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A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation for the degree of B.A. (Hons) in Accounting and Finance with a specialism in Internal Audit (UC3F1906AF(IA)).

The primary objective of this study is to examine the role of internal audit function in managing the technology risk in public listed companies in Malaysia. In this research, the researcher intend to discover the role of the internal audit function in the technology risk within organization, because the technology may affect the operating of organization. The researcher had used the primary method to conduct the data. In this research, there are three j independent variables that may be able to managing the technology risk in an organization, which include IT Governance, Risk Management and Access Control. The data was collected from the employees who work in the Internal Audit or Accounting department in an organization in Malaysia. The Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to assess the relationship between the three variables which able to manage the technology risk among Public Listed Company in Malaysia. The findings discovered that all of three variables have a significant relationship with the technology risk. The conclusion also have been discussed in this study that the function of internal audit within organization has the responsibilities to manage the technology risk. This research creates the awareness of the role of internal audit in order to manage the risk for the use of technology.