Investigating the effective factors on management internal controls applying


Reza Pirayesh, Roghieh Niazi and Ahmad Ahmadkhani


Information technology plays an important role on increasing internal control in many organizations. In this paper, we present an empirical study to measure the impact of information technology, hiring high quality skilled management team, using high quality standards and increasing employees' awareness on managing internal control. The survey uses a questionnaire based on Likert scale and distributes among the people who work in either administration or financial sectors of governmental agencies in province of Zanjan, Iran. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of information technology positively influences management team to control their system, more effectively, using more skilled and specialized managers positively influences management internal control, an organization with suitable standard positively influences management internal control and increasing employees' awareness positively influences management internal control.


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Keywords: Internal control ,Information technology ,Management internal controls ,Accounting

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Pirayesh, R., Niazi, R & Ahmadkhani, A. (2012). Investigating the effective factors on management internal controls applying.Management Science Letters, 2(4), 1203-1208.


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