Control Self Assessment: For Risk Management and Other Practical Applications

Book Description

'Control self assessment is sweeping the management and auditing worlds by storm. At last we have in just one place the authoritative guide to its practical application. Until now CSA had been shrouded in too much mystery and would-be practitioners had been largely at the expensive mercies of consultants or their own trial and error. It is impressive that the editors of this substantial volume have persuaded so many leading practitioners from most sectors and from several countries to pool their immense practical experience of CSA in a highly accessible way.' Andrew Chambers, Managing Director of Management Audit, Emeritus Professor City University London and former Chief Executive of City Business School 'This book should provide a very useful reference point for anyone who is thinking about introducing CRSA, or who is in the early stages of implementing it. The sections covering experiences of implementing CRSA....are likely to be particularly useful. They should give you help in selecting the right approach and the most appropriate techniques for your own organisation.' Liam Fitzpatrick, Director, Oxley Fitzpatrick & Associates Ltd Control Self Assessment is 'a formalised, documented and committed approach to the regular, fundamental and open review by managers and staff of the strength of control systems designed and operated to achieve business objectives and guard against critical risks within their sphere of influence' (Keith Wade). This book gives practical guidance on how such techniques may be introduced in an organisation and describes the implementation of CSA in a variety of organisations both in the private and public sectors.

Customer Reviews:

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CSA.......2000-11-06

The book is divided into six parts.The first two parts gives a complete treatise on development of CSA and approaches to CSA. The next two parts deal with practical applications of CSA in private sector organisations and public sector organisations. The fifth part deals with the future of CSA. The authors discuss very valid questions on why CSA is not more widely adopted than it should. The authors have analysed how CSAcan be a useful tool to be usedas part of risk management and corporate governance. The sixth and final part contains various appendices useful to the reader like extracts from the CoCo Report and UK guidance on internal financial control. This book is addressed to both practioneers and students of CSA.

Book Description

The goal of Inventory Management will be to explain the dynamics of inventory management's principles, concepts, and techniques as they relate to the entire supply chain (customer demand, distribution, and product transformation processes). The interrelationships of all functions will be defined. The book concentrates on understanding the many ramifications of inventory management. In today's competitive business environment, inventory management has proven to be most critical, and this book is directed to the management of inventory to assist in better understanding the body of knowledge required to operate in a competitive world. Almost all functions such as sales, engineering, and accounting have an impact and are impacted by inventory management. The book will assist in the training of students as well as APICS CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) candidates. As such it will not only be a textbook, but also a desk reference for those employees responsible for controlling inventories, and thereby assist in reducing cost, improving customer service, and maximizing capacity. Each chapter concludes with a case study and suggested solution. The case studies tell the story of a growing company, Smith Industries, and the related inventory management problems it had to address. The problems addressed relate to the subject matter of the chapter.

Book Description

As a critical analysis of the law-making process, this book has no equal. For more than two decades it has filled a gap in the requirements of law students and others taking introductory courses on the legal system. It deals with every aspect of the law-making process: the preparation of legislation; its passage through Parliament; statutory interpretation; binding precedent; how precedent works; law reporting; the nature of the judicial role; European Union law; and the process of law reform. It presents a large number of original texts from a variety of sources--cases, official reports, articles, books, speeches and empirical research studies--laced with the author's informed commentary and reflections on the subject. This book is a mine of information dealing with both the broad sweep of the subject and with all its detailed ramifications.

Reason in Law Update, Longman Classics Edition (7th Edition) (Longman Classics (Pearson))

Average customer rating:

Great Legal Analysis Introduction.

Reason in Law Update, Longman Classics Edition (7th Edition) (Longman Classics (Pearson))
Lief Carter , and Tom Burke
Manufacturer: Longman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Legal System | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Jurisprudence | Perspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0321439422

Book Description

With a new foreword by Sanford Levison, a new appendix on Terry Shiavo, and updates on the appointment process and detainees in Guantanomo Bay, this engaging and lively text examines the relationship between law and politics and emphasizes the political importance of sound legal reasoning.

Reason in Law examines the intersection of law and politics: legal reasoning. It teaches students how to examine judicial decisions, encouraging them to become “thoughtful judges of judging.” Using cases ripped from the headlines–such as the Alabama federal courthouse “Ten Commandments” case, Ashcroft v. Oregon, and Lawrence v. Texas–authors Carter and Burke teach through illustrative examples and have assembled a gallery of fascinating cases to engage student interest. Ultimately, the text attempts to answer the question: “How can a pluralistic society be ruled legitimately?” If people of differing political allegiances can interpret the same legal text quite differently, how can the rule of law be properly applied?

