INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The consolidated financial statements of The Home Depot, Inc. and subsidiaries as of January 28, 2024 and January 29, 2023, and for each of the fiscal years in the three-year period ended January 28, 2024, and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of January 28, 2024, have been incorporated by reference herein in reliance upon the reports of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, incorporated by reference herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.
With respect to the unaudited interim financial information for the three-month periods ended April 28, 2024 and April 30, 2023, and the three- and six-month periods ended July 28, 2024 and July 30, 2023, incorporated by reference herein, KPMG LLP has reported that they applied limited procedures in accordance with professional standards for a review of such information. However, their separate reports included in Home Depot’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for such periods, and incorporated by reference herein, state that they did not audit and they do not express an opinion on that interim financial information. Accordingly, the degree of reliance on their reports on such information should be restricted in light of the limited nature of the review procedures applied. The accountants are not subject to the liability provisions of Section 11 of the Securities Act for their reports on the unaudited interim financial information because those reports are not a “report” or a “part” of the registration statement prepared or certified by the accountants within the meaning of Sections 7 and 11 of the Securities Act.