Auditing for Managers

The Ultimate Risk Management Tool

K. H. Spencer Pickett, Jennifer M. Pickett

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9780470090992
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Revisione contabile
• Index: Business

At a time when many corporations are cutting their internal auditing departments, it's imperative that every manager understand the fundamentals of internal audits. This book is designed as a corporate resource, to help managers and their teams set standards for self-auditing, risk management, compliance review, and formal disclosure reporting. Readers will learn proven, effective techniques for performing reliable and defensible audit reviews to ensure compliance with regulations and standards.

Table of contents

• Auditing For Managers The Ultimate Risk Management Tool
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• 1 Why auditing?
• 2 The wider governance context
• 3 Basic risk concepts
• 4 Different audit approaches
• 5 The manager’s initial audit
• 6 The team’s initial audit
• 7 The manager’s initial investigation
• 8 Successful risk management
• 9 Achieving the cultural shift
• 10 Reporting results
• 11 So, why auditing?
• Appendix A: Manager’s initial audits standards and guidance
• Appendix B: Team initial audits standards and guidance
• Appendix C: Manager’s initial investigations standards and guidance
• Appendix D: Checking your progress – your score
• Appendix E: Staff surveys
• Index