INTERNAL AUDITING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT ( A CASE STUDY OF IMT ENUGU) (#6882)

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