Evaluating the Status and Problems of Functioning of the Internal Control and Audit in the Bodies of Public Sector

Abstract

The article is aimed at studying and analyzing the current status of the internal financial control in the bodies of public sector. A number of measures are outlined, which are already implemented for the formation of an effective system of the State internal financial control in accordance with the internationally recognized standards. An attempt of a complex research of components of the internal control system is also made, namely, the definition of managerial accountability and responsibility of heads of budgetary institutions. The information on the status of functioning of the internal control in ministries, other centralized executive bodies, regional State administrations in the context of elements of the COSO model (the internationally recognized structure of internal control) is analyzed. The carried out research concludes that for the time being there are shortcomings both in the implementation of the integrated system of internal control under the article 26 of the Budget Code of Ukraine, and in the implementation of internal audit activities in the ministries and other centralized executive bodies. A number of problems are allocated, which must be solved in order to build an effective and reliable system of internal control in the bodies of public sector, ways of overcoming these problems are suggested.

Keywords

• public sector
• the State internal financial control
• internal control
• internal audit
• managerial responsibility