BRIGGS
BUNTING &
DOUGHERTY, LLP
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Certified Public Accountants and Business Advisors
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
ON INTERNAL CONTROL
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CAPSTONE SOCIAL ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS VALUES FUND
HOUSTON, TEXAS
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Capstone
Social Ethics and Religious Values Fund (comprising, respectively, the Money
Market Fund, the Short-Term Bond Fund, the Bond Fund, the Large Cap Equity Fund,
the Small Cap Equity Fund, and the International Fund) for the period from
commencement of operations to September 30, 2000, we considered its internal
control, including control activities for safeguarding securities, in order to
determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on
the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not
to provide assurance on internal control.
The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining
internal control. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by
management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of
controls. Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to the
entity's objective of preparing financial statements for external purposes that
are fairly presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles. Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in internal control, error or fraud may occur
and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of internal control to
future periods is subject to the risk that it may become inadequate because of
changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and operation may
deteriorate.
Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily disclose all matters
in the internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards
established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A
material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation of one or more
of the internal control components does not reduce to a relatively low level the
risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that would be
material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and not
be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of
performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters involving
internal control, including controls for safeguarding securities, that we
consider to be material weaknesses, as defined above, as of September 30, 2000.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the
Board of Trustees of Capstone Social Ethics and Religious Values Fund, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
/s/ Briggs, Bunting & Dougherty, LLP
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
OCTOBER 27, 2000
