Control Self-Assessment is a powerful audit and consulting tool that can be organized to protect against Business Risks or used as the central tool in a Business Process Analysis. In this first comprehensive introduction to CSA methodology, Richard Tritter explains how to successfully use CSA sessions to get a realistic look at the machinery of your business with information known to its day-to-day operational staff. He goes on to show you how to use this information to develop an action plan that will be enthusiastically put into practice. Control Self-Assessment is a must for any firm in which CEOs and staff share a common vision built on their collective wisdom.
Book Details:
- Author: Richard P. Tritter
- ISBN: 9780471298427
- Year Published: 1999
- Pages: 254
- BISAC: BUS001040, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Accounting / Managerial
About the Book and Topic:
Control Self-Assessment is a powerful audit and consulting tool that can be organized to protect against Business Risks or used as the central tool in a Business Process Analysis. In this first comprehensive introduction to CSA methodology, Richard Tritter explains how to successfully use CSA sessions to get a realistic look at the machinery of your business with information known to its day-to-day operational staff. He goes on to show you how to use this information to develop an action plan that will be enthusiastically put into practice. Control Self-Assessment is a must for any firm in which CEOs and staff share a common vision built on their collective wisdom.
Since the 1987 stock market crash, corporation’s have been learning how to “succeed with less”fewer financial resources, less staff, and shrinking profits requiring major cost reductions. Today’s successful manager need new tools to accomplish the business objectives of the 1990s, that is, greater profitability, supervising with a smaller middle management, and tighter internal controls. Control self-assessment is the single most powerful tool available to corporations to become self-assessing, self-regulating, and self-improving–all from harnessing the intelligence of stakeholders in the process. It accomplishes three critical goals: (1) enables senior management to manage business processes with very few middle managers, (2) discovers where “hands-off” between departments and individuals are not working well (CSA effectively analyzes the “white spaces in the organization,” and provides remedies suggested by those most familiar with the process), and (3) enables stakeholders to exchange information, build larger perspectives, develop new approaches, and implement consensus-based action plans.
Brings corporate executives together in understanding where theproblems are and how to fix them. * Demonstrates how to create control self-assessment groups thatprovide “better-faster-cheaper” methods for obtaining accurate,detailed information on critical issues. * Provides an effective method for analyzing business risks andcontrols. * Illustrates financial management with the critical toolsnecessary to create tighter internal controls.
About the Author
RICHARD P. TRITTER is the Director of Regional Business Development at a major software consulting firm in Massachusetts. Previously, he was the Director of Facilitative Consulting and the Director of Business Self-Assessment practice worldwide at a Big Five accounting firm, which involved conducting facilitative meetings with groups of client executives at the vice-presidential level or higher. Regarded as a major authority on CSA technique, Tritter researched and wrote Control Self-Assessment: Experience, Current Thinking, and Best Practices for the Institute of Internal Auditors. For his facilitation work in improving adult-handicapped programs, the author was the cowinner of the Massachusetts Better Government Competition awarded by Governor William Weld in 1991.