---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001079973-22-001494"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BNET"
cik: "0000875729"
company_name: "BION ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T07:52:57.496496+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bion Environmental Technologies replaces auditor Eide Bailly with Haynie & Company

## Summary
- Eide Bailly resigned as Bion's auditor on December 5, 2022, effective immediately.
- Bion engaged Haynie & Company as new certifying accountant for Q2 FY23 and the FY23 audit.
- No disagreements or reportable events between Bion and Eide Bailly during the prior two fiscal years and through Dec 5, 2022.
- Bion's Board approved both the resignation and the engagement of Haynie.
- No prior consultations with Haynie on accounting principles or audit opinions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001079973-22-001494
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BNET
- cik: 0000875729
- company_name: BION ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-08T23:59:59+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/875729/000107997322001494/0001079973-22-001494-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/875729/000107997322001494/bion_8k-120822.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001079973-22-001494.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  BION ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES INC engaged Haynie & Company as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Haynie & Company
  source text: On December 7, 2022, Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (“Bion” or the “Company”) entered into an engagement letter with Haynie & Company (“Haynie”) to serve as our certifying accountants commencing with the quarter ending December 31, 2022 through the audit of our fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/875729/000107997322001494/0001079973-22-001494-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Eide Bailly LLP resigned as auditor of BION ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Eide Bailly LLP
  - Successor: Haynie & Company
  source text: On December 5, 2022 Eide Bailly LLP, (“Eide Bailly”), Bion’s certifying accountants since January 2017, resigned as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/875729/000107997322001494/0001079973-22-001494-index.htm

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