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Posted on March 29, 2018 by Kate Mathers
How do you make complex departmental annual reports easily understandable? Do you clearly outline your goals and achievement of them? Is it easy for the public to understand your organisational risks and their management? Being clear, concise, honest and open in annual reports is a real skill. To inspire creativity and usability, our yearly guide to good practice in annual reports this year presents examples from both the public sector organisations we reviewed in the Building Public Trust Awards, and some of the private and third sector examples highlighted in other categories. more… Being honest: award-winning annual reportsTagged: Accountability, Audit, Business operations, Cross-government, Good practice principles, Information management, Performance management, Public finances, Reporting, Third sector
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Posted on August 18, 2017 by Jacob Holliday
High profile incidents remind individuals and organisations just how important it is to manage potential conflicts of interest. In March 2017, the Court of the Bank of England commissioned a review of the institution’s approach to managing conflicts of interest. The review was prompted by the resignation of Charlotte Hogg who had been Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking. A report from the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee published in March 2017 had raised concerns about her compliance with the Bank’s rules governing conflicts of interest. As part of its Review the Bank invited the NAO to contribute a briefing paper on managing conflicts of interest. It’s a timely opportunity for the whole public sector to consider whether it’s managing conflicts of interest effectively. more… Managing conflicts of interest and keeping public trustTagged: Accountability, Business operations, Conflict of interest, Contract management, Cross-government, Employee engagement, Good practice principles, International, Investigations, Local government, Regulation & consumer protection, Reporting, Risk management
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Posted on July 13, 2017 by Alison Taylor
Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is lost every year through fraud. To put this money to its proper use, in the report Eliminating Public Sector Fraud, the government identified the need to adopt a zero tolerance culture and a coordinated approach to tackling fraud. But fraud is complex and many organisations lack the required skills, making it even more important that public sector organisations collaborate, innovate and share lessons. Our recent Investigation into Department for International Development’s approach to tackling fraud has lessons for all organisations seeking to tackle fraud, as well as exploring some of the challenges in delivering international aid. more… Lessons in fraud prevention, detection and recoveryTagged: Accountability, Cost reduction, Cross-government, Fraud and error, Good practice principles, International, Investigations, Overseas aid, Process management, Public finances, Reporting, Risk management
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Posted on April 27, 2017 by Administrator
The NAO Blog must take a break in the period before the General Election. Meanwhile, we would like to highlight our interactive guide to Good practice from the ‘Excellence in Reporting’ in the Public Sector Award, sponsored by the NAO and part of the wider PwC-sponsored Building Public Trust in Corporate Reporting Awards. Kate Mathers, one of our Executive Leaders, sits on the judging panel for the public sector awards. We set out below the criteria for which we looked. Our publication provides examples of good practice from the 50 reports we reviewed. more… Excellence in Public Sector Reporting and the Election breakTagged: Accountability, Cross-government, Good practice principles, Impacts, Information management, International, Local government, Performance management, Public finances, Reporting
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Posted on January 12, 2017 by David Goldsworthy
After 22 years with the NAO, David Goldsworthy, Head of International Relations and Technical Co operation is retiring. David has led a team which has delivered around 100 projects in more than 50 countries over the last 17 years. He looks back over how the world of audit has changed and reveals some of his personal highlights.
more… Dedicated to strengthening international auditingTagged: Audit, Governance, International, Performance management, Public finances, Reporting, Standards
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Posted on November 4, 2016 by Simon Banner
Are you achieving what you planned to achieve? Most NAO reports stress the need to measure performance. But how do you do it and use that information to get the best you can with the resources you have? How do you avoid the risk that (only) ‘what gets measured, gets done’? And how do you do measure performance when – like regulators and many others – you don’t have direct control over the outcomes, but must influence others? There are many lessons of widespread value in our new guide, Performance measurement by regulators, which focuses on the particular challenge for those who regulate the products and services so important to our daily lives, such as utilities, transport, health, food and financial services. more… Measuring performance delivered through othersTagged: Accountability, Cross-government, Good practice principles, Influencing, Performance management, Performance measurement, Regulation & consumer protection, Reporting, Risk management
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Posted on August 10, 2016 by Janet Coull-Trisic
If that is the case then we should scrap this post and turn it into one long infographic. But it’s not that simple: infographics are not the right communication tool for every occasion and can also be time-consuming to create. more… Trendy NAO: Visualising dataTagged: Cross-government, Customer service, Data visualisation, Good practice principles, Impacts, Influencing, Reporting
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Posted on May 31, 2016 by Nick Bateson
An income of £659 billion. Spending of £734 billion. Liabilities over £2 trillion. A £152 billion deficit. The Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) is the truly big picture of government finances: the net financial position of 6,000 public organisations – the entire public sector. There is no more complete record of what the government spends, receives, owns and owes. Dig into the details and you can uncover crucial indications of the long-term financial health of the country. more… Summing the parts of the whole (of government accounts)Tagged: Accountability, Cross-government, Financial sustainability, Managing debt, Public finances, Reporting, Risk management
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Posted on March 11, 2016 by Kate Mathers
The end is nigh – of the financial year, that is. So it’s the perfect time to inspire you by sharing some great examples of public sector corporate reports. Building Public Trust Awards: Examples of good practice in annual reports, 2015, profiles a wide range of examples from last year’s reports, across categories such as: strategy, measures of success, operations and people factors. more… Great ideas for annual reportsTagged: Cross-government, Customer service, Environmental sustainability, Good practice principles, Reporting, Risk management
Being honest: award-winning annual reports
Managing conflicts of interest and keeping public trust
Lessons in fraud prevention, detection and recovery
Excellence in Public Sector Reporting and the Election break
Dedicated to strengthening international auditing
Measuring performance delivered through others
Summing the parts of the whole (of government accounts)
Great ideas for annual reports
The end is nigh – of the financial year, that is. So it’s the perfect time to inspire you by sharing some great examples of public sector corporate reports. Right column
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