The Role of Internal Audit in Optimization of Corporate Governance at the Groups of Companies

Ionel Bostan and Veronica Grosu
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Ionel Bostan: “Ştefan cel Mare†University, Suceava
Veronica Grosu: “Ştefan cel Mare†University, Suceava

Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2010, vol. 2(543), issue 2(543), 89-110

Abstract: Recent financial scandals have demonstrated that the risk of accounting fraud may be vague in any type of economic system. In this context, transparency of information, indispensable element for competitiveness in the market is an efficient operation of systems of corporate governance and especially of control systems. All these must be appropriate in the legislation in terms of external information. The issue of governance will thus be seen as a fundamental pillar against pressures which induce at the fraud as a result of lack of transparency of information flows. In all models of corporate governance, external regulations cover a primary role in ensuring the effectiveness of controls, but remain central the responsibility of entities to adopt a virtuous mechanism as an internal control profile. An example in this sense of "best practice" may be represented by the multinational companies that have known to harmonize the national rules with the typical instruments of other models of governance. The authors have established that the main objective in this work is the evaluation model of governance already existing in a group of companies in accordance with the principles of corporate governance. In the first part of the work it was made a comparitive analysis between the models of corporate governance, focusing on the role of transparency of communication, the primary tool in prevention of frauds, the link between information and prevention of frauds being independent of the model of corporate governance adopted, by the structure of organization and the control mechanisms. The work continued throughout the first part, with the role of internal audit in preventing the accounting fraud, given that any type of government, regardless of how it is configured and the reference market in which we find, to be considered efficiently must provide an appropriate control mechanisms, able to intervene in critical situations and to protect the interests of all categories of users. The role of internal audit of the company, considering the influences of the control of management, assumes a first importance in the corporate governance sphere. This was also the reason why the authors have proposed in the second part of the paper to build a model of optimal risk management in listed and unlisted companies, and based on a model of optimal corporate governance at the level at groups of enterprises, focusing on the fundamental role of the audit.

Keywords: models of corporate governance; governing system; internal control; audit; risk management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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