ABSTRACT
The study was carried out essentially to find out the place of internal auditing as on instrument of effective management, taking IMT, Enugu as a case study.It looked into the extent the internal audit has faired in this role, the definitions and objectives of internal audit.Four research question were analyzed to establish the instrumentality of internal audit to effective management to senior and junior staff of the audit and bursary departments.
A linkert – type four – point scale were used in determining positives i.e ( 2.50 and above ) and negative i.e
( 2.4 and below) responses. The means and standard deviation were obtained and used in and analyzing research question while t- test statistic was used to test the hypothesis.The calculated value and the table value were compared in each case and where the calculated valued in more than the table value. The null hypothesis was rejected whiles there the calculated value is less than the table value. The null hypothesis was accepted.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL PAGE ……………………………………………………………………i
DEDICATION……………………………………………….…………………………ii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT………………………………………………………………iii
ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………….vi..v TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………………..vii
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM3
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY6
1.4 HYPOTHESIS7
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS7
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY8
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY9
1.8LIMITATION OF THE STUDY9
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE11
2.1 DEFINITION OF AUDITING11
2.2 DEFINITION OF INTERNAL AUDITING14
2.3FUNCTION OF THE INTERNAL AUDIT21
2.4RESPONSIBILITIES23
2.5FUNCTION AND JOB DESCRIPTION24
2.6SUMMARY25
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHOD27
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN27
3.3POPULATION OF STUDY28
3.4SAMPLE METHOD28
3.5RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION28
3.6VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF RESEARCH INSTRUMENT29
3.7SOURCE OF DATA31
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA33
4.1PRESENTATION OF ANALYSIS OF RESULT33
4.2 TEST OF HYPOTHESIS49
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS/CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS51
5.1 FINDINGS51
5.2 CONCLUSION51
5.3 RECOMMENDATION52
REFERENCE53
APPENDIX A55
QUESTIONNAIRE………………………………………………………………………….57
Subscribe to access this work and thousands more