Research Catalog

Title

The Watchdog : New Zealand's Audit Office, 1840 to 2008 / David Green & John Singleton.

Author

Green, David.

Publication

Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago Univ. Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Singleton, John.

Description

208 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

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. The authors of this history trace the Office's rise and decline towards 'impotent irrelevance' before it was saved by computers, which facilitated more targeted and searching methods of examination. This absorbing tale moves from the teething problems of difficult origins, to the brave new worlds of radical 'value for money' auditing in the 1970s.

Subject

• Accounting > New Zealand
• Auditing > New Zealand
• New Zealand > History
• New Zealand. Audit Office > Auditing
• New Zealand. Audit Office > History
• New Zealand. Office of the Auditor-General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Beginnings (1840-66) -- 2. The FitzGerald years (1867-96) -- 3. The Liberal era (1896-1912) -- 4. From reform to Depression (1912-35) -- 5. Auditing the War Effort and the Welfare State (1935-75) -- 6. Value for money? The Shailes era (1975-83) -- 7. Brian Tyler and the Public Service Revolution (1983-92) -- 8. Crisis, recovery and the Public Audit Act (1992-2002) -- 9. The Audit Office in the New Millennium.

ISBN

• 9781877372735
• 1877372730

LCCN

^^2009512242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library