About this product: Now in its third edition, this book is an excellent introductory reference to IT governance, controls, and auditing. It covers a wide range of topics in the field. It reviews pertinent legislation, discusses the future of auditing in the 21st century, and examines governance, strategy and standards, and acquisition and implementation. In a section on delivery and support, it explores service management, service continuity, systems management, and operations management. Finally, the authors review advanced topics such as virtual environment, virtual security, e-commerce, and enterprise resource planning. This new edition also includes guidelines for preparing for CISA Exam, and includes numerous illustrations, graphs and charts to help readers visualize the concepts.
About this product: This Auditing practice set incorporates both the cycles and the risk approach using the audit risk model. Students will learn to design and prepare the current year's working papers and assemble the completed case. Taking about 30 hours to complete, this practice set can be used with any Auditing textbook.
About this product: Newly revised and edited, this bestselling handbook is updated with new chapters on energy assessment and computer software. It includes detailed analysis of the latest technologies and software available for optimizing the audit process. It provides all of the information necessary to plan and carry out a thorough and accurate energy audit of any electrical, mechanical and building system for any facility. Clear, easy-to-follow instructions guide readers through accounting procedures, rate of return, and life cycle cost analysis. Loaded with forms, checklists, and handy aids, this book is essential for anyone responsible for overseeing a facility energy audit.
About this product: This expanded edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits brings you up-to-date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits. The author discusses new developments in information generation and availability, including new chapters on meeting ISO 14000 auditing guidelines, auditing dilemmas, and auditing tips, and new tools for building a successful audit program, including seven model program stages.
About this product: Emphasizing the use of sampling in the audit of financial statements by external as well as internal auditors, this book presents technical sampling material within the context of the auditing risk model.
About this product: As auditing shifts from an outsourced function to a cornerstone of internal control, audit directors need an updated manual that reflects the radical changes the internal audit profession recently experienced in order to establish efficient processes for conducting successful audits. Managing the Audit Function, Third Edition, provides a blueprint for the creation of an effective procedures manual for an internal audit department.
A new chapter defines internal control, risk assessment, control strategies, and malicious activities. This subject should be studied and understood not only by internal auditors but by all managers and board members as well. The recent developments with accounting irregularities demonstrated a clear need for an education on the complex subject of internal control.
By implementing the methods recommended in Cangemi and Singleton’s authoritative guide, auditors can play an integral role in improving overall corporate performance. Among other services, the Third Edition:
Provides a discussion of what world-class audit departments are doing with Baldridge criteria, balanced scorecard, and other continuous improvement techniques
Contains unique matrices that describe each component of the audit function in detail, from administration to performance to reporting
Includes standards for information systems auditing
Offers a discussion of quality assurance and marketing
Delivers a new section on the internal control system, which includes models, tools, and techniques, that should be read by all senior management and board members
By following the manual, auditors can ensure that they are following the guidelines for internal control that both the Foreign Corrupt Services Act and the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) require.
Each page of the manual has a heading consisting of a generic company name, title of the manual (Corporate Audit Department Procedures Manual, if appropriate), section number, revision number, and the date of the revision. The authors have written much of the text this way as a boilerplate that can be used to easily create a unique, modifiable, dynamic manual. In this shifting accounting landscape, effective auditing procedures are absolutely essential to appropriate internal control. Managing the Audit Function, Third Edition provides internal auditors the reliable resource they need.
Praise for Managing the Audit Function
"The corporate governance issues, accounting irregularities, and legislative actions that have taken place over the past two years have elevated the role and importance of the internal audit function. Managing the Audit Function provides a valuable guide and reference tool for those charged with either executing or overseeing this function." –– Daniel S. Kaplan, Business Risk Services Partner Ernst & Young LLP
"It was refreshing to read Internal Audit literature with the appropriate focus on information systems and information systems auditing, since computer systems play such a key role in the processing of accounting transactions and the performance of business operations in today’s business environment." –– William J. Powers, Partner, National Director Information Systems Assurance Services BDO Seidman, LLP
"Cangemi and Singleton have created a knowledge management tool for the creation of quality audit manuals and functions. Managing the Audit Function is an important book for all audit managers, and with the addition of new and updated material, including information on the implications and requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, it provides the information to keep pace with changing conditions affecting the audit function." –– Robert S. Roussey, Professor of Accounting Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California International President, Information Systems Audit and Control Association
" This is basically a procedures manual for an internal auditing department that has been prepared by two of the world’s most knowledgeable IT auditors. The book is a handy tool because examples are given throughout of relevant audit documents, such as audit reports, responses to reports, responses to delinquent responses, matrices, checklists, and flowcharts. Every audit department should have this book as a reference manual." –– Dale L. Flesher, PhD, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, CGFM Professor of Accountancy and Associate Dean University of Mississippi
About this product: Write reports that get read, remembered, and acted on promptly. Write it right the first time and publish timely information.
