Understanding and Auditing It Systems, Volume 2 Second edition

 

The IT system applications are the means by which most of the business and financial logic is implemented by the business enterprises. The secure implementation and audits of these processes require the correct set of knowledge pertinent to the IT systems environment because of the distinctive nature of IT systems in terms of business information processing and internal controls. This book makes the analysis and audits of the business and financial processes easier by presenting the popular implementation patterns of business processes for most of the common business cycles in addition to the introduction of the diversified development approaches for the system applications. 

This book presents all of these relevant issues in an organized pattern and that with reference to the implementation practices from the large-scale ERP systems and hence aids with the effective and efficient implementation and audits of the business and financial processes in the real world environment. 

This book presents the insightful and workable guidelines to enable the knowledgeable audits of business and financial process applications by addressing most of the pertinent issues related to the applications in modern business organizations.
 
 

The complete and authoritative guidance on the system implementation of the business process applications for auditors and practitioners. 

This book addresses a diversity of issues relevant to the secure implementation of the business process applications for easy accessibility by the readers. It covers the application development issues, the security and control issues and the detailed business flow processes for most of the major business cycles operated by the business enterprises. All these discussions are indispensible for the effective and efficient audits of the business processes in the IT systems environment.   

This book covers the application development issues in the context of the traditional structured approaches, the relational database systems, and the ERP systems for the understanding of the optimized functionality of the applications in the diversified IT systems environment.  

The extensive functionality of the fourth generation languages for the ERP systems is introduced in depth, along with the other ERP system features including the security and auditing implementations, for the understanding of the application development and processing features in the ERP systems environment. The development environments of the SAP R/3, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft Enterprise systems are discussed in this book. 

This book addresses most of the major business cycle processes in the IT systems environment for in-depth understanding and audits of the operational and financial processes. By introducing the key information and application processing requirements in the respective cycle processes, the discussions enable the identification of the critical processes and the major exposures and hence the effective control and audits of the business and financial reporting processes.
 

-      The extensive coverage of the application development issues related to the traditional structured approach, the relational databases and the ERP systems.
-      The extensive coverage of the internal control issues and SOA requirements in both the manual and IT systems environment.
-      The extensive coverage of business cycle processes in the IT systems environment in terms of the key information and application processing requirements incl. the revenue, purchasing, conversion, payroll, treasury and general accounting cycles.
-      The references to the major ERP systems for discussions on the business cycle processes including SAP R/3, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft Enterprise systems.