Information Technology Best Practices for Auditors: Audit, Attest, and Financial Management

All auditors need to be able to effectively assess the risk Information Technology (IT) brings to the business and its financial reporting, and how to effectively address those risks. This book provides best practices on effectively responding to IT risk by presenting information on the process, techniques, tools, and benefits of IT risk and IT audit. Information is provided on identifying the weaknesses in systems and controls associated with IT and provides guidance on improving the ability to recognize fraud. CPAs will learn new methods to evaluate, test and report use of IT.