Like all organizations, not-for-profits (NFPs) design internal controls to safeguard assets and ensure financial information integrity and compliance. Importantly, recommendations for correcting control weaknesses need to evolve as the environment in which accounting processes take place are ever-changing.
For example, the trend toward virtual work environments was expedited by the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical servers, paper support, manual data entry, and in-office work have been replaced by fully virtual and paperless environments, necessitating new internal controls. The required controls can be