<p>In the recent years auditing scandals all around the world, deficient internal control has attracted a lot of attention. This has contributed to further requirements on insight and internal control. Those scandals have seriously damaged the auditor’s profession and contributed to a reduced trust among the public. Therefore an extensive work to recover and stringed the trust was started all around the world. In the USA, the Sarbanes- Oxley Act was introduced in year 2002. In Sweden, the Code group has carried out a similar work and introduced the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance in July 2005. The purpose of the introduction of the Code of Corporate Governance is that it should con-tribute to an improved governance of the Swedish listed companies, but also serve as a role model to other types of companies that are of public interest. This increases the demands on the company’s internal control whose purpose is to secure the company’s assets and protect the owner’s investments. The general information that the board and the CO submit in the annual report can in some cases, when the review demand large industry and market knowledge, be difficult for an external auditor to evaluate. Internal auditors usually possess large industry knowledge and therefore the collaboration with the external auditor becomes even more important. Internal and external audit are two professions with different roles, responsibilities and functions. However, both profes-sions are important for a company and those that have an interest in it.</p><p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine both from the external and internal auditor’s perspective if the collaboration between them has been influenced by the introduction of the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance.</p><p>This study has been carried out with a qualitative research method and data has been collected through personal interviews with three external and three internal auditors within the Stockholm area.</p><p>This study has shown that the code have not yet had that much impact, but it has increased the external auditor’s work load in form of advice on how to implement the code. The code is expected to increase the collaboration between the external and inter-nal auditor within the internal control. Since the external auditor will become more de-pendant on the work of the internal auditor, more planning will be necessary. The in-vestigation further showed that if an increased regulation is to lead to a better aditing is dependent on the board, how they choose to structure and implement the new regula-tions within the company.</p> / <p>Senaste årens redovisningsskandaler runt om i världen där bristande internkontroll uppmärksammats, har bidragit till att ytterligare krav på insyn och internkontroll har tillkommit. Dessa skandaler har allvarligt skadat revisoryrket och lett till minskat förtroende hos allmänheten. Därför har omfattande arbete för att återfå och stärka förtroendet hos allmänheten inletts runt om i världen. I USA infördes Sarbanes- Oxley Act år 2002. I Sverige har ett motsvarande arbete bedrivits av Kodgruppen som introducerade Svensk kod för bolagsstyrning i juli 2005. Syftet med införandet av bolagskoden är att den skall bidra till förbättrad styrning av svenska börsnoterade bolag men även tjäna som förebild för andra typer av bolag med spritt ägar- eller allmän intresse. Detta ställer högre krav på bolagets interna kontroller vars syfte är att säkerställa bolagets tillgångar och skydda ägarnas investeringar. Den allmänna information som styrelsen och VD:n lämnar i årsredovisningen kan i fall, då granskningen kräver stor branschkunskap och marknadskännedom, vara besvärlig för externrevisorn att bedöma. Internrevisorer besitter vanligtvis stor branschkunskap och därför blir samarbetet med externrevisorn ännu viktigare. Intern och externrevision är två professioner med skilda roller, ansvar och funktioner, dock är båda lika betydelsefulla för ett bolag och dess intressenter.