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Abalance Corporation must ask shareholders to approve its year-to-March 2026 accounts at a September 30 extraordinary meeting because its auditor issued a disclaimer of opinion, unable to verify paid-supply transaction accounting, internal controls or the going-concern assumption, and next year's audit contract remains unsettled.
US Commerce has opened a nationwide anti-circumvention investigation into solar cells and panels finished in Ethiopia with Chinese parts, and customs separately issued two detention notices, together covering $13,770 of cells, from the same Abalance-owned factory under forced-labor review; CBP has given no timeline for completing its review, and the nationwide investigation continues.
Abalance has rewritten four periods of results after finding improper accounting in overseas raw-material buy-back deals and a suspected fictitious-sales scheme at a subsidiary it later absorbed, and its auditor twice declined to give a conclusion on the numbers. With a governance review and overseas-subsidiary reorganization still underway, the company has withheld its earnings and dividend guidance for the year ahead.
Abalance expects to publish corrected historical filings and two backlogged fiscal-2026 results by August 21, but the same staffing squeeze pushes its next quarterly summary past its usual 45-day norm and into early October.
Abalance told investors on July 10 that a patent fight with Jinko Solar over eight subsidiaries was settled in December and dismissed in California and Texas by February, and pinned the months-long reporting delay on management turnover disrupting communication with its subsidiaries.
The finding: Abalance's committee said a ¥30mn LPWA prototype order later carried at Abit lacked economic substance, making ¥25mn of booked sales inappropriate, while stopping short of concluding the accounting was intentional.
Abalance wants a 62-day extension, to August 31, after a probe into suspect transactions at merged subsidiary Abit opened the door to extra audit work and possible prior-year corrections.
A June 30 probe into accounting and suspicious transactions at former subsidiary Abit has pushed Abalance's results to late August, while a separate U.S. solar-shipment dispute leaves another ¥3bn to ¥5bn potential hit to be settled in the same window.
The move: a June 30 investigation report on former subsidiary Abit is set to trigger added audit work, so Abalance is weighing a 62-day filing extension and says even its separate ¥3bn to ¥5bn US solar-shipment loss cannot be pinned down before late August.
The move: Abalance pushed both its third-quarter and full-year results for the year to March 2026 to late August while it reviews an investigation into accounting treatment and suspicious transactions at former subsidiary Abit. Read-through: that same timetable now also governs when a separate ¥3bn to ¥5bn estimate from US-bound solar shipments may be nailed down.