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Internal Control: A Manager's Journey [Hardcover]

K. H. Spencer Pickett (Author)
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0471402508 978-0471402503 April 25, 2001 1
An entertaining introduction to a very serious and complex issue
Internal control is no longer the exclusive domain of highly trained accountants on the internal auditing staff. Corporate boards, CEOs, and employees at virtually every level are now seen as responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring these controls; few, however, have the training and background needed to fulfill this complex responsibility.
Through the entertaining story of a manager's visit to the Caribbean, Internal Control: A Manager's Journey illustrates how control can be managed throughout an organization. In each chapter, Operations Manager Bill Reynolds learns the key concepts and techniques of internal control and discovers how to design, document, install, and monitor an innovative, efficient internal control policy. He discovers that effective internal control is based on risk assessment and should encourage innovation. He also learns important techniques for preventing, detecting, and correcting fraud.
This unconventional, extraordinarily useful guide is peppered with practical examples and workable solutions that can be used to institute improved control and accountability in any company of any size. It's the ultimate resource for CEOs, CFOs, operations managers, and anyone involved in the design, implementation, review, or reporting of internal controls.

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"A useful book with a novel approach." (Pay Advice, May 2006)

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Bill Reynolds' company is in deep trouble-failed development projects, government audits, even a police investigation. The company is under attack for having no system of internal control, and it is Bill's job to devise one. Trouble is, no one, not even his CEO, can tell Bill what "internal control" is! To make matters worse, his doctor says that job stress is endangering Bill's health and orders him to take a vacation. So Bill flies off for a week in Jamaica, wondering how he'll ever relax with this huge responsibility hanging over him.

What follows is a remarkable journey in which, along with our hero, you will discover what internal control means, why it is important, and how different control models function. Through Bill's enlightening experience, you will find out why internal control is no longer an arcane discipline entrusted to a few specialists in the accounting department, and you will discover the immense impact of controls on your working life. You will learn how to:
* Derive procedures from risk assessment to form control standards
* Design, document, install, and monitor operational standards
* Institute fraud prevention, detection, and correction
* Resolve conflicts between control-reporting standards and business innovation
* Implement improved internal control and accountability

You will learn the components of the control framework and how they work together, and you will find plenty of advice on policy and procedures along with numerous tips on internal control design, implementation, and review. Finally, model policies on control and reporting formats, fraud, and ethics will help you design policies for your own company.

Internal Control: A Manager's Journey demonstrates that every employee in an organization has a stake in the control process. This invaluable resource for CEOs, CFOs, auditors, controllers, and operations managers is an extremely helpful guide for in-house, general-staff training programs.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 25, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471402508
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471402503
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 9.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,627,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, worth the time and money., April 28, 2002
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This review is from: Internal Control: A Manager's Journey (Hardcover)
This book will benefit both the new and seasoned professional. Its good for new managers and auditors wanting to get a broad understanding of internal control. The Picketts touch on just about every element of control and give good examples on application. New professionals can use this book as a development tool. I expect they will need to research some of the topics more.

I found the book beneficial because it helped me bring together my understanding of control and the link to our changing business environment. That is, a business environment that wants to balance control with creativity.

I found the writer's style enjoyable and made reading on a dry topic bearable.

Topics covered include: Objectives, Risk, Policy, Internal Control Elements, and how they fit together.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars serious but less entertaining, February 13, 2002
This review is from: Internal Control: A Manager's Journey (Hardcover)
Spencer Pickett did an excellent job in explaining internal control. It's a broad introduction covering most aspects of the issue. The business novel style, successfully used by Blanchard, Goldratt, Landsberg etc. starts with a promising, crisp first chapter of 15 easily digestable pages. However, the remaining chapters are chunks of about 50 pages of nearly endless discussions of topics in the context of a dreadlock holiday. It's like half a bottle chilled high quality red wine in the morning. The high quality is in the examples and topics, the less digestable part is the story. On the other hand, without the story, it would be as dull as a Cobit or Basel2 manual.
Fair introduction!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good General I/C Coverage, July 21, 2003
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This book did an excellent job of covering the entire gamut of internal control from the enviroment to procedure writing. The chapter on concepts of control was particularly well written.

This book definitely prepares you for the next step-writing an I/C policy for your business.

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