Auditoria interna em cooperativas de crédito

Abstract

This research is focused on the Sicredi Iguaçu PR/SC credit cooperatives. The current job was developed with the intuition to verify the role of audit in helping cooperatives managers. Specifically, evaluate the use of the information and main procedures performed by the internal audit sector and analyze its effectiveness in decision making and control of the cooperative. Identify the factors that contribute to not solving the problems identified by the audit and making suggestions for improvement to the method used in the audit process. The methodology used in the study included qualitative and quantitative research , among others, by doing so a review of major studies carried out in this area ; case study through a questionnaire aplied to fifteen employees among them managers and coordinators. Through this study we observed the importance of internal audit, and the importance in the decision-making process of a cooperative, as well as suggestions for improvements to the procedures applied to cooperatives by internal audit.The results of the research point for the importance of the audit as a support tool for managers, nevertheless it is not commonly used as shown in the research results.