Tax Compliance and Financial Reporting: Risk and Control Matrix (Excel)
22 controls (14 key) for 9 objectives and 15 risks, each with walkthrough questions, evidence to ask for and test steps.
Risk Control Matrix · editable Excel · 3 sheets · ₹149 / $1.49 · lifetime access, up to 5 downloads
Within the finance function, the controllership area covers payables, receivables, cash, fixed assets, reconciliations, benefits, payroll, tax, product costing and reporting. This matrix covers direct and indirect tax compliance (income tax, advance tax, TDS/TCS, GST, transfer pricing), tax accounting and disputes, and financial and management reporting: the period-end close, journal entries, accounting policies and estimates, consolidation, external financial statements, internal financial controls and the confidentiality of financial information. For every control you see what good looks like, whether it is preventive or detective, manual or automated, how often it runs and whether it is a key control, plus the walkthrough questions, evidence to request and steps to test it. Record what you find, the control owner and any gap in the same sheet: the Summary sheet counts effective, partly effective and ineffective controls by objective as you go. Written so that an auditor new to the process can use it, and detailed enough for experienced reviewers. Editable Excel.
What's inside
- Read Me: how the matrix is laid out and how to use it in an audit
- Risk-Control Matrix: 9 objectives, 15 risks and 22 controls (14 key)
- Each control: type, nature, frequency, key or supporting, and how to evaluate it
- Columns for your response, evidence seen, control owner and gap / action
- Summary sheet: results by objective, updated automatically
Topics: Tax · Accounting
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