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Maria da Conceição da Costa Marques
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2021.02.003
Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Coimbra (ISCAC), Coimbra, Portugal
University of Coimbra (FDUC), Coimbra, Portugal
The purpose of this paper is to present the results obtained by an internal audit unit of a large public sector entity, in the area of education, during 2018, which we will call here Entity X and analyze the impact that developed work had in the management decisions of that entity. The methodology used in the preparation of the article is the case study, where Cervo, Bervian, and Silva (2007, p. 62) define it as “research on a particular individual, family, group or community that is representative of their universe, to investigate the different aspects of life”. The theoretical framework on the theme (secondary sources) was developed from bibliographic and documentary research, which concerns the classification of procedures and are appropriate to the characterization of this study, as an instrument for collecting information on the subject in question (Gil, 2006). The results obtained are related to the activity of the referred internal audit unit in 2018, which proved to be quite fruitful and are developed in points 4, 5, and 6 of the paper. During the preparation of the study, some limitations were found, related to the fact that it was only possible to analyze the year 2018, thus failing to establish a relationship with the department’s activity history. In our opinion, this study is important because it allows other similar entities to verify that it is possible to carry out internal auditing in the public sector (especially in this sector of education), since this practice is not yet disseminated within the area. This study is original in that it uses real data from an internal audit body.
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