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Proli Footwear, Inc. is a team-based auditing simulation designed to reinforce auditing theory and practice. Used in conjunction with a traditional auditing text or on its own, Proli Footwear, Inc. incorporates numerous facets of the auditing process. The end result is a practical, hands-on, team-based auditing experience. ... Read more

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Fantastic Book
This is a great book about the life of a great American. If you have doubts and fears about seeing your dreams become realities, this book will be very encouraging for you. I now work for the company John Amos founded (AFLAC), and I assure you, that your life plans can be changed by learning his life story.

I thought this book was great!
This book is one of the best book's I've had the pleasure of reading. What a great American! ... Read more

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Small business owners and managers cannot afford losses due to fraud yet in many of these types of businesses are the most common victims. The ACFE’s Small Business Fraud Prevention Manual provides information on the most common internal and external fraud schemes committed by customers, employees and vendors against small businesses as well as tips on how to prevent these schemes from happening to you.

Highlights include:

• Cash receipts and disbursements fraud
• Inventory and merchandise thefts
• Employee fraud prevention techniques
• Check and credit card fraud
• Vendor fraud
• Fraud perpetrator prosecution

The Small Business Fraud Prevention Manual also explains what to do if your small business becomes a victim to fraud, including avoiding liability when conducting investigations and taking civil actions against perpetrators.This popular manual is ideal for all management in the small business environment.

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A superb resource for the investigation, detection, documentation, and prevention of fraud

FRAUD AUDITING AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING New Tools and Techniques Second Edition

This new edition of a highly regarded book gives accounting professionals both an in-depth analysis of fraud and the latest tools, techniques, and methods of fraud auditing and investigative accounting. Written by recognized experts in the field, Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting offers authoritative information on:

• The detection of fraud committed by managers, employees, vendors, and customers within different accounting systems
• Computer-related fraud and where it is most likely to occur
• How to conduct a fraud investigation
• The role of the auditor as expert witness
• Documenting fraud, preparing evidence, and much more

Enriched by real-world case studies, important legal materials, chronologies of recent white-collar crimes, and a detailed bibliography, Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting is a resource no practicing professional will want to be without.

FRAUD AUDITING AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING New Tools and Techniques Second Edition

Fraud, in the words of the authors, is no simple vice. Recent years have seen it grow both in size and complexity, to the point where some estimates place losses due to fraud at well over $100 billion a year. And, with the increasing complexity of financial structures and the intensity of business competition, fraud has become harder to detect and more tempting to commit.

Since much of the responsibility for detecting fraud has been assumed by the accounting profession, accountants need to learn how to recognize its signs and investigate it. Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting, Second Edition focuses on the investigation, detection, documentation, and prevention of accounting frauds, stock frauds, and employee theft and embezzlement. Written by recognized experts in the field of white-collar crime, this comprehensive book provides an incisive, in-depth analysis of how fraud occurs within an organization and explains the latest techniques for fighting it. The authors have brought together up-to-date material to show practicing professionals how to:

• Recognize the characteristics of organizations in which fraud is likely to occur
• Detect and deter accounting fraud, using the most recently developed techniques
• Conduct an efficient, systematic fraud investigation
• Use the latest methods for documenting fraud and preparing evidence—and much more

In addition, this timely, authoritative book presents new case studies, drawn from a wide variety of actual incidents, that demonstrate industry-tested methods for dealing with fraud. ... Read more

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Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting
This was not what one would expect from the title. There were no methodologies provided to research and detect fraud and very little in terms of accounting controls was addressed. The book is a collection of anecdotes and cases with very little practical information that transcends the most basic concepts. The book spends too much time discussing behavioral aspects of fraud as opposed to legitimate financial investigation. Overall, a huge disappointment. ... Read more

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This book presents national environmental, or "green" accounting as it has developed in Europe and other parts of the world. It introduces the most recent methods developed through the United Nations Statistical Department and other international organizations, but bridges the gap between the superficial treatment of environmental accounting in economics textbooks and environmental literature, on the one hand, and the highly technical manuals of international organizations, on the other.

