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SIGNATURE VINCENT P. CORTI
TITLE SECRETARY
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
AMCAP Fund, Inc.:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of AMCAP Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") for the year
ended February 29, 2000 (on which we have issued our report
dated March 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, and not to
provide assurance on the Fund's 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 any internal control,
misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be
detected. Also, projections of any evaluation of internal
control to future periods are subject to the risk that it
may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or
that the degree of compliance with policies or procedures
may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the Fund's internal control would not
necessarily disclose all matters in 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
mistatements 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
the Fund's internal control and its operation, including
controls for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be
material weaknesses as defined above as of February 29,
2000.
This report is intended solely for the information and use
of management, the Board of Directors of AMCAP Fund, Inc.
and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not
intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than
these specified parties.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
March 30, 2000
Los Angeles, California
WARNING: THE EDGAR SYSTEM ENCOUNTERED ERROR(S) WHILE PROCESSING THIS SCHEDULE.
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