</p><p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka ur både intern och externrevisorns perspektiv om samarbetet mellan dem har påverkats av införandet av bolagskoden.</p><p>Undersökningen har genomförts med hjälp av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod och data har insamlats genom personliga intervjuer med tre intern och tre extern revisorer i Stockholmsområdet.</p><p>Undersökningen har visat att koden inte har haft så stort genomslag än, men att den har ökat externrevisorns arbetsbörda i form av rådgivning, vad gäller implementeringen av koden. Den förväntas öka samarbetet mellan intern och externrevisorn vad gäller de interna kontrollerna. En ökad samplanering av deras insatser kommer att bli nödvändig, då externrevisorn kommer att bli mer beroende av internrevisorns arbete. Undersökningen visade också att om ökad reglering leder till bättre revisionsarbete beror mycket på styrelsen, hur den väljer att strukturera upp och implementera de nya reglerna inom företaget.</p>

近年來海內外企業舞弊的新聞層出不窮，面對公司不斷發生的舞弊案件，必須思考、研究如何改變傳統稽核方法與工具，消極目的在協助董監事評估內控制度是否持續有效，積極目的在於執行舞弊專案稽核，進而強化公司之控制環境，逐步達到事前分析舞弊行為徵兆之可能。 本研究擬就資料倉儲之導入，建構個案集團公司內部稽核專屬資料倉儲，及藉由資料採礦分析軟體運用分析研究，挖掘出有價值的稽核元件知識；進一步完善持續性稽核的運作環境；為本研究動機所在。本研究將以跨全球經營之個案電子業集團公司為研究對象，從資料倉儲及資料採礦導入工作執行過程及內部稽核作業實際程序及分析結果加以研究，以下列議題進行相關分析探討： 議題一、個案電子業集團公司資料倉儲導入過程探討及成果分析 議題二、個案電子業集團公司導入資料採礦於內部稽核作業之運用分析 本研究較傳統單一議題或產業研究更具廣度，進而對更多在多面向內控舞弊查核議題上有興趣更深入探討的研究者，提供一個參考意見與研究方向。而以個案集團公司導入資料倉儲及資料採礦對內控循環作業中所涉及之集團內常見舞弊高風險交易作業(如：圍標、拆單等)的成果分析，廣泛運用於集團眾多事業群處及作業系統資料庫，是為本研究較為特殊之貢獻。 本個案研究係採取實地稽核作業實施方式，驗證資料倉儲及資料採礦導入分析結果。並歸納出多面向內控循環作業之舞弊查核、形成以風險評估為基礎之稽核計畫、專案舞弊查核結果再強化資料倉儲及資料採礦元件技術等研究結論。 / There is a competitive circumstance for all companies to face how to survive in the world, it includes the opening the marketing, competing with others, preventing from the internal fraud …and so on. Here is a study for the board of directors to focus on how to execute the internal auditing program to make everything perfect under control. To review lots of the prevailing fraud cases in past, a company must have its own opinions to adjust the suitable auditing program and to adopt the accurate detecting processing in order to strengthen the controlling power and narrow down the risk in advance. This study is how to establish the data input and then retrieve the useful information for further analysis based on the mega data bank in the prevailing system of one of public electronic companies in Taiwan. A company engages in the research and development of products, they can, pursuant to their need, add the research and development circle, including the control operation for the basic research, the design of products, the research of technology, the making and testing of products, the research/ development information, and the recording and storage of information in system. There are two main factor issues for further discussion and break it down as the following--- (1) The investigation on the practical data input and the analysis by the result (2) How to retrieve the data for the internal auditing purposes This subject study is different from the same case of the past in the electronic industry in Taiwan. If you scrutinize the details of this report, you will find out lots of fraud cases in the company and the accurate auditing program taken for each of them. There are very interesting and ambitious directions for the public people to consider and investigate in order to fit it in their own industries in future. There are lots of frauds happened in the progressing of the global biding or local biding. You are able to detect the fraud by the internal control points through the data analysis from the prevailing computer system. The result in group biding or separating biding, those activities are existed under controlled by the certain people for benefit themselves. This is a true case happened in Taiwan. The internal auditor of this company would adopt the appropriate auditing progressing by verifying the data warehousing and data mining. A service enterprise’s internal audit unit shall, based on the results of the fraud detecting, the risk assessment, to renew the auditing plan stipulated and designed by the subjected factor into the book.

