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Your Success is Our Focus 319 McClanahan Street, S.W. • P.O. Box 12388 • Roanoke, VA 24025-2388 • 540-345-0936 • Fax: 540-342-6181 • www.BEcpas.com Report on the Firm’s System of Quality Control To the Partners of Marcum LLP and the National Peer Review Committee We have reviewed the system of quality control for the accounting and auditing practice of Marcum, LLP (the “firm”),applicable to engagements not subject to PCAOB permanent inspection, in effect for the year ended April 30, 2020.Our peer review was conducted in accordance with the Standards for Performing and Reporting on Peer Reviews established by the Peer Review Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Standards). A summary of the nature, objectives, scope, limitations of, and the procedures performed in a System Review as described in the Standards may be found at www.aicpa.org/prsummary. The summary also includes an explanation of how engagements identified as not performed or reported in conformity with applicable professional standards, if any, are evaluated by a peer reviewer to determine a peer review rating. Firm’s Responsibility The firm is responsible for designing a system of quality control and complying with it to provide the firm with reasonable assurance of performing and reporting in conformity with applicable professional standards in all material respects. The firm is also responsible for evaluating actions to promptly remediate engagements deemed as not performed or reported in conformity with professional standards, when appropriate, and for remediating weaknesses in its system of quality control, if any. Peer Reviewer's Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the design of the system of quality control and the firm’s compliance therewith based on our review. Required Selections and Considerations Engagements selected for review included engagements performed under Government Auditing Standards, including compliance audits under the Single Audit Act; audits of employee benefit plans, audits performed under FDICIA,audits of broker-dealers,and examinations of service organizations [SOC 1 and 2 engagements]. As part of our peer review, we considered reviews by regulatory entities as communicated by the firm, if applicable, in determining the nature and extent of our procedures.