Customer Reviews:

Great Legal Analysis Introduction........2005-10-31

Authors Carter and Burke create a brief but effective legal analysis tool in the form of their text, "Reason in Law."

By examining the relationship between the law and politics, the text asks that students attempt to become "thoughtful judges of judging" while becoming familiar with and trying to answer the ultimate issue, that being: "how can a pluralistic society be ruled legitimately if people of differing political allegiances can interpret the same legal text quite differently, . . . then how can the rule of law be properly applied?"

I have required this text for my Constitutional Law course students, and must caution the potential buyer that an understanding of civics must be possessed before the book can be read and understood in light of it's full spectrum.

Packed with current events, cases and controversies pulled right from the headlines of the newspapers, this text is compatible with any political science or legal curriculum. Illustrative cases and questions complete and summarize each chapter thus creating tools for the student to use so as to grasp the legal concepts, meanings, and interactions of law and the contemporary legal process.

Informative and thought provoking. Four stars.

The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court

Average customer rating:

The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court
Thomas G. Hansford , and James F., II Spriggs
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Constitutional Law | Law | Subjects | Books

Courts | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Subjects | Books

General | Law | Subjects | Books

Jurisprudence | Perspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0691123543

Book Description

The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court offers an insightful and provocative analysis of the Supreme Court's most important task--shaping the law. Thomas Hansford and James Spriggs analyze a key aspect of legal change: the Court's interpretation or treatment of the precedents it has set in the past. Court decisions do not just resolve immediate disputes; they also set broader precedent. The meaning and scope of a precedent, however, can change significantly as the Court revisits it in future cases. The authors contend that these interpretations are driven by an interaction between policy goals and variations in the legal authoritativeness of precedent. From this premise, they build an explanation of the legal interpretation of precedent that yields novel predictions about the nature and timing of legal change.

Hansford and Spriggs test their hypotheses by examining how the Court has interpreted the precedents it set between 1946 and 1999. This analysis provides compelling support for their argument, and demonstrates that the justices' ideological goals and the role of precedent are inextricably linked. The two prevailing, yet contradictory, views of precedent--that it acts either solely as a constraint, or as a "cloak" that never actually influences the Court--are incorrect. This book shows that while precedent can operate as a constraint on the justices' decisions, it also represents an opportunity to foster preferred societal outcomes.

Average customer rating:

reviewer legal assistant

The American Common Law Method
Richard B. Cappalli
Manufacturer: Transnational Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Civil Procedure | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Subjects | Books

General | Law | Subjects | Books

Jurisprudence | Perspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books

General | Reference | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 1571050418

Customer Reviews:

reviewer legal assistant.......2004-04-10

Excellent anyone serious about the law profession should eventually buy rent but definitely get a copy it will be very crucial to your briefing cases!!!

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding analytical work and a unique source.......1998-08-23

"Interpreting Precedents" is an outstanding analytical work as well as a unique source for further analysis.

The majority of the book is devoted to separate chapters on the eleven jurisdictions studied by the group: the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States (State of New York), and the European Union. The jurisdictions can be roughly located on a continuum of approaches to determining the ratio decidendi, with fact-based holdings at one end and theoretical legal abstractions at the other. On this continuum, the approach followed in the United States be longs near the fact-based end of the spectrum, followed by the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries, and then perhaps Germany. The remaining jurisdictions, including France and the European Court of Justice, can be plotted or grouped near the other end. The eleven chapters on separate jurisdictions are followed by insightful studies on individual topics.

Continental European reliance on precedent will increase in the coming years under the influence of at least five interrelated forces. The first force is the Europeanization of Europe. Citizens within the European Union are constantly being confronted with new, sometimes foreign legal norms and concepts. Second, the homogeneity of European courts and bars is eroding. Third, the proliferation of computers puts past decisions at the fingertips of judges and lawyers. Fourth, the ever increasing density of regulation, and the rapid changes in norms, mean more need for precedents, not less. Fifth, and most profoundly, legal realism, or some theory akin to it, is replacing positivism. This evolution reinforces the tendency to view judicial decisionmaking as something personal and individual, rather than as a component of a harmonious system of legislation. As judges become more self-conscious of their regulatory role, they will intensify their nascent, self-imposed adherence to precedent in order to reduce political disapproval, and to forestall legislative measures to restrict their ability to stray from precedent.

For decades to come, "Interpreting Precedents" will serve as a benchmark in the Europeanization of precedent, and as a sourcebook for further research. But it is much more. It is a unique collection of outstanding insights into judicial structures and legitimacy, legal theory and reasoning, and comparative law.

For further criticism and analysis see Professor Lundmark's review at 46 American Journal of Comparative Law 211 (1998).

