The aim of this paper is to realise a comprehensive analysis of European corporategovernance codes, from the perspective of internal audit, in the manner it is provided in the OECDPrinciples of corporate governance. The research methodology used a classification of countries bylegal regime and...

This paper shows that due to legal restrictions, audit committee formation in Germany is not only a matter of enhancing monitoring effectiveness, but also a means of increasing Supervi-sory Board efficiency. This result is linked to some empirical findings derived from a ques-tionnaire developed...

Structural Funds audit is a requirement in the contract for financing the project and provides a range of activities such as: • analyze and verify the nature, legality and regularity of expenditure; verify the use of amounts received as advance; • auditing of third parties, dealing specially...

This paper evaluates the role of information technology and CAATTs and the way they could increase companies’ effectiveness in the near future. Our study focuses on the global trend of adopting new technologies at a large scale in internal audit in order to produce high qualitative audit...

Today’s business environment is characterized by a number of pressures for a more effective risk management. The present paper highlights the perspectives of internal audit which should be considered as an important progress factor for current Romanian organizations. Our findings suggest that...

The aim of this paper is to bring into attention the creative accounting phenomenon. Typesof creative accounting practices has been examined comparing scandals occurred in large companiesin the last two decades. In order to realize this scope we define the concept of creative accounting andits...

ResumenEn el presente trabajo se tratan los principales aspectos contables a tener en cuenta en el manejo de los contratos de construcción en Colombia al adoptar estándares internacionales de información financiera, permitiendo visualizar el impacto que tendría en el país la adopción de la...