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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001698530-25-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XCUR"
cik: "0001698530"
company_name: "EXICURE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T15:32:42.246389+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Exicure replaces auditor Marcum with CBIZ CPAs after resignation; prior reports had going concern qualification

## Summary
- Marcum resigned as independent auditor on April 10, 2025; CBIZ CPAs engaged immediately for 2025.
- No disagreements between Exicure and Marcum on accounting principles or audit scope during 2023-2024.
- Audit reports for 2023 and 2024 included a going concern explanatory paragraph.
- Material weakness in internal control over financial reporting (disclosed June 2023) remains unremediated.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001698530-25-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XCUR
- cik: 0001698530
- company_name: EXICURE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-14T23:59:59+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/1698530/000169853025000030/0001698530-25-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698530/000169853025000030/xcur-20250414.htm

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