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Hard vs. Soft Controls6 mins
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Challenge of Evaluating soft controls14 mins
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COSO Attributes24 mins
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Consider Code of Conduct32 mins
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Structure52 mins
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Cause and Effect85 mins
Published: November, 2021
Entity level control (ELCs) s are often difficult to identify but even more difficult to assess. Soft controls are similar to entity level controls. They have less concrete or visible measures that contribute to achieving organizational objectives. So controls can be regarded as measures influencing employees’ motivation, loyalty, integrity, inspiration, standards, values. They do not lend themselves to normal validation processes. Assessors must often utilize interviews, questionnaires and observations or other unique methods.
The webinars on top-down risk assessment discussed ELCs and some methods for assessment. This Online CPE Webinar will delve further into understanding approaches to assessing the design and operating effectiveness of ELCs and soft controls. Challenges faced while evaluating Soft Controls will be discussed in this webinar. We will cover methods and alternatives to measuring and assessing ELCs and soft controls. You will get an idea about how to use Maturity model and how much it is effective in evaluating soft control.
Major topics covered in this online CPE webinar:
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9 Ratings
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Dec 28th, 2021
Great overview of soft controls (ELC).
2 Credits
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