Which are the major factors to consider in assessing and evaluating the Internal control system of your client's environment?

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The major factors to consider in assessing and evaluating the internal control system in clients environment are:

♦ The size of the entity.

♦ The nature of the entity’s business, including its organisation and ownership characteristics.

♦ The diversity and complexity of the entity’s operations.

♦ Applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

♦ The circumstances and the applicable component of internal control.

♦ The nature and complexity of the systems that are part of the entity’s internal control, including the use of service organisations.

♦ Whether, and how, a specific control, individually or in combination with others, prevents, or detects and corrects, material misstatement. 

♦ Materiality.

♦ The significance of the related risk.

The main factors are:

- The relationship between the customers of the company?

- Delays in their payment?

- Are service companies, the admainistration, individuals, traders, others companies?

- The links of dependencies between the business and its customer?

- Are the risks spread over many customers?

- Customer behavior?

- The relationship between the needs and the product sold

- Are customers stable?

- Is the market saturated?

- The customer purchasing power

- The geographical distribution of customers

- Is customer concentrated or dispersed?

- Does the customer belongs to several economic sectors?

- Customers do they pay with regularity and punctuality?