ALX ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Mar 7, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Mar 7, 2024
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors
ALX Oncology Holdings Inc.:
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ALX Oncology Holdings Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes (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 December 31, 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.
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 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (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. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
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 contract manufacturing accruals
As discussed in Notes 2 and 5 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has contract manufacturing accruals of $9,543 thousand. The Company accrues the costs incurred under agreements with contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) based on estimates of actual work completed but not yet invoiced in accordance with the respective agreements. The Company determines the estimated costs incurred through discussions with internal personnel and external service providers as to the progress or stage of completion of the services and the agreed-upon fees to be paid for such services.
We identified the assessment of contract manufacturing accruals as a critical audit matter. Specifically, assessing the estimate of contract manufacturing activities completed but not yet invoiced required a higher degree of auditor judgment. Changes to the estimate of contract manufacturing activities completed but not yet invoiced could have had a significant impact on the contract manufacturing accrual recorded by the Company.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We assessed the Company’s estimate of the related contract manufacturing activities completed but not yet invoiced for a sample of the Company’s contract manufacturing accruals by: (1) inquiring of Company personnel responsible for overseeing the respective manufacturing activities to understand their progress; (2) inspecting correspondence received by the Company from CMOs, if any, and comparing the reported information to the
Company’s estimate; and (3) inspecting the terms of the contract and any executed change orders and comparing them to the Company’s contract manufacturing accruals.
/s/KPMG LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016.
San Francisco, California
March 7, 2024
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