The Impact of Internal Audit Function Quality and Contribution on Audit Delays Mina Pizzinia Cox School of Business Southern Methodist University Dallas‚ TX mpizzini@cox.smu.edu Shu Lin Craig School of Business California State University‚ Fresno Fresno‚ CA shulin@csufresno.edu Mark Vargus LeBow College of Business Drexel University Philadelphia‚ PA 19104-2875 Douglas Ziegenfuss College of Business and Public Administration Old Dominion University Norfolk‚ VA 23529 dziegenf@odu.edu November
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COMES TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR Richard B. Freenan Working Paper No. 1452 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 September 1984 The research reported here is part of the NBER ’s research program in Labor Studies and project in Government Budget. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER Working Paper #1452 September 1984 Unionism Comes to the Public Sector ABSTRACT This
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Corporate Governance refers to the way a corporation is governed. It is the technique by which companies are directed and managed. It means carrying the business as per the stakeholders’ desires. It is actually conducted by the board of Directors and the concerned committees for the company’s stakeholder’s benefit. It is all about balancing individual and societal goals‚ as well as‚ economic and social goals. Corporate Governance is the interaction between various participants (shareholders‚ board
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Abstract Positive leadership in the public sector is essential throughout organizations when inspiring employees or associates to strive for excellence. Leadership is not a skill that one is born with. However‚ there is a small percentage that one could be born with such a gift. Nevertheless‚ leadership is developed at an early age that leads that is used throughout ones career life. Producing prominent leadership enhances ones ability to perform in a manner that inspires others to achieve as well
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this respect that the writer has chosen this topic: The impact of Internal auditing in the telecommunication industry with Vodafone Ghana Limited as the case study. 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Mautz and Sharaf (1961) defines auditing as a systematic process of objectivity; obtaining and evaluating evidence against assertion and established criteria and commence communicating the results to interested users. Internal auditing is an independent appraisal functions established within an organization
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Management and Organization Development: Planned Change in a Public Sector Organization HARRY SMINIAÃ & ANTONIE VAN NISTELROOIJÃÃ Ã The Management School‚ University of Sheffield‚ UK‚ Ã Ã Department of Administrative and Organization Science‚ Faculty of Social Sciences‚ Vrije Universiteit‚ Amsterdam ABSTRACT This paper reports on a case study on the introduction of organization development (OD) techniques in a traditionally top-down lead public sector organization in the Netherlands. The findings suggest
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EDUCATION AND GOOD GOVERNANCE INTRODUCTION Education is considered a ‘right’ and not a privilege. It is a rope that can carry us to greatness. it is one of the most important thing in life because without it you cannot make meaningful contributions towards development. While the concept of good governance indicates the effort the government has made or is making to turnaround the standard of living of the masses . Good Governance has to do with infrastructures‚ provision of security
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researching into the structure and the role of the public sector today. The Public Sector is services which are funded from the government via taxation. The services consist of many services the main services consist of the Fire service‚ the Armed Forces‚ the National Health Service and the Education System. These services are publicly owned and paid for by taxation‚ which means that the services are accountable to the public. These services are meant to aim to provide a good quality and effective service
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Chapter 2— Auditing IT Governance Controls TRUE/FALSE 1. To fulfill the segregation of duties control objective‚ computer processing functions (like authorization of credit and billing) are separated. 2. To ensure sound internal control‚ program coding and program processing should be separated. 3. Some systems professionals have unrestricted access to the organization’s programs and data. 4 . IT governance focuses on the management and assessment of strategic IT resources 5.
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“Good corporate governance‚ ethics and social responsibility is essential for increasing and maintaining shareholders value” Corporate governance Corporate governance of controlling and directing the companies would impact the corporate performance‚ which would also affect the shareholders’ value. Example 1: John Felderhof‚ being the vice chairman of Bre-X‚ stating that he did not aware of the scandal. He is not qualified to be the board of director of the company as he did not aware of the Scandal
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