Molefhi urges businesses to embrace auditing

Businesses have been urged to embrace internal auditing, as it is believed to be the best tool to tackle poor project implementation and failure of some corporations.

Speaking at the 2015 Internal Audit Pitso on Monday, the Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology, Nonofo Molefhi said internal audit could be the panacea to many of the socio-economic challenges in the country.

“When one looks at the current state of internal audit, and reconcile it with today’s turbulent economic situations where large corporations still fail, mega projects are still also continually failing sometimes due to poor monitoring, fraud and corruption,” he said.

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