PharmaCyte Biotech Inc
For the period ended Apr 30, 2024. Filed Aug 13, 2024.
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FY2024 · Filed Aug 13, 2024
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm - Marcum
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
PharmaCyte Biotech, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of PharmaCyte Biotech, Inc. (the “Company”) as of April 30, 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the year ended April 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 April 30, 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended April 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 audit. 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 audit 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 audit 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 audit 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 audit 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 audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
Critical audit matters 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 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 matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Critical Audit Matter – Fair Value of Financial Instruments
As described in Note 3 and Note 12 to the financial statements, the Company records certain financial instruments at fair value on a recurring basis, including a derivative liability, a note receivable, and a warrant asset, which are classified as level 3 as they contain one or more inputs to valuation which are unobservable and significant to their fair value measurement.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the fair value of certain level 3 financial instruments is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment and estimation by management and their third party valuation experts in determining the inputs to estimate fair value, which in turn led to a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures and in evaluating audit evidence obtained related to the fair value of these financial instruments, and (ii) the audit effort involved the use of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge.
Addressing this matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidencein connection with forming our overall opinion on the financial statements. These procedures included reviewing the terms of the underlying agreements that gave rise to the financial instruments. These procedures also included, among others, the involvement of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge to assist in the testing and evaluation of the valuation models prepared by management’s third-party valuation experts. This included assessing the appropriateness of the methodologies used in the valuation process and developing an independent estimate of fair value for these financial instruments and comparing management’s estimate to the independently developed estimate of fair value. Developing the independent estimate involved testing the completeness, accuracy, and relevance of underlying data used in the models, and testing the reasonableness of significant assumptions, including equity volatility, trading volume volatility, market interest rate, probability of default, risk-free rate, calibration adjustment factor, and starting daily share volume, as applicable.
/s/ Marcum LLP
Marcum LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023**.**
East Hanover, New Jersey
August 13, 2024
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