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To the Board of Trustees of
Pioneer Variable Contracts Trust:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Pioneer
Variable Contracts Trust (consisting of International Growth Portfolio, Capital
Growth Portfolio, Balanced Portfolio, Swiss Franc Bond Portfolio, Real Estate
Growth Portfolio, Equity Income Portfolio, Growth Shares Portfolio, Growth and
Income Portfolio, America Income Portfolio, and Money Market Portfolio) for the
period ended December 31, 1997, we considered its 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 Pioneer Variable Contracts Trust 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 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 may not be detected. Also, projection of any
evaluation of the structure 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 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.
/s/ Arthur Andersen LLP
ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
February 2, 1997
