Auditors-General :
By: MULGAN, Richard
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, June 2001Australian Journal of Public Administration 60, 2, p. 24-34Abstract: The role of Auditors-General has expanded in recent decades, particularly wiht the development of performance auditing. Performance auditing originated in the manaterialist concern for monitoring results, but in some respects Auditors-General have found themselves at odds with managerialism, particularly where outsourcing and privatisation have reduced the level of public accoutability. Performance auditing has also increased the potential for Auditors-General to clash openly with elected governments, though for the most part they confine their scrutiny to the activities of public servants. Auditors-General have more authority to confront governments over matters of propriety than over efficiency and efffectinvess issues
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The role of Auditors-General has expanded in recent decades, particularly wiht the development of performance auditing. Performance auditing originated in the manaterialist concern for monitoring results, but in some respects Auditors-General have found themselves at odds with managerialism, particularly where outsourcing and privatisation have reduced the level of public accoutability. Performance auditing has also increased the potential for Auditors-General to clash openly with elected governments, though for the most part they confine their scrutiny to the activities of public servants. Auditors-General have more authority to confront governments over matters of propriety than over efficiency and efffectinvess issues
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