Effective Internet
Search Skills for Auditors
Integrating the Internet into Auditing
Criteria for evaluation of Internet Information Resources
www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm
A "toolbox" of criteria that enable Internet information sources to be evaluated for use in libraries, e.g. for inclusion in resource guides, and helping users evaluate information found.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
A strategy for teaching critical evaluation skills for World Wide Web Resources.
Association of Credit Union Internal Auditors
The International association for internal auditors in the credit union industry. Site provides information about the organization, resources for members, links to other sites, and more.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Institute of Internal Auditors Inc.
ISACA Foundation
National Association of Local Government Auditors
National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers
- GAO WWW homepage. The site includes decisions of the Comptroller General of the U.S.
Internet based electronic communications network dedicated to improving the effectiveness of the Inspector General community and to provide public access to reports.
Fairfax County Internal Audit Office
www.co.fairfax.va.us/gov/audit/
Internet Based Electronic Audit Management (I-BEAM)
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig/hq/060700.ppt
www.fdic.gov/regulations/compliance/manual/index.html
The table of contents of this Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Compliance manual links the auditor with files in Adobe Acrobat format. This could be a useful resource for bank auditors.
FFIEC
IS Examination Handbook, volume 1
FFIEC
IS Examination Handbook, volume 2
Kaplan's AuditNet Resource List
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu www.deloitte.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers www.pwcglobal.com
ACL is an integrated system of software providing complete control over data access, management, analysis, and presentation. The site offers information about their products, trade shows, seminars and training schedules, as well as online support and the Audit Central page; A Guide to Web Audit Sites.
home page for IDEA (Interactive Data Extraction & Analysis), an audit automation package. Provides information about the product, a downloadable demo and more.
CPE RESOURCES
a non-profit, on-line continuing education service designed by a group of certified financial professionals, all of whom have been active as practitioners and trainers for many years. CPENet is a National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)continuing education sponsor (#95-000739-97).
MISTI Web site contains information on seminar offerings and links to other Internet sites. The MISTI curriculum includes courses in modern internal audit, and information systems audit and security. They also offer a variety of products and services including topical conferences, video training, publications, and more.
Accounting Manual for Federal Credit Unions
ACH Controls - Article from CU Solutions, a software vendor
ACUIA Help Packet Includes checklists for an audit charter, risk based planning, a sample audit plan and more.
Assessment of operational risk Article in ABA Banking Journal Online
Credit Risk Management System Checklist
Credit Union Information Sheets from the Association of British Credit Unions
Internal
Controls from the Association of British Credit Unions
National Credit Union Association Reference Information
NCUA Information Systems and Technology
Risk Based Management - Lending
User's Guide for NCUA's Financial Performance Report
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
The ACFE home page provides information about the Association, the certification program, the Code of Professional Ethics and more.
Arthur Andersen KnowledgeSpace® for Internal Auditors
is a customized source of internal audit resources, tools, methodologies, checklists and self-assessment surveys. The site provides access to Arthur Andersen's Global Best Practices knowledge base for business process improvement. Sign up on-line for a free 30-day trial of this subscription-based Web site.
site for VF Internal Audit: The internal audit department of VF Corporation, a Fortune 500 apparel company. Topics include our internal audit philosophy, internal controls, control self-assessment, employment opportunities, links to related sites and much more.
Internal Auditing World Wide Web (IAWWW)
Developed as a prototype demonstration project, the site functions as a warehouse of information and knowledge pertaining to the Internal Auditing profession and functions across associations, industries and countries. This is a premier source of information on the Internal Auditing profession.
Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse (CSRC)
csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/
The NIST Computer Security Division maintains an electronic clearinghouse to encourage the sharing of information on computer security. The CSRC contains computer security awareness and training information, publications, conferences, software tools, as well as, security alerts and prevention measures. The CSRC system, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. NIST does not charge a usage fee for this service.
Software & Information Industry Association
MapQuest - useful for auditing travel expense reimbursements (verifying mileage)
Switchboard or AnyWho - useful for auditing telephone call logs in fraud audits (reverse lookup)
GuideStar - look up IRS 990's filed by not for profit organizations.
http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/iliad/
Personal offline search engine
Meta-search engine
NET SEARCH RESOURCESLooking for audit related information? My favorite search engines are Google, Fast Search, and AltaVista. Rather than going to their pages you can use the search engines to conduct a search for audit related information by entering your query below. Select one of the search engines, enter your query and review the results. Make your search a productive one!
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Dogpile a Metasearch Engine Site created by Jim Kaplan, AuditNet Manager and Author of The Auditor's Guide to Internet Resources, 2nd Edition |
Or Use DogPile to query multiple search engines through one
site.