Overview of 2008-2013 Efficiency Audits - Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation

PAC/Oversight Resources

CCAF’s oversight program supports oversight committee members and their support staff. We provide research, material and professional development workshops to oversight committees both in Canada and abroad.

Our support enables parliamentarians to become familiar with their role and improve the effectiveness of their committees. This includes information on understanding performance audit, and how these audits can help improve public administration.
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Audits of efficiency

Using the Audit News Database, we searched for efficiency audits conducted since 2008. We found about 30 audits prepared by 10 different audit offices. For the purpose of this Focus On issue, we selected 21 of these audits for further analysis. We selected audits that had a strong focus on efficiency (all these reports were published in English).

See list of selected efficiency audits

Guidance documents

We also noted the availability of a useful guidance document on efficiency published by the Northern Ireland Audit Office in 2010:

Improving Public Sector Efficiency – Good Practice Checklist for Public Bodies

Sectors of activity

Efficiency audits produced since 2008 have covered a wide variety of public sectors, including:

Health Care (cardiology services, orthopeadic services, emergency departments)
Justice (prosecution and correctional services)
Culture (radio production and grants in the culture and media sector)
Energy & Environment (energy efficiency, recycling and irrigation programs)
Transportation (rail transit)