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33
To the Board of Directors of Office Depot, Inc.
We have audited the consolidated balance sheets of Office Depot, Inc. (the
“Company”) as of December 29, 2001 and December 30, 2000 and the related
consolidated statements of earnings, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for
each of the three years in the period ended December 29, 2001. These finan-
cial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based
on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally
accepted in the United States of America. 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, the consolidated financial statements referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Office Depot,
Inc. as of December 29, 2001 and December 30, 2000 and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
December 29, 2001 in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Certified Public Accountants
Miami, Florida
February 13, 2002
Independent Auditors’ Report