Do you believe that the first stage of planning an audit is to check the audit papers of the previous year? (According to ISACA you are WRONG) Do you know the difference between reviewing Control Effectiveness and Process Effectiveness? Do you know what three steps an auditor needs to take once an issue is identified?
Odds are you are one of two types of IT professionals who take the CISA exam: 1. IT professionals with no audit experience. If so, you will find it difficult to answer questions about certain audit concepts, simply because you cannot relate to those concepts 2. IT professionals who have some audit experience. If so, you have the experience but not a strong audit academic background - like accountants have. The audit approach in the “real world†can be very far from working “by the book†as ISACA expect you to answer. For this reason you get wrong answers when you try to apply what you would do in the “real worldâ€
Audit is a profession. Accountants spend a few semesters studying audit and then obtain extensive work experience. Many IT professionals fail the CISA exam simply because they are not well prepared for the audit component.
This book was written to summarize the essential audit aspects of the CISA exam. This book covers key concepts, written in simple language to ensure that the audit concepts are simplified and will be easy to remember.
This book is not an alternative to the CISA Review Manual. It is a summary that highlights important audit concepts, processes and procedures ISACA will test you on. Instead of reading the audit component in the CISA Review Manual again and again, hoping that some of this boring material will eventually stick, read this book and understand how to answer the audit questions in the exam correctly.
“WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE FAIL THE CISA EXAM?†introduces you to the audit mindset that Nir Hollender used to score 618 in the June 2015 exam, which was in the top 5% of those taking the test worldwide.
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