Microbot Medical Inc
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Mar 27, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Mar 27, 2024
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Microbot Medical Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Microbot Medical Inc. and its subsidiary (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related consolidated statements of comprehensive loss, shareholders’ equity 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 “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 two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Going Concern
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1B to the financial statements, the Company’s financial statements include a net loss of $ 10,740 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2023 and accumulated deficit of $ 79,501 thousand as of December 31, 2023. The Company is dependent on its ability to obtain additional debt and/or equity in order to continue its operations. These conditions raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
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 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 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 Company’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 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 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 a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Contingencies - Settlement of litigation resulting from the 2017 financing — Refer to Notes 9G and 16C to the financial statements.
Critical Audit Matter Description
On January 26, 2024, the Company entered into a settlement agreement and release with third parties, effectively resolving a lawsuit brought against the Company in 2020. The lawsuit stemmed from securities purchase agreements made between the Company and the third parties in 2017. The settlement amount consisted of a cash payment and shares of restricted common stock.
The Company concluded that the settlement agreement gave rise to loss contingency in the scope of Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 450-20, Contingencies – Loss Contingencies, and as of December 31, 2023, the Company recorded a contingent liability.
The settlement amount was recorded in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as non-operating loss, offset by loss recovery received from the Company’s insurance company.
Given the significant judgments made by management with respect to the contingent liability arising from the settlement agreement and the loss recovery received from the Company’s insurance company, performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s assumptions and conclusions concerning the recognition and measurement of the contingent liability and the insurance recovery receivables, required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit
| ● | We read the settlement agreement, agreement with the Company’s insurance company, and other supporting documentation, followed by inquiries with the Company’s external counsel and general counsel regarding the details of the agreements. |
| ● | With the assistance of our technical accounting specialists, we evaluated the management’s assessment and conclusion with regards to the accounting treatment of the settlement agreement and loss recovery received from the Company’s insurance company. Our procedures included evaluating the Company’s accounting memorandum and inquires with the management with regard to judgements made. |
| ● | We evaluated the Company’s calculation of the contingent liability. |
| ● | We evaluated the appropriateness of the disclosures in the financial statements pertinent to the settlement agreement and loss recovery received from the Company’s insurance company by comparing management’s disclosures to audit evidence obtained. |
/s/ Brightman Almagor Zohar & Co.
Brightman Almagor Zohar & Co.
Certified Public Accountants
A firm in the Deloitte Global Network
Tel Aviv, Israel
March 27, 2024
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2013.
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