Internal Control over Financial Reporting - Core
Taxes
- Baseline Controls in Small Entities
- Entity Level Controls (Tone-at-the-Top)
- Financial Statement Close and Reporting
- General Control Activities over Technology (ITGC)
- Information Technology Application Controls (ITAC)
- Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Purchases Cycle
- Revenue Cycle
- Payroll Cycle
- Inventory Cycle
- Treasury and Investments Cycle
- Commitment and Contingencies
- Taxes
- Shareholders’ Equity
This library of Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) Playbooks provides a set of fully loaded and editable templates that represent the core of what is generally required by management (including process owners), boards of directors and their audit committees, as well as internal and external auditors of organizations of all sizes and industries to document, assess, test, report and oversee the design and operating effectiveness of the typical key internal controls on which management is reliant to prevent and detect material misstatement and fraud in accordance with relevant regulatory and corporate mandates.
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What is the Taxes Playbook?
The Taxes Playbook addresses the following areas:
- Policy and Procedures
- Segregation of Duties (and access rules that support SOD)
- Provision Compilation
- Jurisdiction Rules and Tax Code Usage
- Accounting for Permanent and Temporary Differences
- Maintaining Clerical Accuracy of Provision
- Maintaining Consistency of Tax Provisions and Deferred Items with Tax Return
- Intercompany Transactions Management
- Payment Approval Process
- Transaction taxes (sales and use tax, VAT, GST)
- Master File Maintenance
- Financial Reporting (including segregation of duties and related access rules), and
- Additional Considerations (IPE and Management Review Controls)
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Instructions
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Tutorial
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