Internal controls for small business

This guide will help small business owners look critically at their business and examine whether their procedures adequately minimise risks and promote best practice within the firm. This guide includes:

• what is an internal control?
• why have internal controls?
• types of internal controls
• setting up internal controls
• limitation of internal controls
• why internal controls don't always work
• consequences of poor internal controls
• positive consequences of good internal controls
• responsibilities for internal controls
• case studies

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