Is your team overwhelmed with activities that feel unnecessary?
How confident are you that the energy spent on testing is focused on the necessary controls?
Leverage policyIQ to systematically focus on the critical controls for management and testing. More efficiently analyze which Financial Statement Assertions, relative to each of your 10K line items, are adequately controlled, which are left vulnerable and which of your relevant assertions is over-controlled! See, plainly, the gaps in your coverage and leverage the evidence to justify the reduction of waste, and plan to concentrate effort on work that matters.
This process really starts with your risk assessment. If you have not leveraged policyIQ to bring automation and reliability to your risk assessment process and want to walk through the policyIQ solution (including the just-released feature that makes cumulative risk calculations possible), reach out to schedule a free working meeting with us! After completing your risk assessment, identifying significant accounts and relevant assertions, and determining which of your processes and objectives are in scope (all steps that can be managed in policyIQ), you can begin the process of rationalizing your controls.
Next, leverage policyIQ to move through these five Control Rationalization steps:
Each step is made more efficient with policyIQ. We can support you to customize templates for the attributes that are critical and unique to your organization. The import, linking, calculations, workflow, and reporting features will allow you to more quickly examine the effectiveness and priority of your procedures. Having confidence in your Control Rationalization process and your internal control environment then allows you to come full circle to look at the bank of risks that you previously identified. You might conclude that some process risks that have consumed time and attention for years are actually not in scope. This Control Rationalization process will help you to be more effective and more efficient through each testing cycle.
Would you like to see sample templates and schedule a working meeting to get the ball rolling? Contact us and reap the benefits by your next testing cycle!