Snail, Inc.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 26, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Mar 26, 2025
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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the Company’s reports under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Co-Chief Executive Officers and the Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including the Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, we have 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 of December 31, 2024. 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 our annual and interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected in a timely manner. Based on that evaluation, the Company’s Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of such date due to a material weakness in the internal control over financial reporting as discussed below.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the Company. Internal control over financial reporting is a process to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Internal control over financial reporting includes maintaining records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect our transactions; providing reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary for preparation of our financial statements; because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting is not intended to provide absolute assurance that a misstatement of our financial statements would be prevented or detected.
Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including the persons serving as our Co-Chief Executive officers and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). Based on this evaluation, management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2024, due to the material weakness related to the failure to properly value the fair value of warrants related to the convertible notes and equity line of credit in accordance with ASC 820Fair Value Measurement.
We are taking steps to remediate the material weakness, which include enhancing our financial reporting close control procedures by improving our review over fair value and hire experts to assist in performing valuations of complex financial instruments. However, our efforts to remediate the material weaknesses may not be effective in preventing a future material weakness or significant deficiency in our internal control over financial reporting. See “Risk Factors—General Risk Factors—We identified a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting and we may identify additional material weaknesses in the future that may cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations or result in material misstatements of our financial statements. If we do not effectively remediate the material weakness or if we otherwise fail to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately and timely report our financial results.”
In light of the material weakness, we performed additional analyses of the assumptions used and valuations performed over complex financial instruments to determine that our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Accordingly, the Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report fairly present in all material respects our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented.
Remediation of Prior Material Weaknesses
As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2023, we identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. The material weaknesses identified are listed below inclusive of the remediation efforts designed and implemented by management.
| ● | Failure to properly design and implement controls related to the accounting for income taxes and disclosure controls related to deferred taxes in the consolidated financial statements; |
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| ○ | management engaged a new third party income tax expert, enhanced our controls over income tax provisions and designed and implemented a new control on income tax disclosures. |
| ● | Failure to properly classify certain operating expenses and games server costs as cost of revenues in the consolidated financial statements; |
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| ○ | management implemented additional reviews over quarterly operating expenses and costs of revenues, strengthened the review and approval controls and developed and defined clear criteria for each type of expense category. |
| ● | Failure to identify and allocate the consideration received from a settlement between the settlement gain and revenues generating activities; |
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| ○ | management engaged third party qualified experts to assist in developing accounting policies for complex revenue arrangements and analyzing non-routine transactions in accordance with the applicable accounting standards. Management implemented review controls related to the review of complex accounting transactions. This enhanced control directed addressed the causal factors that contributed to the reported material weakness. |
| ● | Failure to properly determine the stand-alone selling prices of each performance obligation for certain digital revenue contracts; |
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| ○ | management developed a formal and clear framework for assessing stand-alone selling prices of each performance obligation in accordance with Topic 606, developed a pricing model based on market data and implemented review process over the assumptions used in determining the stand-alone selling prices. |
| ● | Failure to design and implement information technology general controls related to segregation of duties within an information system relevant to the preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements. |
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| ○ | Management revoked administrative access from certain accounting personnel to enforce segregation of duties in the ERP system. |
Additionally, as previously disclosed in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, for the six month period ended June 30, 2024, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the disclosure of the amount of revenue recognized over time and at a point in time. The Company believes the lack of review procedures over this disclosure gave rise to a material weakness. Accordingly, to remediate the identified material weakness, management has created a separate control process to clearly identify revenues that are recognized at a point in time or over time and has separated the review process for this footnote disclosure from our ordinary disclosure review process.
Management has completed the execution of the remediation plan to address these listed material weaknesses and tested the effectiveness of these changes to internal control over financial reporting. We have verified the effective design and operating effectiveness of these procedures and ensured they have operated for a sufficient period of time to conclude that the previously identified material weaknesses have been remediated as of December 31, 2024.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Except for the remediation efforts described above, we have not made changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 2024, which have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting other than the remediation efforts described above.
Attestation Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of our registered independent public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting due to an exemption established by the JOBS Act for “emerging growth companies.”
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