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Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
PRINCIPAL INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FEES AND SERVICES
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
The following table shows the fees (in thousands) billed to us by Deloitte & Touche LLP for each of the years
ended December 31, 2015 and 2014.
2015 2014
Audit fees(a)........................................................................................................ $ 6,900 $ 6,900
Audit-related fees(b) ........................................................................................... 845 950
Total audit and audit-related fees........................................................ 7,745 7,850
Tax fees(c)........................................................................................................... 928 1,669
All other fees ..................................................................................................... — —
Total fees(d) .......................................................................................... $ 8,673 $ 9,519
(a) Includes fees for the annual audit of the consolidated financial statements, quarterly reviews and stand-alone audits of regulated
subsidiaries, and audit of internal controls over financial reporting.
(b) Includes fees for audits of employee benefit plans, consultations on accounting standards or transactions and audits and actuarial
certifications.
(c) Includes fees for income tax compliance services and other tax services.
(d) All such fees were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.
Approval of Non-Audit Services
The Audit Committee approved the following non-audit services that were performed by Deloitte & Touche LLP,
our independent registered public accountant during 2015: (1) audit related services such as (i) employee benefit plan
audits, (ii) actuarial certification services, (iii) due diligence related services and (iv) accounting and financial reporting
standards consultation; and (2) certain other miscellaneous non-audit services permitted under Section 10A of the
Exchange Act, including without limitation, tax compliance and other tax services.
From and after the effective date of the SEC rule requiring Audit Committee pre-approval of all audit and
permissible non-audit services provided by independent registered public accountants, the Audit Committee has
approved all audit and permissible non-audit services prior to such services being provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP.
In the event that an unanticipated need for audit and/or non-audit services arises between regularly scheduled Audit
Committee meetings, the Audit Committee has delegated pre-approval authority to its Chairperson. The Chairperson
shall report any such pre-approval requests and related decisions to the Audit Committee at its next regularly scheduled
meeting.