Risk toolkit/Deliver
For premium-listed companies from accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2026, and for any firm choosing to align. The word “material” has a job. It is not a synonym for “important”.
Excel workbook
Start from principal risks and the processes that would actually threaten the declaration. Map the controls that, if they failed, would make the board’s statement untrue. Then stop. Most firms land on 30-50 material controls, not 300.
A control can sit in one primary category - financial, operational, reporting or compliance. Do not tag it four times. If a control is only material because someone wants it on a list, it is not material.
Initia is the platform these templates were taken from. Same fields, without the reconciliation.