Internal Auditing

by Andrew D. Chambers (Editor)

Control by management is synonymous with internal control in counterdistinction from external control. Internal auditing is the independent appraisal of the effectiveness of internal control. It is internal not because it is necessarily performed by people who are internal to the business but because it is the review of internal control. Market testing of internal auditing provision leading, possibly, to contracting out of internal auditing is becoming more popular. The impetus for outsourcing internal audit provision has often been the introduction of a mandatory internal auditing requirement into institutions and businesses which are quite small and where management considers a full in-house provision cannot be justified: in the UK this has often been seen to apply to hospitals, universities and local government bodies.

660 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1987