Financial Risks Assessment
Overall Materiality Calculation
Overall Materiality Calculation Trend
$3,000
$1,540
$2,500
$942
$1,155
$1,585
$1,155
$1,189
$1,540
$1,585
$1,031
$2,000
$1,189
$1,500
$1,375
$1,256
$1,000
FY24
$500
FY25
(Foreca
st)
Overall Materiality (in $000's)
$0
FY22
Planning Materiality (in $000's)
FY23
Taiwan
HongKong
FY25 (Forecast)
Planning Materiality (in $000's)
Entities In Scope
Entities In Scope
US
FY24
Overall Materiality (in $000's)
EMEA
Canada
Elimination
US
Entity in scope
Entity manually scoped out
Entity out of scope
Entity manually scoped in
Taiwan
HongKong
EMEA
FY25
Canada
Elimination
FY24
Risk by Process Current Year
High
High
High
High
High
High
High
High
High
High
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Low
Medium
Low
Low
Entity Level Controls (ELC)
Equity & Stock
Administration (ESA)
Financial Close & Reporting
(FCR)
Fixed Assets (FA)
Human Resources & Payroll
(HRP)
Low
Intangible Assets (IA)
Inventory (INV)
Calculated Risk
Order to Cash (OTC)
Procure to Pay (PTP)
Tax (TAX)
Treasury & Cash
Management)
Mgt. Judgment
Risk by Process Prior Year
High
High
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
High
High
High
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Low
Equity & Stock
Administration (ESA)
Financial Close & Reporting
(FCR)
Fixed Assets (FA)
Medium
Low
Low
Entity Level Controls (ELC)
Medium
Medium
Human Resources & Payroll
(HRP)
Calculated Risk
Intangible Assets (IA)
Low
Inventory (INV)
Mgt. Judgment
Order to Cash (OTC)
Procure to Pay (PTP)
Tax (TAX)
Treasury & Cash
Management)
Client
ABC
Project
Financial Risk Assessments
SOX FY
SOX FY 2025
Overall Planning Materiality Calculation:
FY23
FY24
FY25
FY25 vs FY24
Benchmarks: Metric
Forecasted Revenue
Forecasted Revenue
Forecasted Revenue
Forecasted Revenue
Benchmarks: Amount
$137,500
$154,000
$158,500
$4,500
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0%
$1,375
$1,540
$1,585
$45
75%
75%
75%
0%
$1,031
$1,155
$1,189
3%
Benchmarks % of Total Revenue
Overall Materiality (in $000's)
% of Overall Materiality
Planning Materiality (in $000's)
Number of Weighted Average shares outstanding as of reporting period (CY):
Impact of materiality to report EPS for the noted period (CY):
Reported EPS for the period ending (CY):
Materiality as percent of EPS reported (CY):
57,-%
Client
ABC
Project
Financial Risk Assessments
SOX FY
SOX FY 2025
Risk by Process
Overall Materiality (in $000's)
$1,585
Overall Materiality (in $000's) Prior Year
$1,540
Planning Materiality (in $000's)
$1,189
Planning Materiality (in $000's) Prior Year
$1,155
Calculated
Risk
Mgt.
Judgment
Comments - Quantitative (Calculated Risk) and Qualitative Considerations (Mgt Final Judgment)
Calculated Risk
Mgt. Judgment
Entity Level Controls (ELC)
Medium
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the Company transition to an outsourced department model in Q1 FY25.
The tone set from the top, established in the controls in ELC, effects all other cycles.
Medium
Medium
There is a change in the risk rating from medium to high. Management's considerations have been
documented in FY25 comments (refer to columns F and G).
Equity & Stock Administration (ESA)
Medium
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the introduction of the Performance Restricted Share Unit "PRSU" program
in FY25 and complexity of the equity calculation.
Medium
Medium
There is a change in the risk rating from medium to high. Management's considerations have been
documented in FY25 comments (refer to columns F and G).
