Form 15 (3/31/86) NSF PROJECT IST-850 5411 EXPERIMENTS ON THE COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF INFORMATION SEEKING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVING USER QUESTIONS FOR ONLINE SEARCHES QUESTION NUMBER: 019 A1. BRIEF TITLE: Have the IIA standards had an impact on internal auditing. A2. QUESTION STATEMENT: We are interested in the perceived impact of the standards for internal auditing published by The Institute of Internal Auditors in 1977. These are voluntary professional standards which effect the scope of work, organization, education, and independence of practicing internal auditors. Any comparison of these internal audit standards to standards in other business professions would also be helpful. Articles, cases, books, dissertations, etc. that relate problems and successes in implementing these standards of internal audit in specific companies would also be helpful. TYPE OF SEARCH REQUESTED B. A precise or a broad search: Broad C. Research application: Faculty research-Accounting D. Retrieve articles in English only or any language: English E. Years to be searched: 1977-1986 F. DIALOG databases suggested: Š