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KPMG’s preconfigured, cloud-based ICFR as a service solution addresses the increased data, risk, and compliance challenges of modern financial reporting. Designed by our ICFR and audit professionals, it automates, manages, and monitors your internal control process and includes ongoing KPMG advisory. Our ICFR program can:
- Internal Control - KPMG Canada
Internal control. KPMG in Canada helps address disclosure...
- Internal controls over financial reporting - KPMG
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- Internal Control - KPMG Canada
In this Handbook, we discuss and illustrate the key elements of a risk-based approach to the design, implementation and evaluation of ICFR using the predominant framework employed in practice – the 2013 Internal Control – Integrated Framework published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
Internal control. KPMG in Canada helps address disclosure controls and procedures and evaluate effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting - ICFR. CEOs and CFOs of Canadian public companies, excluding venture issuers, are required to certify on the design and the effectiveness of their company's disclosure controls and procedures ...
- Uncovering the full picture of control costs
- Understanding the hidden costs of ICOFR
- Performance
- Case study: Reducing costs through automation
- The big picture: analyzing the control portfolio
- Value beyond cost-efectiveness
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kpmg.com Internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) is expensive, with many costs “hidden,” since the departments performing the controls primarily absorb them. In this second in a series of white papers on ICOFR, KPMG’s Risk Consulting practice looks at how companies can gain insight into their total cost of control. They can then identify...
Costs related to ICOFR may be higher than you realize, in part because they often take a different form than you might expect. When most companies measure ICOFR costs, they typically only look at compliance costs, focusing on testing and external audit expenses. But the larger cost components related to ICOFR draw on other resources throughout the ...
“Visible costs” of compliance Typically organizations don’t consider “hidden costs” associated with control operation when calculating their cost of control When costs aren’t measured and accounted for, they tend to rise, so companies may be experiencing an increase in the hidden costs of ICOFR. Companies that merely look at compliance costs are th...
large diversified industrial company faced a challenge: reduce SOX compliance costs while maintaining a control-focused culture. Since the company had a decentralized structure, multiple control owners were performing a high volume of manual control activities at multiple locations. With so many people performing so many manual controls so frequent...
To get a handle on the total cost of ICOFR, the place to start is a five-step analysis that looks at how controls operate across finance, IT, and operations: Understand the controls. Where are risks, redundancies, and opportunities? Where might risk mitigation not be cost-effective? Understand operating costs. Bring these costs, usually hidden with...
This paper’s focus is on cutting costs, but an analysis of a company’s controls can also uncover the potential for additional value. Details on how controls are functioning across the company can indicate ways to increase external auditor reliance and provide new insights into how different business processes are functioning. For example, a control...
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ICFR-as-a-Service is a preconfigured, cloud-based managed service solution that provides end-to-end ICFR/SOX management to help ensure public companies prepare reliable and accurate financial statements. The solution has been designed by KPMG’s SOX/ICFR and audit professionals to assist organizations’ audit, risk, finance, and information ...
link back to the overall assessment of financial reporting risk. The control inventory should include different kinds of controls (automated versus manual and preventative versus detective), contribute to improving control design and automation, and keep down the total cost of control. Pillar #5: Testing strategy
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