Problem Statement:
Inadequate or nonexistent internal controls create opportunities for fraud, waste, and abuse.
Solution:
Federal Advisory Partners provides subject matter expertise and consulting services to clients to help develop a customized internal controls system. We will work with an organization to develop and implement a year-by-year Internal Controls monitoring schematic. This includes the facilitation of functional risk assessments, identification of managerial, manual and automated internal controls, development of an annual IC monitoring plan and development of a Corrective Action Plan process. We also ensure an organization is equipped with standardized internal control tools that are built upon industry best practices, including IC monitoring work papers, test sheets, monitoring programs and standardized report templates and executive reporting dashboards.
Value for client:
The implementation of an Internal Control System increases an organizations effectiveness at identifying and controlling operational risks, which leads to improved business process optimization and increased efficiency, while also mitigating the risk of negative publicity associated with preventable operational failures.
Past Experience:
We developed a customized Internal Control System for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Consolidated Patient Account Centers (CPAC) that provided a top-down risk management approach to ensure operational risks are identified, controlled and continually monitored at all levels of the CPAC enterprise.