Control systems are built to drive accountability and seek positive assurance from line management on internal controls, across the organization. The current control assessments are carried out with help of written guidelines, questionnaires, documents, and spreadsheets, however the larger the organization, the tougher it is to proceed with a controlled internal control system and today’s larger organizations need to strike the right balance between risk exposure and risk profitability- while complying with regulations and working closely with audit departments.

However using technology for the same, is much more beneficial because an internal control solution can help automate processes and supports one to dozens of individuals or more who are active in internal control processes. An Internal Control Management solution provides the organization with various tools that are needed to identify, implement and assess the system reduce organizations risk exposure, provide visibility to management on strategic business functions and measure business processes performance & improve it.

The Control Self-Assessment (CSA) module of smartGRC is based on practices already existent and being followed in Control management i.e. frameworks like COSO, COBIT and ISO. It lets you define, assess and monitor business controls in time, their immediate status and effective end results, with impact on the Risk Framework, providing full visibility and reporting throughout management hierarchy.The CSA Framework of smartGRC allows you to –

• Design & Implement, a robust and scalable, Business Process Management Framework
• Assess Mitigation Plans & Controls simeltaneously, from a Risk Management Perspective
• Identify & analyze any process gaps with remediation plans, history and detailed analysis

The CSA module lets you streamline any business process & helps connect people, data and systems to drive substantial time savings and offer full traceability on every business process, Thereby improving productivity, gain critical approvals quickly, meet regulatory demands with full confidence. The module enables you to build a process framework, the way you want, with components like configurable forms, repositories and workflows.