LEADER 03458 am 22005173u 450 001 9910153747203321 005 20230915195114.0 010 $a90-485-3082-2 024 7 $a10.5117/9789462980914 035 $a(CKB)3880000000044295 035 $a(OAPEN)619590 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30541625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30541625 035 $a(DE-B1597)596494 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048530823 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000044295 100 $a20191210d2015 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage /$fwritten by Roel Janssen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a[The Hague] :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (104 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: 9789462980914 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction ?The pillars of integrity? -- $t?La cour est dans mon coeur? -- $tAccountability, transparency and independence -- $tThe leadership makes the difference -- $tThe face of trust and hope -- $tE-auditing in Estonia -- $tFrom accounting to accountability -- $tAuditing extractive industries and the ?oil curse? -- $tRebuilding the Board of Audit in a shattered country -- $tList of abbreviations -- $tNotes 330 $aAccountability, 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. 606 $aEconomics 610 $aeconomie 610 $aAudit 610 $aAuditor general 610 $aEstonia 610 $aGovernment Accountability Office 610 $aInternational Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions 610 $aIraq 615 0$aEconomics. 676 $a330 700 $aJanssen$b Roel$0916715 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910153747203321 996 $aThe Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage$92055163 997 $aUNINA