Internal Audit in Higher Education

Informationen zum Autor Alison Holmes, Sally Brown Klappentext This volume describes a range of experiences of internal audit in higher education institutions from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Germany. It presents approaches to best practice designed to enable readers to assess and develop their own audit procedures. Zusammenfassung This volume describes a range of experiences of internal audit in higher education institutions from the UK! USA! Australia! New Zealand! South Africa and Germany. It presents approaches to best practice designed to enable readers to assess and develop their own audit procedures. Inhaltsverzeichnis An introduction to internal audit in HE; extrapolation of principles from financial to educational audit; internal audit - is it worth the effort?; linking internal and external audit; institution-wide audit; the themed apporach to audit; the stories auditors tell; using subject audit for enhancement; institution specific case studies; US perspectives on internal audit; South Afrcian perspectives on internal audit; German perspectives on internal audit; New Zealand perspectives on internal audit; Australian perspectives on internal audit; peer approaches to audit; auditing your own practice as a means to self-improvement; a sceptical view of audit; using the results to imporve practice; maintaining the good work; the benefits of external scrutiny.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Brown, Brown Sally, Alison Brown Holmes
• Assisted by: Sally Brown (Editor), Alison Holmes (Editor), Holmes Alison (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2000
• EAN: 9780749433000
• ISBN: 978-0-7494-3300-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Creating Success
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, Germany, Australia, EDUCATION / Administration / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial, Republic of South Africa, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA, New Zealand, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, New Zealand / Aotearoa, Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing