EX-99.77B ACCT LTTR 2 audit.txt ACCOUNTANT LETTER Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Board of Trustees and Shareholders AARP Funds In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements of AARP Conservative Fund AARP Moderate Fund AARP Aggressive Fund AARP Income Fund and AARP Money Market Fund each a series of AARP Funds as of and for the year ended June 30 2008 in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States we considered its internal control over financial reporting including control over safeguarding securities as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form NSAR but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of AARP Funds internal control over financial reporting Accordingly we express no such opinion The management of AARP Funds is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting In fulfilling this responsibility estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls A companys internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles A companys internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that 1 pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company 2 provide reasonable assurance that the transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorization of management and directors of the company and 3 provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition use or disposition of the companys assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements Because of its inherent limitations internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements Also projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis A material weakness is a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the AARP Funds annual or interim financial statements will not be p revented or detected on a timely basis Our consideration of AARP Funds internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States However we noted no deficiencies in AARP Funds internal control over financial reporting and its operation including controls over safeguarding securities that we consider to be a material weakness as defined above as of June 30 2008 This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the Board of Trustees of AARP Funds and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties KPMG LLP Boston Massachusetts August 20 2008