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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
The Home Depot, Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets of The Home Depot, Inc. and
subsidiaries as of January 31, 2010 and February 1, 2009, and the related Consolidated Statements of Earnings,
Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income, and Cash Flows for each of the fiscal years in the three-year
period ended January 31, 2010. 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 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 The Home Depot, Inc. and subsidiaries as of January 31, 2010 and
February 1, 2009, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the fiscal years in the three-
year period ended January 31, 2010, 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 Home Depot, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2010,
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 March 25, 2010
expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Atlanta, Georgia
March 25, 2010
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