EX-18.1 8 dex181.htm PREFERABILITY LETTER FROM PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP, DATED NOVEMBER 11, 2010 Preferability Letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, dated November 11, 2010

 

Exhibit 18.1

 

[PwC Letterhead]

 

November 11, 2010

 

Board of Directors

Viacom Inc.

1515 Broadway

New York, NY 10036

 

Dear Directors:

 

We are providing this letter to you for inclusion as an exhibit to your Form 10-K filing pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K.

We have audited the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Transition Report on Form 10-K for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and issued our report thereon dated November 11, 2010. Note 2 to the financial statements describes a change in accounting principle related to the change in the timing of the Company’s annual goodwill impairment test date from October 1 to August 31. It should be understood that the preferability of one acceptable method of accounting over another for a change in the annual goodwill impairment test date has not been addressed in any authoritative accounting literature, and in expressing our concurrence below we have relied on management’s determination that this change in accounting principle is preferable. Based on our reading of management’s stated reasons and justification for this change in accounting principle in the Form 10-K, and our discussions with management as to their judgment about the relevant business planning factors relating to the change, we concur with management that such change represents, in the Company’s circumstances, the adoption of a preferable accounting principle in conformity with Accounting Standards Codification 250, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections.

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP