The whole concept behind the CAREweb™ family of products, and their associated methodology, is to establish a measurement of how well an organisation’s actual control environment compares to the best and worst scenarios likely to confront that organisation; in our terminology, we call this a “Control Gap”. Whilst everyone would like to be at the best level of control possible, there will still be deviations and some of these will be acceptable while others will not. A Business Unit will probably have a few control weaknesses resulting in a Control Gap, but provided this is within tolerable limits, this can be accepted. It is the variance from tolerable limits that are set out here.
Evidently, each Business Unit’s Control Gap will be different and the organisation will have a different view of how acceptable the various Control Gaps are; a gap of 30% in a Human Resources function, for example, may be acceptable but the same gap in Treasury might not. It is this level of tolerance that is referred to as the Acceptable Gap %. How the figure is determined will be explained later in the Control section of the Manual. This graph shows, across the organization, how many Business Units have a Control Gap that is above acceptable for that unit, how many are within an acceptable range and how many are below the determined acceptable range.
To see how many Business Units are included in a particular bar, simply position the cursor over the relevant bar on the chart. If you want a printed report of these, simply position the cursor on the bar and double click:
