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CASA (Continuous Audit by Self-Assessment) is a web-based tool to enable people within a company to confirm that controls and procedures and policies are being followed or complied with. CASA is essentially a questionnaire but it is also highly specified to ensure that the questions produce valuable answers that can be acted upon. CASA is also intended to help users, not just get information from them. It is designed to do this by giving users access to online procedures or best practice. By giving users their overall scores immediately and action plans for any improvements required, and by aggregating scores throughout an organization, the tool supports efforts to comply with corporate governance best practice. It also involves users in a positive way by giving the link between controls and procedures manuals, by facilitating training on these procedures and by giving a means of feeding back issues or comments on the operation to the centre.

Typical areas of usage include Risk Assessment, Health and Safety, Financial Compliance, Legal Compliance, Cleaning, Trading Standards, Human Resource, Cash Control, Training, New Issues and Self Audit.

CASA has already been used by early compliers with section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley. The tool is economical and easy to embed. The major reason why controls are not performed in an organization is because operators do not know how to perform them; CASA provides the support for clarifying what the operator is meant to be doing in terms of performing a control and why they are doing it.

CASA is tried and tested and has been used in large organizations since 2001 to control numerous processes with variable scoring periods, ranging from a couple of days to a year. Its aim of being 'simple to use' means that any one from the Chief Executive to a shop floor colleague can pick it up quickly and management reporting is also just a few clicks away

It's normally 'three clicks and you're' there with CASA.

At user level it...


 *Enables them to validate themselves
 *Answers simple to complex questions
 *Allows them to score themselves simply
 *Provides relevant feedback
 *Provides action plans
 *Monitors action plans
 *Allows historical review

At Home Office it allows...


 *Reviews of site scores
 *Review of non-scoring sites
 *Review of current scored position
 *Consolidation of feedback
 *Review of Action plans
 *Independent review scoring
 *Reporting of overall trends
 *Clickable drill down graphs
 *Follow up on individual action plans
 *Worst 10 controls and site review
 *Definition of sites to be audited based on received results
 *Instant content control set-up
 *Administrator control of content and user access

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