Company: SYBT
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-007118
Chunk: 83

Company: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 83
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 organization, responsibilities, budget and staffing. The Committee reviewed the audit plans of both the independent and internal auditors, including audit scope and identification and evaluation of financial and related audit risks. The Committee also discussed the results of the internal audit examinations.

Management represented to the Audit Committee that the Company’s consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with management and the independent auditors the quarterly and year end consolidated financial statements contained in filings with the SEC, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting and the independent auditors’ evaluation of our internal controls over financial reporting. The Audit Committee discussed with the independent auditors the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB and the SEC, including the scope of the annual audit, the Company’s critical and significant accounting policies and practices, the reasonableness of critical accounting estimates and judgments and the critical audit matters identified during the audit.

In addition, the Audit Committee discussed with the independent auditors the auditors’ independence from the Company and its management, including the matters in the written disclosures required bythe applicable requirements of the PCAOB. The Audit Committee also considered whether the independent auditors’ provision ofnon-audit services to the Company is compatible with the auditors’ independence.

In reliance on the reviews and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board ofDirectors that the audited consolidated financial statements be included in Stock Yards Bancorp’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, for filing with the SEC.

<div align='center'>The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.</div>

Carl G. Herde, Chairman

Paul J. Bickel III

Richard A. Lechleiter

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INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</div>

The Audit Committee selected Forvis Mazars, LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and shareholders voted to ratify that selection at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Representatives of Forvis Mazars, LLP are expected to be present during the Annual Meeting, will have an opportunity to make a statement if they so desire and will be available to respond to appropriate questions. The Audit Committee has not yet selected a firm to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year