Preferability Letter from Deloitte & Touche LLP to Endo Health Solutions Inc. Regarding Goodwill Impairment Testing Date Change
Summary
Deloitte & Touche LLP sent this letter to Endo Health Solutions Inc. confirming that the company's change in the annual goodwill impairment testing date, as described in its SEC filing, is to a preferable accounting principle under the circumstances. Deloitte clarifies that it has not audited the company's financial statements after December 31, 2011, and does not express an opinion on the company's financial position or results after that date.
EX-10.143 2 draftex10143-preferability.htm PREFERABILITY LETTER Ex 10.143 - Preferability Letter
Exhibit 10.143
November 5, 2012
Endo Health Solutions Inc.
100 Endo Boulevard
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Dear Sirs/Madams:
At your request, we have read the description included in your Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, of the facts relating to the change in the annual goodwill impairment testing date under ASC 350 - Intangibles, Goodwill and Other, from January 1 to October 1. We believe, on the basis of the facts so set forth and other information furnished to us by appropriate officials of Endo Health Solutions Inc. (the “Company”), that the accounting change described in your Form 10-Q is to an alternative accounting principle that is preferable under the circumstances.
We have not audited any consolidated financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of any date or for any period subsequent to December 31, 2011. Therefore, we are unable to express, and we do not express, an opinion on the facts set forth in the above-mentioned Form 10-Q, on the related information furnished to us by officials of the Company, or on the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows of Endo Health Solutions Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries as of any date or for any period subsequent to December 31, 2011.
Yours truly,
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania