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Reports of Management
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 accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America,
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 (1992) 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 26, 2014.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has audited the effectiveness of Cisco’s
internal control over financial reporting and has issued a report on Cisco’s internal control over financial reporting, which is
included in their report on the preceding page.
John T. Chambers Frank A. Calderoni
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
September 9, 2014 September 9, 2014
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