Internal control plays a pivotal role in enhancing security operations and quality control in an organization. The process of evaluating internal auditors is a powerful tool for the management team. It does not only prevent frauds, but also boosts profitability. From the perspective of management, internal auditors work for ensuring effective operations and improving performance for all the management systems within the organization. They bear great responsibility and play a key role. Therefore, the study attempts to explore the personal attributes and work characteristics, to analyze job satisfactions among internal auditors and finally to finds a list of key factors effecting job satisfaction. This study is conducted in three parts. First, a preliminary conceptual framework is established via literature review. This conceptual framework goes through constant modifications before being introduced into the empirical research architecture of this study. Questionnaires are thus designed based on this architecture. In the process of questionnaire design, opinions from eight senior auditor executives serve as expert validity. Expert opinions are modified and incorporated into questionnaires to quantify the correlation of personal attributes, work characteristics and job satisfactions among internal auditors. This research selected samples of the internal auditors from domestic companies, i.e. members of the Institute of Internal Auditors, in Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, and Kaohsiung. A total of 567 questionnaires are issued and 376 questionnaires are collected with responding rate of 66%. After deleting 104 invalid questionnaires, the number of valid questionnaires is 272. Statistical analysis, such as variance, correlation and regression, is conducted with SPSS software. Empirical findings are as follows: 1. Significant difference exists between the demographic variables, such as job titles, the years of work experience, disciplined personal traits of internal auditors, certain dimensions of work properties and internal and external satisfactions in terms of job satisfaction. 2. There is significance difference between the ages and the competition dimension factors of achievement motivation. 3. General auditors are found to be significantly more satisfied with work than senior auditors or entry-level auditors. It is also apparent that the more senior the positions, the more job satisfactions. 4. The demographic variables, work characteristics, achievement motivations, and job satisfactions are partially correlated. At a closer look, we find that the friendliness as a personal attribute is significantly positive correlated with job satisfaction. Neuroticism as a personal attribute is significantly negative correlated with job satisfaction. 5. Personal attributes of internal auditors impose significant impacts to achievement motivations and job satisfactions. 6. Personal attributes are affected by achievement motivations and, in turn, they affect job satisfactions. Achievement motivations have intervening effects though the effects are mild.

Little research has been done on the personality of internal auditors. However, there does exist a negative stereotype. They are seen as hostile and unsympathetic. The purpose of this research was to see if the negative stereotype was indeed true and to see if undesirable behavior could be changed through training.

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.

This final thesis is focusing on internal audit. The objective of the thesis is to show the process of internal audit in practice and to assess whether the internal audit is effective and serves its purpose. I am describing the process of internal audit on a company providing services. Particular steps of this internal audit are being described in this thesis while the final report of the internal auditor is included. The report describes failures which occurred and the procedure of their resolution. I came to the conclusion that internal audit helps the organization to reduce the failures and mistakes risen up by ignorance, lack of attention or lack of knowledge. Following the results of the thesis I would recommend the companies not doing any internal audit to do so. Performing of the internal audit on the regular basis will allow achieving higher control over the activities and processes. Internal audit helps to gain and renew the quality certifications which are helping to become more competitive at the market.

This dissertation is a descriptive, exploratory examination of professional commitment, organizational commitment, and conflict between those commitments in the internal audit profession. That conflict has been suggested in prior studies as the source of dysfunctional outcomes such as increased role stress, high turnover, decreased job satisfaction, and the exercise of improper judgment leading to audit failures. The descriptive aspect of this study deals with the development of a more comprehensive structural model of the factors and relationships involved in commitment and conflict than has been developed by previous research dealing with accountants. The exploratory aspect deals with the testing and refinement of the developed model utilizing the internal audit profession as the field of examination. The model developed in this study is derived from the synthesis of factors suggested by role theory, the concept of side bets, the cosmopolitan-local construct, and the concept of commitment as a process. This research utilizes a questionnaire administered to 205 practicing internal auditors in order to test 30 hypothesized relationships. Path analysis is used to determine the significant direct relationships between variables with a process of theory trimming being conducted in order to produce more parsimonious structural models. Indirect relationships between significant variables are identified and their redundant or suppressive nature determined. Explanations of these suppressive or redundant relationships are provided based on the theoretical considerations identified above. Such a determination and explanation of the redundant and suppressive indirect relationships involved in the commitment-conflict relationship has not been accomplished in earlier studies of the subject. Although the procedures used here do not support causal conclusions, the findings of this study indirectly provide evidence that conflict between the two commitments in the internal audit area is not to be considered inherent. The findings also suggest a possible undesirable relationship between organizational formalization and professional commitment.

