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    ANassessment of Internal Auditing Practices And Its Challenges In The Case of Bole Sub City Administrationn
    (A.A.U, 2026-01-09) Aklilu Kinfe; Sewale Abate; Lemessa Bayissa
    Internal auditing has a vital role to assist members of the organization effective discharge of their responsibilities. The purpose of this research is to examine internal audit practices and to find out the related challenges in Bole Sub-city Administration Internal Audit Sub process. For describing a given problem both open-ended and close-ended questionnaires were distributed for all internal audit process owners, senior auditors and finance core process owners of the sub city and districts. Also, unstructured interview is undertaken with sub city’s top manager. The collected data analyzed in quantitative and qualitative techniques. The main findings drawn from this; lack of manpower, less emphasis for training, inadequate internal control evaluation,lack of preparation of the plan based on internal audit professional standards, lack of fully independence, lack of successful audit results. From this the researchers concluded that there is gap in the internal audit practice of the sub city. This study recommends that the sub city required to fulfill the required manpower to meet its objectives as desired; internal audit sub process should report and comment on the effectiveness of internal control system and suggest ways and means to improve these systems; internal audit should prepare its strategic, annual and individual plan based on IIA standards, top management and internal audit work together in order to improve independence; management should use the outcome of internal audit to make the sub city more productive. Key words – internal auditing, internal audit professional standards, Independence,