Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
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Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
Auditor Fees and Services
The following table presents fees for professional services rendered by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the audit of the Company’s annual financial statements and internal control over financial reporting for fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021, together with fees for audit-related, tax and other services rendered by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP during fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021. Audit-related services consisted principally of audits and agreed upon procedures of other entities related to the Company, viewership rankings and other attest projects, and consultations on the impact of new accounting rules. Tax services consisted principally of planning and advisory services and tax compliance assistance. Other services consisted of other miscellaneous services, including accounting research software and other non-audit-related attestation services. The Audit Committee directs and reviews the negotiations associated with the Company’s retention of its independent registered public accountants.
| FISCAL 2022 | FISCAL 2021 | |||||||
| (IN MILLIONS) | ||||||||
| Audit fees | $30.1 | $28.6 | ||||||
| Audit-related fees | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||||||
| Tax fees | 2.5 | 2.9 | ||||||
| All other fees | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Policy for Approval of Audit and Permitted Non-Audit Services
All audit, audit-related, tax and other services were pre-approved by the Audit Committee, which concluded that the provision of such services by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was compatible with the maintenance of that firm’s independence in the conduct of its auditing functions. The Audit Committee’s Outside Auditor Independence and Pre-Approval Policy provides for pre-approval of specifically described audit, audit-related, tax and other services by the Committee on an annual basis, but individual engagements anticipated to exceed pre-established thresholds must be separately approved. The policy also requires specific approval by the Committee if total fees for audit-related, tax and other services would exceed total fees for audit services in any fiscal year. The policy authorizes the Committee to delegate to one or more of its members pre-approval authority with respect to permitted services, and the Committee has delegated to the Chair of the Committee the authority to pre-approve services in certain circumstances.
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