Book Description
Offering concise, readable coverage of information technology auditing, this new book helps readers understand the impact of information and communication technologies on organizations and accountants, and shows how to apply IT-auditing techniques using computer-assisted auditing tools. The book also explores security issues, legal and ethical issues, and more.
* Describes the use of computer assisted audit techniques and computer fraud auditing
* Explains IT audit in the context of the CobiT(r) framework.
* Accompanied by a CD with ACL software, and an appendix contains an audit case requiring its usage. There is also and appendix of IT audit terminology and definitions.
Customer Reviews:
Use on SOX reviews.......2004-11-21
Affordable book compared to other IT books, it is well written that provides a comprehensive framework for IT auditing. I especially liked the many Figures/Exhibits that listed Key Risks for the many subjects covered. Working in the SOX compliance area, these risks were a useful summary/checklist to understand what risks should be assessed and managed for SOX compliance. It would not be a detailed book for implementation for an CIO and staff to follow, but for an audit assessment of an IT department, I found useful.
Also, solid instructional material on use of ACL, and of course, the software itself.
It mainly about Security Risk issues.......2004-09-17
As an example, in the chapter on IT Risks and Controls, the only discussion of data integrity is buried in a few lines in a section entitled Security Risk. The examples in the book are mainly about Security issues. Take the subject of data integrity on file transfers. I believe the only mention of the subject outside of Security concerns is a Figure on the OSI Model (Transport layer alone won't detect if a mixture of old and new files are erroneously transfered to downstreams). There is no mention of detection/recovery of skipping/double-posting transactions, error thresholds, data base consistency on no-posts, restart/retry logic, checking for count and amount mismatches, balancing using checkpoints, etc. An auditor I believe should be aware of these types of issues concerning data integrity even in a core concept book.
Apt title - excellent intro.......2004-07-13
Although this is a college-level text, it can be effectively used by newly minted IT auditors to quickly learn the key knowledge and skill factors needed to function within their roles.
I like and highly recommend this book because of the emphasis on CObIT (Control Objectives for IT), which is the basis for auditing per the IT Governance Institute, which is, in turn under the aegis of Information Systems Audit and Control Association.
As stated by a previous reviewer, this book is wide in scope. The first three chapters cover the basics in clear prose and sufficient detail to give both students and on-the-job new practitioners all of the information needed to orient themselves in the role of an IT auditor. The emphasis on risk management in different domains is another strong point. The chapters covering risks associated with network and telecommunications, e-business systems, and system deployments are both technically accurate and portray realistic scenarios. Chapters 9 (Conducting the IT Audit), and 10 (Fraud and Forensic Auditing) round out the topic areas, leaving no gaps in the knowledge required to be an IT auditor.
The accompanying CD ROM has a software application to be used in conjunction with Appendix B case study. I did not work the case study, nor did I thoroughly exercise the application, so will refrain from making judgments about the usability or value of the application. The case study, though, was well put together and realistic, making it an ideal adjunct for class exercises, as well as working practicing auditors through real world scenarios.
For those new to IT Auditing in general and CObIT in particular I recommend visiting the following two sites: IT Governance Institute, ASIN B0001F8V14, and Information Systems Audit and Control Association, ASIN B00006BW74. You can paste the ASIN numbers in the Search box, select All Products and click the GO button to reach these sites. Once there you can explore additional material that will augment this book, as well as copies of CObIT, and an 84-page document titled 'IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley', which is one of the hottest contemporary topics in IT auditing.
Up to date, encompassing textbook on IT auditing.......2004-05-04
This is an up to date and good textbook on IT auditing. It begins with an overview of IT audit, legal and ethical issues, risks and controls and ends with a chapter on fraud and forensic accounting. What makes this book especially suited for classroom or self-study is the inclusion of discussion questions, exercises, notes and recommended reading lists at the end of every chapter.
