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TiTLE : IT Auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Key
Strategies for Business Improvement

AUTHOR : Dimitris N. Chorafas

PUBLISHER : Auerbach Publications

iSBN : 1420086170 MAKER : Team DDU

PAGES : 316 Pages PACKAGER : Team DDU

EDiTiON : October 29, 2008 SUPPLiER : Team DDU

LANGUAGE : ENGLISH FORMAT : PDF

RLS DATE : 12/19/08 SiZE : 6.05 MB

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Information technology auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance have
several overlapping characteristics. They both require ethical
accounting practices, focused auditing activities, a functioning
system of internal control, and a close watch by the board’s
audit committee and CEO. Written as a contribution to the
accounting and auditing professions as well as to IT practitioners,
IT Auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance:Key Strategies for
Business Improvement links these two key business strategies and
explains how to perform IT auditing in a comprehensive and
strategic manner.

Based on 46 years of experience as a consultant to the boards of
major corporations in manufacturing and banking, the author
addresses objectives, practices, and business opportunities
expected from auditing information systems. Topics discussed
include the concept of internal control, auditing functions,
internal and external auditors, and the responsibilities of the
board of directors.
The book uses several case studies to illustrate and clarify the
material. Its chapters analyze the underlying reasons for failures
in IT projects and how they can be avoided, examine critical
technical questions concerning information technology, discuss
problems related to system reliability and response time, and
explore issues of compliance.
The book concludes by presenting readers with a “what
if” scenario. If Sarbannes-Oxley legislation had passed the
U.S. Congress in the late 1990s or even 2000, how might this have
influenced the financial statements of Enron and Worldcom? We can
never truly know the answer, but if companies make use of the
procedures in this book, debacles such as these – and those
which led to the 2007-2008 credit and banking crisis – will
remain a distant memory.


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