This handbook focuses on internal audit processes and practice. It provides guidelines on how to establish an internal auditing unit and also describes the process needed to develop a strategic plan, audit tactics, report findings and on agreeing objectives for audit assignments. Each chapter develops principles of internal auditing and summarises the key aspects of procedure and best practice, case studies which apply the principles and test readers’ internal auditing knowledge and understanding.

Extensive references to internal auditing statements, standards, codes of conduct and samples of best practice are included.

• Both authors recognised as internal auditing authorities.
• Step-by-step guide to all aspects of the subject.
• Illustrated and summarised throughout with tables and case studies.

This book was originally published in hardback in March 1998 (ISBN 1860720358) , and reprinted in paperback in December 2006.

Paperback •  ISBN: 9781860723698 •   432 pages • Published January 2007 • £36.95

Contents
Part I Establishing internal auditing in an organisation
Achieving added value from leading edge internal auditing
Leading edge internal auditing as part of the management control framework
Market the success of modern internal auditing
Design quality into internal audit teams
 
Part II Internal Auditing procedures
Audit planning
Measuring internal audit performance
Reporting and progressing audit findings
Impact of information technology on internal auditing
Internal auditing working with the board

About the author
Jeffrey Ridley: Jeffrey Ridley is a visiting professor of auditing at the London South Bank University and University of Central England, Birmingham. His practicing auditing career spans both the public and private sectors. He is a past president of the Institute of Internal Auditors-UK & Ireland, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Certified Internal Auditor.

Andrew Chambers: Andrew runs Management Audit, a consultancy specialising in audit and governance advice. He taught the MBA organisational behaviour course at what is now Cass Business School where he was professor of internal auditing as well as dean of the school. He is now Professor Emeritus.