Drawing on 20 years of experience as Comptroller and AuditorGeneral, and head of the United Kingdom National Audit Office,Public Sector Auditing: Is it Value for Money? is Sir JohnBourn’s own account of the role and influence value for moneyauditing has in holding governments to account and in helpingpublic bodies improve the ways in which they deliver services.
Key features include:
In-depth case studies from UK, US, Canada, China, India andAustralia;
Detailed analysis of complex areas of public expenditure suchas health, education, privatisation, regulation, defence andIT;
Examples of how auditing can promote positive outcomes ratherthan negative post mortems.
This book is relevant for people working in both the public andprivate sectors, and should be essential reading for the staff ofpublic sector audit institutions around the world, as well