Managing the Audit Function: A Corporate Audit Department Procedures Guide

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Praise for Managing the Audit Function
"The corporate governance issues, accounting irregularities, and legislative actions that have taken place over the past two years have elevated the role and importance of the internal audit function. Managing the Audit Function provides a valuable guide and reference tool for those charged with either executing or overseeing this function."
-- Daniel S. Kaplan, Business Risk Services Partner
Ernst & Young LLP
"It was refreshing to read Internal Audit literature with the appropriate focus on information systems and information systems auditing, since computer systems play such a key role in the processing of accounting transactions and the performance of business operations in today's business environment."
-- William J. Powers, Partner, National Director
Information Systems Assurance Services
BDO Seidman, LLP
"Cangemi and Singleton have created a knowledge management tool for the creation of quality audit manuals and functions. Managing the Audit Function is an important book for all audit managers, and with the addition of new and updated material, including information on the implications and requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, it provides the information to keep pace with changing conditions affecting the audit function."
-- Robert S. Roussey, Professor of Accounting
Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California
International President, Information Systems Audit and Control Association
" This is basically a procedures manual for an internal auditing department that has been prepared by two of the world's most knowledgeable IT auditors. The book is a handy tool because examples are given throughout of relevant audit documents, such as audit reports, responses to reports, responses to delinquent responses, matrices, checklists, and flowcharts. Every audit department should have this book as a reference manual."
-- Dale L. Flesher, PhD, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, CGFM
Professor of Accountancy and Associate Dean
University of Mississippi

Customer Reviews:

Invaluable Resource for Internal Audit Administrators.......2001-06-14

A very well organized and highly useful publication for audit executives responsible for administrtion of internal audit departments. It is especially beneficial and relevant to organziations with newly established internal audit functions. As the chief auditor of a newly formed group at a major footwear and apparel company, I have relied on this book almost daily to provide knowledge, guidance and direction. It has, and continues to be, invaluable in the development and growth of my organization's internal audit department and has facilitated my focusing on doing things right the "first time." A truly value-added publication!!

A Must Have . . ........2001-06-13

This publication is perhaps the most useful, well organized and valuable resource I have ever come across in the area of Internal Audit Department Administration. As the Director of Internal Audit of a newly formed Audit group at a major footwear and apparel company, not a day passes where I do not refer to this book for knowledge and guidance. It has provided me invaluable insight into administering a department and on focusing on doing things right "the first time." It is a must have resource for any department, new or old, that wants to build itself into a world-class function. I recommend this to every Internal Audit organization.

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This is an elementary, up-to-date text and reference book in global finance. It has been especially designed for beginning students in economics and finance, and also for self-study by anyone with a knowledge of secondary school algebra and an interest in finance and financial markets. The subjects taken up in some details are stocks (shares), bonds, interest rates and derivatives, particularly futures, options, and swaps. There are also chapters on exchange rates and banking, and readers are provided with an elementary introduction to risk and uncertainty. The book is also an easily read supplement to more technical presentations, in that it introduces all categories of readers to real world financial markets.

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Not elementary, not globally focused.......2002-01-18

This book purports to be elementary and easy to understand. It also claims to introduce the reader to global finance. In fact, it does neither particularly well.

The language is unnecessarily ponderous and unclear, which is a shame. Finance doesn't need to be so academic, boring and confusing. The author does little to welcome neophytes into the financial world, and a lack of interesting visuals and examples doesn't help matters.

Furthermore, much of the book's focus is on generic markets (stocks, futures, etc.), rather than on global (overseas) markets. And so there isn't enough attention to the characteristics and peculiarities of foreign markets. Similarly, the major topics of global finance, that one might reasonably expect to be the meat of such a titled book, are mostly left to just one chapter (Global Finance) of 24 pages!

The book just doesn't fit the bill of a good introduction to global finance.

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The earth is like a spaceship in orbit—it has everything on board that we need to survive: water, food, and air with oxygen. Unlike a space shuttle, Earth is able to renew its resources. Read and find out why Earth is the greatest spaceship to be aboard!

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Spaceship Earth - book to read on Earth Day.......2004-11-06

Consisting of thirty-two pages we begin You're Aboard Spaceship Earth by viewing a shuttle blasting off into space. For anyone living in Florida this is an awesome sight to take in as well as listening as the shuttle orbits. There are times when landings must take place in California when Florida is having severe weather problems and this is worth observing as well.

