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Internal Control Strategies A Mid to Small Business Guide

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02.09.2008

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John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Englisch

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978-0-470-37619-5

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.09.2008

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

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320

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23,5/15,7/2,2 cm

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621 g

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1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-470-37619-5

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  • Preface ix

    Chapter 1 Understanding the SEC's Guidance for Management 1

    Purpose of Internal Control over Financial Reporting 1

    Evaluation Process 5

    Reporting Considerations 12

    Rule Amendments and other SEC Guidance Related to Internal Control over Financial Reporting 14

    Chapter 2 The PCAOB's Auditing Standard No. 5 19

    Eight Concepts to Focus the Audit on Matters Most Important to Internal Control 20

    New Emphasis on Entity-Level Controls 28

    Importance of a Fraud Risk Assessment 29

    Tips to Eliminate Unnecessary Procedures 30

    Scaling Audits for Smaller Companies 36

    Chapter 3 SEC's Guidance on a Risk-Based Approach 39

    Highlights of the SEC Staff Statement 40

    Staff's Emphasis on Reasonable Assurance 41

    Comments on Evaluating Internal Control Deficiencies 45

    Disclosures about Material Weaknesses 46

    Information Technology Comments from the Staff 47

    Communications with Auditors: An Unintended Consequence 48

    Message for Small Business Issuers and Foreign Private Issuers 50

    Chapter 4 Highlights of the PCAOB's May 2005 Policy Statement 51

    Policy Statement Highlights 52

    Integrating the Financial and Internal Control Audits 52

    Importance of Professional Judgment 55

    Top-Down Approach and Role of Risk Assessment 56

    When Auditors can use the work of others 57

    Auditors' Ability to Provide Advice to Audit Clients 57

    How the PCAOB Inspections Help Drive Improvements 59

    A Final Comment 59

    Chapter 5 Starting at the Top: Using Entity-Level Controls to Create Efficiencies 61

    What are Entity-Level Controls? 61

    How Strong Entity-Level Controls can Reduce the Scope of your Program 62

    How to Apply COSO's Recent Internal Control Guidance 65

    How to Create a Winning Control Environment 66

    Steps for Creating a Useful Risk Assessment Process 76

    Control Activities 85

    Creating an Effective Information and Communication Program 85

    How to Implement Successful Monitoring Controls 90

    How to Assign Roles and Responsibilities to Enhance Internal Controls 94

    Small-Company Issues for Implementing Entity-level Controls 98

    Summary of COSO's Guidance for Smaller Public Companies 103

    Chapter 6 Minimizing Excess through Proper Scoping and Planning Practices 105

    Scoping Analysis: Event or Process? 106

    How to Determine Materiality for Scoping Purposes 106

    How to Use a Top-Down, Risk-Based Approach to Reduce the Scope of your Program 111

    Methods for Determining Significant Locations 116

    Specific Areas Included and Excluded by the PCAOB 120

    PCAOB and SEC Guidance on other Common Scoping Issues 123

    Tips for Resource Planning and Developing Useful Timelines 124

    Chapter 7 Advantageous Project Management Techniques 127

    11 Areas of Focus for the Second Year and Beyond 128

    How to Increase Productivity with a Sound Management Approach  129

    Aim for the Target Instead of the Way to Get There 130

    More Project Management Tips 135

    Staffing Strategies 138

    Restructuring the Organizational Chart for Sustainability 144

    How to Communicate Effectively through Emails, Meetings, and Advisories 148

    Tactics for Dealing with Business Changes for Sections 302 and 404 Compliance 150

    Chapter 8 Streamlining Documentation 155

    Three Ideas to Improve Your Overall Documentation Process 157

    Clearing the Clutter: How to Create and Maintain Meaningful Control Matrices 159

    Using Relevant Financial Assertions for Planning Purposes 161

    Financial Assertion Help for Nonauditors 162

    Techniques for Scrutinizing the Number of Key Controls 163

    How to Reduce and Improve Controls with Standardization 166

    Practical Ideas for Documentation at International Locations 168

    How to Create an Effective Spreadsheet Control Program 169

    How to Create Strong Financial Reporting Controls 172

    Tools for Assessing Control Design 175

    An Alternative to Gap Remediation 176

    Three More Ideas for Improving Documentation 177

    Chapter 9 Economical Testing Techniques 181

    Testing Control Design and Operating Effectiveness 181

    Practical Steps to Applying Guidance on the Nature, Timing, and Extent of Testing 182

    Suggestions for Testing Significant Manual and Nonroutine Transactions 184

    Using Update Tests to Ease the Burden of Testing at Year-End 186

    Five Ideas for the Timing of Control Tests 190

    Types of Control Tests and When to Use Them 194

    Why You Should Minimize the Use of Self-Assessment Tests 197

    Maximizing Your Auditors' Reliance on the Work of Others 199

    More Inspiration on Efficient Testing 210

    Chapter 10 Methods for Remediation Madness 215

    Do All Controls Have to be Remediated? 216

    For-Now Approach to Remediation 217

    Creating Meaningful Remediation Plans 218

    Nine Practice Tips for the Remediation Phase 218

    Sufficient Periods for Remediated Controls 221

    Steps to Prepare for Retesting 222

    Project Management Tools for Remediation 223

    Chapter 11 Taking the Mystery out of Evaluating Deficiencies 227

    Deficiencies Defined 228

    Analytical Steps for Evaluating Deficiencies 230

    Are All Exceptions Considered Deficiencies? 235

    Techniques for Aggregating Deficiencies 237

    Typical Material Weaknesses 239

    Unique Nature of IT General Control Deficiencies 240

    Market's Reaction to Process Specific versus Pervasive Material Weaknesses 242

    How to Improve Material Weakness Disclosures 244

    AS No. 4 and Reporting Whether a Previously Reported Material Weakness Still Exists 245

    Successful Communication of Deficiencies to Management and the Audit Committee 246

    Suggestions for Management's Final Assessment Report 247

    Chapter 12 Common Areas of Concern and How to Address Them 251

    Control Options for the Use of Service Organizations 252

    What to Do with Mergers and Acquisitions Activities 258

    A Unique Solution for Managing the Tax Process 261

    How to Minimize IT Developer Access to Production Issues 263

    What to Do When Your ERP System is Not Compatible with Your Access Controls 264

    Tips for Changing ERP Systems and Staying SOX Compliant 266

    Practical Ideas for Document Retention Requirements 267

    Thoughts on Changing Accounting Firms 269

    Appendix A Simplified Sample Entity-Level Control Matrices 271

    Appendix B COSO's Internal Controls Checklist for Entity-Level Controls 279

    Appendix C Standardized Period-End Process Control Matrix 283

    Appendix D PCAOB Staff Question-and-Answer Index 287

    Appendix E SEC Office of the Chief Accountant Frequently Asked Questions Index 291

    Appendix F Summary of Changes Made to Auditing Standard No. 2 and the Related New Guidance 295

    Index 301