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    Auditors and their service delivery; a case study of Kasese District Local Government
    (Kampala International University, College of Economics and Management, 2012-06) Baluku, Silive
    Despite the government's effort of promoting efficient accountability of its resources especially financial channeled to different departments like schools, health centers and sub-counties among others, the local government internal Audit that is responsible to make a follow up of these resources are caught up in a situation where they didn't have enough to do a I 00% audit of every transaction. The study was carried out in Kasese district local government, internal audit department and the researcher considered data period 2008-201 I as the scope of the study. The researcher used a survey research design 111 which both qualitative and quantitative research techniques of data collection were applied The findings of the study revealed that auditors face a number of problems among which include: work overload and this contributed 57%, limited funding which contributed 33% and threats to auditors' independence by the staff of the local government ( I 0%). The study recommended the increasing of government funding at the local government, increasing on the level of staffing and giving respect to the auditors while doing their audit work. In a nutshell, much as the auditors are with the above problems, they have helped to reduce on the problems of poor financial control inform of misappropriation of funds which is a common phenomenon in government offices.