You're Aboard Spaceship Earth shares how everyone must do their part to keep the Earth clean and green and show how we never run out of these vital supplies for our ride along space while living here on Earth. We learn the importance of air, water, plants and animals along with the oxygen we breathe. This also presents other aspects of recycling that children might not of been aware just yet. This would be of interest to any child that has shown an interest in space and what is needed to function while on a shuttle. The examples show how You're Aboard Spaceship Earth is very similar to being in a shuttle with all the same vitals needed to stay healthy and alive.

The illustrations offer both male and female examples with the age suited from five to eight for kids in the primary grades benefiting from this Stage 2 book that includes hands on activities and thoughts to ponder and explore soil and gardens in their own yards. My son was interested in reading You're Aboard Spaceship Earth a few times before moving onto another book. Any child that enjoys science and how the world works will find this book useful.

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readable bucky
Control, Operate and Plan Your Spaceship
You need to read this book!
Must reading for todays 30 something generation.
A primer for Bucky's followers

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0525474331

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R. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, published in 1969, imagines our species as a crew, united by a shared fate, on a tiny spaceship traveling through infinity. It can be read even today as the most intelligent metaphor for thinking about humankind on this planet. Fuller accepted the challenge pre-sented by this metaphor, using his inventions and writings to contribute to the safe operations of Spaceship Earth.

This title is an exact facsimile of the 1969 edition.

Customer Reviews:

readable bucky.......2005-11-03

This is the clearest I've ever known this man to be. This concise volume gets to the heart of our wordly matters. Elegant, comprehensive, his soul speaks in all of his writings, and this condensed version is very good for the first time Bucky reader. I suggest it highly to anyone who wants to learn a lot in a little time.

Control, Operate and Plan Your Spaceship.......2000-03-11

R. Buckminster Fuller's (Bucky hereout), designer of the geodesic dome (one can see at EPCOT), lays down the thought patterns of a successful world in this short and concise book based on his discoveries (probably more appropriate than inventions, as he said "I am not tryingto imitate nature, I'm trying to find the principles she uses"). It is in this book that Bucky gives the reader insight into how he thinks, and how to change ones thinking entirely, to see the Earth as a Spaceship. To feel yourself riding the Earth as a Spaceship. Demonstrating from the anceint "pirates" and how evolution is changed through specialization. How a wealthy nation, such as ours, cannot afford to make economical mishaps or delays on such life-giving elements as water. Moving our modes of consciousness into Einsteinian, omni-directional thinking, we can then turn to everyone to "co-operate." To help others, and not gain at the expense of others. Certainly a classic in its own right, this book will change the way you think, not about life or the world, just that you change your thinking, making every action a universal consequence. There is only one Earth, and we are all living in it. Reccomended!

You need to read this book!.......1999-04-01

I really mean it. This book makes much more sense than any government plan that I know of. We all need to read this book.

Must reading for todays 30 something generation........1998-08-24

Our forefathers, parents and their peers have delivered us a drastically (wonderfully) complex society with ever increasing difficulties, and opportunities. RBF does an uncommonly fine job of explaining some of the underlying drives that brought us here. Maybe also sheds light on a usefull path to the future.

A primer for Bucky's followers.......1997-07-31

If you have any interest in R. Buckminster Fuller's philosophies, inventions and thoughts, this book is a good starting point. Other of his works can be more difficult to absorb, easily. Fuller's basic concepts of "synergy," "ephemeralization" and "modern day pirates" are all made clear here. If you read this short work and are intrigued by the man and the distinctions he brought to the world, you can proceed from here. Sorry OMSE is getting difficult to find. Now that Bucky's "phantom Captain" has moved on, his words are what we have to instruct us -- these, and the wonderful contributions of Bucky's students to the "world game."

You Can Make A Difference: Be Environmentally Responsible

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You Can Make A Difference: Be Environmentally Responsible
Judith Getis
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0072924160

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This book is organized around the three parts of the biosphere: land, water, and air. Each section contains descriptions of the environmental problems associated with that part of the biosphere. In the section on the atmosphere, for instance, such problems as acid rain and the greenhouse effect are discussed. Immediately following each problem or "challenge" are suggested ways that individuals can help solve or alleviate them. This book has been written to provide the reader with some easy and practical ways to protect the Earth and to help understand why the task is so important.

