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32
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Dollar General Corporation
Goodlettsville, Tennessee
We have audited the accompanying consolidated
balance sheets of Dollar General Corporation and
subsidiaries as of February 3, 2006 and January 28, 2005,
and the related consolidated statements of income, share-
holders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years
in the period ended February 3, 2006. 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 assur-
ance about whether the financial statements are free of
material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclo-
sures 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, the financial statements referred to
above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidat-
ed financial position of Dollar General Corporation and
subsidiaries as of February 3, 2006 and January 28, 2005,
and the consolidated results of their operations and their
cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
February 3, 2006, in conformity with U.S. generally accept-
ed accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the stan-
dards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the effectiveness of Dollar General
Corporation and subsidiaries’ internal control over finan-
cial reporting as of February 3, 2006, based on criteria
established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework
issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of
the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 16,
2006 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Nashville, Tennessee
March 16, 2006