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		Menu Foods Income Fund Menu Foods Income Fund is the leading North American private-label and contract manufacturer of pet food products. The company’s products are sold by supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers and other retail and wholesale outlets.(Menu Foods produces more than one billion containers of pet food annually.)
Client:		Menu Foods Income Fund
Industry:		Manufacturing
Project:		Compliance with Multilateral Instrument 52-109 (C-SOX)
Services:		Develop, plan, manage and execute Design Effectiveness Evaluation for C-SOX compliance, for the period ended December 31, 2006
Objective:		Assist Menu Foods work towards meeting the initial compliance requirement of the Canadian Securities Administrators and Multilateral Instrument 52-109 relating to the evaluation of the design effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006
Solution:		Solution: Using the industry recognized COSO and COBIT frameworks, developed a risk-based, top down methodology: Plan and Scope: Determined the scope of documentation and evaluation, focusing on significant and high-risk areas Documentation: Documented the processes, associated risks and key controls that mitigated the risks Evaluation of Design Effectiveness: Evaluated the design effectiveness of the key controls. Remediation: Worked with key stake holders identified remedial actions to bring residual risk to an acceptable level and within budget
Result:		In addition to completing the C-SOX project on time, identified significant Internal Control value added efficiencies, and assisted in their implementation

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