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Atlas Lithium Corp

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 14, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Mar 14, 2025

ATLX$1.69+3.0%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act). As initially disclosed in Amendment No. 1 to our Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed on Form 10-K/A with the SEC on November 8, 2024 (the “Amended 2023 Annual Report”), our management identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. However, as described in more detail below, our management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee, has taken significant steps to remediate this material weakness and has determined that it has now been fully corrected.

After the remediation of the material weakness previously identified, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded with reasonable assurance that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2024.

(b) Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f). Our internal control system is designed to provide reasonable assurance to management and to our Board of Directors regarding the preparation and fair presentation of published financial statements. Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the “COSO Framework”).

As initially disclosed in our Amended 2023 Annual Report, our management identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting for the year ended December 31, 2023. However, as described in more detail below, our management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee, has implemented remediation measures to address the material weakness. After evaluating the effectiveness of these measures, management has determined that the previously identified material weakness has been fully remediated, and as a result, management has concluded with reasonable assurance that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2024.

Previously Identified Material Weakness in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A material weakness, as defined in the standards established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 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 our annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

In connection with the re-audit of our financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2022, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. During this period, we outsourced day-to-day accounting tasks due to limited accounting and financial reporting personnel and other resources needed to ensure adherence to our internal controls and procedures. We did not have an internal finance function and had limited finance and accounting professionals with the requisite experience to appropriately perform the supervision and review of the information received from our third-party accounting service provider.

The lack of U.S. GAAP experience from the outsourced accounting firm, combined with the limited availability of an experienced team to supervise the third-party service provider, resulted in the disclosed material weakness.

Remediation and Resolution of the Material Weakness

To remediate the identified material weakness, we have taken several measures to improve our internal control over financial reporting, including, among others:

●Recruiting more qualified personnel with relevant U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting experience to strengthen our in-house financial reporting function and establish a financial and system control framework.
●Implementing regular and continuous U.S. GAAP accounting and financial reporting training for accounting and financial reporting personnel.
●Enhancing oversight over, and clarifying reporting requirements for, non-recurring and complex transactions to ensure consolidated financial statements and related disclosures are accurate, complete, and compliant with U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.
●Preparing more detailed guidance and manuals on financial closing policies and procedures to improve the quality and accuracy of the period-end financial closing process.
●Implementing SAP Enterprise Resource Planning software to strengthen our ability to adequately keep records of our accounting and financial information.

Based on the assessment performed by our management on the performance of these remediation measures, we determined that, as of December 31, 2024, the previously identified material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting had been remediated.

Accordingly, our management has determined with reasonable assurance that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2024.

No Attestation Report

This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Since we are a smaller reporting company, our report is not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. As a result, this Annual Report contains only our report on internal controls.

(c) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Other than the remediation initiatives described in item (b) above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred in 2024 that materially affected, or would be reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

(d) Limitations of the Effectiveness of Internal Controls

The effectiveness of our system of internal control over financial reporting is subject to certain limitations, including the exercise of judgment in designing, implementing and evaluating the control system, the assumptions used in identifying the likelihood of future events, and the inability to completely eliminate fraud and misconduct. As a result, there can be no assurance that our internal control over financial reporting will detect all errors or fraud. However, our control systems have been designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives.

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