Governança aplicada à administração pública: a contribuição da auditoria interna para sua efetivação: um estudo em universidades públicas federais

Abstract

Just as investors expect positive returns, citizens expect the state confers a return in economic development and improved quality of life ("social profit"), in adherence to the principle of continuity of the State. However, the control exercised over the bodies of the public administration responsible for performing public funds often serve the principle of legality without, effectiveness and efficiency are effectively met. In this sense the effectiveness of public governance in Brazil, which has been occurring over the past few years, it becomes element that adds to the legality, values and principles harmonizing processes and procedures, contributing to the possibility of legitimate citizen empowerment made before the State of which he is a keeper, its largest "investor" - shareholder. In this hue this study aims to discuss the migration of the application of the concepts of corporate governance to the public, seen from the perspective of agency, based on the problem that discusses the effectiveness of the implementation of the Public Governance in the Brazilian federal universities verifying the influence of internal audits this process. Complemented by a field research study found, through responses to the questionnaire used as structured data collection instrument, the contribution of internal audit units of the Brazilian federal universities in the establishment and consolidation of public governance in institutional management. It has resulted in a panorama of internal control in the federal universities in Brazil, inferring, too, that there is still a need for proper structuring and implementation of internal audit to ensure that this is translated into an effective instrument deployment of public governance as a principle inherent in Public Administration.