Company: TJX
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000109198-25-000024
Chunk: 20

Company: TJX COMPANIES INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 20
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| Carol Meyrowitz                       |     |                   |     |                      |     |              |     |           |
| Jackwyn L. Nemerov                    |     |                   |     |                      |     |              |     |           |
| Charles F. Wagner, Jr.                |     |                   |     |                      |     |              |     |           |
| Number of meetings during fiscal 2025 |     |                12 |     |                    5 |     |            6 |     |         2 |

| Committee Chair  |
| Committee Member |

#### 2025 Proxy Statement15

#### Corporate Governance
| Audit and Finance Committee                                          |
| Ms. Lane, Chair; Ms. Berkery; Mr. Ching; Ms. Goodwin; and Mr. Wagner |

The Audit and Finance Committee assists the Board in its oversight of the integrity of the Company’s financial statements and is directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, retention, and oversight of the independent registered public accounting firm retained to audit the Company’s financial statements. Responsibilities include, among other things:

• reviewing and discussing with management, internal auditors, and the independent registered public accounting firm our quarterly and annual financial statements, including the accounting principles and procedures applied in their preparation and any changes in accounting policies;

• monitoring our system of internal financial controls and accounting practices;

• overseeing the audit process, including the annual audit;

• overseeing our compliance and ethics programs;

• assisting the Board in its oversight of the Company’s enterprise risk management program;

• reviewing risks related to information systems, information security, data privacy, and cybersecurity;

• establishing and maintaining procedures for receipt, retention, and treatment of complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls, or auditing matters, and procedures for confidential, anonymous submissions by Associates, regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters;

• selecting, retaining, negotiating, and approving the compensation of, overseeing, and if necessary, replacing, the independent registered public accounting firm;

• pre-approving all work by the independent registered public accounting firm;

• reviewing and making recommendations to the Board with respect to dividends and stock repurchase programs;

• reviewing our financing plans and strategies; financial condition; capital structure; tax strategies, liabilities, and payments; and insurance programs;

• approving our cash investment policies, foreign exchange risk management policies, commodity hedging policies, capital investment criteria, and agreements for borrowing by us and our subsidiaries from banks and other financial institutions;

• reviewing investment policies, performance, and actuarial status of our pension and other