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THE ROLE OF AUDITING IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS (A CASE STUDY OF PEPPERONI AND FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK UYO AKWA IBOM STATE)

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ABSTRACT

This study was intended to role of auditing in ensuring organizational effectiveness. This study was guided by the following objectives; to use auditing as a means of evaluating the effectiveness of a company internal control system. To disclose any firm of material misstatement that may exist in the account of a company through the activity of auditing. To help companies ascertain their level of compliance to both statutory, professional disclosure requirement with a view to correcting variances. To use as a tool to prevent fraud, embezzlement of funds in organizations. To improve the investment potentials of companies through the mechanism of auditing. To determine if auditing is really the backbone of organizational effectiveness or not. The study employed the descriptive and explanatory design; questionnaires in addition to library research were applied in order to collect data. Primary and secondary data sources were used and data was analyzed using the chi square statistical tool at 5% level of significance which was presented in frequency tables and percentage. The respondents under the study were 88 staff of pepperoni foods and first city monument bank all in Uyo Akwa Ibom state. The study findings revealed that auditing is the backbone of organizational effectiveness, auditing would ensure a reduction in fraud and embezzlement and that auditing can improve investment potentials of companies; based on the findings from the study, efforts should be made by organizational heads in ensuring adequate and effective auditing practice as this would ensure organizational growth and expansion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER ONE

  1. OVERVIEW

Corporate performance management is the area of business intelligence involved with monitoring and managing an organizations performance such as revenue, returns in investment, overhead, operational cort etc. Price Walter house Cooper (2012) noted that it provides the avenue for translating a company’s strategy into measurable targets, in monitoring and evaluating how the company is doing. Corporate performance management gives management, investors, and other stakeholders a real time picture of how the organization is actually in line with its corporate targets so that corporate actions can be taken where necessary.

Margaret (2011) pointed out that it encompasses strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, work fork, reporting, modeling, scenario  planning, profitability analysis, key performance indicate monitoring and consolidation as it addresses both financial and generating activities of the business entity.

          The key performance indicators according to Massey (2011), means the company’s progress as they relate to its goals and strategy and are usually enshrined in the financial statement of such companies. Harper (2012) and institute of centered accountant of Nigeria (2009) defined the financial statement as a formal record of the financial activities of a business, person or other entities; relevant information about the reporting entity are presented therein the financial statement and in a structured and easily understandable manner, having the following components.

  1. Statement of financial position showing report on assets, liabilities and equity
  2. Statement of comprehensive income and expenses (Known as profit and loss statement)
  3. Statement of cash flow
  4. Statement of comprehensive changes in equity
  5. Notes to the financial statement.

          The very essence of financial statement is deeply routed in the companies and Allied matters Act (2004:5331) which states that “every company shall keep proper accounting record and such records shall be sufficient to show and explain the transactions of the company and shall be such to:

  1. Disclose with reasonable accuracy, at anytime, the financial position of the company and
  2. Enable the directors ensure that the financial statements prepared comply with the requirement of the Act with regard to form and content.

      Information emaciating from the financial statements are so vital that it helps a wide range of users such as shareholders, government, financial institutions, employees, creditors/suppliers, media, the general public etc. in making economic decisions.

      Kleinschmidt (2007) pointed out that the very fact that ownership of companies differ from management, their trust is not enough to guarantee the accuracy of such financial statements prepared by management as they emphasized tend to conceal the following:

  1. Weak internal control mechanism
  2. Presence of material misstatement and on errors that tend to depict a financial position different from what actually exist in the company.
  3. Noncompliance to statutory, accounting professional guidelines/requirements.
  4. Fraud, other financial irregularities as many be perpetuated by management and on employees of the companies.

On account of the above challenges, the need for an independent appraisal of the state of affairs in any company cannot be over emphasized. Little Wonder Paul (2009) was quoted to say that “an audit can be compared to an annual checkup with the doctors, the auditor being the doctor while the company is the patient” in the same vein, section 359(1) of the companies and Allied Matters Act (2004) mandated and the need for auditing of companies individuals and on government accounts to guarantee a reasonable level assurance that the financial statement are true and fair, represent state of affairs at the company. This, Okezie (2008) pointed out helps to reduce or settle disputes that might otherwise arise regarding acceptance of the annual reports and accounts of companies.

          In the lights of the foregoing, the researcher shall examine auditing, not just as a concept but also as an exercise, with a view to determining its place as the backbone of organizational effectiveness.                    

  1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Modern-day organizations are increasingly facing performance driven challenges that tend to erode the confidence placed on the financial statements prepared by management of these companies (Bamidele, 2009).

          In charting the course for other scholars, Okozie (2008) frowned at the problems trailing the absence of auditing which, when unattended to, could hamper the quality, form, disclosure requirements of financial statements. These are;

  1. Presence of weak interval accounting control system which tends to give unwarranted forous to some dubious company management and or employees
  2. Material misstatement of crucial assets liability or capital item. This, in turn, leads to financial statements that do not fairly and truly represent the state of affairs at the company.
  3. Gross violation of statutory provisions, professional guideline as well as weak level of corporate government which if uncorrected, may bring down heavy fines in the company by the various regulatory / professional bodies.
  4. The unattractiveness of company’s shares due to unaudited nature of its account which might scare off investors.

Wikipedia (2012) posited that auditing as a vital part of accounting which provides an assessment of a company’s internal control, seeks not only to solve the above mentioned challenges but also to provide an assurance that financial statements are of the highest quality which would impact on the effectiveness of such reporting entity.

