امكانية تحسين فعالية الرقابة الداخلية باستخدام اشارات خطر التدقيق للحد من حالات الغش والاحتيال: دراسة نظرية

Abstract The contemporary business environment is always fraught with risks, uncertainties and uncertainties, including errors and fraud, which can have serious financial consequences for an organization's reputation. Despite the implementation of internal control systems in these institutions, these risks still exist and recur as the business and operations are completed. This is where the research problem of ineffectiveness arisesInternal controls in mitigating the occurrence of errors and cases of fraud within institutions. This motivates auditors to take a proactive approach to identifying and addressing weaknesses. This approach is to use the potential of audit risk signals as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of internal control measures. This study aimed to increase the auditor's efficiency in detecting financial fraud by studying and analyzing the impact of using audit risk signals in improving the effectiveness of internal control, and evaluating internal control systems and the extent of reliance on it. The study relied on the descriptive approach through the use of theses, letters, periodicals, books and websites that dealt with the subject of the study, especially those related to the topics of audit risk signals and internal control. The study concluded several conclusions, the most important of which are: that the availability and use of audit risk signals by the auditor helps to achieve savings in the time and cost allocated to the audit process, and to direct attention to citizens who have the possibility of fraud, which achieves the effectiveness of the audit process in general, and the high efficiency of the audit in particular, there is a lack of access to sufficient and reliable information before starting the audit, and this indicates that there are obstacles that limit the importance of good communication with employees and the collection of information necessary to understand the situation accurately. The study also included several recommendations, the most important of which are: the need for auditors to be distinguished by the ability to analyze the causes and search for the real roots of the problem instead of relying only on apparent signals. Auditors should adhere to strong and transparent audit practices such as audit risk signals to ensure the correctness and reliability of employees' transactions, management, assets and financial reports in order to improve the effectiveness of internal control.