2005 Buyer's Guide to Audit, Anti-Fraud, and Assurance Software Book

This easy-to-use annual Buyer's Guide was designed to deal with the fast-growing market for audit software. Particularly with the emergence of Sarbanes-Oxley, auditors are under increasing pressure to automate, and the range of new software options is growing rapidly. This Guide contains information on more than one hundred vendors and evaluations of their products. Half of the book is devoted to industry-wide overviews and specific implementation strategies, aimed at internal and external auditors, IT auditors, audit management, fraud investigators, and anyone else concerned with audit, fraud detection, and assurance. The rest is made up of vendor profiles containing product information, vendor history, recent sales, user base, and much more. Product areas covered include: * Risks, control, testing, and control remediation management * Continuous controls monitoring * Transaction analysis, financial statement analysis, and data mining * Audit work collaboration and management * Fraud case management * Employee reporting * Control self-assessment * Productivity and communications tools * Specialized products such as spreadsheet checkers and telecommunications monitoring servers This is the only comprehensive Buyer's Guide in the field, written by the audit community for auditors. For anyone planning to buy software in the coming year, especially major SOX compliance packages or business process management (BPM) tools, this is an incredibly easy purchase to justify. An investment of $180 can save months of hassle and thousands of dollars in implementation costs.Read More