Audit Testing Procedures – 5 Types and Their Use Cases

As an information systems auditor, your work produces opinions and assertions on the status of different controls that the management has instituted. But the auditor doesn’t make arbitrary opinions. Any final view that auditor expresses in their report is backed by evidence and powered by audit testing that they performed to reach their conclusions.  Doing … Read more

Management and Organization of IT Audit Function

So how should the IS audit function be organized in an organization. By organization we mean what should be the scope and objectives. How it should be managed collectively and at individual audit level. Among other things related to IS audit management are audit planning, actual audit implementation, IS audit resource management, effect of prevalent … Read more

ISACA IS Auditing Standards and CISA Examination

Auditing standards regulate audits and all types of audit rely on some auditing standards for performing the audit assignment. Before discussing the ISACA IS auditing standards in detail, let us first know the reasons why auditing standards exist and whey these are mandatory to be used in audit assignments. Why using Auditing Standards is important? … Read more