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BOHR International Journal of Financial Market and Corporate Finance
2021, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 15–18
Copyright © 2021 BOHR Publishers
https://doi.org/10.54646/bijfmcf.003
www.bohrpub.com
Critical Success Factors for Effective Internal Auditing:
A Case of the Office of Auditor General
Loide Namadhila Malakia and Nikodemus Angula
University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
E-mail: maivesndahafa2@gmail.com; chcangula@gmail.com; angulan@unam.edu.na
Abstract. The main aim of this study was to investigate on the critical success factors for effective internal auditing.
Internal auditing is the backbone of internal control in an organization. Although challenges exist on internal audit
in the public of sector, there are success factors for effective internal auditing. The investigation mainly focused on
the case at the Office Auditor General that audits all the public sector offices in Namibia.
The Management team and the internal auditors at the office were the source for the required data to the
researcher questionnaires through google form. The study used empirical literature to identify the critical suc-
cess factors to effective internal auditing function at the Office of Auditor General. The factors were identified
and categorized into models that were developed from the study. The outcomes were presented in frequency
tables and charts obtained from the data analysis. The results of the study show that management support
and good management practice, adequate well-trained and competent internal audit staff, functional board of
directors, internal policies and control are the critical successful factors to effective internal auditing. However,
management support and good management practice play a vital role among the identified factors. The study
recommended that the Office of the Auditor General should support internal auditing roles by facilitating the inter-
nal auditing work and recruit more skilled and qualified internal auditors to increase the effectiveness of internal
auditing.
Keywords:
1 Introduction
The setting and ratification of the Sustainable Develop-
ment Goals (SDGs) ensured an improvement in the public
sector both internal and external auditing in the develop-
ing regions (United Nations Open Working Group, 2017.
The determination of internal auditing became vital in the
public domain as a mean to provide transparency and
public trust, following the outcome of corporate scandals
in the Unite State of America and United Kingdom, after
the 2007–2008 financial crises (GCGTACC, 2016). Public
finance is vital for the effective management of state funds
in Africa and governments, and then this can be done
through the provision of trusted audit, which is free from
unnecessary hindrances over public private partnerships
(Africa-America Institute, 2015). In Africa, internal audit
became a topic of interest in the recent past (Shailer G,
2004). The rise of corporate failure world over has put
into questions the potency of internal auditing as overseers
and castigators of irregularities (Economy Watch Namibia,
2017. Dahlan (2010) postulates that external auditors view
internal auditors as “watchdogs” charged with detect-
ing critical internal control shortcomings. According to
Dahlan, (2010) Internal Audit Function (IAF) views as a
catalyst of good governance, aiming to update governors
and managers of processes designed to keep the public
organization in accordance and help to improve the gov-
ernments’ systems and processes.
In order to determine internal audit efficiency evalu-
ation principles it is important to analyze the concept
of internal audit and its evolution. In the current busi-
ness environment, internal auditors in their activities face
many challenges and opportunities, including increasingly
complex and pervasive technology, a need for new skills,
rapidly changing organizational structures, and demand
for an expanding scope of services and increasing compe-
tition and globalization. Internal auditors are developing
new strategies to meet these challenges and are becoming
more proactive, providing a broadened variety of services
15
16 Loide Namadhila Malakia and Nikodemus Angula
and otherwise changing the internal audit model. Over
several past years, there has been a significant pressure
for improved governance of the organizations, which was
caused by accounting scandals, corporate disasters of cred-
ibility, loss of business partners, loss of customers, loss of
careers and many other negative impacts on the activities
of organizations. It is obvious that none of the organi-
zations can afford the cost of governance failures. It is
obvious that in current days and circumstances it is not suf-
ficient to establish a formal corporate governance process
within an organization. It is extremely important to ensure
the efficiency of this process.
