Company: TVC
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001376986-25-000056
Chunk: 550

Company: Tennessee Valley Authority
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 550
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389 — 7,200 3,955,317 

Notes

(1)  Audit fees consist of payments for professional services rendered in connection with the audit of TVA's annual financial statements, including the annual attestation on internal control over financial reporting; review of interim financial statements included in TVA's quarterly reports; audit of TVA's fuel cost adjustment; federal financial reporting responsibilities for the preparation and audit of the 2025 and 2024 federal consolidated financial statements of which TVA is a component; and Bond offering and other financing comfort letters.

(2)  Audit-related fees primarily reflect pre-implementation assessments related to information technology system upgrades.

(3)  All other fees reflect accounting and financial reporting research software license costs.

The TVA Board has an Audit, Risk, and Cybersecurity Committee ("Audit Committee").  Under the TVA Act, the Audit Committee, in consultation with the Inspector General, recommends to the TVA Board the selection of an external auditor.  TVA's Audit Committee, in consultation with the Inspector General, recommended that the TVA Board select Ernst & Young LLP as TVA's external auditor for the 2025 and 2024 audits and other related services, and the TVA Board approved these recommendations.

    TVA has a policy (the "Policy") that requires all auditing services and permissible non-audit services provided by the external auditor to be pre-approved by the Audit Committee.  The Policy also lists the following services as ones the external auditor is not permitted to perform:

•Bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of TVA;

•Financial information system design and implementation;

•Appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, and contribution-in-kind reports;

•Actuarial services;

•Internal audit outsourcing services;

•Management functions or human resources;

•Broker or dealer, investment adviser, or investment banking services;

•Legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit; and

•Any other services that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board determines, by regulation, are impermissible.

    The Policy also delegates to the Chair of the Audit Committee the authority to pre-approve a permissible service so long as the amount of the service does not exceed $100,000 and the total amount of services pre-approved during the year by the Chair does not exceed $200,000.  The Chair must report for informational purposes the services pre-approved under this provision at the Audit Committee's next meeting.

The Audit Committee pre-approved all audit