Audyt wewnętrzny jako narzędzie innowacyjne w zarządzaniu jednostką samorządu terytorialnego na przykładzie powiatu wałeckiego
Internal Audit as an Innovative Tool in Local Self-Government Unit Management on the Example of Wałcz District (Poviat)

Summary/Abstract: An aim of considerations is to present the internal audit as an innovative tool supporting unit management in the aspect of new legal regulations introduced to the sector of public finance. Based on the adopted practice in local self-government units, on the example of Wałch District (Poviat), in response to the legal regulations contained in the Act on public finance related to the scope of managerial control and internal audit, the applied research method is a literature review and an analysis of mutual ties and dependences. The internal audit was to serve as an innovative tool in management of the local self-governmental unit; therefore, there was the need for a qualitative change in the way of approaching the system of public administration organisation and functioning. Previously, in the public administration model, there was in force the classical approach to the internal audit. That classified the public administration, including the self-governmental one, exclusively to commending deciding on the citizens’ rights and obligations. The model has lost its up-to-datedness, thus creating a new quality in the desired changes in the process of unit management. In their article, the authors indicated the tools in the form of information originating from various sources providing its head with an approximate picture of functioning of the unit. They described the legal sanctions in the case of non-observance of the Act on public finance as regards carrying out the internal audit. They paid a particular attention to the solutions applied in Wałcz District (Poviat) aimed at monitoring the degree of implementation of the set objectives; hence, they presented a part of the documentation kept in the unit. They pointed out to the rank of internal audit which, as an independent and objective consulting body to the unit’s head, plays the role of innovative tool in unit management. The article is of the case study nature.

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