In a global economic climate troubled by the consequences of a dearth of fiscal accountability and transparency, the importance of independent auditing bodies, whether in the public or private sector, is not to be underestimated. Today, New Zealand is perceived as one of the world's least corrupt nations ranking alongside Denmark and Finland indicating a job well done by the country's national Audit Office in inspiring public confidence. Yet the government auditing function, set up in 1840, was initially a 'timid creature.' ...
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In a global economic climate troubled by the consequences of a dearth of fiscal accountability and transparency, the importance of independent auditing bodies, whether in the public or private sector, is not to be underestimated. Today, New Zealand is perceived as one of the world's least corrupt nations ranking alongside Denmark and Finland indicating a job well done by the country's national Audit Office in inspiring public confidence. Yet the government auditing function, set up in 1840, was initially a 'timid creature.' This book traces the Audit Office's rise and decline towards 'impotent irrelevance' before it was saved by the development of computers, which facilitated more targeted and searching methods of examination. It is an absorbing tale that moves from the teething problems of difficult origins in which 'the fulminations of Auditors-General were increasingly dismissed as nit-picking and legislated around or ignored' to the brave new world of radical 'value for money
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