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71
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The shareholders and board of directors of Aflac Incorporated:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Aflac Incorporated and subsidiaries (the Company) as of
December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related consolidated statements of earnings, shareholders’ equity, cash flows, and
comprehensive income for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006. These consolidated financial
statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the 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 financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing 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, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Aflac Incorporated and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the results of their operations and their
cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the
effectiveness of Aflac Incorporated’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on criteria
established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission (COSO), and our report dated February 27, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment
of, and the effective operation of, internal control over financial reporting.
As discussed in note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company adopted the provisions of Staff Accounting
Bulletin No. 108, Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements,
as of January 1, 2006. Additionally, as discussed in notes 1 and 12 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company
adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other
Postretirement Plans, an amendment of FASB Statements No. 87, 88, 106 and 132(R), as of December 31, 2006.
Atlanta, Georgia
February 27, 2007
Auditors’ Report