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KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
4200 Norwest Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Independent Auditors' Report on Internal Accounting Control
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
IDS Global Series, Inc.:
In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements
of IDS Global Bond Fund and IDS Global Growth Fund (funds
within IDS Global Series, Inc.) for the year ended October 31,
1996, we considered their 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 requirement so
of Form NSAR, not to provide assurance on the internal control
structure.
The management of IDS Global Series, Inc. is responsible for
establishing and maintaining a system of internal accounting control.
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 recoreded properly to permit the 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 futrue periods is subject to the risk that it
may become inadeequate 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 matter involving the internal control
structure, including procedures for safeguarding securites, that we consider
to be a material weakness as defined above as of October 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management
and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Minneapolis, Minnesota
December 6, 1996
