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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

6 Months Ended

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

Sep. 30, 2024

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

NOTE 2 — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X of the SEC. Certain information or footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed consolidated or omitted, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes necessary for a complete presentation of financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. In the opinion of management, the accompanying financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of a normal recurring nature, which are necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results and cash flows for the periods presented.

Foreign Currency

These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are presented in United States dollars which are the parent and subsidiaries’ functional currency. The functional currency for each entity consolidated with the Company is determined by the currency of the primary economic environment in which it operates, US dollars (“USD”).

Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the functional currency spot rates of exchange at the reporting date. Differences arising on settlement or translation of monetary items are recognized in profit or loss.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Use of Estimates and assumptions

The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. There were no significant estimates or assumptions that materially impacted the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2025 and September 30, 2024.

Segment Information

The Company operates as one operating segment. The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is its chief executive officer, who reviews financial information for purposes of making operating decisions, assessing financial performance and allocating resources. The Company’s CODM evaluates financial information on a consolidated basis. As the Company operates as one operating segment, all required segment financial information is found in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

Cash

Cash consists of cash on hand, the balances with banks and the liquid investments with maturities of three months or less.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment losses at the following depreciation rates:

Computer hardware & IT

Double declining balance method – 30%

Equipment that is withdrawn from use or has no reasonable prospect of being recovered through use or sale, are regularly identified, and written off. The assets’ residual values, depreciation methods and useful lives are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate, at each reporting date. Subsequent expenditures relating to items of property and equipment are capitalized when it is probable that future economic benefits from the use of the assets will be increased. All other subsequent expenditures are recognized as repairs and maintenance.

Deferred Offering Costs

Deferred offering costs consist of specific expenses directly attributable to the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”), including legal, accounting, printing, underwriter fees, and filing fees. These costs are capitalized as incurred in accordance with the guidance under ASC 340-10-S99-1. Subsequent to the successful completion of the IPO, deferred offering costs will be offset against the IPO proceeds and reclassified to additional paid-in capital. For the six months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded deferred offering costs of $161,806. For the year ended September 30, 2024, the Company recorded deferred offering costs of $139,017.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Impairment of Long-lived asset

Long-lived assets, including plant, property and equipment, are evaluated for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying amount may not be fully recoverable or that the useful life is shorter than the Company had originally estimated. When these events occur, the Company evaluates the impairment by comparing the carrying value of the assets to an estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated from the use of the assets and their eventual disposition. If the sum of the expected future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the assets, the Company recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying value of the assets over the fair value of the assets. No impairment charge was recognized for the three and six months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses represent costs directly attributable to the research and development of AI and machine learning related new features for the Company’s platform. All research and development costs are expensed as incurred.

Revenue Recognition

The Company adopted ASC Topic 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”) on January 1, 2020 using the modified retrospective approach. Revenues were presented under ASC 606 and all subsequent ASUs that modified ASC 606 for the three and six months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. The core principle of the guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve that core principle, the Company applies the following steps:

	Step 1:	Identification of the contract with a customer;

	Step 2:	Identification of the performance obligations in the contract;

	Step 3:	Determination of the transaction price;

	Step 4:	Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract (where revenue is allocated on a relative standalone selling price basis by maximizing the use of observable inputs to determine the standalone selling price for each performance obligation); and

	Step 5:	Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

Revenue from online subscription services

Our primary source of revenue is subscriptions to our cloud-based software during the term of arrangement. Cloud-based services allow our customers to access to the tailor-made stock research reports without taking possession of the software. Revenue is generally recognized ratably over the contract term beginning on the commencement date of each contract, which is the date our cloud-based software is made available to customers, and collection is reasonably assured. Subscription agreements generally have terms ranging from one month to one year. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded either deferred revenue or revenue in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, depending on whether the underlying performance obligation has been satisfied.

Deferred Revenue

Deferred revenue consists of advance payments that are received in advance of the Company’s performance. The Company’s deferred revenue is reported on a contract-by-contract basis at the end of each reporting period. The Company classifies deferred revenue as current when the term of the applicable subscription period or expected completion of the performance obligation is one year or less.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenues primarily consist of expenses related to hosting the Company’s service and analyst salaries that directly benefit sales. These expenses are comprised of hosted data center global costs, fees paid to third-party data providers and personnel-related costs directly associated with research reports, including salaries and benefits.