The present study examines and finds that internal auditors, particularly Chief Audit Executives, recognize financial accounting expertise as a significant base of audit committee (AC) power in the financial reporting process. However, such an AC expertise (i.e., financial accounting expertise) does not "counterbalance" internal auditors' perceived dependency on management or influence their decisions to monitor financial reporting quality. Instead, the cost-benefit analysis affects their decisions: (1) benefits of staying resolute to monitor financial reporting quality (i.e., "psychological empowerment"), and (2) costs of potential adverse reactions of management who exerts power over the internal audit. In addition, this study examines and finds that the financial reporting location (recognition vs. disclosure) has significant impacts on both internal audit reporting decisions and decisions to correct misstatements. Specifically, internal auditors' tolerances for disclosed misstatements reveal that they also feed the "vicious circle" of reliability expectations as external auditors do in a prior study (Libby, Nelson and Hunton, 2006).

<p>Audit is a common concept in Sweden. This occurs in many contexts and situations and may intend a wide spectrum of areas. It might consider environment audit, amateur audit, internal auditing, external audit etc. In the business community external audit and the associated external auditor is possibly, from the general public's side, the most recognized. The external audits purposes in big features are checking limited companies economic accounting along with the board and CEO: s management. In connection with increased requirements from the market, the own ranks and a row scandals where companies consistently created misled accounting which the external audit never detected, the internal auditing has grown himself stronger as well international as in Sweden. The internal auditing will according to their instruction from the company’s management in the specific company se to that nothing of the above occurs. Instead, this function will contribute to that the company is govern in better ways with fewer mistakes and a more reliable accounting as well financial as general. A big difference between the external audit and the internal audit which this thesis basically builds on is the theoretical knowledge that one is required to posses in order to conduct external opposite internal audit. In order to conduct external audit, the auditor need to, as described in Swedish legislation, hold a certain number academic points in specified subjects. The internal auditor however doesn´t have this kind of rules to follow. So how is quality in a function is that alone works with quality assurance assured? Well, through its own world extensive interest association, IIA, The Institute of Internal Auditors agency. This association provides a certification that persons that work with internal auditing can undergo. This certification which is standardized around in the entire world, is suitable to give the internal auditor fundamental knowledge of its intention and also to seem as a quality assurance for the internal auditing around in the globe. This certification is however rather extensive and requiring for the student. In Sweden only a minority of the internal auditors has undergone it. This thesis, which examine possible factors to why internal auditors choose to undergo this certification intend to answer this fact and the result that arrives is as follows:</p><ul><li>The employer requires this. </li><li>The employee wants to market her/him on the labor market, often on an international such. </li><li>The employee is on the verge to start up and the lead the organization in a new internal auditing department. </li></ul> / <p>Revision är ett vanligt förekommande begrepp i Sverige. Den förekommer i många sammanhang och situationer och kan avse ett vitt spektra av områden. Det kan handla om miljörevision, lekmannarevision, internrevision, externrevision etc. I den ekonomiska sfären av näringslivet är externrevision och den därtill hörande externrevisorn möjligen den, från allmänhetens sida, mest igenkända. Externrevisionen går i stora drag ut på att granska aktiebolags ekonomiska redovisning samt styrelse och VD:s löpande förvaltning av detsamma. Med anledning av höjda krav från marknaden, de egna leden samt en rad skandaler där företag konsekvent skapat vilseledande bokföring vilken revisionen inte upptäckt, har internrevisionen vuxit sig allt starkare såväl internationellt som i Sverige. Internrevisionen skall på uppdrag av företagsledningen i det specifika bolaget tillse att inget av ovanstående inträffar. Istället ska funktionen bidra till att företaget leds på ett bättre sätt med färre misstag och en mer pålitlig redovisning såväl finansiell som allmän. En skillnad mellan externrevisionen och internrevisionen vilken uppsatsen i stort bygger på är de teoretiska förkunskaper som krävs för att utöva dem. För att utöva externrevision finns det stadgat i lag och förordning att personen ska inneha ett visst antal akademiska poäng i på förhand specificerade ämnen. Internrevisorn har emellertid inte detta av lag stödda kravet. Hur kvalitetssäkras då en funktion som själva arbetar med kvalitetssäkring? Jo genom sin egen världsomfattande intresseförening, IIA, The<strong> </strong>Institute of Internal Auditors försorg. Förening tillhandahåller en certifiering vilken personer som arbetar med internrevision kan genomgå. Certifieringen är standardiserad runt om i världen och är avsedd att ge internrevisorn grundläggande kunskaper men avser även att verka som en kvalitetssäkring för internrevisionen runt om i världen. Certifieringen är emellertid tämligen omfattande och krävande för studenten och i Sverige är det endast en minoritet av internrevisorerna som genomgått den. I uppsatsen undersöks en rad tänkbara faktorer till varför internrevisorer väljer att genomå certifieringen och resultatet som framkommer är att:</p><ul><li>Arbetsgivaren ställer det som krav </li><li>Arbetstagaren vill marknadsföra sig själv på arbetsmarknaden, ofta på en internationell sådan.</li><li>Arbetsagaren ska starta upp och leda arbetet på en nystartad internrevisionsavdelning. </li><p> </p></ul>

