---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-045066"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CDAQF"
cik: "0001851909"
company_name: "Compass Digital Acquisition Corp."
filed_at: "2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T12:07:04.953949+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Compass Digital Acquisition dismisses Marcum, appoints Withum as auditor for FY2023

## Summary
- Effective Sept 5, 2023, Board and Audit Committee dismissed Marcum LLP and engaged Withum Smith-Brown, PC.
- Marcum's FY2022 audit report contained going concern uncertainty but no adverse opinion or disagreements.
- No reportable events or disagreements with Marcum since engagement in 2021.
- Marcum provided letter agreeing with disclosures, dated Dec 15, 2023, filed as Exhibit 16.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-045066
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CDAQF
- cik: 0001851909
- company_name: Compass Digital Acquisition Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1851909/000149315223045066/0001493152-23-045066-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1851909/000149315223045066/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Compass Digital Acquisition Corp. dismissed Marcum LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Marcum LLP
  - Successor: Withum Smith-Brown, PC.
  source text: authorized dismissal of Marcum LLP (“Marcum”) and engagement of Withum Smith-Brown, PC. (“Withum”) as the new independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1851909/000149315223045066/0001493152-23-045066-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Compass Digital Acquisition Corp. engaged Withum Smith-Brown, PC. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Withum Smith-Brown, PC.
  source text: the Company engaged Withum as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1851909/000149315223045066/0001493152-23-045066-index.htm

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