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SANUWAVE Health Inc

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Mar 21, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Mar 21, 2024

SNWV$1.85-15.5%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Item 9A.CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that 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. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

We carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer and accounting officer), of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2023. Based on this evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not operating effectively as of December 31, 2023.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) for the Company. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives.

Management, with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and the Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer), evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013).

As of December 31, 2023, the Company identified the following material weaknesses:

1.Expertise and resources to analyze and properly apply U.S. GAAP to complex and non-routine transactions such as complex financial instruments and derivatives and complex sales distributing agreements with select vendors.
2.A lack of internal resources to analyze and properly apply U.S. GAAP to accounting for financial instruments included in service agreements with select vendors.
3.The Company has failed to design and implement controls around all accounting and IT processes and procedures and, as such, we believe that all its accounting and IT processes and procedures need to be re-designed and tested for operating effectiveness.

As a result, management concluded that its internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2023.

Remediation Plan

We are working with an external vendor to properly document our current internal control policies and procedures to provide the framework for increased effectiveness to test internal controls going forward. We are also adding automated and manual controls into and over the Company’s enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system to ensure that controls are implemented to mitigate the risk in customer creation, pricing, and accuracy of billing. We will continue to work with our external vendor to remediate the weaknesses noted above.

We are also working with an outside vendor to improve our IT general controls over our ERP system and set up a proper framework for IT general controls to be executed with the objective to remediate the weaknesses regarding internal controls and provide the framework for testing going forward.

While the above actions and planned actions are subject to ongoing management evaluation and will require validation and testing of the design and operating effectiveness of internal control over a sustained period, we are committed to continuous improvement and will continue to diligently review our internal control over financial reporting. The material weaknesses will not be considered remediated until management completes the design and implementation of the measures described above, until the controls operate for a sufficient period of time, and until management has concluded, through testing, that the controls are effective.

There is no assurance that the measures described above will be sufficient to remediate the previously identified material weaknesses and significant deficiencies.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2023, that materially affect, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting, except as disclosed above.

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