---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-039310"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWAG"
cik: "0001872525"
company_name: "Stran & Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T23:08:05.473335+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stran replaces auditor Marcum with CBIZ CPAs; discloses ongoing material weaknesses

## Summary
- Marcum LLP resigned as independent auditor on April 30, 2025; CBIZ CPAs P.C. engaged same day as replacement.
- No reportable disagreements or adverse opinions; Marcum's audit reports were unqualified.
- Material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting continue from prior years (complex transactions, tax, IT controls).
- Marcum furnished a letter to SEC confirming agreement with Stran's disclosures (Exhibit 16.1).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-039310
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWAG
- cik: 0001872525
- company_name: Stran & Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1872525/000121390025039310/0001213900-25-039310-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1872525/000121390025039310/ea0240690-8k_stran.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Stran & Company, Inc. engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: On April 30, 2025, with the approval of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, CBIZ CPAs was engaged as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1872525/000121390025039310/0001213900-25-039310-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Marcum LLP resigned as auditor of Stran & Company, Inc..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Marcum LLP
  - Successor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: On April 30, 2025, Stran & Company, Inc. (the “Company”) was notified by Marcum LLP (“Marcum”) that Marcum resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1872525/000121390025039310/0001213900-25-039310-index.htm

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