Company: NMEX
Filing Date: 2025-11-17
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-035266
Chunk: 4

Company: NORTHERN MINERALS & EXPLORATION LTD.
Filing Date: 2025-11-17
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 4
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 States) (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. The Company is not 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 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 Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate 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 separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Impairment of Oil and Gas Property: We identified the possible impairment of the Company’s oil and gas properties as a critical audit matter. The impairment assessment requires significant management estimates, particularly in determining estimated future cash flows from proved reserves, which are sensitive to assumptions about future commodity prices, operating costs, production volumes, and reserve quantities. The principal considerations that led us to determine this as a critical audit matter include the high degree of estimation uncertainty and the material impact that changes in these assumptions could have on the carrying value of the properties.

To address this matter we performed the following procedures, among others:

  Evaluated the competence