Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 85

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 85
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7,200,821(3) |

| (1) | Represents the number of shares of common stock subject to outstanding awards under the 2007 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan, or the 2007 Omnibus Plan, and the 2017 Omnibus Plan, including RSU awards and the target number of shares issuable under PSU awards, as of December 31, 2024. |

| (2) | No options were outstanding as of December 31, 2024. |

| (3) | As of December 31, 2024, 5,834,322 shares were available for issuance under the 2017 Omnibus Plan and 1,366,499 shares were issuable under the current American Water Works Company, Inc. and its Designated Subsidiaries 2017 Nonqualified Employee Stock Purchase Plan, or the ESPP. During the purchase period beginning December 1, 2024, and ending February 28, 2025, 19,419 shares available for issuance through the ESPP were subject to purchase, which shares have not been deducted from this amount. |

| 64 |     | AMERICAN WATER |2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

AUDIT, FINANCE AND RISK COMMITTEE REPORT

The Audit, Finance and Risk Committee assists the Board in its oversight of the integrity of American Water’s financial statements, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, oversight of risk management, review of the Company’s capital and financing plans and the performance of the internal audit function. Management is responsible for American Water’s internal controls, financial reporting process and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, American Water’s independent registered public accounting firm, is responsible for performing an independent audit of American Water’s consolidated financial statements and for issuing a report on these financial statements and on the effectiveness of American Water’s internal control over financial reporting. In this context, the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee hereby reports as follows:

| 2. | The Audit, Finance and Risk Committee has reviewed and discussed with management and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP our system of internal control over financial reporting. |

| 3. | The Audit, Finance and Risk Committee has discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP the matters required to be discussed by Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standard 1301, “Communications with Audit Committees.” |

| 4. | The Audit, Finance and Risk Committee has received the written disclosures and the letter from Pric