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Audit and Trace Log Management: Consolidation and Analysis

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Audit and Trace Log Management: Consolidation and Analysis
Phillip Q. Maier
Manufacturer: AUERBACH
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Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System

ASIN: 0849327253

Book Description

As regulation and legislation evolve, the critical need for cost-effective and efficient IT audit and monitoring solutions will continue to grow. Audit and Trace Log Management: Consolidation and Analysis offers a comprehensive introduction and explanation of requirements and problem definition, and also delivers a multidimensional solution set with broad applicability across a broad range of organizations. It provides a wealth of information and education in the form of process walkthroughs. These include problem determination, requirements gathering, scope definition, risk assessment, compliance objectives, system design and architecture, implementation and operational challenges, product and solution evaluation, communication plans, project management challenges, and determining ROI.

Information Technology Auditing and Assurance (with ACL Software)

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The worst written book award!
Poorly Written - One of the Worst
Audit and Control

Information Technology Auditing and Assurance (with ACL Software)
James A. Hall , and Tommie Singleton
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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Core Concepts of Information Technology Auditing
International Accounting (5th Edition)
Auditing & Assurance Services
Fraud Examination, Revised
Advanced Financial Accounting

ASIN: 0324191987

Book Description

Understand how audits take place in the real world with INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUDITING AND ASSURANCE and its accompanying ACL software! With coverage of traditional auditing as well as auditing of information systems, this accounting text provides you with the background you need to succeed in the real world. ACL Fraud and Auditing Cases, ACL Tutorials, Computer Aided Audit Tools and Techniques, and Chapter-Ending Projects are just a few of the tools that will prepare you for success in your future career.

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The worst written book award!.......2007-05-11

This is one of the worst written and ill-conceived book. Author knows very little about current trends in information systems. An average well-informed reader would know more about information systems than the author without reading a single page of this book. Author's style is old school, orthodox and boring. Maybe his military background is making him approach everything in a disciplined way without curiously questioning how and why. No examples, no case studies discussed. Way too generic, confusing and useless work. I wasted my money as this was a textbook for the course I took in IT auditing. My suggestion to readers is to explore other references in IT auditing on amazon.

Amazon is not allowing me to go lower than one star. I will give it a one star since it is 568 stupid pages bound between two paperboards! IT auditing is relatively a new field and this book is a bogus opportunistic attempt to cash on the new buzz word "IT auditing".

Poorly Written - One of the Worst.......2006-07-27

Frankly, I'm surprised that this book made it to publication. It has too many shortcomings. I'll cover one.

Among other shortcomings, the authors could improve on their writing by including topic sentences in paragraphs. To illustrate, consider the following first sentence in a paragraph:

"The result of natural disasters, such as fires, floods, wind, and earthquakes, are usually catastrophic to the computer center and information systems, even though the probability of such an occurrence is remote."

Based on this topic sentence you would think the subsequent sentences would expound on natural disasters and touch on the frequency of occurrence. Although the paragraph started on topic it quickly faded to discussions on human-made disasters and system failures. These should have been topics for separate paragraphs.

If this is the best available on the topic then I believe an opportunity exists for others to make some money on a better book. The "bar is low" with this book.

I would be interested to hear other comments. My comments are from the eyes of a student who is currently using this disappointing textbook. It is one of the worst textbooks I've encountered in my student career.

Audit and Control.......2001-09-29

I use this book as the basic text in my university course on computer auditing for CA's (CPA's to you south of the 49th) because it is the best text out of a bad lot. At times, Hall is concise and to the point. On occasion, for example in ch's 8 and 9 when he describes the audit of a receivables and a payables systems, his advice is detailed and valuable. Most of the time, though, he wanders into side issues in too much depth, ignores the concepts of risk and control, provides superficial advice and examples on CAAT's (despite the inclusion of the ACL disk, which, although stripped down, is worth the price of admission) and is just too thin on practical discussions of auditing in an EDP environment.

Excel for Auditors: Audit Spreadsheets Using Excel 97 through Excel 2007 (Excel for Professionals series)

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Don't waste your money
Especially for Auditors Who Already Use Excel

Excel for Auditors: Audit Spreadsheets Using Excel 97 through Excel 2007 (Excel for Professionals series)
Bill Jelen , and Dwayne K. Dowell
Manufacturer: Holy Macro! Books
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Excel for Accountants: Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Excel for the CEO (Excel for Professionals series)
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Spreadsheet Check and Control
Special Edition Using Microsoft(R) Office Excel 2007

ASIN: 1932802169

Book Description

Providing the tools and techniques necessary for finding errors and fraud in audits, this guide for auditors looking to better validate their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets provides techniques for performing a risk assessment and gathering spreadsheet and other data from company systems. Performing audit data analysis using data and analytical management functions and pinpointing the common errors in spreadsheets with focused Excel tests is discussed, as are the best practices for error and fraud prevention when developing spreadsheets. This reference is fully updated to reflect Excel 12.

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Don't waste your money.......2007-05-09

Auditors: Unless you're a total beginner at Excel, don't waste your money or time on this book. Pick a better comprehensive book about Excel, such as Wiley's MS Office Excel 2003 or ANYTHING else - they will cover all those concepts and dozens more, without insulting your intelligence. The idea that this book is for auditors is laughable. More like for 5th graders. I'm almost returned it, but didn't want to waste the time packing it up.