Notwithstanding the growing attention in internal
audit, scholars remain to cry scant literature on the topic
and Namibia in not spared from the same challenges
(Economy Watch Namibia, 2017). While there are volumes
of literature on internal audit, most of the literature focuses
on the internal auditors’ independence, and their objec-
tives, without paying attention to what could possibly be
effective contributing elements, using the auditors’ percep-
tions. However, there continuing concern and mistrust in
our internal audit that seems to be apparent motivated this
investigation seeks to investigate the critical success factors
that could improve internal auditing in the public organi-
zations, particularly at the Office of the Audit General, in
Namibia.
2 Statement of the Problem
According to the ReSEP (2017), internal audit is funda-
mental to the effective management of the firms and
transparencies. Nevertheless, there is a growing attention
in internal audit, aiming to explore internal audit func-
tions, and their independency. According to the Ministry of
Finance, 2016, Namibian public organization have received
public critics, owing to non-transparency, untruthfulness
and misuses. The independent of internal auditing with
their functions and objectivity, in consultation for value
addition, organizational processes against their effec-
tiveness is vital (Aksoy & Kahyaoglu, 2013:71). However,
challenges facing the public organizations funds is coupled
with lack of qualified auditors, and management support
which motivated the investigation to explore the possible
success factors that could influence the quality of auditing
in Namibian public organisations. While there are a vol-
ume of literatures on internal audit, most of the literature
focus on the internal auditors’ independence, and their
challenges, without paying attention to what could possi-
bly be the success elements that could possibly contribute
to effective internal auditing using the auditors’ percep-
tions. Thus, this study seeks to explore critical success
factors that influence internal auditing in the public orga-
nizations, particularly at the Office of the Audit General.
3 Aims and Objective of the Study
The aim of the study was to explore the critical success fac-
tors contributing to effective internal auditing at the Office
of the Audit General.
The objectives of this study were to:
• Explore the critical factors contributing to effective
internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor-General
• Explore the strategies adopted by management to
support internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor-
General
4 Methodology
Case study design approach formed the basis of this
research. A case study method used as it allows an
exploration of the documentary materials, in a way that
acknowledges the value of evidence and the worth of sub-
jectivity. In this study, there was a need to explore the
strategies adopted by the management of the Office of the
Auditor-General in department of auditing. The method
offered an opportunity to gain an understanding of the
auditing practical aspects and provide detailed informa-
tion on the success factors that influence effective audit-
ing, through a systematic approach. Result were collected
through a descriptive statistics to give a pictorial view and
facilitate the analysis.
Case study analysis was used as means for data collec-
tion from the Office of the Audit General. This is because
the case study analysis was regarded as one of the suitable
sources for qualitative studies, and enables the study to
obtain detailed and depth information on the subject under
investigation. Additionally, the researcher has also used
semi-structured interview for the questionnaire to collect
data from the participant in the Office of the Auditor Gen-
eral as large amounts of information was collected from a
larger amount of people in a short period.
For qualitative analysis, content analysis used to analyze
and summarize successful factors that influence internal
auditing at the Office of the Auditor-General. According
to Durrheim & Kelly (1999, p. 139) data analysis in qual-
itative research concerns sifting, labeling, ordering, and
reducing of generated data to organise it for presentation
and interpretation. In this study, data analyses were done
simultaneously with data collection. Therefore, Microsoft
word DocTool plug was been used as a tool to organize
and categories data into themes for analysis.
5 Literature Review
This discussion related literature on factors contributing
to the success of the Office of the Auditor General as
Critical Success Factors for Effective Internal Auditing: A Case of the Office of Auditor General 17
presented by various authors and provided the theories
underpinning the study.
5.1 Resource-based View Theory
Dwivedi (2005) defines internal audit as a process of
financial review to ensure and encourage effective finan-
cial management and to detect possible discretionary in
the government spending, so to account public monies
which is meant to achieving certain politic and economic
objectives.
The resource-based view (RBV) of Wernerfelt (1984),
suggest that competitiveness is achieved through a creative
and delivering a higher-ranking value to customers. The
theory central premise is that firms rival on the premise
of their resources and capabilities. Resource based theory
asserts that organizations hold resources which empower
them to attain competitive advantage and lead to supe-
rior and sustainable performance. Competitive advantage
can only be achieved when company possess valuable and
inimitable resources. Such advantage can be upheld over
a period of time such the company is able to shield itself
against resource shortages, transfer or substitution (Boxall,
2009).
