Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Opportunities
Redaktion: Barrados, Maria; Lonsdale, Jeremy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices brings together academic analysis with insights from practitioners to discuss the potential for collaboration in audit and evaluation practices between three professional disciplines

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000042559
• Artikelnr.: 58712747

Autorenporträt

Maria Barrados is currently Executive-in-Residence at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. Her Canadian government career included working as a government program evaluator, as a performance auditor and audit executive at the Office of the Auditor General and as President of the Public Service Commission that included responsibility for internal audit and program evaluation. Jeremy Lonsdale is Director of Defence value for money audit at the UK's National Audit Office. He has held a number of senior posts at the NAO. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a Senior Research Leader at RAND Europe in Cambridge. His publications include 'Performance auditing: Contributing to accountability in Democratic Government' (2011) and 'Making Accountability Work: Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit' (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: The Basics 2. Performance Audit Defined 3. Internal
Audit Defined 4. Defining Evaluation 5. The Practices of Audit and
Evaluation: Similarities and Differences Part 2: Addressing Challenges in
Practise 6. Ethics in Audits and Evaluation: In Search of Virtuous
Practices 7. Managing Reputational Risk 8. Framing Recommendations 9.
Auditing in changing Times: The UK National Audit Office's Response to a
Turbulent Environment 10. Understanding the Practice of Embedded
Evaluation: Opportunities and Challenges Part 3: Practices Working Together
11. Conducting Evaluation in an Audit Agency 12. Two Sides of the Same
Coin: The UNESCO Example 13. Lesson Learned from the Assessment of UNDP's
Institutional Effectiveness Jointly Conducted by the Independent Evaluation
Office and the Office of Audit and Investigation of UNDP 14. Reflections on
Opportunities and Challenges in Evaluation in the Development Banks 15.
Conclusion