Audit of corporate social responsibility in the popular and solidarity financial sector

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Ana Gabriela Torres-Flores
Cecilia Ivonne Narváez-Zurita
Juan Carlos Erazo-Álvarez
Mireya Magdalena Torres-Palacios

Abstract

Currently corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important worldwide and is related to the actions carried out by organizations that have repercussions on society; This type of responsibility is linked to productivity, cost reduction and profit making while trying not to affect the environment. Under the foregoing, the audit of corporate social responsibility is considered as a subsequent control in an organization; that is, it is a tool to evaluate activities, processes and impacts on society and the environment. In the city of Cuenca-Ecuador it has been determined that more than 80% of the institutions of the financial sector of the popular and solidarity economy do not carry out social responsibility audits, for this reason the objective of this research is to design a procedure guide for social responsibility audit for credit unions in this sector. The methodology used was of a non-experimental type with a mixed approach, the quantitative method was applied for the statistical analysis of the data collected through the survey, while the qualitative method was applied for the analysis of the specialized literature. Applied the inductive - deductive, analytical - synthetic methods. Among the main results, it was determined that all savings and credit cooperatives have to evaluate compliance with social responsibility projects through the audit group, who will analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of said projects. Finally, the importance of applying the guide is concluded. of proposed audit procedures to obtain relevant information on the social responsibility of this economic sector and, above all, the monitoring of the shortcomings found in the social responsibility programs.

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Torres, A., Narváez, C., Erazo, J., & Torres, M. (2020). Audit of corporate social responsibility in the popular and solidarity financial sector. 593 Digital Publisher CEIT, 5(4-1), 70-86. https://doi.org/10.33386/593dp.2020.4-1.282
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Author Biographies

Ana Gabriela Torres-Flores, Universidad Católica de Cuenca - Ecuador

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Ana Gabriela Torres Flores, Accounting Assistant at the Catholic University of Cuenca, has 8 years of experience in the field of Accounting and Auditing. Academic title: Accounting and Auditing Engineer (CPA)

Cecilia Ivonne Narváez-Zurita, Universidad Católica de Cuenca - Ecuador

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Ivonne Narváez Zurita, coordinator of the Master's Degree in Accounting and Auditing at the Catholic University of Cuenca, has 13 years of experience in university teaching. She has contributed as an author to more than 150 scientific articles in the areas of Accounting and Auditing, Business Administration and Constitutional Law during the last two years.

Academic degrees:

Economist

Accounting and Auditing Engineer (CPA)

Master in Business Administration

PhD (c) Economics

Juan Carlos Erazo-Álvarez, Universidad Católica de Cuenca - Ecuador

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Juan Carlos Erazo, coordinator of the Master in Business Administration at the Catholic University of Cuenca, has 17 years of experience in the field of university teaching, and has contributed as an author to more than 200 scientific articles in the areas of Business Administration, Constitutional Law, Accounting and Auditing, and Education, during the last two years.

Academic degrees:

Financial Engineer

Master in Business Administration

Master in Education Management

PhD (c) Economics

 

Mireya Magdalena Torres-Palacios, Universidad Católica de Cuenca - Ecuador

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Mireya Torres is a specialist in Auditing at the General State Comptroller's Office with 16 years of experience. She has been a Guest Academic Teacher at the Master's Degree in Accounting and Auditing at the Catholic University of Cuenca for the last 4 years, and has contributed as an author of scientific articles in the area of Accounting Sciences.

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