ABSTRACT: This research has been designed for the study of the role of internal auditors in stocktaking especially as a case study Total Nigeria Limited. Internal auditing and stocktaking in recent time has proved to be a hard nut which auditors have not fund easy to crack total Nigeria Limited is a company, which concentrated much on the marketing of petroleum products, through diverse fictions and now being made towards such areas like agriculture. Chapter one of this work gives a general introduction of the work by explaining both auditing and stocktaking. Problem statement, purpose of he study, significance of the study and scope and limitation of the study were also dealt with in chapter one most of the audit terms used in the project were defined in chapter one. Chapter two shows the review of related literature and studies. In the review, the role of the internal auditor under the law (statute) internal auditing and stocktaking were reviewed. Chapter three formed the research methodology and procedure. It shows all the methods used by the research in getting all the information for the project. In chapter five problems of the internal audit, implications, recommendation and summary were made, based on the findings. Efforts were also made to make this work interesting and it is hoped that it will be of great help to anyone that comes across it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 REVIEW OF LITERATURE
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 Research Methodology 56
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Summary of results 67
CHAPTER FIVE
and implications of the research findings 68
Appendix 75
Questionnaire 77
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Many people tend to seriously think that auditing is a subdivision of accounting, probably that is how it was introduced to us and because every auditor is an accountant but every accountant is not an auditor. Auditing has its root elsewhere. The relationship of auditing and accounting is close, but they are not the same. There are business associates.
Accounting is concerned with collecting, classification, correction, summarization and communication and financial information. It involves the measurement and communication of business events and conditions as they affect the peculiar enterprises or entity. The task of accounting is reduced a tremendous mass detailed information to manageable and understandable proportion. Auditing does more of these things.
Auditing is an independent examination and expression of opinion on the financial statement of an enterprise by an appointed or employed auditor in pursuance of that appointment and in compliance with the relevant statutory obligation, hence the role of the internal auditors in stocktaking.
Auditing is analytical not constructive. It is critical, investigative and concerned with the basis of accounting measurement and auditing emphasis is to proof of corrective ness
Auditing is also concerned with adequacy in design, effectiveness in operation and consistency in application of such proceedings.
It is also aimed at forming opinion on the truth and fairness of the transaction of an enterprise and also has its principles, rules not on accounting, which is learns for ideas and methods.
Auditing is therefore a discipline independent on logic with accounting as art of its utilities.
Historically, the auditor had the accounts read to him since the term audit originated from the Latin ‘audire’ meaning to hear.
After Luca Pacido published his book in the 15th century, the work of the auditor became more involved, but today, the increased complexity of business units, either by the scope of its own operation or by amalgamation, has now forced the auditor to adopt new methods of approach to his work – the role of auditor in stocktaking.
The auditors duty in respect to stock taking is often regarded as fully expressed in the case of re-Kingston Cotton Mill Co. Ltd, 1896 in which Lindly L. J. stated that it was “no part of the auditors duty to take stock”. But later in the united States, it is the recognized duty of the auditor to make physical stock checks – that is stocktaking – this duty having been imposed upon him after much defalcations as took place in the cause of MC Kesson V Robin (1940) whereby fictitious records affecting purchases, sales and stocks enabled various responsible officials working in collusion to overstate the assets on the balance sheet by some 21000,000 dollars.
On the other hand, stocktaking or physical verification of stock may by means of full count or measurement in case of bulk stock tally with the bin card records stocktaking could be done in three ways stated below: -
It should be know that where stocks are material in the enterprise’s financial statement and the auditor is placing reliance upon management stock – take in order to prove evidence of existence, the auditor should attend the stocktaking. This is because attendance of stocktaking is normally the best way of providing evidence of the proper functioning of the management stocktaking procedure and the existence of stock and their conditions.
The nature of the product of Total Nigeria Limited particularly liquids like kerosene, petrol, diesel and oil make it very difficult to effectively conduct stock – taking at any point in time and also to determine the extent to which internal auditors are involved. The statement of problem was discovered as a result of the researchers enquires.
1.3 THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY<
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