Download or read book Public Auditing Techniques for Performance Improvement written by United Nations Staff and published by . This book was released on 1980-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Auditing Techniques for Performance Improvement written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Auditing Techniques for Performance Improvement written by United Nations. Department of Technical Cooperation for Development and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1980 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Performance Auditing and the Modernisation of Government written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Public Management Service and published by OECD. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication considers the relationship between performance auditing and public sector modernisation and the extent to which performance auditing could or should improve the performance of public sector organisations.
Download or read book Public Auditing Techniques for Performance Improvement Report of the United Nations INTOSAI Seminar on Government Auditing Vienna 14 25 May 1979 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance Auditing written by Jeremy Lonsdale and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is time, 15 years on from the coining of the "Audit Explosion", to re-appraise the growth of new forms of auditing. As we move into what might be called "Auditing in Austerity" this book gives us that overview. An extremely well-informed team of authors has been assembled to deliver a comparative analysis that successfully mixes "insider" and "outsider" perspectives. This should be required reading, not just for auditors and their academic hangers-on, but for the wider audience of those interested in contemporary developments in democratic accountability and policymaking.' – Christopher Pollitt, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 'This book fills an important gap in the market. At a time when governments around the world face the largest deficits in decades, there is a strong need to reduce public expenditures whilst ensuring greater value for money from public services. This book addresses these concerns and many more. Each of the chapter authors is a senior practitioner and/or an academic who specialises in performance auditing and accountability in modern complex democracies. They explore the nature of the concepts which underlie current practice; set out a variety of institutional structures and processes, and identify the limits of both theory and practice. These make this a book of considerable significance and one which makes an important contribution to our understanding of the democratic process. This is not a narrowly-focused book only of interest to those who specialise in performance auditing. Given the richness of its analysis and the fine-grained understanding of institutions and processes, it has much to say to students of public administration, management and policy analysis. I am confident that this will rapidly become the standard reference for those who are interested in performance auditing.' – Peter M. Jackson AcSS, University of Leicester, UK 'What a good read. Insightful and challenging. It is likely to incite a lot of discussion on the wide-ranging views from the very well-informed and qualified contributors, not least from those who actually have to implement the findings and recommendations of performance audit reports. The focus is rightly on accountability for performance not only in achieving government program objectives in an economic, efficient and effective manner, but also on the audit institutions themselves. It should be welcomed by the public sector and particularly by the parliamentary institutions concerned with achieving accountability for government performance.' – Pat Barrett AO, Australian National University and former Australian Auditor-General (1995–2005) 'This book is a much welcome tonic for public administration. It is one of the few books that explicitly focus on how audit institutions carry out their performance auditing responsibilities. While auditors will likely read this, the authors have geared the book to a broader readership, including public managers who are often the subject of performance audits.' – From the foreword by Paul Posner, George Mason University, US This state-of-the-art book examines the development of performance audit, drawing on the experience in a number of different countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The expert contributors identify the trajectory of performance audit, examine how it is conducted and consider what it is contributing to effective government. They conclude that, in the face of new challenges, performance auditors should focus both on their core responsibilities to ensure accountability, and continue to develop more insightful and sophisticated approaches to enable them to assess the growing complexity of the delivery of public services. By doing so, they can continue to play a valuable role in democratic accountability. Providing an up-to-date overview and discussion of performance audit, this highly topical book will appeal to all those working within audit, academics working in the fields of public management and public administration, as well practitioners in and close to state audit institutions. Members of Parliament, evaluators, internal auditors, researchers, policy analysts and consultants will also find this book invaluable.
Download or read book Government Auditing Standards 2018 Revision written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audits provide essential accountability and transparency over government programs. Given the current challenges facing governments and their programs, the oversight provided through auditing is more critical than ever. Government auditing provides the objective analysis and information needed to make the decisions necessary to help create a better future. The professional standards presented in this 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards (known as the Yellow Book) provide a framework for performing high-quality audit work with competence, integrity, objectivity, and independence to provide accountability and to help improve government operations and services. These standards, commonly referred to as generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS), provide the foundation for government auditors to lead by example in the areas of independence, transparency, accountability, and quality through the audit process. This revision contains major changes from, and supersedes, the 2011 revision.