Resource-based view emphasizes that the origin of
firm’s competitive advantage lies in its inner resources,
and not necessarily it’s positioning in the external envi-
ronment. A firm attains competitive advantage through
its unique resources and capabilities in addition to scan-
ning its external environment for opportunities and threats
(Grant, 2011). Adequate finance and competent employees
is significant when managing strategy in a dynamic busi-
ness environment (Wade & Hulland, 2009). An entity that
possesses sufficient resources tends to have more influence
on value addition of their products. This theory explains
how resources at a firm’s disposal are critical when imple-
menting strategies.
Kim (2010) suggests that there is much needed pub-
lic finance management control system amongst the state
organization and government agencies. Hence, the inter-
nal audit committee should be provided with a sup-
porting environment and setting and allow them to
react candidly, and freely elaborate on issues, as they
learn from each other’s in their engagements indepen-
dently. There is a growing demand for quality auditing
to ensure good governance and groundbreaking explana-
tions, aiming to achieve the most desired public sastain-
ability at both regional and national level. New notions
on improved methods on public sector decisions and alo-
cation of rare serources, contrast the plea for absolute
transformation with the passion of incremental approach
of mini changes, Hoffman (2011). In finding answers that
simplifies and safeguards audit success as an interfer-
ence approaches in public financial management in state
organizations.
5.2 Stakeholder Theory
Donaldson 1995 developed this theory; it is a theory that
guides organization management by addressing ethical
practices when conducting business. The stakeholder the-
ory assumes that ethics are a significant part of doing
business. The theory poses two questions. First, what is the
mission of the company and secondly, what responsibil-
ity do managers have to stakeholders? The first question
informs managers on the need to inculcate a common
sense of value and insights on stakeholder interests. On the
other hand, the second question propels managers to artic-
ulate how they will conduct business with key focus on
the relationship they need to create with their stakehold-
ers to successful achieve their desired objectives (Freeman,
Wicks, et al., 2004). Managers therefore have a role to play
in developing relationship that inspire their stakeholders
to give their best to deliver desired performance. The the-
ory provide insights and understanding of the nature of
interaction between an entity and its stakeholders (Mansell
2013). It recommends the attitudes, structures and practices
as well as paying attention to stakeholder’s interest to meet
the organizations objectives.
Blattberg (2004), criticizes the stakeholder theory
assumption that the varying stakeholder demands can be
easily balanced against each other. Managers must imple-
ment organization strategies through processes that not
only satisfy shareholder’s interest but also those of other
groups such as employees, suppliers, and customers, etc
who also form part of the project cycle. Performing a
stakeholder mapping will enable managers identify their
different stakeholders and their needs and integrate these
knowledge into the project for sustained growth. A stake-
holder approach highlights the importance of continuous
management of the business environment, relationships
and encourages shared interests (Scott 2011). Stakeholder
participation in a company’s success can guarantee supe-
rior performance.
6 Features of the Analysis
The investigation of the findings was done with data col-
lection concurrently. The analysis of the questionnaires was
completed following the collection of data received from
the participants to gain an understanding of the findings
obtained by means of semi-structured interview questions.
The questionnaires scrutiny as received, and the list of top-
ics and clustered similar topics and isolated the themes that
presented some dissimilarities were isolated from these
that were opposing to the emerging themes. The inappro-
priate figures to the research topic was excluded and kept
applicable findings.
The themes were allocated different grouping and coded
into classes. The exercise was functional to equally close
ended and open ended questions. All resources fitting to
18 Loide Namadhila Malakia and Nikodemus Angula
each class of data was gathered and a preliminary find-
ing investigation was thus completed. The total response
of participants exposed that most of the participants have
good knowledge of internal auditing.
6.1 Discussions of Results
The results of the research were done with data collec-
tion. The questionnaires were completed and data obtained
by mean of semi-structured interview question through
google form and answers recorded after each participant.
