Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 24, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 24, 2025
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of loss, comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders' deficit and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a)2 (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 at December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, 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, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control–Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 24, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
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) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the 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.
| Valuation of Goodwill — Europe-North Reporting Unit | |
| Description of the Matter | Management conducts impairment tests for goodwill annually, or more frequently, if events or circumstances indicate the carrying value of goodwill may be impaired as described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements. The Company performed their annual impairment test as of July 1, 2024 on goodwill which resulted in no impairment charges being recorded for the Europe-North reporting unit. As described in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the goodwill balance of $143.9 million for Europe-North is now included in current assets of discontinued operations on the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024. |
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| Auditing management’s impairment tests for goodwill was complex and highly judgmental and required the involvement of a valuation specialist due to the significant estimation required to determine the fair value of the Europe-North reporting unit. For the Europe-North reporting unit goodwill, the fair value estimate in the discounted cash flow model of the reporting unit is sensitive to significant assumptions such as changes in projected revenue growth rates, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”) margins, and the discount rate. These assumptions are sensitive to and affected by expected future market or economic conditions. |
| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company’s goodwill impairment review process, including controls over management’s review of the significant assumptions and methodologies used in the calculation of the fair value of the Europe-North reporting unit, as well as the Company’s review of the completeness and accuracy of the data used in the Company’s analysis. |
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| To test the estimated fair value of the Company’s Europe-North reporting unit, our audit procedures included, among others, evaluating the Company's selection of the valuation methodology, the methods and significant assumptions used by management, and the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data supporting the Company’s analysis. We compared the projected cash flows to the Company’s historical performance and other available market forecast information, including third-party industry projections for the advertising industry. We involved our valuation specialists to assist in reviewing the valuation methodology and testing the discount rate. We assessed the historical accuracy of management’s estimates and performed sensitivity analyses of significant assumptions to evaluate the changes in the fair value of the Europe-North reporting unit that would result from changes in the assumptions. In addition, we also tested management’s reconciliation of the fair value of the reporting units to the market capitalization of the Company. |
/s/Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2005.
San Antonio, Texas
February 24, 2025
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