---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000939057-25-000151"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FSBW"
cik: "0001530249"
company_name: "FS Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T23:51:39.991129+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FS Bancorp auditor changes from Moss Adams to Baker Tilly after merger

## Summary
- Moss Adams merged with Baker Tilly US, LLP effective June 3, 2025; Baker Tilly appointed as successor auditor.
- Audit reports for 2024 and 2023 had no adverse opinion, disclaimer, or qualification.
- No disagreements or reportable events with Moss Adams during 2024, 2023, or subsequent interim period.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000939057-25-000151
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FSBW
- cik: 0001530249
- company_name: FS Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530249/000093905725000151/0000939057-25-000151-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530249/000093905725000151/fsbanc8k6325.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Moss Adams LLP resigned as auditor of FS Bancorp, Inc..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Moss Adams LLP
  source text: Inc., (the "Company") was notified that Moss Adams LLP ("Moss Adams"), the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, merged with Baker Tilly US, LLP effective on June 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530249/000093905725000151/0000939057-25-000151-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  FS Bancorp, Inc. engaged Baker Tilly US, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Baker Tilly US, LLP
  source text: the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors approved the appointment of Baker Tilly, as the successor to Moss Adams, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530249/000093905725000151/0000939057-25-000151-index.htm

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