Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors

Researches that focus on the moderating effect of effective audit committee within the public sector setting are very scanty or no attention has been given at all.Therefore, the objective of this study is to empirically examine the moderating effective of effective audit committee on the relationshi...

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Main Authors: Badara, Mu’azu Saidu, Saidin, Siti Zabedah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy 2014
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18121/1/MJSS%205%2010%202014%20176-184.pdf
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description Researches that focus on the moderating effect of effective audit committee within the public sector setting are very scanty or no attention has been given at all.Therefore, the objective of this study is to empirically examine the moderating effective of effective audit committee on the relationship between audit experience and internal audit effectiveness in the public sector using the perception of internal auditors.Data of the study were collected through research assistant employed, in which 300 questionnaire were sent to internal auditors in the North West geo-political zone local government in Nigeria.The study used simple random sampling technique; data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21.Descriptive statistic, factor analysis, correlation matrix and finally, hierarchical multiple regression analysis were carried out.The result findings of the analysis revealed that, audit experience has a significant positive relationship with internal audit effectiveness and effective audit committee were significantly moderates such relationship. Finally, conclusion was provided and the direction for future research was also provided.
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spelling uum-181212016-06-15T08:44:06Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18121/ Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors Badara, Mu’azu Saidu Saidin, Siti Zabedah HF5601 Accounting Researches that focus on the moderating effect of effective audit committee within the public sector setting are very scanty or no attention has been given at all.Therefore, the objective of this study is to empirically examine the moderating effective of effective audit committee on the relationship between audit experience and internal audit effectiveness in the public sector using the perception of internal auditors.Data of the study were collected through research assistant employed, in which 300 questionnaire were sent to internal auditors in the North West geo-political zone local government in Nigeria.The study used simple random sampling technique; data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21.Descriptive statistic, factor analysis, correlation matrix and finally, hierarchical multiple regression analysis were carried out.The result findings of the analysis revealed that, audit experience has a significant positive relationship with internal audit effectiveness and effective audit committee were significantly moderates such relationship. Finally, conclusion was provided and the direction for future research was also provided. MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy 2014-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18121/1/MJSS%205%2010%202014%20176-184.pdf Badara, Mu’azu Saidu and Saidin, Siti Zabedah (2014) Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5 (10). pp. 176-184. ISSN 2039-9340 http://doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n10p176 doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n10p176 doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n10p176
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title Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors
title_full Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors
title_fullStr Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors
title_full_unstemmed Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors
title_short Empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector: Perception of internal auditors
title_sort empirical evidence of the moderating effect of effective audit committee on audit experience in the public sector perception of internal auditors
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