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CHAPTER 5<br />

COBIT 5 PROCESS REFERENCE GUIDE CONTENTS<br />

MEA02 Process Practices, Inputs/Outputs and Activities (cont.)<br />

Management Practice Inputs Outputs<br />

MEA02.02 Review business process<br />

From Description Description To<br />

controls effectiveness.<br />

Review the operation of controls, including a review of<br />

monitoring and test evidence, to ensure that controls<br />

within business processes operate effectively. Include<br />

activities to maintain evidence of the effective operation<br />

of controls through mechanisms such as periodic<br />

testing of controls, continuous controls monitoring,<br />

independent assessments, command and control<br />

centres, and network operations centres. This provides<br />

the business with the assurance of control effectiveness<br />

to meet requirements related to business, regulatory<br />

and social responsibilities.<br />

BAI05.06<br />

BAI05.07<br />

Compliance audit results<br />

Reviews of operational use<br />

Activities<br />

Evidence of control<br />

effectiveness<br />

Internal<br />

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2. Identify key controls and develop a strategy suitable for validating controls.<br />

3. Identify information that will persuasively indicate whether the internal control environment is operating effectively.<br />

4. Develop and implement cost-effective procedures to determine that persuasive information is based on the information criteria.<br />

5. Maintain evidence of control effectiveness.<br />

Management Practice Inputs Outputs<br />

MEA02.03 Perform control self-assessments.<br />

From Description Description To<br />

Encourage management and process owners to take<br />

positive ownership of control improvement through a<br />

continuing programme of self-assessment to evaluate<br />

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control over processes, policies and contracts.<br />

Self-assessment plans<br />

and criteria<br />

All APO<br />

All BAI<br />

All DSS<br />

All MEA<br />

Results of<br />

self-assessments<br />

Internal<br />

Results of reviews of EDM01.03<br />

Activities<br />

self-assessments All APO<br />

All BAI<br />

All DSS<br />

All MEA<br />

1. Maintain plans and scope and identify evaluation criteria for conducting self-assessments. Plan the communication of results of the self-assessment<br />

process to business, IT and general management and the board. Consider internal audit standards in the design of self-assessments.<br />

2. Determine the frequency of periodic self-assessments, considering the overall effectiveness and efficiency of ongoing monitoring.<br />

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other enterprises.<br />

5. Compare the results of the self-assessments against industry standards and good practices.<br />

6. Summarise and report outcomes of self-assessments and benchmarking for remedial actions.<br />

7. Define an agreed-on, consistent approach for performing control self-assessments and co-ordinating with internal and external auditors.<br />

Personal Copy of: Mr. Dong Hong Wang<br />

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Monitor, Evaluate and Assess

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