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TUCOWS INC PA

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 13, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Mar 13, 2025

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Item 16. Form 10-K Summary

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Consolidated Financial Statements of Tucows Inc.

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Consolidated Financial Statements of Tucows Inc.1
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Deloitte LLP, Toronto, Canada PCAOB ID: 1208)2
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Deloitte LLP, Toronto, Canada PCAOB ID: 1208)3
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (KPMG LLP, Toronto, Ontario, PCAOB 1D: 85)6
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 20237
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 20228
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 20229
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 202210
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements11

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Tucows Inc.

Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Tucows Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework (2013)* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework (2013)* issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024, of the Company and our report dated March 13, 2025, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. 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 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 effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/Deloitte LLP

Chartered Professional Accountants

Licensed Public Accountants

Toronto, Canada

March 13, 2025

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Tucows Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Tucows Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows, for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes and the Parent Company Condensed Financial Statements of Tucows Inc. (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, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2022, before the effects of the adjustments to retrospectively adjust the segment disclosures in Note 20 for the adoption of the recent accounting pronouncement described in Note 2 to the financial statements, were audited by other auditors whose report, dated March 15, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements. We have also audited the adjustments to the 2022 consolidated financial statements to retrospectively adjust the disclosures in Note 20 for the adoption of the recent accounting pronouncement described in Note 2. Our procedures included (1) examining evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures, and (2) evaluating the overall presentation of the amounts in Note 20. In our opinion, such retrospective adjustments are appropriate and have been properly applied. However, we were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to the 2022 consolidated financial statements of the Company other than with respect to the retrospective adjustments, and accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance on the 2022 consolidated financial statements taken as a whole.

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, 2024, based on criteria established inInternal Control—* Integrated Framework (2013)* issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 13, 2025, 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 Matters

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 (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 matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Revenue—*** Refer to Notes 10 and 20 to the financial statements***

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company’s revenues are derived from (a) the provisioning of retail fiber internet services, through Ting, (b) software solutions and professional services through Wavelo; and from (c) domain name registration contracts, other domain related value-added services, domain sale contracts, and other advertising revenue through Tucows Domains Services (“Tucows Domains”).

The Company’s process to record revenue for Ting and Tucows Domains is highly dependent on information technology systems (“IT systems”) and is impacted by the material weakness identified by management as of December 31, 2023. While the material weakness was remediated by December 31, 2024, the internal controls over General IT Controls (GITCs) were ineffective for a portion of the year. We identified the evaluation of the appropriateness and sufficiency of audit evidence over revenue as a critical audit matter, as it required an especially high-level of auditor judgment. Auditing revenue resulted in an increased extent of audit effort and the nature of audit procedures were designed to obtain audit evidence outside of the IT systems.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to revenue for Ting and Tucows Domains, taking into account the ineffectiveness of certain key IT general controls for a portion of the year, included the following, among others:

●Reconciled the extract of revenue transactions from the billing systems to the general ledger;
●For a sample of revenue transactions from the general ledger, obtained and inspected source documents, including contracts, invoices, proof of service, subsequent cash receipts, and history of customer payments where applicable; and
●For a sample of Tucows Domains revenue transactions, agreed them to confirmations, third-party registry information and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) database.

Property and equipment—*** Refer to Notes 2 and 3 to the financial statements***

Critical Audit Matter Description

As part of the Company’s 2024 Capital Efficiency Plan, management determined that certain assets under construction within the Ting operating segment would be disposed of by abandonment. Management estimated the salvage values of these assets based on historical experience, available market information, third party analysis and other assumptions believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. In addition, management considered subsequent events occurring through the reporting date. An impairment loss was recognized for the excess of the carrying amount over the estimated salvage values of the assets.

Management’s estimates of the salvage values of the assets under construction involved a high degree of judgment. Consequently, we identified the salvage values of the assets under construction as a critical audit matter. Auditing these estimates required significant auditor judgment and an increased extent of audit effort.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the salvage values of the assets under construction, included the following, among others:

●Evaluated the reasonableness of the expected salvage values, including the reasonableness of management’s assumptions regarding the probability of disposal by sale to third parties or outright abandonment by:
oConducting inquiries with finance management and operational personnel to gain an understanding of the present condition of assets under construction; and
oObtaining and inspecting third party correspondence related to prospective sales.
●Evaluated management’s assessment of subsequent events occurring through the reporting date by:
oConducting inquiries regarding subsequent events with senior management; and
oInspecting source documents, where applicable to corroborate inquiries of management.

/s/ Deloitte LLP

Chartered Professional Accountants

Licensed Public Accountants

Toronto, Canada

March 13, 2025

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of Tucows Inc.:

Opinion on theConsolidatedFinancial Statements

We have audited, before the effect of the adjustments to retrospectively apply the change in accounting described in Notes 2(x) and 20, the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of Tucows Inc. (the Company) for the year ended December 31, 2022, and the related notes, and the schedule of the condensed statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) and condensed statement of cash flows of Tucows Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2022 (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). The 2022 consolidated financial statements before the effects of the adjustments described in Notes 2(x) and 20 are not presented herein. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements, before the effects of the adjustments to retrospectively apply the change in accounting described in Notes 2(x) and 20, present fairly, in all material respects, the results of operations of the Company and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to the adjustments to retrospectively apply the change in accounting described in Notes 2(x) and 20 and, accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance about whether such adjustments are appropriate and have been properly applied. Those adjustments were audited by other auditors.

Basis for Opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. 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 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 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.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants

We served as the Company’s auditor from 2001 to 2023.

Vaughan, Canada

March 15, 2023, except for the schedule of the condensed financial statements of Tucows Inc., which is as of April 1, 2024

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