Friday, September 28, 2007

IT Advisory Committee

During the past month, the Information Technology Advisory Committee of the CICA has released two new research studies that are relevant to IS Assurance. These include a second edition of their study "Application of Computer-assisted Audit Techniques" and a second study dealing with XBRL and its effect on information systems, titled "Interactive Data: Building XBRL into Accounting Information Systems". Further details are available on the CICA website at the following link. IT Advisory Committee

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Welcome to the UWCISA Blog

Welcome to the blog of the University of Waterloo's Center for Information Systems Assurance. This blog will delve into the major issues related to the field of Information Systems Assurance. The coverage of issues will be broad, including not only issues confined strictly to IS assurance but also issues that are related in some way. This would include such matters as IS controls, IS security and technology changes that have implications for assurance. The interpretation of assurance will also be broad, including internal and external assurance and even occasionally IS Quality Assurance. We hope that instructors, students and researchers find the blog to be useful in their studies of the challenging field of IS Assurance.