Full text of FIDELITY DISTRIBUTORS COMPANY LLC's X-17A-5 filed 2024-02-26 (period 2023-12-31). Broker-dealer annual report from SEC EDGAR — readable, searchable, and available as markdown for AI agents.
{0}------------------------------------------------ FIDELITY DISTRIBUTORS COMPANY LLC (SEC I.D. No. 8-35097) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2023 AND REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM \* \* \* \* \* \* \* Filed pursuant to Rule 17a-5(e)(3) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as a PUBLIC DOCUMENT {1}------------------------------------------------  ### **Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm** To the Board of Directors and Member of Fidelity Distributors Company LLC ### *Opinion on the Financial Statement – Statement of Financial Condition* We have audited the accompanying statement of financial condition of Fidelity Distributors Company LLC (the "Company") as of December 31, 2023, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statement"). In our opinion, the financial statement presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. ### *Basis for Opinion* The financial statement is the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statement based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audit of this financial statement in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of financial statement, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statement. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for o…Read the full text as markdown