StandardAero Inc
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 12, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Mar 12, 2025
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Regi stered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of StandardAero, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of StandardAero, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the "Company") as of December 31, 2024, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive income (loss), of stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for the year then ended, including 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 as of December 31, 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audit. 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 audit of these consolidated financial statements 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 audit 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 audit 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 audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
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 (i) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters 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.
Revenue Recognition – Certain In-Progress Fixed Price and Time and Material Contracts
As described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, as performance obligations are satisfied over time, the Company recognizes revenue using an input method with revenue amounts being recognized proportionately as costs are incurred relative to total expected costs to satisfy the performance obligation. Revenue is recognized over time as work progresses, as the services performed by the Company enhance customer-controlled assets. Management believes that costs incurred are an appropriate measure of progress towards satisfaction of the performance obligation since this measure reasonably depicts the progress of the work effort. To determine the revenue recognized at each period end for contracts in progress, the Company has elected to use a portfolio approach by applying an estimated margin by engine platform to the contract costs incurred. The estimated margin by engine platform is based on average historical margins on similar completed contracts. Judgment is required by management when determining the estimated margin by engine platform, which includes evaluating the appropriateness of using average historical margins by engine platform for completed contracts on similar contracts in progress. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company’s revenue was $5.2 billion, of which a portion relates to certain in-progress fixed price and time and material contracts.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to revenue recognition for certain in-progress fixed price and time and material contracts is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment by management when developing the estimated margin by engine platform used to determine the amount of revenue to recognize for certain fixed price and time and materials contracts in progress and (ii) a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures and evaluating management’s significant assumption related to estimated margin by engine platform. As disclosed by management, material weaknesses existed that impacted this matter.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included, among others (i) testing management’s process for developing the estimate of revenue recognized for certain in-progress fixed price and time and material contracts; (ii) testing costs incurred for a sample of contracts by obtaining and inspecting third-party invoices and other supporting documents; (iii) evaluating the reasonableness of the significant assumption used by management related to the estimated margin by engine platform; and (iv) recalculating the revenue recognized for certain fixed price and time and materials contracts in progress based on the estimated margin by engine platform. Evaluating management’s assumption related to the estimated margin by engine platform involved evaluating whether the assumption used by management was reasonable considering, for a sample of contracts (i) comparing management’s estimated margin by engine platform to historical margins of similar completed contracts and (ii) considering whether the assumption was consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Phoenix, Arizona
March 12, 2025
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2024.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of StandardAero, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the consolidated balance sheet of StandardAero, Inc. (formerly Dynasty Parent Co., Inc.) and its subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2023, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, including 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 as of December 31, 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s 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 of these consolidated financial statements 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.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants
Toronto, Canada
June 7, 2024, except for the change in composition of reportable segments discussed in Note 24 (not presented herein) to the consolidated financial statements appearing in the Company’s Form S-1 Registration Statement, Note 25 and the additional disclosure of revenue by end-market in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, as to which the date is August 19, 2024, except for the effects of the forward stock split and the additional disclosure with respect to the increase in authorized shares discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, as to which the date is September 23, 2024, and except for the effects of the distribution of the restricted shares as discussed in Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements, as to which the date is March 12, 2025
We served as the Company’s auditor from 2016 to 2024.
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