Company: THS
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001320695-25-000030
Chunk: 79

Company: TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 79
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 Statement
| Audit Matters |

| Report of the Audit Committee |

The Audit Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in its oversight of the integrity of the Company's financial statements, the Company's compliance with legal and regulatory financial accounting requirements, the independent registered public accounting firm's qualifications and independence, and the performance of the Company's internal audit function and independent registered public accounting firm; to provide a line of communication among the Board, independent registered public accounting firm, management and internal auditors; and to oversee the Company’s systems of disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls over financial reporting, and compliance with ethical standards adopted by the Company.

The Audit Committee is currently comprised of four directors, Mr. DeWitt, Mses. Massman and Rahman and Mr. Scalzo. The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee meets the heightened standards of independence for audit committee members pursuant to the Company's Corporate Governance Guidelines, rules and regulations of the SEC, and Messrs. DeWitt and Scalzo and Mses. Massman and Rahman qualified as an audit committee financial expert pursuant to the listing standards of the NYSE. During 2024, the Audit Committee met eight times. The Audit Committee's meetings included executive sessions with the independent registered public accounting firm and with the Company's internal auditors, in each case without the presence of management during which members of the Audit Committee raised and discussed any issues they may have about the financial statements the adequacy and proper functioning of the Company's internal and disclosure control systems and procedures.

The Audit Committee’s responsibilities are to monitor and oversee the audit process, and to appoint, compensate and evaluate the performance and independence of the independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee reviews and approves the scope and cost of all services, both audit and non-audit, provided by the firm selected to conduct the audit. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, is responsible for performing an independent audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) and to issue reports thereon.

In discharging its oversight responsibility as to the audit process, the Audit Committee obtained a formal written statement describing all relationships between Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Company that might bear on Deloitte & Touche LLP's independence consistent with applicable requirements of the PCAOB and the SEC and discussed with Deloitte & Touche LLP any relationships that may impact its objectivity and independence,