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The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Pool Corporation
We have audited the accompanying consolidated
balance sheets of Pool Corporation (formerly SCP Pool Corporation)
as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related consolidated statements
of income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the
three years in the period ended December 31, 2006. 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 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 financial statements
referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
consolidated financial position of Pool Corporation at December
31, 2006 and 2005, and the consolidated results of its operations
and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
December 31, 2006, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles.
As discussed in Note 7 to the consolidated
financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting
for stock-based compensation.
We also have audited, in accordance with the
standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States), the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on criteria established
in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee
of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report
dated February 28, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
New Orleans, Louisiana
February 28, 2007
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