UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2
TO

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  November 23, 2005

 

LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of Company as Specified in its Charter)

 

Delaware

 

001-31332

 

33-0264467

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

 

 

Identification No.)

 

25800 Commercentre Dr., Suite 100
Lake Forest, CA  92630

 (Address of Principal Executive Offices; Zip Code)

 

Company’s telephone number, including area code: (949) 206-8000

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Company under any of the following provisions:

 

o                 Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o                 Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o                 Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2-(b))

 

o                 Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 


 

LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO

FORM 8-K

ORIGINALLY FILED ON NOVEMBER 30, 2005

AND AMENDED ON DECEMBER 7, 2005

 

Item 4.01                                             Changes in Company’s Certifying Accountant.

 

This Amendment No. 2 to Form 8-K is being filed to consolidate into one amendment the information previously reported by Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) in the Form 8-K filed by the Company on November 30, 2005 and in Amendment No. 1 thereto filed by the Company on December 7, 2005:

 

On November 23, 2005, the Company was notified by Stonefield Josephson, Inc. (“Stonefield”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, that Stonefield was resigning as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm upon the completion of Stonefield’s review of the Company’s interim unaudited financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2005.   The notification from Stonefield came in the form of a telephone call by a representative of Stonefield to the chairman of the Company’s Audit Committee.  At a telephonic meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company on November 27, 2005, the Board of Directors of the Company accepted Stonefield’s resignation.  The Company filed its Form 10-Q for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005 on December 1, 2005, and the Company’s relationship with Stonefield was therefore effectively terminated as of December 1, 2005.

 

The reports of Stonefield with respect to the Company’s financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2003 and 2004 contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles, except for an explanatory paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern contained in Stonefield’s report on the Company’s financial statements and for a disclaimer of opinion made by Stonefield with respect to the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting and the Company’s assessment of those controls as of December 31, 2004.  The disclaimer of opinion, together with a description of the circumstances surrounding the disclaimer, is set forth in Item 9A of the amended Form 10-K filed by the Company with the SEC on May 10, 2005.

 

From May 21, 2004, the date Stonefield was appointed as the Company’s independent auditors, through the date of Stonefield’s resignation, there were no disagreements between the Company and Stonefield 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 Stonefield, would have caused Stonefield to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its report on the Company’s financial statements for such years.

 

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There were no “reportable events” as described under Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K occurring within the two most recent fiscal years of the Company ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 or within the subsequent interim period through the date of Stonefield’s resignation, except as follows:  Stonefield has advised the Company that there are material weaknesses in its internal controls, mainly related to internal controls of its South Korean operations.  Therefore, Stonefield expanded the scope of its review of the interim unaudited financial statements as of and for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2005.  The material deficiencies in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting include the following:

 

a)              Lack of adequate segregation of duties in the Company’s South Korean operations in accounts receivable, involving cash receipts, shipping, delivery of products, and customer invoice reconciliations;

 

b)             Lack of adequate segregation of duties in the Company’s Coatings Division in Texas in order processing and invoicing;

 

c)              Lack of adequate controls and documentation in the Company’s South Korean operations to evidence proper customer invoicing and revenue recognition in the proper period;

 

d)             Lack of progress in documenting, assessing and evaluating our internal controls in our South Korean Operations evidenced by aforementioned deficiencies of which remediation would have needed to be completed as of December 31, 2005.

 

e)              Lack of sufficient controls over internal access to the Company’s SAP system of reporting by unauthorized users; and

 

f)                The manual performance of numerous procedures that could be automated using current reporting systems;

 

In connection with the foregoing, Stonefield has also advised the Company that it believes that the Company has made insufficient progress in documenting, assessing, and evaluating the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting for purposes of timely complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

The Company’s Audit Committee has discussed with Stonefield the matters disclosed above.  The Company has authorized Stonefield to respond fully to the inquiries of the Company’s successor accountant concerning the matters disclosed above.

 

The Company has provided Stonefield with a copy of the foregoing disclosure and has requested that Stonefield furnish it with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether or not it agrees with the above statements.  A copy of that letter, dated January 5, 2006, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01                     Exhibits.

 

See the Exhibit Index set forth below for a list of exhibits included with this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

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Signature

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunder duly authorized.

 

 

LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Ricardo A. Salas

 

 

 

Ricardo A. Salas

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Date: January 6, 2006

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description

 

 

 

16.1

 

Letter from Stonefield Josephson, Inc. to the SEC, dated January 5, 2006, regarding agreement with the statements made in this Form 8-K.

 

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