PWC LETTER
Published on February 22, 2007
Exhibit
18.2
Board
of
Directors
Ball
Corporation
10
Longs
Peak Drive
Broomfield,
Colorado 80021
Dear
Directors:
We
are
providing this letter to you for inclusion as an exhibit to your Form 10-K
filing pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K.
We
have
audited the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and issued our
report thereon dated February 22, 2007. Note 1 to
the
financial statements describes a change in accounting principle from the
last-in-first-out (LIFO) cost method of inventory accounting to the
first-in-first-out (FIFO) cost method of inventory accounting. It should be
understood that the preferability of one acceptable method of accounting over
another for inventory accounting has
not
been addressed in any authoritative accounting literature, and in expressing
our
concurrence below we have relied on management’s determination that this change
in accounting principle is preferable. Based on our reading of management’s
stated reasons and justification for this change in accounting principle in
the
Form 10-K, and our discussions with management as to their judgment about the
relevant business planning factors relating to the change, we concur with
management that such change represents, in the Company’s circumstances, the
adoption of a preferable accounting principle in conformity with Statement
of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 154, Accounting
Changes and Error Corrections.
Very
truly yours,
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP
February
22, 2007