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SIGNATURE MICHAEL O'DONNELL
TITLE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
EX-99
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Exhibit A: Attachment to item 77B:
Accountants report on internal control
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Exhibit A:
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
ON INTERNAL CONTROL STRUCTURE
The Board of Trustees
Matthews Asian Funds
San Francisco, California
In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements
of Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund, Matthews Asian Growth and Income
Fund, Matthews Korea Fund, Matthews Dragon Century China Fund,
Matthews Asian Technology Fund and Matthews Japan Fund, each a
series of shares of common stock of Matthews Asian Funds, for the
year ended August 31, 2001, we considered their internal control
structure, including procedures 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
the internal control structure.
The management of the Funds is responsible for establishing and
maintaining an internal control structure. In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are
required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of
internal control structure policies and procedures. Two of the
objectives of an internal control structure are to provide
management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that
assets are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or
disposition, and that transactions are executed in accordance
with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit
preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control
structure, errors or irregularities may occur and not be
detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of the structure
to future periods is subject to the risk that it may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the
effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control structure would not
necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control
structure 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 the specific internal control structure
elements does not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that
errors or irregularities 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 the internal control structure,
including procedures for safeguarding securities, that we
consider to be material weaknesses, as defined above, as of
August 31, 2001.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and should
not be used for any other purpose.
TAIT, WELLER & BAKER
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 5, 2001