Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
(a) Dismissal of independent registered public accounting firm.
On September 21, 2022, at a special meeting of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Alpine 4 Holdings, Inc., (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, the members of the Board, including all of the members of the Company’s Audit Committee of the Board, unanimously approved the dismissal of and terminated the engagement of MaloneBailey, LLP (“MB”), as the Company’s independent certifying accountant.
The reports of MB on the Company's consolidated financial statements for each of the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles.
MB was appointed by the Board of Directors on December 10, 2015, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and has served as the Company’s auditor from that date through September 21, 2022.
During the period from December 10, 2015, through December 31, 2020, the year ended December 31, 2021 and the subsequent interim period through September 21, 2022, there were no disagreements with MB on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of MB, would have caused MB to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with their report, and there were no “reportable events” as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K, except for the material weaknesses described in Item 9A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
The Company has provided MB with a copy of the foregoing disclosures prior to filing this Current Report on Form 8-K and has requested that MB furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether it agrees with the statements made by the Company set forth above. A copy of MB’s letter, dated September 23, 2022, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
(b) Newly Appointed Independent Registered Public Accountant
On September 21, 2022, at the special meeting of the Board, upon the recommendation of the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, the members of the Board, including all of the members of the Company’s Audit Committee of the Board, unanimously approved the engagement of RSM US LLP (“RSM”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
The Company has not consulted with RSM during the Company’s two most recent fiscal years or during any subsequent interim period prior to RSM’s appointment as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on Registrant's consolidated financial statements, or any other matter that was either the subject of a disagreement or reportable event, as defined in Items 304(a)(2)(i) and (ii) of Regulation S-K.