-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Jjg5JlN/b9QE2l1wPscih32PyNVJQNzh+lWLh9K90XwE6IY5SvvAWa9Pv2QWESEF xlMV+tf+Zs8cUT/wnVsdGw== 0000950134-04-013564.txt : 20040913 0000950134-04-013564.hdr.sgml : 20040913 20040913171809 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950134-04-013564 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20040907 ITEM INFORMATION: Changes in Registrant.s Certifying Accountant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20040913 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20040913 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INTERPHASE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000728249 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT [3576] IRS NUMBER: 751549797 STATE OF INCORPORATION: TX FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-13071 FILM NUMBER: 041028119 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 13800 SENLAC DR CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75234 BUSINESS PHONE: 2146545000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 13800 SENLAC DR STREET 2: 13800 SENLAC DR CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75234 8-K 1 d18406e8vk.htm FORM 8-K e8vk
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

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): September 7, 2004

INTERPHASE CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
         
Texas
(State of incorporation)
  0-13071
(Commission File Number)
  75-1549797
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

Parkway Centre I
2901 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 200
Plano, Texas 75093

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(214) 654-5000
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

     Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
SIGNATURE
EXHIBIT INDEX
Letter Regarding Change in Independent Registered Public Accounting Form


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Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

On September 7, 2004, Interphase Corporation (“Registrant”) dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm. The Registrant’s Audit Committee of the Board of Directors participated in and approved the decision to change the Registrant’s independent registered public accounting firm.

The reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on the financial statements for the past two fiscal years contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principle.

In connection with its audits for the two most recent fiscal years and through September 7, 2004, there have been no disagreements with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 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 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP would have caused them to make reference thereto in their reports on the financial statements for such years.

During the two most recent fiscal years and through September 7, 2004, there have been no reportable events (as defined in Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(1)(v)).

The Registrant has requested that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP furnish it with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether or not it agrees with the above statements. A copy of such letter, dated September 13, 2004, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The Registrant engaged Grant Thornton LLP as its new independent registered public accounting firm effective September 9, 2004. During the two most recent fiscal years and through September 9, 2004, the Registrant did not consult with Grant Thornton LLP 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 Registrant’s financial statements, and neither a written report or oral advice was provided to the Registrant that the Registrant concluded was an important factor considered by the Registrant in reaching a decision as to an accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions to Item 304 of Regulation S-K, or a reportable event.

The Registrant has requested that Grant Thornton LLP review the disclosure in this Current Report on Form 8-K and provided Grant Thornton LLP the opportunity to furnish the Registrant with a letter addressed to the Commission containing any new information, clarification of the Registrant’s expression of its views, or the respects in which Grant Thornton does not agree with the statements made by the Registrant in this Current Report. Grant Thornton LLP has advised the Registrant that no such letter will be issued.

 


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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(a) Financial Statements of Business Acquired.

        Not Applicable.

(b) Pro Forma Financial Information.

        Not Applicable.

        (c) Exhibits.

     
16.1
  Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding change in independent registered public accounting firm.

SIGNATURE

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, thereunto duly authorized.
         
  INTERPHASE CORPORATION (Registrant)
 
 
Date: September 13, 2004  By:   /s/ Steven P. Kovac    
    Steven P. Kovac   
    Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance   
 

EXHIBIT INDEX

     
Exhibit    
Number
  Description of Document
16.1
  Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding change in independent registered public accounting firm.

 

EX-16.1 2 d18406exv16w1.htm LETTER REGARDING CHANGE IN INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FORM exv16w1
 

EXHIBIT 16.1

September 13, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549

Commissioners:

We have read the statements made by Interphase Corporation (copy attached), which we understand will be filed with the Commission, pursuant to Item 4 of Form 8-K, as part of the Company’s Form 8-K report dated September 7, 2004. We agree with the statements concerning our Firm in such Form 8-K.

Very truly yours,

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

 

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