Item 4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
In preparation of the financial statements of Population Health Investment Co., Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), as of and for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021, the Company concluded it should revise its previously filed financial statements to classify all Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A ordinary shares”), subject to possible redemption in temporary equity. In accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and its staff’s guidance on redeemable equity instruments in ASC 480-10-S99, redemption provisions not solely within the control of the Company require ordinary shares subject to redemption to be classified outside of permanent equity. The Company had previously classified a portion of its Class A ordinary shares in permanent equity, or total shareholders’ equity (deficit). Although the Company did not specify a maximum redemption threshold, its amended and restated memorandum and articles of association currently provides that the Company will not redeem its public shares in an amount that would cause its net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001. Previously, the Company did not consider redeemable shares classified as temporary equity as part of net tangible assets. Effective with its financial statements for quarterly period ended September 30, 2021, the Company revised this interpretation to include temporary equity in net tangible assets. In addition, in connection with the change in presentation for the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, the Company determined it should restate its earnings per share calculation to allocate income and losses shared pro rata between the two classes of shares. This presentation contemplates an initial business combination as the most likely outcome, in which case, both classes of shares share pro rata in the income and losses of the Company.
After further consideration of the impact of the error that led to the revised September 30, 2021 financial statements, on December 16, 2021, the Company’s management and the audit committee of the Company’s board of directors (the “Audit Committee”) concluded that the Company’s previously issued (i) audited balance sheet as of November 20, 2020 (the “Post IPO Balance Sheet”), as previously restated in Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K/A of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, as filed with the SEC on May 19, 2021 (the “First Amended Filing”), (ii) audited financial statements for the period ended December 31, 2020 included in the First Amended Filing, (iii) unaudited interim financial statements included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on May 24, 2021 and reported as revised in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021 ( the “Original Q3 Form 10Q”), (iv) unaudited interim financial statements included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2021, filed with the SEC on August 13, 2021 and reported as revised in the Company’s Original Q3 Form 10-Q, and (v) footnote 2 to the unaudited interim financial statements and Item 4 of Part 1 included in the Company’s Original Q3 Form 10-Q (collectively, the “Affected Periods”), should be restated to report all public shares as temporary equity and should no longer be relied upon. As such, the Company intends to restate its financial statements for the Affected Periods in (i) a Form 10-K/A with respect to the Post IPO Balance Sheet and the Company’s audited financial statements for the period ended December 31, 2020 included in the First Amended Filing and (ii) a Form 10-Q/A for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021 with respect to its unaudited condensed financial statements for the periods ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021.
The restatement does not have an impact on the Company’s cash position and cash held in the trust account established in connection with the IPO.
The Company’s management has concluded that a material weakness remains in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective. As a result of that reassessment, we determined that our disclosure controls and procedures for such periods were not effective with respect to the proper accounting and classification of complex financial instruments.
The Audit Committee has discussed the matters disclosed in this Current Report on Form 8-K pursuant to this Item 4.02 with the Company’s current independent registered public accounting firm, WithumSmith+Brown, PC (“Withum”). Withum was provided with a copy of the disclosures made herein and was given the opportunity, no later than the day of the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K, to review these disclosures.