Company H: 10-K Pre-filing Check

A US-listed aerospace services company. Identity masked; the work is shown in full.

Summary

Filer
a US-listed aerospace services company
Document reviewed
Form 10-K for fiscal 2025, about 140 pages, read with the prior-year 10-K
Observations
14 compliance and disclosure gaps, 18 SEC-style questions, 9 drafting slips
Elapsed review time
45 minutes from start to finished report
Standards applied
US GAAP (FASB ASC), Regulation S-X, Regulation S-K, Form 10-K items, SOX 302/906 and Exchange Act rules

Observations by category and severity

Observations by category and severity
CategoryCriticalHighMediumLowTotal
Compliance gap Compliance or disclosure gap–––88
Presentation Presentation point––246
Question SEC-style question––31518
Drafting Drafting slip–––99
Total––53641

Findings register

41 observations

RefObservationCategorySeverityAreaStatus
2.02Item 9A presents four unremediated material weaknesses as if new, though the prior-year Form 10-K reported all fourPresentationMediumGovernance, controls and certificationsEstablished
4.04The internal-control risk factor still describes an adverse ICFR conclusion as a future possibility and remediation as only being plannedPresentationMediumRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AEstablished
1.01The major-customer disclosure gives a percentage only: no revenue amount and no segment reporting itCompliance gapLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
1.02Stock compensation note omits the recognition period for [amount] of unrecognized cost, the fair value of the 2025 option grants and the tax benefit recognizedCompliance gapLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
1.03The amount of subsidiaries' restricted net assets behind the parent-only schedule is not statedCompliance gapLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
2.01Item 1C names the officers who manage cybersecurity risk but no longer describes their expertiseCompliance gapLowGovernance, controls and certificationsInterpretation
4.01Item 7A gives the interest-rate sensitivity for [date] only, with no preceding-year figure or comparisonCompliance gapLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.02The MD&A does not mention the planned elimination of [amount] of pass-through material revenue that the earnings release announced the day beforeCompliance gapLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.03The liquidity discussion describes historical uses of cash but not the company's material cash requirements at year endCompliance gapLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
5.01The company's decision on how often to hold the say-on-pay vote was not reported by its fourth-quarter deadline, and Item 9B(a) of the 10-K says 'None'Compliance gapLowAuditor's report, ICFR and the SEC filings recordEstablished
1.04The balance sheet's count of shares issued at [date] leaves out the [n] shares delivered on restricted stock unit vestingPresentationLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
1.05The option table now calls the [n] options that the prior 10-K showed as arising from the 2024 restructuring 'Granted'; the prior 10-K and the RSA table call the same event 'Corporate restructuring'PresentationLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
1.06The parent-company balance sheet labels as 'accumulated deficit' a figure that also contains accumulated other comprehensive lossPresentationLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
4.05The MD&A puts all [amount] of 2024 refinancing costs on the March and [date] amendments; the debt note puts [amount] on the [date] New Credit AgreementPresentationLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AEstablished
1.07Remaining performance obligations fell from [amount] to [amount] in one year with no explanationQuestionMediumFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
1.08Diluted EPS counts legacy restricted shares whose liquidity-event condition had not been met (both years; [n] shares in 2025)QuestionMediumFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
5.02The segment discussion no longer quantifies the end-market changes and named growth drivers that the SEC staff asked to see quantified in future filingsQuestionMediumAuditor's report, ICFR and the SEC filings recordInterpretation
1.09Income taxes paid: state and 'other foreign' lines each exceed 5% of the total with no jurisdiction namedQuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
1.10[acquired business] earn-out: Level 3 inputs are given at the [date] acquisition date and the fair value is said not to have changedQuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
1.11Cash flows: how the 2025 payment for a license acquired on credit in 2024 was classifiedQuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XFor confirmation
1.12The parent-only information says the parent had no cash activity, including in the year of its IPOQuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
1.13Cash flow hedges: the estimated AOCI amount to be reclassified into earnings within the next 12 months is not given (both years)QuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
1.14Revenue: catch-up adjustments on contracts in progress are described but never quantified, and the policy calls them 'prospective'QuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XFor confirmation
1.152024 depreciation and amortization differs between the cash-flow statement and the notesQuestionLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XInterpretation
2.03Item 1C does not say whether there are processes to oversee cybersecurity risks from third-party service providersQuestionLowGovernance, controls and certificationsInterpretation
3.01Related parties: amounts expensed and paid to [related-party adviser] in 2025 do not reconcile to the balance due on the balance sheetQuestionLowRelated partiesInterpretation
4.06The MD&A does not say how much of the revenue increase came from price and how much from volumeQuestionLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.07Human capital: the share of employees under collective or works-council arrangements is put at about 10%, but the prior-year 10-K's own country counts give [n]%QuestionLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.08The MD&A and the debt note give different weighted average interest rates for the same years ([n]% and [n]% for 2025)QuestionLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.09Adjusted EBITDA adjustments described as 'not recurring' include charges taken in every one of the last three yearsQuestionLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.10The operating cash flow discussion does not say that a [amount] build-up of contract assets drove most of the working-capital outflowQuestionLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
4.11Critical accounting estimates give a sensitivity only for revenue; goodwill, first tested quantitatively in 2025, and the inventory reserve get noneQuestionLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AInterpretation
6.01A garbled sentence on the Audit Committee's cybersecurity oversight in Item 1CDraftingLowGovernance, controls and certificationsEstablished
6.02The third-quarter 2025 earnings Form 8-K is tagged on EDGAR as an acquisition (Item 2.01) although it reports Item 2.02DraftingLowAuditor's report, ICFR and the SEC filings recordEstablished
6.03Rental engine income, which the notes treat as lease income, is tagged in Inline XBRL as revenue from contracts with customersDraftingLowCover page, exhibits, XBRL and other disclosuresEstablished
6.04Slips in defined terms, section cross-references and wording in the Introductory Note, Item 1 and Item 1ADraftingLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AEstablished
6.05Typing slips in the liquidity and critical accounting estimates text of the MD&ADraftingLowRegulation S-K narrative: business, risk factors and MD&AEstablished
6.06Accounting policy note carries wording from another framework and superseded guidance, and one comparative figure is mistypedDraftingLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
6.07Wording slips in the debt, property and income-tax notesDraftingLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
6.08Swap footnote dates the original agreement [date], yet has its notional step down on [date] and the table gives a [date] effective dateDraftingLowFinancial statements, US GAAP and Regulation S-XEstablished
6.09The exhibit index has a '^' footnote on omitted schedules that no exhibit number carriesDraftingLowCover page, exhibits, XBRL and other disclosuresEstablished

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Prepared by Pramanex from the company’s public SEC filings, without the company’s involvement, to show how a 10-K Pre-filing Check reads. The company is not named, and nothing on this page is a statement about any identifiable company. Observations are not an audit, review or other attestation or assurance engagement, and not legal advice. An SEC-style question is a question, not a conclusion.

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