Auditing for Managers: The Ultimate Risk Management Tool - Softcover

Pickett, K. H. Spencer; Pickett, Jennifer M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470090987 ISBN 13: 9780470090985

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

K.H. Spencer Pickett is a Course Director at CPMS, in Ascot, Berkshire, where he is responsible for training programmes on internal audit, corporate governance and risk management. Spencer is a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, Institute of Internal Auditors, Certified Fraud Examiners and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Jennifer M. Pickett is currently a senior Project Manager in a large organization, having previously been the Business Planning and Assurance Manager responsible for coordinating the corporate risk register.

From the Back Cover

Auditing For Managers: The Ultimate Risk Management Tool is an essential resource for busy managers and review teams, setting standards for self-audit, risk management, compliance reviews and formal disclosure reporting. Covering a much overlooked area, ittakes the techniques for performing reliable and defensible audit reviews into the general business risk management and controls arena.

Key Features:

• A simple, jargon-free, ‘how to do’ format that can be used by managers to ensure speedy and successful completion of internal reviews of their enterprise risk management process.
• Guidance covering various different audits including management audits, formal investigations and control risk self-assessments.
• A comprehensive set of standards that can be adapted and adopted by managers from all types of organizations to help them develop a systematic way of performing internal reviews.
• A brand new business assurance tool is introduced called A4M.99: Auditing for Managers based on 99 key values - a solution to the current problem whereby published corporate disclosures regarding systems of internal control mean little or nothing to the typical business manager, who is asked to sign up to them.

Although auditing is seen by many as a specialist process, it may nevertheless be applied by all levels of management to improve their systems. It is the ultimate risk management tool.

Key Features:

• A simple, jargon-free, ‘how to do’ format that can be used by managers to ensure speedy and successful completion of internal reviews of their enterprise risk management process.
• Guidance covering various different audits including management audits, formal investigations and control risk self-assessments.
• A comprehensive set of standards that can be adapted and adopted by managers from all types of organizations to help them develop a systematic way of performing internal reviews.
• A brand new business assurance tool is introduced called A4M.99: Auditing for Managers based on 99 key values - a solution to the current problem whereby published corporate disclosures regarding systems of internal control mean little or nothing to the typical business manager, who is asked to sign up to them.

Although auditing is seen by many as a specialist process, it may nevertheless be applied by all levels of management to improve their systems. It is the ultimate risk management tool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470090987
• ISBN 13: 9780470090985
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368