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Flash to Actual Audit Report September 25, 2001 Confidential Enron Americas (EA) Enron Assurance Services Enron Industrial Markets (EIM) Enron Global Markets (EGM)

2 Enron Assurance Services Project Objective (EA, EGM, & EIM): Our review was designed to identify and test key policies, procedures, and controls related to: the tie-out between the Management Summary and Hyperion the reconciliations between the Daily Position Report (DPR) and General Ledger (G/L) by product the causes for and frequency of reconciling items and the magnitude of these variances the reasonableness of frequent and infrequent reconciling items Project Objective (EA, EGM, & EIM): Our review was designed to identify and test key policies, procedures, and controls related to: the tie-out between the Management Summary and Hyperion the reconciliations between the Daily Position Report (DPR) and General Ledger (G/L) by product the causes for and frequency of reconciling items and the magnitude of these variances the reasonableness of frequent and infrequent reconciling items Flash to Actual Audit Enron Team Members:AA Team Members: Tom Bauer John Boudreaux Kate Agnew Mark Meador Allen Capps Robin Dupuis Georganne Hodges Elaine Schield Greg Whiting Cassie Mayeux Tracy Irvin Sarah Brown EAEGM Tom Myers Angeles Beltri Jeff Smith Mark Medwedeff EIM Allen Ueckert Darin Talley Kristen Hanson Mike Moscoso Shelly Wood Donnie Myers

3 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Sample Summary Testing Procedures AALLP reviewed the entire population of DPR to G/L reconciliations from 1/1/01 to 6/30/01 by business unit and selected a sample as detailed below: * Judgmentally selected based on risk and volume ^ Represents all reconciliations (Paper, Lumber, & Steel) From these samples, we judgmentally selected various frequent and infrequent reconciling items and requested and reviewed the associated support. We also met with client personnel and discussed the items selected, in order to gain a better understanding of the cause behind the specific items and the procedures conducted to clear those items. Testing Procedures AALLP reviewed the entire population of DPR to G/L reconciliations from 1/1/01 to 6/30/01 by business unit and selected a sample as detailed below: * Judgmentally selected based on risk and volume ^ Represents all reconciliations (Paper, Lumber, & Steel) From these samples, we judgmentally selected various frequent and infrequent reconciling items and requested and reviewed the associated support. We also met with client personnel and discussed the items selected, in order to gain a better understanding of the cause behind the specific items and the procedures conducted to clear those items.

4 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Sample Summary Testing Procedures AALLP reviewed the entire population of DPR to G/L reconciliations from 1/1/01 to 6/30/01 by business unit and selected a sample as detailed below: Testing Procedures AALLP reviewed the entire population of DPR to G/L reconciliations from 1/1/01 to 6/30/01 by business unit and selected a sample as detailed below:

5 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Sample Summary Frequent Reconciling Items: Incorrect general journal (FI) entries Duplicated entries - booked twice Entries booked in reverse - debits that should have been credits G/L entries that did not get booked in the proper month are being booked in subsequent months Entries booked to the the wrong Profit Center or book Inter-month timing differences between what has liquidated in one month and settled in a subsequent month. Outstanding 2000 items due to lack of time and resources in financial settlements as well as due to the complexities of the conversion from MSA to SAP 95 day true-up for weather products causing the need for a G/L adjustment Items that were booked as settled but not recognized as liquidated on the DPR because not properly captured in the liquidation system Gas Daily rates are incorrect when the last day of the month falls on a weekend Occasional differences between systems (for example, differences TAGG & ERMS) are allowed to flow through as reconciling items to be cleared once the Settlements group books the correct amount Frequent Reconciling Items: Incorrect general journal (FI) entries Duplicated entries - booked twice Entries booked in reverse - debits that should have been credits G/L entries that did not get booked in the proper month are being booked in subsequent months Entries booked to the the wrong Profit Center or book Inter-month timing differences between what has liquidated in one month and settled in a subsequent month. Outstanding 2000 items due to lack of time and resources in financial settlements as well as due to the complexities of the conversion from MSA to SAP 95 day true-up for weather products causing the need for a G/L adjustment Items that were booked as settled but not recognized as liquidated on the DPR because not properly captured in the liquidation system Gas Daily rates are incorrect when the last day of the month falls on a weekend Occasional differences between systems (for example, differences TAGG & ERMS) are allowed to flow through as reconciling items to be cleared once the Settlements group books the correct amount

6 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Sample Summary Infrequent Reconciling Items: Category on reconciliations called NYMEX Income where amounts booked to the G/L are incorrect due to accounting errors Broker fees not completely captured or not captured at all in the DPR Entries that should have auto-reversed in prior months that did not auto-reverse Changes in P&L due to the incorrect capture of closing prices Deals entered incorrectly into the system (for example TAGG) as financial instead of physical Transportation Spreads not discovered as a reconciling item during the financial close process are discovered during the DPR to G/L reconciliation process and cause a need to adjust the G/L Infrequent Reconciling Items: Category on reconciliations called NYMEX Income where amounts booked to the G/L are incorrect due to accounting errors Broker fees not completely captured or not captured at all in the DPR Entries that should have auto-reversed in prior months that did not auto-reverse Changes in P&L due to the incorrect capture of closing prices Deals entered incorrectly into the system (for example TAGG) as financial instead of physical Transportation Spreads not discovered as a reconciling item during the financial close process are discovered during the DPR to G/L reconciliation process and cause a need to adjust the G/L

7 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Outstanding Reconciling Statistics Enron Americas As of June 30, 2001 The following books were selected for further disclosure from our sample based upon risk and volume. Enron Americas As of June 30, 2001 The following books were selected for further disclosure from our sample based upon risk and volume.

8 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Outstanding Reconciling Statistics Enron Global Markets As of June 30, 2001 The following profit centers were selected for further disclosure from our sample based upon risk and volume. Enron Global Markets As of June 30, 2001 The following profit centers were selected for further disclosure from our sample based upon risk and volume.

9 Enron Assurance Services DPR to G/L Reconciliations Flash to Actual Outstanding Reconciling Statistics Enron Industrial Markets As of July 31, 2001 Enron Industrial Markets As of July 31, 2001

10 Enron Assurance Services Flash to Actual High Priority Items

11 Enron Assurance Services Flash to Actual Audit Observations High Priority

12 Enron Assurance Services Flash to Actual Audit Observations High Priority

13 Enron Assurance Services Flash to Actual Audit Low Priority Items

14 Enron Assurance Services Flash to Actual Audit Observations Low Priority