BCM Specialist Book Series: A Manager's Guide to Auditing and Reviewing Your Business Continuity Management Program

This book aims to prepare you to apply the framework, principles and methodologies for reviewing and auditing a BC Plan.

It uses the writer’s experience both as an internal auditor with an international bank, an external auditor with a "big 4" accounting firm and finally as a writer of the Singapore BCM standard SS540 and also an auditor for the ISO22301 BCMS.  It is to enable you to review and audit your BCM Programme using the four simple approaches.

The book includes practical easy-to-use questionnaires which could be easily tailored as audit programmes and templates to assist you in auditing and reviewing your business continuity programme and plans.

ISBN:  978-981-05-4300-6

Published Year: 2010 [1st Edition]  2016 [2nd Edition]

A Manager's Guide to Auditing and Reviewing Your Business Continuity Management Program

This book aims to target both the novice and the experienced Auditor for the process of auditing a BC Plan, BCM program and BCM system. The content focuses on the planning and formulation of an audit plan. This is followed by a review, documentation, prioritization of audit findings and non-conformances. Finally, it presents the audit reporting, and the preparation and corrective actions be taken before and after an audit reporting. This book prepares you to apply the framework, principles and methodologies for reviewing and auditing a BC Plan.

The content of the book is to accomplish the following:

• Have a good understanding of BCM principles
• Be aware of an auditor’s roles and responsibilities
• Formulate a BCM audit plan
• Understand the principles of auditing BC Plans
• Develop a standardised audit program
• Prioritise areas of high audit priority
• Determine audit test techniques and approaches
• Express and report audit opinions
• Prepare a BCM audit report
• Learn to audit against BCM standards and regulations

References and Update

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Coming soon: The ISO22301:2019 updated of this version will be published in Jan 2021.  The differences of the ISO22301:2012 and 2019 update is summarised.  Click icon 2012 Vs 2019 to view the update.. 

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