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Sony Corporation Annual Report 2001
134
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of
Sony Corporation (Sony Kabushiki Kaisha)
In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of
income, cash flows and changes in stockholders’ equity present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Sony Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries at March 31, 2000 and 2001, and the results
of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2001, in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial
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 of these statements in
accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America which 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, assessing the accounting principles used and
significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for the opinion expressed above.
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, in the year ended March 31, 2001, the
Company changed its method of film accounting.
April 27, 2001, except as to
the last paragraph of Note 15,
which is as of May 15, 2001
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