The authors cover a wide field but on the same time manage to touch upon all important topics. COBIT, ISACA standards and guidelines are heavily used and referenced throughout the book, providing a good link between study and practice and perhaps making the book one of the preparation resources for the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) examination. The book also includes a CD with ACL software and a sample auditing engagement, which may be useful in some cases, although it does cover only a fraction of knowledge presented in the book.
Overall, this book indeed teaches the core concepts of IT/IS auditing. This book exists in two identical versions: one is for the North American market, another is for all other countries, although the coverage is mostly limited to US and Canadian regulations and practices.
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Now, you can minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits, with "Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2006 Edition."
Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions: venture capital financing; new business start-ups; brains-and-money deals; growth-equity investments; leveraged and management buyouts; industry consolidations; troubled company workouts and reorganizations; going public; selling a business; forming a private equity fund.
Guided by Jack S. Levin's dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to: distribute the tax burden in your client's favor; maximize returns on successful transactions; control future rights to exit a profitable investment...and turn every transaction into a winning venture!
Book Description
Now, you can minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits, with Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions.
Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions:
Venture capital financing
New business start-ups
Brains-and-money deals
Growth-equity investments
Leveraged and management buyouts
Industry consolidations
Troubled company workouts and reorganizations
Going public
Selling a business
Forming a private equity fund
Guided by Jack S. Levin's dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time.
In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to:
Distribute the tax burden in your client's favor
Maximize returns on successful transactions
Control future rights to exit a profitable investment...and turn every transaction into a winning venture!
Book Description
Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for all these common business transactions:
* Venture capital financing
* New business start-ups
* Brains-and-money deals
* Growth-equity investments
* Leveraged and management buyouts
* Industry consolidations
* Troubled company workouts and reorganizations
* Going public
* Selling a business
* Forming a private equity fund.
Guided by Levin's dynamic, transaction-by- transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to:
* Distribute the tax burden in your client's favor
* Maximize returns on successful transactions
* Control future rights to exit a profitable investment
...and turn every transaction into a winning venture!
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Topics include: Funding options available to managers * equity funding * debt funding * hybrid financial instruments * models on the optimal capital structure * debt profile management * refinancing.
Customer Reviews:
too easy for serious learner.......2000-09-06
Don't waste your time and money on buying this book. It's too easy, too simple and nothing is there that you have not known. Completely waste of money.
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This 20-page research report, written for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists alike, examines the sometimes daunting, always evolving world of venture investing in Germany. From how to make successful venture deals in Germany to viable exit strategies; from how to spot opportunity to the strong industries for investment. This report takes readers across the venture capital landscape in Germany covering the important, while highlighting the essentials.
Some areas explored include:
• analyzing management
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• looking ahead
• common misconceptions
• useful resources and advice.
This report outlines the important strategies and best mindset for approaching venture capital investing in Germany, and how to do it effectively.
This Executive Report is written by:
1. Dr. George M. Rehm, Partner, First Ventury - Bringing Success to Germany;
2. Dr. Dietrich Ulmer, President & CEO, Siemens Acceleration in Communications - Sound Venture Investing in Germany.
About Executive Reports:
Executive Reports offer focused, hard-hitting advice from the leaders of some of America's top companies, packaged in a concise, readable format. Each research report provides readers with 3 to 5 strategies that will have a direct financial impact on their business. While not meant as a comprehensive guide, each report includes quick-hit items that can immediately impact specific business strategies. Executive authors drill down to the central issues surrounding each topic area and dispense expert advice in concise, direct language. Executive Reports feature leading professionals selected by the Aspatore Editorial Board based on their experience, research, and standing within the professional community.
