---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-016056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000855787"
company_name: "TRULEUM, INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T04:30:08.193005+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Truleum dismisses BF Borgers as auditor after SEC sanctions the firm

## Summary
- Auditor BF Borgers CPA PC dismissed on May 10, 2024; no disagreements or reportable events in prior years.
- BF Borgers is not currently permitted to appear before the SEC following a Rule 102(e) order dated May 3, 2024.
- Company expects to engage a new independent registered public accounting firm quickly.
- BF Borgers' prior reports contained a going-concern explanatory paragraph but no adverse opinion.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-016056
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000855787
- company_name: TRULEUM, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855787/000143774924016056/0001437749-24-016056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855787/000143774924016056/aphe20240510_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-016056
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-016056.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-016056.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  TRULEUM, INC. dismissed BF Borgers CPA PC as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: BF Borgers CPA PC
  source text: On May 10, 2024, Truleum, Inc. (the “Company”) dismissed BF Borgers CPA PC (“BF Borgers”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855787/000143774924016056/0001437749-24-016056-index.htm

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