Audit is a common concept in Sweden. This occurs in many contexts and situations and may intend a wide spectrum of areas. It might consider environment audit, amateur audit, internal auditing, external audit etc. In the business community external audit and the associated external auditor is possibly, from the general public's side, the most recognized. The external audits purposes in big features are checking limited companies economic accounting along with the board and CEO: s management. In connection with increased requirements from the market, the own ranks and a row scandals where companies consistently created misled accounting which the external audit never detected, the internal auditing has grown himself stronger as well international as in Sweden. The internal auditing will according to their instruction from the company’s management in the specific company se to that nothing of the above occurs. Instead, this function will contribute to that the company is govern in better ways with fewer mistakes and a more reliable accounting as well financial as general. A big difference between the external audit and the internal audit which this thesis basically builds on is the theoretical knowledge that one is required to posses in order to conduct external opposite internal audit. In order to conduct external audit, the auditor need to, as described in Swedish legislation, hold a certain number academic points in specified subjects. The internal auditor however doesn´t have this kind of rules to follow. So how is quality in a function is that alone works with quality assurance assured? Well, through its own world extensive interest association, IIA, The Institute of Internal Auditors agency. This association provides a certification that persons that work with internal auditing can undergo. This certification which is standardized around in the entire world, is suitable to give the internal auditor fundamental knowledge of its intention and also to seem as a quality assurance for the internal auditing around in the globe. This certification is however rather extensive and requiring for the student. In Sweden only a minority of the internal auditors has undergone it. This thesis, which examine possible factors to why internal auditors choose to undergo this certification intend to answer this fact and the result that arrives is as follows: The employer requires this. The employee wants to market her/him on the labor market, often on an international such. The employee is on the verge to start up and the lead the organization in a new internal auditing department. / Revision är ett vanligt förekommande begrepp i Sverige. Den förekommer i många sammanhang och situationer och kan avse ett vitt spektra av områden. Det kan handla om miljörevision, lekmannarevision, internrevision, externrevision etc. I den ekonomiska sfären av näringslivet är externrevision och den därtill hörande externrevisorn möjligen den, från allmänhetens sida, mest igenkända. Externrevisionen går i stora drag ut på att granska aktiebolags ekonomiska redovisning samt styrelse och VD:s löpande förvaltning av detsamma. Med anledning av höjda krav från marknaden, de egna leden samt en rad skandaler där företag konsekvent skapat vilseledande bokföring vilken revisionen inte upptäckt, har internrevisionen vuxit sig allt starkare såväl internationellt som i Sverige. Internrevisionen skall på uppdrag av företagsledningen i det specifika bolaget tillse att inget av ovanstående inträffar. Istället ska funktionen bidra till att företaget leds på ett bättre sätt med färre misstag och en mer pålitlig redovisning såväl finansiell som allmän. En skillnad mellan externrevisionen och internrevisionen vilken uppsatsen i stort bygger på är de teoretiska förkunskaper som krävs för att utöva dem. För att utöva externrevision finns det stadgat i lag och förordning att personen ska inneha ett visst antal akademiska poäng i på förhand specificerade ämnen. Internrevisorn har emellertid inte detta av lag stödda kravet. Hur kvalitetssäkras då en funktion som själva arbetar med kvalitetssäkring? Jo genom sin egen världsomfattande intresseförening, IIA, The Institute of Internal Auditors försorg. Förening tillhandahåller en certifiering vilken personer som arbetar med internrevision kan genomgå. Certifieringen är standardiserad runt om i världen och är avsedd att ge internrevisorn grundläggande kunskaper men avser även att verka som en kvalitetssäkring för internrevisionen runt om i världen. Certifieringen är emellertid tämligen omfattande och krävande för studenten och i Sverige är det endast en minoritet av internrevisorerna som genomgått den. I uppsatsen undersöks en rad tänkbara faktorer till varför internrevisorer väljer att genomå certifieringen och resultatet som framkommer är att: Arbetsgivaren ställer det som krav  Arbetstagaren vill marknadsföra sig själv på arbetsmarknaden, ofta på en internationell sådan. Arbetsagaren ska starta upp och leda arbetet på en nystartad internrevisionsavdelning.

