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  1. Cyber security and resilience

    Insight Good practice guides

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    Our new guide helps boards and audit committees ask the right questions to boost cyber security and resilience.

  2. Financial management in government: reporting for decision-making

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This guide is for finance leaders in government departments and other public bodies. It sets out insights and good practice on how information can be reported to make better financial management decisions.

  3. Government exits and redundancies

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    A guide to help government departments assess how employee exits and redundancies in government are being conducted.

  4. Government workforce planning – audit framework

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    This guidance is intended to help government organisations, audit teams and others to test the quality of workforce planning in government.

  7. Private finance for infrastructure

    Insight Lessons learned

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    The aim of this National Audit Office report is to support public bodies as they consider how to finance new public infrastructure. 

  9. Managing the commercial lifecycle

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    This good practice guidance reflects upon findings and recommendations drawn from 200 reports concerning 300 commercial arrangements that have been published over the past 20 years.

  11. Good practice in annual reporting

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    This interactive guide sets out good practice principles for annual reporting with examples from public sector organisations.

  12. Estimating and reporting fraud and error in annual reports and accounts

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    We estimate that fraud and error cost the taxpayer between £55 billion to £81 billion in 2023-24. Only a fraction of this is detected and known about. To tackle this, public bodies need to know how much fraud and error they face and where it is. Our good practice guide on estimating and reporting fraud […]

  14. Financial management in government: monitoring and forecasting

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    This guide is for senior finance leaders in government departments and other public bodies. It sets out insights and good practice on monitoring and forecasting for better financial management in government. It is the fourth in a five-part series of guides, which follow the financial management lifecycle. Good financial management is critical in the public […]

  16. Financial management in government: allocating resources

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    This guide is for senior finance leaders in government departments and other public bodies. It sets out insights and good practice on how to allocate resources for better financial management in government. It is the third in a five-part series of guides, which follow the financial management lifecycle. For public services to be efficient and […]

  17. Managing conflicts of interest: good practice

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    Our guide shows how government can help public bodies put in place the right measures to properly manage conflicts of interest – for the benefit of both staff and taxpayers.