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Greenwave Technology Solutions Inc

For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Apr 16, 2024.

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FY2023 · Filed Apr 16, 2024

GWAV$2.13+4.2%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026

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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

Greenwave Technology Solutions, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Greenwave Technology Solutions, Inc., and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity (deficit) and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year 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 years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements, the Company has net loss, has generated negative cash flows from operating activities, has an accumulated deficit and has stated that substantial doubt exists about Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s evaluation of the events and conditions and management’s plans regarding 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 Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the 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 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) 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 matter below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Impairment of Intangibles – Refer Note 3 and 7

Description of the Matter:

As discussed in Note 3 and 7, to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s long-lived intangibles assets consisted of Licenses of $16.5 million, Intellectual property of $1.7 million and Customer list of $1.7 million. Management tests definite live intangible whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that its carrying amount may not be recoverable. Long-lived intangibles are tested as one group of assets for impairment by conducting a Step 1 analysis to assess the recoverability using undiscounted cash flows. The key assumptions and estimates utilized in the approaches primarily include future levels of revenue growth, gross profit margin, EBITDA as percentage of revenue, capital expenditure as a percentage of revenue and debt free cash free working capital.

The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the impairment of long-lived intangibles is a critical audit matter because (i) the assumptions as described above involve high levels of management judgment; (ii) the high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity and effort in performing procedures and evaluating the significant assumptions used in management’s valuation methods; and (iii) the audit effort involved in the use of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge.

How we addressed the Matter in our Audit:

Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the financial statements. These procedures included the following:

●Testing management’s process for determining the fair value estimates;
●Evaluating the appropriateness of the undiscounted Cash Flow approach used;
●Testing the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used;
●We evaluated the reasonableness of significant assumptions used by management related to future levels of revenue growth, gross profit margin, EBITDA as percentage of revenue, capital expenditure as a percentage of revenue and debt free cash free working capital;
●Evaluating management’s assumptions related to the future levels of revenue growth, gross profit margin, EBITDA as percentage of revenue, capital expenditure as a percentage of revenue and debt free cash free working capital involved evaluating whether the assumptions were reasonable considering (i) current and past performance; (ii) the consistency with external market and industry data; and (iii) whether these assumptions were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit; and
●Professionals with specialized skill and knowledge were used to assist in evaluating (i) the appropriateness of the undiscounted cash flow approach; (ii) the reasonableness of significant assumptions; and (iii) assessment of the Company specialist’s competence, capabilities and objectivity as it relates to the preparation of the valuation analysis.

PCAOB ID 587

/s/RBSM LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2017.

New York, NY

April 16, 2024

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