  1. OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

The following are the key objectives the researcher proposes the study / research to active.

  1. To use auditing as a means of evaluating the effectiveness of a company internal control system.
  2. To disclose any firm of material misstatement that may exist in the account of a company through they activity of auditing.
  3. To help companies ascertain their level of compliance to both statutory, professional disclosure requirement with a view to correcting variances.
  4. To use as a tool to prevent fraud, embezzlement of funds in organizations.
  5. To improve the investment potentials of companies through the mechanism of auditing.
  6. To determine if auditing is really the backbone of organizational effectiveness or not.
    1. RESEARCH QUESTION

Asika (2001) defined research questions as the set of questions which the research hopes in mind that the study would give answers to this research work shall answer the following questions:

  1. Can auditing truly evaluate company’s internal control system?
  2. Would auditing ensure a reduction, if not elimination of fraud, embezzlement in company’s annual reports?
  3. Is auditing really the backbone of organizational effectiveness
  4. Can auditing improve the investment potentials of companies?
    1. STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
  1. Ho:    Auditing can not truly evaluate company’s internal                                                          control system

Hi:     Auditing can truly evaluate company’s internal control system.

  1. Ho:    Auditing would not ensure a reduction (if not elimination) of fraud, embezzlement of funds and materials misstatement in company’s annual reports.
  2. Auditing would ensure a reduction (if not elimination) of fraud, embezzlement of funds and material misstatement in company’s annual reports.
  3. Ho:    Auditing cannot improve the investment potentials of companies.
  4. Auditing can improve the investment potentials of companies.
  5. Ho:    Auditing is not the backbone of organizational                                  effectiveness.
  6. Auditing is the backbone of organizational effectiveness.
    1. SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The thrust of this project work on the role auditing plays in ensuring organizational effectiveness. The researcher demonstrated this by critically x-raying the conditions necessitating the adaption of auditing in firms. The data primary data was constrained to specially designed questionnaires, administered to employees of;

  1. Pepperoni Foods, Uyo
  2. First City Monument Bank PLC, Uyo

The secondary data utilized were textbooks online resources, journals etc.

It is imperative to note here in that the research id constrained to Uyo Metropolis of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria and shall base its assessment of 5 years operations of the companies so selected.

  1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The research is expected to make reasonable impact in the following areas.

  1. Enlighten both private and public companies regulatory agency as well as its audience in the impact of auditing in organizational effectiveness.
  2. Educate the researcher’s audience in the concept of auditing so as to increase their awareness level.
  3. It  would serve  as a base for future researchers who may want to dive into the world of auditing as their research area
  4. It would proffer workable recommendations based of research findings, so as to solve organizational challenges.
    1. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

These are the apparent difficulties experienced by the researcher which tend to water down the overall quality of the study: these are;

  1. The time frame for carrying out the research work is too short studies of the nature take longer duration that what the researcher used.
  2. The number of sample was inadequate
  3. The research base of Uyo is inadequate. This, if not for financial constraints, would have been increased.
  4. Sourcing of literature of the study was quite difficult.

 

  1. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY

The project works cover 5 distinct chapters, in line with approved format of the faculty of management sciences.

Chapter one introduces the project work at hard, this chapter gives the audience a quick run down of what to expect in other chapters of the project.

Chapter two review relevant literatures surrounding auditing in order to enrich the researcher’s work.

Chapter three projects the research methodology adopted by the researcher in a bid to collect, analyze, interpret and prevent data.

Chapter four analyses the data collected usually an agreed                data analysis method.

Chapter five concludes the study by giving discussion of findings, recommendation as well as areas of future studies.

 

 

  1. SUMMARY

The researcher, under this chapter, has taken an in-depth review of  the concept “with a view to establishing its importance in organizations, conditions warranting its introduction into the scheme of workings of modern day companies to achieve the crucial objectives of the study, important research questions were asked, hypothesis stated etc.

          In essence, the chapter under review gives the audience a quick, though comprehensive, sketch of the project work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REFFERENCES

Asika, Nnamdi (2001) Research Methodology in the Behaviour Sciences. 2nd Ed. Ikeja; Longman press plc.

Bamidele, A.J (2009) Effective Audit and Investigation for Improved tax compliance. Retrieved 2/10/2012 from www.mistieurope.com/ PDF/252/25188/EFF. Companies and Allied Matters Act (2004).

Cap c 20, laws of the federation 

Harper, David (2012) financial statement. Retrieved 24/8/2012 from www.investorwords.com.2012/financial

Institute of chartered Accountants of Nigeria / (2009) financial Accounting. PE 1 study pack. Lagos; VI publishers.

Kleinschmidt, Angie (2007) Importance of Auditing; trust is not enough. Retrieved 6/10/2012 from www.learnselfstorage.com / newande.

Margaret Rouse (2011) Corporate Performance Management. Retrieved. 23/8/2012 from www.search data management techtarget.com

Massey>B (2011) Key Performance Indicator. Retrieved 1/9/2012 from www.bpir.com/corpo.

Okezie>Bartho .N. (2008) Audit and Assurances Services, Aba; concept publishers

Paul, Seach (2009) Auditing Retrieved 4/6/2012 from www.nysscpa.org/../basics..htm

Price Walter House Cooper (2012) corporate Performance Management. Retrieved 24/9/2012 from www.pwc.com/.../ index.htm/

Wikipedia (2012) Auditing. Retrieved 2/10/2012 from www. en. wikipedia.org/wiki/auditing.

 


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