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16 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Statement of Management’s Responsibility
Cisco’s management has always assumed full accountability for maintaining compliance with our established financial accounting
policies and for reporting our results with objectivity and the highest degree of integrity. It is critical for investors and other users of the
Consolidated Financial Statements to have confidence that the financial information that we provide is timely, complete, relevant, and
accurate. Management is responsible for the fair presentation of Cisco’s Consolidated Financial Statements, prepared in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and has full responsibility for their integrity and accuracy.
Management, with oversight by Cisco’s Board of Directors, has established and maintains a strong ethical climate so that our affairs are
conducted to the highest standards of personal and corporate conduct. Management also has established an effective system of internal
controls. Cisco’s policies and practices reflect corporate governance initiatives that are compliant with the listing requirements of NASDAQ
and the corporate governance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
We are committed to enhancing shareholder value and fully understand and embrace our fiduciary oversight responsibilities. We are
dedicated to ensuring that our high standards of financial accounting and reporting, as well as our underlying system of internal controls,
are maintained. Our culture demands integrity and we have the highest confidence in our processes, our internal controls and our people,
who are objective in their responsibilities and who operate under the highest level of ethical standards.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for Cisco. Internal control
over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control
over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail
accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management
and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition,
use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections
of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in
conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Management (with the participation of the principal executive officer and principal financial officer) conducted an evaluation of the
effectiveness of Cisco’s internal control over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, management concluded that
Cisco’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of July 28, 2007. Management’s assessment of the effectiveness of Cisco’s
internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2007 has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered
public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included herein.
John T. Chambers Dennis D. Powell
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
September 14, 2007 September 14, 2007
Reports of Management