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42 Financial Statements
Index to Financial Statements
Koppers Company, Inc.
Covered by Report ol Certified Public Accountants
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Report of Certified Public Accountants
Arthur Young & Company Certified Public Accountants
Report ol Certified Public Accountants Consolidated statement of income for the years ended
December 31. 1978 and 1977 Consolidated balance sheet at Decemoer 31. 1978 and 1977 For the years ended December 31. 1978 and 1977:
Consolidated statement of changes m financial position Consolidated statement of shareholders' equity Statement of accounting policies Notes to financial statements Schedules for the years ended December 31. 1978 and 1977: Schedule V--Property, plant and equipment Schedule VI--Accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization Schedule XI--Guarantees of securities of other issuers Schedule Xll--Reserves Schedule XVI--Supplementary income statement information Other supplementary information
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Financial statements of Koppers Com pany. inc. (not consolidated) are omitted since (1) consolidated financial statements are filed, and (2) the Company is primarily an operating company, and all subsidiaries included in the consolidated financial state ments being filed, in the aggregate, do not have minority equity interests and/or in debtedness to any person other than the registrant or its consolidated subsidiaries in amounts that together exceed 5% of the to tal assets as shown by the most recent yearend consolidated balance sheet.
Schedules l. II. Ill, IV, VII, VIII. X. XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII and XIX are not given, as the subject matter thereof either is not present or is not present in amounts sufficient to require submission of the schedules in accordance with the instructions contained in Regulation S-X. The information required by Schedule IX is shown on the balance sheet and in Note 6 to the financial statements. The infor mation required by Schedule XIII is shown on the balance sheet.
The Board of Directors and Shareholders Koppers Company. Inc.:
We have examined the consolidated financial statements of Koppers Company. Inc. and subsidiaries listed in the accompa nying Index to Financial Statements. Our examinations were made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and. accordingly, included such tests of the ac counting records and such other auditing procedures as we considered necessary m the circumstances.
In our opinion, the financial statements listed in the accompanying Index to Financial Statements present fairly the consolidated fi nancial position of Koppers Company, me. and subsidiaries at December 31. 1978 and 1977 and the consolidated results of its op erations and changes in its financial position for the years then ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles ap plied on a consistent basis during the period after restatement of the consolidated finan cial statements for 1977 to give retroactive effect to the change, with which we concur, in the method of accounting for leases as described in Note 5 to the financial state ments.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania January 22. 1979
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