Company: FTCI
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-047224
Chunk: 251

Company: FTC Solar, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 251
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 recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Identification of material weakness

We identified a control failure that occurred in regard to a specific fact pattern involving the accounting for contract change orders with a specific customer that resulted in an overstatement in our calculation of revenue being recognized over time on certain affected projects. The error occurred during the fourth quarter 2024 close process and has been corrected and reflected properly in our 2024 consolidated financial statements. Based on our assessment of other projects with a similar fact pattern, we believe the error was limited to the identified projects and was not 

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pervasive in our process of revenue recognition involving other customers and projects, and has no impact on any previously reported financial results.

Due to the significance of our accounting for revenue, we have deemed this to be a material weakness in our controls involving recognition of revenue over time. As a result, we have begun efforts to enhance our internal accounting processes and management review controls in an effort to be more effective in preventing and detecting such errors on a more timely basis in the future.

Management's report on internal control over financial reporting

It is the responsibility of the Company's management to establish and maintain adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of FTC Solar; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of FTC Solar are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of FTC Solar; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding the prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements of FTC Solar