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87
The Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Canon Inc.
We have audited Canon Inc. and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014, based on crite-
ria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). Canon Inc. and subsidiaries’ management is responsible for maintaining effec-
tive internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting
included in the accompanying 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 effec-
tiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the cir-
cumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliabil-
ity 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 assur-
ance 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 its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, pro-
jections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that 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, Canon Inc. and subsidiaries maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting
as of December 31, 2014, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the con-
solidated balance sheets of Canon Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, and the related consolidated statements
of income, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2014, and
our report dated March 27, 2015 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
March 27, 2015
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM