Performance Auditing

Contributing to Accountability in Democratic Government

Jeremy Lonsdale, Peter Wilkins, Tom Ling (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2011
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84844-972-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Contributors: E. Bechberger, R. Boyle, M. Funkhouser, J.-E. Furubo, J. Keen, F.L. Leeuw, T. Ling, J. Lonsdale, V. Put, A. Scharaschkin, R. Turksema, P. van der Knaap, E. Van Loocke, K. Weets, P. Wilkins

Edited by Jeremy Lonsdale, formerly Director-General, Value for Money Audit, National Audit Office, London, UK, Peter Wilkins, Deputy Ombudsman, Western Australia and Tom Ling, Director for Evaluation and Performance Audit, RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK

Contents:

Foreword
Paul L. Posner

1. Introduction
Jeremy Lonsdale

2. Performance Auditing: Audit or Misnomer?
Jan-Eric Furubo

PART I: THE CONDUCT OF PERFORMANCE AUDIT
3. Selection of Topics
Vital Put and Rudi Turksema

4. Norms Used: Some Strategic Considerations from The Netherlands and the UK
Vital Put

5. The Right Tools for the Job? Methods, Choice and Context
Jeremy Lonsdale

6. Evidence and Argument
Alex Scharaschkin

7. Forming Judgements: How do VFM Audit Teams Know What They Know?
Justin Keen

8. Standards and Quality
Peter Wilkins and Richard Boyle

PART II: THE CONTRIBUTION OF PERFORMANCE AUDIT
9. The Impact of Performance Audits: A Review of the Existing Evidence
Eddy Van Loocke and Vital Put

10. Accountability, Performance and Performance Auditing: Reconciling the Views of Scholars and Auditors
Mark Funkhouser

11. On the Effects, Lack of Effects and Perverse Effects of Performance Audit
Frans L. Leeuw

12. Impact at Local Government Level: A Multiple Case Study
Katrien Weets

13. Learning in an Accountability Setting
Jeremy Lonsdale and Elena Bechberger

14. Responsiveness in Performance Auditing: Towards the Best of Both Worlds
Peter van der Knaap

PART III: CONCLUSIONS
15. Conclusions: Performance Audit – An Effective Force in Difficult Times?
Jeremy Lonsdale, Tom Ling and Peter Wilkins

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.5.2011
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-84844-972-0 / 1848449720
ISBN-13	978-1-84844-972-5 / 9781848449725
Zustand	Neuware