Financial Audit A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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Is there a succession plan for the head of internal audit? Has there been any events, which may materially change the position shown in the project accounts? Does your organization have regular external financial audits? Are the financial auditors confident in ability to assess risks associated with enterprise resource planning systems? How do the internal controls at your organization affect your financial audit?
This one-of-a-kind Financial Audit self-assessment will make you the dependable Financial Audit domain leader by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Financial Audit challenge.
How do I reduce the effort in the Financial Audit work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Financial Audit task and that every Financial Audit outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Financial Audit costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Financial Audit advice instantly with structured going-forward plans?
There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Financial Audit essentials are covered, from every angle: the Financial Audit self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Financial Audit outcomes are achieved.
Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Financial Audit practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Financial Audit are maximized with professional results.
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Financial Audit A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Financial Audit
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Financial Audit best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.
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You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
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•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic
•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Financial Audit, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Financial Audit have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Financial Audit, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Financial Audit initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Financial Audit Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Financial Audit Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Financial Audit areas need attention.
Financial Audit
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Financial Audit
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Included Resources - how to access7
Purpose of this Self-Assessment9
How to use the Self-Assessment10
Financial Audit
Scorecard Example12
Financial Audit
Scorecard13
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:14
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:27
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:43
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:58
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:73
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:89
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:102
Financial Audit and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:123
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Financial Audit124
1.1 Project Charter: Financial Audit126
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Financial Audit128
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Financial Audit129
2.0 Planning Process Group: Financial Audit131
2.1 Project Management Plan: Financial Audit133
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Financial Audit135
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Financial Audit137
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Financial Audit139
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Financial Audit141
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Financial Audit143
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Financial Audit145
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Financial Audit147
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Financial Audit149
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Financial Audit151
2.11 Activity List: Financial Audit153
2.12 Activity Attributes: Financial Audit155
2.13 Milestone List: Financial Audit157
2.14 Network Diagram: Financial Audit159
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Financial Audit161
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Financial Audit163
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Financial Audit165
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Financial Audit167
2.19 Project Schedule: Financial Audit169
2.20 Cost Management Plan: