Essays about: "IT-audit"

Found 4 essays containing the word IT-audit.

  1. 1. The collaboration between auditors and IT-auditors : The effects on the audit profession

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sophia Bergquist; Sandra Elofsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Auditor; collaboration; information technology; IT-audit; IT-auditor; professionalism;

    Abstract : The development of information technology has significantly transformed the work of auditors and has presented new audit challenges. Organisations are more frequently using complex IT- systems which require that an IT-audit is performed. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Production of Comfort : - How Financial Auditors Experience that they Become Comfortable with I T -auditors

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sara Hedman; Alexander Törnby; Lisa Påhlman; [2015]
    Keywords : Auditors; comfort; comfort theory; information technology; IT-auditors; IT-auditing;

    Abstract : Auditors need to feel comfortable when signing the audit in order to produce comfort to society. Today, most companies use complex IT-systems that require that an IT-audit is performed. Rarely auditors possess the sufficient knowledge to perform the IT-audit and therefore an external part of the audit team is involved, namely IT-auditors. READ MORE

  3. 3. A new approach for IT audit? : Testing the theory of technology debt in an IT audit setting

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Joachim Björklund; Richard Joelsson; [2014-06-11]
    Keywords : IT audit; Technology Debt; IT investments; Secondary analysis of qualitative data;

    Abstract : Background and problem: The amounts companies spend in IT investments have increased greatly the last couple of decades. To control IT the companies perform IT audits. This is a complicated and expensive procedure which lack common standards. READ MORE

  4. 4. Bringing an IT specialist into the audit process : A decision model for small audit firms

    University essay from Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Lisa Lundberg; Camilla Axelsson; [2005]
    Keywords : Audit; IT audit; IT specialist; Revision; IT revision; IT specialist;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to develop a decision model for how small audit firms should decide to bring an external IT specialist into the audit process. This model primarily aims to help identify those characteristics of IT in a client company that is being audited that a financial auditor should consider in this decision. READ MORE