The Company SEC Documents. Except as set forth in Section 5.7 of the Company Disclosure Schedule: (a) The Company has timely filed with the SEC all forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act to be filed by it since March 31, 2009 (such documents, as supplemented and amended since the time of filing, collectively, the “Company SEC Documents”). The Company SEC Documents, including, without limitation, any financial statements or schedules included in the Company SEC Documents, at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the Effective Time, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing), (a) did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (b) complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the Securities Act, as the case may be. Since March 31, 2009, no subsidiary of the Company has been required to file any form, report or other document with the SEC. (b) The financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included in the Company SEC Documents at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing) complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect to such financial statements, were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes to the financial statements or, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC), and fairly present (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, recurring audit adjustments) the financial position of the Company as at the dates and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended. (c) Each of the principal executive officer of the Company and the principal financial officer of the Company (and each former principal executive officer of the Company and each former principal financial officer of the Company, as applicable) has made all certifications required by Rule 13a-14 or 15d-14 under the Exchange Act or Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder with respect to the Company SEC Documents, and the statements contained in such certifications are true and correct. For purposes of this Section 5.7(c), “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” have the meanings given to such terms in SOX. The Company does not have outstanding, and has not arranged any outstanding, “extensions of credit” to directors or executive officers within the meaning of Section 402 of SOX. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with SOX. (d) The Company is not a party to, and does not have any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or similar contract or arrangement (including any contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between the Company, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or person, on the other hand, or any other “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K of the SEC)), (e) The Company maintains a system of internal controls over financial reporting and accounting sufficient in all material respects to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes, including to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets that could have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. (f) The Company has in place “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are sufficient in all material respects to ensure that material information that is required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and is accumulated and made known to its principal executive officer and principal financial officer as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. (g) The Company’s management completed assessments of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of SOX for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and 2010, and such assessment concluded that such controls were effective. Since March 31, 2010, the Company has disclosed to its outside auditors and the audit committee of the Company (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data, and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. Since March 31, 2009, the Company has not received from its independent auditors any oral or written notification of a (x) “significant deficiency” or (y) “material weakness” in the Company’s internal controls. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms “significant deficiency” and “material weakness” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Statements of Auditing Standards No. 115, as in effect on the date hereof. (h) There are no outstanding unresolved comments with respect to the Company or the Company SEC Documents noted in comment letters or other correspondence received by the Company or its attorneys from the SEC, and, to the knowledge of the Company (as defined in Section 9.3(a)), there are no pending (i) formal or informal investigations of the Company by the SEC or (ii) inspection of an audit of the Company’s financial statements by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Since March 31, 2009, there has been no material written complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that the Company has engaged in improper or illegal accounting or auditing practices or maintains improper or inadequate internal accounting controls. Since March 31, 2009, no current or former attorney representing the Company has reported in writing evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents to the Company’s Board of Directors or any committee thereof or to any director or executive officer of the Company. (i) To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, no employee of the Company has provided or is providing information to any law enforcement agency regarding the possible commission of any crime or the violation or possible violation of any Applicable Law of the type described in Section 806 of SOX. (j) The Company has adopted a code of ethics, as defined by Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, for senior financial officers, applicable to its principal financial officer, comptroller or principal accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions. The Company has promptly disclosed any change in or waiver of the Company’s code of ethics with respect to any such persons, as required by Section 406(b) of SOX. To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, there have been no material violations of provisions of the Company’s code of ethics by any such persons.
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The Company SEC Documents. Except as set forth in Section 5.7 of the Company Disclosure Schedule:
(a) The Company has timely filed or furnished and will timely file or furnish, as applicable, with the SEC all forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act to be filed by it since March January 31, 2009 2011 (such documents, as supplemented and amended since the time of filing, and including those to be filed or furnished, as applicable, after the date of this Agreement, collectively, the “Company SEC Documents”). The Company SEC Documents, including, without limitation, any financial statements or schedules included in the Company SEC Documents, at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the Effective Time, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing), (a) did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (b) complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the Securities Act, as the case may be. Since March 31, 2009, no subsidiary of the Company has been required to file any form, report or other document with the SEC.
(b) The financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included in or incorporated by reference into the Company SEC Documents at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing) complied or will comply, as applicable, as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect to such financial statements, were or will be, as applicable, prepared in all material respects in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes to the financial statements or, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC), and fairly present or will fairly present, as applicable, in all material respects (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, recurring audit adjustments) the financial position of the Company as at the dates and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended.
(c) Each of the principal executive officer of the Company and the principal financial officer of the Company (and each former principal executive officer of the Company and each former principal financial officer of the Company, as applicable) has made and will make, as applicable, all certifications required by Rule 13a-14 or 15d-14 under the Exchange Act or Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder with respect to the Company SEC Documents, and the statements contained in such certifications are and will be, as applicable, true and correctcorrect in all material respects. For purposes of this Section 5.7(c), “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” have the meanings given to such terms in SOX. The Company does not have outstanding, and has not arranged arranged, and will not arrange, any outstanding, “extensions of credit” to directors or executive officers within the meaning of Section 402 of SOX. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with SOX.
