DUKE Robotics Corp.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 20, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Mar 20, 2025
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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information we are required to disclose in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act, such as this Annual Report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by SEC rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information we are required to disclose in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the CEO and the CFO, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our management, with the participation of our CEO and CFO, as in place as of December 31, 2024, evaluated, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2024, pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act. This evaluation included a review of the controls’ objectives and design, the operation of the controls, and the effect of the controls on the information presented in this Annual Report. Our management, including the CEO and CFO, do not expect that disclosure controls can or will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud, if any. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted 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 in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including our CEO and CFO, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Also, the projection of any evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures to future periods is subject to the risk that the disclosure controls and procedures may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Based on their review and evaluation, and subject to the inherent limitations described above, our CEO and CFO concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) were not effective as of December 31, 2024, at the above-described reasonable assurance level.
During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, management identified the following weaknesses, which were deemed to be material weaknesses in internal controls:
| 1. | Due to the size of the Company and available resources, there is a lack of sufficient segregation of duties. |
| 2. | The Company does not have an Independent Audit Committee that can provide management oversight. |
Remediation Measures
We plan to remediate these material weaknesses by enhancing our segregation of duties and internal control over financial reporting and by electing an additional independent director (as defined under Nasdaq Listing Rules) to the board of directors and establish an Audit Committee, which will assist our board of directors in overseeing our accounting and financial reporting processes, the audits of our financial statements and internal control over financial reporting. The Audit Committee will also assist the board of directors in overseeing our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
We believe the actions described above, once put in place, will be sufficient to remediate the identified material weakness and strengthen our internal control over financial reporting. However, the new and enhanced controls have not yet been put in place and therefore we cannot conclude that the material weakness will be remediated. We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these controls and will make any further changes management determines appropriate.
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. Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Because of inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even internal controls determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting is subject to various inherent limitations, including cost limitations, judgments used in decision making, assumptions about the likelihood of future events, the possibility of human error, and the risk of fraud. The projection of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods is subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies may deteriorate. Because of these limitations, there can be no assurance that any system of internal control over financial reporting will be successful in preventing all errors or fraud or in making all material information known in a timely manner to the appropriate levels of management.
This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of the company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to rules of the Commission that exempt from this requirement issuers that are neither accelerated filers nor large accelerated filers.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting during the year ended December 31, 2024, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO - 2013) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework. Based on this assessment, management, as in place as of December 31, 2024, determined that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, was not effective due to the material weakness previously identified as stated above.
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