Company: HCKT
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-043233
Chunk: 71

Company: HACKETT GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 Company’s financial reporting process on behalf of the Board. Management has the primary responsibility for the financial statements and the reporting process, including the systems of internal control over financial reporting. In performing its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 27, 2024 with management and with representatives of RSM. The Audit Committee also reviewed, and discussed with management and representatives of RSM, management’s assessment and report and RSM’s report and attestation on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In reliance on the reviews and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board (and the Board approved) inclusion of the audited consolidated financial statements in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 27, 2024, filed with the SEC.

Pre-Approval of Non-Audit Services

All audit-related services, tax services and other services were approved by the Audit Committee, which concluded that the provision of such services by RSM was compatible with the maintenance of that firm’s independence in the conduct of its auditing functions. The Audit Committee’s Policy for Pre-Approval of Non-Audit Services provides for pre-approval of non-audit-related, tax and other services specifically described by the Audit Committee in the policy on an annual basis. In addition, individual engagements anticipated to exceed pre-established thresholds must be separately approved. If the entire Audit Committee is not able to convene so that permitted non-audit services desired to be performed by the Company’s independent auditors can be reviewed and approved on a timely basis, the Audit Committee Chairman is authorized to approve such services and make a verbal report to the full Audit Committee as to the nature and cost of such services at the next Audit Committee meeting following such approval.

Respectfully submitted,

Audit Committee

Richard N. Hamlin, Chairman

Maria A. Bofill

John R Harris

Robert A. Rivero

Alan T.G. Wix

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PROPOSAL 4TO RATIFY THE APPOINTMENT OF RSM US LLP AS THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 26, 2025</div>

The Audit Committee of the Board has appointed RSM US LLP (“RSM”) as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated