IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises: Revenue, Expenditure, Inventory, Payroll, and More: 573 (Wiley Corporate F&A) - Hardcover

Wood, Jason; Brown, William; Howe, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118072618 ISBN 13: 9781118072615

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

Essential guidance for the financial auditor in need of a working knowledge of IT

If you're a financial auditor needing working knowledge of IT and application controls, Automated Auditing Financial Applications for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses provides you with the guidance you need. Conceptual overviews of key IT auditing issues are included, as well as concrete hands-on tips and techniques. Inside, you'll find background and guidance with appropriate reference to material published by ISACA, AICPA, organized to show the increasing complexity of systems, starting with general principles and progressing through greater levels of functionality.

• Provides straightforward IT guidance to financial auditors seeking to develop quality and efficacy of software controls
• Offers small- and middle-market business auditors relevant IT coverage
• Covers relevant applications, including MS Excel, Quickbooks, and report writers
• Written for financial auditors practicing in the small to midsized business space

The largest market segment in the United States in quantity and scope is the small and middle market business, which continues to be the source of economic growth and expansion. Uniquely focused on the IT needs of auditors serving the small to medium sized business, Automated Auditing Financial Applications for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses delivers the kind of IT coverage you need for your organization.

About this title

About the Author

JASON WOOD, CPA, CITP, CIS, CIA, CFF, MBA, is President of WoodCPA???Plus, a certified public accounting firm that focuses on IT auditing, consulting, and training. Mr. Wood has over seventeen years of international business experience in IT auditing, helping middle market and global Fortune 500 companies. He is an alumnus of the Big Four accounting firms—Deloitte, E&Y, and PwC.

WILLIAM BROWN, PHD, CPA, CISA, CITP, is Chair of Accounting at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he has taught accounting and management information systems. He has over twenty years of business experience including roles as vice president, controller, and CFO of several publicly traded companies and the CIO of an IT intensive high-growth SME.

HARRY HOWE, PHD, is Professor of Accounting and Director of the MS in Accounting Program at SUNY-Geneseo. Howe has coauthored two volumes in the BNA Policy and Practice series and published numerous articles in scholarly and practitioner journals.

From the Back Cover

IT AUDITING AND APPLICATION CONTROLS FOR SMALL AND MID-SIZED ENTERPRISES
Revenue, Expenditure, Inventory, Payroll, and More

Risk is inevitable. As an auditor, you must help your clients not only manage their risk by performing audits and other assessments but also help them understand the nature and extent of risks that exist in the control environment. Information technology (IT) controls are a key aspect of that control environment. Written to help financial auditors provide better service to their clients in the context of application controls, IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises illustrates and explains many of the basic IT controls common to the types of reporting systems used by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Sharing their collective decades of experience practicing and teaching in the field, authors Jason Wood, William Brown, and Harry Howe provide you with the tools, guidance, and working knowledge to get started in IT auditing. The authors highlight conceptual and practical topics that are immediately relevant to understanding applications typically used by these businesses, such as MS Excel, QuickBooks, and FRx (Microsoft Dynamics) report writer.

Organized to illustrate the increasing complexity of systems, the book begins with general principles and progresses through greater levels of functionality in subsequent modules. Featuring conceptual overviews of key IT auditing issues as well as concrete, hands-on tips and techniques, IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises examines:

• Special challenges facing SMEs
• The COSO process
• Application-level security
• General ledger and the IT audit
• The revenue, expenditure, inventory, and payroll cycles
• PCAOB warnings
• Integrating the IT audit into the financial audit
• Spreadsheet auditing tools
• Maintaining spreadsheets and desktop tools
• Analyzing and validating reports
• IT audit deficiencies

IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises empowers you with the skills and knowledge to provide better, more accurate service to your clients.

From the Inside Flap

Risk is inevitable. As an auditor, you must help your clients not only manage their risk by performing audits and other assessments but also help them understand the nature and extent of risks that exist in the control environment. Information technology (IT) controls are a key aspect of that control environment. Written to help financial auditors provide better service to their clients in the context of application controls, IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises illustrates and explains many of the basic IT controls common to the types of reporting systems used by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Sharing their collective decades of experience practicing and teaching in the field, authors Jason Wood, William Brown, and Harry Howe provide you with the tools, guidance, and working knowledge to get started in IT auditing. The authors highlight conceptual and practical topics that are immediately relevant to understanding applications typically used by these businesses, such as MS Excel, QuickBooks, and FRx (Microsoft Dynamics) report writer.

Organized to illustrate the increasing complexity of systems, the book begins with general principles and progresses through greater levels of functionality in subsequent modules. Featuring conceptual overviews of key IT auditing issues as well as concrete, hands-on tips and techniques, IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises examines:

• Special challenges facing SMEs
• The COSO process
• Application-level security
• General ledger and the IT audit
• The revenue, expenditure, inventory, and payroll cycles
• PCAOB warnings
• Integrating the IT audit into the financial audit
• Spreadsheet auditing tools
• Maintaining spreadsheets and desktop tools
• Analyzing and validating reports
• IT audit deficiencies

IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises empowers you with the skills and knowledge to provide better, more accurate service to your clients.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118072618
• ISBN 13: 9781118072615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448