Company: SFNC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000480
Chunk: 87

Company: SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 87
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 auditors. All services obtained from the independent auditors during 2024, whether audit services or permitted non -auditservices, were pre -approvedby the Audit Committee (or its Chair, pursuant to delegated authority). The Audit Committee has not adopted any additional pre -approvalpolicies and procedures, but consistent with its charter, it may do so in the future. The Audit Committee issued the following report concerning its activities related to the Company for the previous year: The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2024, with management; The Audit Committee has discussed with FORVIS MAZARS, LLP (“FORVIS”), its independent auditors, the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission; The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures and the letter from the independent accountant required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding the independent accountant’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and has discussed with the independent accountant the independent accountant’s independence; and Based upon the foregoing review and discussions, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board of Directors that the audited financial statements be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10 -Kfor the last fiscal year for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In its analysis of the independence of FORVIS, the Audit Committee considered whether the non -auditrelated professional services rendered by FORVIS to the Company were compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence. AUDIT COMMITTEE

| Robert L. Shoptaw, Chair |     | Steven Cossé |     | Jerry Hunter |
| Susan Lanigan            |     | Mindy West   |     |              |

61 PROPOSAL 4 — TO RATIFY SELECTION OF
INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS The Audit Committee of the Board re -selectedthe accounting firm of FORVIS MAZARS, LLP (“FORVIS”) as independent auditors of the Company and its subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, subject to a formal acceptance of an engagement letter from FORVIS, and seeks ratification of the selection by the Company’s shareholders. Principal Accountant Fees Audit Fees The aggregate fees billed to the Company for professional services rendered by FORVIS for the audit of the Company’s annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the reviews of the financial statements included in the Company’s quarterly reports on Form 10