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WK 2, MIS6211

PART I

Supporting Lectures

• IT Auditing Planning and Organization (and associated textbook chapters)
• Integrated Framework
• Organizational Systems
• Governance versus Management

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

TASKS

Discuss the following topics:

1. Why are governance processes needed in the information technology area and when working with information systems?
2. In what way does COBIT help in the alignment of business and IT objectives?
3. What is risk assessment? Explain the relevance of risk assessment to the IT audit process.
4. What are the key properties of a quality system?

• PART II

• IT Audit Process

• To be able to continue with the IT audit for your case study and determine how to arrive at a stronger IT/IS assurance for your organization, you need to first finalize your auditing framework. This week, as part of the final project, you will perform the following tasks:
  • Discuss how you will apply a single auditing framework like COBIT 5 to structure your IT audit.
  • Describe the IT audit procedures that you will rely on in your IT audit.
  • Start defining a balanced scorecard that lists IT-related goals and tracks some performance metrics against the goals.
  • Review and revise your IT audit plan as needed by improving components in your plan based on the additional insight you have developed.

  Submission Details:

  • Save your work as a paper in approximately 5–7 pages in a Microsoft Word document as