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When customers rely on your services for financial reporting, they need confidence in the controls behind the work. Killer Logic helps you prepare for a SOC 1 examination, organize your program and keep controls operating between reporting periods.
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How do we demonstrate the controls our customers rely on for financial reporting? SOC 1 concerns controls at a service organization relevant to its customers’ internal control over financial reporting. It is not a general cybersecurity report or an audit of your own financial statements. Killer Logic supports readiness and ongoing program operation; an independent licensed CPA firm performs the examination and issues the SOC report. We act as your advocate by helping your team represent its processes accurately and keep requests moving.
Review customer needs, the services involved and the transaction flows that affect their financial reporting. Identify relevant systems, control objectives, service dependencies and responsibilities retained by customers. Compare current practices with the intended examination scope and turn gaps into a prioritized readiness plan, with decisions to resolve alongside management and the auditor.
Map how transactions enter, move through and leave your service. Document control owners and the checks supporting complete, accurate and authorized processing. Help management prepare its system description and a process/control matrix. Improve transaction approvals, reconciliations, exception handling, access and change controls where the review identifies weaknesses in design or execution.
Define what each control produces, where records belong and how reviewers record their conclusions. Organize evidence by control and reporting period, including the populations and exceptions needed to explain operation. Perform readiness checks for missing or inconsistent records, then help owners establish schedules that fit the work instead of reconstructing it at examination time.
Translate audit requests into understandable tasks, coordinate due dates and prepare control owners for walkthroughs. Help explain business processes and control operation accurately. When a request appears mismatched to the system or examination scope, clarify the intent with the auditor and management. Keep exceptions visible and responses factual; the auditor retains responsibility for examination judgments and conclusions.
Help management respond to findings with a clear account of the issue, its cause and planned corrective action. Track remediation owners and check whether revised procedures work in practice. Maintain recurring control schedules, update documentation after process changes and prepare evidence throughout the next reporting period so the program continues after the report is issued.
For a payroll provider receiving customer requests for a SOC 1 report, trace payroll inputs, approvals, processing and output reconciliation. Document the controls and customer responsibilities, close readiness gaps and organize records that help owners explain how errors are identified and resolved.
For a transaction-processing company with an established program, review changes to its workflows and systems, refresh the control matrix and maintain evidence schedules. Track prior findings through corrective action and coordinate new requests without leaving everyday control operation until the next examination.
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Before we get started
Service organizations whose work affects their customers’ financial reporting may be asked for one. Payroll and transaction processing are common examples. Start with what customers and their financial statement auditors need to understand, then determine which services and controls are relevant.
SOC 1 focuses on controls relevant to customers’ internal control over financial reporting. SOC 2 addresses controls using applicable Trust Services Criteria. SOC means System and Organization Controls here, rather than a security operations center. Customer needs and the services provided determine which report is appropriate.
Type 1 addresses the system description and suitability of control design at a specified date. Type 2 also addresses operating effectiveness over a specified period. Type 1 is not a mandatory prerequisite to Type 2. We help plan readiness around the selected report type; the examination scope and timing are agreed with your CPA firm.
Yes. We help management coordinate requests, prepare walkthroughs and resolve questions with its selected auditor. You retain the auditor relationship. Our role is to keep information accurate and organized, including exceptions and issues that need a management response.
Yes. We help maintain control schedules, evidence collection, process documentation and corrective actions between reporting periods. Continued operation matters because organizational changes can make last year’s descriptions or routines incomplete.
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