Modify and review controls

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The Risks & controls tab displays a list of the controls identified in your engagement, where you can view, add, modify and delete controls. You can also access this tab from 551 Controls report.

To modify a control:

  1. Select a control to open it.

    A control being edited, with various modifiable options.

  2. Select the Control name and Control description text fields to edit them.

  3. Select Add () to add cycles to the control.

  4. Select a control type from the drop down menu.

  5. Select Add () to link risks to the control.

  6. Complete any other applicable options, such as assigned assertions, control frequency, whether to test the control and the result of its effectiveness.

If there are no changes to a control from the prior period, the control will automatically carry forward during a year-end close. To learn more, see Carry forward an engagement.