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John Peace Fri, Apr 25, 2014
Examples of good “internal controls” that work best in small and medium business are those with systematic measures that are put in place to conduct operations in an orderly and efficient manner. Internal controls act to safeguard a company’s data, assets and resources. Internal controls are essential to ensure the accuracy and completeness of its accounting data, detect errors, fraud, and theft and produce reliable and timely financial and management information.
Small businesses often neglect internal controls, or don’t realize why spending the time to work on setting up internal controls is important for their business. Internal controls for smaller entities can be put in place, though they are more likely to be informal and carried out by one or a handful of people. However, a few managers enforcing control procedures in a top-down fashion can produce a good internal control system with great results for a small company.
Here are 5 examples of a good internal control system for smaller entities:
At Accountnet, we work with our clients to involve them in the design, implementation, operation, evaluation, and improvement of their internal control systems. We provide “Good Practice Guidance” (GPG) to ensure that a business’s professional accounting and reporting can be used to improve its internal controls.
Will these internal controls prevent all errors or fraud from occurring and going undetected? Certainly not! They will ordinarily, however, accomplish management’s control objective of providing reasonable assurance an entity’s financial reporting process is accurate.
Accountnet is an Acumatica ERP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Dynamics Gold Certified Partner. Our team is ready to help you determine what solution is right for your organization. Contact us or give us a call (212) 244-9009 for a free phone consultation.
Another version of this article was originally posted on AccountNet’s blog: http://www.accountnet.com/five-components-good-internal-control-system-small-medium-businesses/
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