Joy Hecht begins with a history and introduction to national income accounting. The first part of her book explains how the environmental accounts build on the structure of the 1993 System of National Accounts. She then shows the UN approach to accountingapplied to pollution, recycling, and the management of natural resources such as forests, minerals,and fisheries. The third section discusses how the accounts approach green GDP and other macroeconomic indicators. The book concludes by going beyond the UN structures to discuss other adjusted macroeconomic measures and how accounting data can be used to build them.

National Environmental Accounting is a non-technical introduction to an increasingly important field. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how environmental accounts can help society move towards greater sustainability.

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This book makes auditing as fun as possible
I used this book for an auditing class and I got a lot out of it. The book sets each chapter up in an understandable, and digestable way.The tables and charts are excellent summaries of the reading and it is entirely possible to just skip the reading and memorize those. Each chapter has thought-provoking questions at the end and activities that are helpful in analyzation. This book takes you from the first step in auditing to the way to fill out the audit report. I have fond feelings for this book. ... Read more

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Muckraker can't stop raking the mud
The intelligent, take no prisoners, crusader of consumer rights is featured in Justin Martin's new book, Nader: Crusader, Icon Spoiler. Martin is also the author of Greenspan: the Man Behind the Money. Overall, Nader: Crusader, Icon Spoiler, 288 pages, reads well and is organized, but suffers from what appears to be some author-induced opinions that detract from the book's authenticity.

Still, the book is an interesting story about a guy who never gives up, made life a little safer on the highways, but doesn't know how to stop when he's ahead. As Martin points out by quoting Teddy Roosevelt, muckrakers are an important part of society, but must know when to stop raking the muck. Nader, according to Martin and other accounts, just doesn't know when to stop stirring up the muck.

Martin brings us through Nader's early life in Connecticut, his college and law school days at Princeton and Harvard and then his life struggle against for profit corporations. Ultimately the theme of Nader's life, as described by Martin, is essentially a life long vendetta against the corporation. In the early days of Nader's career, as told by Martin, Nader had the issues behind him. Auto safety, for instance, was an important issue which Nader championed with much success. In the later years, however, Nader picked fight after fight, including a fight with President Jimmy Carter, according to Martin. This fight just seemed so unnecessary, according to Martin. This experience highlighted by Martin brings out the defensive, never satisfied, approach Nader always gives to his project. Nader is more worried about looking like a compromiser than in getting a good result, according to Martin and this comes out in this episode.

The political quotes that Martin chooses in the Nader biography are fun to read, but some of Martin's chosen quotes to describe a point he wants to make seem unnecessarily targeted to the more liberal audience likely to read this book and, in my view, take away from the author's credibility.

For instance, Martin seems to take some unnecessary pot shots at Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush. Martin, in describing how Nader disliked the typical Ivy Leaguer, chooses this quote by Nader: "At Princeton, the athlete was king... Donald Rumsfeld was on the wrestling team and he would swagger around campus." Another unnecessary quote was when Martin is describing how hard working the Nader workers were; Martin chooses to insert a quote by one of Nader's guys from Yale who attended at the same time as our current President, "When I [referring to the Nader worker] was studying..., Bush was getting drunk at the frat house across the street." These quotes appear to add little more than some cheap pot shot humor that should not be used in a serious biography.

In any event, other than these unnecessary quips, the book is an interesting overview of Ralph Nader.

The muckraker doesn't know when to stop raking the mud
The intelligent, take no prisoners, crusader of consumer rights is featured in Justin Martin's new book, Nader, Crusader, Icon Spoiler. Overall, the book, 281 pages, reads well and is organized, but suffers from what appears to be some author-induced opinions which detract from the book's authenticity. Still, the book is an interesting story about a guy who never gave up, made life a little safer on the highways, but doesn't know how to stop when he's ahead. This, leading to the title of this review, in a quote by Teddy Roosevelt listed in the Nader biography by Martin to describe Nader.

Martin brings us through Nader's early life in Conneticut, his college and law school days at Princeton and Harvard and then his life stuggle against for profit corporations. Ultimately the theme of Nader's life, as described by Martin, is essentially a life long vendetta against the corporation. In the early days of Nader's career, as told by Martin, Nader had the issues behind him. Auto safety, for instance, was an important issue which Nader championed with much success. In the later years, however, Nader picked fight after fight, including a fight with President Jimmy Carter, according to Martin. This fight just seemed so unnecessary, according to Martin.

