In 1992 the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released its Internal Control — Integrated Framework (the original framework). The original framework gained broad acceptance and was widely recognized as a leading framework for designing, implementing, and conducting internal control and assessing the effectiveness of internal control.
COSO revised the original framework in 2013 (COSO 2013 IC Framework). The COSO 2013 IC Framework incorporated 17 principles. These 17 principles are associated with the five internal control components,