UNIVERSAL HEALTH REALTY INCOME TRUST
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 27, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Feb 27, 2024
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Regist ered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees
Universal Health Realty Income Trust:
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Universal Health Realty Income Trust and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, changes in equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes and financial statement schedule III (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2023, 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, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated February 27, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of a 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.
Assessment of the carrying value of net real estate investments
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company tests net real estate investments for recoverability whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. When such impairment indicators exist, the Company makes certain estimates of future undiscounted net cash flows, excluding interest charges, to perform the recoverability test. The net real estate investments balance as of December 31, 2023 was $443.8 million.
We identified the assessment of the carrying value of net real estate investments as a critical audit matter. There is a high degree of subjective and complex auditor judgment in evaluating the relevant events or changes in circumstances that may indicate the carrying value of the asset may not be recoverable. As applicable, future occupancy, rental rates, capital requirements, and expected holding periods used to estimate the expected cash flows were challenging to test, due to the sensitivity of changes to those assumptions on the impact of the assessment of the recoverability of the asset.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls over the Company’s asset impairment process, including controls over identification and evaluation of events or changes in circumstances that may indicate the carrying amount of net real estate investments may not be recoverable. We examined the Company’s impairment indicator assessment, which included an evaluation that all of the Company’s net real estate investments were analyzed and potential impairment indicators were identified in the assessment. We performed an independent assessment of changes in property operating metrics and general market conditions related to individual net real estate investments and compared the results of that assessment to the Company’s analysis. We read board of trustees meeting minutes and inquired with certain members of operating management to identify any significant adverse changes in the extent or manner in which net real estate investments are being used and their physical condition, legal factors and current strategies.
For properties that had impairment indicators that required further analysis, the following are the primary procedures we performed. We tested certain internal controls over the Company’s process for evaluating recoverability, including controls related to the determination of future occupancy, rental rates, and capital requirement assumptions. We involved valuation professionals with specialized skills and knowledge, who assisted in evaluating the Company’s estimates of future occupancy, rental rates, capital requirements, and expected holding periods by comparing these assumptions against a range that was independently developed using publicly available market data for comparable assets.
/s/KPMG LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2002.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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