Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018604
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 an internal review of the respective duties and responsibilities of its then-existing Compliance Committee of the Board (the “ Prior Compliance Committee ”) and its Gaming Compliance Committee, a sub-committee of the Prior Compliance Committee, and determined to reorganize its allocation of compliance management responsibilities by dissolving the Prior Compliance Committee, establishing the Gaming Compliance Committee as a committee of the Company reporting to, and overseen by our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and renaming the Gaming Compliance Committee as the “Compliance Committee” (the “ Compliance Committee ”). We are required by the Nevada Gaming Authorities to maintain such a Compliance Committee and an associated Compliance Plan. Dennis K. Neilander and Deborah Fuetsch, both independent consultants to the Company with Nevada gaming regulatory expertise, and Ms. Robinson serve on the Compliance Committee.

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#### Audit Committee
Our Audit Committee provides oversight of our accounting and financial reporting process, the audit of our financial statements and our internal control function. Among other matters, the Audit Committee is responsible for the following:

• selecting a firm to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements, evaluating the performance of our independent registered public accounting firm and deciding whether to retain their services;

• ensuring the independence of the independent registered public accounting firm;

• discussing the scope and results of the audit with the independent registered public accounting firm and reviewing, with management and that firm, the Company’s interim and year-end operating results;

• establishing procedures for employees to anonymously submit concerns about questionable accounting or audit matters;

• considering the adequacy of the Company’s internal controls and internal audit function:

• reviewing proposed waivers of the global code of conduct for directors, executive officers, and employees (with waivers for directors or executive officers to be approved by our Board);

• reviewing material related party transactions or those that require disclosure;

• preparing the audit committee report required by the SEC to be included in our annual proxy statement; and

• approving or, as permitted, pre-approving all audit and non-audit services to be performed by the independent registered public accounting firm.

Our Audit Committee has the authority to retain advisors as the Audit Committee deems appropriate. Our Audit Committee is comprised of Mr. Ruttenberg, the chair of the committee, and Mses. Godsoe and Philips. Following the Annual Meeting, our Audit Committee will be comprised of Ms. Kondra, who will be the chair of the committee, Ms. Philips and Mr. Ruttenberg. Mr. Rut