Management Letter

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January 20, 2011

To the Board of Directors, Members of the Budget and Finance Committee and the Management Company of the Condominium Association, Inc:

In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements ofCondominium Association, Inc. as of and for the year ended December 31, 2010, in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, we considered Condominium Association, Inc’s internal control over financial reporting (internal control) as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Association’s internal control. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the Association’s internal control.

Our consideration of internal control was for the limited purpose described in the preceding paragraph and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies in internal control that might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. However, as discussed below, we identified certain deficiencies in internal control that we considered to be significant deficiencies.

A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatement on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies, that adversely affects the entity’s ability to initiate, authorize, record, process, or report financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the Association’s financial statements that is more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected by the Association’s internal control. We consider the following deficiencies to be significant deficiencies in...