Company: DXPE
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001020710-25-000036
Chunk: 3

Company: DXP ENTERPRISES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7A
Chunk 3
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 Audit Matters

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 (i) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters 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. 

Revenue Recognized Over Time - Estimated Costs to Complete Open Contracts

As described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, revenue recognized under the percentage-of-completion method was $293.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. As disclosed by management, the Company has contracts to assemble, fabricate and or deliver tangible assets to customer specifications that can range from three to eighteen months or more. The Company accounts for these contracts under the percentage-of-completion method of accounting. Under this method, the Company recognizes sales and profit based upon the cost-to-cost method, in which sales and profit are recorded based upon the ratio of costs incurred to estimated total costs to complete the asset. The percentage-of-completion method of accounting requires management to estimate the project costs at completion. Revenues are estimated based upon the original contract price and change orders. Contract costs may be incurred over a period of several months, and the estimation of these costs requires judgment based upon the acquired knowledge and experience of program managers, engineers, and finance professionals. Estimated costs are based primarily on purchase contract terms and assumptions relating to items such as cost of materials, labor productivity and cost, and overhead.  

The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the estimated costs to complete open contracts associated with revenue recognized over time is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment by management when developing the estimated costs to complete open contracts and (ii) a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures and evaluating management’s significant assumption related to estimated costs of materials. As previously disclosed by management, a material weakness existed during the year related to this matter.

Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the revenue recognition process, including controls over the estimated costs to complete open