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INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS & SUPPORT INC

For the period ended Sep 30, 2024. Filed Dec 30, 2024.

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FY2024 · Filed Dec 30, 2024

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Board of Directors and Shareholders

Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc.

Opinion on the financial statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. (a Pennsylvania corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of September 30, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2024, 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 September 30, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

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 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 a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Fair Value of Acquired Intangible Assets

As described further in Note 4 to the financial statements, on September 27, 2024, the Company entered into and closed the transaction contemplated by the Asset Purchase and License Agreement (the “September 2024 Honeywell Agreement”) with Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell”). Pursuant to the September 2024 Honeywell Agreement, Honeywell sold, assigned or licensed certain assets related to its various generations of military display generators and flight control computers, including a sale of certain inventory, equipment and customer-related documents; an assignment of certain contracts; and a grant of exclusive and non-exclusive licenses to use certain Honeywell intellectual property related to its various generations of military display generators and flight control computers to repair, overhaul, manufacture sell, import, export and distribute certain products to the Company.

The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination. The Company accounts for acquisitions of entities or asset groups that qualify as businesses using the acquisition method of accounting. Accordingly, the purchase consideration was allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, which are

measured in accordance with fair value measurement principles. The Company’s allocation of the total purchase consideration to the estimated fair values of acquired assets included a fair value of $2,300,000 ascribed to the acquired license agreements.

Management estimated the fair value of the acquired license agreements using the relief from royalty method. The significant assumptions include: (i) future expected revenues from customer contracts and license agreements, (ii) royalty rates, and (iii) discount rates.

We identified the fair value of the acquired license agreement intangible assets acquired as a critical audit matter because of the significant estimates and assumptions management made to determine the fair value of the asset. This required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to involve our valuation specialists, when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimates and assumptions.

Our audit procedures related to the fair value of the acquired license agreements included the following, among others.

●Evaluated the design and implementation of key controls relating to the fair valuations performed on the acquired license agreement intangible assets. These procedures included, among others, understanding management’s processes over the development of the fair value estimate and related key inputs and assumptions, and over the evaluation of the competency and objectivity of management's third-party valuation specialist.
●Tested the mathematical accuracy of the valuation models utilized by the Company and the completeness, accuracy and relevance of underlying data used in the model.
●Assessed the reasonableness of management’s estimated revenue cash flows by obtaining an understanding of management’s processes for developing projected financial information and comparing the projections to historical results achieved by Honeywell.
●Evaluated the reasonableness of management’s revenue assumptions and tested the source information, including the number of existing customers, through inspection of customer contracts.
●Utilized valuation specialists to evaluate the reasonableness of the royalty rates and discount rates used in the valuation.
●Conducted sensitivity analysis around the royalty rates and discount rate assumptions utilized by management.

/s/GRANT THORNTON LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

December 30, 2024

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