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Risk Management and Ethical Environment: Effects on Internal Audit and Accounting Control Procedures
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Risk Management and Ethical Environment: Effects on Internal Audit and Accounting Control Procedures

Kirsten Rae, N Subramaniam and John Sands
Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research, Vol.6(1), pp.11-30
2008
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Abstract

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability internal audit internal control risk management ethical environment accounting control procedures
This study examines the impact of the scope of risk management and ethical environment on internal audit activities and the quality of accounting control procedures (ACPQ). The conceptual framework for the study is guided by COSO's frameworks on internal controls and enterprise risk management and data from a questionnaire survey of 64 Australian firms are analysed using a structural equation model. The results of the study support that (1) internal audit activities have a significant intervening effect on the relationship between the scope of risk management and ACPQ, and (2) a direct and positive relationship exists between ethical environment and ACPQ. Our findings suggest that widening the scope of risk management activities do not directly improve ACPQ, but that it leads to more extensive internal audit activities and in turn such activities promote better ACPQ. Further, the results indicate that fostering a more ethical environment directly leads to higher ACPQ. These results have implications for the design of internal controls, namely with respect to the role of internal audit activities and ethical environment in enhancing ACPQ.

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