Company: PNNT
Filing Date: 2025-11-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001193125-25-293703
Chunk: 124

Company: PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9A
Chunk 124
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a)Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

      As of September 30, 2025, we, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act). Based on that evaluation, our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, concluded that, due to the material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting described in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, which appears on page 63 of this Form 10-K, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our periodic SEC filings is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Specifically, a material weakness was identified in the operation of controls related to the Company's quarterly review of equity investment valuation with respect to the allocation of value of the portfolio company to the Company’s holdings. However, in evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of such possible controls and procedures. Notwithstanding the material weakness referenced above, management believes that the financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K present fairly, in all material respects, the Company’s financial position, results of its operations, changes in net assets and cash flows for the periods presented. We have begun the process of, and are focused on, further enhancing effective internal control measures to improve our internal control over financial reporting and remediate the material weakness noted above. Our internal control remediation efforts include the following:

•Enhance existing review controls of equity investments related to the allocation of the portfolio company’s enterprise value to the Company’s holdings to ensure allocations are consistent with the relevant and respective source document; and 

•Enhancing policies and procedures to demonstrate a commitment to improving our overall control environment.  

 We believe our planned actions to enhance our processes and controls will address these material weaknesses, but these actions are subject to ongoing management evaluation, and we will need a period of execution to demonstrate remediation. We are committed to the continuous improvement of our internal control over financial reporting