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Health Care Venture Capital Investments is an authoritative, insider s perspective on the necessary considerations for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the health care industry. Featuring managing directors and senior partners representing some of the nation s top VC firms, this book provides both an investor s perspective for evaluating health care investment opportunities and an entrepreneur s outlook on establishing and increasing their company s valuation. The authors discuss the current shape of health care investing and the various sectors within the field, including health care services, information technology, surgical and diagnostic devices, and reformulation of existing drugs and new drug delivery mechanisms. From mitigating risks and establishing valuations to structuring deal terms and ultimately preparing to exit, these experts articulate the finer points around health care venture capital now and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds powering the venture world, as experts offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this industry where health care and investing intersect. Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world s most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Chapters Include: 1. Stephen Krupa, Managing Member and Co-Founder and Darlene Collins, Managing Director, Psilos Group Managers LLC - "Investing in the Health
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Raising Capital for Technology Companies is an insightful, insider s glance into the dynamic and innovative field of venture capital. Featuring managing directors, partners, and CEOs from today s leading venture capital firms, this book discusses the current shape and future state of the venture capital technology industry. The authors offer invaluable perspectives on assessing investment risk, calculating valuations, understanding valuation fluctuations, attracting investors, evaluating market trends, and analyzing the venture capital industry s evolution. Their varied outlooks pro- vide fundamental strategies for fundraising and pitching start-up company ideas to venture capitalists. With honest, earnest advice, these executives provide the essentials for both venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to succeed in building a company, spotting market opportunities, fundraising, fostering company-venture capitalist relationships, and obtaining higher start-up valuations. Additionally, they define tactics that have been imperative to their own success and daily practice, and that will hold true into the future. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented by these outstanding authors enable readers to get inside some of the great minds of today, as experts offer their thoughts on the keys to successfully raising venture capital for technology companies. If in search of intuitive, practical wisdom, Raising Capital for Technology Companies is an essential resource.
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Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions ( Print Combo with CD-ROM )
Jack S. Levin
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This combination offer includes both the print and CD-ROM versions of Jack S. Levin's "Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions", 2006 Edition. This resource will help you minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits. "Structuring Venture Capital 2006" provides one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions: Venture capital financing; New business start-ups; Brains-and-money deals; Growth-equity investments; Leveraged and management buyouts; Industry consolidations; Troubled company workouts and reorganizations; Going public; Selling a business; Forming a private equity fund. Guided by Levin's dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to: Distribute the tax burden in your client's favor; maximize returns on successful transactions; control future rights to exit a profitable investment...and turn every transaction into a winning venture!
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Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions
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Product Description
Now, you can minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits, with "Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2007 Edition."
Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions: venture capital financing; new business start-ups; brains-and-money deals; growth-equity investments; leveraged and management buyouts; industry consolidations; troubled company workouts and reorganizations; going public; selling a business; and forming a private equity fund.
Guided by Jack S. Levin's dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to: distribute the tax burden in your client's favor; maximize returns on successful transactions; control future rights to exit a profitable investment...and turn every transaction into a winning venture!
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Downwind from nobody
Joan Wells
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Customer Reviews:
So bad that it's good.......2005-02-05
Met Joan Wells in 1980, in Portland. Wonderful person, but an abysmal writer. Buy this book. Read it. Examine how the author uses, and misuses, the English language. A gaggle of kittens? Of farm implements? I'm using it as a contrapuntal element in a teaching situation, to contrast it against the brilliantly written "The Egg and I."
Obviously the author used this previous (1940's) book as a template. Also, the author decided to retreat into edu-speak and academese when telling an otherwise wonderful story. She has a tin ear for the language, and never, ever, gets the correct word. Some of her sentences are so mindlessly pointless that all you can do is wonder what the f* she was trying to say in English.
This book should be required reading in every level of English education. This is what edumahooticators would write, if someone turned them loose. Joan was too afraid to communicate. Oddly enough, it's a great story, well worth reading. Too bad the author decided to hide behind chalktalk crapspeak. "No geese ply today's skyways, no birds extoll (sic) stippled shelter." Pure horse puckey. This is why most teachers can't teach writing. They've been crippled by their years of education, taught to rant a polysyllabic garbage that is obfuscatory and crepuscular, so that nobody will think they're ordinary, stupid, or worse: uneducated.
When I read Betty MacDonald's book, I think, What beautiful, clear, honest, natural phrasing. When I read Joan Well's book, I think, What a Goddamned shame she went to college. She was a poet. Then she got filled up with edumahootication.
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