Controls and Procedures.
−Removed: Management’s
Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation
−Removed: of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
−Removed: Exchange Act ”), as amended, as of September 30, 2017 to ensure that information required to be disclosed
−Removed: by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the
−Removed: time periods specified in the rules and forms adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “
−Removed: SEC ”),
−Removed: including to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Exchange
−Removed: Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (our Principal Executive Officer)
−Removed: and our Chief Financial Officer (our Principal Financial and Accounting Officer), or persons performing similar functions, as
−Removed: appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of June 30, 2017, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at
−Removed: the reasonable assurance level due to the material weaknesses identified in the “
−Removed: Risk Factors ”
−Removed: section of our
−Removed: Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer do not expect that our disclosure controls or internal controls will prevent
−Removed: all error and all fraud.
−Removed: Although our disclosure controls and procedures were designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving
−Removed: their objectives and our principal executive officer has determined that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective
−Removed: at doing so, a control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute assurance
−Removed: that the objectives of the system are met.
−Removed: Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource
−Removed: constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs.
−Removed: Because of the inherent limitations in all
−Removed: control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any,
−Removed: within the Company have been detected.
−Removed: These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can
−Removed: be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.
−Removed: Additionally, controls can be circumvented if there
−Removed: exists in an individual a desire to do so.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals
−Removed: under all potential future conditions.
−Removed: in Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this report that
−Removed: has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: connection with the restatement of the Company’s financial statements included in this Amendment, our Chief Executive Officer and
+Added: Chief Financial Officer re-evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal
+Added: control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
+Added: “ Exchange Act ”), as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed,
+Added: summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, including to ensure that information required
+Added: to be disclosed by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management,
+Added: including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: on that re-evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of September 30, 2023, our disclosure
+Added: controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting were not effective, due to material weaknesses in SSi’s internal
+Added: control in that:
+Added: failed to design controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that U.S.
+Added: GAAP was being properly applied to the matters
+Added: resulting the restatement of our financial statements, including accounting for merger transaction, recognition of revenue in case
+Added: of deferred payment sales, recognition of right of use of certain assets and lease liabilities and functional and other classifications,
+Added: resulting in the accounting errors described in Note 1.
+Added: Restatement of Previously Issued Condensed Consolidated Financial
+Added: Statements , of this Amendment.
+Added: do not have written documentation of our internal control policies and procedures.
+Added: Written documentation of key internal controls
+Added: over financial reporting is a requirement of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
+Added: Management evaluated the impact of our failure
+Added: to have written documentation of our internal controls and procedures on our assessment of our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: and has concluded that the control deficiency that resulted represented a material weakness.
+Added: do not have sufficient segregation of duties within accounting functions, which is a basic internal control.
+Added: Due to our size and
+Added: nature, segregation of all conflicting duties may not always be possible and may not be economically feasible.
+Added: However, to the extent
+Added: possible, the initiation of transactions, the custody of assets and the recording of transactions should be performed by separate
+Added: Management evaluated the impact of our failure to have segregation of duties on our assessment of our disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures and procedures and has concluded that the control deficiency that resulted represented a material weakness.
+Added: Company has been addressing and remediating these material weaknesses with the support and assistance of the accounting and financial
+Added: staff employed by our Indian operating subsidiary.
+Added: We are enhancing the review process for significant transactions to ensure proper
+Added: accounting treatment under applicable guidelines and are engaging external experts where necessary to assist in the application of accounting
+Added: principles to complex transactions.
+Added: In addition, we are implementing a new ERP system which is designed to integrate all business functions
+Added: within the accounting and financial department to further address the abovementioned weaknesses.
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer do not expect that our disclosure controls or internal controls will prevent all
+Added: errors and all fraud.
+Added: Although our disclosure controls and procedures were designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their
+Added: objectives a control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute assurance that the
+Added: objectives of the system are met.
+Added: Further, the design of any control system is subject to resource constraints and the benefits of controls
+Added: must be considered relative to their costs.
+Added: Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can
+Added: provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.
+Added: These inherent
+Added: limitations include the fact that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple errors
+Added: Additionally, controls can be circumvented if there exists in an individual a desire to do so.
+Added: There can be no assurance
+Added: that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
+Added: Changes in Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
+Added: for the remediation efforts described above, there were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during
+Added: the last fiscal quarter covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
II – OTHER INFORMATION
−Removed: Legal Proceedings.
−Removed: Risk Factors.
−Removed: the section of our prospectus entitled “
−Removed: Risk Factors ”
−Removed: in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.
−Removed: declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 31, 2017.
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