THE ROLE OF INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROLS, IN RAISING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING OF GOVERNMENT REVENUE, EXPENDITURE CONTROL AND CORRUPTION CHECKING: THE CASE OF JORDAN
Irbid National University, Jordan
ABSTRACT
The study aimed at identifying the effectiveness of the control of the accounting and its relationship to adjust the internal oversight and renewal of the strengths and weaknesses in the control system, where distribution was designed to identify a sample of (200) Member of the community of study and retrieve (180), one of the most important findings of the study is the role of the staff in the process of adjusting government spending as a result of being trained by the use of technology in the interest of the supervision and auditing, which facilitated the setting process and expenditure control and reduces corruption as recommended study given of internal controls and auditing accounting debt service and the fight against corruption of sufficient care for spending control to reduce tax evasion and to increase government revenue and drying up the sources of administrative and financial corruption in governmental units and workshops of each of the staff members and the community The establishment of controls and the lack of exchange outside the budget items.
Keywords:Internal Control Accounting Government Auditing Corruption Revenue Expense.
ARTICLE HISTORY: Received:19 April 2018. Revised:21 May 2018. Accepted:4 June 2018. Published:12 June 2018.
Contribution/ Originality:The study is one of very few studies which have investigated of government revenue, expenditure control and corruption checking because Jordan these a day's need to reduce the tax evasion to decrease the deficit of the government budget.
Oversight is one of the functions of the president's administration, which starts the process of planning, organizing, directing and ending control process, which is the basis of the present study.
Censorship is a tool to assist the State in the follow-up ofthe implementation of their plans in various stages, and the detection of any significant deviations committed and processed as quickly as possible, to achieve the planned objectives, consistent with the principles and policies agreed upon, as a means for follow-up to the rest of the oversight is the administrative processes, protecting them from fraud, delinquency, manipulation and other manifestations of corruption.
It is the responsibility of the oversight process in Jordan and the Jordanian accounting office to control the public money in the state and ensure the safety of its use, in order for it to be managed efficiently and effectively, as well as the internal oversight in the paintings.
Due to the fact that the consent of the citizens were not sought to increase the tax burden on them and for there to be effective control of the public money, so there emerged the need to establish effective control over strict legislative controls to deal with public money for grants and tunnels by qualified staff and trainees and a high degree of ethics where put in place, with the acknowledgment of the fundamental role of the threat posed by the SAB in the oversight of the income and expenses of the State, it is necessary to search for the basic elements of success, and to ensure its efficiency and effectiveness.
The capacity of the accounting office in the discovery of the deviations and errors as they occur, and to prevent their reoccurrence in the future. as well as deploring the internal oversight capacity, to fight against corruption as effectively integrated, and also the preventive and regulatory measures in the societal and governmental consent for access to each of the set goals.
This study proposes and tests the following hypothetical statements;
The role of internal oversight controls accounting debt and combats corruption in government spending.
The above statements further subdivided into the following hypotheses:
The effect of the existence of specific budget, authenticated by the legislative power is statistically significant.
There is a link between the impact of internal oversight and supervision of the accounting and government control over spending and debt.
The supervisory work aims to reveal deviations in the work, to carry out corrective actions necessary to ensure the achievement of the goals established in advance of the plan, thus, the regulatory, and this stage provides labor specific performance expectations for each process stages are as follows:
The report is one of the official means of communication, it provides information on financial matters, in line with the International Financial Reporting Standards (International Financial Reporting), consequently prepared to take a decision in the light of all information and facts, and aims at using regulatory reports to improve performance and effectiveness in the public sector, and also to ensure respect for and application of financial and accounting laws and regulations.
Regulatory reports multiple types, the most prominent of these reports as follows:
The initial report or the first report, which includes the presentation of the observations that have been discovered as a result of control operations relating to controlled substances, and this report to those actors, and discussed its views and arguments to respond to what came in the initial report of the reviews.
The final reports are to be prepared after the end of the task, which is the codification of oversight observations made at the preliminary reports or be final itself, or summarize the final results of the oversight process carried out.
