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Nach zahlreichen großen Unternehmensskandalen und verschärfter Gesetzgebung zur Wirtschaftskriminalität sind alle Unternehmen verstärkt dazu gezwungen, ein wirksames Überwachungssystem mit ausreichenden internen Kontrollen sicherzustellen. Zum angloamerikanischen Begriff "Internal Control" sind die notwendigen Maßnahmen und persönlichen Verpflichtungen bei vielen Führungskräften nicht ausreichend bekannt. Mit diesem Buch sollen alle dazu relevanten Aspekte des Internal Control dargestellt und für Führungskräfte aller Hierarchieebenen in Form praxisnaher Handlungshinweise vorgestellt werden.

Two recent examinations of management practices in three federal departments provide contemporary evidence of the need to incorporate procedures like those of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the public sector. Although each department established what appeared to be welldesigned internal controls, all lacked suffi cient monitoring and assessment of the effi cacy of those controls. By requiring senior management to attest to the strength of their control mechanisms, as required by the newly revised OMB Circular A-123, the quality of this monitoring should improve. Findings from a recent study of private-sector implementation of these reforms are described, along with suggestions for public administration research and practice at all levels of government.

Two recent examinations of management practices in three federal departments provide contemporary evidence of the need to incorporate procedures like those of the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act in the public sector. Although each department established what appeared to be well‐designed internal controls, all lacked sufficient monitoring and assessment of the efficacy of those controls. By requiring senior management to attest to the strength of their control mechanisms, as required by the newly revised OMB Circular A‐123, the quality of this monitoring should improve. Findings from a recent study of private‐sector implementation of these reforms are described, along with suggestions for public administration research and practice at all levels of government.

Outside the enterprise, internal control systems do not provide sufficient protection to investment decision makers from the possibility of great management fraud. However, the system of internal control is there to provide assurance for management of an enterprise that accounting information of an enterprise is reliable. Internal control systems, internal and external audit, never really had an exclusive task to protect an enterprise form fraud, or to protect the owner and wider public from management fraud. These days, especially, institutes for internal control and audit, are becoming modern management's instrument for running and managing business operations, and for permanent evaluation reliability of an enterprise. Internal control is a form of supervision of accounting and administrative controls, and something even more, it is a special value adding philosophy in an organization through its activities. Operational audit has exceeded internal audit. Operational audit is a widespread activity that is established to analyze organizational structure, internal control systems, and flow of a working process, wider evaluation reliability and management performance results. Operational audit is and instrument of business operations of an enterprise, management tool and its corrector. It measures the realization of an organization compared to its purpose and goals set. Operational audit deals with entire achievement of goals effectiveness of business procedures and internal control, performance of some managers and other non-financial aspects of business operations. Operational audit uses exceptional, special senses through logical auditing technique to realize the purpose of organizational goals, operations controlling processes, communication and information system.

The following report is reproduced with the permission of CIMA – The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants from their booklet A Framework for Internal Control.*This report is published here to contribute to the current debate on corporate governance and to provide a wider understanding of the nature of internal control in business organisations.