-----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, OUHIHb/Fg/rLdY3ZJIXknMlpb9tFfQhenF1326PXzu3N+Ic8OBr9DtPovT/PoZVm tHQNLcnaa5CGwRM6Zt/Tfg== 0001104659-03-012024.txt : 20030723 0001104659-03-012024.hdr.sgml : 20030723 20030610151532 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-03-012024 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20030521 ITEM INFORMATION: Changes in registrant's certifying accountant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial statements and exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20030610 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AMERON INTERNATIONAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000790730 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CONCRETE GYPSUM PLASTER PRODUCTS [3270] IRS NUMBER: 770100596 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1130 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09102 FILM NUMBER: 03739009 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 245 S LOS ROBLES AVE CITY: PASADENA STATE: CA ZIP: 91101 BUSINESS PHONE: 6266834000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 245 S LOS ROBLES AVE CITY: PASADENA STATE: CA ZIP: 91101 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: AMERON INC/DE DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 8-K/A 1 j1946_8ka.htm 8-K/A

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

 

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K/A

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

 

 

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):  5-21-03

 

 

 

AMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

Delaware

 

1-9102

 

77-0100596

(State or other jurisdiction

 

(Commission

 

(IRS Employer

of Incorporation)

 

File No.)

 

Identification No.)

 

 

 

245 South Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, California

 

91101

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

(626) 683-4000

 

 

 

Item 4.    Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant

 

(a)           Previous Independent Accountants

 

                (i)            Effective May 21, 2003, the Registrant dismissed Deloitte & Touche LLP (“DT”) as its independent accountants.

 

                (ii)           The reports of DT on the Registrant’s financial statements for fiscal years 2002 and 2001 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles.

 

                (iii)          The decision to dismiss DT was recommended by the registrant’s Audit Committee and approved by its Board of Directors.

 

                (iv)          During fiscal years 2002 and 2001 and the subsequent interim period preceding DT’s dismissal, there were no disagreements (as such term is defined in instruction 4 to Item 304 of Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-K) with DT 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 DT would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement(s) in connection with its report.

 

                (v)           During fiscal years 2002 and 2001 and the subsequent interim period preceding DT’s dismissal, there were no reportable events (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-K).

 

                (vi)          Attached hereto is a copy of a letter from DT to the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that it agrees with the statements made in this report.

 

(b)           New Independent Accountants.

 

                (i)            Effective May 21, 2003, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Registrant has engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers as the principal accountants to audit the Registrant’s financial statements for the fiscal year ending November 30, 2003.  No other event requiring disclosure under Item 304(a)(2) of Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-K has occurred.

 

Item 7.    Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

16

 

Letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP to Securities and Exchange Commission

 

 

2

 

SIGNATURES

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

AMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

Date:  June 10, 2003

 

By:

/s/ Gary Wagner

 

 

 

Gary Wagner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its:

Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

 

 

3

 EX-16 3 j1946_ex16.htm EX-16

Exhibit 16

 

 

June 10, 2003

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

Mail Stop 11-3

450 5th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.   20549

 

Dear Sirs/Madams:

 

We have read Item 4 of Ameron International Corporation’s Form 8-K/A dated May 21, 2003, and we have the following comments:

 

1.               We agree with the statements made in Items 4(a)(i), 4(a)(ii), 4(a)(iv), 4(a)(v), and 4(a)(vi).

 

1.               We have no basis on which to agree or disagree with the statements made in Items 4(a)(iii) and 4(b)(i).

 

Yours truly,

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Los Angeles, California

 

 

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