Audit Research Proposals Samples For Students

Introduction/ Background

Internal auditing plays a crucial role in businesses and the processes of financial reporting of public sectors. The internal auditors serve a vital role in monitoring the risk profile of the company and identifying the areas on which to improve the risk management. The objective of internal auditing is essentially to improve the organizational effectiveness and efficiency through constructive criticism. Of late, internal auditing has turned into an essential control mechanism in both private and public sectors. However, there have been few academic studies that have been conducted on the internal auditing effectiveness in the governance of the public sector. The ...

Abstract

The determination of how reliable and comparable the results are from the use of a hand hygiene observation tool between two auditors

Background

Hospitals are required to observe and record the activities of health care providers to ensure the safety of patients. Observing, recoding and analyzing several HCPs simultaneously to ensure they wash hands before and after attending to patients can be demanding. The Handy Audit electronic tool only requires an auditor to enter her observations, while the tool records, analyzes and reports hand hygiene fulfillment practices by relying on subjective data entered by the auditor enters; making it more accurate ...

Introduction

Auditing is one of the most important elements in any police department. Both the law enforcement and individual offices should always be held responsible and accountable for their own actions. Effective auditing procedures are very vital if all the policing departments are to achieve their set objectives and goals of legitimacy and lawfulness as required by the national policing authority (National Council, 2004). Lawfulness alludes to consistence with the formal prerequisites of the law, including statutes and court choices. Legitimacy alludes to the recognition that police behavior is both legal and reliable with open desires.
Responsibility is acknowledged through ...

1. Topic

Total Quality Management (TQM) in auditing firm

2. Background and Overview
2.1 Background
The audit process also needs planning and communicating and controlling. The head auditor or the auditing firm must such plans and be able to communicate that assures the effectiveness of total quality management. There has been a significant change in the concepts of management in past few decades. This change in concept has given the raise to a new set of questions associated with them. That is, with the big horizon of understanding, the terms of different sciences can be applicable in other fields. With this thought in mind, let the ...

Introduction

In the recent years, forensic accounting has acquired a great deal of attention from scholars belonging to several countries. Forensic accounting is a specialty in the field of accounting, which involves professional accounting skills for resolving potential civil or criminal litigation, such as lost profit and loss accounts, income statements, assessment of internal controls, assets, fraud and other finance-related transactions (Ozkul & Pamukcu, 2012, p. 23). The word ‘forensic’ refers to any information meant for use in the courts as evidence. Forensic accounting has become a limelight due to an increase in white-collar crimes as law enforcement institutions have failed ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

Section 1 – Applicant details

Identify which of the Categories this proposal can be classified:
A1  For information only (approved externally i.e. MoD) or public data
(If yes, please state the name of the external ethics committee)..

A5  Interventions A6  Invasive e.g. Protein/Omega 3 tablets

A7 Random Controlled Trials

NB: If A7 is ticked you will also need to tick A2, A3, A4 or A5 as appropriate
NB : Start date must be after approval letter has been released
Section 2 – Details of proposed study
If you have answered AGREE to any of the questions above, then no further information is required. Please complete Section 9 and ...

Abstract

Technology affects everyone at different levels of their daily life. In the 20th century, technological advances have improved tremendously thus playing a major role in the human evolution. Information, technology and software are evolving at a high rate and the people must be on their toes to keep up. Skills in the accounting profession have to be constantly improved so as to navigate the profession the same way as the computers do. With the increasing software programs that cater for almost everything there is no need to keep the big ledger books in the office anymore. Even though the advancement in ...

Chapter One: General Introduction

- Introduction
Public sector projects are an essential aspect of development and service delivery. Every government’s role in development is to deliver services through various sectors. Infrastructure is one of the main service delivery and development channels (Bardhan & Mookherjee 2006, p. 101). Government delivers service through departments, ministries, and agencies. These form public sector clients. Public sector clients are responsible for infrastructural development. Public sector infrastructure procurement is marred with a number of problems, which limit the capacity of these clients. Proper infrastructural procurement is dependent on the ability or capacity of clients to resolve problems associated with ...

Institutional of Affiliation:

During my early days in school, I had a great passion for numbers and arithmetic, which at the time involved basics tasks like addition, and subtraction. I was later on introduced to general calculations, and Finance related Arithmetic. Dealing with these made me realize my inner desire to become an Accountant. I have since then pursued my passion by taking every opportunity that comes my way. After completing high school studies, I volunteered to work for an auditing firm, a job that kick started my accounting career. Although all I received was just a token as a show of ...

Abstract

An innovator is a person who develops new ideas and looks for efficient ways of accomplishing a certain task. Innovation is the art of developing new ideas and looking for efficient ways of accomplishing a certain task. This means that an innovator can include people across all the professions that currently exist in the world (ANDREW, 2010). An innovator does not necessarily have to be a business person he or she can even be an engineer. This paper seeks to conduct an audit of the Toyota Motor Global Corporation. The main objective of this study is to analysis of strategy, structure, culture, human ...

Executive summary

The Advocate Samaritan Hospital intends to roll out a marketing plan that if successful would see it improve its capital base effectively doubling from the current two billion dollars to four billion dollars. The plan capitalizes on the strengths and opportunities while limiting the weaknesses and threats to the best extent possible. In this marketing plan, the objective remains service delivery to the community but with the realistic objective of raising revenues that actually fund the services delivered by the hospital. In addition, it is the intention of the institution to tap from the consultancy and referral departments that have ...

Abstract

Information systems have been seen to help in simplifying business processes. It has been seen that information systems reduces cost of business operations. Information systems are by no means a source of competitive advantage. Many organizations are investing towards information systems to reap the benefits that are associated. Information systems have been known to enhance business processes and bring competitive advantage for many organizations. With the proliferation of technology and the increase in use of automation, there has been a need to have information systems installed and managed to get the best out of them.

Automation comes with many advantages. One ...