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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of AbbVie Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying combined balance sheets of AbbVie Inc. and subsidiaries (the
‘‘Company’’) as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the related combined statements of earnings,
comprehensive income, statement of parent company equity and cash flows for each of the three years
in the period ended December 31, 2012. These combined financial statements are the responsibility of
the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements
based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the combined financial statements are free of material
misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its
internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over
financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances,
but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control
over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on
a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the
overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
In our opinion, such combined financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the results of its operations
and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2012 in conformity
with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
As described in Note 1, the accompanying combined financial statements have been derived from
the consolidated financial statements and accounting records of Abbott Laboratories. The combined
financial statements also include expense allocations for certain corporate functions historically
provided by Abbott Laboratories. These allocations may not be reflective of the actual expense which
would have been incurred had the Company operated as a separate legal entity apart from Abbott
Laboratories.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chicago, Illinois
March 15, 2013
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