Item 4. Controls and Procedures
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in reports 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 such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our management, with the participation of our CEO and our CFO, who are our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on this evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that, as of March 31, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as a result of a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the design of our controls related to the accounting for income taxes and related disclosures discussed in our 2023 Form 10-K which has not yet been remediated.
Notwithstanding the identified material weakness, our management, including our CEO and CFO, does not believe that this deficiency had an adverse effect on our reported operating results or financial condition, and has concluded that our financial statements and other financial information included in this Quarterly Report present fairly, in all material respects, our financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows for the periods presented in accordance with GAAP.
Remediation
As previously disclosed in Part II, Item 9A of our 2023 Form 10-K, we have drafted documentation to respond to and are developing a comprehensive plan to remediate the material weakness. As of the date of this filing, management is in the process of implementing the following remediation steps:
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Inventorying the key reports used in the operation of controls related to the calculation of the tax provision as well as the related source systems of those reports;
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Evaluating and enhancing the design of controls relating to key reports to ensure that the information contained within the reports related to the tax provision is complete and accurate; and
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Evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of management review controls designed to validate the completeness and accuracy of key reports and other data used in the computation of the tax provision.
We believe that these actions will remediate the material weakness, once management has performed its assessment of internal controls over financial reporting including the remedial measures described above. While the foregoing measures are intended to effectively remediate the material weakness, it is possible that additional remediation steps may be necessary. As such, as we evaluate and implement our plan to remediate the material weakness, management may take additional measures to address the material weakness or modify the foregoing remediation steps. The material weakness will not be considered remediated until the applicable controls operate for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that the controls are operating effectively.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Except for the material weakness and remediation efforts described above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2024 that materially affected, or which are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures
In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures
relative to their costs. The design of any disclosure controls and procedures is also based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
Part II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
There have been no material changes from the legal proceedings described in our 2023 Form 10-K.
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