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# GET /v1/companies/audit-fees

> Return principal-accountant fee rows extracted from the latest DEF 14A or 10-K for an issuer

Return principal-accountant fee rows extracted from the latest DEF 14A or 10-K for an issuer

<Info>
  Audience: application and coding agent.
</Info>

## Canonical metadata

* `requestId`
* `traceparent`

## Example request

<RequestExample>
  ```bash theme={null}
  curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY" \
    -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
    "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/companies/audit-fees?ticker=AAPL"
  ```
</RequestExample>

## Example response

<ResponseExample>
  ```json theme={null}
  {
    "object": "list",
    "data": [
      {
        "object": "audit_fee_entry",
        "category": "Audit Fees",
        "amount": 25000000,
        "rawText": "Audit Fees: $25,000,000"
      }
    ],
    "accessionNumber": "0000320193-25-000079",
    "filingDate": "2025-10-31",
    "sourceForm": "DEF 14A",
    "lineage": {
      "sources": [
        "sec_edgar"
      ],
      "canonical": true,
      "surface": "companies"
    },
    "requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3",
    "traceparent": "00-0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef-0123456789abcdef-01"
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

## Give this prompt to your agent

<Prompt>
  Use SEC API GET /v1/companies/audit-fees to return principal-accountant fee rows extracted from the latest DEF 14A or 10-K for an issuer. Preserve `requestId`, `traceparent` in the output. Return a concise markdown summary plus the exact structured payload fields that a downstream engineer or agent should keep using this result.
</Prompt>

## Failure posture

* treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
* preserve `requestId` and `traceparent` in logs and downstream reports
* if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff