Gridsum Provides Additional Information Regarding Audit Committee Investigation And Update On Anticipated Timing For Filing Audited Financial Statements And Annual Report

BEIJING, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or "Company") (Nasdaq: GSUM) today provided additional information on the previously disclosed investigation by its Audit Committee and certain issues raised by its former auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP ("PwC") related to revenue recognition, cash flow, cost and expense items, and their underlying documentation. The Audit Committee conducted the investigation with assistance from external legal and accounting advisors.  The Audit Committee concluded the investigation in October 2018.  The Audit Committee determined that:

• an agreement entered into between the Company and a significant vendor, providing Gridsum the exclusive right to develop a distribution network for a key product, appeared to be an arms-length transaction;
• the Audit Committee was unable to reach conclusions with respect to issues relating to certain expense items due to documentation issues;
• due to the nature of the issues relating to the Company's revenue recognition, cash flow, cost and expense items, and underlying documentation, such issues should be resolved in the audit process; and
• the Company had made significant progress in implementing, and continued to take, a number of remedial steps to bolster substantially its financial controls and contract management processes as recommended by the Audit Committee, including implementing a new expense control system, hiring additional accounting staff, hiring consultants to improve internal procedures, and providing additional training to employees.

The Audit Committee also provided the Company's independent auditor with detailed information regarding the issues raised by PwC.  The Company continues to make significant progress finalizing its audited financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and to file its annual report on form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017 (the "Annual Report").  The Company believes that the Annual Report will be filed on or about January 31, 2019.

About Gridsum

Gridsum Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: GSUM) is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies in China. Gridsum's core technology, the Gridsum Big Data Platform, is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enables Gridsum's customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named "Gridsum" to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer, the Company's mission is to help enterprises and government organizations in China use data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.

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