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February 1, 2007

Compliance Optimization: Defining The Right Level Of Control

by Michael Rasmussen

with Laura Koetzle

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In a scramble to be "compliant," firms have implemented controls with little thought to their impact on the business. In the rush to fill out checklists from regulators or auditors, compliance teams forget that control selection and management is a risk-based process. Thus, businesses end up either under-controlled — which leads to exposure to litigators and regulators — or over-controlled, which means overburdened business processes and ballooning costs. And compliance reporting and dashboards don't help; in fact, they can exacerbate the problem by giving your firm the false impression that the controls are working, when in reality they're preventing business from getting done. To avoid this disconnect, align control selection and management with risk management practices and your company's overall appetite for and tolerance of risk.

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