The study examines corruption in the public sector of Ghana; the motivating factors. Descriptive research approach was deployed and a multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 140 internal auditors and 50 external auditors from Ghana Audit Services across four regions. However, 153 questionnaires were received and analysed making a response rate of 80.5%. Low integrity of public officials, failure to implement audit recommendation and failure to severely punish the perpetrators were the most serious fraud motivating factors. It was also observed that the corruption incidence in Ghana is high and that, combating corruption in Ghana would take a long time to succeed. This stems from th
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