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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of December 31, 2014, Mattel’s disclosure controls and procedures were evaluated, with the
participation of Mattel’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, to assess whether they are
effective in providing reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by Mattel in the reports that
it files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is accumulated and communicated to management,
including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions
regarding required disclosure and to provide reasonable assurance that such information is recorded, processed,
summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and
forms. The scope of Mattel’s assessment of the effectiveness of its disclosure controls and procedures does not
include any disclosure controls and procedures of MEGA Brands, which was acquired on April 30, 2014, that are
also part of MEGA Brands’ internal controls over financial reporting. This exclusion is in accordance with the
SEC’s general guidance that a recently acquired business may be omitted from the scope of the assessment in the
year of acquisition. Based on this evaluation, Christopher A. Sinclair, Mattel’s principal executive officer, and
Kevin M. Farr, Mattel’s principal financial officer, concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures were
effective as of December 31, 2014.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The report called for by Item 308(a) of Regulation S-K is incorporated by reference to Management’s
Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, included in Item 8 “Financial Statements and
Supplementary Data” of this report.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The report called for by Item 308(b) of Regulation S-K is incorporated by reference to Report of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, included in Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary
Data” of this report.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered
by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over
financial reporting. We completed the acquisition of MEGA Brands in 2014, which has not yet been fully
integrated into our internal control framework.
Item 9B. Other Information.
None.
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