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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-070862"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001761696"
company_name: "Crown Electrokinetics Corp."
filed_at: "2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:32:13.490395+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Auditor BPM resigns as Crown Electrokinetics' independent accountant

## Summary
- BPM notified Crown of resignation effective August 1, 2025; no disagreements or reportable events aside from known material weaknesses.
- Company is actively seeking a new independent registered public accounting firm; no timeline for engagement.
- BPM's FY2024 audit report was unqualified; resignation not due to any fraud or violation identified.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-070862
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001761696
- company_name: Crown Electrokinetics Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1761696/000121390025070862/0001213900-25-070862-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1761696/000121390025070862/ea0251457-8k_crown.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-070862
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-070862.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-070862.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  BPM LLP resigned as auditor of Crown Electrokinetics Corp..
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: BPM LLP
  source text: y BPM LLP (“BPM”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, of its decision to resign as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company, effective immediately. Although their audit was not designed to identify or detect violations of law or fraud, BPM’s resignation was not a result of any violation of law or fraud of the Company identified during its audit
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1761696/000121390025070862/0001213900-25-070862-index.htm

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