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Power, Michael

 
9780198289470: The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification
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ISBN 10: 0198289472 ISBN 13: 9780198289470
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 1997

Sinopsis

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America. In addition to financial audits there are now medical audits, technology audits, value for money audits, environmental audits, quality audits, teaching audits, and many others. Why has this happened? What does it mean when a society invests so heavily in an industry of checking and when more and more individuals find themselves subject to formal scrutiny?

The Audit Society argues that the rise of auditing has its roots in political demands for accountability and control. At the heart of a new administrative style internal control systems have begun to play an important public role and individual and organizational performance has been increasingly formalized and made auditable. Michael Power argues that the new demands and expectations of audits live uneasily with their operational capabilities. Not only is the manner in which they produce assurance and accountability open to question but also, by imposing their own values, audits often have unintended and dysfunctional consequences for the audited organization.

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Michael Power is Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics. He is a qualified accountant himself and has undertaken audit work for one of the major accounting firms.

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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0198289472
ISBN 13 
9780198289470
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Número de páginas
200
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