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  2. Internal control - Wikipedia

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    Internal control, as defined by accounting and auditing, is a process for assuring of an organization's objectives in operational effectiveness and efficiency, reliable financial reporting, and compliance with laws, regulations and policies. A broad concept, internal control involves everything that controls risks to an organization.

  3. SOX 404 top–down risk assessment - Wikipedia

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    The COSO 1992–1994 Framework defines each of the five components of internal control (i.e., Control Environment, Risk Assessment, Information & Communication, Monitoring, and Control Activities). Evaluation suggestions are included at the end of key COSO chapters and in the "Evaluation Tools" volume; these can be modified into objective ...

  4. Petty cash - Wikipedia

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    Oversight of petty cash [3] is important because of the potential for abuse. Examples of petty cash controls include a limit on disbursements and monthly audits by someone other than the custodian. [4] Use of petty cash is sufficiently widespread that vouchers for use in reimbursement are available at any office supply store.

  5. Management assertions - Wikipedia

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    Second, auditors are required to consider the risk of material misstatement through understanding the entity and its environment, including the entity's internal control. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Financial statement assertions provide a framework to assess the risk of material misstatement in each significant account balance or class of transactions.

  6. Audit risk - Wikipedia

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    Example, transactions involving exchange of cash may have higher IR than transactions involving settlement by cheques. The term inherent risk may have other definitions in other contexts.; [1] Control risk (CR), the risk that a misstatement may not be prevented or detected and corrected due to weakness in the entity's internal control mechanism.

  7. Entity-level control - Wikipedia

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    The auditor must test entity-level controls that are important to the auditor's conclusion about whether the company has effective internal control over financial reporting. Depending on the auditor's evaluation of the effectiveness of the entity-level controls, the auditor can increase or decrease the amount of testing that they will perform.

  8. Internal financing - Wikipedia

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    Many economists debate whether the availability of internal financing is an important determinant of firm investment or not. A related controversy is whether the fact that internal financing is empirically correlated with investment implies firms are credit constrained and therefore depend on internal financing for investment.

  9. Imprest system - Wikipedia

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    The imprest system is a form of financial accounting.The most common is petty cash. [1] The basic characteristic of an imprest system is that a fixed amount is reserved, which after a certain period or when circumstances require, because money was spent, will be replenished.