Item 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
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Item 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including
our principal executive officer and
principal financial officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and
procedures as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report as such
term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e)
and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “Exchange Act”).
Based
on this evaluation, our management, including our principal executive
officer and principal financial officer,
concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of June 25, 2022,
to ensure that all material
information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit
under the Exchange Act is accumulated
and communicated to them as appropriate to allow timely decisions
regarding required disclosure and that all such
information is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the
time periods specified in the SEC’s rules
and forms.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
The continued acquisition integrations and systems implementation activity
carried over from prior quarters when
considered in the aggregate, represents a material change in our
internal control over financial reporting.
During the quarter ended June 25, 2022, post-acquisition integration
related activities continued for our dental and
medical businesses acquired during prior quarters.
These acquisitions, the majority of which utilize separate
information and financial accounting systems, have been included
in our condensed consolidated financial
statements since their respective dates of acquisition.
Additionally, we continued systems implementation activities
related to the upgrade of the warehouse management system
for our Australian dental business.
All continued acquisition integrations and systems implementation activity
involve necessary and appropriate
change-management controls that are considered in our quarterly assessment of
the design and operating
effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
Limitations of the Effectiveness of Internal Control
A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide
only reasonable, not absolute, assurance
that the objectives of the internal control system are met.
Because of the inherent limitations of any internal control
system, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that
all control issues, if any, within a company
have been detected.
PART
II.
OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
For a discussion of Legal Proceedings, see
of the Notes to the Condensed Consolidated
Financial Statements included under Item 1.
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