The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud

This study intend to gain insights on selected public universities’ perceptions on control environment as fraud prevention tools and their implementation in the organization based on suggestion by Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commission (COSO), Internal Control Integrated Fra...

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Main Authors: Abdul Kadir, Dzarfan, Ahmad, Adura, Md Yusof, Mohd 'Atef, Othman, Zaleha
Format: Monograph
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2011
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/8089/1/Dza.pdf
https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/8089/3/1.DZARFAN%20ABDUL%20KADIR.pdf
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author Abdul Kadir, Dzarfan
Ahmad, Adura
Md Yusof, Mohd 'Atef
Othman, Zaleha
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description This study intend to gain insights on selected public universities’ perceptions on control environment as fraud prevention tools and their implementation in the organization based on suggestion by Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commission (COSO), Internal Control Integrated Framework (1992).The results reveal that both UUM and UNIMAP view highly on the importance of control environment in preventing fraud.Both teams of university’s management aware that the five components of the control environment need to be implement especially code of ethics. Unfortunately, this study found that lack of internal audit staff especially faced by UNIMAP lead to their inability to perform pro-active auditing which is part of monitoring components in control environment.The results of this study could assist management to impose better system fraud detection.
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spelling uum-80892016-04-21T04:23:59Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/8089/ The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud Abdul Kadir, Dzarfan Ahmad, Adura Md Yusof, Mohd 'Atef Othman, Zaleha HF5601 Accounting This study intend to gain insights on selected public universities’ perceptions on control environment as fraud prevention tools and their implementation in the organization based on suggestion by Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commission (COSO), Internal Control Integrated Framework (1992).The results reveal that both UUM and UNIMAP view highly on the importance of control environment in preventing fraud.Both teams of university’s management aware that the five components of the control environment need to be implement especially code of ethics. Unfortunately, this study found that lack of internal audit staff especially faced by UNIMAP lead to their inability to perform pro-active auditing which is part of monitoring components in control environment.The results of this study could assist management to impose better system fraud detection. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2011 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/8089/1/Dza.pdf application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/8089/3/1.DZARFAN%20ABDUL%20KADIR.pdf Abdul Kadir, Dzarfan and Ahmad, Adura and Md Yusof, Mohd 'Atef and Othman, Zaleha (2011) The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud. Project Report. Universiti Utara Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000773562
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title The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud
title_full The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud
title_fullStr The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud
title_full_unstemmed The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud
title_short The importance of control environment and its implementation by selected Malaysian public universities in preventing fraud
title_sort importance of control environment and its implementation by selected malaysian public universities in preventing fraud
topic HF5601 Accounting
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