CD Based Publications Training Corner
Pleier Corporation developed CD-based publications to provide cost-effective professional quality resources to Internal Audit Professionals and Government Audit Professionals. The following publications are now available:
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Practitioner's Guide to Corruption Auditing - This 164-page
publication is designed specifically for Internal Audit
Professionals and Government Audit Professionals who would like to
improve their auditing effort in the area of Corruption Auditing but
need a comprehensive approach as the "standard audit tools" simply
are not effective. The Guide provides a framework for how internal
auditors and government auditors can effectively audit corruption by
diversifying the toolkit they use.
Achieving Auditor Excellence - covers significant issues and considerations successful audit organizations at every level must address and confront in order to achieve auditor excellence.
Auditing Fraud - This electronic publication, with its companion publication Risk Management, is intended to increase the level of awareness of an organization to the presence of actual and potential Fraud and help that organization perform establish an effective Audit effort to reduce both 1) the risk from fraud and 2) the financial losses that occur from fraud.
Auditing Purchasing and Contracts - This 160-page workbook is a complete course for you to better understand the role of purchasing in the organization, the major activities that go on within purchasing, the risks and exposures within each activity, and the key controls used by the most effective purchasing departments.
This workbook also provides you with a set of preliminary survey questions to use in your audit, a framework to develop your own audit guides, an appreciation of the possible computer assisted audit techniques available, an audit program for any and all parts of the purchasing function, and a set of references for further study.
Internal Auditing: Basics & Best Practices
Risk Management and Risk Assessment
Internal Auditor Toolkit
- 2 hours of solid instruction on the basics of Internal
Auditing describing the various tools and techniques that are
available to the Internal Auditor. The author discusses these
tools and techniques to use in meeting the challenges that
present themselves to Internal Auditors in the 21st Century.
IT Auditing: The Basics
- Information Technology (IT) audits continue to be
viewed as a mysterious world that requires highly specialized
skills. However, as regulatory requirements such as those
imposed by the recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley Act highlight
that organizations’ financial reporting and operational
performance become more and more dependent on complex
information technology, it becomes increasingly difficult to
conduct effective audits that do not include an aspect of IT
auditing. The days of “auditing around the computer” are over.
The author's latest electronic publication, “IT Auditing: The Basics” strips away some of the mystery surrounding IT audits by presenting a plain English, straightforward discussion of risks, control objectives, and control techniques for selected high payback IT audit areas that do not require a large degree of technical expertise.
Modern Integrated Audit Approach - Developing an Integrated Audit Approach is certainly not a new topic for Audit Managers. In fact that subject has been the topic of numerous conference sessions, publications, and speeches.
Unfortunately developing this approach is always time-consuming because of the many factors including the complexity of the information technology employed, the complexity of organizational processes, and the ever-changing environments in which the modern organizations functions.
As an Audit Director and Information Technology Auditor the author is well aware of the challenges of developing such an approach. He has struggled with this challenge for many years.
Throughout this digital product he will share a standardized approach that he has developed to perform integrated audits in today’s dynamic business environment.
Risk Management: Best Practices & Case Studies - This electronic publication is intended to streamline the amount of time required for an organization to perform an effective Risk Management by illustration some of the Best Practices in performing this essential task.
IT Auditing: An Adaptive Process - “IT Auditing: An Adaptive Process” is a 136-page workbook designed to be a self-contained tool for learning IT audit process flexibility, while performing effective IT audits, as well as as a companion product for “IT Auditing: The Process”. Specifically, “IT Auditing: An Adaptive Process” is an enhanced and consolidated version of four IT audit monographs. This workbook invites the reader to practice IT auditing based on generally accepted IT audit standards and guidelines through detailed examples. Furthermore, this workbook allows an IT auditor to understand various steps and processes required to adequately initiate, document, and compile IT audit phases.
IT Auditing: Irregular and Illegal Acts - This self-paced PowerPoint presentation with accompanying material is organized to provide initial training of IT auditors as well as continuing training of IT auditors, auditors, and auditor managers. The Administrator's Guide provides tools for group and individual self-paced training.
IT Auditing: The Process - This self-paced PowerPoint presentation with accompanying material is organized to provide initial training of IT auditors as well as continuing training of IT auditors, auditors, and auditor managers. The “Administrator’s Guide” provides tools for group and individual self-paced training.
Utilizing the enclosed PowerPoint slides, in conjunction with the “Participant’s Guide,” can ensure adequate understanding of the entire IT audit process including audit engagement requirements. Furthermore, participant attentiveness to the material and completion of the eight exercises in the guide can enhance auditor professionalism in corresponding job responsibilities.
Participants who complete this course will be adequately prepared to take the Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s (ISACA’s) Certified Information Systems Auditor – The IS Audit Process examination section and to perform competent IT Auditing.
A Practitioner's Guide to Performance Auditing - This 138-page publication is designed specifically for Internal Audit Professionals and Government Audit Professionals who would like to improve their auditing effort employing Performance Auditing.
Auditing IT Infrastructures - This 160-page publication is designed specifically for:
1) Internal Audit Professionals who have a basic knowledge of IT Auditing Concepts and would like expand that knowledge,
2) Experienced IT auditors looking for suggestions to improve their auditing process, and
3) Audit managers who would like additional insight to the IT infrastructure and the audit issues there.
Exceeding Expectations for Internal Auditors - “Exceeding Expectations” contains 1 hour and 20 minutes of PowerPoint presentation with synchronized digital soundtrack offering thought-provoking and practical ideas about how Internal Auditors can exceed the expectations of audit clients. This seminar offers state-of-the-art thinking using state-of-the-art technology. Receive all the benefits of attending a seminar at your convenience in a suitable format for both group and individual self-paced training.