---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001199835-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FTSP"
cik: "0001319643"
company_name: "FinTrade Sherpa, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:36:52.279562+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lode-Star Mining appoints Davidson & Company as new auditor after Smythe resigns

## Summary
- Former auditor Smythe LLP resigned on Dec 6, 2024 due to a change in its policies.
- Davidson & Company LLP engaged as independent auditor effective Jan 2, 2025.
- Smythe's 2022/2023 audit reports contained no adverse opinion but included a going concern explanatory paragraph.
- No prior consultations with Davidson regarding accounting matters in the past two fiscal years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001199835-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FTSP
- cik: 0001319643
- company_name: FinTrade Sherpa, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319643/000119983525000007/0001199835-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319643/000119983525000007/lsmg_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001199835-25-000007.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Smythe LLP resigned as auditor of FinTrade Sherpa, Inc..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Smythe LLP
  - Successor: Davidson & Company LLP
  source text: hey have engaged Davidson & Company LLP (the new auditor “Davidson”) to replace Smythe LLP (the former auditor “Smythe”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319643/000119983525000007/0001199835-25-000007-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  FinTrade Sherpa, Inc. engaged Davidson & Company LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Davidson & Company LLP
  source text: On January 2, 2025, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of Davidson as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319643/000119983525000007/0001199835-25-000007-index.htm

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