(d) The Company is not a party to, and does not have any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or similar contract or arrangement (including any contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between the Company, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or person, on the other hand, or any other “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K of the SEC)),.
(e) The Company maintains a system of internal controls over financial reporting and accounting sufficient in all material respects to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes, including to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets that could have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(f) The Company has in place “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are sufficient in all material respects designed to ensure that material information that is required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and is accumulated and made known to its principal executive officer and principal financial officer as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
(g) The Company’s management completed assessments of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of SOX for the fiscal years year ended March January 31, 2009 and 20102013, and such assessment concluded that such controls were effective. Since March January 31, 20102011, the Company has disclosed to its outside auditors and the audit committee of the Company Company
(i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data, and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. Since March Except as set forth in Section 5.7(g) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, since January 31, 20092011, the Company has not received from its independent auditors any oral or written notification of a (x) “significant deficiency” or (y) “material weakness” in the Company’s internal controls. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms “significant deficiency” and “material weakness” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Statements of Auditing Standards No. 115, as in effect on the date hereof.
(h) There are no outstanding unresolved comments with respect to the Company or the Company SEC Documents noted in comment letters or other correspondence received by the Company or its attorneys from the SEC, and, to the knowledge of the Company (as defined in Section 9.3(a))Company, there are no pending (i) formal or informal investigations of the Company by the SEC or (ii) inspection inspections of an audit of the Company’s financial statements by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Since March January 31, 20092011, there has been no material written complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that the Company has engaged in improper or illegal accounting or auditing practices or maintains improper or inadequate internal accounting controls. Since March January 31, 20092011, no current or former attorney representing the Company has reported in writing evidence of a material violation of securities laws, laws or breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents to the Company’s Board of Directors or any committee thereof or to any director or executive officer of the Company.
(i) To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, no employee of the Company has provided or is providing information to any law enforcement agency regarding the possible commission of any crime or the violation or possible violation of any Applicable Law of the type described in Section 806 of SOX.
(j) The Company has adopted a code of ethics, as defined by Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, for senior financial officers, applicable to its principal financial officer, comptroller or principal accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions. The Company has promptly disclosed any change in or waiver of the Company’s code of ethics with respect to any such persons, as required by Section 406(b) of SOX. To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, there have been no material violations of provisions of the Company’s code of ethics by any such persons.
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The Company SEC Documents. Except as set forth in Section 5.7 of the Company Disclosure Schedule:
(a) The Company has timely filed or furnished and will timely file or furnish, as applicable, with the SEC all forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act to be filed by it since March 31April 1, 2009 2013 (such documents, as supplemented and amended since the time of filing, and including those to be filed or furnished, as applicable, after the date of this Agreement, collectively, the “Company SEC Documents”). The Company SEC Documents, including, without limitation, any financial statements or schedules included in the Company SEC Documents, at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the Effective Time, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing), (a) did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (b) complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the Securities Act, as the case may be. Since March 31, 2009, no subsidiary of the Company has been required to file any form, report or other document with the SEC.
(b) The financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included in or incorporated by reference into the Company SEC Documents at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing) complied or will comply, as applicable, as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect to such financial statements, were or will be, as applicable, prepared in all material respects in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes to the financial statements or, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC), and fairly present or will fairly present, as applicable, in all material respects (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, recurring audit adjustments) the financial position of the Company as at the dates and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended.
(c) Each of the principal executive officer of the Company and the principal financial officer of the Company (and each former principal executive officer of the Company and each former principal financial officer of the Company, as applicable) has made and will make, as applicable, all certifications required by Rule 13a-14 or 15d-14 under the Exchange Act or Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder with respect to the Company SEC Documents, and the statements contained in such certifications are and will be, as applicable, true and correctcorrect in all material respects on the date such certifications were or will be made. For purposes of this Section 5.7(c), “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” have the meanings given to such terms in SOX. The Company does not have outstanding, and has not arranged any outstanding, “extensions of credit” to directors or executive officers within the meaning of Section 402 of SOX. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with SOX.
(d) The Company is not a party to, and does not have any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or similar contract or arrangement (including any contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between the Company, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or person, on the other hand, or any other “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K of the SEC)),.
(e) The Company maintains a system of internal controls over financial reporting and accounting sufficient in all material respects to provide to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes, including to provide reasonable assurance assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets that could have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(f) The Company has in place “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are sufficient in all material respects designed to ensure that material information that is required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and is accumulated and made known to its principal executive officer and principal financial officer as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
(g) The Company’s management completed assessments of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of SOX for the fiscal years year ended March 31, 2009 and 20102015, and such assessment concluded that such controls were effective. Since March 31January 1, 20102015, the Company has disclosed to its outside auditors and the audit committee of the Company (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data, and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. Since March 31Except as set forth in Section 5.7(g) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, 2009since January 1, 2015, the Company has not received from its independent auditors any oral or written notification of a (x) “significant deficiency” or (y) “material weakness” in the Company’s internal controls. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms “significant deficiency” and “material weakness” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Statements of Auditing Standards No. 115, as in effect on the date hereof.