Especially for Auditors Who Already Use Excel.......2006-12-10

The use of Excel for performing accounting tupe applications is well known and straight forward. In auditing, however, the straight addition type functions that work well in accounting are not adequate. In auditing you need to look at data in many different ways to try to find anomolies (or since Sarbanes-Oxley, fraud) in the financial statements.

This book is intended for Auditors (but I bet you knew that from the title) who have at least a working knowledge of Excel. It then builds on that knowledge to discuss more advanced topics such as Transpose, VLOOKUP, sorting by color, and there's a great deal of information on all the things you can do with Pivot Tables.

This is not a large book, only a bit over a hundred pages, but it's pages are filled with information that will be particularly useful. It has several points where it shows the advantages of using the newest Excel 2007.

Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing

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Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing
Kenneth W. Stringer , and Trevor R. Stewart
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Hardcover

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Standard for Auditing Computer Applications

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Standard for Auditing Computer Applications
Martin A. Krist
Manufacturer: TF-ARBCH
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0849399831

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A Standard for Auditing Computer Applications is a dynamic new resource for evaluating all aspects of automated business systems and systems environments. At the heart of A Standard for Auditing Computer Applications system is a set of customizable workpapers that provide blow-by-blow coverage of all phases of the IT audit process for traditional mainframe, distributed processing, and client/server environments. A Standard for Auditing Computer Applications was developed by Marty Krist, an acknowledged and respected expert in IT auditing. Drawing upon his more than twenty years of auditing experience with leading enterprise organizations, worldwide, Marty walks you step-by-step through the audit process for system environments and specific applications and utilities. He clearly spells out what you need to look for and where to look for it, and he provides expert advice and guidance on how to successfully address a problem when you find one. When you order A Standard for Auditing Computer Applications, you receive a powerful package containing all the forms, checklists, and templates you'll ever need to conduct successful audits on an easy to use CD-ROM. Designed to function as a handy, on-the-job resource, the book follows a concise, quick-access format. It begins with an overview of the general issues inherent in any IT review. This is followed by a comprehensive review of the audit planning process. The remainder of the book provides you with detailed, point-by-point breakdowns along with proven tools for:· evaluating systems environments-covers all the bases, including IT administration, security, backup and recovery planning, systems development, and more · Evaluating existing controls for determining hardware and software reliability · Assessing the new system development process · Evaluating all aspects of individual applications, from I/O, processing and logical and physical security to documentation, training, and programmed procedures · Assessing specific applications and utilities, including e-mail, groupware, finance and accounting applications, CAD, R&D, production applications, and more

The Accountant And Auditor's Guide to the Microsoft Office System (Vertiguide) (Vertiguide)

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The Accountant And Auditor's Guide to the Microsoft Office System (Vertiguide) (Vertiguide)
S. E. Slack
Manufacturer: Agility Press
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ASIN: 1932577149
Release Date: 2005-10-01

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The Microsoft® Office System is the most popular desktop suite of personal productivity tools and technologies. Because the Microsoft Office suite of tools is so comprehensive, it can be challenging for people in certain professions to understand how to use Office to perform tasks specific to their job. This book focuses on the tasks that accountants and auditors performs every day—rather than the all too common software-centric approach that many other technology books habitually adopt. Other Microsoft Office books on the market are often difficult to understand because they largely address an Information Technology (IT) audience, cover too many professions in a single book, or are so large (more than 800 pages) as to be overwhelming. This book was written with accountants and auditors in mind. In fact, this book was developed by consulting and interviewing industry experts, software trainers, technology experts, and of course, accountants and auditors. The author learned exactly which topics were most troublesome for accountants and auditors, and made sure to explain them thoroughly. This book covers the use of these Microsoft Office System products for accountants and auditors:

-Microsoft® Word 2003

-Microsoft® Excel 2003

-Microsoft® Outlook 2003

-Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003

-Microsoft® OneNote 2003
This book helps accountants and auditors cut through the hard stuff, and makes Microsoft Office work for them. The book comes with free bonus materials: -Additional Financial Templates

-Bonus Chapter: "Working with XML"

-Keyboard Shortcut References

Process Control Performance Assessment: From Theory to Implementation (Advances in Industrial Control)

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Process Control Performance Assessment: From Theory to Implementation (Advances in Industrial Control)

Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Process Control Performance Assessment is a practical guide to the application of control benchmarking to real, complex, industrial processes. It presents commercial solutions as well as current and future techniques still under development and contains real full-scale-implementation industrial case studies from the oil and gas, power and chemical industries providing a hierarchical perspective on benchmarks. The effect of benchmarking and control tuning on process performance and revenue optimisation is demonstrated.

The most frequently occurring practical issues associated with implementing benchmarking algorithms in industrial processes are discussed in detailed and concise terms and guidelines given for avoiding common problems. The impact of problems like valve stiction and plant-wide disturbances on process performance is reviewed and methods for diagnosing causative fault conditions suggested.

The benefit of non-intrusive and intrusive benchmarking techniques for optimising control systems using performance assessment and diagnostic tools is the potential to enhance company operational economics through increased throughput and better product quality. The book is appropriate for industrial and academic control and process engineers who wish to learn about methods of benchmarking through directed study or self study.

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Auditing Computer Applications
Keagle W. Davis , and William E. Perry
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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I. J. Douglas
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Computer Auditing
A. D. Chambers , Andrew D. Chambers , and J. M. Court
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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