Mitesco Inc
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Apr 16, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Apr 16, 2024
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM (PCAOB 587)
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Mitesco, Inc. and subsidiaries
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Mitesco, Inc. & Subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2022, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2022, 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 as of December 31, 2022, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2022, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
The Company's Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has an accumulated deficit, recurring losses, and expects continuing future losses that raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management's evaluation of the events and conditions and management’s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 2. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
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 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. 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 audit, 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 audit 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 audit 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 audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.** **
Critical Audit Matters:
Critical audit matters are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were 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 critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (i) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the 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 financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Derivative liability on Convertible Promissory Notes–** Refer to Note 9 and 11 of the financial statements**
Critical Audit Matter Description
During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company entered into five Securities Purchase Agreements with respect to the sale and issuance to the investors of (i) an initial commitment fee in the form of shares (Commitment Fee Shares) of the Company's common stock which Commitment Fee Shares can be decreased if the Company repays the notes on or prior to their maturity, (ii) a promissory note and (iii) common stock purchase warrant to purchase shares of common stock. As described in Note 9 and 11 to the financial statements, as of December 31, 2022, the Company utilized a Monte Carlo Simulation and PWERM model to value a derivative liability relating to the "True-Up Share Obligations and Warrants", respectively in accordance with ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurement”. A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables. It is a technique used to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty and establishes a fair value based on the most likely outcome. The PWERM Model develops an estimate based on the probability-weighted present value of various future outcomes.
We identified the valuation of the derivative liability relating to the above note payable as a critical audit matter because the results cannot be duplicated and requires a high degree of auditor judgment. The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the valuation of the note features as a critical audit matter are (1) there was a high degree of auditor judgment and subjectivity in applying procedures relating to the fair value of the derivative liability due to the significant judgments made by management when developing the estimates and (2) significant audit effort was required in evaluating the significant assumptions relating to the estimates, including the assumptions used in the simulations. In addition, the audit effort involved the use of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge to assist in performing the following procedures and evaluating the audit evidence obtained.
How the Critical Audit Matter was Addressed in the Audit
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the financial statements. These procedures included the following:
| ● | Performed an analysis of the Company's Convertible Note, Warrants and True-Up Obligation including various conversion and other provisions |
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| ● | Inquiry of management regarding the development of the assumptions used in the valuation of the derivative liability. |
| ● | Testing management’s process included evaluating the appropriateness of the valuation models, testing the completeness, accuracy, and relevance of underlying data used in the model, and testing the reasonableness of significant assumptions, including the stock price, term, volatility, annual expected return, discount rate and dividend yield. |
| ● | Professionals with specialized skill and knowledge were used to assist in evaluating the reasonableness of significant assumptions. |
| ● | Evaluated the experience and qualifications of the Company’s external consultant assisting with the estimate of fair value. Made inquiries of the Company’s external consultant to ascertain objectivity or bias of the external consultant. |
| ● | Obtained an understanding of the nature of the work the Company’s external consultant performed, including the objectives and scope of the external consultant’s work and the methods or assumptions used. Identified and evaluated assumptions utilized by the external consultant and the supporting evidence provided. |
| ● | Identified and evaluated significant assumptions used by the Company’s external consultant for reasonableness. |
RBSM LLP
We served as the Company’s auditor from 2020 through 2023.
Las Vegas, NV
July 14, 2023
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