---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000350852-24-000147"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CTBI"
cik: "0000350852"
company_name: "COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP INC /KY/"
filed_at: "2024-10-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T10:12:04.973472+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Trust Bancorp dismisses Forvis Mazars, engages BDO as new auditor for FY 2025

## Summary
- Dismissed Forvis Mazars effective after FY 2024 audit completion; no disagreements or reportable events.
- Engaged BDO as independent auditor for FY 2025, effective Q1 2025 review.
- Forvis Mazars audit reports for FY 2023, 2022 were unqualified; no adverse opinions.
- Board and Audit Committee approved the change on October 22, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000350852-24-000147
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CTBI
- cik: 0000350852
- company_name: COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP INC /KY/
- filed_at: 2024-10-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/350852/000035085224000147/0000350852-24-000147-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/350852/000035085224000147/changeinaccountant8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000350852-24-000147.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP INC /KY/ engaged BDO, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: BDO, LLP
  source text: (b) Engagement of New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm On October 22, 2024, upon the approval of the Committee, the Company notified BDO, LLP (“BDO”) of its formal decision to engage BDO as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, effective beginning with the review of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements for the quarter
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/350852/000035085224000147/0000350852-24-000147-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP INC /KY/ dismissed Forvis Mazars, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Forvis Mazars, LLP
  source text: of its dismissal effective immediately following Forvis Mazars’s completion of its audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/350852/000035085224000147/0000350852-24-000147-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.