Annual report :Under the law of Accounting Office, the Chairman of the Audit Bureau reports annually to the special account for each financial year which simplifies his remarks, and he/she submit it to the Council of Representatives, and send pictures of him to the prime minister, minister of finance, and therefore ensure that he report his remarks about the Chambers, and the report is assigned to an audit of its accounts under the fourth article of this law with the statement of offenses, and liability implications at the beginning of each regular session of the house or whenever requested to do so.
Financial reports: These are special reports to express an opinion on the financial statements of companies and institutions to show that its accounts are in accordance with standard accounting system and trade practices.
The report of the Secretary-general: These are reports which deal with several issues on the administrative units of the year as subject to the Sai and it is issued annually.
Special report: a report at any time during the Sunnis on financial issues.
The President of the great importance, and dangerous, and which require that the responsible authorities are informed of them.
The secret reports: These are reports of limited circulation, and they take in the issuance and circulation of special arrangements, and these include data, information of the supreme organ of financial control, the need to maintain confidentiality, non-traded, only within certain levels.
Clean Report Clean view) the report shall be clean of the following cases, and not a part of it, that the auditor has completed the review process in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards without any pressures or restrictions of management;
That the financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or norms. These principles applied even from time to time. Financial statement requires the meet of adequate` disclosure. There are no any violations of the statute of the Organization or the provisions of the law.
The role of the internal control system in the Jordanian governmental units in controlling government spending on 273 posts, the reason is the lack of efficiency on the part of secretariat staffs in the performance of the tasks given to them, as to their ability and integrity is not a guarantee in itself to increase the effectiveness of internal control without the benefit, through attention to the humanitarian aspects when organizing work, and the relations (Abdullah, 2006 ; Al Khatib and Ragheb, 2010 ).
Various preventive measures: Internal oversight in this area, proposes various measures of challenging/checking fraud and accounting manipulation, and also ensure that their impact are avoided/reduced , through written and specific application of written instructions that clearly indicate the work procedures and controls in all the sections of operation (Arens et al., 2000 ; Boynton et al., 2001 ).
The use of the Machinery and electronic means: The electronic accounting information system unit serves as a guide to identify the causes of errors, and how to address them quickly, and gives the regulatory information that will lead to the recording of the time errors occur and the time of detection, this time matching allows quick reaction, which affects the treatment process, the internal control structure and that the use of electronic means to ensure the validity of the registered accounting data and maintain the assets from any manipulation (Mark et al., 2003 ; Mahmoud, 2010 ).
There are several tools and methods adopted by the internal control system:
Types of internal oversight:
The anti-lock control-
The control reagent-
Corrective control.-
Budgets-
The statistical tables -
Periodic reports enough-
The movement studies and time
Human resources training programs
Quality Control
The government controls the internal control system in Jordan:
Legislative controls
The General Budget
Controls
The selection and training of human resources
The manifestations of financial and administrative corruption in governmental units:
Waste and nepotism
Cronyism
Extortion and fraud
The looting of public money.
Corruption in the community environment
The slowdown
Corruption, according to the degree of regulation:
Systematic corruption
Corruption-Catch
The comprehensive corruption
Corruption, according to the domain from which it is divided into :
Economic Corruption
The Cultural Corruption
Judicial corruption
Administrative Corruption.
Social Corruption
Financial Corruption
Political Corruption
Demographic the
Table-1. Data for the study sample
Alternatives | % | ||
Sex | Male Female |
120 60 |
67 33 |
Qualification | Diploma bachelor Master PhD |
12 130 28 10 |
7 72 16 5 |
Specialization | Accounting business The law Others |
155 12 10 3 |
86 7 5 2 |
Function | The director Head of Section Others |
54 114 12 |
30 63 7 |
The Experience | Less than 5 5.10 11-15 16-20 More than 20 |
14 23 45 28 70 |
8 13 25 16 38 |
The number of males are twice the number of females and the number of bachelor’s degrees are twice the other qualifications, which refers to the great attention required to cope with work and responsibilities on their shoulders; this is also linked to the appropriate accounting specialization, which means that there is a vision and the interest of the recruitment of appropriate as far as a suitable place for the experiences with the work to be accomplished in the work.