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Spaceship Earth
Barbara Ward
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Buy Now, Pay Later!: Be a Careful Shopper (Spaceship Earth Series)

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Buy Now, Pay Later!: Be a Careful Shopper (Spaceship Earth Series)
Thompson Yardley
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Down the Plughole! (Spaceship Earth)
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Get Switched On! (Spaceship Earth Series)

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Get Switched On! (Spaceship Earth Series)
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Give Me Air! (Spaceship Earth Series)

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Global 2000 Revisited: Mankind's Impact on Spaceship Earth

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Laboratory Record Book to Accompany Spaceship Earth Physidal Science (Spaceship Earth)

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Laboratory Record Book to Accompany Spaceship Earth Physidal Science (Spaceship Earth)

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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ASIN: B000H29WCS

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A compendium representing the current state of the art in the modelling, simulation and physics of the interaction of hydrogen and helium with plasma facing materials in fusion reactors. This is the topic that will determine the success of the production of energy by future Tokamak reactors and it is here discussed by the world's experts. Topics covered are recycling of hydrogen isotopes; wall fuelling and wall pumping; active control of hydrogen recycling; hydrogen and helium behaviour in solids and liquid metals; and databases for recycling.

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When Zack Zaremba graduates from engineering school, he wants little more from his career than to do useful, interesting work.It is not long, however, before life becomes more complicated: He's assigned to an Air Force contract with impossibly difficult specs, $100,000/day late penalties, bullying managers, disgruntled co-workers, and parts that must be ordered before there's a design. When he falls fervently, passionately in love with Lilah Li, a beautiful Asian-American programmer with a whistle-blower's agenda, he realizes just how irrelevant his engineering education was in preparing him for moral choices.Zack's co-workers include Warren Kushner, who's never had a date and flow-charts even casual phone conversations with women; Shopper Jim, engineer-for-hire, whose engineering survival rules include, Always keep enough cardboard boxes under your desk to carry out all your stuff; the Frenchman, who wears his clothes backward as a sign of bureaucratic defiance; and the silky smooth Wonderboy, whose corner-cutting extends from finessing the Air Force to cheating on the office small-writing contest.Zack soon discovers himself covering for the incompetence and corruption of others.Mid-management-the dyspeptic A Boy Named Hsu, the heavily pustuled Medieval Man, sick-leave king Whispering Bill, in-business-for-himself Marv-only makes things worse. As it gradually becomes clear that the hardware can't meet the promised specs, Zack is seized in a crosscurrent of loyalties when he must decide whether to lie at a Critical Design Review. His only anchors are Lilah, her son, and the six-year-olds he volunteer-coaches in soccer, a sport he's never played. As his team loses game after game, Zack struggles with the mysterious, painful, age-old task of engineering: making things work.Robert Grossbach is an engineer for a firm that manufactures electronic components. He is the author of three other novels, Someone Great, Easy and Hard Ways Out, and Never Say Die. He lives in Commack, NY.

Customer Reviews:

Coming of Age--as an Engineer.......2006-11-26

Robert Grossbach's A SHORTAGE OF ENGINEERS is a tragic-comic laugh-out-loud must read for people who enjoy a good chuckle at the absurdities of bureaucracy, managers who cannot manage, and parents willing to risk their seven-year-olds for the glory of a soccer game.

Fresh out of engineering college, an idealistic Zack has nothing to do for the first seven weeks of his first job with a large engineering firm. Then suddenly the rush is on to meet impossible deadlines, as he tries to work through a Kafkaesque bureaucracy with only Alice-in-Wonderland characters to help. Pitted against hypocritical managers, insane cynical coworkers with bizarre philosophies and agendas, and nearly impossible electronic tasks, Zack manages to preserve an ideal of engineer as miracle worker.

Surprises, sex, and hilarity characterize Grossbach's latest novel. There are no shortages of comic situations, crazy but true-to-life characters, serious issues, and laughs--lots and lots of laughs. The flow diagram of an engineer asking for a date in the middle of the novel is worth the cover price alone.

