Exploring the Reports

In SAP Process Control, users have access to a variety of reports designed to support decision-making and promote accountability. These predefined reports and dashboards offer a clear overview of the status of internal control assessments and overall compliance. Additionally, the system allows for report customization by selecting relevant columns, facilitating detailed analysis and ensuring that only the most important information is presented to key stakeholders.

Let's explore the key reports for Master Data, Continuous Control Monitoring, and Assessment.

Most relevant Reports for Master Data.

As you are aware master data plays a pivotal role in SAP Process Control, as it forms the foundation of the control framework and organizational hierarchy. Therefore, gaining a comprehensive understanding of master data is essential, and this is facilitated through the standard reports provided.

Following most relevant reports are described:

1. Risk and Control Matrix Report: This report provides a detailed view of the relationship between following master data elements: Organization → Subprocess → Risk → Control.
2. Risk Coverage Report: This report assists the organization in evaluating the alignment of controls with risks and identifying any gaps in risk mitigation. It outlines the number of risks identified for each local subprocess, specifies their sources (such as control objectives, account groups, or inherent subprocess factors), and indicates the extent to which these risks are mitigated through controls.
3. Organization and Process Structure Report: This report provides a hierarchical view of the organization, process, subprocess, and control mapping, integral to the control localization process.
4. Change Analysis Report: This report offers a comprehensive analysis of changes made to master data elements between two selected time periods. Users must specify Period 1 (Time Frame and Year) and Period 2 (Time Frame and Year) to compare the master data. The report output details any modifications, creations, deletions, and role assignments made to the master data during the specified periods.
5. Audit Log Report: This Reports provides a detailed log of the changes made to any of the central or local master data elements between the dates under selection while executing the report. The changes are shown in a chronological order, and it is possible to select if the changes to be reviewed should be extracted from the central master data or local master data.

SAP Process Control provides a series of reports regarding Continuous Control Monitoring. This includes the assignment of data sources and business rules to controls, as well as, control monitoring related reports:

1. Automated Control Business Rule Assignment Report: The business rules created for the purpose of automated monitoring should be mapped to the control for which the operating effectiveness should be evaluated. This report provides the view of the relationship between the local controls to which the business rules are assigned.
2. Monitoring Issue Status report: This report provide visibility into the status of issues identified as part of the automated monitoring jobs. It shows a detailed view of the controls for which the issue is identified, including the organization where the control and subprocesses is localized.
3. Monitoring Control Status: This reports allows to check the status and results of control testing in an organizational unit. Key features include displaying the control testing status by process or organization, providing an overview of the progress of planned control testing, and displaying the details of control testing results and reported issues.
4. Data Source Business Rule Assignment: Automated controls are monitored through business rules that are created using the data sources. This report provides an interactive output for such relationship between data sources and business rules.
5. Monitoring Remediation Status: This report offers a comprehensive overview of controls with established remediation plans. It includes information on the organization where each control is localized, the subprocess associated with the control, specifics of the issue prompting the plan, the issue owner, details of the remediation plan, the assigned remediator, and the current status of the plan.

SAP Process Control offers a range of report providing detailed data and metrics relating to Assessment Surveys, Evaluations and Testing, and Risk and Control reporting.

1. Issue Status Report: Overview of all created issues in various workflows, such as Control Self-Assessment, Control Test of Effectiveness, Manual Control Performance including
2. Manual Control Performance Details: This report provides an overview of executed control performance tasks, including the detailed steps performed.
3. Test Status by Organization: High level overview of the assigned controls per organization, number of the performed control design assessments, performed control self-assesssments, and performed test of effectiveness.
4. Assessment Survey Details: Overview of all questions, answers, and comments from the survey responses within the workflows.

For Demo purposes we will highlight only Monitor Control Status Report.

As the Internal Control Manager, Ian Robb needs to constantly check the status and results of planned control testing in the organization to ensure the effectiveness of controls.

With the Monitor Control Status app, he can easily access all planned controls by process or organization, overview control testing issues, and drill down to details.

This tool enables him to effectively monitor and manage the control testing processes within the organization General Accounting in CRG International, Inc..