0000932471-12-005725.txt : 20121219
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20121219160541
ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000932471-12-005725
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: NSAR-B
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20121031
FILED AS OF DATE: 20121219
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20121219
EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20121219
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: VANGUARD EXPLORER FUND
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000034066
IRS NUMBER: 510106626
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1031
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: NSAR-B
SEC ACT: 1940 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-01530
FILM NUMBER: 121274441
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: PO BOX 2600
STREET 2: V26
CITY: VALLEY FORGE
STATE: PA
ZIP: 19482
BUSINESS PHONE: 6106691000
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: P.O. BOX 2600
STREET 2: V26
CITY: VALLEY FORGE
STATE: PA
ZIP: 19482
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VANGUARD EXPLORER FUND INC
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EXPLORER FUND INC
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19900305
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SIGNATURE LIZ HAEGELE
TITLE MANAGER
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b77-103112-.txt
PWC LETTER
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm
To the Board of Trustees and the Shareholders of Vanguard
Explorer Fund
In planning and performing our audits of the financial
statements of Vanguard Explorer Fund (constituting Vanguard
Explorer Fund, hereafter referred to as the ?Trust?) as of and for
the year ended October 31, 2012, in accordance with the
standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), we considered the Trust's internal control over
financial reporting, including controls 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 N-
SAR, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
effectiveness of the Trust's internal control over financial
reporting. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the
effectiveness of the Trust's internal control over financial
reporting.
The management of the Trust 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 company?s 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 company's 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 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 authorizations of management and
trustees of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance
regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use or disposition of a company?s 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 a
combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial
reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a
material misstatement of the Trust's annual or interim financial
statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Our consideration of the Trust's 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 over financial reporting that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).
However, we noted no deficiencies in the Trust's internal
control over financial reporting and its operation, including
controls over safeguarding securities that we consider to be
material weaknesses as defined above as of October 31, 2012.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Board of Trustees of Vanguard Explorer
Fund and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not
intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than
these specified parties.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 11, 2012
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