The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage / / written by Roel Janssen

• Autore: Janssen Roel
• Pubblicazione: [The Hague] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (104 pages)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Economics
• Soggetto non controllato: economie; Audit; Auditor general; Estonia; Government Accountability Office; International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions; Iraq
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: Accountability, 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage
• ISBN: 90-485-3082-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153747203321
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