ACC-642: Advanced Internal and Operational Auditing

The second book in the new Practical Auditor Series, which helps auditors get down to business, Audit Planning: A Risk-Based Approach gives new auditors principles and methodologies they can apply effectively and helps experienced auditors enhance their skills for success in the rapidly changing business world.

Contains history and legislative background of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as best practices information.

Brink's Modern Internal Auditing, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive resource and reference book on the changing world of internal auditing, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance issues. * Sixth edition of a very well respectede auditing resource. * Provides an overview of the role and responsibilities of the internal auditor.

One-stop resource for key auditing terminology, concepts, and processes essential to auditors and of increasing interest to those that work with them.

This quick-reference short-entry dictionary defines more than 2,500 accounting, bookkeeping, and tax-related terms. General areas covered include financial accounting, managerial and cost accounting, auditing and financial statement analysis, and information technology (IT) terms.

Provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in accounting.

Expanded with new entries and updated to reflect recent economic developments and the current business climate, this quick-reference dictionary defines more than 7,500 terms relating to accounting, taxation, advertising, business law, communications, transportation, computers and the Internet, economics, finance, insurance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, and statistics.

A user-friendly and up-to-date guidebook for the internal auditing professional to refine and rethink both day-to-day methods and the underlying significance of the job.

As an estimated $600 billion a year "industry," occupational fraud dwarfs most legitimate industries many times over. Yet the vast majority of organizations -- private, public, governmental, or nonprofit -- have woefully inadequate internal controls, and what energy is devoted to combating workplace fraud is generally spent on post-infraction detection.