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Security, Audit and Control Features SAP ERP, 3rd Edition

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This book is a practical one, oriented for SAP version ECC 5 and 6, but with plenty of examples for R/3 version 4.6c and 4.7.

Outlines key risks and controls associated with the implementation of ERP systems and the audit impact arising from it. Refers the importance of adopting a control framework and compares an audit framework for SAP with Cobit 4.1.

Explains the SAP risk based audit, key concepts, authorizations, methods of testing configurable controls, key controls, security access configuration and segregation of duties.

Covers the auditing of the revenue (master data, sales order, shipping, invoicing, returns and adjustments, cash receipts), expenditure (master data, purchasing, invoicing, disbursements ), inventory (master data, raw materials, producing and costing, handling and shipping finished goods) business cycles, including financial statement assertions, with extensive testing techniques, referring transactions involved, tables, authorization objects.

Half of the book is filled with audit/assurance programs for all the business cycles.
Explains the BASIS technical infrastructure (Implementation Guide-IMG, Organization Management Model-OMM, ABAP/4 Workbench, Transport Management System-TMS, Computer Center Management System-CCMS, Profile Generator-PFCG, Security Administration-SA system landscape) and provides a sample tool for auditing the SAP BASIS Application infrastructure.

Provides an overall understanding of the SAP BusinessObjecs GRC Access control and Process control solutions and explains new trends about SAP and ERP audits.