增强责任性与改善绩效——政府绩效审计的目标剖析

增强政府责任性与改善政府绩效是政府绩效审计的目标追求,但是,二者之间存在着明显的差异。本文分析在不能兼顾政府责任性与绩效的情况下,政府绩效审计更适合追求什么目标。文章指出,就政府绩效审计而言,它对标准的热衷、过程的关注及其从传统审计中沿用的查错途径,使得它在提高政府的责任性方面具有先天优势;然而,政府绩效审计对绩效标准的看重及其使用的绩效归因方法,却在一定程度上阻碍绩效审计实现改善绩效的目标。在这样的背景下,更为现实的政府绩效审计目标应该是力求提高政府责任性,而非兼顾两者。

Promoting Accountability and Improving Performance

Promoting accountability and performance of government agencies are the objectives of government performance auditing;however,there are obvious differences between them.This paper analyzes which objective is suitable for government performance auditing under the situation that performance auditing can not give attention to both of accountability and performance.It pointes out that government performance auditing has advantages to promote accountability because it is wild about criteria,emphasizes process an...