Company: CRWS
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-021381
Chunk: 51

Company: CROWN CRAFTS INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 51
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The Audit Committee oversees the Company’s financial reporting process and internal control structure on behalf of the Board. Management is responsible for the preparation, presentation and integrity of the financial statements and the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for expressing an opinion as to the conformity of the Company’s consolidated financial statements with generally accepted accounting principles.

The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed with the Company’s management the audited financial statements of the Company for the fiscal year ended March 30, 2025. The Audit Committee has discussed with KPMG, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the SEC. In addition, KPMG has provided the Audit Committee with the written disclosures required by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding KPMG’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and the Audit Committee has discussed with KPMG the firm’s independence from management and the Company.

Based on the aforementioned review and discussions with management and KPMG, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 30, 2025.

This report has been submitted by the Audit Committee.

| Donald Ratajczak (Chair) 
 Michael Benstock         
 Patricia Stensrud        |

The Report of the Audit Committee is not deemed filed with the SEC and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any prior or future filings made by the Company under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the Company specifically incorporates such information by reference.

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PROPOSAL 3– RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF OUR INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

### Overview
KPMG currently serves as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm and conducted the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for fiscal years 2025 and 2024. Although appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company is not required to be submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Company for ratification under the laws of Delaware, the Audit Committee has recommended that the Board submit this matter to the stockholders as a matter of good corporate practice. If the stockholders fail to ratify the appointment, then the Audit Committee of the Board will reconsider whether to retain KPMG and