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This study reveals how internal audit can be a valuable asset in ensuring regulatory compliance, mitigating risk, and improving operational efficiency. Using qualitative research methodology and in-depth case studies, this research identifies internal audit best practices that can be implemented by financial sector companies. The study results show that internal audit has a strategic role in providing confidence to the board of directors and external stakeholders regarding corporate governance. Internal audit is not only a compliance checker, but also a strategic partner who provides recommendations for improving processes and policies. This research highlights the importance of coordination between internal audit, risk management and compliance to achieve common goals in improving corporate governance. Apart from that, this article also emphasizes the need to adopt audit technology and data analysis as an effort to more effectively support decision making. Thus, this research provides an in-depth look at how internal audit can play a strategic role in improving corporate governance, providing valuable insights for practitioners, researchers and stakeholders in the financial sector and related industries.

This research aims to find out and analyze how much influence religious commitment and Islamic product attributes have on customer trust in using the services of a case study sharia financial institution at Bank Sumut, Lubuk Pakam Syariah Sub Branch. This research uses a quantitative type of research with one dependent variable, namely customer trust and two independent variables, namely religious commitment and Islamic product attributes. This research uses primary data, using data collection methods through questionnaires. The data analysis techniques used in this research are descriptive tests, validity tests, reliability tests, classical assumption tests (normality test, multicollinearity test, heteroscedasticity test) and hypothesis tests (coefficient of determination test (R2), partial significance test (t-test) , simultaneous significance test (f-test) and multiple linear regression test)). The results of this research reveal that religious commitment has a positive and significant effect on customer confidence in using the services of sharia financial institutions based on test results which show that the coefficient table shows that the tcount value is greater than ttable, namely 19,245 > 1,666 with a probability value of 0.915 or smaller than 5 % (0.05). And Islamic product attributes have a positive and significant effect on customer trust based on test results which show that the coefficient table shows that the tcount value is greater than ttable, namely 6,125 > 1,666 with a probability value of 0.108, meaning it is smaller than 5% (0.05). Islamic product attributes and customer trust simultaneously have a positive and significant effect on customer trust. From the results of the F test with df(n1)=k-1=2 and df(n2)=n-k=32, it is obtained that Fcount is greater than the ttable value, namely 189.181 3.12 with a significance level of 0.000, it means it is smaller than 5% (0.05).