REPORT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
ON INTERNAL CONTROL STRUCTURE
The Board of Trustees
Ameritor Security Trust
Washington, D.C.
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Ameritor
Security Trust, for the year ended June 30, 2000, we considered the 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 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 the following
matters involving the control procedures and their operation that we consider to
be material weaknesses, as defined above, as of June 30, 2000. These conditions
were considered in determining the nature, timing and extent of the procedures
to be performed in our audit of the financial statements of the Fund for the
year ended June 30, 2000, and this report does not effect our report dated
August 2, 2000.
Year-end security trades were not properly recorded, principally due to
execution by the broker, but also due to communication of such trades to fund
accounting. In addition, reconciliation of expense accruals were not performed
on a timely basis.
The Fund's management has taken action to correct all of the above weaknesses.
The accounting for the Fund has been outsourced to a third-party administrator.
The new accounting agent has instituted daily and monthly control procedures to
provide assurance that the security trades are properly and timely recorded and
expense accruals are reconciled timely.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and should not be used for any other
purpose.
TAIT, WELLER & BAKER
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2000
