Company: MMI
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001578732-25-000015
Chunk: 27

Company: Marcus & Millichap, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 27
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 based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the 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. 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 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 the 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.

F-2

Deferred commissions payableDescription of the MatterAt December 31, 2024, the Company’s commissions payable to investment sales and financing professionals was $79.6 million.  As discussed in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements, certain investment sales and financing professionals have the ability to earn additional commissions after meeting certain annual revenue thresholds. All commissions are recognized as cost of services in the period in which they are earned as they relate to specific transactions closed. The Company has the ability to defer payment of certain commissions, at its election, for up to three years. These payments are referred to as deferred commissions.Auditing the Company’s deferred commissions was complex with regard to evaluating the completeness of the population of investment sales and financing professionals eligible for deferred commissions and the accuracy of the investment sales and financing professionals’ revenue thresholds used in determining deferred commissions earned.How We Addressed the Matter in Our AuditWe evaluated the design and tested the