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  <body>&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Audit Services and Institute Compliance (ASIC) &lt;/strong&gt;proactively partners with management, faculty, and staff to ensure that the Campus, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other Caltech operations effectively:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Identify and manage risks;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Comply with applicable laws, regulations, agreements, and internal procedures;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Maintain financial and operational information integrity;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Establish and maintain an appropriate control environment, level of accountability, and ethical framework; and,&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monitor and improve processes.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ASIC&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;conducts financial, operational, and information technology audits in accordance with approved plans and established policies and procedures. In addition,&amp;nbsp;ASIC complies with the &lt;a title="The IIA - Code of Ethics" href="http://www.theiia.org/guidance/standards-and-guidance/ippf/code-of-ethics/english/" target="_blank"&gt;Code of Ethics&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a title="The IIA - Standards" href="http://www.theiia.org/guidance/standards-and-guidance/ippf/standards/" target="_blank"&gt;Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing&lt;/a&gt; promulgated by The Institute of Internal Auditors, as well as other professional auditing standards which may be applicable to the performance of work assignments&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ASIC&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;has developed an Institute&amp;nbsp;Compliance Program that reflects the Institute's commitment to the highest standards in all of its activities. The program provides an operational framework to help ensure that compliance&amp;nbsp;remains an integral part of the Institute's culture.&amp;nbsp;ASIC helps management, faculty, and staff identify and reduce risks which could adversely affect the Institute.&lt;/p&gt;
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