The data collection from the Office of Auditor General
took the researcher 17 days. The majority of the partic-
ipants were from the age of 45–54, meaning the middle
group is dominating the management at the Office of Audi-
tor General. The Gender representations suggest that 65%
are female while the remaining 35% are male; this means
the previously disadvantaged gender group is leading the
Office of Auditor General.
Furthermore, the results also show that 50% of the par-
ticipants of management are well experienced with 6–10
years of experience. The results on qualification suggested
that 50% of the participants have the degree qualification,
which shows that the management are well educated staffs
and competent staff members for the function of internal
auditing.
The research findings show that the critical successful
factor to effectiveness of internal auditing is management
support. The management supports are positively cru-
cial to the internal auditing effectiveness at the Office
of the Auditor General, in terms of providing resources
and enough facilities, giving training, introducing new
technology and encourage motivates the internal audit-
ing staff members to do best of their abilities. These
results were consistent with the work of (Freeman et al.,
2004). The author point out that managers therefore have
a role to play in developing relationship that inspire
their stakeholders to give their best to deliver desired
performance.The study also shows that the Management
strategies is also contributing factor to the organizational
achievement, through its unique resources, such as enough
financing and competent employees. These results were
reliable with the previous auditing research works of
(Wade & Hulland, 2009). According to the author adequate
finance and competent employees is significant when man-
aging strategy in a dynamic business environment.
The main objective of this research was to explore the
critical factors contributing to effective internal auditing
and to explore the strategies adopted by management to
support internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor-
General. One of the challenges faced during the study was
time factor. The participants at the Office of the auditor
general were unfamiliar with the google question form.
It took them time to respond to the questions. I would
recommend that time allocated for technology training and
hopefully the research in future will yield results that are
more significant. Results may be used to provide informa-
tion to the organization for future improvement.
A highly recommendation on the study that could be the
area of future study would be the use of Information Com-
munication Technology (ICT) to advanced and enhance the
value of the organization.
7 Conclusion
Internal audit function is a significant element of inter-
nal control of any organization. Therefore its effective-
ness renders the internal control of organization effective.
Due to the important part it plays for the overall man-
agement system internal audit is the enormous tool to
ensure good corporate governance. Contributing factors
to effective internal auditing such as experiences of man-
agement, qualification, accountability and transparency,
ethical reporting system and reporting system and last but
not least management strategies for internal audit have a
positive symbol on the effectiveness of internal control. An
internal audit contributes (indirectly) in the achievement
of organization objectives and can improve organization’s
efficiency. During the interviews, several remarks were
made about the conditions that need to be met in order to
make internal auditing successful.
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Critical Success Factors for Effective Internal Auditing

  • 1. BOHR International Journal of Financial Market and Corporate Finance 2021, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 15–18 Copyright © 2021 BOHR Publishers https://doi.org/10.54646/bijfmcf.003 www.bohrpub.com Critical Success Factors for Effective Internal Auditing: A Case of the Office of Auditor General Loide Namadhila Malakia and Nikodemus Angula University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia E-mail: maivesndahafa2@gmail.com; chcangula@gmail.com; angulan@unam.edu.na Abstract. The main aim of this study was to investigate on the critical success factors for effective internal auditing. Internal auditing is the backbone of internal control in an organization. Although challenges exist on internal audit in the public of sector, there are success factors for effective internal auditing. The investigation mainly focused on the case at the Office Auditor General that audits all the public sector offices in Namibia. The Management team and the internal auditors at the office were the source for the required data to the researcher questionnaires through google form. The study used empirical literature to identify the critical suc- cess factors to effective internal auditing function at the Office of Auditor General. The factors were identified and categorized into models that were developed from the study. The outcomes were presented in frequency tables and charts obtained from the data analysis. The results of the study show that management support and good management practice, adequate well-trained and competent internal audit staff, functional board of directors, internal policies and control are the critical successful factors to effective internal auditing. However, management support and good management practice play a vital role among the identified factors. The study recommended that the Office of the