“…Currently, the theoretical discussion on the determinants of the internal audit is rather limited (Wallace & Kreutzfeldt, 1991;Carey, Simnett, & Tanewski, 2000;Goodwin & Kent, 2004;Carcello et al, 2005;Goodwin-Stewart & Kent, 2006). Prior research has investigated voluntary demand for internal audit (Carey et al, 2000;Goodwin & Kent, 2004;Goodwin-Stewart & Kent, 2006;Wallace & Kreutzfeldt, 1991), factors affecting internal audit budgets (Carcello et al, 2005), and the size of the internal audit function (Anderson et al, 2012).…”