Abstract
The main aim of this seminar paper is to investigate the impact of internal audit on financial performance of money deposit banks in Nigeria. The population of this study was 22 commercial license banks in Nigeria in which 16 money deposit banks were sampled using judgmental sampling technique and hypergeometric formula. Primary data with respect to questionnaires were used to collect data. 15 questionnaires were distributed to each sampled bank but in all the 360 questionnaires distributed, 334 questionnaires were correctly retrieved and found usable. The research tools used were Ordinary Linear Regression (OLS) with correlation, Adjusted R Square and Standard Error using IBM SPSS Statistics 20 software. The result(r=28.9%) showed that there was a relationship between internal audit and the profitability of money deposit banks in Nigeria. Also, internal audit reporting channels have a positive effect (r=25.5%) on financial performance of money deposit banks in Nigeria. The study concluded that there was a positive relationship between internal audit and the financial performance of money deposit banks in Nigeria. Likewise, internal audit reporting channels have an effect on financial performance of banks in Nigeria. The study recommended that money deposit banks in Nigeria should strengthen their internal audit and their internal auditing reporting channels as they were both important to their financial performance.
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African - British Journals
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