ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS LP
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 28, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Feb 28, 2024
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors of Enterprise Products Holdings LLC and
Unitholders of Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related statements of consolidated operations, comprehensive income, cash flows, and equity for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the 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 three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We have also 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 28, 2024, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Property, Plant and Equipment, Net and Intangible Assets, Net—Determination of Impairment Indicators—Refer to Notes 2, 4, and 6 to the consolidated financial statements
Critical Audit Matter Description
Long-lived assets, which consists of intangible assets with finite useful lives (“intangible assets”) and property, plant and equipment, are reviewed for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. As of December 31, 2023, the carrying value of the Company’s property, plant and equipment, net was $45,804 million and intangible assets, net was $3,770 million.
We have identified the determination of impairment indicators for long-lived assets as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments management makes when determining whether events or changes in circumstances have occurred indicating that the carrying amounts of long-lived assets may not be recoverable. Auditing management’s judgments required a high degree of auditor judgment when performing audit procedures to evaluate whether management appropriately identified impairment indicators.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit
Our audit procedures related to the identification of impairment indicators included the following, among others:
| • | We tested the effectiveness of controls over the identification of events or changes in circumstances that indicate that the carrying value of long-lived assets may not be recoverable. |
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| • | We evaluated management’s analysis of impairment indicators by: |
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| - | Assessing whether long-lived assets having indicators of impairment were appropriately identified and further tested for impairment. |
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| - | Comparing the recent gross operating margin results to the carrying value of long-lived assets to determine if there is an indicator that the carrying value may not be recoverable over the estimated remaining useful life. |
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| - | Reading publicly available information for the industry, peers, and customers to determine whether a potential impairment indicator was not contemplated in management’s analysis. |
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| - | Reading minutes of the Board of Directors to understand if there were factors that could represent a potential impairment indicator not contemplated in management’s analysis. |
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/s/DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
February 28, 2024
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 1997.
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