The political quotes choosen by Martin in the Nader biography are fun to read, but some of Martin's choosen quotes to describe a point he wants to make seem unnecessarily targeted to the potential reader audience which, in my opinion, takes away from the biography.

For instance, Martin seems to take some unnecessary pot shots at Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush. Martin, in describing how Nader despised the typical Ivy Leaguer, chooses this quote by Nader:
"At Princeton, the athlete was king... Donald Rumsfeld was on the wrestling team and he would swagger around campus."

Another unnecessary quote was when Martin is describing how hard working the Nader workers were; Martin chooses to insert a quote by one of Nader's guys from Yale who attended at the same time as our current President, "When I [referring to the Nader worker] was studying..., Bush was getting drunk at the frat house across the street." These quotes appear to add little more than some cheap pot shot humor that should not be used in a serious biography.

Unbiased portrait of a true American iconoclast
I'm admittedly biased towards Ralph Nader, having volunteered and voted for him during the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. That being said, I found this book to be remarkably balanced. It's neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job, but rather gives equal weight to Nader's achievements and shortcomings.

Martin writes extremely well, with a brisk pace: by page 30 Nader has finished law school, and by page 45 he's written "Unsafe at Any Speed" and is ready to take on GM! Despite the quick pacing, Martin doesn't gloss over Nader's early years: he presents the reader with all the necessary information on Nader's upbringing and influences, relying on well-chosen anecdotes rather than tedious genealogies.

The section on Nader's crusade against GM practically reads like a spy thriller. Fans of Nader will thrill during his "peak period" of 1969-1976, when it seemed he could do no wrong. But those same fans will scratch their head later on, when Nader inexplicably sabotages some of his own initiatives through a refusal to compromise with Congress.

Martin quickens the pace of the book yet again when detailing Nader's quixotic presidential runs. He describes the alienation Nader felt after being rebuffed by the Clinton/Gore administration - a feeling than no doubt sparked his candidacy and defused any feelings of remorse at possibly costing Gore the 2000 election. The irony of Nader's career is that he achieved the most when Republicans were in power, because he expected little of their administrations and focused on galvanizing grassroots efforts to achieve reform.

This is an excellent biography, a revealing portrait of a man who has devoted his life to consumer advocacy and making America a safer place to live.

The PR Guy Who Reads
I gotta say, who knew this guy was this cool? I kind of thought Ralph Nader had a story behind him. And here I find it in full living color. Martin, who wrote the fab Greenspan book from the high falutin era, now takes on an "icon" whom no one really knows...which is the point. Since Nader's plan was to stay silent and mysterious so it is wild to see Martin foil it in such an artist, comprehensive and above all, surprisingly fun manner. (Nader with his clothes off, so to speak...) I'm sure no one expected to see 'fun' and 'Nader' in the same sentence and in this book you finally get to see what all the fuss was about. I'd stood at a brick bookstore perusing a copy of Nader's quasi-autobio and thought "What is this?" Was all jargonish propoganda. This book is terrific and fascinating cause Martin goes for the jugular in a style that is refreshing - and yet not muckraking in the least. I say this bio is a new form of art: taking the wraps off someone no one knew or even thought of as more than a figurehead, and showing what that person has really done - and the consequences too. Oh and the cool part - that he's more than a political geek, that's for dessert.

Balanced (though not overly favorable) view of Nader
I've long followed the career Ralph Nader, so when
I saw NADER: CRUSADER, SPOILER, ICON by Justin
Martin, I just had to read it . . . and I'm
glad I did, in that in doing so, I came away with a balanced
(though not overly favorable) view of the consumer advocate
that I have long admired.

Nader has been tireless in his efforts to bring about change
in America . . . while sometimes spreading himself too thin,
he nevertheless has accomplished a great deal in his lifetime.

Though he tries to deny it, Nader had a profound impact on the
last presidential election . . . this book helped give me
a better understanding as to his thinking on why he ran.

I also came away with the impression that he rarely sleeps . . . and I got a chuckle out of the description of one appearance with Jay Leno . . . when asked about what he did for fun, he said "no" to dating and movies . . . but when pressed, he did finally admit that he ate strawberries!

