Item 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,

as amended (the "Exchange Act"), as of the end of the annual period covered by this report. In accordance with the guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, companies are permitted to exclude acquisitions from their first assessment of internal control over financial reporting following the date of acquisition. Excluding goodwill and intangible assets, Irwin and LiquidityBook represented a combined 2% of our Total assets as of August 31, 2025 and 1% of our consolidated Revenues for fiscal year 2025.

Our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the annual period covered by this report due to a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting. This conclusion is due to a material weakness identified in the operation of certain key IT general controls. The material weakness is described below and represents a continuation of a sub-set of the control deficiencies which gave rise to the initial material weakness identified in management’s evaluation of our control environment as of August 31, 2024.

Continuation of Previously Reported Material Weakness

As reported in Part II, Item 9A. “Controls and Procedures” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2024, we had identified a material weakness in the design and operation of IT general controls that support our revenues, accounts receivable, and deferred revenues processes which, in the aggregate, gave rise to a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting. While we have made significant progress remediating those control deficiencies, there remains certain deficiencies related to program change management and monitoring and user access in connection with segregation of duties and restrictions to appropriate users. As a result, the automated controls and IT dependent manual business process controls that rely upon information from the affected financial applications were deemed not effective. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

As a result of the identification of the material weakness, we performed further analysis and completed additional procedures intended to ensure our consolidated financial statements for the years ended August 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023 fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and have been prepared in accordance GAAP. Based on these procedures and analysis, after giving full consideration to the material weakness, our management has concluded that our Consolidated Financial Statements present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods disclosed in conformity with GAAP.

Remediation Efforts

During fiscal 2025, management made significant progress in enhancing the Company’s IT general controls to remediate the IT general control material weakness, however this effort remains ongoing. With the oversight of the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we have implemented remediation efforts to address the material weakness and enhance our IT general controls that support our revenues, accounts receivable, and deferred revenues processes. Our remediation efforts included:

• Strengthening the control environment by implementing controls that increase the frequency and effectiveness of user management and change management, including improved logging and segregation of duties capabilities.

• Engaging a leading third-party accounting advisory firm, with appropriate internal control expertise and experience, to help evaluate the design of our controls as well as to assist with the documentation, remediation, and related controls testing.

• Management also worked with the accounting advisory firm to revise the Company’s IT Risk and Control Matrix and to re-design certain controls around manage change and manage access to address the design deficiencies from the prior year.

• Hired additional key IT compliance personnel and a global head of internal audit.

• Trained relevant personnel on the design and operation of our IT general controls over financial reporting.

While these efforts have resulted in significant progress toward remediating the material weakness, certain deficiencies remain, which management is committed to remediating. Our remediation plans include:

• Enhancing the precision and documentation of the change monitoring and segregation of duties review controls through additional training and formalized standard operating procedures.

• Performing additional testing of the change monitoring and segregation of duties review controls to demonstrate the sustainability and repeatability of control operating effectiveness.

• Implementing technology solutions to enhance the control framework for supporting change monitoring, segregation of duties and access management review controls.

• Continuing to utilize an expert third-party accounting advisory firm to evaluate the design of our controls as well as to assist with the documentation, remediation and associated testing.

Additional or modified measures may also be required to remediate the material weakness. We will not be able to conclude that we have completely remediated the material weakness until the applicable controls are fully implemented and have operated for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through formal testing, that the remediated controls are operating effectively. We expect to complete these remediation measures as early as practicable in fiscal 2026. We will continue to monitor the design and effectiveness of these and other processes, procedures, and controls and make any further changes management deems appropriate. We regularly report to the Audit Committee on our progress and will continue to do so in fiscal 2026.

Inherent Limitations of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

No system of controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the system of controls will be met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control deficiencies or material weaknesses have been or will be detected. There is no assurance that our remediation efforts will be fully effective. If these remediation efforts do not prove effective and control deficiencies and material weaknesses persist or occur in the future, the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting may be adversely affected.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Other than the ongoing remediation plans described above, there were 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 Exchange Act) during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

See Part II, Item 8. Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

See Part II, Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is incorporated herein by reference.