Auditor Essentials: 100 Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Success

  • 7h 4m
  • Hernan Murdock
  • CRC Press
  • 2019

Internal auditors must know many concepts, techniques, control frameworks, and remain knowledgeable despite the many changes occurring in the marketplace and their profession. This easy to use reference makes this process easier and ensures auditors can obtain needed information quickly and accurately. This book consists of 100 topics, concepts, tips, tools and techniques that relate to how internal auditors interact with internal constitutencies and addresses a variety of technical and non-technical subjects. Non-auditors have an easy-to-use guide that increases their understanding of what internal auditors do and how, making it easier for them to partner with them more effectively.

About the Author

Hernan Murdock is the president of Murdock Global Advisors, an internal audit, corporate governance, and human capital consulting firm. Previously, he was the director of training and development at a global internal audit firm. He has performed audit and consulting projects for clients in the manufacturing, transportation, high tech, education, insurance and power generation industries. Dr. Murdock is a senior lecturer at Northeastern University where he teaches management, leadership and ethics, and frequently teaches courses for the MIS Training Institute. He is the author of the books "Operational Auditing: Principles and Techniques for a Changing World," "10 Key Techniques to Improve Team Productivity," and "Using Surveys in Internal Audits." He has also written articles and book chapters on whistleblowing programs, international auditing, mentoring programs, fraud, deception, corporate social responsibility, and behavioral profiling. He has delivered seminars and invited talks, and made numerous presentations at internal audit, academic and government functions in North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa.

In this Book

  • Anonymous Polling/Voting
  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
  • Audit: Compliance
  • Audit: Department
  • Audit: Environmental
  • Audit: Financial
  • Audit: Integrated
  • Audit: Operational
  • Audit Committee
  • Audit Plan
  • Audit Program
  • Audit Universe
  • Balanced Scorecard
  • Benchmarking
  • Benford's Law
  • Board of Directors
  • Cause and Effect Diagram
  • CCCER/5C
  • Certifications
  • Charter
  • Check Sheet
  • COBIT
  • Code of Ethics
  • Communications Matrix
  • Computer-Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques (CAATTs)
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Consulting
  • Continuous Monitoring/Continuous Auditing (CM/CA)
  • Controls
  • Control Charts
  • Control Self-Assessment (CSA)
  • Corporate Governance
  • COSO IC-IF
  • Creativity
  • Critical Thinking
  • Corporate Culture
  • Data Analytics
  • Deficiencies—Design and Operating
  • E's
  • Eight Areas of Waste
  • Electronic Workpapers
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Engagement Memo and Letter
  • Enterprise Risk Assessment and Management (ERM)
  • Ethics
  • Evidence
  • Fieldwork
  • Findings
  • Five Whys
  • Flowcharts
  • Focus Groups
  • Follow-Up Audits
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
  • Fraud
  • Fraud Red Flags
  • Fraud Triangle and Hexagon
  • GANTT Charts
  • Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)
  • GTAG
  • Histograms
  • IT Application and General Computer Controls (GCC)
  • Information Systems Audit and Controls Association (ISACA)
  • Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
  • Interviewing
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Key Risk Indicators (KRI)
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Mentoring/Coaching
  • Objectives
  • Pareto Chart
  • Persuasion
  • Planning
  • Poka-yoke
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Professional Skepticism
  • Project Management
  • Quality Assurance and Improvement Programs (QAIP)
  • Questionnaires/Surveys
  • RACI Chart
  • Recommendations
  • Reporting
  • Risk
  • Risk-Control Matrix
  • Risk-Based Auditing
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • Rotation Programs
  • Sampling
  • Sarbanes–Oxley Act
  • Scatter Diagram
  • SIPOC Diagrams
  • Soft Skills
  • Standards
  • Testing
  • Three Lines of Defense
  • Time Management
  • Tone at the Top
  • Training and Development
  • Trusted Advisors
  • Whistleblowing Programs
  • Workpapers
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