Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001045450-25-000051
Chunk: 114

Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 114
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Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated 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.

Evaluation of indicators real estate investments may not be recoverable

As discussed in Notes 2 and 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the real estate investments, net balance as of December 31, 2024 was $4,435,358 thousand. The Company reviews a real estate investment for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the real estate investment may not be recoverable.

We identified the evaluation of indicators real estate investments may not be recoverable as a critical audit matter. There is a high degree of subjective judgement in evaluating the events or changes in circumstances that may indicate the carrying value of real estate investments may not be recoverable. In particular, the judgments regarding the expected period the Company will hold the real estate investments on the determination of the recoverability of the real estate investments required a higher degree of auditor judgment.

The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of an internal control related to the critical audit matter. This control related to the Company’s process to identify and evaluate events or changes in circumstances that may indicate the carrying amount of real estate investments may not be recoverable, which includes determining the period the Company will hold the real estate investments. We inquired of Company officials and inspected documents such as meeting minutes of the Board of Trustees to evaluate the likelihood that a real estate investment would be sold prior to the estimated holding period.

Impairment of real estate investments

As discussed in Notes 2, 5, and 11 to the consolidated financial statements, the real estate investments, net balance as of December 31, 2024 was $4,435,358 thousand. The Company reviews a property for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the property may not be recoverable. The Company recognized impairment charges of $51,764 thousand on real estate