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VfM audit and the UK public sector: A critical review of the VfM reports VfM 审计与英国公共部门：对虚拟财务管理报告的批判性审查

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12338

Abdelhafid Benamraoui, Eleni Chatzivgeri, Surendranath Rakesh Jory, Ranjitha Ajay

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Digital affordances and remote public audit practice 数字支持和远程公共审计实践

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12337

André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino, André Feliciano Lino, Ricardo Rocha de Azevedo, Polyana Batista da Silva

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引用次数: 7

Institutional embeddedness and the language of accountability: Evidence from 20 years of Canadian public audit reports 机构嵌入性与问责语言:来自20年加拿大公共审计报告的证据

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12336

Catherine Liston-Heyes, Luc Juillet

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Conceptualizing accountability as an integrated system of relationships, governance, and information 将问责制概念化为关系、治理和信息的综合系统

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12323

Marc Pilon, François Brouard

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Thirty-six years of the journal of Financial Accountability & Management: Scientometric review 《财务责任与管理》杂志36年：科学评估

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12320

Osama F. Atayah, Hazem Marashdeh, Nohade Nasrallah, Allam Mohammed Hamdan

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Role expectations and shared accountability: A framework for school governance 角色期望和共同责任制：学校治理框架

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12322

Luisa A. Unda, Zhiyun Gong, Kelly Benati, Chin Moi Loh

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Auditing governable space—A study of place-based accountability in England 审计治理空间——英国地方问责制研究

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12321

Laurence Ferry, Henry Midgley, Aileen Murphie, Mark Sandford

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引用次数: 11

Digital transformation and the public sector auditing: The SAI's perspective 数字化转型与公共部门审计:SAI的视角

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12317

Javis Ebua Otia, Enrico Bracci

{"title":"Digital transformation and the public sector auditing: The SAI's perspective","authors":"Javis Ebua Otia, Enrico Bracci","doi":"10.1111/faam.12317","DOIUrl":"10.1111/faam.12317","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing transformation of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) external environment is changing the demands and expectations of its stakeholders. The changing environment triggered by technological advancements, increased demand for accountability, and transparency means a change in the way auditing is done. The literature provides evidence of an ongoing technological innovation within the private sector audit. Private sector auditing research has focused mainly on technology adoption and use failing to address the umbrella concept of digital transformation (DT), some even consider processes of DT such as technology adoption and use to be DT. The public sector auditing literature is still yet to commence DT-related research. This study seeks to fill in this gap and after presenting what DT entails, we applied an exploratory approach through semistructured interview responses, together with other documents from SAIs, to understand how SAIs currently perceive DT and what are their current reactions or actions to transform. The paper analyzes and discusses how SAIs perceive and define the DT phenomenon. The results show that most SAIs still do not master the concept of DT, as they often refer to technology adoption or automation of auditing processes to be DT, notwithstanding a great majority acknowledges the need for DT but lacks the right strategy and resources in place. We saw a few proactive SAIs who are futuristic on the contrary a majority are reacting to change when the need arises, especially during the audit process. The paper provides one of the first empirical investigations into the current DT of public audits. It also proposes a general framework suitable for analyzing the factors involved in the DT in SAIs.","PeriodicalId":47120,"journal":{"name":"Financial Accountability & Management","volume":"38 2","pages":"252-280"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/faam.12317","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87149206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transformational leadership and management control systems in human service not-for-profit organizations 人力服务非营利组织的变革性领导和管理控制系统

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12315

Jinhua Chen, Lu Jiao, Graeme Harrison

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The termination of central government internal auditing and the emergence of the innovation society 中央政府内部审计的终结与创新型社会的出现

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.1111/faam.12316

Peter Skærbæk, Tim Neerup Themsen

引用次数: 4