Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000223
Chunk: 49

Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 49
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 reported on by the independent registered public accounting firm, and matters related to the design and operating effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. These discussions and reviews included the reasonableness of significant estimates and judgments, significant accounting policies (including critical accounting policies), significant unusual transactions, the independent registered public accounting firm’s assessment of the quality, not just acceptability, of our accounting principles, risk assessment and such other matters as are required to be discussed with the Audit Committee under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”). The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures of the independent registered public accounting firm as required by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB, and has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm, and received a letter from them confirming, their independence from management and the Company. In addition, the Audit Committee has reviewed and approved our policy with regard to the hiring of former employees of the independent registered public accounting firm. In evaluating the independent registered public accounting firm’s independence, the Audit Committee considered whether the firm’s provision of any non-audit services impaired or compromised the firm’s independence and the Audit Committee concluded that the provision of those services did not. Those services, along with the fees paid to the independent registered public accounting firm and the Audit Committee’s pre-approval policy for services that may be performed by the independent registered public accounting firm, are described below. Based upon the review and discussions described in this report, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the audited financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024 be accepted and included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC. The foregoing report has been submitted by the members of the Audit Committee: John T. Cahill (Chair), Lisa M. Edwards, Martina Hund-Mejean, Brian O. Newman and Lorrie M. Norrington.

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Proposals Requiring Your Vote Fees of Independent Accounting Firm The Audit Committee approves the fees billed or expected to be billed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for their services. Such fees for services rendered to Colgate during 2024 and 2023 are set forth below. The Audit Committee has concluded that the provision to Colgate of the non-audit services by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP described below did not and does not impair or compromise their independence. All such services were pre-approved by the