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  2. Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway ...

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    Internal auditors play an important role in assessing the effectiveness of control systems. As an independent function that informs senior management, internal audit can evaluate the internal control systems implemented by the organization and contribute to continued effectiveness. As such, internal auditing often plays an important "monitoring ...

  3. Audit - Wikipedia

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    The IIA has defined internal auditing as follows: "Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization's operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk ...

  4. Own risk and solvency assessment - Wikipedia

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    The reform provides measures on governance, internal control and internal audit in order to ensure sound and prudent management practices from insurers. Impacts in terms of risk and solvency should supply into upstream strategic decisions. The internal assessment process of risks and solvency, known as the ORSA, is the centerpiece of this plan.

  5. Enterprise risk management - Wikipedia

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    This typically involves review of the various risk assessments performed by the enterprise (e.g., strategic plans, competitive benchmarking, and SOX 404 top-down risk assessment), consideration of prior audits, and interviews with a variety of senior management. It is designed for identifying audit projects, not to identify, prioritize, and ...

  6. Entity-level control - Wikipedia

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    The company's risk assessment process; Centralized processing and controls, including shared service environments; Controls to monitor results of operations; Controls to monitor other controls, including activities of the internal audit function, the audit committee, and self-assessment programs; Controls over the period-end financial reporting ...

  7. Chief audit executive - Wikipedia

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    Coordinate internal auditing activities and plans with other internal and external providers of assurance and consulting activities to ensure proper coverage and minimize duplication of effort. Communicate plan of engagements and resource requirements for the internal audit function, including significant interim changes to the audit committee ...

  8. Internal rate of return - Wikipedia

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    Internal rate of return (IRR) is a method of calculating an investment's rate of return. The term internal refers to the fact that the calculation excludes external factors, such as the risk-free rate, inflation, the cost of capital, or financial risk. The method may be applied either ex-post or ex-ante. Applied ex-ante, the IRR is an estimate ...

  9. System and Organization Controls - Wikipedia

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    System and Organization Controls (SOC; also sometimes referred to as service organizations controls) as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), is the name of a suite of reports produced during an audit.