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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Comcast Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Comcast Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”)
as of
December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, cash flows, changes in equity and
comprehensive income for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2009. We also have audited the Company’
s
internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, based on criteria established in Internal Control —
Integrated
Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. The Company’
s management is
responsible for these financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment
of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’
s Report on Internal
Control Over Financial Reporting
. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and an opinion on the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all
material respects. Our audits of the financial statements included 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,
and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining
an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and
evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included
performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a
reasonable basis for our opinions.
A company
’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the company’
s principal
executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, and effected by the company’
s board of directors,
management, and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’
s
internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in
reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide
reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance
with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or
timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’
s assets that could have a material effect on the
financial statements.
Because of the inherent limitations of internal control over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper
management override of controls, material misstatements due to error or fraud may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Also, projections of any evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to
the risk that the controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the
policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
Comcast Corporation and subsidiaries as of 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. Also, in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective 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.
As discussed in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2009, the Company retrospectively changed
its method of accounting for noncontrolling interests. As discussed in Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements, on
January 1, 2008, the Company changed its method of accounting for split-dollar life insurance agreements.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 23, 2010
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Comcast 2009 Annual Report on Form 10-
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