Download or read book Public Auditing Tecniques for Performance Improvement written by United Nations/INTOSAI Seminar on Government Auditing and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Public Enterprise Performance written by Victor Powell and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion on public enterprise management and operations in developing countries.
Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Download or read book The Process Auditing Techniques Guide Second Edition written by J. P. Russell and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pocket guide, best-selling author J.P. Russell focuses on the methods and techniques of conducting internal and external process audits. Learn how to evaluate process controls, use process flow, turtle, spider and tree diagrams, verify process conformity and effectiveness, and compose an audit report assessing compliance, controls, risk and process optimization. This guide is ideal for individuals who have a general understanding of auditing techniques and is written for auditors who conduct first-, second-, and third-party audits to any standard or work instruction.
Download or read book Environmental Performance Auditing in the Public Sector written by Awadhesh Prasad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern. Trillions of dollars of mostly public money are invested every year in domestic and international policies and programs to address these challenges. The effectiveness of these policies and programs is critical to environmental sustainability. Performance audits that examine the effectiveness of governmental policies and programs heavily influence their implementation. Despite this, performance auditing in the environment field has received very little academic attention. This book takes a closer look at performance auditing of public sector environmental policies and programs. It examines trends in global environmental performance auditing; and how it is currently practiced drawing on a global survey and case studies from Canada, India and Australia. In doing so, it identifies issues and challenges faced by Supreme Audit Institutions in undertaking these performance audits. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainable development, environmental auditing and public sector auditing as well as to donor organisations engaged in these areas.
Download or read book The Process Auditing and Techniques Guide written by James P. Russell and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author J.P. Russell focuses on the methods and techniques of conducting internal and external process audits. Learn how to evaluate process controls, use process flow, turtle, spider and tree diagrams, verify process conformity and effectiveness, and compose an audit report assessing compliance, controls, risk and process optimization. This guide is ideal for individuals who have a general understanding of auditing techniques and is written for auditors who conduct first-, second-, and third-party audits to any standard or work instruction.
Download or read book Performance Auditing in the Public Sector written by Stuart Sydney Kells and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the phenomenon of performance auditing (PA) as an instrument of accountability and regulation in the public sector. Using evidence from Australia, the thesis engages with the international literature on PA and makes findings that are relevant to how PA is practised around the world, and to the place of PA as one of many different instruments of public accountability and administration.After reviewing previous definitions of PA and finding them to have significant shortcomings, the thesis proposes a new definition based on the five elements of independence, authorisation, discovery, synthesis and publication. The definition avoids defining PA in relation to problematic elements such as 'objectivity' and 'the audit method', and enables new insights.Among the key insights explored in the thesis, and made possible by the new definition, are how PA resembles other public sector accountability instruments such as whistleblower laws, freedom of information laws and open-book policies, and how it also shares traits with non-government phenomena such as investigative journalism.The thesis uses the new definition to delineate the 'PA space' - the conceptual space in which PA is conducted - and then explores the phenomenon of 'convergence' whereby public sector oversight institutions from different heritages have come to cohabit the PA space. How different PA institutions interact in the PA space, and how PA can clash with other accountability technologies such as gateway reviews and probity audits, is also explored.Another important theme of the thesis is the impact of PA on public sector innovation and other aspects of public sector performance. After analysing the theoretical relationship between PA and innovation, the thesis argues that the conditions under which PA can improve public sector innovation may arise only rarely in practice. It is also argued that PA's impact on public sector performance improvement more generally is contentious and not well supported by robust empirical evidence. Nor is the value and impact of PA well demonstrated in the performance reports of some audit offices. The thesis identifies a range of potential costs and distortions that PA may give rise to, and which should influence how PA institutions are monitored.The thesis concludes that the PA space is crowded and contested and that, for a variety of reasons concerning technology, institutions and governance, the law, public administration, society and the media, traditional PA is now at a crossroads. The thesis presents findings that have implications for the design and oversight of public audit institutions and for the design of public accountability frameworks more broadly.
Download or read book Using Performance Measurement in Local Government written by Paul D. Epstein and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Sector Auditing written by Peter C. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a step-by-step guide to forming sophisticated audit opinions in the new streamlined public sector.
