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Independent Auditors' Report on Internal Accounting
Control
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
IDS International Fund, Inc.:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of IDS International Fund, Inc. for the year
ended October 31, 1997, 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 the internal control.
The management of IDS International Fund, Inc. is
responsible for establishing and maintaining of 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,
errors or irregularities 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 the 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 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 and its operation, including controls for
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be a material
weakness as defined above.
This report is intended solely for the information and
use of management, the Board of Directors of IDS
International Fund, Inc., and the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Minneapolis, Minnesota
December 5, 1997
