Company: UVSP
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000102212-25-000006
Chunk: 135

Company: UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9A
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 the year ended December 31, 2024 and the effectiveness of the Corporation's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, as stated in their reports, which are included herein.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in the Corporation's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f)) during the quarter ended December 31, 2024 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Corporation's internal control over financial reporting.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and Board of Directors

Univest Financial Corporation:

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited Univest Financial Corporation and subsidiaries' (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements), and our report dated February 24, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards