IT Auditing; An Adaptive Process
Robert E. Davis has been privileged to assist various organizations in achieving their control objectives and improving business processes.
His self-paced 136-page workbook includes practical exhibits and exercises; extensive bibliographies; and a compilation of terms and acronyms used in IT auditing. The workbook is well-organized to provide self-paced initial training of IT auditors as well as continuing training of IT auditors, auditors, and auditor managers.
This workbook is an excellent resource alone of in conjunction with Robert's "IT Auditing: The Process" a self-paced PowerPoint presentation of over 450 slides.
Upon completion of this training the participant will be able to:
1. Effectively approach IT audit planning, study, evaluation, testing, and reporting methods,
2. Understand the major steps in the IT audit process not chronicled in ISACA standards and guidelines.
3. Understand selected audit standards and guidelines into practical applications using detailed examples.
4. Understand how to apply various steps and processes required initiating, documenting, and compiling IT audit phases.
5. Acquire an appreciation for IT financial statement, government, and external auditing.
Collectively, "IT Auditing: An Adaptive Process" can function as a study guide for CISA examination preparation as well as an audit reference manual.
Robert E. Davis, MBA, CISA, CICA is a management audit consultant/senior audit manager, a freelance writer, a Pleier Corporation and Boson Software author as well as a Temple University instructor. His information systems audit specializations include Control Objectives for Information and related Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley Act and The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Regarding information security and privacy, Robert is available to provide International Organization for Standardization-27000, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and Basel III consulting. His primary computer technology research interests are databases, operating systems, and distributed information systems processing.
Since starting his career as an information systems (IS) auditor, Robert has provided data security consulting and information systems auditing services to the United States Enrichment Corporation, Raytheon Company, United States Interstate Commerce Commission, Dow Jones & Company, and Fidelity/First Fidelity (Wells Fargo) corporations and other organizations; in staff through management positions. Pertaining to IS, some of his professional software and hardware experience includes MVS, UNIX, Windows, Oracle, the International Money Management System, PERL, COBOL, PASCAL, DEC, IBM, Tandem, Compaq, and DELL. Prior to engaging in the practice of IS auditing and information security consulting; Robert (as a corporate employee) provided inventory as well as general accounting services to Philip Morris, USA and general accounting services to Philadelphia National Bank (Wells Fargo).
Robert graduated from Temple University and West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration degree, respectively. While attending Temple University, his major areas of study were Business Law and Accounting. Subsequently, he successfully completed the requirements for a Management Information Systems subject major at West Chester University. Robert obtained the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certificate, after passing the Information Systems Audit and Control Association's rigorous three hundred and fifty multiple-choice questions examination and was conferred the Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA) certificate by the Institute for Internal Controls.
During his twenty-year professional involvement in education, Robert acquired postgraduate and professional technical licenses in computer science and computer systems technology (issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia). He also has authored articles for ITAUDIT magazine and ISACA Journal ("Did IT Auditing Forget the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?" and "Preserving Electronically Encoded Evidence"). Furthermore, Robert is a former ISACA-Philadelphia Chapter Board of Directors' member and College Relation Chairman.
Educationally, Robert, an American Association of University Professors', ISACA and Institute for Internal Controls' member, is a college computer science and mathematics instructor, having previously taught at Cheyney University and Bryant & Stratton College. Regarding training individuals in the information systems audit process, Robert has provided instruction to an Internet CISA study group, the Data Processing Management Association, and the ISACA-Philadelphia Chapter CISA Review course.
