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Auditing for Managers The Ultimate Risk Management Tool

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ISBN-10: 0470090987

ISBN-13: 9780470090985

Edition: 2005

Authors: K. H. Spencer Pickett, Jennifer M. Pickett

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Description:

At a time when many organizations are cutting their internal auditing departments, it's imperative that every manager understands the fundamentals of internal audits. This book is designed as a corporate resource to help managers and their teams set standards for self-auditing, risk management, compliance review, and formal disclosure reporting. Readers will learn proven, effective techniques for performing reliable and defensible audit reviews to ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
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Book details

List price: $92.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.74" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.496

Abbreviations
Why auditing?
Introduction
Why auditing?
External auditing
Internal auditing
Compliance auditing
Fundamental components
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
The wider governance context
Introduction
The accountability dilemma
Corporate governance
The ethical platform
The risk management concept: roles and responsibilities
Internal controls
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
Basic risk concepts
Introduction
The risk model
Risk identification
Risk assessment
Risk mitigation
Risk appetites
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
Different audit approaches
Introduction
Different strokes
The past
The present
The future
Making choices
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
The manager's initial audit
Introduction
Leading with risk
Overall strategy
Planning
Field work
Reports and the risk register
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
The team's initial audit
Introduction
The team initial audit concept
Establishing the programme
Running workshops
A short example
Getting the best out of people
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
The manager's initial investigation
Introduction
What is at stake
Reputation management
Types of investigations
Finding out
Making sense and making good
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
Successful risk management
Introduction
Building on the risk concepts
The risk policy
Links to control
Driving and leading
Tuning into enterprise risk management
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
Achieving the cultural shift
Introduction
Starting from zero
Why culture changes
Change and the systems perspectives
Creative work teams
The ultimate in risk management: auditing for all
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
Reporting results
Introduction
Public disclosures
Professionalism and credibility
Evidential base
Using the risk register
Good reporting
Common mistakes
Check your progress
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
So, why auditing?Introduction
Why auditing?
External auditing
Internal auditing
Compliance auditing
Fundamental components
Common mistakes
Check your perceptions
Newsflash - read all about it
The key messages
A final word
Manager's initial audits standards and guidance
Team initial audits standards and guidance
Manager's initial investigations standards and guidance
Checking your progress - your score
Staff surveys
Index