Financial Close & Reporting (FCR)
Medium
High
Medium
Medium
There is a change in the risk rating from medium to high. Management's considerations have been
documented in FY25 comments (refer to columns F and G).
4
Fixed Assets (FA)
Medium
Low
The risk is deemed to be low given the stability of the fixed assets process in the Company. There have been no errors in this
area.
Medium
Low
5
Human Resources & Payroll (HRP)
Medium
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the major change in Human Resources personnel, the nature of payroll and
susceptibility to fraud.
Medium
Medium
6
Intangible Assets (IA)
Low
Low
The risk is deemed to be low given the simplicity of the calculation and the frequency of transactions.
Low
Low
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
7
Inventory (INV)
High
High
Inventory is assessed as high due to the implementation of inventory standard cost, the complexity of the calculations and the
materiality to the Company's financial statements.
High
High
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
8
Order to Cash (OTC)
High
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the Company transition to an outsourced department model in Q1 FY25
and the nature of the over all revenue process.
High
High
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
9
Procure to Pay (PTP)
Medium
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the Company transition to an outsourced department model in Q1 FY25,
the nature of payments and susceptibility to fraud for vendor and payment transactions.
Medium
Medium
10
Tax (TAX)
Low
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the Company transition to an outsourced department model in Q1 FY25
and the complexity of the tax calculation.
Low
High
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
11
Treasury & Cash Management)
Medium
Medium
Treasury is assessed as medium risk due to the inherent risk with cash and the materiality of the balance.
Medium
Medium
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
12
IT General Controls (ITGC)
Medium
High
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the inventory standard cost implementation, the reliance on systems for
the majority of its processes and the risk of any potential cyber security impact.
Medium
High
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
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Process
1
Comments - Management Judgment Rating Variances
(FY24 vs FY25)
1
2
1
3
Management has deemed the risk to be high due to the Company transition to an outsourced department model in Q1 FY25.
This process effects all other cycles, the level of judgement within some of the underlying management review controls.
1
No change since risk assessment refresh conducted in May FY24.
There is a change in the risk rating from medium to high. Management's considerations have been
documented in FY25 comments (refer to columns F and G).
There is a change in the risk rating from medium to high. Management's considerations have been
documented in FY25 comments (refer to columns F and G).
Client
ABC
Project
Financial Risk Assessments
SOX FY
SOX FY 2025
Report
Entities in Scope
#
Entity/Location
1
US
2
Taiwan
Overall Materiality (in $000's)
$1,585
Planning Materiality (in
$000's)
$1,189
Entity Scoped In
Comments
Entity in scope
Entity out of scope
3
HongKong
4
EMEA
Entity out of scope
5
Canada
Entity out of scope
6
Elimination
Entity out of scope
Entity manually scoped out
Two accounts are calculated in-scope due to materiality. Management has deemed to manually
scope out both accounts.
1. Retained Earnings account is reviewed and addressed at the consolidated level
1. Accrued compensation (including commissions, employee benefits payable and accrued PTO) is
reviewed via quarterly flux analysis at Corporate level; and
account reconciliation is performed as part of the monthly closing activities.
Client
ABC
Project
Financial Risk Assessments
SOX FY
SOX FY 2025
Risk by Process
Overall Materiality (in $000's)
$1,585
Entity Level Controls (ELC)
Assessed at a corporate level
Planning Materiality (in $000's)
$1,189
IT General Controls (ITGC)
Assessed at a corporate level
Equity & Stock
Administration
(ESA)
Financial Close
& Reporting
(FCR)
Fixed Assets
(FA)
Human
Resources &
Payroll (HRP)
Intangible
Assets (IA)
Inventory (INV)
Order to Cash
(OTC)
Procure to Pay
(PTP)
Tax (TAX)
Treasury & Cash
Management)
US
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Taiwan
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
HongKong
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
4
EMEA
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
5
Canada
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
6
Elimination
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
#
Entity
1
1
2
1
3
1