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SIGNATURE LAURIE DOANE
TITLE TREASURER
SUB-ITEM 77B - ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
One Arizona Center
400 E. Van Buren Street
Suite 1100
Phoenix, AZ 85004
The Board of Directors
The Z-Seven Fund:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of the Z-Seven
Fund, (the "Fund") as of December 31, 1997 and for the year then ended, we
considered the Fund's internal control structure, including procedures 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 the internal
control structure.
The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining
an internal control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and
related costs of internal control structure policies and procedures. Two of the
objectives of an internal control structure are to provide management with
reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss
from unauthorized use or disposition and that transactions are executed in
accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors or
irregularities may occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any
evaluation of the structure to future periods is subject to the risks that it
may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the
effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control structure would not necessarily
disclose all matters in the internal control structure 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 the specific internal control structure elements does not reduce
to a relatively low level the risk that errors or irregularities 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 internal control structure, including procedures for safeguarding
securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of
December 31, 1997.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
January 30, 1998
