Common use of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Clause in Contracts

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who which certified the financial highlights, the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1940 Act and the Rules and 1940 Act Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The As of the date of the report of the independent registered public accounting firm contained in the Registration Statement, the independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who which certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements and any supporting schedules thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus Statement and the Prospectus Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as extent required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and 1933 Act Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm To the best of the Company’s knowledge, the accountants who have certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited certain financial statements included or incorporated by reference appearing in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus is are an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to within the Fund as required by meaning of the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who has audited and certified or shall audit and certify the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited December 31, 2003 financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus Statement and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to either of them) is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who that certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements and supporting schedules, if any, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who that certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and 1933 Act Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The As of the date of the report of the independent registered public accounting firm contained in the Registration Statement, the independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and Statement has represented to the Prospectus Fund that it is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent --------------------------------------------- registered public accounting firm who that certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who that certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements and supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and Prospectus are independent public accountants within the Prospectus is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by meaning of the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and 1933 Act Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm To the Company’s knowledge, the accountants who have certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited certain financial statements included or incorporated by reference appearing in the Prospectus whose report is filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus is Statement are an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to within the Fund as required by meaning of the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and RegulationsRegulations and have been registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The As of the date of the report of the independent registered public accounting firm who contained in the Registration Statement, the independent registered public accounting firm that certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who that certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus Statement is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and RegulationsRegulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who has audited and certified or shall audit and certify the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus Statement and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement to either of them) is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The accounting firm(s) that certified the financial statements and supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus is or are, as applicable, independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report firms with respect to the audited Company or the Company and the party whose financial statements included or incorporated by reference in and supporting schedules they certified, as applicable, within the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and meaning of the Prospectus is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund as required by the 1933 Securities Act, the 1940 Exchange Act and the Rules rules and Regulationsregulations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus is an Statement are independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund accountants as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus is an Statement are independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Fund accountants as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The independent registered public accounting firm who certified the statement of assets and liabilities and related statement of operations and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect Statement have represented to the Fund that they are independent public accountants as required by the 1933 Act, the 1940 Act and the Rules and Regulations.