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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-126349"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001817565"
company_name: "Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp."
filed_at: "2022-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T06:17:23.217178+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FXCO's auditor Grant Thornton declines re-engagement; MaloneBailey appointed

## Summary
- Grant Thornton declined to stand for re-engagement as auditor for FY 2022 on Nov 18, 2022.
- MaloneBailey, LLP was engaged as new independent auditor effective Dec 8, 2022.
- No disagreements or reportable events occurred; prior audit reports had going-concern paragraph for 2020.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-126349
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001817565
- company_name: Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp.
- filed_at: 2022-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817565/000110465922126349/0001104659-22-126349-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817565/000110465922126349/tm2232447d2_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-126349
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-126349.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-126349.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp. engaged MaloneBailey, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: MaloneBailey, LLP
  source text: On December 8, 2022, the Company engaged MaloneBailey, LLP (“MaloneBailey”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817565/000110465922126349/0001104659-22-126349-index.htm

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