Capital Stock

Common shares are classified as shareholders’ equity. Transaction costs directly attributable to the issue of common shares and share purchase options are recognized as a deduction from equity, net of any tax effects.

Related parties

The Company adopted ASC 850, Related Party Disclosures, for the identification of related parties and disclosure of related party transactions.

Fair Value Measurement

Fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required or permitted to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact and it considers assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.

The established fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. A financial instrument’s categorization within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value are as follows:

Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2: Observable, market-based inputs, other than quoted prices, in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 3: Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

The Company’s financial instruments include cash, payable and accrued liabilities, loan payable and due to related parties. The carrying amounts of these accounts approximate their fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments.

The Company noted no transfers between levels during any of the periods presented. The Company did not have any instruments that were measured at fair value on a recurring nor non-recurring basis as of March 31, 2025 and September 30, 2024.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Income taxes

Current tax

Current tax consists of current tax payable based on the Company’s taxable income for the year. The Company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the end of the reporting period.

Deferred tax

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are more likely than not to be realized.

Earnings (loss) per share

The Company presents basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share data for its common shares. Basic earnings (loss) per share is calculated by dividing the profit or loss attributable to common shareholders of the Company by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year, adjusted for own shares held. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is determined by dividing the profit or loss attributable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding, adjusted for own shares held and for the effects of all potential dilutive common shares related to outstanding stock options and warrants issued by the Company for the periods presented, except if their inclusion is anti- dilutive.

Recent accounting pronouncements

The Company considers the applicability and impact of all accounting standards updates (“ASUs”). Management periodically reviews new accounting standards that are issued.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In October 2021, the FASB issued ASU No. 2021-08, “Business Combinations (Topic 805): Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers” (“ASU 2021-08”). This ASU requires entities to apply Topic 606 to recognize and measure contract assets and contract liabilities in a business combination. The amendments improve comparability after the business combination by providing consistent recognition and measurement guidance for revenue contracts with customers acquired in a business combination and revenue contracts with customers not acquired in a business combination. The amendments are effective for the Company beginning after December 15, 2023, and are applied prospectively to business combinations that occur after the effective date. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Recent accounting pronouncements (continued)

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The amendments are intended to improve the transparency and decision usefulness of segment information by requiring enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses and more consistent information in interim periods. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The amendments are to be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” (“ASU 2023-09”). This ASU requires that public business entities must annually “(1) disclose specific categories in the rate reconciliation and (2) provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold (if the effect of those reconciling items is equal to or greater than 5 percent of the amount computed by multiplying pretax income or loss by the applicable statutory income tax rate).” A public entity should apply the amendments in ASU 2023-09 prospectively to all annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is currently evaluating these new disclosure requirements and does not expect the adoption to have a material impact.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses.” This pronouncement introduces new disclosure requirements aimed at enhancing transparency in financial reporting by requiring disaggregation of specific income statement expense captions. Under the new guidance, entities are required to disclose a breakdown of certain expense categories, such as: employee compensation; depreciation; amortization, and other material components. The disaggregated information can be presented either on the face of the income statement or in the notes to the financial statements, often using a tabular format. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating these new disclosure requirements and does not expect the adoption to have a material impact.

The Company does not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets, statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) and statements of cash flows.

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the FASB or other standard-setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, the Company believes that the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on the accompanying financial statements and disclosures.

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Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP). The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiary. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Subsidiaries are those entities in which the Company, directly or indirectly, controls more than one half of the voting power; or has the power to govern the financial and operating policies, to appoint or remove the majority of the members of the board of directors, or to cast a majority of votes at the meeting of directors.

Control exists when the Company has the power, directly or indirectly, to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities. The financial statements of subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date that control commences until the date that control ceases.

Foreign Currency

These consolidated financial statements are presented in United States dollars which are the parent and subsidiaries’ functional currency. The functional currency for each entity consolidated with the Company is determined by the currency of the primary economic environment in which it operates, US dollars (“USD”).

