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Lessons Learned: The Board of Directors View of Managing Through a Crisis

Register for this CPE webinar to hear the lessons boards of directors have already learned about how well prepared their companies and their management teams were to face this pandemic crisis.

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Register for this CPE webinar to learn about how a company manages through this period will be remembered not only by a company’s employees, but also by its customers.

Hot Issue Articles

SOX Risk Assessment in the Time of COVID-19

This article discusses six key considerations a company should take when performing its Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) risk assessment for the fiscal year 2020 in the face of COVID-19.

After the Virus: Reassessing and Future-Proofing Your Business From a Customer Experience Perspective

This article describes a plan for enhancing customer-focused strategies and identifies six key actions companies can take to prepare for the anticipated changes in consumer behavior.

Benchmarking Tool

Accounts Payable Process Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

This benchmarking tool focuses on key performance indicators (KPIs) for the accounts payable process.

Questionnaire

SWOT Questionnaire

This sample questionnaire analyzes an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Guide

Inventory Management Training Guide

This guide focuses on the inventory management process, including quick facts on inventory, policies and procedures for inventory valuation and cycle count, performance measures, a sample inventory work program, and sample process interview questions.

Methodology and Model

IT General Controls Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s IT general controls and to assist its progress from the initial/ad-hoc state toward the optimized state.

Project Management Methodology

This sample document can be used as a guide for understanding and reviewing an organization’s project management process.

Policy

Inventory Valuation Policy

This sample outlines a set of policies and procedures for inventory valuation.

RCM

Manage Inventories RCM

This document outlines risks and controls common to the “manage inventories” process in a risk control matrix format.

Manage Service Contracts: Entering Contracts into the System RCM

This document outlines risks and controls common to the monitoring of existing contracts aspect of the “manage service contracts” process in a risk control matrix (RCM) format.

Manage Service Contracts: Monitoring Existing Contracts RCM

This document outlines risks and controls common to the “monitoring existing contracts” aspect of the “manage service contracts” process in a risk control matrix (RCM) format.

Select and Manage Suppliers RCM

This document outlines risks and controls common to the “select and manage suppliers” process in a risk control matrix (RCM) format.

Work Programs

IT General Controls Audit Work Program

This tool contains three sample work programs that provide general steps an organization should consider when evaluating its IT general controls environment.

Inventory Audit Work Program

This document outlines three sample work programs that provide general steps organizations can use during an inventory audit.