Yotta Acquisition Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
Based on information provided by Marcum LLP (“Marcum”), the independent registered public accounting firm of Yotta Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”, or “Yotta”), CBIZ CPAs P.C. (“CBIZ CPAs”) acquired the attest business of Marcum, effective November 1, 2024. Marcum continued to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm through April 29, 2025. On April 29, 2025, the Company dismissed Marcum as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and CBIZ CPAs was engaged to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025, effective immediately. The engagement of CBIZ CPAs was approved by the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. The services provided by Marcum will now be provided by CBIZ CPAs.
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and through April 29, 2025, neither the Company nor anyone on its behalf consulted with CBIZ CPAs regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to any specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s consolidated financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company that CBIZ CPAs concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing, or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a “disagreement,” as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K, or a “reportable event,” as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.
The reports of Marcum regarding the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles, except that the report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 included an explanatory paragraph relating to substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
During the Company’s two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, and the subsequent interim period from January 1, 2025 through April 29, 2025, there were (i) no disagreements within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K between Yotta and Marcum on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to Marcum’s satisfaction, would have caused Marcum to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on Yotta’s consolidated financial statements for such years and (ii) no “reportable events” within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K, except as disclosed below. Our management concluded that there existed material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2024. The material weakness attributed to insufficient segregation of duties and controls with respect to the record keeping, asset custody, trust asset custody and authorization controls; lack of controls to prevent unauthorized access to the general ledger, to identify and account for certain complex non-routine transactions; ineffective design of controls over the approval of related party transactions, the preparation of the tax provision, tax accrual and franchise tax accrual as well as related disbursements from the trust account and subsequent timely payment of tax estimates; ineffective controls over the preparation of expense accruals including the ability differentiating between contractual and contingent liabilities and to detect errors in expense accruals through the financial close process; and ineffective oversight on the part of the audit committee.
The Company provided Marcum with a copy of the above disclosures and requested that Marcum furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether or not it agrees with the statements made above. A copy of Marcum’s letter dated April 29, 2025 is attached as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
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| 16.1 | Letter from Marcum LLP, dated April 29, 2025 addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission. | |
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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.
April 30, 2025
| Yotta Acquisition Corporation | ||
| By: | /s/ Hui Chen | |
| Name: | Hui Chen | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
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