Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-028069
Chunk: 65

Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 65
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 forth in the charter, management is responsible for the internal controls and accounting and financial reporting processes of Gulfport Energy Corporation. The independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for expressing opinions on the conformity of Gulfport Energy Corporation’s audited consolidated financial statements with generally accepted accounting principles and on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibilities include monitoring and overseeing these processes. Our Committee is comprised of four non -employee, independent members of the Board of Directors. No member serves on more than two other public company audit committees. The Board of Directors has determined that all of the members of the Audit Committee are financially literate, and that David Wolf, Jason Martinez, Jeannie Powers, and David Reganato are financial experts as that term is defined by the SEC. The members of our Committee are not professionally engaged in the practice of accounting or auditing. The Audit Committee’s considerations and discussions referred to below do not assure that the audit of the Company’s financial statements has been carried out in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, that the financial statements are presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or that the Company’s auditors are in fact “independent”. In the performance of our oversight function, we have reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements of the Company for the fiscal year ended December31, 2024, and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting with the management of Gulfport Energy Corporation. We have met with Grant Thornton LLP, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, with and without management present. We discussed with Grant Thornton LLP the matters required to be discussed under the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) and the SEC and such other matters as we have deemed to be appropriate, including the overall scope and plans for the audit. We also have received the written disclosures and the letter from Grant Thornton LLP required by the applicable PCAOB requirements regarding the independent accountant’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and we have discussed with Grant Thornton LLP that firm’s independence from management and the Company. We also reviewed the amount of fees paid to Grant Thornton LLP for both audit and non -auditservices. In doing so, we considered whether the provision of non -auditservices to the Company was compatible with maintaining the independence of Grant Thornton LLP. Based on the reports and discussions above, we recommended to the Board of Directors that the audited financial statements be included in the Gulfport Energy Corporation 2024 Annual Report on Form 10K.