Company: CALX
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001406666-25-000008
Chunk: 140

Company: CALIX, INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 140
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 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 Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated 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 consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated 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.

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Evaluation of net realizable value of components and finished goods inventory and excess and obsolete component liabilities

As discussed in Notes 1, 4 and 5 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has components and finished goods inventories with a carrying value of $102.7 million and excess and obsolete component liabilities of $27.5 million as of December 31, 2024. The Company adjusts the inventory carrying value for excess or obsolete inventory based on assumptions about future demand for products, potential obsolescence of technology, product life cycle, and whether pricing trends or forecasts indicate that the carrying value of inventory exceeds the estimated selling price. These factors are impacted by market and economic conditions, technology changes and new product introductions and require significant estimates that may include elements that are uncertain. The Company also records a liability and a charge to cost of revenue for estimated losses on components the Company is obligated to purchase from its manufacturers when the components have been rendered excess and obsolete due to manufacturing and engineering change orders resulting from design changes, manufacturing discontinuation of products by its suppliers, or in cases where the Company has committed component levels that greatly exceed projected demand.

We identified the evaluation of net realizable value of inventory and excess and obsolete component liabilities as a critical audit matter. Evaluation of the Company’s forecasted demand, including the Company’s determination of the effect of market and economic conditions, technology and design changes, new product introductions, and discontinuation of products both by the Company and its suppliers required significant auditor judgment.

The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated