Argues that total quality management (TQM), with its emphasis on people empowerment, is incompatible with financial … TQM. Internal auditors in these companies participate fully in quality programmes and they are less likely to be concerned … challenges of TQM, firms may look to other agencies to perform quality systems reviews.  …

Developing new tools for improving the quality and efficiency of the audit work should be a central part of all …

, quality of service, and costs of providing the service. It should also lead to improved recruitment, performance assessment … and training, a better quality workforce and greater profitability.  …

quality. While they have made some headway in improving the range of performance information they have available, and in their …‐development; limitations in recognising the needs of different stakeholders for such information; data shortage difficulties; and both … quality measurement and makes a number of suggestions for dealing with these problems.  …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the “quality” of narrative risk management disclosures (RMD) from a “quantity” and … between RMD quality and the corporate determinants driving that quality. Design/methodology/approach Within a multidimensional … quality disclosure framework, annual report narrative RMD from the top 100 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed …

Via the Institute of Internal Auditors, founded in 1941, the internal auditing profession actively promote the quality … January 2002, all internal audit activities/any consultant rendering internal auditing services must undergo quality control …, according to the provisions of Attribute Standard 1300. The revised internal auditing standards on quality control in internal …

Statistical process control (SPC) is a powerful technique for improving process quality by systematically eliminating …

This deliberately provocative paper challenges the replacement of quality and total quality management by the term … fundamentals of quality management.  …