---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-002556"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RICK"
cik: "0000935419"
company_name: "RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T09:57:56.706686+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RCI Hospitality dismisses Marcum, hires CBIZ CPAs as auditor after Marcum acquisition

## Summary
- Audit Committee dismissed Marcum LLP and engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. effective Jan 22, 2025, following CBIZ's acquisition of Marcum's attest business.
- Marcum's reports for fiscal years 2024 and 2023 contained no adverse opinion or qualification.
- Company disclosed three material weaknesses: IT general controls, business combination accounting, and impairment assessments.
- No disagreements with Marcum on accounting principles or audit scope during 2024, 2023, or interim period.
- Marcum provided a letter dated Jan 24, 2025, agreeing with the statements in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-002556
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RICK
- cik: 0000935419
- company_name: RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935419/000162828025002556/0001628280-25-002556-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935419/000162828025002556/rick-20250122.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-002556.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC. engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors approved the dismissal of Marcum and the engagement of CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935419/000162828025002556/0001628280-25-002556-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC. dismissed Marcum LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Marcum LLP
  - Successor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors approved the dismissal of Marcum and the engagement of CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935419/000162828025002556/0001628280-25-002556-index.htm

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