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41
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Harman International Industries, Incorporated:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Harman International Industries,
Incorporated and subsidiaries (the Company) as of June 30, 2008 and 2007, and the related consolidated
statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the
years in the three-year period ended June 30, 2008. In connection with our audits of the consolidated
financial statements, we also have audited the related financial statement schedule for each of the years in
the three-year period ended June 30, 2008. These consolidated financial statements and financial
statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express
an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule 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, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material
respects, the financial position of Harman International Industries, Incorporated and subsidiaries as of
June 30, 2008 and 2007, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in
the three-year period ended June 30, 2008, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles. Also in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to
the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the
information set forth therein.
As discussed in Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company adopted FASB
Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes – an interpretation of FASB Statement
No. 109, effective July 1, 2007.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States), Harman International Industries, Incorporated’s internal control over financial
reporting as of June 30, 2008, 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 August 29, 2008 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
internal control over financial reporting.
(signed) KPMG LLP
McLean, Virginia
August 29, 2008