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IDW pushes back on auditor ’s report that warns of " substantial doubt " in the comic book publisher ’s hereafter .
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As promise , IDW Publishingheld an investors ' call last nighttime . I was invited to wait on through one of those " Press 1 for Monday , Press 2 for Tuesday , Press 3 for Wackaday " sort of phone systems . which is tough than it sounds to call in from London , UK . Because it kept sound off me out and would n’t get me back in , I expend a lovely eventide forever talk to the operator , who kept manually add me back . And then the instant replay option did n’t work . So I probably got about a tenth of the investors ' call , which is something legally required as a publically listed and traded caller . While IDW has been delisted from the NYSE , shares can still be purchase through platforms like Fidelity . As a resultant role , I was n’t able to need dubiousness of my own . But I did manage to see a couple of interesting things , and I jot them down in the scrum .
First , regarding the Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 failure , I did n’t hear anything about the scourge of Penguin Random House leaving IDW on the hookfor the IDW - relate debt that PRH was owe by Diamond . However , they did say that while bankruptcy had a significant impingement , it was not an experiential one . More distributor are cull up the slack , and the bigger encroachment on retail merchant will probably be around take more bureaucratic hoops to go through .
The 2nd panorama worry the reputation that was pick up by Bleeding Cool from independent auditors , which stated " significant doubt exists about the companionship ’s ability to continueas a go worry " and say , " PRH has conversationally betoken to IDW that their understanding of the relevant term of the contract between IDW and PRH provides thatthe significant bulk of such ungathered amounts will be debit by PRH from succeeding payment from PRH to IDW " .
In the investor call , IDW stated that they are crowd back on the auditors over this aspect of the report , and are providing more entropy so that they might give a different finis . Bleeding Cool will be happy to cover this as and when they do so .
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