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CORTI TITLE SECRETARY EX-99 2 Report of Independent Accountants January 28, 2000 To the Board of Directors of The Investment Company of America In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of The Investment Company of America (the "Fund") for the year ended December 31, 1999, we considered its internal control, including control activities for safeguarding securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on internal control. The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls. Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to the entity's objective of preparing financial statements for external purposes that are fairly presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition. Because of inherent limitations in internal control, errors or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of internal control to future periods is subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate. Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily disclose all matters in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation of one or more of the internal control components does not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters involving internal control and its operation, including controls for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of December 31, 1999. This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Board of Directors, management and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties. PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP Los Angeles, California EX-27 3 WARNING: THE EDGAR SYSTEM ENCOUNTERED ERROR(S) WHILE PROCESSING THIS SCHEDULE.
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EX-99 4 For period ending 12/31/99 File number 811 - 116 77(C). Matters submitted to a vote of security holders. a) Meeting of shareholders - October 19, 1999 (1) Directors elected: Charles H. Black, Ann S. Bowers, Louise H. Bryson, Malcolm R. Currie, Jon B. Lovelace, Jr., John G. McDonald, Bailey Morris-Eck, Richard G. Newman, William C. Newton, James W. Ratzlaff, Olin C. Robison, R. Michael Shanahan, William J. Spencer. (2) Ratification or rejection of the selection by the Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent accountant Votes: Affirmative Against Abstain 990,514,162 5,750,141 24,127,642 b) Meeting of shareholders - November 16, 1999 adjourned session (1) Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation (i) increasing the authorized shares of capital stock, (ii) establishing a new class of common stock and (iii) authorizing the Board to create additional series of shares within the new class of common stock. Votes: Affirmative Against Abstain 827,588,205 38,273,476 47,835,925 (Broker Non-Votes = 271,714,776) (2) Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation reducing the par value per share of capital stock Votes: Affirmative Against Abstain 800,229,624 54,877,058 58,590,924 (Broker Non-Votes = 271,714,776) -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----