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PwC auditors overboard

October, 21st 2009
Overland Storage management seems to have taken exception to PricewaterhouseCoopers' auditing of its accounts and fired the firm. For the past two financial years PwC has added a stern warning to the accounts, saying that there was substantial doubt about Overland's ability to continue as a going concern. While even accountants are entitled to a view about the state of the struggling business, Overland was upset because PwC didn't actually identify any specific factor in the accounts that led them to that conclusion. Presumably PwC was expressing a view based on such business events as Overland avoiding running out of cash by factoring arrangements, repeated staff headcount reductions, Nasdaq delisting, declining revenues and losses. Overland's thinking is that, if so, it shouldn't have. The upset was detailed in an 8-K SEC filing that said PwC had been dismissed on October 12. Overland stated that, during the period of the two financial years: There were no disagreements between our company and PwC on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure which, if not resolved to PwCs satisfaction, would have caused PwC to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report for such years; and there were no reportable events as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K. The subject matter of the disagreement was about Overland's ability to continue as a going concern. Overland now thinks PwC shouldn't have expressed such doubts without backing them up. It sent PwC a letter saying this and asking it to send a letter to the SEC saying whether or not it agreed with Overland's point. Connoisseurs of brevity will appreciate PwC's SEC letter: We have read the statements made by Overland Storage, Inc. (copy attached), which we understand will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, pursuant to Item 4.01 of Form 8-K, as part of the Companys Form 8-K report dated October 12, 2009. We agree with the statements concerning our Firm in such Form 8-K.