Auditor General should support internal auditing roles by facilitating the inter- nal auditing work and recruit more skilled and qualified internal auditors to increase the effectiveness of internal auditing. Keywords: 1 Introduction The setting and ratification of the Sustainable Develop- ment Goals (SDGs) ensured an improvement in the public sector both internal and external auditing in the develop- ing regions (United Nations Open Working Group, 2017. The determination of internal auditing became vital in the public domain as a mean to provide transparency and public trust, following the outcome of corporate scandals in the Unite State of America and United Kingdom, after the 2007–2008 financial crises (GCGTACC, 2016). Public finance is vital for the effective management of state funds in Africa and governments, and then this can be done through the provision of trusted audit, which is free from unnecessary hindrances over public private partnerships (Africa-America Institute, 2015). In Africa, internal audit became a topic of interest in the recent past (Shailer G, 2004). The rise of corporate failure world over has put into questions the potency of internal auditing as overseers and castigators of irregularities (Economy Watch Namibia, 2017. Dahlan (2010) postulates that external auditors view internal auditors as “watchdogs” charged with detect- ing critical internal control shortcomings. According to Dahlan, (2010) Internal Audit Function (IAF) views as a catalyst of good governance, aiming to update governors and managers of processes designed to keep the public organization in accordance and help to improve the gov- ernments’ systems and processes. In order to determine internal audit efficiency evalu- ation principles it is important to analyze the concept of internal audit and its evolution. In the current busi- ness environment, internal auditors in their activities face many challenges and opportunities, including increasingly complex and pervasive technology, a need for new skills, rapidly changing organizational structures, and demand for an expanding scope of services and increasing compe- tition and globalization. Internal auditors are developing new strategies to meet these challenges and are becoming more proactive, providing a broadened variety of services 15
  • 2. 16 Loide Namadhila Malakia and Nikodemus Angula and otherwise changing the internal audit model. Over several past years, there has been a significant pressure for improved governance of the organizations, which was caused by accounting scandals, corporate disasters of cred- ibility, loss of business partners, loss of customers, loss of careers and many other negative impacts on the activities of organizations. It is obvious that none of the organi- zations can afford the cost of governance failures. It is obvious that in current days and circumstances it is not suf- ficient to establish a formal corporate governance process within an organization. It is extremely important to ensure the efficiency of this process. Notwithstanding the growing attention in internal audit, scholars remain to cry scant literature on the topic and Namibia in not spared from the same challenges (Economy Watch Namibia, 2017). While there are volumes of literature on internal audit, most of the literature focuses on the internal auditors’ independence, and their objec- tives, without paying attention to what could possibly be effective contributing elements, using the auditors’ percep- tions. However, there continuing concern and mistrust in our internal audit that seems to be apparent motivated this investigation seeks to investigate the critical success factors that could improve internal auditing in the public organi- zations, particularly at the Office of the Audit General, in Namibia. 2 Statement of the Problem According to the ReSEP (2017), internal audit is funda- mental to the effective management of the firms and transparencies. Nevertheless, there is a growing attention in internal audit, aiming to explore internal audit func- tions, and their independency. According to the Ministry of Finance, 2016, Namibian public organization have received public critics, owing to non-transparency, untruthfulness and misuses. The independent of internal auditing with their functions and objectivity, in consultation for value addition, organizational processes against their effec- tiveness is vital (Aksoy & Kahyaoglu, 2013:71). However, challenges facing the public organizations funds is coupled with lack of qualified auditors, and management support which motivated the investigation to explore the possible success factors that could influence the quality of auditing in Namibian public organisations. While there are a vol- ume of literatures on internal audit, most of the literature focus on the internal auditors’ independence, and their challenges, without paying attention to what could possi- bly be the success elements that could possibly contribute to effective internal auditing using the auditors’ percep- tions. Thus, this study seeks to explore critical success factors that influence internal auditing in the public orga- nizations, particularly at the Office of the Audit General. 