The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations grew out of a private sector initiative known as the Treadway Commission in 1987. COSO was tasked to develop and explain an integrated framework for the ...

Internal controls encompass all the methods and procedures that an organization adopts to protect its facilities, assets and property. In a broad sense, internal controls make it possible for an ...

In its most recent guidance for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 requirements for smaller entities, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has provided ...

Are you an auditor engaged to audit an entity that is less complex? If so, you may wonder why you spend time on the audit evaluating internal control. This may seem like an exercise that is much more ...

What are internal controls? The best definition I have come across is from Jonathan Marks, partner at BDO, who defined internal controls as: An internal control is an action or process of interlocking ...

As organizations race to achieve outsized benefits from artificial intelligence (AI), CFOs must address a frequently overlooked driver of optimal AI returns: internal control structures. AI risk ...

Corrupt business partners can cause trouble for corporate compliance officers in a host of ways, but one specific scheme keeps catching my attention: distributors manipulating your company’s sales ...

This procedure outlines basic controls required for all Internal Use Only information (IUO), including paper files and IT devices, systems processing, storing, or transmitting Internal Use Only.