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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit A: Attachment to item 77B:
Accountants report on internal control
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Exhibit A:
To the Board of Trustees of
Provident Institutional Funds
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements and financial highlights of TempFund and TempCash,
Portfolios of Provident Institutional Funds (the "Fund") for
the year ended September 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 an opinion on the financial
statements and financial highlights and to comply with the
requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on
internal control.
The management of the Fund 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 and financial highlights 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 and financial highlights 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 internal
control and its operation, including controls over safeguarding
securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as
defined above as of September 30, 1999.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management, the Board of Trustees, and the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
October 29, 1999
