Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
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Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 stockholders and will take into consideration the outcome of the vote when considering future executive compensation arrangements. We currently conduct annual advisory votes on executive compensation and intend to hold the next advisory vote to approve the compensation of the NEOs at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

#### 1062025 Proxy Statement

#### Audit Committee Report
The Audit Committee oversees our Company’s financial reporting process on behalf of the Board and has other responsibilities as set forth in the Audit Committee charter, which is available on our website at https://investors.bostonscientific.com/environmental-social-governance/governance-overview .

Management has the primary responsibility for our Company’s financial statements and reporting process, including the systems of internal controls. Ernst & Young LLP (Ernst & Young), our independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2024, is responsible for expressing an opinion on the conformity of our Company’s audited financial statements with generally accepted accounting principles and on our Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

In fulfilling its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed with management and Ernst & Young the audited financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, including a discussion about the quality, not just the acceptability, of our Company’s accounting principles, the reasonableness of significant judgments, and the clarity of disclosures in the financial statements, and Ernst & Young’s evaluation of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

The Audit Committee also discussed with Ernst & Young the matters that are required to be discussed by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Auditing Standard No. 1301, Communications with Audit Committees . Ernst & Young has also provided the Audit Committee the written disclosures and the letter required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding the independent registered public accounting firm’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and the Audit Committee has discussed with Ernst & Young that firm’s independence. The Audit Committee has concluded that Ernst & Young’s provision of audit and non-audit services to the Company and its affiliates is compatible with Ernst & Young’s independence.

The Audit Committee further discussed with the Company’s internal auditors and Ernst & Young the overall scope and plans for their respective audits. The Audit Committee meets at least quarterly with the internal auditors and Ernst & Young, with and without management present, to discuss the results of their examinations, their evaluations of the Company’s internal controls, and the overall quality of the Company’s financial reporting.

Based on the reviews