EXHIBIT 31.1
ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO SECTION 302
I, Wayne I. Danson, the President and Chief Financial Officer of Advanced
Communications Technologies, Inc. certify that:
1. I have reviewed this Form 10-QSB of Advanced Communications
Technologies, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances
under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to
the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows
of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in
this report;
4. The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e))
for the small business issuer and have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused
such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under
our supervision, to ensure that material information
relating to the small business issuer, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others
within those entities, particularly during the period in
which this report is being prepared;
(b) Omitted;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer's
disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this
report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the
disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the
period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the small business
issuer's internal control over financial reporting that
occurred during the small business issuer's most recent
fiscal quarter (the small business issuer's fourth fiscal
quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
small business issuer's internal control over financial
reporting; and
5. The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have
disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control
over financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and
the audit committee of the small business issuer's board of directors
(or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over financial
reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect
the small business issuer's ability to record, process,
summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management
or other employees who have a significant role in the small
business issuer's internal control over financial reporting.
Date: May 24, 2004
/s/ Wayne I. Danson
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Wayne I. Danson
President and Chief Financial Officer
The introductory paragraph of Section 4 of this certification that refers to the
certifying officers' responsibility for establishing and maintaining internal
control over financial reporting for the company, as well as paragraph 4(b),
have been omitted in accordance with Release No. 33-8238 (June 5, 2003) because
the compliance period has been extended for small business issuers until the
first fiscal year ending on or after April 15, 2005.