Making Governments Accountable

ISBN-13: 9780367738327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 316 str.

Opis

With contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners, and using case studies from developed and developing countries from around the world, this research-based edited collection examines the rationales for current roles of the Public Accounts Committees (PAC) and explores the links between PACs and National Audit Offices. This will be int

Spis treści

Foreword  Preface  Part I: Introduction and Context  1. Public Accountability: The role of the Auditor General in Legislative oversight  2. Partnering with the Auditor-General’s Office to Improve the Effectiveness of a Public Accounts Committee: An Auditor-General’s perspective  3. Government Accountability in Sri Lanka: The roles of parliamentary oversight committees and Auditor General’s office  4. Parliamentarians’ Relations with the Auditor General of Canada during Sheila Fraser’s Mandate (2001-2011)  5. Danish Public Sector Performance Audit: An SAI and PAC Tango  Part II: Public Accounts Committees in Europe  6. The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons  7. In the Absence of a Public Accounts Committee: The Swedish experience  Part III: Public Accounts Committees in Australia and the Pacific  8. Pragmatism, Black Letter Law and Australian Public Accounts Committees  9. Making a Public Accounts Committee Effective: A Chair’s perspective from the state of New South Wales, Australia  10. Public Accounts Committees in the Pacific – A PEFA Perspective  Part IV: Public Accounts Committees in Asian Regions  11. The Development of Public Accounts Committees of Bangladesh’s Parliament: An overview  12. The Role of the Public Accounts Committee in Enhancing Government Accountability in Malaysia  13. Responses to Public Accounts Committee of India: A textual analysis  14. Promoting Public Sector Accountability in Indonesia: An historical overview  15. The Public Accounts Committees in Thailand: A short note  Part V: Public Accounts Committees in African Regions  16. Evolution and Effectiveness of the Kenyan Public Accounts Committee  17. Strengthening PACs in Small Parliaments: Perspectives from the Caribbean 

O autorze

Zahirul Hoque is Professor and Head of the Department of Accounting at La Trobe Business School, Australia and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change (Emerald).