Value Added Auditing:4th Edition

Value Added Auditing – 4th Edition (550 pages) is a process and risk based manual for performance audits, risk management, ISO management system and risk based audits. The manual can be used to conduct performance, operational, IT, cyber, and supply management assessments. The objective of the manual is to enhance: 1. Risk-based, problem solving and 2. Risk-based, decision making. All ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 companies should read this book to understand and implement Risk Based Thinking (RBT) and Risk Based Auditing (RBA). Value Added Auditing is the first book that addresses the convergence of operational, quality, customer-supplier, internal, compliance and other types of audits. The future of audits will be to add overall stakeholder value.Value Added Auditing brings to you the latest value added auditing technologies. As such, this manual describes a process for conducting practical, cost effective, risk based audits in many different functional areas. Value Added Auditing explains and shows you how value added auditing is conducted; in other words 'how to do it.' There is amazingly little information on the subject. Much of what exists is technical and often lists definitions and procedures from standards that are difficult to interpret and apply. So to remedy this problem, this guide to the actual practice of how value added auditing is used.Value Added Auditing has a process emphasis. We've strived to take a process orientation, cutting across appraisal and auditing functions. Why? More businesses are run along core processes. Core process thinking permeates 'value added auditing'.

About the Author

Greg Hutchins is the founder of 800Compete.com, WorkingIt.com, CERMAcademy.com, QualityPlusEngineering.com, and other startups. Greg Hutchins is the risk evangelist who coined the expression Future of Quality: Risk®. He can be contacted at . Greg Hutchins PE CERM is also the principal professional engineer Quality + Engineering - international supply and quality management firm. He has written best selling books on global ISO standards and risk management. Greg is the author of ISO 9000 (best selling translated into 8 languages published through John Wiley), Value Added Auditing, ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management, ISO Risk Based Thinking, Risk Based Thinking, Supply Management Strategies (APICS, ISM, ASQ endorsed and used in certifications), and Standard Manual of Quality Auditing and more than a dozen article international books. Q+E is the designer and developer of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® (CERM), CERM Cyber™ certificate, and best selling ISO and ERM books. Q+E has deep domain expertise in ISO 31000, ISO 27001, and NIST 800’s. Q+E designed CERM based on its security IP including Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics®; Value Added Auditing™; Certified Enterprise Risk Manager®; Future of Quality: Risk®; CERM: Risk Based, Problem Solving | Risk Based, Decision Making®; etc. Q+E has been certified by the Department of Homeland Security for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics®. Q+E has conducted the following Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) risk assessments: • Analytical. Q+E engineers and scientists conduct analytical analyses following Q+E protocols evaluating business continuity, cyber security, and physical security systems against IEEE, NFPA, ISA, PMI, ISO, NIST, COSO, NERC, DIACAP, FISMA, and ASIS standards. • Assurance. Q+E offers the client three levels of assurance: o Compliance. Q+E conducts a compliance audit against appropriate standards and guidance. o Assurance with opinion. Q+E issues an opinion based on the results of a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) audit or ERM controls assessment. o Assurance with insurance coverage. Q+E conducts an audit and provides the requisite level of due diligence for the auditee to be covered. • Forensics. Q+E provides the above levels of assurance as well as supplies a letter to the regulatory authority averring compliance that criteria have been met.