Två identiteter som den interna revisorn på ett universitet upplever är en professionell och organisatorisk identitet. Medvetet eller omedvetet behöver den interna revisorn beakta när den professionella och organisatoriska identiteten uttrycks då identiteterna har positiva samt negativa aspekter i rollen som internrevisor. Syftet med studien var att skapa förståelse för hur den interna revisorns professionella och organisatoriska identitet balanseras samt uttrycks i praktiken. Detta gjordes genom att identifiera problematiska situationer och analysera spänningar. Social Identitetsteori har använts som grund för studien och tidigare forskning inom identitet, identifiering och revisorer har kompletterat teorin. Kvalitativa intervjuer med interna revisorer på universitet har utgjort det empiriska materialet för att fånga problematiska situationerna. Resultaten indikerar på att de interna revisorerna i studien upplever problematiska situationer när relationerna med de anställda och det professionella arbetet hamnar i konflikt. Förtroende hos de anställda ses vara en anledning till att spänningar upplevs och skapar konflikter mellan den professionella och organisatoriska identiteten. Den organisatoriska identitetens intresse ses värdesätta förtroende hos de anställda medan den professionella identitetens intresse ses värdesätta en oberoende och objektiv ställning. Identiteterna ses kunna dra åt olika håll vilket skapar en spänning i rollen. Förslag till framtida forskning var att undersöka om samt varför skillnader i spänningar hos internrevisorer i den offentliga och privata sektorn existerar. / Two identities the internal auditor on a university experience are a professional identity and an organizational identity. Consciously or unconsciously, the internal auditor needs to acknowledge when the professional and the organizational identity are expressed since the identities both have positive and negative aspects on the role as an internal auditor. The purpose of this study was to create an understanding of how the internal auditors professional and organizational identity are balanced and expressed in practice. This was done by identifying problematic situations and analyzing tensions. Social Identity theory was used as the base for the study and previous research in identity, identification and auditors have complemented the theory. Qualitative interviews with internal auditors at eight universities have constituted the empirical material to capture problematic situations. The results indicate the internal auditors need to balance the interaction between the professional and the organizational identity when problematic situations occur. Trust from employees in the internal auditor is seen as a reason for why tensions occur in the problematic situations which can create conflicts in the interaction between the professional and organizational identity. The professional identity is seen to contribute to why an objective stance is valued, simultaneously the organizational identity is seen to contribute to why trust and understanding from employees are valued. Future research is proposed to investigate if and why differences in tensions among internal auditors exist in the public and private sector.

The job of an auditor has still been quite a new one in the Czech Republic. It is connected with the transformation of our economy in the late 80s and early 90s. Despite its relatively short history the job's importance is going up. Just the external audit itself can lower the information inequality between the owner and the manager. Internal audit, on the other side, is a means of precaution how to prevent problems or solve them already before their coming into existence. My diploma work aimed at deeper insight into the problems of an auditor's job.

This thesis deals with external and internal audit in practice. It contains historical evolution and progression of internal and external audit, their functions and goals as well as risks and frauds in audit and its legislation. Significant section of this thesis focuses on working procedures in internal and external audit. These procedures are divided by audits phases. The main goal of this thesis is to transfer theoretical knowledge into practice. In the practical part there is performed fictitious internal and external audit in company Thomas Cook Ltd.

Diploma thesis focuses on internal audit and conditions for this job. At the beginning is some history and development of internal audit. Another part deals with internal audit, relation to the external audit and internal control systems. Other passage look into processing of internal audit and preparing of internal auditor's report. There are some requirements for person of internal auditor and his/her role in company. A part of thesis is devoted to Institute of internal auditors, membership terms and European confederation for institutes of internal auditors. Other part focuses on risks and frauds join with profession of internal auditors. Practical part deals with real situation of internal audit profession in private enterprise and banking sector.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera svenska myndigheters internrevision för att kunna dra slutsatser om i vilken ansvarslinje de befinner sig i dagsläget samt att föra en diskussion kring internrevisionens oberoende. I denna uppsats har en kvalitativ studie genomförts. Med hjälp av semi-strukturerade intervjuer på sex olika myndigheter med krav på internrevision har empiri insamlats som tillsammans med teoretisk referensram ligger till grund för analys och slutsatser. Studien visar att svenska myndigheters internrevision befinner sig i den tredje ansvarslinjen. Vissa variationer inom den tredje ansvarslinjen kan urskiljas på grund av dels otydliga riktlinjer för internrevisorerna för att kunna bibehålla ett oberoende i samband med råd och stöd och dels på grund av bristfälliga kunskaper i den andra ansvarslinjen avseende hur ansvaret ska fördelas. / The purpose of this essay is to describe and analyze internal audit of the Swedish authorities internal audit in order to draw conclusions about which of The Three Lines of Defense they are positioned in at the present time, and to include a discussion about internal audit’s independence. In this essay, a qualitative study has been conducted. Using data from semi-structured interviews conducted at six different authorities with requirements for internal audit, empirical evidence has been collected. This empirical evidence, together with a theoretical framework constitutes the basis for analysis and conclusions. The study showed that the internal audit of the Swedish authorities is positioned in the third line of defense. Some variations in the third line of defense could be distinguished due to unclear guidelines for internal auditors to maintain independence in connection with advice and support, and also due to insufficient knowledge in the second line of defense regarding how responsibility should be allocated.

