Aerkomm Inc 8-K, filed May 24, 2022
Aerkomm Inc. (AKOM)
About this 8-K
Aerkomm Inc filed this 8-K on May 24, 2022, reporting on events of May 19, 2022.
Items reported
- Item 4.01: Change of auditor
- Item 9.01: Financial statements and exhibits
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CURRENT REPORT
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| ITEM 4.01 | CHANGE IN REGISTRANT’S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT. |
Former Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On May 19, 2022, Aerkomm Inc. (the “Company”) dismissed Friedman LLP (“Friedman”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective as of May 19, 2022.
Friedman was engaged by the Company effective January 27, 2022.
During the period in which Friedman was engaged by the Company, including through the interim period ended March 31, 2022, the Company had no “disagreements” (as described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K) with Friedman on any matter of accounting principles or practices.
During the period in which Friedman was engaged by the Company, including through the interim period ended March 31, 2022, there was no “reportable event,” as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.
In accordance with Item 304(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, the Company furnished Friedman with a copy of this Current Report on Form 8-K on May 23, 2022, providing Friedman with the opportunity to furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) stating whether it agrees with the statements made by the Company herein in response to Item 304(a) of Regulation S-K and if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree. Attached as Exhibit 16.1 is a copy of Friedman’s letter addressed to the SEC relating to the statements made by the Company in this report.
New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
On May 19, 2022, the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company appointed WWC, P.C. (“WWC”) as its new independent registered public accounting firm to audit and review the Company’s financial statements, effective May 19, 2022.
During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, and for the subsequent interim period through the date hereof prior to the engagement of WWC, neither the Company nor anyone on its behalf consulted WWC regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or on the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the consolidated financial statements of the Company, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company that WWC 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 or a reportable event as described 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 Friedman LLP, dated May 23, 2022. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
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SIGNATURES
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.
| Date: May 23, 2022 | AERKOMM INC. | |
| /s/ Louis Giordimaina | ||
| Name: | Louis Giordimaina | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
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Exhibit 16.1
May 23, 2022
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of the Chief Accountant
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Commission File Number 000-55925
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have read the statements in the Form 8-K dated May 23, 2022 of Aerkomm Inc. to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and we agree with such statements therein as related to our firm. We have no basis to and, therefore, do not agree or disagree with the other statements made by the Company in the Form 8-K.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Friedman LLP
New York, New York
May 23, 2022
