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46 The Procter & Gamble Company
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
The Procter & Gamble Company
We have audited the internal control over financial reporting
of The Procter & Gamble Company and subsidiaries (the
"Company") as of June 30, 2014, based on criteria
established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework
(1992) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
of the Treadway Commission. The Company's management
is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over
financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness
of internal control over financial reporting, included in
Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial
Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Company's internal control over financial reporting based on
our audit.
We conducted our audit 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
effective internal control over financial reporting was
maintained in all material respects. Our audit included
obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial
reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists,
testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness
of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing
such other procedures as we considered necessary in the
circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
A company's internal control over financial reporting is a
process designed by, or under the supervision of, the
company's principal executive and principal financial
officers, or persons performing similar functions, and
effected by the company's board of directors, management,
and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A
company's internal control over financial reporting includes
those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the
maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately
and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the
assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation
of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of
the company are being made only in accordance with
authorizations of management and directors of the company;
and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or
timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or
disposition of the company's assets that could have a material
effect on the financial statements.
Because of the inherent limitations of internal control over
financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or
improper management override of controls, material
misstatements due to error or fraud may not be prevented or
detected on a timely basis. Also, projections of any
evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control over
financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk
that the controls may become inadequate because of changes
in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the
policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material
respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as
of June 30, 2014, based on the criteria established in Internal
Control - Integrated Framework (1992) issued by the
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States), the Consolidated Financial Statements of the
Company as of and for the year ended June 30, 2014 and our
report dated August 8, 2014 expressed an unqualified opinion
on those financial statements.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Cincinnati, Ohio
August 8, 2014