無論在企業組織中的任何工作情境下，當一個人的角色產生衝突、模糊、及過荷時，會使得個人產生工作壓力，連帶影響其工作滿足及工作績效。所謂角色衝突(role conflict)，係指預期的行為彼此間產生衝突與摩擦；角色模糊(role ambiguity)，係指員工不確定或不明白如何執行工作，不確定或不明自工作的期望是什麼，不確定或不明自工作績效及期望結果間的關係。而角色過荷(role overload)，係指員工承受過多的工作責任和活動績效。 　　內部稽核人員係組織內的幕僚人員，其職務之範圍，可涵蓋整個組織，所涉及的層面，包括人與事，廣泛而複雜。內部稽核人員在企業中同時對高階管理、受查核單位及自己的稽核專業負責，因此，內部稽核人員往往因為身兼多重角色，而且角色間又相互衝突，而承受角色壓力。本研究探討國內企業內部稽核人員不同構面的角色壓力、工作滿足，及內部稽核工作品質間之問題。在研究過程中，為了解我國內部稽核人員的角色壓力對工作滿足，工作滿足對內部稽核工作品質，以及角色壓力與工作滿足對內部稽核工作品質之關係，本研究發展了四個假說，分別為：假說一：內部稽核人員的角色壓力對工作滿足呈負相關。假說二：內部稽核人員的工作滿足對內部稽核工作品質呈正相關。假說三：內部稽核人員的色壓力對內部稽核工作品質呈負相關。假說四：內部稽核人員的角色壓力會透過工作滿足而對內部稽核工作品質產生間接效果。 　　根據實證分析，本研究之研究結論為，一、內部稽核人員的角色壓力對工作滿足呈負相關。當內部稽核人員受到越大的角色壓力，其工作滿足就越低；反之，當內部稽核人員受到越小的角色壓力，其工作滿足就越高。二、內部稽核人員的工作滿足對內部稽核工作品質呈正相關。當內部稽核人員獲得越高的工作滿足，則內部稽核工作品質就越佳；反之，當內部稽核人員無法獲得越高的工作滿足，則內部稽核工作品質就不佳。三、內部稽核人員的角色壓力對內部稽核工作品質呈負相關。當內部稽核人員的角色壓力大，則內部稽核工作品質就越不佳；反之，當內部稽核人員的角色壓力小，則內部稽核工作品質就越佳。四、內部稽核人員的角色壓力會透過工作滿足而對內部稽核工作品質產生間接效果。本研究以Baron and Keny(1986)之中介模式加以驗證，結果得知內部稽核人員的角色壓力對內部稽核工作品質並不直接產生效果，角色壓力會透過工作滿足，以工作滿足作為中介，而對內部稽核工作品質產生間接效果。 / Employees, under whatever working environment, are facing role conflict, role ambiguity as well as overload in a business organization, which inevitably will affect their job satisfaction and performance. "Role conflict" in this paper refers to the disagreement and friction resulting from an expected behavior. And role ambiguity means the employees are not clear or un-known as how to do the work, what is to expect from the work, nor what is the relationship between work performance and the expected results. Whereas "role overload" indicates that the employees take too much responsibility from the job and activity performance. 　　This study tries to examine the relationship among the role stress, the job satisfaction and the internal audit quality of the internal auditors in Taiwan. The research models established in Bron and Kenny's study are adopted. The four regression models explicitly incorporate efficient and effective measures, and reflect the interactive nature of outcome-generating activities for the internal auditors. Forty-one pair questionnaires are included in the sample. 　　The results of this study are as following: Firstly, a role stress is negatively related to job satisfaction, implying that higher role stress reduces job satisfaction; and vice versa. Secondly, there is an obvious positive relationship between auditor's job satisfaction and the internal audit quality; the more of job satisfaction, the better of the internal audit quality. Thirdly, the relationship between auditor's role stress and the internal audit quality is reverse; noting their role stress decreases the internal audit quality. Finally, the effect of auditor's role stress against the internal audit quality probably is indirectly generated through their job satisfaction.