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EX-31 - RULE 13A-14(A)/15D-14(A) CERTIFICATION - BECKMAN COULTER INCdex31.htm
EX-32 - SECTION 1350 CERTIFICATION - BECKMAN COULTER INCdex32.htm
10-Q - BECKMAN COULTER, INC. FORM 10-Q - BECKMAN COULTER INCd10q.htm
EX-15.2 - LETTER OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF USE OF REPORT - BECKMAN COULTER INCdex152.htm

Exhibit 15.1

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Beckman Coulter, Inc.:

We have reviewed the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet of Beckman Coulter, Inc. and subsidiaries as of September 30, 2009, and the related condensed consolidated statements of earnings for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, and cash flows for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2009 and 2008. These condensed consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.

We conducted our reviews in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the condensed consolidated financial statements referred to above for them to be in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We have previously audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheet of Beckman Coulter, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2008, and the related consolidated statements of earnings, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein) and in our report dated February 23, 2009, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. The audit report on the consolidated financial statements refers to changes in the Company’s method of accounting for defined benefit pension and other post retirement plans and quantifying errors in 2006 due to the adoption of new accounting pronouncements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2008, is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Irvine, California

November 5, 2009