Company: TPET
Filing Date: 2025-06-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001641172-25-015530
Chunk: 26

Company: Trio Petroleum Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-06-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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ers for audit and audit related fees for the Company’s financial statements included in the Form 10-K. In addition, the Company engaged Bush & Associates as its independent registered public accounting firm in May 2024 to replace Borgers and to audit the Company’s financial statements for the years ended October 31, 2023 and 2022, and Bush & Associates’ Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm was included with the Company’s re-issued financial statements for those years in the Form 10-K/A. In 2024, the Company paid fees of $90,000 to Bush & Associates for audit and audit related fees in connection with the Company’s re-issued financial statements included in the Form 10-K/A for such period.

|                    |     |   |    2024 |     |   |    2023 |
|:-------------------|:----|:--|--------:|:----|:--|--------:|
| Audit Fees         |     | $ | 123,000 |     | $ |  82,500 |
| Audit Related Fees |     | $ |  22,500 |     | $ |  27,500 |
| Tax Fees           |     | $ |       - |     | $ |       - |
| All Other Fees     |     | $ |       - |     | $ |       - |
| Total              |     | $ | 145,500 |     | $ | 110,000 |

Audit Committee’s Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

The formal written charter for our audit committee requires that the audit committee pre-approve all auditing services and permitted non-audit services to be performed for us by our independent registered public accounting firm, including the fees and terms thereof (subject to the de minimis exceptions for non-audit services described in Section 10A(i)(1)(B) of the Exchange Act, which are approved by our audit committee prior to the completion of the audit). Our audit committee may form and delegate authority to subcommittees of our audit committee consisting of one or more members when appropriate, including the authority to grant pre-approvals of audit and permitted non-audit services, provided that decisions of such subcommittee to grant pre-approvals shall be presented to our full audit committee at its next scheduled meeting.

In 2023, the audit committee adopted policies and procedures for the pre-approval of audit and non-audit services performed by the independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to which the audit committee