Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
Chunk: 21

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
---
 the Board’s standing committees are independent Directors.

Audit Committee

| Members                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     | William G. Smith, Jr. |     | Janaki Akella   |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     | Henry A. Clark III |     | Attendance98%     
 Meetings in 20249 
 ReportPage80      |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |     | Donald M. James       |     | David E. Meador |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     |                    |     |                   |
| The Audit Committee’s duties and responsibilities include the following:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     |                       |     |                 |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     |                    |     |                   |
| 4Oversee the Company’s financial reporting, audit process, internal controls and legal, regulatory and ethical compliance.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 4Appoint the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, approve its services and fees and establish and review the scope and timing of its audits.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 4Recommend the filing of the Company’s and its registrant subsidiaries’ annual financial statements with the SEC.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |     |                       |     |                 |     | 4Review and discuss the Company’s financial statements with management, the internal auditors and the independent registered public accounting firm, including critical audit matters, critical accounting policies and practices, material alternative financial treatments within GAAP, proposed adjustments, control recommendations, review of internal controls for nonfinancial sustainability-related data and disclosures, significant management judgments and accounting estimates, new accounting policies, changes in accounting principles, any disagreements with management and other material written communications between the internal auditors and/or the independent registered public accounting firm and management. |     |                    |     |                   |
| The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee is independent as defined by the NYSE corporate governance rules within its listing standards and rules of the SEC promulgated pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Board has also determined that each member of the Audit Committee is financially literate under NYSE corporate governance rules and that William G. Smith, Jr. qualifies as an audit committee financial expert as defined by the SEC. |     |                       |     |                 |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     |                    |     |                   |

### Business Security and Resiliency Committee
| Members                                                                                                                                                                                          |     | Janaki Akella |     | Shantella E.