TRINITY INDUSTRIES INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 20, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 20, 2025
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Trinity Industries, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Trinity Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows and stockholders' equity for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements"). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 20, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities
| Description of the Matter | As more fully described in Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements, at December 31, 2024, the Company had gross deferred tax assets related to deductible temporary differences of $209.3 million, offset by a valuation allowance of $20.8 million, and deferred tax liabilities of $1,263.2 million. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and other tax attributes using currently enacted tax rates. The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in the provision for income taxes in the period that includes the enactment date.Auditing the Company’s recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities was complex because the Company is required to identify and evaluate differences between the financial statement carrying amount of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and other tax attributes based on enacted law and tax rates for multiple federal and state tax jurisdictions to determine the amount of such deferred tax assets and liabilities. In addition, a higher degree of auditor judgment was required to evaluate the Company’s deferred income tax provision as a result of the Company’s application of tax law in each jurisdiction. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company’s controls that address the risks of material misstatement relating to the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities, including controls over the completeness and accuracy of permanent and temporary differences, the valuation of deferred income tax assets and liabilities and changes in tax laws and regulations that may impact the Company’s deferred income tax provision. Among other audit procedures performed, we (i) obtained an understanding of the Company’s overall tax structure, including any changes in the Company’s tax structure that occurred during the year as well as any changes in tax law that could impact the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities; (ii) utilized tax resources with appropriate knowledge of jurisdictional laws and regulations; (iii) tested the completeness and accuracy of deferred tax assets and liabilities based on enacted law and tax rates for the appropriate tax jurisdictions to determine the amount of such deferred tax assets and liabilities; and (iv) tested the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data. In addition, we assessed the reasonableness of the Company’s deferred income tax provision based on interpretation of tax law in each jurisdiction in which the Company operates. |
/s/ERNST & YOUNG LLP
We have served as the Company's auditor since 1958.
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