Broadcom Inc.
For the period ended Nov 2, 2025. Filed Dec 18, 2025.
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FY2025 · Filed Dec 18, 2025
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Broadcom Inc.
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Broadcom Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of November 2, 2025 and November 3, 2024, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive income, of stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended November 2, 2025, including the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the index appearing under Item 15(a)(2) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). We also have audited the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of November 2, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of November 2, 2025 and November 3, 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended November 2, 2025 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of November 2, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the COSO.
Basis for Opinions
The Company's management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and on the Company's internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Critical 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 Recognition — Certain Software and Support Revenue in the Infrastructure Software Segment
As disclosed in Note 13 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s net revenue for the infrastructure software segment for the year ended November 2, 2025 was $27,029 million, a significant portion of which related to certain software and support revenue. As disclosed in Note 2, revenue is recognized when, or as, performance obligations are satisfied by transferring control of a promised product or service to a customer. Software arrangements primarily consist of fees that provide customers with a right to use the Company’s software and access general support and maintenance. Certain software arrangements permit customers to unilaterally cancel these arrangements at any time at the customer’s convenience, referred to as termination for convenience provisions. For software arrangements without termination for convenience provisions, management recognizes revenue for the license portion of the agreements upfront upon transfer of control to the customer. For software arrangements with termination for convenience provisions, management accounts for these arrangements as a series of daily contracts, resulting in ratable revenue recognition over the contractual period. Support services consist primarily of telephone support and the provision of unspecified updates and upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis for which revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. Management allocates total contract consideration to each distinct performance obligation in a bundled arrangement on a relative standalone selling price basis. Management uses directly observable transactions to determine the standalone selling prices for performance obligations.
The principal consideration for our determination that performing procedures relating to revenue recognition of certain software and support revenue in the infrastructure software segment is a critical audit matter is a high degree of auditor effort in performing procedures related to the Company’s revenue recognition.
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. These procedures also included, among others, (i) testing revenue recognized for a sample of revenue transactions by obtaining and inspecting source documents, such as quotes, contracts, purchase orders, evidence of transfer of control, and invoices; (ii) recalculating revenue recognized for a sample of transactions, including, where applicable, the allocation of transaction price to the performance obligations based on relative standalone selling price; (iii) testing the completeness and accuracy of the historical selling price data used to determine the standalone selling price of the performance obligations and recalculating management’s determination of the standalone selling price; and (iv) confirming a sample of outstanding customer invoice balances as of November 2, 2025 and, for confirmations not returned, obtaining and inspecting source documents such as contracts, invoices, sales orders, and subsequent cash receipts.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
December 18, 2025
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2006.
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