Use this guide to understand the relationships in the Internal Controls app and how to begin assessing controls effectively.
What is Internal Controls?
The Internal Controls app allows you to assess, manage, and monitor controls within your organization. It provides a structured approach for compliance management, risk management, and control testing to help standardize control assurance work.
Before you begin
Controls are typically created in the Risk Manager app. Use Internal Controls to assess existing controls and manage the assessment lifecycle.
Core pages
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Working with Controls — review and search your control inventory.
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Working with assessment methods — define reusable templates for control assessments.
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Working with Control assessments — create and track assessments for individual controls.
Start your first control assessment
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Open the Internal Controls app.
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Go to Controls and open the control you want to assess.
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Open the Control Assessments tab and click Add control assessment.
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Select an assessment method if one is available, or create a new one on the Assessment methods page.
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Complete the assessment in the Procedure and Results tabs.
What to do next
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Define reusable templates in Assessment methods.
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Link controls to assessment methods using Linking controls.
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Capture outcomes using Working with results.
