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64
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Houston, Texas
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. and subsidiaries (the
"Company") as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related statements of consolidated income, comprehensive
income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009.
These 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 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 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 consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position
of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. and subsidiaries at December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their operations and
their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, based on the
criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 26, 2010 expressed an unqualified
opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Houston, Texas
February 26, 2010