Information Technology Auditing: An Evolving Agenda

✍ Scribed by Jagdish Pathak (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An evolving agenda of Information Technology Auditing is subject of this book. The author presents various current and future issues in the domain of IT Auditing in both scholarly as well as highly practice-driven manner so as to make those issues clear in the mind of an IT auditor. The aim of the book is not to delve deep on the technologies but the impact of these technologies on practices and procedures of IT auditors. Among the topics are complex integrated information systems, enterprise resource planning, databases, complexities of internal controls, and enterprise application integration - all seen from an auditor's perspective. The book will serve a big purpose of support reference for an auditor dealing with the high-tech environment for the first time, but also for experienced auditors.

✦ Table of Contents

IT Auditing: An Overview and Approach....Pages 1-19
Auditing and Complex Business Information Systems....Pages 21-43
Generation-X Technologies and IT Auditing....Pages 45-62
Complex Information Systems, Auditing Standards and IT Auditors....Pages 63-74
ERP and Information Integration Issues: Perspective for Auditors....Pages 75-94
Technology, Auditing and Cyber-Commerce....Pages 95-106
IT Auditing and Security of Information Systems....Pages 107-149
Information Technology Governance and COBIT®....Pages 151-156
Database Management Systems and Auditing....Pages 157-180
EAI: Auditors Should Know Potential Risks to Enterprise....Pages 181-188

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)