Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Auditing

Preventing Good People from doing Bad Things drives that concept home to business executives, auditors, and IT...

Reporting organizations' corporate social responsibility activities is difficult - a lack of regulation means that the communication of these activities varies significantly and there is a multitude of ways in which mistakes can be made.

The author provides the tools and insights required to produce investor-friendly CSR reports and includes a chapter showing how the investors can integrate CSR in their quantified analysis of investment-opportunities. Features include formulas, conversion standards and CSR note tables which enable the book to be used as a practical handbook...

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and chain of custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, non-timber forest products, wood energy and fair trade certification. Forest managers, auditors and project developers require a range of skills, capacities and expertise to monitor these issues. This book outlines the market-based tools that are required by such professionals to ensure corporate social responsibility in the forestry sector.

It shows how a mutual learning...

A long history of poverty, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice has provided, over the last fifty years, the context for the development of a vast amount of critical scholarship targeting marginalization in Brazil: Freireian pedagogics, theology of liberation, critical sociology, anthropology and ethnomathematics, critical social psychology and discourse analysis. Most of this scholarship has unfortunately been accessible only to the Portuguese-speaking readership. This volume presents, for the first time to an international audience, the novel understandings of...

AICPA Audit Guides are developed and updated to provide guidance and tools for practitioners as they perform audit engagements.

The AICPA Audit Guide Analytical Procedures, updated as of March 1, 2012, includes relevant guidance contained in applicable standards and other technical sources. The guide summarizes applicable requirements and practices, and delivers -how-to- advice for handling analytical procedures used in audits. The included case study illustrates the use of analytical procedures in planning and substantive testing, utilizing trend analysis, ratio analysis,...

First update in 2 years This publication includes over 200 pages of invaluable guidance to help you improve your gaming industry knowledge, fine-tune your strategies, and provide high-quality services to your clients.

This guide was developed by leading experts from industry and public practice. It summarizes new standards, guidance, and practices and delivers -how-to- strategies for handling audit and accounting issues common to entities in the Gaming industry.

It explains the accounting and auditing for many types of Gaming industry issues, including up-to date information...

The effective use of human resources and tangible or intangible assets are key components of an organization's success in the turbulent environment of the modern world. Such effective use requires the skillful application of the methods and procedures of management science. Of course, in the application of these methods and procedures it is important to effectively reduce the occurrence of organizational pathologies.

This book examines these organizational pathologies (corruption, fraud, money laundering, and a shadow economy) from various perspectives including individuals from...

This property and liability insurance guide will keep you up-to-date on current GAAP and Statutory accounting and audit guidance, and provides a good grounding on the industry, its products and regulatory issues, and the related transaction cycles that an insurance entity is involved with. Relevant guidance contained in standards issued through July 1, 2015 is included.

Key Benefits:

• Understand current GAAP and Statutory accounting for property and liability insurance entities
• Get authoritative accounting and auditing guidance applicable to property and...

Considered the industry standard resource, this 2015 update contains practical, "how-to" guidance for accounting and auditing of health care entities.

This 2015 edition includes relevant GASB and FASB updates (including those related to private companies), PCAOB and Uniform Guidance updates, and auditor involvement with municipal securities filings.

The updates include:

• FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-15, Interest--Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30): Presentation and Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with...