Short description This handbook helps auditors evaluate, measure, and check internal management and financial procedures and systems to increase efficiency and prevent fraud. Reflecting the variety of business situations that auditors face, it encourages them to develop creative approaches for dealing with the problems encountered during the operational audit review. This new edition is fully updated to take account of developments in internal control and corporate governance under Sarbanes-Oxley, and in audit processes particular to financial institutions in light of the credit crunch. It also contains new and updated case studies and checklists.
From the contents Preface.
Acknowledgements.
PART I UNDERSTANDING OPERATIONAL AUDITING.
1 Approaches to operational auditing.
2 Business processes.
3 Developing operational review programmes for managerial and audit use.
4 Governance processes.
5 Risk management processes.
6 Internal control processes.
7 Review of the control environment.
8 Reviewing internal control over financial reporting - the Sarbanes-Oxley approach.
9 Business/ management techniques and their impact on control and audit.
10 Control self assessment.
11 Evaluating the internal audit activity.
PART II AUDITING KEY FUNCTIONS.
12 Auditing the finance and accounting functions.
13 Auditing subsidiaries and remote operating units.
14 Auditing contracts and the purchasing function.
15 Auditing operations and resource management.
16 Auditing marketing and sales.
17 Auditing distribution.
18 Auditing human resources.
19 Auditing research and development.
20 Auditing security.
21 Auditing environmental responsibility.
PART III AUDITING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
22 Auditing information technology.
23 IT Strategic Planning.
24 IT Organisation.
25 IT Policy Framework.
26 Information Asset Register*.
27 Capacity Management
28 Information Management (IM)*.
29 Records Management (RM)*.
30 Knowledge Management (KM)*.
31 IT sites and Infrastructure (including physical security).
32 Processing Operations.
33 Back-up and Media Management.
34 Removable media.
35 System and Operating Software (including patch management).
36 System Access Control (or logical security).
37 Personal Computers (including laptops and PDAs).
