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Dedication to Ray C. Rist vii
Foreword Amitai Etzioni ix
Modern-day Accountability: Evaluation and Audit Challenged
Introduction; Accountability-The Challenges for Two Professions Jeremy Lonsdale Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc 3
Accountability, a Classic Concept in Modern Contexts: Implications for Evaluation and for Auditing Roles Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc 21
Towards a New View of Accountability Burt Perrin 41
The Changing Accountability of the State
Evaluation for Accountability: Myth or Reality? John Mayne 63
Walking a Tightrope? The Changing Role of State Audit in Accountability Regimes in Europe Jeremy Lonsdale 85
Public Sector Auditing for Accountability: New Directions, New Tricks? Peter Wilkins Jeremy Lonsdale 105
New Wine in Old Bottles? When Audit, Accountability, and Evaluation Meet Tom Ling 127
Checking Out? Accountability and Evaluation in the British Regulatory State Andrew Gray Bill Jenkins 143
New Perspectives on Accountability: Case Studies
Results-Oriented Budgeting and Policy Evaluation: Accountable for Learning Peter van der Knaap 163
Making Policy Interventions More Effective: the Case forAccountability Up and Accountability Down John M. Owen 181
How Does Evaluation Foster Accountability for Performance? Tracing Accountability Lines and Evaluation Impact within the World Bank and the Italian Local Health-Care Providers Mita Marra 193
Adapting Evaluation and Accountability Systems to Public Management Contexts Eduardo Zapico-Goni 217
Conclusion
How Evaluation and Auditing Can Help Bring Accountability into the Twenty-First Century Burt Perrin Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc Jeremy Lonsdale 239
About the Authors 265
Index 269
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reviewed Making Accountability Work: Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit, Vol. 14 on July 22, 2015
Making Accountability Work: Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit, Vol. 14
How can auditing be such a robust policy tool when it so often fails. Are we becoming an audit society'the pathologically of excessive checking? This book attempts to provide an answer. It makes many interesting points, such as: auditing is an important constraint on the development of any performance measures, especially non-financial ones, or ones that cannot be audited; audits produce comfort and reassurance rather than critique; with respect to financial auditing, more accurate to speak of an "audit implosion" rather than an "audit explosion"; in the end, checking itself requires trust; have auditors earned that trust? While most people think that auditing is to detect fraud, that's not what financial auditors do. This is the "expectations gap," and the profession has done a lousy job with messaging and marketing the real function of an audit. This obfuscation is a feature, not a bug, and it's why I believe the CPA profession doesn't deserve a monopoly in this service. Monopolies don't innovate, and nowhere is that more evident than in auditing. Open it up to competition and all sorts of new offerings would enter the market: financial statement insurance, other providers of audit, etc. Also, the author doesn't really address how an audit firm can be independent if they are paid by the company they are auditing? This is a problem the profession simply doesn't want to address, instead crafting all sorts of picayune rules that make it look like they are concerned with independence in fact and appearance. I think the stock market exchanges should hire and pay the auditing firm, as they are in the best position to capitalize on the audit. But the author doesn't really address this issue at all. The book is very wonkish, somewhat turgid, and not a light read. It's also outdated, and is mostly UK examples. I still thought there were some good points, I just wished he expanded the analysis of what innovation could do to reform auditing. Blockchain is an obvious partial answer.
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