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Helping the nation spend wisely
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Remaining relevant to society:
The UK NAO’s continual evolution
Mark Burford, UK National Audit Office
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ISSAI 12 Principles 5 and 7
“Demonstrating ongoing relevance to citizens, Parliament
and other stakeholders
• Principle 5: Being responsive to changing environments
and emerging risks
• Principle 7: Being a credible source of independent and
objective insight and guidance to support beneficial
change in the public sector”
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Context – a changing audit landscape
Cash / accruals / IFRS transitions
Credit crunch / austerity Devolution
and localism
Gov Co’s and complex delivery chains
Digitisation of government
Brexit
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Context – a strategy to remain relevant
Remain relevant through:
• Clear strategy
• Re-structure for agile responses
• Enduring core values
• Practicing what we preach
• Investing in people and skills
• Measuring our performance
and impact
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Re-structuring
• Clusters based upon common issues across government
• Shared leadership and physical office space
• Increased communication, knowledge sharing and
collaboration
• Cluster work programme to help clients with similar
issues
• Higher quality of service and value to client
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NAO
CLUSTERS
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VALUES
THAT
ENDURE
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Practicing what we preach
• Fundamental review of audit process
• Focus on quality through proportionate, risk based audit
• Effort and skills focussed on highest risk and where can
add most value
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Practice what we preach
• Alignment to private sector where appropriate
• Use of partner firms at peak times
• Competitive tendering process
• Technology in audit
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People
• Empowerment
• Invest in skills and the way we work (see Transparency
Report)
• Change management
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Measuring performance and impact
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Performance and impact
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The future
• Government increasingly digital and online
• Reaching out to Parliament
• Brexit
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Questions