There were many memorable passages; among them:
* Alan Morrison--a longtime friend and colleague of Nader's--has the following observation: "I have never known anybody who has more ideas about more things than Ralph. He's not interested in two or three or five or ten things. He's interested in a million. He sees things differently
from everybody else. He just sees injustices, unfairness, and improper ways of handling situations that everyone else just accepts. He has a cosmic view of these things, very broad, but at the same time, he is a person who pays enormous attention to details. I never met anybody who can think so big and think so small at the same time."

* As a boss, Nader remained an original. He once claimed that his number-one criterion for hiring people was that they be thick-skinned. "People often ask me how I choose the people to work with me," he explained. "Well, you start off by saying they have to be bright, hard-working, the usual traits. But the one key probably is how willing they are not to be loved."

* Nader asked [Bobby] Fischer his secret. Fischer explained that there was calculation in many of his decisions, whether showing up late to matches, canceling interviews, even refusing an invitation to visit the White House. It made him seem like a
temperamental genius, even more than he actually was, and the
public ate it up. "If you want to get attention to the game, you have to manipulate the press," Fischer explained.

For Nader, this was confirmation of his own instincts. His aim was to draw attention to the cause of consumerism. During this era, he was a marionette master when it came to the press. At every opportunity, Nader cast himself as an indefatigable advocate, grave, selfless, working away while the innocent citizenry sleeps. This had the advantage of not being too far from the truth. But it was not the whole truth. ... Read more

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This easy to understand, do-it-yourself text fully assists the student or practitioner in conducting research to develop solutions to accounting or auditing questions.Used by numerous universities and public accounting firms, this text guides readers through the research process in a step-by-step manner. Weirich is intended for the undergraduate or graduate accounting or auditing research course taught at most four-year universities.There is also be substantial carry-over into the professional marketplace. ... Read more

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This judicial guide takes the sting and surprise out of the tax court procedure, allowing readers to be fully prepared long before they walk into the courtroom, offering detailed explanations and transcriptions of procedures, diagrams of typical courtrooms, and a list of the "dirty tricks" the IRS has in its hat. It covers the jurisdictional and procedural matters for disputing a Notice of Deficiency (or other Notice) formally issued by the IRS when it assesses additional tax and penalties, tries to impeach a taxpayer under oath, and objects incessantly to a taxpayer's offerings of evidence. ... Read more

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Excellent book for beginners
Excellent guide to the entire process of conducting Quality Audits. A must have for the beginning auditor and supporting staff ... Read more

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The clearest, easiest-to-use guide to understanding GAAS 2003 on the market–fully updated!

This latest resource to understanding GAAS addresses the toughest part of an accountant’s job–identifying, interpreting, and applying the many audit, attest, review, and compilation standards relevant to a particular engagement. Wiley Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2003, the only reference written by the primary authors of the AICPA Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs), offers the accounting professional a clear, accessible distillation of the official language of those standards, Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs), and Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs)–as well as advice on exactly when and how to remain fully compliant with each. The only GAAS reference organized according to practitioners’ actual use of the Statements on Auditing Standards, GAAS 2003 presents each statement individually, explaining how the standards are related, and offering guidance on the entire engagement process in the form of practice notes, checklists, questionnaires, and real-world examples that illustrate how the fundamental requirements of each section are applied.

New in GAAS 2003!

• SAS 95, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
• SAS 96,Audit Documentation
• SAS 97, Amendment to Statement on Auditing Standards No. 50, Reports on the Application of Accounting Principles
• SSAE 11, Attest Documentation

This edition also notes changes expected to be made by SAS 98, Omnibus-2002, and SSAE 12, Amendment to SSAE 10, Attestation Standards: Revision and Recodification. ... Read more

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If our economy is doing so well, why are so few of us better off? The answer: rising wage inequality.

Since the early 1970s, the gains of growth have gone almost entirely to a small fraction of the wealthiest and most powerful. Today, American wage inequality is a national crisis, and the question must be: What are we going to do about it?

