PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF COMPUTERIZATION OF BANKS AUDIT IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL ECONOMY

Authors

  • Marianna Ihorivna Koshchynets National Academy of Internal Affairs image/svg+xml
  • Halyna Ivanivna Spyak Ternopil National Economic University
  • Nadiia Mykhailivna Khorunzhak Ternopil National Economic University

Keywords:

Key words, computer audit, audit procedures, means and methods of audit, object of audit, stages for audit implementation, formalization of evaluation indicators.

Abstract

Koshchynets M.I., Spyak H.I., Khorunzhak N.M. PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF COMPUTERIZATION OF BANKS AUDIT IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL ECONOMY

Purpose. The aim of the article is the theoretical substantiation and practical solution of tasks related to the development of audit areas, improvement of its methodology and development of the structure and formalization of indicators.

The tasks to be solved include the study of the essence, the identification of peculiarities of computer auditing in the banking sector, the analysis of managerial inquiries to choose the most problematic and important plot (the object of audit), as well as the development of the stages of its implementation and formalization of indicators on the selected object of audit.

Methodology of research. General scientific and special methods are used in the process of research, in particular: abstract and logical (for clarification of the essence of computer auditing), system analysis (to identify the features of the audit with the use of computers, tools and methods for its implementation), statistical analysis and economic and mathematical modelling (when selecting an object of audit and formalization of evaluation indicators), complex analysis (when forming conclusions and suggestions for solving set tasks).

Findings. The problems of computerization of audit in the banking sphere are identified, and the author’s vision of their solution is proposed. The essence of the concept “computer audit” is specified and its features are determined. The approach to the choice of the audit object is proposed, the stages of carrying out of audit procedures concerning non-performing loans are substantiated.

Originality. The method of selecting the objects of audit, as well as the formalization of the evaluation indicators of its implementation, was further improved.

Practical value. The obtained results of the research can be used by banks in the process of auditing with the use of computers, in particular, with regard to the selection of audit objects, substantiation of the stages of its implementation and formalization of the evaluation indicators.

Key words: computer audit; audit procedures; means and methods of audit; object of audit; stages for audit implementation; formalization of evaluation indicators.

Author Biographies

  • Marianna Ihorivna Koshchynets, National Academy of Internal Affairs
    сand.sc.(econ.), associate professor at the department of Financial Law and Fiscal Administration
  • Halyna Ivanivna Spyak, Ternopil National Economic University
    сand.sc.(econ.), assoc. рrof., associate professor at the department bank management and accounting
  • Nadiia Mykhailivna Khorunzhak, Ternopil National Economic University
    dr.sc.(econ.), assoc. рrof., professor at the department of accounting and control in public administration

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2020-02-15

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No. 7-8 (2018): INNOVATIVE ECONOMY

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Statistics, accounting, analysis and audit

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“PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF COMPUTERIZATION OF BANKS AUDIT IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL ECONOMY”. INNOVATIVE ECONOMY, no. 7-8, Feb. 2020, pp. 116-22, https://inneco.org/index.php/innecoen/article/view/462.