Average customer rating:

New Idea with Very Good Research to defend its claims

Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court
Harold J. Spaeth , and Jeffrey A. Segal
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Courts | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Subjects | Books
General | Law | Subjects | Books
Jurisprudence | Perspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books
General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court

ASIN: 0521805716

Book Description

This book examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of the US Supreme Court justices throughout the Court's history. Supreme Court justices almost always "follow" precedent, in that they always cite precedents for the positions they take. Because there are always precedents on either side of a case for justices to follow, following precedent does not mean that the justices are ever influenced by precedent. Employing the assumption that for precedent to be an influence on the behavior of justices, it must lead to a result they would not otherwise have reached, the authors show that precedent rarely controls the justices' votes.

Customer Reviews:

New Idea with Very Good Research to defend its claims.......2001-04-26

In Majority Rule or Minority Will, Harold Spaeth and Jeffrey Segal provide much needed empirical examination of the influence of precedent upon the decisions of Supreme Court Justices. The central question addressed by the authors is not whether justices are influenced by the decisions that were reached in previously decided cases, but whether this influence exists at a systematic and substantively meaningful level in the Supreme Court. There are three answers to this question. First, it could be found that justices are precedental by nature and follow the doctrine of stare decisis in all or nearly all of the cases in which it could be applied. Second, justices could be "legal moderates" in that precedent is an occasional influence upon their decisions, but other factors are often present. The final possible answer is that justices are preferential by nature and are rarely influenced by precedent.

In an effort to answer their question, the authors sought to examine the decisions of the justices in the progeny of established precedents. To complete this task in an appropriate manner, the authors used a sampling of major and minor decisions in which precedent was set. The author's sampled 100% of the cases with dissent from Elder Witt's list of "Major Decisions" from his Guide to the US Supreme Court (1990). The justify their use of these cases as they see Witt's list as more broad than others and the list has been employed by the authors in earlier research. So as to inquire if their findings would be generalizable, the authors also included a sampling of minor decisions of the Court. Sampling became necessary for the authors due to the amount of cases that the Court has decided that include dissent. While a pure random sample would prove unbalanced in that dissent rates vary greatly throughout the history of the court, the authors used a stratified random sample to find their data. Using the data of Epstein et al., the authors found three distinct periods within which to sample: 1793-1867, where dissents were issued less than 10 times per term; 1868-1936, where levels of dissent began to rise; and 1937 through the present, where high levels of dissent are common. In all, approximately 100 cases and their progeny were examined for each of the defined eras. Progeny was related to its particular precedent by the authors using two different sources. First, the authors examined the case syllabi for the cases that they used. Appearance in case syllabi was not the only determinant of precedent; the authors also relied upon Shepard's Citations for this data. In the end, the authors analyzed 2,425 votes and opinions cast by 77 justices in 1,206 progeny of 341 cases spanning from 1793-1995.

After analyzing their data, Spaeth and Segal found that justices do not heed precedent unless they are in previous agreement with it. In other words, justices who dissent from original opinions will rarely reverse their votes in subsequent progeny. The findings of the authors show that roughly 12% of justices will follow precedent, while 88% of justices will continue to decide cases according to their preferences. Therefore, the influence of precedent upon the justices of the Court is neither systematic, nor is it meaningful. These findings run counter to conventional wisdom and the legal model, which have often assumed that Supreme Court justices are inclined to follow previously established legal rules (precedent) even when they disagree with the precedents. The research here is well done and I recommend this book for anyone interested in precedent in the legal system or in political science.

Average customer rating:
The Power of Precedent
Michael J. Gerhardt
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Constitutional Law | Law | Subjects | Books
General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Judicial Branch | United States | Political Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
General | Constitutional Law | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
Contracting | Construction | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0195150503

Book Description

The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision-making is a perennially divisive subject among legal scholars and political scientists. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: to what extent are the Supreme Court and other constitutional actors constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? The disagreements extend even to the meaning of precedent itself: does precedent consist of merely a prior holding or ruling? Or does it include the reasoning underlying the judgment? Taking up a topic long overdue for comprehensive treatment, Gerhardt provides the first book-length analysis of precedent by a legal scholar in several decades. Gerhardt clearly outlines the major issues in the ongoing debates about the significance of precedence, and offers his own novel theory for understanding the institutional power of precedence as a source of constraint on the constitutional decision-making of the Court, the presidency, and the Congress.

Precedent in English and continental law;: An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford,

Average customer rating:

Precedent in English and continental law;: An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford,
Arthur L Goodhart
Manufacturer: Stevens and Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Civil Procedure | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00087317Y

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books