Company: AIRTP
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000353184-25-000044
Chunk: 73

Company: AIR T INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 73
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 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 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 matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Redeemable non-controlling interest – valuation of Contrail Aviation Support, LLC — Refer to Notes 1 and 4 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

Inventories are carried at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Within the commercial aircraft, engines, and parts reportable segment, the Company is required to make assumptions about expected profit margins used in the relief of inventory as parts are sold from established groups of parts from one engine or airframe purchase. Additionally, in its periodic evaluation of the carrying value of the inventories, the Company is required to make estimates regarding the net realizable value. These estimates include assumptions about sales patterns, expected future demand and costs to refurbish. Changes in these assumptions could have a significant impact on the valuation of inventory held by the Company’s commercial aircraft, engines and parts reportable segment.

We identified the valuation of certain inventory held by the Company’s commercial aircraft, engines and parts reportable segment as a critical audit matter. Given the magnitude of the inventories at certain business units, coupled with the significant judgments necessary to estimate the expected profit margins and to project sales patterns, expected future demand and costs to refurbish, auditing such estimates required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort when performing audit procedures and evaluating the results of those procedures

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

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Our audit procedures related to expected profit margins utilized in the relief of inventory, and related to the sales patterns, expected future demand and costs to refurbish used in estimating the net realizable value of inventory, included the following, among others:

•We assessed the reasonableness of management’s estimates of expected profit margins for a representative sample of inventories by:

◦Comparing the life-to-date profit margin on sales from the group of parts