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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-23-005046"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001421907"
company_name: "Trident Brands Inc"
filed_at: "2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T11:39:55.400593+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trident Brands auditor Malone Bailey resigns; prior reports had going concern qualifications

## Summary
- Malone Bailey resigned as independent auditor effective June 29, 2023; board accepted resignation.
- 2020 and 2021 audit opinions included a going concern qualification; 2022 audit was not completed.
- Malone advised that internal controls necessary for reliable financial statements did not exist.
- No disagreements on accounting principles; board discussed internal control deficiencies with Malone.
- Company has not yet engaged a successor independent registered public accounting firm.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-23-005046
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001421907
- company_name: Trident Brands Inc
- filed_at: 2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421907/000147793223005046/0001477932-23-005046-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421907/000147793223005046/tdnt_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Malone Bailey, LLP resigned as auditor of Trident Brands Inc.
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Malone Bailey, LLP
  source text: On June 29, 2023, Trident Brands Incorporated (the “Company) received a written notification dated June 20, 2023 from Malone Bailey, LLP (“ Malone ”), its independent registered public accounting firm, to the effect that it has resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. During the Company's two most recent fiscal years for which an audit was completed, Malone’s report on the financial statements of the Company did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles, except that in each of 2020 and 2021, Malone’s opinion contained a “going concern” qualification. The audit of the Company’s 2022 financial statements was not completed. During the Company's two most recent fiscal years and the interim period prior to Malone’s resignation, there were no disagre
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421907/000147793223005046/0001477932-23-005046-index.htm

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