Processes and Controls Toolkit

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Maintain Data Governance Processes and Controls by working with project and Business Leaders to analyze the impact of future changes on Critical Data sources and mitigate any potential risks to Data Quality and Data Privacy.

More Uses of the Processes and Controls Toolkit:

  • Perform or coordinate control assessment as to ensure that Information Technology Processes and Controls are functioning as designed.

  • Be accountable for developing and maintaining a Continuous Improvement approach to ensure Processes and Controls keep up with changes in business, organization, economy, technology, and accounting.

  • Evaluate, assess or improve Data integrity or organizational Processes and Controls related to the fixed asset lifecycle.

  • Ensure proactive compliance of It Security systems, Processes and Controls with organization Information security program, Security Policies and Regulatory Compliance guidelines.

  • Bring a fresh perspective on existing issues, Processes and Controls to develop and recommend new/improved controls and procedural enhancements.

  • Ensure you delegate; understand Internal Control design concepts to assess the effectiveness of controls and design new effective Processes and Controls for emerging and growing Business Activities.

  • Evaluate: implement Processes and Controls to achieve accuracy of inventory counts, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and completing Root Cause Corrective Actions to guard against inconsistencies in the future.

  • Manage credit and collections team and develop and enhance Processes and Controls around credit and collection related financial metrics.

  • Ensure you persuade; beyond providing leadership to all the Accounting sub functions, work in partnership with the CFO to manage your organizations legal and Operational Risk through Processes and Controls.

  • Develop and execute a roadmap for implementing/improving Processes and Controls to scale the accounting function and safeguard assets.

  • Confirm your project ensures that effective Processes and Controls are developed and maintained to assure the integrity of your organization.

  • Devise: conduct inquiries of auditee personnel to gain an understanding IT Processes and Controls and clearly document that understanding.

  • Ensure you devise; recommend improvements to Processes and Controls and develop a plan to address issues raised in Internal And External Audits.

  • Steer: influence the design of systems, Processes and Controls for emerging and growing Business Activities to ensure Internal Controls are always considered and optimized.

  • Ensure raw and packaging material inventory Processes and Controls to effectively manage receiving, inventory, SLOB, and Working Capital.

  • Confirm your strategy complies; conducts audits that evaluate the design and effectiveness of Processes and Controls, while monitoring for adherence to audit schedules and budgets.

  • Arrange that your team performs the daily operation and execution of security related tools, Processes and Controls related to Cyber Defense initiatives.

  • Guide: clear the way for maintain Data Governance Processes and Controls by working with project and Business Leaders to analyze the impact of future changes on Critical Data and mitigate any potential risks to Data Quality.

  • Be accountable for designing and implementing automated security Processes and Controls to increase operational effectiveness and to reduce manual processes.

  • Be accountable for establishing and maintaining a set of Processes and Controls aimed at ensuring Data Quality and integrity issues are surfaced and addressed on an ongoing basis.

  • Identify and analyze loss trends for the identification of opportunities to strengthen Internal Processes and Controls.

  • Represent performing audits, assessments, consulting engagements and Internal Controls evaluations to identify risks, evaluate Processes and Controls, and follow up on findings requiring Corrective Actions.

  • Discover preparing reports on engagement results for management and partnering with management in designing practical, effective Processes and Controls.

  • Check compliance with Data Management standards, Processes and Controls and content for the creation and maintenance of common Data Dictionaries.

  • Be accountable for partnering with Internal Controls stakeholders to manage and maintain compliance and Best Practices for governance of applications Processes and Controls.

  • Supervise: implement Processes and Controls ensuring compliance with all applicable legislative, regulatory, and internal requirements.

  • Evaluate plan, develop, monitor, and maintain Cybersecurity and Information Technology security Processes and Controls.

  • Formulate: document current Processes and Controls, new System Requirements and the creation of applicable testing scenarios for enhancements and system updates.

  • Oversee Quality Assurance and Quality engineering functions to work with other departments in the development of new products, Processes and Controls and to solve technical or quality related problems.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Processes and Controls Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Processes and Controls related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Processes and Controls specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Processes and Controls Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Processes and Controls improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Are required metrics defined, what are they?

  2. How are costs allocated?

  3. What kind of crime could a potential new hire have committed that would not only not disqualify him/her from being hired by your organization, but would actually indicate that he/she might be a particularly good fit?

  4. Do you think Processes and Controls accomplishes the goals you expect it to accomplish?

  5. What are the costs?

  6. Can you measure the return on analysis?

  7. What output to create?

  8. Have all of the relationships been defined properly?

  9. Is there a strict Change Management process?

  10. Is there an action plan in case of emergencies?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Processes and Controls book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Processes and Controls self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Processes and Controls Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Processes and Controls areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Processes and Controls Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Processes and Controls projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Processes and Controls Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Processes and Controls project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Processes and Controls project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Processes and Controls Project Team have enough people to execute the Processes and Controls Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Processes and Controls Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Processes and Controls Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Processes and Controls project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Processes and Controls project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Processes and Controls project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Processes and Controls project with this in-depth Processes and Controls Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Processes and Controls projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Processes and Controls and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Processes and Controls investments work better.

This Processes and Controls All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.