Table-2. The results of the application of the test (Independent Samples T-Test) Sample study regulatory controls
Area | Average | S,d | T |
The pattern of censorship. | 3.733 | .460 | 3.35 |
Check the systems and procedures for the supervisory work. | 3.941 | .782 | 6.45 |
The criteria for supervisory work. | 3.575 | .851 | 4.71 |
The pressures of supervisory work. | 2,450 | .920 | 1.13 |
The restructuring of the supervisory work. | 3.325 | .821 | 4.62 |
The moral principles of the regulatory action. | 4.217 | .857 | 5.67 |
(Effectiveness) zero matrix. | 3,606 | .596 | 7.08 |
Table (2) sample answers on the effectiveness of the control of the accounting and internal control and the fight against corruption, where the highest ethical principles and regulatory work area, followed by check the systems and procedures for the supervisory work, then the pattern of censorship, and the lowest area of the pressures of supervisory work.
Table-3. The results of the application of the test (Independent Samples T-Test) In the area of the effectiveness of the control of the accounting office due to the nature of the work
The Nature of the Work | The Number | The Arithmetic Average | The Standard Deviation | T | Degrees of Freedom | Statistical Significance |
Saba | 40 | 3.61 | 0.60 | 7 .41 | 262 | 0.00 |
Financial Control | 140 | 2.74 | 0.70 |
Table (3) shows the value of (T) at the extent of the effectiveness of the control of the Accounting Office, due to the nature of the work (7.41), the value of the statistically significant function at the level of0.00,and this indicates the existence of differences at the level of the significance ,between the answers of the staff at the Office of the accounting and staff of the financial office know the effectiveness of the control of the Accounting Office, where it was four (3.61), while the arithmetic average of 5,955 for the staff of financial control (2.74),
Table-4. The role of the oversight system in governmental units in controlling government spending
Paragraph | The median | The Standard Deviation | The relative importance |
The clarity of the Instructions for Spending | 3.70 | 65 . | 74.1 |
The obligation irrespective of supplies according to instructions | 4.204 | 904 . | 84.1 |
Be sure to abide by the Government Assets | 4 | 77 . | 80 |
The inventory will be according to the instructions and the differences and processing | 3,136 | 610 . | 62.7 |
Table4 indicates that the commitment item regardless of supplies according to instructions the highest rate was got from the relative importance while spending instructions came second and got inventory item ala carte instructions on the lowest.
Table-5. Regression analysis of the impact of oversight in the public expenditure control
The variable | Correlation Coefficient | The proportion of influence | The value of f | Sig |
Controls | ,359 | ,129 | 6.22 | ,016 |
Table5 refers to the existence of a link between the controls and control of government spending and thus rejected the hypothesis and accepted the alternative hypothesis that shows the existence of the impact between controls and government spending
Table-6. The selection and training of staff in financial
Paragraph | The median | The Standard Deviation | The relative importance. |
Staff are selected according to the technical requirements | 3.47 | 1.21 | 70.5 |
Staff are trained according to modern requirements | 3 | 1.34 | 62.7 |
Staff Performance | 3.45 | 1.12 | 70 |
The new legislation is the definition of | 3.67 | 1.23 | 75 |
Table-7. Regression analysis of the impact of the selection of staff in adjusting Government Spending
The variable | Correlation Coefficient | The proportion | The value |
The selection and training of human resources | ,711 | ,506 | 13.63 |
Table 7 shows high correlation between the variables of the study and training of staff and government spending
The results of the study:
Through the analysis and testing of the hypotheses of the study, we reached the following conclusions:-
There is little impact because we can't afford - staff and links with the laws, regulations, and directives in force, thereby missing some opportunities of the adjustment to reduce tax evasion.
The recommendations of the study:
The need for the accounting office to head towards the exercise of prior censorship,-
Funding: This study received no specific financial support. |
Competing Interests: The author declares that there are no conflicts of interests regarding the publication of this paper. |
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