8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): March 28, 2023

Jones Soda Co.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Washington

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

(206) 624-3357

(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

None

Item 4.02         Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.

On March 28, 2023, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”) of Jones Soda Co. (the “Company”) in consultation with the management of the Company and the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, Armanino LLP, reached a determination that the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures for the year ended December 31, 2021, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 14, 2022, and for each of the quarterly and year-to-date periods ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022, should no longer be relied upon because of a certain misstatement contained in those condensed consolidated financial statements.

As part of preparing the Company’s consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended December 31, 2022, an error was identified in the accounting for a short-term financing agreement that had an impact on the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021, which had been previously filed. Effective November 15, 2021, the Company entered into a one year financing agreement with IPFS Corporation (“IPFS”) to fund a portion of its insurance premiums in the amount of $903,000. Repayments were made quarterly on January 15, 2022, April 15, 2022, and July 15, 2022 under the terms of this financing agreement with IPFS, and the entirety of the financing was paid off in full on July 15, 2022. Since under the terms of the financing agreement with IPFS, IPFS funded a portion of the Company’s insurance premiums a prepaid asset was required to be recognized on our balance sheet for the year ended December 31, 2021, along with an associated liability or obligation to pay down this financing per the quarterly payment schedule noted above. The Company did not record this beforementioned asset or liability on the Company’s balance sheet as of December 31, 2021, which was previously filed with the SEC.

As a result of the identification of this error, the Company’s Audit Committee concluded that the previously issued consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended December 31, 2021, were misstated. Accordingly, the Company has restated its consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended December 31, 2021, to increase current assets and current liabilities by $903,000 on the balance sheet. Additionally, the Company has recorded the $903,000 change in prepaid asset in the operating activity portion on the statement of cash flows and the $903,000 liability in the financing activity portion of the statement of cash flows. Further, the Company has restated its consolidated financial statements as at and for the three months ended March 31, 2022, to increase current assets and current liabilities by $597,000 on the balance sheet, while recording $306,000 in additional cash provided in the operating activity portion on the statement of cash flows and $306,000 of cash used in the financing activity portion of the statement of cash flows. Finally, the Company has restated its consolidated financial statements as at and for the nine months ended June 30, 2022, to increase current assets and current liabilities by $289,000 on the balance sheet, while recording $614,000 in additional cash provided in the operating activity portion on the statement of cash flows and $614,000 of cash used in the financing activity portion of the statement of cash flows.

This error did not have any impact on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations, consolidated statements of comprehensive loss, or consolidated statement of shareholders' equity.

The impacts of this correction to fiscal year 2021 is as follows:

All values are in US Dollars.

The impacts of this correction as at and for the three months ended March 31, 2022 (unaudited) is as follows:

All values are in US Dollars.

The impacts of this correction as at and for the six months ended June 30, 2022 (unaudited) is as follows:

All values are in US Dollars.

The Company intends to include restated consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021 in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 (the “2022 Annual Report”), which it expects to file on March 29, 2023. In conjunction with restating its annual financial statements, the Company will include corrected unaudited interim financial information for the quarterly and year-to-date periods ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022, in the 2022 Annual Report and will revise the applicable unaudited 2022 interim financial statements in connection with the filing of its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ending March 31, 2023 and June 30, 2023.

The Company’s management and Audit Committee have discussed the matters disclosed in this Item 4.02 with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, Armanino LLP.

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.