---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-002108"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWDI"
cik: "0000038264"
company_name: "Forward Industries, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T02:38:42.936529+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forward Industries dismisses CohnReznick, appoints CBIZ as auditor; 2024 report had going-concern note

## Summary
- Board dismissed CohnReznick LLP as auditor effective March 28, 2025; no disagreements or reportable events.
- Appointed CBIZ CPAs P.C. as new independent auditor, effective same date.
- CohnReznick's FY2024 report included a going-concern explanatory paragraph but no adverse opinion.
- FY2023 and FY2024 audits had no adverse or modified opinions except the going-concern note.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-002108
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWDI
- cik: 0000038264
- company_name: Forward Industries, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825002108/0001683168-25-002108-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825002108/forward_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-002108
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-002108.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-002108.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Forward Industries, Inc. engaged CBIZ CPAs P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: On March 28, 2025, following approval by the Company’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee, the Company appointed CBIZ CPAs P.C. (“CBIZ”) as the new independent registered public accounting firm of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825002108/0001683168-25-002108-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Forward Industries, Inc. dismissed CohnReznick LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: CohnReznick LLP
  - Successor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
  source text: On March 28, 2025, the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Forward Industries, Inc. (the “Company”), approved the dismissal of CohnReznick LLP (“CohnReznick”), as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825002108/0001683168-25-002108-index.htm

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