internal control
Noun
Meaning
an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc.
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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Internal control over financial reporting is a process to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Internal control is now the direct responsibility of directors.
Much of the cocoa produced in Latin America is an organic and regulated by an Internal control system.