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Shared Services: Where Now? A Guide to Public Sector Implementation (2008)

Written by Chris Brown, Ben Paul and Rajni Dev, three leading shared service experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Government and Public Sector Practice, the guide sets out evolving best practice and the lessons learnt from real experience in developing and delivering shared services. The publication is the essential toolkit for use by leaders and practitioners responsible for turning the shared services concept into a practical and efficient reality.

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Local Authority Financial Administration Services: Emerging Trends in the Context of Shared Services (2007)

This highly practical study has been commissioned and steered by CIPFA's practitioner oriented IT Panel. It starts from the premise that all local authorities should evaluate the potential for implementing a shared services approach for provision of their corporate services, particularly their systems for financial administration.

Computer Audit Guidelines (Fully Revised Sixth Edition) (2002)

CIPFA's Computer Audit Guidelines focuses firmly on computer auditing as a top level management responsibility. It deals thoroughly with the great variety of current audit problems all organisations need to address. The chapters are conveniently divided into two broad categories - those that focus on the management of IT audit activity and on using IT for audit, and those that provide guidance on the controls and safeguards necessary in a computerised environment.

These Guidelines can also be purchased on CD-ROM, enabling the modified and updated control matrices to be tailored for local application. The CD-ROM purchase price includes a licence for the user to network the Guidelines throughout the purchasing organisation.

Systems Based Auditing: Control Matrices for Information Technology (2004)

Information technology is of ever increasing importance to organisations, customers and stakeholders. IT is now an everyday part of all our lives from maintaining essential data to undertaking transactions on-line to communicating instantly with other users throughout the world.

Unless IT is properly managed, however, then there is the potential for:

It is essential, therefore, that adequate and robust controls are established by management and that these are regularly reviewed and tested to check that they adequately protect the organisation.

IT Audit in Public Service Organisations: An Analysis of the 1996 Survey (1996)

This survey of the extent of IT audit activity within public service organisations provides an opportunity for reviewing how well IT audit assists management in assessing how well it meets the demands on audit of increasingly computer literate organisations.