In an impassioned argument backed by impressive statistical evidence, James Galbraith shows that inequality is not inevitable, nor irreversible, nor the result of impersonal market forces. Instead, blame belongs to specific political decisions and the poor economic performance they produced. And the solution lies within reach, through a return to an economic policy commited to full employment, low and stable interest rates, strong and stable economic growth, and control of inflation by civilized means.

For decades before 1970, America was home to booming technological progress amidst a stable relationship between rich and poor. We were, in those years, a true middle-class society. It was only when the government decided to abandon the goal of full employment, to fight inflation by throwing people out of work, and to use high interest rates like a bludgeon, that inequality began to threaten the American dream.

In Created Unequal, Galbraith explains the relationship between economic policy and the structure of pay. He shows why "knowledge" workers have done well and why service workers have not; why consumer industries have lost ground and why the true service economy is smaller than you think. Whether you are in the aircraft industry (rich) or the garment business (poor), medicine (up-and-coming despite HMOs) or residential construction (in deep decline), you will be surprised and provoked by his findings. Most of all, Galbraith gives us all hope that we can reclaim our country through economic understanding, commonsense policy, and political action. ... Read more

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Outstanding..filled with technical analysis, insights, data.
Argues that America's wage gap was driven up by public policies shaped by and for the wealthy. Explains the relationship between economic policy and the structure of pay. Shows why knowledge workers have done well and why service worker have not; why consumer industries have lost ground. Shows that differential power, rather than a theory of differential skills, explains inequality in pay. Includes technical notes and bibliography. For those who want to gain insight into inequality in pay this work, by a leading economist, This book is outstanding and filled with technical analysis, insights and supporting data.

A Great Antidote for Greenspan Worshippers
Jamie has all of his father's flair for writing plus James K. Galbraith, like his idol John Maynard Keynes, seems to be defying the law of regression. Jamie has all of his father's flair for writing plus the modern statistical tools of his trade. Many economists consider the market as the chief producer of inequality, a major pillar of his father's thinking and the need for state expenditures to reverse this tendency. Jamie blames policy-makers after 1970 since this seems to be the dividing line between stability in the distribution of U.S. wages and the subsequent increase in wage inequality. Students of economic doctrines tend to emphasize Alfred Marshall's belief that the evolution of capitalist markets would produce greater equality in income (and presumably wage) distribution. This idea was reinforced by Nobel prize-winner Simon Kuznets' work in the early fifties in the U.S. which claimed that recent statistics showed increased equality in income distribution. What Kuznets was measuring, however, was the temporary influence of full employment during World War II on U.S. income distribution, something that Jamie argues was reproduced by "New Economics" policy-makers in the 60s and for a couple of years under Reaganomics in the mid-80s. The ultimate source of this power to create less-than-full employment and increased inequality lies at the door of Paul Volcker and his successor Alan Greenspan, Chairmen of the Fed from 1979 until today..Jamie, in contrast to the conventional wisdom, is relentless in his criticism of Greenspan feeling that we might have to go back to the drawing board in changing the thrust of our macroeconomic policy. Having opted for balanced budgets and neutral fiscal policy, monetary policy has become the only game in town under President Clinton. Whereas Greenspan cut the federal funds rate in half in early 1992 in a futile attempt to reelect President Bush, he reversed course under Clinton by almost doubling the rate beginning in February 1994 ina totally unnecessary attempt to control phantom inflation. With the continued disinflation under Clinton, real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates have risen and produced what Jamie feels is an overvalued dollar especially with respect to Japan and Germany. But the dollar is undervalued with respect to Latin America. This dichotomy reflects the dirty float of the past three decades and helps explain the relative stagnation of Latin America. I am totally in agreement with Galbraith's conclusions on the need to return to the low real interest rates before Volcker's biting of the proverbial bullet and tend to subscribe to the casual attitude towards controlling inflation. If we ever get back to a demand-pull inflationary situation, there would be time to act. As it is, the principal problem of the millenium would appear to be the deflation and deflationary expectations . As Galbraith admits,"the extreme proto-Keynesian position, that the risk of inflation ought simply to be ignored, should not be dismissed entirely out-of-hand."

Technically solid, but weaker on policy arguments
"Created Unequal" is an impressive work of economic analysis of wage and wealth inequality. Although the book occasionally gets into some relatively rigorous economics, it should be accessible to the determined lay reader.

