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.