INTERNAL AUDIT AS A TOOL IN ACHIEVING ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES (CASE STUDY OF ECOBANK)

INTRODUCTION
The notion of the auditor being bound or a watchdog is gradually changing for the better as internal auditing has undergone tremendous changes in recent past. The actual functions of the auditor is often surrounded in secrecy or held in some kind of awe. Major notes of internal auditing have not been clear to the majority of people in the society. In view of numerous corrupt practice, frauds and embezzlement often uncovered by probe tool has often been questioned. It is the realization of this that I have set out to look critically into internal audit department of Eco-bank with a view to find whether effective control. The mode of appointment, independence and duties of the internal Auditor was looked into a determining whether the internal audit department is being operated as a management or efficiency audit. The finding shows that internal auditor is not completely independent and mode of operation has a combination of characteristics of various types of auditing especially the operation type of audit. Nevertheless a high degree of internal control exists in the bank. In consideration of improvement in some areas, recommendations are proposed.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER   ONE  INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY  1.2    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.3   OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY  1.4   RESEARCH QUESTIONS  1.7    SCOPE OF THE STUDY  1.8    LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 DEFINITION OF AUDITING  2.2 INTERNAL AUDIT: EVOLUTION, NATURE, TYPE AND OPERATION  2.2.1 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INTERNAL AUDIT  2.3 INTERNAL AUDIT AND THE EFFICIENT ADMINISTRATION AND FRAUD CONTROL IN ORGANISATION 2.4 DUTIES OF INTERNAL AUDITORS TOWARDS SECURING EFFICIENT ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF FRAUD AT THE ORGANISATION 2.5.1.1 INTERNAL CONTROL IN EFFICIENT ORGANISATION ADMINISTRATION AND FRAUD CONTROL. 


CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION 3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN  3.2   SOURCES OF DATA  3.3   AREA OF STUDY  3.4   DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUE/METHODS 
3.6   Sampling Procedures and Sampling Sizes Determination.  3.7 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE RESEARCH METHOD  3.8 TECHNIQUE FOR DATA ANALYSIS    3.9 DECISION CRITERION FOR VALIDATION OF HYPOTHESIS 
CHAPTER FOUR DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS  4.1 DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS   

4.2 ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONS 
4.3 Marital status 4.4 Length of service
CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 5.0 INTRODUCTION  5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS  5.4 SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 
REFERENCE  APPENDIX I