Writing High-Impact Reports presents scores of practical techniques that the author has developed to help auditors and accountants present their results quickly, clearly, and convincingly.
In this book, you will discover: --What readers do and don't value in your written reports. --Why recipients don't always grasp the significance of issues you present. --How you can make it easy for readers to understand and accept your key points. --The secrets to writing reports that emphasize actions and solutions.
Writing High-Impact Reports is a complete toolkit. It includes bonus material on a CD, a laminated Tip Sheet, plenty of how-to writing tips, and lots of examples.
About this product: A necessity for auditors, audit managers, audit teams, and all quality professionals. The Quality Audits for Improved Performance, Third Edition, provides established techniques and serves as a guide to learning and applying the basic techniques of quality auditing. Author Dennis Arter continues to expand on the audit principles to show how the quality audit can improve business performance.
The new edition features: * Expanded background and history of auditing * A general model for auditing any management system * Added information on process audits and the system-process-product relationship * Auditor competencies and qualification * Explanation of audit reports and the role of the auditor after the report * New material on remedial and corrective action * Example audit procedures and glossary of terms
Arter addresses both internal and supplier auditing as it relates to any quality management system, including ISO 9001, GMP, automotive, and others. He provides supportive examples and checklists throughout the book to help make this one of the best single-source reference guides. Quality practitioners and registrars will find this book to be a useful tool.
Contents: * Brief History of Auditing * What Is an Audit? * General Model of Auditing * Management Principles Audit Program Manager * Phases of the Audit Process * Audit Plan * Reporting * Remedial Action * Corrective Action * Close Out
About this product: Executives want predictability and improvement in the performance of the business. Top-line predictability is the result of repeatable execution of a documented sales process, examination of the results, and modification of the process to assure future results. Predictability depends on auditing the selling process.
Can the sales process be audited? Sales managers argue that selling is an art-form exempt from scrutiny. But to produce predictable results, the sales organization must document and interrogate its processes using ‘Sarbanes-Oxley-like’ rigor and ‘comply’ with senior management expectations.
This book organizes effective sales management processes into a comprehensive, repeatable system. It distills years of observation, training, and real-world experience into a step-by-step system for auditing a sales process.
How do executives view the sales team’s skills and effectiveness? Is the company hiring and tracking these skills through a defined sales process? Is the company measuring the sales team on their execution using these skills?
This book explores the concept of the Sales Audit and explains how to use it to achieve predictability of results through ‘sales process compliance’:
* Align senior management expectations with those of the sales team.
* Interrogate the steps of the current sales process to evaluate its effectiveness.
* Measure the sales team’s adherence to the process and their results.
* Review the performance of the process in terms of predictability of results.
* Ensure the continual improvement of the process and its future alignment with organizational results.
About this product: Praise for Audit Committee Essentials
"Audit Committee Essentials is an excellent and comprehensive resource, documented with key references and illustrated with real-life company examples for all types of commercial and nonprofit enterprises. Dr. Verschoor brings into focus the intertwined impact of risk management, internal controls, and ethics on oversight responsibilities for both the audit committee and the entire board of directors. From my personal perspective as an audit committee member and as a director of both profit and nonprofit entities, this book should be required reading for corporate management, boards of directors, and their committees."--George K. Gill, Chairman and CEO of PetAg, Inc.;Director and member of the Investment and Audit Committees of the United Methodist Foundation of Northern Illinois
"Maintaining the highest ethical standards is critical to the success of not-for-profits in today's world. Dr. Verschoor's book provides a practical, highly prescriptive approach to ensuring that governance processes meet the highest expectations of managers, employees, volunteers, contributors, and other stakeholders. I am very impressed with the readability of the book. It definitely raises one's awareness of the need for a thought-out plan that ensures strong financial and ethical credibility."--John S. Maxson, President and CEO Greater North Michigan Avenue Association, Chicago, Illinois
A concise and readable account of the audit committee's roles and responsibilities
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has changed the way all corporations now operate, regardless of size. In Audit Committee Essentials, goverance expert Curtis Verschoor explains with great detail and razor-sharp precision why internal control is so critical, emphasizing financial literacy, a requirement under Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as oversight of the financial reporting process and related controls, ethics and the internal and independent audits.
Written for seasoned professionals as well as newly assigned board members, Audit Committee Essentials is a vital tool in order to stay abreast of the rapidly changing governance requirements and responsibilities of audit committees.
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