Evaluating the Effectiveness Model of Internal Auditors' Ethical Courage Functions

Effectiveness is an important and significant concept in evaluating the performance of any part or unit of the organization to achieve goals with the least resources. Organizational voice is considered as a motivating or inhibiting factor in job functions that if it is accompanied by sufficient knowledge of individual characteristics and functional content of the organization, it can lead to greater effectiveness in individual functions. The Purpose of this research is evaluating the effectiveness model of internal auditors' ethical courage functions. This research is methodologically based on the result, developmental and in terms of data type is hybrid. In the qualitative part of the research, through meta-analysis and Delphi analysis, , and then, based on Delphi analysis, an attempt was made to prioritize the components approved by the qualitative part during the process of analyzing the comprehensive interpretive structural model in order to determine the most effective components identified. The target population in this study in the qualitative part included 12 accounting and financial management specialists at the university level and in the quantitative part were 20 internal auditors of Tehran Stock Exchange companies. The results showed that the most effective factor of ethical courage in the effectiveness of internal audit is positive perception; Is self-efficacy and a source of internal control that are at the third level of matrix evaluation. Although this area is of research importance in terms of developing theoretical literature and practical basis in reducing the financial reporting gap with the independent auditor, but less internal audit research has addressed this issue and conducting this research and developing it at the professional level.