Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-024813
Chunk: 187

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 187
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 defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f) and 

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15d-15(f)) for the Company. The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.

Because of its inherent limitations, a system of internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements and can provide only reasonable, not absolute assurance, that its objectives will be achieved. Further, because of changing conditions, effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting may vary over time. The Company’s processes contain self-monitoring mechanisms, and actions are taken to correct deficiencies as they are identified.

Management has assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 27, 2024, based on the criteria for effective internal control described in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on its assessment, management concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 27, 2024.

The report of BDO USA, P.C., our independent registered public accounting firm, regarding its audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting follows below. 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Shareholders and Board of Directors  

STAAR Surgical Company

Lake Forest, California

Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited STAAR Surgical Company’s (the “Company’s”) internal control over financial reporting as of December 27, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the “COSO criteria”). In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 27, 2024, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 27, 2024 and December 29, 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three fiscal years in the period ended December 27, 2024, and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the accompanying index and our report