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Information Systems Control and Audit

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I HAVE READ THE EARLIER BOOK 1988 OF THE SAME AUTHOR.THIS BOOK(EARLIER) HAS HELPED A LOT IN MY PROFESSION. NO BOOK HAS THIS MUCH DETAIL RIGHT FROM THE PROGRAME DESIGNING STAGE TILL THE MAINTENANCE. ESPECIALLY FOR THEAUDIT TEAM WHO ARE IN FIs AND BANKS THIS WILL SERVE AS A POWERFUL TOOL IN WRITING REPORTS CONTROLS. ETC. IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THE EDITION COMES OUT WITH ASIAN EDITION SO THAT WE CAN ACCESS TO THIS BOOK BY RON WEBER

I paid $82.67 for this book in 1999, read the entire book cover to cover, and sold it to a friend for about $40 a year later. Along with other materials, it helped me pass the CISA exam. Actually, this book covered more subjects and more deeply than that exam.

The subject is dry in the extreme in book form, but interesting when you practice it in the real world. I think the book's value now would be as an historical reference. A lot has changed since it was published in 1998, but it would be a shame to lose a sense of where we were at the time with regard to information systems control and audit.

It is a mystery to me why this author did not produce a revised edition because his was the premier book on the subject when it was published. I loved everything about this book, a large dimension hardcover book with the right size font, the right amount of white space, beautiful charts and well-organized chapters.

An excellent textbook that is both comprehensive and enjoyable. Numerous up-to-date examples make the material come alive, and the use of varied theoretical approaches transcends more traditional textbooks.

I being a first time reader of this book actually fell in love with the book. It is self explanatory and will leads u to become a good IT auditor if u got a comprehensive auditing back groud. i appreciate the effort by mr weber.

a very good book if you are not a techie. this book has all the gritty details that one will ever need for IS auditing for the moment. however i tend to get bogged down by all the details in the book. also, as IT is evolving at a tremedous rate, therefore expect an updated version very soon. the MCQs and review questions at the end of every chapter are very comprehensive and ensures that you can really understand the material that has been discussed in the chapter.

As a student, I have found this book to be a very difficult read. The chapters were filled with impossible to understand details. Perhaps for a practitioner the book is useful, but as an introductory textbook in a university course, it proved to be a very thick volume with litte useful information.