3 Aims and Objective of the Study The aim of the study was to explore the critical success fac- tors contributing to effective internal auditing at the Office of the Audit General. The objectives of this study were to: • Explore the critical factors contributing to effective internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor-General • Explore the strategies adopted by management to support internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor- General 4 Methodology Case study design approach formed the basis of this research. A case study method used as it allows an exploration of the documentary materials, in a way that acknowledges the value of evidence and the worth of sub- jectivity. In this study, there was a need to explore the strategies adopted by the management of the Office of the Auditor-General in department of auditing. The method offered an opportunity to gain an understanding of the auditing practical aspects and provide detailed informa- tion on the success factors that influence effective audit- ing, through a systematic approach. Result were collected through a descriptive statistics to give a pictorial view and facilitate the analysis. Case study analysis was used as means for data collec- tion from the Office of the Audit General. This is because the case study analysis was regarded as one of the suitable sources for qualitative studies, and enables the study to obtain detailed and depth information on the subject under investigation. Additionally, the researcher has also used semi-structured interview for the questionnaire to collect data from the participant in the Office of the Auditor Gen- eral as large amounts of information was collected from a larger amount of people in a short period. For qualitative analysis, content analysis used to analyze and summarize successful factors that influence internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor-General. According to Durrheim & Kelly (1999, p. 139) data analysis in qual- itative research concerns sifting, labeling, ordering, and reducing of generated data to organise it for presentation and interpretation. In this study, data analyses were done simultaneously with data collection. Therefore, Microsoft word DocTool plug was been used as a tool to organize and categories data into themes for analysis. 5 Literature Review This discussion related literature on factors contributing to the success of the Office of the Auditor General as
  • 3. Critical Success Factors for Effective Internal Auditing: A Case of the Office of Auditor General 17 presented by various authors and provided the theories underpinning the study. 5.1 Resource-based View Theory Dwivedi (2005) defines internal audit as a process of financial review to ensure and encourage effective finan- cial management and to detect possible discretionary in the government spending, so to account public monies which is meant to achieving certain politic and economic objectives. The resource-based view (RBV) of Wernerfelt (1984), suggest that competitiveness is achieved through a creative and delivering a higher-ranking value to customers. The theory central premise is that firms rival on the premise of their resources and capabilities. Resource based theory asserts that organizations hold resources which empower them to attain competitive advantage and lead to supe- rior and sustainable performance. Competitive advantage can only be achieved when company possess valuable and inimitable resources. Such advantage can be upheld over a period of time such the company is able to shield itself against resource shortages, transfer or substitution (Boxall, 2009). Resource-based view emphasizes that the origin of firm’s competitive advantage lies in its inner resources, and not necessarily it’s positioning in the external envi- ronment. A firm attains competitive advantage through its unique resources and capabilities in addition to scan- ning its external environment for opportunities and threats (Grant, 2011). Adequate finance and competent employees is significant when managing strategy in a dynamic busi- ness environment (Wade & Hulland, 2009). An entity that possesses sufficient resources tends to have more influence on value addition of their products. This theory explains how resources at a firm’s disposal are critical when imple- menting strategies. Kim (2010) suggests that there is much needed pub- lic finance management control system amongst the state organization and government agencies. Hence, the inter- nal audit committee should be provided with a sup- porting environment and setting and allow them to react candidly, and freely elaborate on issues, as they learn from each other’s in their engagements indepen- dently. There is a growing demand for quality auditing to ensure good governance and groundbreaking explana- tions, aiming to achieve the most desired public sastain- ability at both regional and national level. New notions on improved methods on public sector decisions and alo- cation of rare serources, contrast the plea for absolute transformation with the passion of incremental approach of mini changes, Hoffman (2011). In finding answers that simplifies and safeguards audit success as an interfer- ence approaches in public financial management in state organizations. 