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  • Performance or Compliance?: Performance Audit and Public Management in Five Countries

    Performance or Compliance? by Pollitt, Christopher; Girre, Xavier; Lonsdale, Jeremy;

    Performance Audit and Public Management in Five Countries

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 30 September 1999

    • ISBN 9780198296003
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages260 pages
    • Size 241x162x19 mm
    • Weight 572 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 4 figures, 18 tables
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    Short description:

    Performance audit is now in fashion, but has in the past been a somewhat closed world, little studied by outsiders. Now an international team of researchers has studied the work of five national audit offices -- France, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. The picture thus revealed contains elements of technical innovation, methodological challenge, and crucial strategic choice.

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    Long description:

    Performance audit, as practised by national audit offices, is a relatively recent and rapidly developing set of activities. Auditors claim to have moved beyond issues of compliance and regularity and to be able directly to investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of public programmes, projects, and institutions.

    These are developments with considerable implications for both democratic accountablility and managerial efficiency. Until now they have received little independent scrutiny, but in this book an international team of researchers analyses the growth of performance audit in five countries: France, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. It is argued that audit offices face a series of strategic choices, and that in different countries they have thus far chosen somewhat different trajectories.

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    Table of Contents:

    Performance Audit and Public Management Reform
    Performance Audit: Definitions and Frameworks
    The Changing Context
    The Management/Audit Interface
    Performance Audit: The Object of Study
    Criteria
    The Auditor's Craft
    Methods
    Products
    Impacts
    Overview
    Appendix One: Research Methods
    Appendix Two: Supreme Audit Institutions: The Basics
    Appendix Three: The Development of Performance Audit
    References

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