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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-21-030455"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DSS"
cik: "0000771999"
company_name: "DSS, INC."
filed_at: "2021-12-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T03:59:39.779968+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DSS auditor Freed Maxick resigns; new auditor Turner Stone engaged; internal control weakness unremediated

## Summary
- Freed Maxick CPAs, P.C. resigned as independent auditor on Dec 2, 2021; Turner, Stone & Company, L.L.P. engaged on Dec 3, 2021.
- Audit reports for 2020 and 2019 were unqualified; no disagreements on accounting principles or scope.
- Reportable event: management determined internal controls over financial reporting were ineffective as of year-end 2020.
- Internal controls have not been remediated as of the filing date of this Form 8-K.
- The Audit Committee approved the change; no prior consultations with Turner Stone on accounting matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-21-030455
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DSS
- cik: 0000771999
- company_name: DSS, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-12-03T23:59:59+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/771999/000149315221030455/0001493152-21-030455-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/771999/000149315221030455/form8-k.htm

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