Electronic Arts 2010 Annual Report Download - page 187

Annual Report
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Electronic Arts Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Electronic Arts Inc. and subsidiaries
(the Company) as of April 3, 2010 and March 28, 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders’ equity and comprehensive loss, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended
April 3, 2010. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the
accompanying financial statement schedule. These consolidated financial statements and financial statement
schedule 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, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of Electronic Arts Inc. and subsidiaries as of April 3, 2010 and March 28, 2009, and the results
of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 3, 2010, in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, the related financial
statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole,
presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
As discussed in note 5 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting
for business combinations at the beginning of fiscal year 2010.
As discussed in note 10 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting
for uncertainty in income taxes at the beginning of fiscal year 2008.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), Electronic Arts Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 3, 2010, based on
criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework, issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated May 28, 2010 expressed an
unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Mountain View, California
May 28, 2010
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