Evaluating the performance of the internal audit services using the Balanced Scorecard - Proposed Model

Abstract

The research aims to identify the natural work of internal audit instrument , and International Organization standards which organize its work, and to what extend the balanced Scorecards possibility could be applied to cover all the activities internal audit of the devices, through a combination between its international standards and requirements of the axes balanced Scorecards in order to design a sample, that can could be applied to measure the performance of internal audit instruments in various organizations, in a manner that enables various departments to evaluate its contribution amount of achieving organizational goals, plans and implementing strategies. The research adopts deductive approach through studying the fields of balanced Scorecards application and employing its six perspectives, in a way that contributes to measure and evaluate the internal audit devices performance through create a proposed sample. The research concluded that internal audit instruments lacks in evaluating performance system to contribute in providing management with necessary information to enable them to identify strengths , weaknesses and to identify the reasons which led to that, to suggest appropriate corrective actions that contribute to improvement and development device performance. Which it could be adapted axes balanced Scorecards to achieve the advantages of this system.

Keywords

Accounting Axis