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Oversight of Annual Audit and Quarterly Reviews
(1) Review and accept, if appropriate, the annual audit plan of the Corporation’s independent auditors, including the scope of
audit activities, and monitor such plan’s progress and results during the year;
(2) Confirm through private discussions with the Corporation’s independent auditors and the Corporation’s management that no
management restrictions are being placed on the scope of the independent auditors’ work;
(3) Review the results of the year-end audit of the Corporation, including (as applicable):
(i) the audit reports on the Corporation’s financial statements and management’s assessment of internal control over
financial reporting, the published financial statements, the management representation letter, the “Memorandum
Regarding Accounting Procedures and Internal Control” or similar memorandum prepared by the Corporation’s
inde
p
endent auditors, an
y
other
p
ertinent re
p
orts and mana
g
ement’s res
p
onses concernin
g
such memorandum;
(ii) the qualitative judgments of the independent auditors about the appropriateness, not just the acceptability, of
accounting principles and financial disclosure practices used or proposed to be adopted by the Corporation and,
particularly, about the degree of aggressiveness or conservatism of its accounting principles and underlying
estimates;
(iii) the selection and a
pp
lication of the Cor
p
oration’s critical accountin
g
p
olicies;
(iv) the methods used to account for si
g
nificant unusual transactions;
(v) the effect of significant accounting policies in controversial or emerging areas for which there is a lack of
authoritative
g
uidance or consensus;
(vi) mana
g
ement’s
p
rocess for formulatin
g
sensitive accountin
g
estimates and the reasonableness of these estimates;
(vii) si
g
nificant recorded and unrecorded audit ad
j
ustments;
(viii) any material accounting issues among management, the RPA Group (as defined below) and the independent
auditors; and
(ix) other matters required to be communicated to the Committee under applicable auditing standards by the independent
auditors;