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This book will help you to improve your business control practices and show you how to better create, implement and assess your own controls. It will also show you how to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, and how to enable, facilitate and protect your business operations in a more effective way.
In today’s global economy, with more pressure on compliance, cost management and continuity planning, business management control has taken on far more importance to executives the world over. However, while there are many books available that focus on specific controls (financial, quality, production) few contain an integrated set of controls that apply across an entire business.
Business Management Controls is arranged by functional business area. It is aimed at managers, auditors and professionals who want to know how the assets, transactions, operations, systems activities and investments of their organisation may be protected, controlled and improved more effectively and more efficiently.
This book will help you to improve your business control practices and show you how to better create, implement and assess your own controls. It will also show you how to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, and how to enable, facilitate and protect your business operations in a more effective way. As an addition, this book describes the various types of controls in all core business functions and outlines several frameworks (including BSC) for designing and implementing those controls.
A selection of illustrative case studies, together with some key recommendations throughout the book, offer the reader further help and guidance on applying these controls within their own business, regardless of its size.
"…easy to understand and at the same time rigorous… I have never seen such a comprehensive, yet easy to understand book of this nature. I intend for this to be mandatory reading for my students, and it should be for anyone with internal control design responsibility or oversight. I highly recommend this practical book."
- Richard Leblanc, Associate Professor, Law, Governance & Ethics, York University, Toronto, Canada
John Kyriazoglou is an IT and management consultant with over 35 years’ experience of working around the world in a wide variety of organisations and economic sectors. Key roles have included IT Manager, Internal Audit Manager and MD of a service company.
John has presented at over 25 international conferences and currently gives courses on IT auditing, security and electronic crime prevention. He has written numerous articles for professional publications and is the author of IT Strategic and Operational Controls, also published by IT Governance.
