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We are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate
internal control over nancial reporting (as dened in Rules
13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) promulgated under the Exchange
Act). We maintain a system of internal controls that is
designed to provide reasonable assurance in a cost-eective
manner as to the fair and reliable preparation and presenta-
tion of the consolidated nancial statements, as well as to
safeguard assets from unauthorized use or disposition.
Our control environment is the foundation for our system
of internal control over nancial reporting and is embodied in
our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our Financial Code of
Ethics, and our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, all of
which may be viewed on our website. ey set the tone for
our organization and include factors such as integrity and
ethical values. Our internal control over nancial reporting is
supported by formal policies and procedures, which are
reviewed, modied and improved as changes occur in
business condition and operations. Neither our disclosure
controls and procedures nor our internal controls, however,
can or will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system,
no maer how well conceived and operated, can provide only
reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the
control system are met. Further, the design of a control
system must reect the benets of controls relative to their
costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control
systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute
assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any,
within the Company have been detected.
We conducted an evaluation of the eectiveness of our
internal control over nancial reporting based on the
framework in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by
the Commiee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission. is evaluation included review of the docu-
mentation of controls, evaluation of the design eectiveness
of controls, testing of the operating eectiveness of controls
and a conclusion on this evaluation. We have concluded that
our internal control over nancial reporting was eective
as of August 3, 2012, based on these criteria.
In addition, Deloie & Touche LLP, an independent
registered public accounting rm, has issued an aestation
report on our internal control over nancial reporting,
which is included herein.
Sandra B. Cochran
President and Chief Executive Ocer
Lawrence E. Hya
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Ocer
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC.