Some men give up their designs when they have almost
reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a
victory by exercing, at the last moment, more vigorous
efforts than ever before. — Herodotus.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts. — Sir Winston Churchill.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men
keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. —
Conrad Hilton.
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1. "A Practitioner's Guide to Corruption
Auditing" has been recently published - (see below for
more details).
http://pleier.com/pgca.htm
2. This year is the 16th World Conference on Disaster
Management.
This event is truly amazing and is one of the very best
conferences
regarding protecting your organization from the impact of
disasters.
www.wcdm.org
Please pass the word along - (i.e. highly recommend).
3. CCEP (the sponsoring organization for WCDM) has some
amazing
guidance regarding disaster recovery and business
continuity.
http://www.ccep.ca/
4. have you worked on your personal preparedness?
http://www.ccep.ca/c
ceppers.html
5. KPMG ACI's latest governance newsletter is out.
http://www.kpmginsights.com/today/aci_sample_push_tod
ay.asp
6. The May Creativity Fringes Newsletter is also now
available.
http://ww
w.fcg.gov/creativity_fringes.shtml
7. The IIA 404 management guidance is out - congratulations
to
Norman Marks (for leading its creation).
http://
www.theiia.org/download.cfm?file=31866
8. The role and responsibility of the board in Strategy.
www.directorship.com/pdf/48631strategy.pdf
9. Finally, a great paper by ISACA has been updated - i.e.
the Exposure Draft (ED) of IT Control Objectives for
Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition is out.
- see information re their new exposure draft below (3rd
item below).
http://www.isaca.org/
Enjoy,
Dan
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Hi Dan,
We just completed publishing a unique 164-page CD-based
publication "A Practitioner's Guide to Corruption
Auditing" by Muhammad Akram Khan as a
readily-available reference for every auditor concerned
about corruption.
http://pleier.com/pgca.ht
m.
I thought you might consider telling the subscribers to your
listservs about this resource.
This Guide by Muhammad Akram Khan was designed specifically
for Internal Audit Professionals and Government Audit
Professionals who would like to improve their auditing
effort in the area of Corruption Auditing but need a
comprehensive approach as the "standard audit
tools" simply are not effective. This Guide provides a
framework for internal auditors and government auditors that
is effective in the audit of corruption.
Mr. Khan, a pioneer in developing this Guide for the first
time, shares the vast amount of knowledge he has gained
about this important subject in his 35 years of experience
to provide in one place the information that audit
practitioners are seeking about how to better audit
corruption, an issue that has not received adequate
attention by auditors despite ever-increasing global concern
about corruption.
The Guide takes the auditors successfully step-by-step on a
path of planning, executing and reporting in auditing
corruption where the usual documentary evidence is not
available. It is profusely illustrated from the author's
vast experience with real-life case studies, graphics, and
numerous references.
This publication contains useful information for Supreme
Audit Institutes and regulatory organizations interested in
addressing the ever-increasing global concern about
corruption.
Unlike most publications that attempt to address the subject
of corruption auditing but actually address auditing fraud
this Guide directly addresses the uniqueness of Corruption
Auditing and tells how auditors can audit despite that
uniqueness.
Click here for more details - http://pleier.com/pgca.htm
Thank you for your time,
Joe Pleier
Pleier Corporation
(949) 830-1575
pleier pleier.com
Digital publishers for Audit Professionals since 1986!
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Dan: The 16th World Conference on Disaster Management is
evolving
like no other year. The success of the conference last year
has
proven to be the launching pad for very exciting event this
June 18-
23 in Toronto. To date the registrations are well above last
year at
this time and the positions and calibre of speakers
surpasses any
other year (if that is possible).
A new feature this year is the requirement for delegates to
pre-register for the Sunday Workshops. Without a ticket
(included
in the registration package) delegates will not be allowed
into
restricted attendance sessions. Some are restricted to 50
participants. The option to select individual workshops
will be
closed when the pre-registrations hit the cut-off points.
I would ask you to forward the following:
"The 16th World Conference on Disaster Management is
fast
approaching. We have been informed that the Sunday Workshops
require pre-registration as the number of participants in
many are
restricted. Entry to these workshops will require a ticket
this
year. These can be arranged through the registration
system.
A couple of the sessions that should be of specific interest
are:
WS07: Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare: Is Your
Organization
a Target? - Albert Marcella Ph.D. CFSA CISA, President,
Business
Automation Consultants LLC
301: Integrating Business Continuity Into Risk Management -
Robert
Cornelius, Director, Business Continuity, Constellation
Energy and
Ellen Lagasse, Constellation Energy
303: Insider Crime and Abuse: Case Studies in Digital
Disasters -
Carole Longendyke, Director of Forensics, PG Lewis &
Associates
600: A New Threat to Add to Your Plans – A Pandemic! -
Regina
Phelps, President, Emergency Management & Safety
Solutions
And over 80 other workshops, plenary and breakout sessions
Register on-line at www.wcdm.org.
Dan, thank you for your support and we look forward to
welcoming
you and your `friends' to the 16th WCDM in June.
Douglas
--
Douglas Galbraith
Director of Marketing
Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness
860 Harrington Court
Suite 211
Burlington, Ontario
L7N 3N4
(905) 331-2552
(905) 331-1641 Fax
Presenters of the World Conference on Disaster Management
http://www.wcdm.org/
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Dear Mr. Dan M. Swanson, CISA,CIA,CISSP,CMA,
The exposure draft (ED) of IT Control Objectives for
Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition was released 30 April 2006 on
the ISACA and ITGI websites www.isaca.org and www.itgi.org .
This is the first update to the very successful document
that was issued in April 2004, to provide additional
assistance to all issuers in the area of financial reporting
compliance. As early filer issuers have experienced the
compliance process, both the U.S. SEC and PCAOB provided
some helpful interpretations of the Act, including guidance
on the importance of all organizations taking a top-down,
risk-based approach. To address the changing business
environment, updates in this second edition of the
publication include:
Insights into the cultural and people management issues
that should be considered when complying with
Sarbanes-Oxley
Additional insight on scoping, identification and
defining key controls and applying a top-down, risk-based
approach
Enhanced focus on entity-level and application controls
Simplified readiness road map
Greater focus on evaluation of deficiencies and lessons
learned from early filers
All ED comments are encouraged, and must be submitted no
later than
30 June 2006. Comments on the exposure draft may be
provided by the following electronic submissions methods:
Use the online submission form
Send an e-mail to researchisaca.org
Please include ITCO for SOX on the subject line. After
reviewing and incorporating comments/issues raised from the
exposure process, the final version of the document is
targeted to be released within the third quarter of 2006 in
both PDF and hard copy.
Thank you in advance for your interest and support of this
very important activity.
Regards,
Thomas C. Lamm
Director Research, Standards and Academic Relations
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