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Building a Better ERM

COSO revision adds 17 principles to ERM model.

By Dave Lindorff | Updated on February 01, 2012
Enterprise risk management is getting remodeled. Late last year, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) released a draft of its updated internal control framework, designed to improve the framework developed in 1992. The revision adds 17 principles, such as “holding individuals accountable for their internal control responsibilities,” “selecting and developing controls that help mitigate risks” and “evaluating and communicating deficiencies to those responsible for corrective action.”

COSO’s model has been criticized for failing to prevent the frauds and restatements seen over the last decade. Now the question is whether the proposal, developed by PWC, addresses the framework’s shortcomings.

Tim Leech, managing director at Canadian consultancy Risk Oversight, is skeptical. “Since the 1992 framework, there have been thousands of control failures [at companies] and all of them were certified by the auditors as having sound risk management systems.” The framework is too limited in scope, he adds. “It doesn’t deal at all with forward risk.”

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