DFS Annual Report

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. Chicago, Illinois We have audited the accompanying consolidated and combined balance sheets of Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the related consolidated and combined statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2016. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, 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. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, such consolidated and combined financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. As described in Note 1, prior to October 1, 2016, the accompanying consolidated and combined financial statements have been derived from the consolidated financial statements and accounting records of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. The consolidated and combined financial statements include the allocation of certain assets, liabilities, expenses and income that have historically been held at the RR Donnelley & Sons Company corporate level but which are specifically identifiable or attributable to the Company. The consolidated and combined financial statements also include expense allocations for certain corporate functions historically provided by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. These costs and allocations may not be reflective of the actual expense which would have been incurred had the Company operated as a separate unaffiliated entity apart from R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Chicago, Illinois February 28, 2017 F-45