03458 am 22005173u 450 991015374720332120230915195114.090-485-3082-210.5117/9789462980914(CKB)3880000000044295(OAPEN)619590(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36437(MiAaPQ)EBC30541625(Au-PeEL)EBL30541625(DE-B1597)596494(DE-B1597)9789048530823(EXLCZ)99388000000004429520191210d2015 uy engurmu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage /written by Roel Janssen1st ed.[The Hague] :Amsterdam University Press,20151 online resource (104 pages)Print version: 9789462980914 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction “The pillars of integrity” -- “La cour est dans mon coeur” -- Accountability, transparency and independence -- The leadership makes the difference -- The face of trust and hope -- E-auditing in Estonia -- From accounting to accountability -- Auditing extractive industries and the ‘oil curse’ -- Rebuilding the Board of Audit in a shattered country -- List of abbreviations -- NotesAccountability, good government and public trust are intricately linked. Supreme Audit Institutions fulfil an exceptional role in the public domain, checking if governments spend their money properly. They are like 'watchdogs' for citizens and parliaments with the purpose of auditing public expenditure and examining the effectiveness of policies. They aim to strengthen the trustworthiness of government institutions, all the more so in fragile democracies. They do so, for instance, in striving to disclose cases of corruption, not just in the highest echelons of government, but also in everyday petty bribery. And they can be found counting houses, roads and water taps, to see if government's promises are being kept. On the occasion of the retirement of Saskia J. Stuiveling as the president of the Netherlands Court of Audit, eight (former) heads of audit institutions talk candidly about their work and innovations in the area of public auditing, about how the financial crisis affected their profession, about the advent of open data and about the need for new skills to audit the oil industry. Each of them - Faiza Kefi (Tunisia), Josef Moser (Austria), Terence Nombembe (South Africa), Heidi Mendoza (Philippines), Alar Karis (Estonia), David Walker (USA), John Muwanga (Uganda) and Abdulbasit Turki Saeed (Iraq) - has made a difference in his or her country, often under difficult, adverse and sometimes outright dangerous circumstances.EconomicseconomieAuditAuditor generalEstoniaGovernment Accountability OfficeInternational Organization of Supreme Audit InstitutionsIraqEconomics.330Janssen Roel916715UkMaJRUBOOK9910153747203321The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage2055163UNINA