Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001527166-25-000032
Chunk: 29

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 29
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, consents, and other services related to SEC and other regulatory filings. This also includes fees for accounting consultation billed as audit services. (b) Audit-Related Fees consisted of due diligence in connection with acquisitions, and other audit and attest services not required by statute or regulation. (c) Tax Fees consisted of fees for services rendered for tax compliance and tax planning and advisory services. We also use other accounting firms to provide these services. (d) Ernst & Young also provided audit and tax services to certain investment funds managed by Carlyle in its capacity as the general partner or investment advisor. We also use other accounting firms to provide these services. (e) Audit-Related Fees included assurance, merger and acquisition due diligence services provided in connection with contemplated investments by Carlyle-sponsored investment funds, and attest services not required by statute or regulation. In addition, Ernst & Young provided audit, audit-related, tax, and other services to certain Carlyle fund portfolio companies, which are approved directly by the portfolio company’s management and are not included in the amounts presented here. We also use other accounting firms to provide these services. PRE-APPROVAL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Our Audit Committee Charter, which is available on our website at www.carlyle.com under “Shareholders,” requires the Audit Committee to approve in advance all audit and non-audit related services to be provided by our independent registered public accounting firm in accordance with the audit and non-audit related services pre-approval policy. All services reported in the Audit, Audit-Related, and Tax categories above were approved by the Audit Committee.

| CARLYLE | Proxy Statement2025 | 27 |

| Audit Matters |

AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT Our Audit Committee consists of Mr. Shaw (Chair), Ms. Cherwoo, Ms. Fitt, and Mr. Rice. The purpose of the Audit Committee is to provide assistance to the Board of Directors in fulfilling its obligations with respect to matters involving our accounting, auditing, financial reporting, internal control, and legal compliance functions, including, without limitation, assisting the Board’s oversight of: • the quality and integrity of our financial statements, • our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, • our independent registered public accounting firm’s qualifications and independence, • the performance of our independent registered public accounting firm and our internal audit function, • directly appointing, retaining, reviewing, and terminating our independent registered public accounting firm, and • our technology and information security, including cybersecurity. The members of our Audit Committee meet the independence standards and financial sophistication