Discusses the importance of operational auditing and the crucial role of internal control in the audit process, providing a brief history of the beginnings of operational auditing and describing the recent report issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission...

Society′s recognition of the importance of internal auditing has increased in recent years. This has resulted in an increased recognition of the need for improving and formalizing the manner in which internal auditors are educated. Suggests some of the forces that have led to this increased...

Explains the importance of the socialist market economy to the prosperity of China. Hand‐in‐glove with this important development is the role of internal audit in facilitating and sustaining the changes that are necessary. Audit has the dual function of serving the entity and the wider needs...