COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/
For the period ended Oct 31, 2025. Filed Dec 11, 2025.
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Oct 31, 2025 · Filed Dec 11, 2025
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures
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Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), was carried out by us under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Based on this evaluation, we concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of October 31, 2025, as a result of the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting discussed below.
Notwithstanding our material weaknesses, we have concluded that the condensed consolidated financial statements and other financial information included in this Form 10-Q fairly present in all material respects our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. ("U.S. GAAP").
Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
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 the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2025, we did not design and maintain an effective control environment commensurate with our financial reporting requirements based on the criteria in the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control Framework (2013), as we lacked a sufficient complement of resources with an appropriate level of knowledge and experience to establish effective processes and controls.
The control environment material weakness contributed to other material weaknesses within our system of internal control over financial reporting at the control activity level, where we did not design and implement effective control activities, including controls related to revenue, inventory, other assets, contract liabilities and complex accounting matters and transactions (including debt, convertible preferred stock and related embedded derivatives). Deficiencies in control activities contributed to misstatements and the potential for there to have been material misstatements within these areas.
Also, an international component of our Allerium segment had ineffective controls. Specifically, we did not design and maintain effective general information technology controls (“GITCs”) and business process controls in the following areas: (i) user access controls to ensure appropriate segregation of duties and to adequately restrict user and privileged access to financial applications, programs and data to appropriate company personnel; (ii) program change management controls to ensure that changes to information technology (“IT”) programs and data affecting financial applications and underlying accounting records are properly identified, tested, authorized and implemented with appropriate segregation of duties; and (iii) business process controls to ensure that journal entries were not amended prior to posting, as the enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system which the international component operates did not, at the time of testing, restrict approvers from changing journal entries prior to posting. While no material misstatements were identified with respect to this international component, these deficiencies impact control activities over all financial statement account balances, classes of transactions and disclosures and contributed to the potential for there to have been material misstatements within the international component.
Remediation Plan
Our remediation efforts are ongoing and we will continue our initiatives to hire and engage additional skilled resources in program management and accounting and finance related functions, and implement and document policies, procedures and internal controls. Management is committed to the remediation of the material weaknesses described above.
To date, management undertook the following remedial actions in conjunction with the above remediation plan:
Reorganized and reassigned responsibilities for executing specific internal controls over financial reporting to staff within the finance organization whose experience aligns more closely with these responsibilities;
Hired more qualified staff with sufficient knowledge and experience to strengthen our financial reporting;
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Engaged third-party consultants to perform a comprehensive review of our accounting and reporting functions to assist in designing our remediation plan;
Designed and began implementing a comprehensive remediation plan to enhance our internal control environment that was approved by the Audit Committee;
Initiated and will continue the process to document, implement and redesign controls, policies, and procedures with an appropriate level of precision to detect a material misstatement, and to retain sufficient documentation to support the operating effectiveness of controls over revenue, inventory, other assets, contract liabilities, debt, convertible preferred stock and related embedded derivatives;
While management has made significant progress in remediating controls relating to complex accounting matters and transactions by engaging a third-party specialist with the requisite knowledge, experience and resources, the material weakness will not be considered remediated until the implemented controls operate for a sufficient period of time and management had concluded, through testing, that the related controls are effective;
We engaged a third-party specialist with sufficient knowledge and experience to oversee our internal audit function; such individual is independent of management and reports directly to the Audit Committee; and
With respect to our international component's operations, accounting and financial reporting, management initiated and will continue to implement proper segregation of duties and enhance control activities over GITCs. For instance, the ERP system which the international component operates has been customized to now restrict approvers from changing journal entries prior to posting.
We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of our remediation plan and refine the remediation plan as appropriate. These actions represent significant progress in addressing the material weaknesses. However, they do not represent the full suite of improvements that we plan to make in order to strengthen our internal control over financial reporting. Additional components of our remediation plan include:
Conducting training sessions for all control owners and relevant personnel to improve documentation that supports effective control activities, including evidence of the completeness and accuracy of information used in controls;
For those employees involved in the estimate at completion (“EAC”) process, conducting specialized training sessions related to newly designed or enhanced control activities that were put in place for preparing and reviewing an EAC and its impact on the accuracy of financial reporting; and
With respect to our international component's operations, accounting and financial reporting, updating and documenting its policies and procedures, including IT policies and procedures and the enhancement of certain control activities over user access, change management and the review of third-party services organization reports.
Remediation of the identified material weaknesses and strengthening of our internal control environment will require a substantial effort throughout fiscal 2026 and beyond, as necessary. We will test the ongoing operating effectiveness of the new and existing controls in future periods. The material weaknesses cannot be considered completely 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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Changes In Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Other than for the on-going remediation efforts described above, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act that occurred during our fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2025, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitation on Effectiveness of Controls
A system of controls, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the system of controls are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected. 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 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 that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.
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