Internal Controls and Risk Management

Assignment Instruction


Identify and assess ways personnel outside the DoD financial management community can help address material weaknesses and improve audit readiness.

The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to face long-standing material weaknesses which, unless resolved, will make the achieving a clean audit opinion less likely. While financial managers play a central role in audit readiness and addressing noted material

weaknesses, DoD-wide success also depends on personnel outside the traditional financial management (FM) communityincluding logisticians, acquisition professionals, IT specialists, engineers, program managers, property custodians, and operational leaders.

In this formal, academic paper, students will examine the role non-FM operations personnel support remediation of material weaknesses, strengthen internal controls, and enhance the DoDs audit readiness posture. Students will select a material weakness affecting DoD

auditability where non-FM operations personnel must play a key role in remediation, assess the roles, responsibilities, and actions of non-FM personnel, root causes and past challenges in implementing corrective actions, and propose realistic, actionable recommendations for those non-FM operations personnel to address the material weakness, emphasize awareness and application of Green Book requirements to design and sustain strong internal controls, and enhance the focus on control performance and organizational culture to make achievement of an clean opinion more likely.

This formal, academic paper should consist of approximately 1,500 words with footnotes and a bibliography in the format specified in the Chicago Manual of Style. The paper will include a signed Academic Integrity Statement as part of the assignment cover page. The grading rubric for this assignment is presented within Blackboard.

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