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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
on Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements
Management Letter of Responsibility
The Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements in this Summary Annual Report were derived from the Consolidated
Financial Statements that appear in the Financial Supplement to the 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to the 2005
Proxy Statement. Management of Whirlpool Corporation is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the information
in this Summary Annual Report. The financial and operating information was prepared from the Company's accounting
records, books and accounts which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect all material transactions. The Company
maintains a system of internal controls designed to provide reasonable assurance that the Company's accounting records,
books and accounts are accurate and that transactions are properly recorded in the Company's books and records, and the
Company's assets are maintained and accounted for, in accordance with management's authorizations. The Company's
accounting records, policies and internal controls are regularly reviewed by an internal audit staff.
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered
public accounting firm, to audit the Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Financial Supplement to the 2004
Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to the 2005 Proxy Statement. Their report on the Consolidated Financial Statements is
included in the Financial Supplement. Their report on the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements appears below.
Roy W. Templin
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
March 4, 2005
The Stockholders and Board of Directors
Whirlpool Corporation
Benton Harbor, Michigan
We have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) the
consolidated balance sheets of Whirlpool Corporation as of December 31, 2004 and 2003, and the related consolidated state-
ments of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2004
(not presented separately herein), and in our report dated March 4, 2005, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those con-
solidated financial statements that included an explanatory paragraph that discussed a change in accounting principles related
to goodwill and other intangible assets. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying consolidated con-
densed financial statements (presented on pages 25 through 28) is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the con-
solidated financial statements from which it has been derived.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States),
the effectiveness of Whirlpool Corporation's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004, based on cri-
teria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the
Treadway Commission and our report dated March 4, 2005 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Chicago, Illinois
March 4, 2005