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AMMO INC

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 8, 2024.

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Dec 31, 2023 · Filed Feb 8, 2024

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Item 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rule 13a-15(c) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, as of December 31, 2023. Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures, and is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.

Based on this evaluation, and because of the material weaknesses described below, our CEO and CFO have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level as of December 31, 2023.

Notwithstanding the material weaknesses that were identified and continued to exist as of December 31, 2023, management believes that the financial statements included in this report present fairly in all material respects our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the period presented, nor were there changes to previously released financial results.

Material Weaknesses and Management’s Remediation Plan

A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, within the meaning of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) Auditing Standard AS 2201, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

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 in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The following material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting remained as of December 31, 2023:

The Company failed to maintain an effective control environment due to the following:

●the Company’s management and the governance did not maintain appropriately designed entity-level controls impacting the control environment to prevent or detect material misstatements to the consolidated financial statements. These deficiencies were attributed to limited personnel to assist with the accounting and financial reporting function and inadequate oversight and accountability over the performance of control activities, including establishment of a Whistleblower Hotline and lack of formalization of certain key governance elements: management delegation, annual board committee charter review, acknowledgement of code of conduct, and approval of the annual budget;
●the Company failed to maintain properly designed segregation of duties, both within manual processes and system access;
●the Company failed to maintain effectively designed controls over journal entries, both recurring and nonrecurring, account reconciliations, and periodic flux analysis. Journal entries were not always accompanied by sufficient supporting documentation and were not adequately reviewed and approved for validity, completeness, and accuracy. In most instances, persons responsible for reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations for validity, completeness, and accuracy were also responsible for preparation.
●the Company failed to maintain effectively designed controls over the period-end financial reporting process, including adequate tie-out and review of documentation that supports the financial statements; and
●the Company failed to maintain effectively designed controls over information technology general controls in the areas of user provisioning and de-provisioning, application change management, operating system and logical access controls, and segregation of duties for information technology (“IT”) systems that supports the Company’s financial reporting process.

Management’s Remediation Initiatives

We have concluded that these material weaknesses arose because we did not have the necessary business processes, systems, personnel, and related internal controls.

In response to the material weaknesses, management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, has continued the process of, and is committed to, designing and implementing effective measures to strengthen our internal controls over financial reporting and remediate the material weaknesses. The Company is committed to ensuring that a proper, consistent tone is communicated throughout the organization, which emphasizes the expectation that previously existing deficiencies will be rectified through implementation of processes and controls to ensure strict compliance with U.S. GAAP and regulatory requirements.

Our third–party consulting firm that specializes in internal audit work, and more specifically internal controls over financial reporting work, has assisted management and will continue to assist management with our risk assessment of internal control over financial reporting as well as documentation and testing of our internal control structure and evaluation of material weaknesses, with special focus on assisting management in the establishment and evaluation of proper segregation of duties procedures and monitoring and controls over ITGCs for the systems that support our financial reporting process. Specifically, with the right compliment of accounting and finance team members now in place, our entire control environment is being evaluated for enhancement of our internal controls over financial reporting.

In addition to the measures noted above, we have made progress in our remediation plan including the following items:

●Management has presented, and the Board of Directors has approved the formal management delegation and the Company’s Annual Budget during the first quarter of fiscal year 2024.
●The Company formally completed the implementation of a whistleblower hotline during the third quarter of fiscal year 2024.
●Approved, adopted, and implemented accounting policies related to journal entries and invoice approval.
●Improved formalization of procedures and documentation for all journal entries, account reconciliations, flux analysis and variance thresholds, vendor set-up.
●Completed the IT Remediation Project with third-party consultants to develop IT policies and procedures. The Company is now executing related controls over user provisioning and de-provisioning, application change management, operating system and logical access controls, segregation of duties, and third-party service provider report review process.
●Implemented improvements surrounding review and approval of controls with a review element, including proper segregation, enhanced documentation, and consistency of application.
●Continued evaluation of organizational structure with hiring of additional personnel across key functions.

As of the end of the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, management, with the help of our third-party consulting firm, completed walkthroughs of our key controls, including those additional controls that would be necessary to effectively remediate the existing material weaknesses. Through this assessment, we continued enhancement of the design of the overall controls framework. Further assessments will be made of these controls, in addition to continued evaluation of management remediation actions identified above, to ascertain operating effectiveness, after which we will be able to determine if the existing material weaknesses have been remediated.

While these actions and planned actions are subject to ongoing management evaluation and will require validation and testing of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over a sustained period of financial reporting cycles, we are committed to the continuous improvement of our internal control over financial reporting and will continue to diligently review our internal control over financial reporting.

Changes in Internal Controls

Other than the changes described above, there have not been any changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Exchange Act in Rule 13a-15(c) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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