Insufficient auditing staff has become a challenge facing internal auditing in the healthcare industry. Auditors' turnover rates range from 13.4% to 46.6% in the United States based on the type of organization. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between affective commitment, continuance commitment, normative commitment, and turnover intention among auditors. Self-determination theory of motivation was the theoretical framework for examining the employee turnover problem. A random sample of 92 internal auditors was administered the TCM Employee Commitment Survey and Turnover Intention Scales. The model as a whole was able to significantly predict turnover intentions, F(3, 88) = 15.365, p < .000. The effect size, indicated that the model accounted for approximately 36% of the variance in turnover intentions. Affective commitment (beta = -.519, p = .000) was the only measure of commitment that made a significant contribution to the model. The implications for positive social change included the potential to help business leaders decide on the types of organizational commitment they should catalyze to potentially reduce turnover rates. Healthcare leaders can use the information to reduce the turnover of auditors, increase the quality of audit in healthcare, and improve the quality and reduce the cost of healthcare for society.

本研究利用問卷調查內部稽核人員與外部審計人員兩者對於內部稽核功能之認知、雙方互動之情形、以及內部稽核功能與審計公費之關係。研究結果發現外部審計人員對於國內內部稽核功能能否有效發揮，仍有所保留，特別是在獨立性的部分，但對於內部稽核人員的專業能力則表示肯定。另外，大多數的填答者皆有與對方互動之經驗，但互動的程度並不高，以「偶而會」及「偶而詢問」為主。縱使互動程度不高，但是雙方皆認為互動對於外部查核工作或內部稽核工作是有助益的。此外，大多數的外部審計人員認為，內部稽核功能的好壞與審計公費有一定的關係存在，但其影響的比例以5%以下居多，這可能也是間接造成雙方互動不密切的重要因素之一。 / This thesis uses questionnaires to examine the external auditors’ perceptions of the internal auditing function, the level of co-operation between the internal and external auditors, and the relationship between internal audit function and external audit fees. The empirical findings indicate that external auditors expressed concern about the internal auditing function, independence especially. And the questionnaire responses show the lack of a close relationship between the internal and external auditors. They just occasionally co-operate with each other, but they consider that it is helpful to them. In addition, most external auditors are convinced of the existence of a direct link between internal audit function and external audit fees. But the percentage of external audit fee affected by internal audit function is below 5 percent, this may be one of the reasons why they lack a close relationship between each other.