Internal controls

Executives within most entities operate daily under the reasonable assumption that controls over processes that affect financial reporting are designed and operating effectively. This belief is often based on the quality or history of people involved in the process or absence of any significant problems in the past. However, often upon further scrutiny or with actual problems and negative events occurring within your business, you may reach a time when your confidence is not as strong. In addition, you may now have even been forced to consider your internal control framework with the introduction of new regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Our Business risk services professionals have the expertise and tools to help restore your confidence by developing an integrated internal control framework that ensures the reliability of reporting and compliance, as well as improving operational effectiveness and efficiency.

Our services include:

• Risk assessment and profiling
• Process review and documentation
• Control assessment and design

The benefits include:

• Improved operational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Increased management, board, creditor, and investor confidence.
• Empowering employees.
• Improved control effectiveness while reducing costs by building controls into business processes rather than adding on costly procedures.
• Enhanced shareholder value.

If you wish to know more about our Business risk services, please contact:

Patrick Rozario
T +852 2218 3118
E patrick.rozario@gthk.com.hk

Chris Tam (Shanghai)
T +86 21 2322 0223
E chris.tam@gthk.com.hk

Gordon Hau
T +852 2218 3403
E gordon.hau@gthk.com.hk

Ron Ho (Shanghai)
T +86 21 2322 0267
E ron.ho@grantthornton.com.cn