WISA TECHNOLOGIES INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Apr 1, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Apr 1, 2024
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
WiSA Technologies, Inc.
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of WiSA Technologies, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related consolidated statements of operations, convertible redeemable preferred stock and stockholders’ equity(deficit), and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023,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, 2023 and 2022, 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.
Going Concern Uncertainty
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’s recurring losses from operations, a net capital deficiency, available cash and cash used in operations raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to 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 entity’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on 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 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 entity’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 were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate 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 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 matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Fair Value Measurement of Warrants and Series B Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock
As described in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements, during 2023 the Company issued warrants and Series B Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, respectively, pursuant to certain redemption, conversion and exercise terms (collectively, “warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock”). The Company also entered into inducement agreements with holders of Series B Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock Warrants (the “Series B warrants”) in which the Company issued warrants to purchase common stock in exchange for the exercise of Series B warrants pursuant to certain exercise terms. The accounting for the transactions required management to assess the accounting classification and valuation of the stock instruments.
We identified the fair value measurement of the warrant derivative liabilities and the redeemable convertible preferred stock as a critical audit matter. Auditing management’s accounting for the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock was challenging as it required auditor judgement in assessing the accounting for estimation of the fair value of the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock, including the interpretation and application of the accounting literature to the transaction related to classification. It also required professionals with specialized skills and knowledge to assess the methodology and key inputs used by the Company to estimate the fair value of the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock. There is limited observable market data available for the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock, making each a complex financial instrument and, as such, the fair value measurement requires management to make complex judgements to identify and select the significant assumptions. In addition, the fair value measurement of the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock requires the use of complex financial models. As a result, obtaining sufficient appropriate audit evidence related to the fair value measurement requires significant auditor subjectivity.
How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
Our audit procedures related to the fair value measurement of the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock included the following, among others:
| ● | Testing the Company’s accounting treatment and disclosures related to the warrants and redeemable convertible preferred stock including reading the terms of the redeemable convertible preferred stock and warrant prospectuses, evaluating provisions related to contingent redemption features, and evaluating the Company’s application of technical accounting literature regarding classifying the redeemable convertible preferred stock as mezzanine equity and the warrants as liabilities. |
| ● | We obtained an understanding of the process of estimating the fair value of the instruments. |
| ● | With the assistance of our valuation specialists, we evaluated the reasonableness of the Company’s valuation methodology and significant assumptions by: (1) comparing significant assumptions against available market data and historical amounts and (2) validating the mathematical accuracy of the models by developing an independent calculation and comparing to management’s concluded valuations. |
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016.
/s/BPM LLP
San Jose, California
April 1, 2024
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