Company: DMRC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-005471
Chunk: 109

Company: Digimarc CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 109
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 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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 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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Revenue recognition for new contracts

As discussed in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company recorded $38,418 thousand of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024, of which $22,418 thousand was subscription revenue and $16,000 thousand was service revenue. Customer arrangements may contain multiple performance obligations such as software subscriptions, software products, software development services, and/or maintenance and support fees. The Company accounts for individual products and services separately if they are distinct. The Company derives its revenue primarily from software subscriptions and software development services with a wide range of software and service offerings.

We identified the evaluation of the Company’s revenue recognition related to new contracts entered during the year as a critical audit matter. Challenging auditor judgment was required to evaluate the potential impact of specific contract terms on revenue recognition due to the unique nature of new revenue contracts within each software and service offering.

The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design of certain internal controls related to the