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Report of Independent Public Accountants
To the Board of Trustees
of the Boston Balanced Fund of the
Coventry Group:
In planning and performing our
audit of the financial statements of
the Boston Balanced Fund of the Coventry
Group for the year ended June 30, 1999,
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 internal control.
The management of the Coventry Group 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
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 note on matters involving internal
control and its operation, including controls
for safeguarding securities that we consider
to be material weaknesses as defined above as
of June 30, 1999.
This report is intended solely for the information
and use of management, the Board of Trustees,
and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Arthur Andersen LLP
July 30, 1999
