Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001654954-25-007857
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Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 4.01
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Item 4.01 Change in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant

(a) Dismissal of Marcum LLP. On July 1, 2025, with the approval of the Audit Committee of the board of directors of PEDEVCO Corp. (the “ Company”, “ we” and “ us”), the Company dismissed Marcum LLP (“ Marcum”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.

The audit reports of Marcum on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 (the “ Audit Periods”), did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, nor were such reports qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles.

During the Audit Periods and during the period from December 31, 2024 through July 1, 2025, the Company had: (i) no disagreements with Marcum of the type contemplated by Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to Marcum’s satisfaction, would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of any such disagreement in connection with its reports; and (ii) no reportable events within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K, except for material weaknesses in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting that were identified which related to (x) the review of the Company’s inputs to the depreciation, depletion, and amortization calculations and the preparation of the tax provision that were identified in the Company’s year-ended December 31, 2024 financial statements, and (y) the review of the Company’s inputs to the depreciation, depletion, and amortization calculations that were identified in the Company’s year-ended December 31, 2023 financial statements.

The Company provided Marcum with a copy of the disclosures it is making in this Current Report on Form 8-K prior to its filing and requested that Marcum furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”) stating whether or not Marcum agreed with the disclosure in thisItem 4.01. A copy of Marcum’s letter to the SEC in response to the foregoing request is attached asExhibit 16.1to this Current Report on Form 8-K.