This month (November 2020) COSO (the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission) made available its new publication Compliance Risk Management: Applying the COSO ERM Framework which is authored by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), and is the product of the SCCE & HCCA Working Group on the Application of ERM to Compliance Risk. COSO commissioned the project.

COSO is a private sector initiative that is jointly sponsored and funded by the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of CPAs, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the Institute of Internal Auditors.

In and by itself the fact of the publication does not mandate by law that the publication or any part of it must be followed or implemented by any particular organization. Of course, however, licensing or regulatory bodies could mandate the use of the publication or parts thereof, or an organization itself also could by choice decide to use and implement the publication. The publication is noteworthy for its detail and specifics, because of the reputations and followings of the authoring and commissioning organizations, and because its contents, if they are read and implemented, appear to move ERM in the context of compliance significantly forward from earlier materials. The materials are detailed (29 pages of detail and specifics, plus Appendix 1 and Appendix 2).

I wanted to make you aware of these new materials, although it will take me a while to study and discuss them in detail. The Introduction in part states “This publication aims to provide guidance on the application of the COSO ERM framework to the identification, assessment, and management of compliance risks by aligning it with the C&E program framework, creating a powerful tool that integrates the concepts underlying each of these valuable frameworks.” For the purpose of the publication the “C&E program framework” is described in Appendix 1 Elements of an Effective Compliance and Ethics Program.

The following is a link to a pdf of Compliance Risk Management: Applying the COSO ERM Framework, from the coso.org website:

That’s all for now. More to follow.

Best to you. David Tate, Esq.

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