ChargePoint Holdings Inc
For the period ended Jan 31, 2024. Filed Apr 1, 2024.
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FY2024 · Filed Apr 1, 2024
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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (“Exchange Act”) 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 in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to ChargePoint’s management, including its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.
ChargePoint’s management, with the participation of its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated, as of January 31, 2024, the effectiveness of ChargePoint’s disclosure controls and procedures (as that term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that ChargePoint’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level as of January 31, 2024.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
ChargePoint’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. ChargePoint’s 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 for external purposes in accordance with U.S. GAAP and includes those policies and procedures that: (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect ChargePoint’s transactions and the dispositions of ChargePoint’s assets; (2) provide reasonable assurance that ChargePoint’s transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP and that ChargePoint’s receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with appropriate authorizations of management and the directors of ChargePoint; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of ChargePoint’s assets that could have a material effect on its financial statements.
ChargePoint’s management, under the supervision of and with the participation of its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, assessed the effectiveness of ChargePoint’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2024 using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013). Based on the assessment by ChargePoint’s management, ChargePoint’s management concluded that ChargePoint’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of January 31, 2024.
ChargePoint’s independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, has audited the effectiveness of ChargePoint’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2024, as stated in their report, which appears in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Remediation of Previously Identified Material Weaknesses
As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2023, and in subsequent quarterly reports, management concluded the following material weaknesses existed in ChargePoint’s internal control over financial reporting:
ChargePoint did not design and maintain effective controls over certain information technology (“IT”) general controls for information systems that are relevant to the preparation of its consolidated financial statements. Specifically, ChargePoint did not design and maintain (a) program change management controls to ensure that IT program and data changes affecting financial IT applications and underlying accounting records are identified, tested, authorized and implemented appropriately, (b) user access controls to ensure appropriate segregation of duties and that adequately restrict user and privileged access to its financial applications and data to appropriate company personnel and (c) testing and approval controls for program development to ensure that new software development is aligned with business and IT requirements; and
ChargePoint did not design and maintain effective controls over segregation of duties.
ChargePoint began the implementation of certain remediation measures in fiscal year 2023 and continued to develop remediation plans and implemented additional measures throughout fiscal year 2024, completing the following actions and measures in order to remediate the control deficiencies that had led to the material weaknesses:
Engaged an external advisor to assist with the documentation and evaluation of the design and implementation of controls in response to the IT general controls deficiencies;
Designed and implemented new controls, and enhanced the design of existing IT general controls, including controls over program change management, the provisioning and monitoring of user access rights and privileges and program development processes and procedures; and
Designed and implemented enhanced policies and procedures related to the retention of documentary evidence for certain management review controls over segregation of duties, including precision of review and evidence of review procedures performed to demonstrate effective operation of such controls.
During the quarter ended January 31, 2024, Management completed its testing and evaluation of the newly designed and enhanced control activities and determined that, as of January 31, 2024, these control activities have been appropriately designed and implemented, and have operated effectively for a sufficient period of time to conclude that these previously identified material weaknesses have been remediated.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There have been no changes in internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended January 31, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, ChargePoint’s internal control over financial reporting.
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