Abstract
The internal control system is a holistic management tool, which includes all financial and non-financial methods and processes conducted by the staff of the institution and provides the administration with reasonable assurance on the functioning of the institution and management of assets and resources in an effective, efficient and economical manner in line with the legislation as well as the production of regular, timely and reliable reports, by minimizing the risks that mayhinder the realization of thetargets determined in line with the objectives of the institution. An effectively functioning internal control system is the most important assistant of the administration for the municipalities providing local services in many different areas by using significant amounts of public funds to be managed properly and reach their targets. The aim of this study; by determining current compliance status to public internal control standards of municipalities’s internal control systems in the municipalities in Turkey, to contribute to the elimination of the deficiencies in the internal control sytems and the establishment of the internal control system operates effectively in all municipalities.
In the study; metropolitan municipalitie’s internal control systems in Turkey were investigated overall compliance status of the public internal control standards by analyzing public internal control standards compliance action plans of metropolitan municipalities. As a result of the research, it is concluded that the compliance levels of the internal control systems of the municipalities, especially the metropolitan municipalities, with the public internal control standards are very low, especially the level of compliance with the elements of risk assessment and control activities which constitute the basis of the internal control system and also the presentation of the financial tables of the municipal internal control systems, the compliance with legislation and the overall level of activity are low.