Company: RILYN
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-007082
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Company: B. Riley Financial, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 to operate at a sufficient level of precision. As such, the Company could not rely on the information produced by the system. Business-process automated and manual controls that were dependent on these controls could have been adversely impacted.

•The Company identified a material weakness relating to the operating effectiveness of management's review controls over investment valuations such that management's review procedures were not operating at a level of precision sufficient to prevent or detect a potential material misstatement in the consolidated statements.

•The Company did not have adequate controls in place to properly identify and disclose material related party transactions in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 850, Related Party Disclosures, which resulted in a material weakness.

Management continues to implement measures designed to ensure that the control deficiencies contributing to the material weaknesses noted above are remediated, such that the controls are designed, implemented, and operating effectively. The remediation actions include the enhancement of control activity evidence, improvement of the precision level of management review controls, and enhancement to policies and procedures, and, as to the material weakness related to Marconi Wireless, we continue to work with our third-party service organization supporting Marconi Wireless to provide a compliant SOC 1 Type 2 report in 2024.  

While we continue to devote significant time and attention to these remediation efforts, the material weaknesses will not be considered remediated until the applicable controls operate for a sufficient period of time, and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are effective. We expect that the remediation of these material weaknesses will be completed prior to the end of fiscal 2024. 

Inherent Limitation on Effectiveness of Controls

Our management, including our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well- designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. The design of any system of controls is based in part on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that 

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