectively. The error and the required restatement had no effect on the Company’s cash flows from investing activities, financing activities, net changes in cash or cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021, and had no impact on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet, statements of operations and comprehensive loss and stockholders’ equity as of and for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
As a result, we determined that there was a material error in the cash flow statement that required a restatement of the financial statement for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and to our Form 10-Qs for the periods ended September 30, 2021 and March 31, 2022 (including comparative information for March 31, 2021) to restate the previously issued financial statements, with comparatives for June 30, 2021 restated in our Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022. This was due to inadequate design and implementation of controls to evaluate and monitor the presentation and compliance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America related to the cash flow statement. Accordingly, management has determined that this control deficiency constitutes a material weakness. Based upon, and as of the date of, this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2022 were not effective.
Remediation Plan for Material Weakness
Management is actively engaged in the planning for, and implementation of, remediation efforts to address the material weakness. The remediation plan includes enhancement of our existing monitoring and review controls over the preparation of financial statements, including designing and documenting additional procedures, reconciliations and analysis to evaluate and monitor presentation of the cash flow statement. We can provide no assurance that our remediation efforts described herein will be successful and that we will not have material weaknesses in the future.
Under the direction of the Audit Committee, management will continue to review and make necessary changes to the overall design of our internal control environment, as well as to policies and procedures to improve the overall effectiveness of internal controls during the period ending December 31, 2022.
Notwithstanding the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, we have concluded that the condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q fairly present, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Other than the material weakness discussed above, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the period covered by this Report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. In light of the restatement of our financial statements included in this Amended Form 10-Q/A, we plan to enhance our existing monitoring and review controls over the preparation of financial statements.
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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
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