text: **Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.**
  
  **REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM**
  
  To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Nordstrom, Inc. 
  Seattle, Washington 
  
  We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Nordstrom, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of January 31, 
  2015 and February 1, 2014, and the related consolidated statements of earnings, comprehensive earnings, shareholders’ equity, and cash 
  flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2015. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s 
  management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. 
  
  We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those 
  standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of 
  material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial 
  statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as 
  evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. 