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As a result, management revised its original six step remediation plan that was designed with the assistance of management’s outside consultant, an internationally recognized accounting firm.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2023, the Company continues to execute its revised remediation plan, including the implementation of the new and revised internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: As of September 30, 2023, the Company continues to execute its revised remediation plan, including the implementation of the new and revised internal controls over financial reporting.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: In connection with the preparation of this Form 10-Q, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the Company carried out an evaluation with the participation of its management, including its Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer), of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined under Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of June 30, 2023.
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, because of the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting discussed below, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2023, to ensure:
+Added: In connection with the preparation of this Form 10-Q, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the Company carried out an evaluation with the participation of its management, including its Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer), of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined under Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, because of the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting discussed below, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of September 30, 2023, to ensure:
(i) that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and (ii) that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
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To remediate the material weaknesses described above, the Company, with the oversight of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”), has been pursuing the revised remediation plan to implement new and revised internal controls over financial reporting.
−Removed: Through the second quarter of 2023, the Company has completed certain steps in its revised remediation plan, including:
+Added: Through the third quarter of 2023, the Company has completed certain steps in its revised remediation plan, including:
Conducted interviews with relevant parties and confirmed management’s understanding of the internal control activities, including information used in the recording of transactions within the Company's financial reporting processes;
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Executed a targeted training program to educate control owners on the requirements of internal control activities, including maintaining adequate documentary evidence for internal control activities.
−Removed: The design and implementation of certain new and revised internal controls associated with expenditure and revenue processes for one remaining manufacturing location of the Aluminum Extrusion business is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2023.
+Added: The remaining design and implementation of certain new and revised internal controls pertains to the expenditure process for the Aluminum Extrusion business, which is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2023.
+Added: The Company previously expected to complete the design and implementation of all internal controls by the third quarter of 2023;
+Added: however, the remediation of controls in the expenditure processes for the Aluminum Extrusion business has been delayed due to various factors, including resource constraints as a result of employee turnover in the third quarter of 2023 and the Company's focus on completing the design and implementation of internal controls associated with the revenue process for the Aluminum Extrusion business.
+Added: In the processes where the Company has designed and implemented new and revised controls, management has commenced testing over the operating effectiveness of such controls.
The material weaknesses cannot be considered remediated until the applicable controls have operated for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
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The Company is in the process of implementing certain changes in its internal controls to remediate the material weaknesses described above.
−Removed: Except as noted above, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended June 30, 2023, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act).
+Added: Except as noted above, there has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2023, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act).
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.