---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-084242"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "CVR"
cik: "0000019871"
company_name: "CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO"
filed_at: "2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T16:19:06.979325+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chicago Rivet & Machine dismisses Crowe, hires Cherry Bekaert; going concern and material weakness cited

## Summary
- Dismissed Crowe LLP effective May 27, 2025; engaged Cherry Bekaert as auditor for FY2025.
- Crowe's 2024 report included a going-concern paragraph due to declining revenues, operating losses, negative cash flows.
- Material weaknesses: income tax (remediated June 2024) and inventory valuation (not yet remediated).
- No disagreements with Crowe; Crowe agreed with disclosures via Exhibit 16.1 letter.
- Company had no prior consultations with Cherry Bekaert on accounting or audit matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-084242
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: CVR
- cik: 0000019871
- company_name: CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO
- filed_at: 2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000095017025084242/0000950170-25-084242-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000095017025084242/cvr-20250527.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO dismissed Crowe as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Crowe
  source text: On May 27, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company approved the dismissal of Crowe as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000095017025084242/0000950170-25-084242-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO engaged CB as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: CB
  source text: On May 27, 2025, the Board engaged CB as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000095017025084242/0000950170-25-084242-index.htm

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