Process Development Life Cycle: An Audit Survival Guide - Softcover

Albert J. Marcella; Carol Stucki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0894134507 ISBN 13: 9780894134500

Publisher: The IIA Research Foundation, 2001

Synopsis

Reduce waste, increase customer satisfaction, and respond quickly to changing environments by learning to audit and manage life cycle processes successfully.

This survival guide provides a wealth of practical tools and control techniques designed to help auditors successfully manage life cycle processes. This practical and much-needed survival guide presents clear, concise, and critical guidance for conducting a systems audit. The authors present guidance for investigating single stages of the development process, including the design, construction, evaluation, and installation stages. They also address the broader impact of systems design as a process.

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About the Author

Albert J. Marcella, Jr., Ph.D., CQA, CCP, CFSA, CDP, CISA, is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business and Technology, Department of Management, at Webster University in Saint Louis, MO. He is also President of Business Automation Consultants, an information technology and management-consulting firm. Prior to the formation of his own firm in 1984, Dr. Marcella was employeed by the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation where he established and formalized the IT audit function. Dr. Marcella's additional professional experiences include providing internal systems consulting services to the Hartford Insurance Group, and the design and execution of operational, financial, and IT audits for the Uniroyal Corporation, both in the United States and abroad. The Institute of Internal Auditors awarded Dr. Marcella the Leon R. Radde Educatior of the Year Award for 2000.

Carol Stucki, CISA, is currently a Technical Producer for PurchasePro.com, a rapidly growing "dont com" company that is an application service provider specializing in Internet-based procurement. Ms. Stucki's past experiences include working woth GTE, Perot Systems, and Auther Andersen LLP as a programmer, systems analysit, project manager, and auditor.

Edition details

• Publisher: The IIA Research Foundation
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0894134507
• ISBN 13: 9780894134500
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 537