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Author Dewar, David, author

Title A history of British national audit : the pursuit of accountability / David Dewar
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Sense of History -- 2. Medieval Beginnings -- 3. Advance and Retreat in the Financial Supremacy of Parliament -- 4. Commissioners and Board of Audit -- 5. Early Victorian Reform -- 6. 1866 Audit Act and the Modern State -- 7. Audit, Accountability, and the Impact of the Two World Wars -- 8. Post-War Strengths and Challenges -- 9. Audit in the Time of the New Public Management -- 10. National Audit Office -- 11. Recurring Themes and Continuing Change -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Comptrollers and Auditors General -- Appendix 2 Exchequer Tallies: ̀Preposterous Sticks' -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources
Summary A detailed history of the struggle by Parliament and the British public to make the Executive accountable for the use of public funds, from early historical developments through to modern principles and practice
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 13, 2016)
Subject Great Britain. National Audit Office -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. National Audit Office fast
Subject Auditing -- Great Britain -- History
Public administration -- Great Britain -- Finance
Government accountability -- Great Britain -- History
Auditing
Government accountability
Public administration -- Finance
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Funnell, Warwick, author
ISBN 9780191831645
0191831646