UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 9, 2021 (
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| Item 4.01 | Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant |
On April 5, 2021, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Fisker Inc. (the “Company”) approved the engagement of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), subject to completion of PwC’s standard client acceptance procedures and execution of an engagement letter, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2021. Accordingly, Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”), the Company’s previous independent registered public accounting firm, was informed that it was dismissed and would be replaced by PwC as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm effective immediately. This decision was approved by the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors.
Deloitte’s report on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for each of the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, did not contain any adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles, with the exception that Deloitte’s report as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 and for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2019, dated August 7, 2020, contained the following paragraph: “The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations. The Company has stated that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s evaluation of the events and conditions and management’s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.”
During the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the subsequent interim period through April 5, 2021, there were no disagreements with Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused it to make a reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report covering such years. As of December 31, 2019, the Company identified material weaknesses as of the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 in internal control over financial reporting, which related to: (a) the Company’s risk assessment process, including as it relates to fraud risks; (b) general segregation of duties, including the review and approval of journal entries; and (c) precision level to ensure accruals were recorded in the correct period. These material weaknesses were remediated as of December 31, 2020. In addition, there were no “reportable events,” as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the subsequent interim period through April 5, 2021, other than the material weaknesses described herein.
During the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the subsequent interim period through April 5, 2021, neither the Company nor anyone on the Company’s behalf consulted with PwC regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s consolidated financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by PwC that PwC concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement, as that term is described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K, or a reportable event, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.
The Company provided Deloitte with a copy of the foregoing disclosures prior to the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K and requested that Deloitte furnish a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 16.1, stating whether it agrees with such disclosures, and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
(d) Exhibits
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| 16.1 | Letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Deloitte & Touche LLP, dated April 9, 2021 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL) | |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: April 9, 2021 | FISKER INC. | |||||
| By: | /s/ Geeta Gupta | |||||
| Dr. Geeta Gupta | ||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||
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