Voluntary Disclosure vs. Managed Audit: Choosing the Best Path to Reduce Tax Risk
A key aspect of sound organizational governance is building an effective risk management strategy.
Risk management focuses on how organizations can achieve their business objectives despite the risks they face. Companies need to address risks in all facets of the organization, weighing both opportunities and threats as management deploys resources to achieve enterprise goals.
Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team can help you understand your risks and develop strategies to respond in ways that promote success. You can trust our experienced team to help you navigate the complex issues facing your business, including industry-specific challenges and applicable regulations.
If you’re looking for a partner to help you address risks across multiple facets of your organization, we can help. Get to know Ray Lee, Mike Hostinsky or Durran Dunn and schedule a consultation.
Our Risk Advisory Services team members have proven experience as:
We draw on this collective expertise to provide you with insightful advice to support your organization and its strategic, operational, and technology initiatives.
Your organization needs its financial and operational processes to function efficiently and effectively. This requires strong internal controls. Effective internal controls will:
Our Risk Advisory Services professionals can help your organization design or assess internal controls based on the results of a risk-based evaluation of (1) the entire organization, or (2) a specific business function.
Some of the solutions we offer are:
Drawing on our collective experience as business consultants and past members of operational and executive management teams — of both private and public companies — our team can help you better align operational practices with risk mitigation strategies to improve business outcomes.
Organizations must be aware of the risks that could impede their ability to achieve their strategic objectives. Performing internal audits of your business practices can be a great way to address those risks. Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team can provide support to your organization’s internal audit function. Some of the solutions we offer are:
As your outsourced or co-sourced internal audit partner, we provide comprehensive or supplemental support to your team, resulting in an objective, skilled, and results-driven internal audit function.
Our internal audit specialists conduct a comprehensive risk assessment to identify and prioritize risks, and to develop a targeted internal audit plan.
Our specialists support your enterprise by identifying risks and developing risk-mitigating solutions that promote efficiency and effectiveness.
We assess the effectiveness of your business and technology controls and processes and provide recommendations to improve performance.
Our professionals evaluate third-party operational, technical, and financial processes and internal controls as part of a comprehensive risk evaluation approach.
Our specialists evaluate whether your organization is in alignment with and adheres to contractual, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
SOC reports are issued by an independent auditor to provide assurance over the design and/or operating effectiveness of internal controls at a service organization. Undergoing a SOC examination:
Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team offers reporting options that address both financial- and nonfinancial-oriented internal controls and can help you determine which SOC report is right for your organization.
A SOC 1 report is a
restricted use report that evaluates the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. Your customers and their auditors will find value in a SOC 1 report by better understanding how internal controls impact key financial processes.
A SOC 2 report is a restricted use report that evaluates the effectiveness of controls relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity of the systems used to process your customers’ data. It also evaluates how controls help maintain the confidentiality and privacy of the information processed by these systems.
A SOC 3 report is a general use report that evaluates the effectiveness of controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy at a service organization. A SOC 3 report is only available in combination with a SOC 2 examination.
These assessments are uniquely tailored to the needs and industry of your company. We perform SOC readiness assessments to help you prepare for a future SOC examination. We design our assessments to codify existing internal control activities, identify preliminary gaps in the design of control activities, and provide remediation recommendations.
The timeframe to undergo a SOC examination depends on the type of examination, the scope and time period covered by the report, and your organization’s internal control structure. At the completion of a SOC examination, you will receive a written report expressing an opinion over whether your organization’s internal controls were suitably designed and/or operating effectively either as of a specified date (Type 1) or throughout the reporting period (Type 2).
SOC Readiness Assessment deliverables also include a gap analysis that:
Businesses face technology-specific challenges in pursuit of their strategic initiatives. The strongest organizations know how to manage these risks so that IT can continue to support the goals of the enterprise.
Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team assists you in better understanding the technology risks that are relevant to your organization, which include risks related to:
We help you respond to these risks in ways that promote enterprise-wide success. You can trust our team to help you navigate the complex issues facing your business, including:
Your organization needs its financial and operational processes to function efficiently and effectively. This requires strong internal controls. Effective internal controls will:
Our Risk Advisory Services professionals can help your organization design or assess internal controls based on the results of a risk-based evaluation of (1) the entire organization, or (2) a specific business function.
Some of the solutions we offer are:
Drawing on our collective experience as business consultants and past members of operational and executive management teams — of both private and public companies — our team can help you better align operational practices with risk mitigation strategies to improve business outcomes.
Organizations must be aware of the risks that could impede their ability to achieve their strategic objectives. Performing internal audits of your business practices can be a great way to address those risks. Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team can provide support to your organization’s internal audit function. Some of the solutions we offer are:
As your outsourced or co-sourced internal audit partner, we provide comprehensive or supplemental support to your team, resulting in an objective, skilled, and results-driven internal audit function.
Our internal audit specialists conduct a comprehensive risk assessment to identify and prioritize risks, and to develop a targeted internal audit plan.
Our specialists support your enterprise by identifying risks and developing risk-mitigating solutions that promote efficiency and effectiveness.
We assess the effectiveness of your business and technology controls and processes and provide recommendations to improve performance.
Our professionals evaluate third-party operational, technical, and financial processes and internal controls as part of a comprehensive risk evaluation approach.
Our specialists evaluate whether your organization is in alignment with and adheres to contractual, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
SOC reports are issued by an independent auditor to provide assurance over the design and/or operating effectiveness of internal controls at a service organization. Undergoing a SOC examination:
Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team offers reporting options that address both financial- and nonfinancial-oriented internal controls and can help you determine which SOC report is right for your organization.
A SOC 1 report is a
restricted use report that evaluates the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. Your customers and their auditors will find value in a SOC 1 report by better understanding how internal controls impact key financial processes.
A SOC 2 report is a restricted use report that evaluates the effectiveness of controls relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity of the systems used to process your customers’ data. It also evaluates how controls help maintain the confidentiality and privacy of the information processed by these systems.
A SOC 3 report is a general use report that evaluates the effectiveness of controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy at a service organization. A SOC 3 report is only available in combination with a SOC 2 examination.
These assessments are uniquely tailored to the needs and industry of your company. We perform SOC readiness assessments to help you prepare for a future SOC examination. We design our assessments to codify existing internal control activities, identify preliminary gaps in the design of control activities, and provide remediation recommendations.
The timeframe to undergo a SOC examination depends on the type of examination, the scope and time period covered by the report, and your organization’s internal control structure. At the completion of a SOC examination, you will receive a written report expressing an opinion over whether your organization’s internal controls were suitably designed and/or operating effectively either as of a specified date (Type 1) or throughout the reporting period (Type 2).
SOC Readiness Assessment deliverables also include a gap analysis that:
Businesses face technology-specific challenges in pursuit of their strategic initiatives. The strongest organizations know how to manage these risks so that IT can continue to support the goals of the enterprise.
Bennett Thrasher’s Risk Advisory Services team assists you in better understanding the technology risks that are relevant to your organization, which include risks related to:
We help you respond to these risks in ways that promote enterprise-wide success. You can trust our team to help you navigate the complex issues facing your business, including:
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