Company: ROK
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001024478-25-000116
Chunk: 244

Company: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 6
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 circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

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 (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and 

dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) 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 (3) 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 matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements 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 a separate opinion on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Valuation — Sensia Reporting Unit — Refer to Note 3 to the financial statements  

Critical Audit Matter Description

Subsequent to the annual quantitative test for goodwill impairment, the Company identified a triggering event in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. As a result of this triggering event in the fourth quarter, the Company completed an evaluation of the recoverability of long-lived assets along with an evaluation of the fair value of the Sensia reporting unit. The Company utilized an income approach derived from discounted cash flows to determine the fair value of the goodwill and definite-lived intangible assets.

The determination of the fair value using the income