Nurix Therapeutics Inc
For the period ended Nov 30, 2024. Filed Jan 28, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Jan 28, 2025
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying 2024 financial statements of Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. and the 2023 consolidated financial statements of Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. and its subsidiary (collectively referred to as the “Company”), which comprise the balance sheets as of November 30, 2024 and 2023, and the related statements of operations, of comprehensive loss, of stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended November 30, 2024, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). We also have audited the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of November 30, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of November 30, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended November 30, 2024 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of November 30, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the COSO.
Basis for Opinions
The Company's management is responsible for these financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Company’s financial statements and on the Company's internal control over financial reporting 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the financial statements 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. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
Emphasis of Matter
As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company will need substantial additional funding to support its continuing operations and pursue its long-term business plan. Management's evaluation of the events and conditions related to this matter are also described in Note 1.
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 (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) 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 (iii) 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.
Critical Audit Matters
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 (i) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (ii) 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.
Revenue Recognition - Estimated Costs of Internal Full-Time Employees (FTEs) - Pfizer Collaboration Agreement
As described in Notes 2 and 3 to the financial statements, the Company’s collaboration revenue was $54.5 million for the year ended November 30, 2024, of which revenue of $18.8 million was recognized related to the Company’s collaboration agreement with Pfizer. The Company enters into collaboration agreements and assesses those agreements to determine the performance obligations. Management uses a cost-based input method, which the Company determined most faithfully depicts the transfer of its performance obligation to Pfizer, to recognize revenue based on the actual costs incurred as a percentage of total estimated costs as the Company completes its performance obligation under the contract. Costs consist primarily of internal FTE and third-party contract costs related to the Pfizer agreement. The cumulative effect of revisions to estimated costs to complete the Company’s performance obligation is recorded in the period in which changes are identified and amounts can be reasonably estimated. Total estimated costs are primarily driven by the number of estimated FTEs, which requires significant management judgment.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to revenue recognition - estimated costs of internal FTEs relating to the Pfizer collaboration agreement is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment by management when developing the estimated costs of internal FTEs and (ii) a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity and effort in performing procedures and evaluating management’s significant assumption related to the number of estimated FTEs.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the revenue recognition process, including controls over the development of the estimated costs of internal FTEs. These procedures also included, among others, evaluating and testing management’s process for developing the estimated costs of internal FTEs, which included evaluating the reasonableness of the significant assumption related to the number of estimated FTEs. Evaluating management’s estimated costs of internal FTEs involved (i) performing a comparison of management’s estimated costs of internal FTEs to the actual internal FTE costs; (ii) testing the completeness and accuracy of the data used by management in the estimate; (iii) evaluating management’s timely identification of changes in estimated costs of internal FTEs; and (iv) evaluating whether the estimate and assumption were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
January 28, 2025
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.
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