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Healthier Choices Management Corp. (HCMC): material weakness open at least 2,128 days

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Healthier Choices Management Corp. reported ineffective internal control over financial reporting because of a material weakness in 22 filings since Mar 8, 2021. The latest was its 10-Q for the period ended Jun 30, 2026.

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On the Clock
5.8 yearsopen since at least Dec 31, 2020
10-Q, Aug 19, 2026latest filing that reports the weakness. Read it on SEC EDGAR
#60 of 1,250on the Clock by time open, tied with 236 other companies that share its start date. See the Clock

Still filing, and no annual report of its own says the weakness is fixed.

Checked against SEC EDGAR: Oct 29, 2026 · Entry #10145

Filings with a weakness22
First in our dataMar 8, 2021
AuditorTAAD LLP

Causes the company named

Segregation of duties · 20Inventory · 14ITGC: user access · 13ITGC: change management · 13Financial close and reporting · 11ITGC: general · 9Entity-level and governance · 9Other · 5Accounting expertise and resources · 2

Inadequate disclosure controls documentation, segregation of duties, and IT general controls over access and change management.

What the latest filing says

Based on that evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was ineffective as of June 30, 2026 and noted the material weaknesses as follows: ● Failure to have properly documented and designed disclosure controls and procedures and testing of the operating effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. 21 ● Segregation of duties due to lack of personnel. ● The Company had ineffective design, implementation and, operation of controls over logical access, program change management, and vendor management controls. The Company controls on IT should have included the following: ○ Appropriate restrictions that would adequately prevent users from gaining inappropriate access to the financially relevant systems. ○ IT program and data changes affecting the Company’s financial IT applications and underlying accounting records, should be identified, tested, authorized and implemented appropriately to validate that data produced by its relevant IT syst [...]

From the controls section of the 10-Q filed Aug 19, 2026. Read the full filing on SEC EDGAR.

Company response: Healthier Choices Management Corp. can send a statement or a link to its remediation update to russell@ctrlworx.com. We post it here, unedited and dated.

Filings

FiledFormPeriodControlsCausesFiling
Aug 19, 202610-QJun 30, 2026Not effectiveSegregation of duties; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: general; Entity-level and governanceEDGAR
May 14, 202610-QMar 31, 2026Not effectiveSegregation of duties; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; Entity-level and governance; OtherEDGAR
Mar 27, 202610-KDec 31, 2025Not effectiveITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; OtherEDGAR
Nov 6, 202510-QSep 30, 2025Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: generalEDGAR
Aug 13, 202510-QJun 30, 2025Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: generalEDGAR
May 13, 202510-QMar 31, 2025Not effectiveSegregation of duties; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: general; Entity-level and governanceEDGAR
Apr 14, 202510-KDec 31, 2024Not effectiveITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; OtherEDGAR
Nov 14, 202410-QSep 30, 2024Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: generalEDGAR
Aug 6, 202410-QJun 30, 2024Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Accounting expertise and resources; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; Entity-level and governance; Inventory; OtherEDGAR
Mar 27, 202410-KDec 31, 2023Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; Accounting expertise and resources; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; Inventory; OtherEDGAR
Nov 13, 202310-QSep 30, 2023Not effectiveSegregation of duties; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: general; Entity-level and governance; InventoryEDGAR
Jul 24, 202310-QJun 30, 2023Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: general; InventoryEDGAR
May 5, 202310-QMar 31, 2023Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; ITGC: general; InventoryEDGAR
Mar 30, 202310-KDec 31, 2022Not effectiveSegregation of duties; ITGC: user access; ITGC: change management; ITGC: general; Entity-level and governance; InventoryEDGAR
Nov 14, 202210-QSep 30, 2022Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Entity-level and governance; InventoryEDGAR
Aug 1, 202210-QJun 30, 2022Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; InventoryEDGAR
May 17, 202210-QMar 31, 2022Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; InventoryEDGAR
Mar 31, 202210-KDec 31, 2021Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Entity-level and governance; InventoryEDGAR
Nov 15, 202110-QSep 30, 2021Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; InventoryEDGAR
Aug 10, 202110-QJun 30, 2021Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; InventoryEDGAR
May 10, 202110-QMar 31, 2021Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Entity-level and governance; InventoryEDGAR
Mar 8, 202110-KDec 31, 2020Not effectiveSegregation of duties; Financial close and reporting; InventoryEDGAR

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Based on public SEC filings. Causes are grouped into standard categories by Ctrl Worx. The filings are the authority. Ctrl Worx is not affiliated with Healthier Choices Management Corp. or the SEC. Not investment advice. Why you can rely on the Watch List.