Abstract
Information and communication technologies used today enable remote control. With the COVID-19 outbreak, internal audit continued remotely, like many professions. However, the developed and suggested remote control models are about how the internal control can be carried out by integrating the information and communication technologies into the audit. Remote auditing works carried out during crisis periods such as epidemics are carried out under certain uncertainties and conditions. In this context, the aim of the study is to reveal how the internal audit activity is carried out during the remote working period, to identify possible risks and to reveal the limitations. In this context, internal audit units of state universities were interviewed using the interview method. It has been determined that the universities that continued their auditing activities during the pandemic period continued the auditing with the traditional auditing approach and the communication was an important limitation. It is considered that the findings obtained from the study will enable the internal audit activities to be carried out in the new normal and in crisis periods to be more effectively, efficiently and productive.