text: **MANAGEMENT**’**S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING**
  The Management of Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over 
  financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the Chief Executive 
  Officer and the Vice President — Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, and effected by the Company’s Board of Directors, management 
  and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated 
  financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. 
  
  **To the Board of Directors a nd Share holders of A pplied I ndus tria l Tec hnol ogies , Inc.**
  **Clevela nd, Ohio**
  
  The Company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that: (1) pertain to the maintenance of 
  records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company; 
  (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements 
  in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and that receipts and expenditures of the 
  Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of the Company’s Management and Board of Directors; and 
  (3) 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 consolidated financial statements. 