A real treat!.......2003-05-15

If you've ever worked in a corporate bureaucracy (not necessarily an engineering one), you'll love Shopper Jim's consistent ability to tell it like it is. What's more, if you've been in the workforce, you've most likely met and worked with most of the characters in the book... some of whom are heartbreaking, others despicable, all true-to-life. A little bit of slapstick keeps the pace manageable. An absolute must read for anyone who's an engineer or is thinking about becoming one; certainly of interest to anyone else (my retired mom loved it). If you're a displaced Long Islander, you'll also enjoy the local flavor.

If you've ever worked in design...........2002-09-21

If you've ever worked in design engineering, and you've got a sense of humor (OK, I admit that limits the potential readership), then you've got to read this book. I was hooked after the first half a dozen pages, when the newly graduated, newly hired young engineer fantasizes, on his first day, that he is going to work for this same company for the next 45 years, until his retirement. If that doesn't make you bust a gut, nothing will!

There are just so many situations and characters that you'll recognise from real life. For instance, have you ever been asked to submit a detailed list of materials and components to purchasing- before you've even begun the design work? Have you ever been assigned a design project only to have to consult a dictionary to find out exactly what the item is that you are supposed to design? Have you ever worked forever on a project that the entire team knew was doomed from the first week? As for characters, well, I'm strongly tempted to change my screen name to "Shopper Jim"- that advice to always keep enough boxes in your office, or trunk, to move all your stuff is just too close to the mark....

Prior to this, the only humorous novel that I ever found dealing with engineers was Vonnegutt's _Player Piano_. While that book is excellent, and reminds me of my early days, this novel is right on the money with the current state of the profession.

Oh yeah, after you've read this, the fact that manufacturing (and engineering) in the U.S. is packing up and/or dieing off is alot easier to take....

Very funny and insightful but the plot doesn't hold up.......2002-08-04

Anyone who has ever worked in an engineering firm will love this book. Or should I say the parts of the book which deal directly with life in a large, mismanaged technical firm.
This is the story of a recent college graduate working in a defense contracting firm. He quickley relizes that what he learned in school is next to no good to him in here. Parts must be orderd before a design is made, his boss is running a consulting business on the side, and people dress backward. Grossbach brilliantly sums up the frustration of college students hitting the 'real world'. He does it so well that I gave the book 4 stars. The actual plot is not that of a four star book. But the book was so funny and insightful I gave it a favorble rating.

Funny as in "HAHAHAHA!".......2002-06-14

It didn't take long for me to read this novel. I was surprised because the idea of reading a story about engineers didn't really strike me as "interesting." However, when I found out that Robert Altman was doing his next film based on this novel ("Voltage", which at the moment is on hiatus), I decided to check it out. Boy am I glad I did! It's hilarious! I mean, I laughed my butt off on practically every page of the book! Robert Grossbach is VERY good with dialogue, sarcasm, dry humor, and so on. Very much embraces the way the engineer thinks (I know many guys like the ones described here). Actually, if one were to compare the humor to that of the film, "Office Space," I'd say it's very close, if not, even more laughable.

I love the way this novel exposes the total absurdity caused by workplace bureaucracy, politics, etc. All of the characters are so fascinating and real. Similar to Catch-22 in the sense that none of the policies make any sense, none of workers really care to follow the management's rules, so much complacency and such a rude awakening for a young man entering the workforce three weeks after graduating from college. It's enough to embitter someone for a lifetime.

Some examples that set off "out-loud laughter" are Zack's Urinary Styles and Strategies, Shopper Jim's rules of the workplace, aside from all the other incredible idiosyncrasies that all the characters possess. I especially snicker at the way the author describes dressing style of one of the female characters, Lilah. Florescent-colored dresses? My God! For a story set in the late 80s, it's perfect! Still these facets are just a tip of the iceberg.

A few issues that made me wonder was 1) Is it true that most guys are as horny and so quick to fantasize and physically react to beautiful women as the main character in this book, Zack Zaremba? I had to consult my husband on this one and he said "Not really," although I now wonder if HE was telling the truth...and 2) Other than the constant horniness, Zack seemed to be rather mature for a 22-23 year-old male. But hey, maybe I just didn't know any mature 22-year-old males in my lifetime!

The preceding issues aside, this novel is still very entertaining and disillusioning all at the same time, but never depressing. Very much like the character of Shopper Jim, it's written in a manner that's not meant to be taken too seriously, you could cry at the total absurdity of the engineer's world, or you could just laugh...and laugh...and laugh!

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