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Dana Corporation
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Internal Controls -- Our Acting President and Chief Operating Officer and CFO are responsible for the accuracy of the financial information that is presented in this report. To meet their responsibility for financial reporting, they have established internal control procedures which they believe are adequate to provide reasonable assurance that Dana's financial statements are reliable and prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and that the company's assets are protected from loss. These procedures are reviewed by Dana's internal auditors in order to monitor compliance and by the independent auditors as necessary to support their audit work. In addition, our Audit Committee, which is composed entirely of independent directors, meets regularly with management, our internal auditors and the independent auditors to review accounting, auditing and financial matters. The Audit Committee and the independent auditors have free access to each other, with or without management being present.
In the fourth quarter of 2003, we continued our review of our internal control documentation in preparation for the management report on internal control over financial reporting and the accompanying independent auditors' attestation report that will be a part of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
There were no changes in Dana's internal controls over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation by the Acting President and Chief Operating Officer and CFO that occurred during the fourth quarter of 2003 that materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect Dana's internal controls over financial reporting.
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