Most Audit firms do exactly that. It is not right at all to have a finance guy audit IT. Let me state categorically that even if a finance person has taken the CISA exams and passed, they still don&#39;t qualify to audit IT as IT audit requires an IT Audit professional with some level of deep understanding in the particular field of audit. Preferably the IT auditor should come from a technical background e.g. Systems Development, Systems and Network Administration or Database Administration. <br>
<br>Such people employed by audit firms usually right nasty audit reports based on findings that do not satisfy the expectations of the forms downloaded from the Internet. The audit reports therefore do not give a true reflection of the particular IT department of interest.<br>
<br>Can someone from ISACA the kenyan chapter respond to this issue and tell us the way forward. We need some level of regulation on this.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Cynthia Wahome <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cwahome@jambo.co.ke">cwahome@jambo.co.ke</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear All<br>
Let me get your thoughts on this.<br>
<br>
Is it right for a Finance guy to come and do an audit to an IT department<br>
yet the Finance guy has no clue about IT.<br>
I wont name the audit firm here but i wonder,when they go to the net and<br>
download a form then they come and ask you silly questions makes me<br>
question them<br>
<br>
People my question is this<br>
Who should do an IT audit? Finance People? or IT People<br>
I stand to be corrected<br>
<br>
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