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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Morgan Stanley:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of financial condition of Morgan Stanley and
subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the consolidated statements of income,
comprehensive income, cash flows, and changes in total equity for the calendar year ended December 31, 2009,
the one month ended December 31, 2008 and the fiscal years ended November 30, 2008 and 2007. 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, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Morgan Stanley and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for the calendar year ended December 31, 2009, the one month ended
December 31, 2008 and the fiscal years ended November 30, 2008 and 2007, in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its fiscal year end from
November 30 to December 31.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2009, the Company adopted
Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) accounting guidance that addresses noncontrolling interests in
consolidated financial statements.
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2009, the Company adopted
FASB accounting guidance that addresses the computation of Earnings Per Share under the two-class method for
share-based payment transactions that are participating securities.
As discussed in Note 2 and Note 20 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company adopted FASB
accounting guidance that addresses accounting for uncertainties in income taxes.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the Company’s 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 and our report dated February 26, 2010, expresses an unqualified
opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
New York, New York
February 26, 2010
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