The paper examines approaches to defining the concept of "brand audit", areas brand audit, types and subject audit according approach, methodology model a audit. relevance research topic is due formation as most valuable asset company. appears preparatory step develop or adjust positioning, refine its development strategy, tool for comprehensive review system monitoring health effectiveness. re...

External audit opinions (EAO) and Audit committees (AC) have been studied in different contexts, yet the link between them management of financial resources, especially government entities Tanzania, has empirically not captured. This paper examined influence EAO AC on managing resources taking Tanzania as a reference. It uses dependency theory to explain main topic. Data were collected 230 from...

The role of internal auditing has received significant attention from researchers in the recent past. Due to its enormous contribution banking system, it been used extensively support other governance processes. objective this research paper is explore how audit activity plays a acquisition external services national banks United Arab Emirates (UAE). Internal and represent dynamic process corpo...

BACKGROUND Perinatal death is a devastating experience for the mother and of concern in clinical practice. Regular perinatal audit may identify suboptimal care related to perinatal deaths and thus appropriate measures for its reduction. The aim of this study was to perform a qualitative perinatal audit of intrapartum and early neonatal deaths and propose means of reducing the perinatal mortalit...

Following extensive research and engagement of internal audit practitioners external stakeholders, the International Internal Audit Standards Board (IIASB) The Institute Auditors released a draft newly proposed standards. changes have completely transformed Standards. They are so that even new name, Global Standards™.

BACKGROUND Outbreak investigation is a core function of public health agencies. Suboptimal outbreak investigation endangers both public health and agency reputations. While audits of clinical medical and nursing practice are conducted as part of continuous quality improvement, public health agencies rarely make systematic use of structured audits to ensure best practice for outbreak responses, ...

AIM To investigate the factors that influence the successful implementation of audit in a palliative care setting. BACKGROUND Quality assurance is a necessary component of contemporary health care. In the past, palliative care has not generally been subject to systems of audit and quality management. However in recent years the need for all health care organizations to have clear policies and...

The major aim of this paper is to create awareness of the demand for computer-assisted audit solutions within the European research community. The cause of this demand is twofold; on the one hand, regulatory pressure is increasing through both the reform of the audit sector in the European Union regarding mandatory audit firm rotation and tightened independence requirements. On the other hand, ...

From an internal audit perspective, enterprise systems have created new opportunities and challenges in managing internal as well as external risks. In this work, we report results of a survey that examines internal auditors’ ability to identify and manage operational, financial, technological, compliance and other risks as the organization migrates to an ERP environment. Our findings show that...