Evaluating the Quality of Client's Internal Audit Function

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Essay

Evaluating the Quality of Client's Internal Audit Function.
An external auditor assesses the quality of the internal audit function to determine whether the internal auditors' work is relevant to the external audit and of sufficient quantity and quality. Describe the three factors of the internal audit function that would be considered by the external auditor in this quality assessment.

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Definitions:

Positively Skewed

A type of distribution in which the right tail (higher values) is longer than the left tail, indicating that a majority of the data points are clustered to the left of the mean.

Symmetric

A characteristic of distributions or shapes where they are mirror images on either side of a central point or axis.

Molecular Dipole Moment

A measure of the separation of positive and negative electrical charges within a molecule, influencing molecular interactions and physical properties.

Net Molecular

Refers to the overall equation describing the reactants and products in a chemical reaction without including the ionic species individually.