(h) There are no outstanding unresolved comments with respect to the Company or the Company SEC Documents noted in comment letters or other correspondence received by the Company or its attorneys from the SEC, and, to the knowledge of the Company (as defined in Section 9.3(a))Company, there are no pending (i) formal or informal investigations of the Company by the SEC or (ii) inspection inspections of an audit of the Company’s financial statements by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Since March 31January 1, 2009, 2015 there has been no material written complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that the Company has engaged in improper or illegal accounting or auditing practices or maintains improper or inadequate internal accounting controls. Since March 31January 1, 20092015, no current or former attorney representing the Company has reported in writing evidence of a material violation of securities laws, laws or breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents to the Company’s Company Board of Directors or any committee thereof or to any director or executive officer of the Company.
(i) To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, no employee of the Company has provided or is providing information to any law enforcement agency regarding the possible commission of any crime or the violation or possible violation of any Applicable Law of the type described in Section 806 of SOX.
(j) The Company has adopted a code of ethics, as defined by Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, for senior financial officers, applicable to its principal financial officer, comptroller or principal accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions. The Company has promptly disclosed any change in or waiver of the Company’s code of ethics with respect to any such persons, as required by Section 406(b) of SOX. To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, there have been no material violations of provisions of the Company’s code of ethics by any such persons.
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The Company SEC Documents. Except as set forth in Section 5.7 of the Company Disclosure Schedule:
(a) The Company has timely filed or furnished, as applicable, with the SEC all forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act to be filed by it since March 31January 2, 2009 2011 (such documents, as supplemented and amended since the time of filing, collectively, the “Company SEC Documents”). The Company SEC Documents, including, without limitation, any financial statements or schedules included in the Company SEC Documents, at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the Effective Time, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing), (a) did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (b) complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the Securities Act, as the case may be. Since March 31, 2009, no subsidiary of the Company has been required to file any form, report or other document with the SEC.
(b) The financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included in the Company SEC Documents at the time filed (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of mailing, respectively, and, in the case of any Company SEC Document amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement, then on the date of such amending or superseding filing) complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect to such financial statements, were prepared in all material respects in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes to the financial statements or, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC), and fairly present in all material respects (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, recurring audit adjustments) the financial position of the Company as at the dates and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended.
(c) Each of the principal executive officer of the Company and the principal financial officer of the Company (and each former principal executive officer of the Company and each former principal financial officer of the Company, as applicable) has made all certifications required by Rule 13a-14 or 15d-14 under the Exchange Act or Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder with respect to the Company SEC Documents, and the statements contained in such certifications are true and correctcorrect in all material respects. For purposes of this Section 5.7(c), “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” have the meanings given to such terms in SOX. The Company does not have outstanding, and has not arranged any outstanding, “extensions of credit” to directors or executive officers within the meaning of Section 402 of SOX. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with SOX.
(d) The Company is not a party to, and does not have any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or similar contract or arrangement (including any contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between the Company, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or person, on the other hand, or any other “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K of the SEC)),
(e) The Company maintains a system of internal controls over financial reporting and accounting sufficient in all material respects to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes, including to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets that could have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(f) The Company has in place “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are sufficient in all material respects designed to ensure that material information that is required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and is accumulated and made known to its principal executive officer and principal financial officer as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
(g) The Company’s management completed assessments an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of SOX for the Company’s fiscal years year ended March 31, 2009 and 2010, and such assessment concluded that such controls were effectiveeffective in all material respects. Since March 31January 2, 20102011, the Company has disclosed to its outside auditors and the audit committee of the Company (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data, and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. Since March 31January 2, 20092011, the Company has not received from its independent auditors any oral or written notification of a (x) “significant deficiency” or (y) “material weakness” in the Company’s internal controls. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms “significant deficiency” and “material weakness” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Statements of Auditing Standards No. 115, as in effect on the date hereof.
(h) There are no outstanding unresolved comments with respect to the Company or the Company SEC Documents noted in comment letters or other correspondence received by the Company or its attorneys from the SEC, and, to the knowledge of the Company (as defined in Section 9.3(a)), there are no pending (i) formal or informal investigations of the Company by the SEC or (ii) inspection of an audit of the Company’s financial statements by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Since March 31January 2, 20092011, there has been no material written complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that the Company has engaged in improper or illegal accounting or auditing practices or maintains improper or inadequate internal accounting controls. Since March 31January 2, 20092011, no current or former attorney representing the Company has reported in writing evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents to the Company’s Board of Directors or any committee thereof or to any director or executive officer of the Company.
(i) To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, no employee of the Company has provided or is providing information to any law enforcement agency regarding the possible commission of any crime or the violation or possible violation of any Applicable Law of the type described in Section 806 of SOX.
(j) The Company has adopted a code of ethics, as defined by Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, for senior financial officers, applicable to its principal financial officer, comptroller or principal accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions. The Company has promptly disclosed any change in or waiver of the Company’s code of ethics with respect to any such persons, as required by Section 406(b) of SOX. To the knowledge of the Company, since March 31, 2009, there have been no material violations of provisions of the Company’s code of ethics by any such persons.
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