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Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant
(a) Dismissal of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The audit committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board of Directors of GlassBridge Enterprises Inc. (the “Company”) dismissed Turner, Stone & Company, L.L.P. (“Turner Stone & Company”) as its independent registered public accounting firm effective as of February 20, 2025.
To date, the Company has not filed its annual reports on Form 10-K for the years ended December 31, 2024 or December 31, 2023. For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the audit reports of Turner Stone & Company did not contain an adverse, disclaimer of, or qualified opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles.
During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years and the subsequent interim periods through February 20, 2025, there were no disagreements, within the meaning of Item304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Exchange Act (“Regulation S-K”) and the related instructions thereto, with Turner Stone & Company on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Turner Stone & Company, would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports. Also during this same period, there were no reportable events within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions thereto.
The Company has provided Turner Stone & Company with the disclosures under this Item 4.01(a), and has requested them to furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether it agrees with the statements made by the Company in this Item 4.01(a) and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree. Turner Stone & Company’s letter is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
(b) Appointment of New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On February 10, 2025, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of Withum Smith+Brown, PC (“Withum”) as its new independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, subject to completion of Withum’s standard client acceptance process to be effective immediately upon the termination of Turner Stone & Company. This decision was made pursuant to the authority of the Audit Committee as specified in its charter. On February 20, 2025, the Company executed the Withum engagement letter.
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the subsequent interim period through February 20, 2025 neither the Company, nor any party on behalf of the Company, consulted with Withum with respect to either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by Withum that Withum concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a “disagreement” (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) or a “reportable event” (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit No. | Description | |
16.1 | Letter from Turner, Stone & Company, L.L.P. dated March 10, 2025 | |
104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
GlassBridge Enterprises, Inc. | |||
(REGISTRANT) | |||
Date: | March 10, 2025 | By: | /s/ Daniel Strauss |
Daniel Strauss | |||
Chief Executive Officer |
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