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    Debate: can audit reduce information asymmetry? The case of English local government

    Worthy, Ben (2023) Debate: can audit reduce information asymmetry? The case of English local government. Public Money & Management , ISSN 0954-0962.

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    Abstract

    The financial transparency of public bodies is frequently ‘taken for granted’ and ‘not fully investigated’ (Langella et al., Citation2023, p. 585). However, as Van Helden et al. (Citation2023) argue, the danger of ‘accounting information manipulation’ is a real and present one across government. It potentially invites a whole series of negative outcomes, from corruption and misspending to the wrongful allocation of resources (Van Helden et al., 2023; Bradley, Favotto, et al., Citation2023).

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Centre for British Political Life
    Depositing User: Ben Worthy
    Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2024 13:16
    Last Modified: 13 Feb 2024 11:05
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52789

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