ALSO CALLED: Treadway Commission and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission DEFINITION: U.S. private-sector initiative formed in 1985 to identify the factors that cause fraudulent financial reporting and to establish a common definition of internal controls, standards, and criteria against which companies and organizations can assess their control systems.
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