Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.
Our financial statements and supplementary data and the reports of independent
auditors thereon are listed in Item 15 of this Report and are incorporated
herein by reference.
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.
BDO Seidman, LLP served as our independent auditors from September 3, 1998 to
July 15, 2002. We had determined to change our independent auditors for fiscal
year 2003, and we dismissed BDO Seidman, LLP on July 15, 2002. The decision to
change independent auditors was recommended by our Management and the Audit
Committee of the Board of Directors, and approved by a unanimous vote of the
full Board of Directors.
Our decision to change our independent auditors did not occur due to any
existing or previous accounting disagreements with BDO Seidman, LLP, and BDO
Seidman, LLP has expressed no disclaimer of opinion, adverse opinion,
qualification or limitation as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting
principles regarding our financial statements or the audit process, for the
fiscal years ended March 31, 2002 or 2001. Neither have there been any
accounting disagreements or reportable events within the meaning of Item
304(a)(1)(iv) and Item 304(a)(1)(v) of SEC Regulation S-K for those periods or
for the interim period from April 1, 2002 up to and including July 15, 2002. BDO
Seidman, LLP had stated in its letter addressed to the SEC its concurrence with
the foregoing statements in this paragraph.
On July 15, 2002, we engaged Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP to serve as our
independent auditors for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. The decision to
engage Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP was recommended by the Company's management team
and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, and unanimously approved by
the full Board of Directors. We did not seek the advice of Burr, Pilger & Mayer
LLP on specific audit issues relating to the application of accounting
principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, the type of
audit opinion that might be rendered on our financial statements, or any matter
that was a reportable event prior to engagement of this firm.
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