AEye : Change in Certifying Accountants - Form 8-K
April 12, 2024 at 04:10 pm EDT
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Item 4.01.
Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant.
On April 8, 2024, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of AEye, Inc. (the "Company") approved the appointment of KPMG LLP ("KPMG") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 and related interim periods. Concurrently, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte"), was dismissed as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately, on April 8, 2024.
The audit report of Deloitte on the Company's financial statements as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles. Furthermore, during the two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, and the subsequent interim period through April 8, 2024, 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 in connection with their opinion to the subject matter of the disagreement or reportable events as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.
During the two most recent fiscal years, ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, and the subsequent interim period through April 8, 2024, KPMG has not been engaged as either the principal accountant to audit the Company's financial statements, nor as an independent accountant to audit a significant subsidiary of the Company. During the two most recent fiscal years, ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, and the subsequent interim period through April 8, 2024, neither the Company nor anyone on the Company's behalf consulted KPMG 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 financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by KPMG that KPMG 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 within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K, or a reportable event within the meaning of 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 Commission, a copy of 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.
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AEye, Inc. is a provider of active lidar systems technology for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver-assistance systems, and robotic vision applications. Its software-definable 4Sight Intelligent Sensing Platform combines solid-state active lidar, an optionally fused low-light high dimension camera, and integrated deterministic artificial intelligence to capture intelligent information. 4Sight Intelligent Sensing Platform enables the integration of various types of sensor inputs, including camera, lidar, and radar. 4Sight products are developed on this framework and incorporate both camera and lidar sensors. 4Sight Intelligent Sensing Platform includes 4Sight at Design, Triggered 4Sight, Responsive 4Sight and Predictive 4Sight. 4Sight at Design enables customers to create a single, deterministic scan pattern to deliver optimal information for any specific use case. 4Sight leverages a common architecture to create application-specific products across the automotive and industrial markets.