As auditing shifts from an outsourced function to a cornerstone of internal control, audit directors need an updated manual that reflects the radical changes the internal audit profession recently experienced in order to establish efficient processes for conducting successful audits. Managing the Audit Function, Third Edition, provides a blueprint for the creation of an effective procedures manual for an internal audit department. A new chapter defines internal control, risk assessment, control strategies, and malicious activities. This subject should be studied and understood not only by internal auditors but by all managers and board members as well. The recent developments with accounting irregularities demonstrated a clear need for an education on the complex subject of internal control. By implementing the methods recommended in Cangemi and Singleton’s authoritative guide, auditors can play an integral role in improving overall corporate performance. Among other services, the Third Edition: Provides a discussion of what world-class audit departments are doing with Baldridge criteria, balanced scorecard, and other continuous improvement techniques Contains unique matrices that describe each component of the audit function in detail, from administration to performance to reporting Includes standards for information systems auditing Offers a discussion of quality assurance and marketing Delivers a new section on the internal control system, which includes models, tools, and techniques, that should be read by all senior management and board members By following the manual, auditors can ensure that they are following the guidelines for internal control that both the Foreign Corrupt Services Act and the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) require. The authors also present a sample procedures manual on an available Web site: www.wiley.com/go/audit manual. Each page of the manual has a heading consisting of a generic company name, title of the manual (Corporate Audit Department Procedures Manual, if appropriate), section number, revision number, and the date of the revision. The authors have written much of the text this way as a boilerplate that can be used to easily create a unique, modifiable, dynamic manual. In this shifting accounting landscape, effective auditing procedures are absolutely essential to appropriate internal control. Managing the Audit Function, Third Edition provides internal auditors the reliable resource they need.
Book Details:
- Author: Michael P. Cangemi
- ISBN: 9780470308097
- Year Published: 2003
- Pages: 384
- BISAC: BUS003000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Auditing
About the Book and Topic:
As auditing shifts from an outsourced function to a cornerstone of internal control, audit directors need an updated manual that reflects the radical changes the internal audit profession recently experienced in order to establish efficient processes for conducting successful audits. Managing the Audit Function, Third Edition, provides a blueprint for the creation of an effective procedures manual for an internal audit department. A new chapter defines internal control, risk assessment, control strategies, and malicious activities. This subject should be studied and understood not only by internal auditors but by all managers and board members as well. The recent developments with accounting irregularities demonstrated a clear need for an education on the complex subject of internal control. By implementing the methods recommended in Cangemi and Singleton’s authoritative guide, auditors can play an integral role in improving overall corporate performance. Among other services, the Third Edition: Provides a discussion of what world-class audit departments are doing with Baldridge criteria, balanced scorecard, and other continuous improvement techniques Contains unique matrices that describe each component of the audit function in detail, from administration to performance to reporting Includes standards for information systems auditing Offers a discussion of quality assurance and marketing Delivers a new section on the internal control system, which includes models, tools, and techniques, that should be read by all senior management and board members By following the manual, auditors can ensure that they are following the guidelines for internal control that both the Foreign Corrupt Services Act and the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) require. The authors also present a sample procedures manual on an available Web site: www.wiley.com/go/audit manual. Each page of the manual has a heading consisting of a generic company name, title of the manual (Corporate Audit Department Procedures Manual, if appropriate), section number, revision number, and the date of the revision. The authors have written much of the text this way as a boilerplate that can be used to easily create a unique, modifiable, dynamic manual. In this shifting accounting landscape, effective auditing procedures are absolutely essential to appropriate internal control. Managing the Audit Function, Third Edition provides internal auditors the reliable resource they need.
The role of the audit department has made a 360 degree turn. No longer is this function being outsourced. Corporations now realize that their auditors play a key role in internal control. Audit directors are finding that their manuals are ten to twenty years old or nonexistent. They now need help in updating or creating them. Managing the Audit Function provides step-by-step guidance on how to set up an internal audit department as well as show how the department should be run. It provides useful information that will assist auditors in their efforts to improve their corporations performance.
Provides a blueprint for the creation of an effective procedures manual for the internal audit department * Provides unique matrices that describe each component of the audit function in detail from administration to performance to reporting * Includes standards for information systems auditing * Includes discussion of quality assurance and marketing * Provides a new section on the internal control system, which includes models, tools, and techniques * Provides discussion of what world-class audit departments are doing with Baldridge criteria, balanced scorecard, and other continuous improvment techniques * Website available that contains sample procedures manual
About the Author
MICHAEL P. CANGEMI, CPA, CISA, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Aigner Group, a leading wholesale/retail firm that designs and produces quality branded leather goods. Prior to joining Aigner Group, he was partner and national director of EDP auditing for BDO Seidman, where he founded and directed a service area for internal audit services and was general auditor of Phelps Dodge Corporation. TOMMIE SINGLETON, CPA, CMA, CISA, CITP, is Professor and Director of the Development of Computer Accounting Information Systems and of the Forensic Accounting Program at the University of North Alabama.