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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NOTE 2 — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)

Use of Estimates and Assumptions

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. There were no significant estimates or assumptions that materially impacted the consolidated financial statements for the years ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

Segment Information

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand, the balances with banks and the liquid investments with maturities of three months or less.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment losses at the following depreciation rates:

Computer hardware & IT

Double declining balance method – 30%

Deferred Offering Costs

Deferred offering costs consist of specific expenses directly attributable to the Company’s planned initial public offering (“IPO”), including legal, accounting, printing, underwriter fees, and filing fees. These costs are capitalized as incurred in accordance with the guidance under ASC 340-10-S99-1. Upon the successful completion of the IPO, deferred offering costs will be offset against the IPO proceeds and reclassified to additional paid-in capital. For the years ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded deferred offering costs of $139,017 and $0, respectively.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Impairment of Long-lived Asset

Long-lived assets, including plant, property and equipment, are evaluated for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying amount may not be fully recoverable or that the useful life is shorter than the Company had originally estimated. When these events occur, the Company evaluates the impairment by comparing the carrying value of the assets to an estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated from the use of the assets and their eventual disposition. If the sum of the expected future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the assets, the Company recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying value of the assets over the fair value of the assets. No impairment charge was recognized for the years ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Research and Development Expenses

Revenue Recognition

The Company adopted ASC Topic 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”) on January 1, 2020 using the modified retrospective approach. Revenues were presented under ASC 606 and all subsequent ASUs that modified ASC 606 for the years ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. The core principle of the guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve that core principle, the Company applies the following steps:

	Step 1:	Identification of the contract with a customer;

	Step 2:	Identification of the performance obligations in the contract;

	Step 3:	Determination of the transaction price;

	Step 4:	Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract (where revenue is allocated on a relative standalone selling price basis by maximizing the use of observable inputs to determine the standalone selling price for each performance obligation); and

	Step 5:	Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

Revenue from online subscription services

Our primary source of revenue is subscriptions to our cloud-based software during the term of arrangement. Cloud-based services allow our customers to access to the tailor-made stock research reports without taking possession of the software. Revenue is generally recognized ratably over the contract term beginning on the commencement date of each contract, which is the date our cloud-based software is made available to customers, and collection is reasonably assured. Subscription agreements generally have terms ranging from one month to one year. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded either deferred revenue or revenue in the consolidated financial statements, depending on whether the underlying performance obligation has been satisfied.

Deferred Revenue

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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Cost of Revenue

Capital Stock

Related Parties

The Company adopted ASC 850, Related Party Disclosures, for the identification of related parties and disclosure of related party transactions.

Fair Value Measurement

Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2: Observable, market-based inputs, other than quoted prices, in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 3: Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

The Company’s financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, trade payables and accrued liabilities, due to related parties and payable related to the acquisition of a non-controlling interest. The carrying amounts of these accounts approximate their fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments.

AETHER HOLDINGS, INC.

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NOTE 2 — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)

Income Taxes

Current tax

Deferred tax

Earnings (loss) Per Share

The Company presents basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share data for its common shares. Basic earnings (loss) per share is calculated by dividing the profit or loss attributable to common shareholders of the Company by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year, adjusted for own shares held. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is determined by dividing the profit or loss attributable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding, adjusted for own shares held and for the effects of all potential dilutive common shares related to outstanding stock options and warrants issued by the Company for the years presented, except if their inclusion is anti- dilutive.

Reclassification

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation, such as reclassification of research and development expenses from general and administrative expenses. This reclassification had no effect on the reported revenues, net loss and cash flows.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

The Company considers the applicability and impact of all accounting standards updates (“ASUs”). Management periodically reviews new accounting standards that are issued.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-06, Debt — Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging — Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which simplifies accounting for convertible instruments by removing major separation models required under current U.S. GAAP. This ASU also removes certain settlement conditions that are required for equity-linked contracts to qualify for the derivative scope exception, and it simplifies the diluted earnings per share calculation in certain areas. The new standard became effective for the Company beginning October 1, 2023, using either a modified retrospective or a fully retrospective method of transition and early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements (continued)

In June 2022, the FASB issued ASU No. 2022-03, “Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions,” which clarifies and amends the guidance of measuring the fair value of equity securities subject to contractual restrictions that prohibit the sale of the equity securities. The guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.

The Company does not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss) and statements of cash flows.