The attempt to answer the title of this article frames the analysis of the concept of control as a key role of the management, which any entity applies in pursuit of its institutional fulfillment. The control intervention in the development of the activities carried out by organizations to achieve the planned objectives of economic, social or political order constitutes its core business, as it seeks to ensure that those activities—operations and processes—are conducted safely, continuous and reliable. This applies both to those who constitute the organization and those who have expectations of management efficiency and the effectiveness of the expected results. In this paper, on the one hand, we propose to revise the control concept and its application in the exercise of monitoring the management performance; on the other hand, we seek to show how control should be managed to achiev...

The objective of this article is to show the importance of the humanistic approach of the accounting student considering the social orientation of accounting knowledge whose main objectives are the preparation, interpretation and assessing of the financial information of the different economical events. These reflections results from three years work devoted to the preparation and implementation of a new career program based on competences for the Facultad de Administración y Contabilidad of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and the result of a research about the needs and interests of the academic, social and business agents related to the accounting field. The career program adopted take the graduated of the career to prepare moral positive judgments and to understand that the occupation training is just a part of the human approach.

The interest of this paper is based on presenting the importance of educational instruction today, in general and in particular the accounting career. This, it should be noted, is part of the development trends of cognitive skills, instrumental skills and values that a person must acquire during the education period at a higher educational institution, which will allow the graduate to be competent to begin the professional practice.The complexity that is involved in the public accountant career in both their education based on international standards like the attributes to be displayed in the quality of performance, has forced higher education experts to guide newways of undertaking the education strategy. This is accomplished through the adoption of models consistent with the demands of society and the employment market. Of these, competencies education is one of the models that best co...

El motivo de este artículo es dar a conocer los alcances de la auditoría gubernamental mediante la comprensión de su misión en el esquema del sistema nacional de control e identificar su importancia en la vida pública del país. Por consiguiente, es trascendental saber cómo se le emplea en el ejercicio de la función de aseguramiento de los organismos del Estado para comprobar el uso apropiado de los bienes y recursos públicos, conocer sobre los resultados de los proyectos sociales y su impacto de beneficios esperados por la población y, comprobar la probidad de la función pública. Para ello, se han dado leyes y normas que establecen los criterios, formas y herramientas que el Estado emplea al ejercer su función de control por intermedio de la Contraloría General de la República, órgano técnico rector del referido sistema de control, así como, las directivas de ejercicio ...

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