---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-012212"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CUEN"
cik: "0001424657"
company_name: "Cuentas Inc."
filed_at: "2023-02-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T09:06:37.693068+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cuentas dismisses Halperin CPA, appoints Yarel + Partners as new auditor

## Summary
- Dismissed Halperin CPA effective Feb 15, 2023 due to partner rotation required under SOX Section 203.
- No disagreements or reportable events with Halperin during fiscal years 2020-2021 and interim through Feb 15, 2023.
- Engaged Yarel + Partners as new independent registered public accounting firm for FY2022 audit.
- Halperin furnished a letter to the SEC agreeing with disclosures, filed as Exhibit 16.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-012212
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CUEN
- cik: 0001424657
- company_name: Cuentas Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-02-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424657/000121390023012212/0001213900-23-012212-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424657/000121390023012212/ea173621-8k_cuentasinc.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Cuentas Inc. dismissed Halperin CPA as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Halperin CPA
  - Successor: Yarel + Partners, CPA
  source text: On February 15, 2023, the Audit Committee of Cuentas, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the dismissal of Halperin CPA (“Halperin”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424657/000121390023012212/0001213900-23-012212-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Cuentas Inc. engaged Yarel + Partners, CPA as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Yarel + Partners, CPA
  source text: On February 15, 2023, the Company appointed Yarel + Partners, CPA (“Yarel”) as its new independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424657/000121390023012212/0001213900-23-012212-index.htm

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