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Internal Auditing in Hospitals

Hospital Topics, 2003
The authors analyzed two national surveys to determine answers for two basic questions: How do the roles of internal auditors compare with those of their counterparts in other industries and to what extent over the past 6 years have the activities of internal auditors changed?
Don, Edwards, Jim, Kusel, Tom, Oxner
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Internal Audit Attributes and External Audit's Reliance on Internal Audit: Implications for Audit Fees

International Journal of Auditing, 2012
This study aims to examine two aspects of internal audit quality, namely internal audit competency and internal audit contribution to financial statement audits. Consistent with the substitution view, this study predicts a negative relationship between the competency aspects of internal audit (the tenure of the existence of internal audit in the ...
Zulkifflee Mohamed, Mazlina Mat Zain, Nava Subramaniam, Wan Fadzilah Wan Yusoff   +3 more
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The Effect of Internal Audit Function Quality and Internal Audit Contribution to External Audit on Audit Fees

International Journal of Auditing, 2015
Corporate governance mandates and listing rules identify internal audit functions (IAF) as a central internal control mechanism. External auditors are expected to assess the quality of IAF before placing reliance on its work. We provide evidence on the effect of IAF quality and IAF contribution to external audit on audit fees. Using data from a matched
Zain, Mazlina, Zaman, Mahbub, Mohamed, Zulkifflee   +2 more
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Internal auditing

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Influence of audit committees on internal audit conformance with internal audit standards

Managerial Auditing Journal, 2015
Purpose – This study aims to provide empirical evidence of the association between audit committee characteristics and internal audit conformance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (ISPPIA). Design/methodology/approach
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The Audit Committee and Internal Audit

Managerial Auditing Journal, 1993
Audit committees have been established with varying success in recent years. Although they should have a broad mandate to deal with a range of corporate issues, the committees often concentrate primarily on external audit reviews. This tendency can be addressed through the development of a close relationship between the audit committee and internal ...
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Internal environmental audits: The role of the internal audit department

Eco-Management and Auditing, 1995
AbstractStaff from an organisation's internal audit department have a part to play in environmental audits. The image of internal auditors as financial inspectors is outdated and they can make a potential contribution, in conjunction with others, to an environmental audit through a professional, objective evaluation of the strength of controls within ...
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Factors associated with IT audits by the internal audit function

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2010
Abstract Responses from a large sample of 1029 chief audit executives (CAEs) from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK/Ireland, and the US are used to estimate the proportion of time spent by the internal audit functions (IAFs) on information technology (IT) audits.
Mohammad Abdolmohammadi, Scott R. Boss
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Internal Auditing.

The Accounting Review, 1988
Abstract Reviews the book "Internal Auditing," second edition Andrew D. Chambers, Georges M. Selim and Gerald Vinten.
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL AUDIT AND INTERNAL AUDIT ARRANGEMENT

2023
Internal auditing is an independent and impartial assurance and consulting activity conducted to improve and add value to the organization's activities. Internal audit; while it was a unit covering only accounting and financial issues in the first periods of its implementation, today it has transformed into a unit that provides direction and ...
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