---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-001715"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABAT"
cik: "0001576873"
company_name: "AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co"
filed_at: "2024-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T02:16:58.057891+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Battery Technology dismisses Marcum, appoints KPMG as new auditor

## Summary
- Dismissed Marcum LLP as independent auditor effective Jan 4, 2024; reports for FY2022 and FY2023 were unqualified with no disagreements.
- Appointed KPMG LLP as independent auditor for fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and interim periods.
- No reportable events were noted beyond previously disclosed material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting.
- Marcum furnished a letter to the SEC dated Jan 8, 2024, confirming agreement with the company’s disclosures.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-001715
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABAT
- cik: 0001576873
- company_name: AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co
- filed_at: 2024-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224001715/0001493152-24-001715-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224001715/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-24-001715.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co engaged KPMG LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: KPMG LLP
  source text: anuary 4, 2024, at the direction of the Board, and upon the recommendation of the Audit Committee, the Company appointed KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Company’s new independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224001715/0001493152-24-001715-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co dismissed Marcum LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Marcum LLP
  source text: ismissal of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm On January 4, 2024, upon the completion of a comprehensive selection process, American Battery Technology Company (the “Company”), at the direction of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), and upon the recommendation of the Audit Committee of the Board, dismissed its current independent registered public accounting firm, Marcum LLP (“Marcum”). Marcum’s reports on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022, do not contain
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224001715/0001493152-24-001715-index.htm

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