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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001826466-24-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GGROU"
cik: "0001489874"
company_name: "Golden Growers Cooperative"
filed_at: "2024-03-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T07:06:43.607849+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Golden Growers Cooperative appoints Haynie & Company as new auditor effective March 20, 2024

## Summary
- Haynie & Company, Inc. approved as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.
- Prior auditor Widmer Roel PC declined re-appointment after completing fiscal 2023 audit.
- No prior consultations or disagreements with Haynie & Company regarding accounting principles or reportable events.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001826466-24-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GGROU
- cik: 0001489874
- company_name: Golden Growers Cooperative
- filed_at: 2024-03-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1489874/000182646624000039/0001826466-24-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1489874/000182646624000039/newauditor_form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001826466-24-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001826466-24-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001826466-24-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Golden Growers Cooperative engaged Haynie & Company, Inc. as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Haynie & Company, Inc.
  source text: Effective March 20, 2024, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Golden Growers Cooperative (the "Cooperative") approved the engagement of Haynie & Company, Inc. ("Haynie & Company") as the Cooperative’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Cooperative’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1489874/000182646624000039/0001826466-24-000039-index.htm

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