REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS ON MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

To the Partners,
The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P.:

We have examined Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, except as discussed in the third paragraph below ("MD&A"), taken as a whole, of The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P. and Subsidiaries (the "Firm") for the three-year period ended November 27, 1998, included on pages 37 to 62 of this prospectus. Management is responsible for the preparation of the Firm's MD&A pursuant to the rules and regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the presentation based on our examination. We have audited, in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, the consolidated financial statements of the Firm as of November 27, 1998 and November 28, 1997, and for each of the three years in the period ended November 27, 1998, and in our report dated January 22, 1999, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

Our examination of MD&A was made in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the historical amounts and disclosures in the presentation. An examination also includes assessing the significant determinations made by management as to the relevance of information to be included and the estimates and assumptions that affect reported information. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

The preparation of MD&A requires management to interpret the criteria, make determinations as to the relevance of information to be included, and make estimates and assumptions that affect reported information. MD&A includes information regarding the estimated future impact of transactions and events that have occurred or are expected to occur, expected sources of liquidity and capital resources, operating trends, commitments, and uncertainties, including those related to the Year 2000 readiness issue. Actual results in the future may differ materially from management's present assessment of this information because events and circumstances frequently do not occur as expected.

Our examination of MD&A of the Firm did not include (i) the information presented under the headings "VaR" or "VaR Methodology, Assumptions and Limitations" or (ii) information for the three months ended February 26, 1999 and February 27, 1998. Accordingly, we express no opinion on such information.

In our opinion, the Firm's presentation of MD&A for the three-year period ended November 27, 1998 includes, in all material respects, the required elements of the rules and regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission; the historical financial amounts included therein have been accurately derived, in all material respects, from the Firm's financial statements; and the underlying information, determinations, estimates, and assumptions of the Firm provide a reasonable basis for the disclosures contained therein.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

New York, New York
March 15, 1999.
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