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Performance Audit Resources

Our resources help public sector performance auditors build capacity and strengthen accountability. These resources include CCAF-FCVI Audit News, Training, Research & Methodology and Events & Presentations.
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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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Advancing Public Sector Audit, Oversight & Governance

Public services like social security, health care and crime prosecution are common to most jurisdictions and are often characterized by repetitive activities and processes that can be measured, analyzed and compared in order to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement. Audits of public services are the most common type of efficiency audits.

Audits of Public Services Efficiency tend to focus on whether entities:

  • have systems and procedures in place to deliver efficient and timely services;
  • have identified good practices and successfully implemented initiatives to improve service delivery efficiency;
  • can demonstrate that they are efficient and using best practices;
  • have established service levels and efficiency targets and are comparing their performance to similar organizations;
  • have complete and reliable information on the costs and efficiency of their services;
  • have information systems that support efficient management; and
  • report on the efficiency of their service delivery.

Click here for examples of objectives, criteria, findings, recommendations and more