Auditing for Managers: The Ultimate Risk Management Tool

At a time when many organizations are cutting their internal auditing departments, it's imperative that every manager understands 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.

This resource for managers and review teams provides guidelines for self-audit risk management, compliance reviews, and formal disclosure reporting, and takes the techniques for performing audit reviews into the arena of business risk management and controls. It features a business assurance tool called A4M99: Auditing for Managers Based on 99 Key Values. Other features include; a jargon-free "how to" format; coverage of various audits including management audits, formal investigations and control risk self-assessments; and a set of standards that can be adapted by managers from all types of organizations to help develop a systematic way of performing internal reviews. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

K.H. Spencer Pickett is a Course Director at CPMS, in Ascot, Berkshire, where he is responsible for training programmes on internal audit, corporate governance and risk management. Spencer is a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, Institute of Internal Auditors, Certified Fraud Examiners and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Jennifer M. Pickett is currently a senior Project Manager in a large organization, having previously been the Business Planning and Assurance Manager responsible for coordinating the corporate risk register.