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Polar Power Inc

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Apr 1, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Apr 1, 2024

POLA$0.30-15.1%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026

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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Polar Power, Inc.

Gardena, California

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Polar Power, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the years then ended, 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 the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, during the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company incurred a net loss and utilized cash in operations. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans to alleviate these conditions are also described in Note 1. 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 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) 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 matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Inventory Valuation

As of December 31, 2023, the Company’s inventories totaled $16.5 million. As explained in Note 1 to the financial statements, inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value, with cost determined on a first-in, first-out (“FIFO”) basis. The Company assesses inventory at each reporting date in order to assert that it is recorded at net realizable value. In determining net realizable value, management considers historical usage, forecasted demand in relation to inventory on hand, market conditions, and other factors.

We identified management’s assessment of net realizable value of inventory as a critical audit matter because the determination of excess and obsolete inventory and lower of cost or net realizable value is judgmental and considers a number of factors that are affected by market and economic conditions, such as estimating future customer demand, and industry supply and demand. This required a high degree of auditor judgment and increased auditor effort in auditing such assessments.

The primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter included:

●We evaluated the reasonableness of assumptions used by management in forming the forecasted inventory usage and future salability, and whether they were consistent with the historical data and evidence obtained in other areas of the audit.
●We developed an independent expectation of the net realizable value of inventory using historic inventory activity and compared our independent expectation to the amount recorded in the financial statements.

Going Concern Analysis

As described in Note 1 to the financial statements, for the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recorded a net loss of $6.5 million, used cash in operations of $3.4 million, and at December 31, 2023, had an accumulated deficit of $25.7 million. The conditions described in Note 1 raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least one year from the date of issuance of the financial statements.

We identified the going concern analysis and evaluation of the related disclosures as a critical audit matter because of the significant judgements and assumptions made by management in developing its cash flow forecast and the risk of bias in management’s judgments and assumptions in estimating these cash flows. There was a high degree of auditor judgement and subjectivity in performing our procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of the cash flow forecast.

The primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter included:

●We obtained management’s cash flow forecast and evaluated the reasonableness of the cash flow forecast by comparing it to historical operating results, considering management’s ability to accurately forecast and perform sensitivity analysis on revenue, cash expenditures and commitments.
●We performed sensitivity analyses on the projected revenue and operating margins used in the Company’s cash flow forecast to evaluate the impact on the conclusions reached by management.
●We assessed the appropriateness and sufficiency of the disclosures included within the financial statements relating to liquidity and going concern and compared to other audit evidence obtained to determine whether such information is consistent with the Company’s disclosures.

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016.

/s/Weinberg & Company, P.A.

Los Angeles, California

April 1, 2024

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