Download the top 10 most frequently accessed tools and publications on KnowledgeLeader in May.
1. Entity-Level Controls: The Importance of Setting the Tone
This blog post explains the importance of entity-level controls and explores the COSO Framework.
2. Enterprise Risk Management Questionnaire
This risk assessment questionnaire can be used when analyzing an organization’s ERM strategy.
3. Management Response to Internal Audit Reports Memo
This memo outlines specifics to consider when drafting management responses to audit observations.
This tool provides three sample planning memos, which serve as a report of an internal audit function’s high-level assessment of the company’s audit planning process.
5. Process Documentation Narrative and Flow Chart Guide
This guide outlines documentation techniques to develop an adequate understanding of any processing environment.
6. Sarbanes-Oxley Roles and Responsibilities Guide
This sample guide can be used to understand the roles and responsibilities of team members involved in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance assessment.
7. Human Resources Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s human resources management process and to assist its progress from the initial/ad-hoc state toward the optimized state.
8. Project Management Office (PMO) Questionnaire
This tool provides questions to consider when evaluating an organization’s project management office (PMO) functionality and processes.
9. Organizational Risk Assessment — Performed the Right Way
This blog post defines risk assessment and explains important risk assessment steps.
10. Physical Inventory Count Memo
This sample memo provides physical inventory instructions that a company can use to compare counted quantities to on-hand quantities in order to identify discrepancies.