Company: WSBC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-039418
Chunk: 102

Company: WESBANCO INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 102
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4 no later than February 15, 2026.

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Ernst & Young LLP served as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Corporation and all affiliates for the year 2024. The services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP during the year 2024 consisted primarily of audit, audit-related and tax services as approved by the Audit Committee or under terms of the Corporation’s audit services pre-approval policy. The Audit Committee has approved Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditors to audit the consolidated financial statements of the Corporation for the year ending December 31, 2025. It is expected that a representative of Ernst & Young LLP will be present at the annual stockholders meeting. Such representative will have the opportunity to make a statement if such representative desires to do so and will be available to respond to appropriate questions from the stockholders who are present. A representative of Ernst & Young, LLP attended last year’s annual stockholders’ meeting.

The Audit Committee’s pre-approval policies and procedures are detailed in the Audit Committee Charter. Generally, these procedures require the Audit Committee to pre-approve all auditing services to be performed by its independent auditor subject to a de minimis exception. The pre-approval may be delegated to the Chairman subject to review and ratification by the Audit Committee at its next scheduled meeting. Of the 2024 audit fees and expenses of $1,841,580, all were pre-approved by the Audit Committee before commencement of the service. Additionally, 100% of the tax and audit-related fees and expenses totaling $478,445 and $147,500, respectively, were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.

AuditFees

The aggregate fees of Ernst & Young LLP billed for each of the last two fiscal years for professional services rendered for the audit of the Corporation’s annual financial statements included in Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and its internal controls over financial statement preparations, and the quarterly reviews of the Corporation’s financial statements included in

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Forms 10-Q for 2024 and 2023, respectively, were $1,841,580 and $1,469,930. Also included for both years were professional services rendered for accounting consultation on matters addressed during the audit or interim reviews, services for certain SEC registration statements, audits of the Corporation’s broker-dealer (Wesbanco Securities, Inc.) and Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) procedures, and business combination procedures