Professor Galbraith's central thesis is that the amount of wage inequality (the difference between what the wealthiest make and what the poorest make) is tied directly to a number of key factors: the unemployment rate, the interest rate, the strength of the dollar, and so on. Essentially, the lower the unemployment rate, the less the degree of wage inequality. I am simplifying his thesis considerably here, but this is the essence of it. There is a considerable amount of technical research presented that supports the thesis and demonstrating a strong correlation between wage inequality and unemployment.

So, Professor Galbraith makes a persuasive case that the government can affect wage inequality by making certain policy decisions, such as lowering unemployment, raising the minimum wage, weakening the dollar against international currencies, and so on.

But, what is missing from the book is a serious justification of why the free market should not dictate the value of labor. In other words, from a normative standpoint, why should workers be paid two or three or more times the value of their labor? There are egalitarian arguments to be made, of course, but at the same time, if the value of Bill Gates' labor is, say, 100 times more valuable than the work of a custodian, why should Gates' wages be limited to, say, 30 times that of custodian? (At one point, Professor Galbraith suggests a 30-1 limitation.)

In the end, this is an impressive and valuable work. You may or may not agree with the policy decisions that Professor Galbraith supports, but his analysis must be reckoned with.

A compelling case that politics affects wages.
Galbraith provides a cogent, well-documented argument that instability has more to do with wage inequality than does a mechanism for market efficiency. "When the ocean is flat, rowboats and dinghies can join the trawlers out on the reef where the fish are running. But in a gale, the little boats sink while the large ones do not." He argues that reasonable wages obtain from low unemployment and that expecting science and technology to act as the "centerpiece of a progressive agenda is absurd." Highly recommended.

A book for Europeans
Polititians and business people in Europe often recommend to learn from the US. But usually they don't tell the full story. Galbraith's book does. ... Read more

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Gleim's Ninth Edition of CIA Review, Part 2: Internal Audit Skills is an essential tool for learning and reviewing the concepts and applications necessary to PASS Part 1 of the CIA exam. The overriding consideration is an inexpensive, effective, and easy-to-use study program. This manual:

Defines topics tested on Part 2 of the CIA exams.
Explains how to optimize your exam score by analyzing how the CIA exams are constructed, administered, and graded. Outlines all of the subject matter tested on Part 2 of the CIA exams in 10 easy-to-use study units.
Presents multiple-choice questions with detailed correct and incorrect answer explanations to prepare you to answer questions on Part 2 of the CIA exam.
Illustrates individual question answering techniques to minimize selecting incorrect answers and to maximize your exam score.
Suggests exam-taking techniques to help you maintain control and achieve success. ... Read more

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This book is intended for persons involved in assessing performance.Part 1 of the book explains the components of the "Universal Performance Process" which is at work in all organizations, whether large or small.In Part 2, the book describes the elements of performance audit findings, how those elements interrelate with each other, and how they are linked to the actual components of performance that were explained in Part 1. ... Read more

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An effective, easy-to-use writing tool designed specifically for internal auditors in any size bank. This practical, concise manual gives readers guidance on structuring reports, choosing appropriate tone and style, and adapting reports to the needs of bank management. Even managers will find it useful to review relevant chapters to evaluate the quality of their departments' reports and learn how to give constructive feedback to writers. This work offers practical solutions for meeting the most unique challenges of writing an organized, readable report. Readers will learn how to: Use discipline logic to develop the content of a report; Present negative issues constructively; Select the appropriate amount of information to report to senior management; Write a balanced report. ... Read more

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An operational review is an evaluation made of management's conformity with policy and budgets. The corporation and its operations are analyzed, including appraisal of structure, controls, procedures, and processes. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the entire process. ... Read more

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not enough coverage of subject matter to be of merit
Coming on the heels of the author's previous book on the subject, this book was a disappointment for several fundamental reasons: it does not cover the matter in detail, and the examples provided are of no real fundamental value. It would appear that someone at McGraw-Hill (the publisher) was realy asleep at the wheel to let this manuscripy go out the way it did.

Giving the book 3 stars is truly a gift. ... Read more