A Major Challenge of Operational Auditing Is in Selecting the Specific

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Essay

A major challenge of operational auditing is in selecting the specific criteria for evaluation whether efficiency and effectiveness have occurred in the client's organization. For example, in financial statement auditing the criteria for consideration is US GAAP or Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting. There are no such "overriding" objectives in internal auditing.
Discuss below sources of specific criteria that could be used by the internal auditor in planning the engagement.

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Definitions:

Master Budget

A comprehensive financial planning document that includes all of an organization's budgets and financial plans.

Total Budgeted Fixed Costs

The sum of all costs that do not change with the level of production or sales over a certain period.

Master Budget

The master budget is a comprehensive financial planning document incorporating all other budgets, which outlines an organization's financial and operational goals.

Responsibility Accounting

A part of management accounting that involves accumulating and reporting revenues and costs on the basis of the manager who has the authority to make the day-to-day decisions about the items.