EDP Auditing: Conceptual Foundations and Practice

by Ron Weber

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007068832X
• ISBN13: 9780070688322
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 969 Pages
• Weight: 3.14 lbs.

Customer Reviews

EDP Auditing-Conceptual Foundations and Practice by Weber

This book should be updated since its last printing.With that said, it is a good introduction into the areaof EDP Auditing-particularly for college students. It coversthe management framework in the data center, systems development,the program life cycle, database administration, operationsmanagement, data capture, audit trail controls, evidence collection and evaluation. The work is written from the EDPprofessional's point of view. This text would complement a traditional auditing course by covering the EDP Audit component. It is a bit weak in the telecommunications area; however, the thrust of the work provides a solid foundation in the theory and practice of EDP Auditing for students studying the area for the first time. This book should be taught with a supplemental class project to help students understand how this theory is applied. I would suggest that the author consider an update of the current version to cover more theory of network administration.

A good primer

This book may be outdated, but gives a very good overview of the edp audit discipline. I notice a very critical review of this book but I can submit as a IT Risk Management professional that audit is all about controls and hence there would be mechanisms for checks on data entry or any other IT personnel. Traditional auditors look for controls on business processes and EDP auditors look for controls in IT environment. So, I hope the reader looks at it from that perspective and there is no insult in this case. Its like saying that Police should trust every body and feel that there are no criminals at all. Then why police in the first place?In conclusion, this is a good book for those who are not very much into IT but are planning to move into this new profession. However for advanced IT professionals, there are other books on IT Audit that they can refer.

A request for the model answer

A good guid for auditing. A model answer for the exercises and cases at the end of each chapter would be a great help for the self-study purpose. I don't mind paying for this, please do not hesistate to contact me if you have got one. 24th,nov.,1998...