Rezolute Inc
For the period ended Jun 30, 2024. Filed Sep 19, 2024.
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FY2024 · Filed Sep 19, 2024
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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures” as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act, that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the individual that serves as both our Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of senior management, including our Chief Executive Officer (our Principal Executive and Financial Officer), of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(b) and 15d-15(b). Based upon this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer concluded that disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Our internal control over financial reporting has been 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.
Our internal control over financial reporting includes policies and procedures that pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect transactions and dispositions of our assets; provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and that receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorization of our management and directors; and provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect all misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2024. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission (COSO) inInternal Control—Integrated Framework (2013). Based on that assessment under those criteria, our management has determined that, as of June 30, 2024, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
During the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2024, we identified a material weakness in the system of internal control that related to complex pre-funded warrant accounting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, that creates a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected in a timely manner.
The material weakness identified by management related to our controls over the accounting for pre-funded warrants whereby we failed to initially recognize these pre-funded warrants as liabilities, along with the subsequent changes in fair value as non-cash expenses. As a result of this material weakness, we failed to timely identify material adjustments to our financial statements that were detected shortly before the filing of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2024.
Our legacy processes included the timely identification of the relevant accounting technical pronouncements, other literature, consultation with third-party experts, and the preparation of a memorandum outlining our assessment of the factual background and our interpretation of the accounting requirements. With respect to pre-funded warrants issued on March 8, 2024, we improperly concluded that equity classification was permitted based on the facts that (i) the pre-funded warrants were only exercisable for 7% of our outstanding shares, (ii) the pre-funded warrants explicitly prohibit the holders from exercising if beneficial ownership would exceed 19.99%, and (iii) shareholder approval was only required if beneficial ownership exceeded 19.99%. Despite these terms, we determined that equity classification was not permitted, whereby we performed additional analysis as deemed necessary to ensure that the accompanying financial statements were revised and prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Accordingly, a material weakness existed even though the correct accounting treatment was employed when we filed our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2024.
In June 2024, we completed a public underwritten offering, which included the issuance of pre-funded warrants. We engaged additional third-party specialists to determine the accounting treatment of the issued warrants to ensure that our warrant accounting policies and procedures are consistent across the organization and that we have adequate control over our Exchange Act reporting disclosures. As a result of these critical steps in our remediation efforts, we concluded that this material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting had been successfully remediated as of June 30, 2024.
Attestation Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and are not required to include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.
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