AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co

Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures designed to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.) 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 us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. 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 and not absolute assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.

The Company’s management, with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act as of September 30, 2024, the end of the period covered by this report. Based on such evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of September 30, 2024, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are not effective, based on the material weaknesses described below.

Material Weakness in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act). Management, with the participation of the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, under the oversight of our Board of Directors, assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2024 based on the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013 Framework). Based on this assessment, management concluded that, as of September 30, 2024, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective, due to the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting, described below.

Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including the individuals serving as our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, 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.

A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

The Company did not have a sufficient complement of personnel with appropriate technical expertise to perform an effective risk assessment. In addition, the Company did not maintain proper segregation of duties related to accounting processes. As a consequence, internal control deficiencies related to the design and operation of process-level controls were determined to be pervasive throughout the Company’s financial reporting processes. While these material weaknesses did result in immaterial misstatements of the Company’s consolidated financial statements, these material weaknesses create a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of account balances or disclosures in the consolidated financial statements may not be prevented or detected in a timely manner. Therefore, we concluded that the deficiencies represent material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of September 30, 2024.

Remediation Plan

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024, remediation efforts included removing accounting personnel access to both create and post a journal entry, moving the systems administration tasks to personnel outside of the accounting department, and adding review procedures by qualified personnel over complex accounting matters by way of engaging third-party professionals with whom to consult regarding complex accounting applications and valuations. However, there is no guarantee that these measures will remediate the material weaknesses described above.

In addition to the above steps taken, in July 2024, we hired a new corporate controller with extensive experience in technical accounting, SEC reporting and internal control over financial reporting. In October 2024, we hired a senior accountant with public accounting and public company reporting experience, which will help to mitigate segregation of duties weakness. We plan to continue to utilize an outside CPA firm for technical expertise and we plan to perform a complete risk assessment to update our control procedures. These additional steps will help mitigate the technical expertise weakness, the segregation of duties weakness and identify any other areas of risk to be incorporated in our overall internal control plan. We expect to remediate these material weaknesses by the end of fiscal year 2025.

We are committed to ensuring that our internal control over financial reporting is designed and operating effectively. While we believe procedures are in place as of September 30, 2024 to address the material weaknesses, remediation steps are required to be in place and effective for an adequate period of time. We cannot provide assurance that such material weaknesses will be remediated, and we may discover additional material weaknesses that may require additional time and resources to remediate.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Except as noted above with respect to the completion of certain steps in the remediation plan, there was no change 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 the fiscal quarter covered by this Interim Report on Form 10–Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.