5.2 Stakeholder Theory Donaldson 1995 developed this theory; it is a theory that guides organization management by addressing ethical practices when conducting business. The stakeholder the- ory assumes that ethics are a significant part of doing business. The theory poses two questions. First, what is the mission of the company and secondly, what responsibil- ity do managers have to stakeholders? The first question informs managers on the need to inculcate a common sense of value and insights on stakeholder interests. On the other hand, the second question propels managers to artic- ulate how they will conduct business with key focus on the relationship they need to create with their stakehold- ers to successful achieve their desired objectives (Freeman, Wicks, et al., 2004). Managers therefore have a role to play in developing relationship that inspire their stakeholders to give their best to deliver desired performance. The the- ory provide insights and understanding of the nature of interaction between an entity and its stakeholders (Mansell 2013). It recommends the attitudes, structures and practices as well as paying attention to stakeholder’s interest to meet the organizations objectives. Blattberg (2004), criticizes the stakeholder theory assumption that the varying stakeholder demands can be easily balanced against each other. Managers must imple- ment organization strategies through processes that not only satisfy shareholder’s interest but also those of other groups such as employees, suppliers, and customers, etc who also form part of the project cycle. Performing a stakeholder mapping will enable managers identify their different stakeholders and their needs and integrate these knowledge into the project for sustained growth. A stake- holder approach highlights the importance of continuous management of the business environment, relationships and encourages shared interests (Scott 2011). Stakeholder participation in a company’s success can guarantee supe- rior performance. 6 Features of the Analysis The investigation of the findings was done with data col- lection concurrently. The analysis of the questionnaires was completed following the collection of data received from the participants to gain an understanding of the findings obtained by means of semi-structured interview questions. The questionnaires scrutiny as received, and the list of top- ics and clustered similar topics and isolated the themes that presented some dissimilarities were isolated from these that were opposing to the emerging themes. The inappro- priate figures to the research topic was excluded and kept applicable findings. The themes were allocated different grouping and coded into classes. The exercise was functional to equally close ended and open ended questions. All resources fitting to
  • 4. 18 Loide Namadhila Malakia and Nikodemus Angula each class of data was gathered and a preliminary find- ing investigation was thus completed. The total response of participants exposed that most of the participants have good knowledge of internal auditing. 6.1 Discussions of Results The results of the research were done with data collec- tion. The questionnaires were completed and data obtained by mean of semi-structured interview question through google form and answers recorded after each participant. The data collection from the Office of Auditor General took the researcher 17 days. The majority of the partic- ipants were from the age of 45–54, meaning the middle group is dominating the management at the Office of Audi- tor General. The Gender representations suggest that 65% are female while the remaining 35% are male; this means the previously disadvantaged gender group is leading the Office of Auditor General. Furthermore, the results also show that 50% of the par- ticipants of management are well experienced with 6–10 years of experience. The results on qualification suggested that 50% of the participants have the degree qualification, which shows that the management are well educated staffs and competent staff members for the function of internal auditing. The research findings show that the critical successful factor to effectiveness of internal auditing is management support. The management supports are positively cru- cial to the internal auditing effectiveness at the Office of the Auditor General, in terms of providing resources and enough facilities, giving training, introducing new technology and encourage motivates the internal audit- ing staff members to do best of their abilities. These results were consistent with the work of (Freeman et al., 2004). The author point out that managers therefore have a role to play in developing relationship that inspire their stakeholders to give their best to deliver desired performance.The study also shows that the Management strategies is also contributing factor to the organizational achievement, through its unique resources, such as enough financing and competent employees. These results were reliable with the previous auditing research works of (Wade & Hulland, 2009). According to the author adequate finance and competent employees is significant when man- aging strategy in a dynamic business environment. The main objective of this research was to explore the critical factors contributing to effective internal auditing and to explore the strategies adopted by management to support internal auditing at the Office of the Auditor- General. One of the challenges faced during the study was time factor. The participants at the Office of the auditor general were unfamiliar with the google question form. It took them time to respond to the questions. I would recommend that time allocated for technology training and hopefully the research in future will yield results that are more significant. Results may be used to provide informa- tion to the organization for future improvement. A highly recommendation on the study that could be the area of future study would be the use of Information Com- munication Technology (ICT) to advanced and enhance the value of the organization. 7 Conclusion Internal audit function is a significant element of inter- nal control of any organization. Therefore its effective- ness renders the internal control of organization effective. Due to the important part it plays for the overall man- agement system internal audit is the enormous tool to ensure good corporate governance. 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