Auditing and Finance Management

Contents: Preface. 1. An introduction to finance management. 2. Financial poverty in India. 3. Auditing for social change in the context of the millennium development goals. 4. The role of auditing and public finance management. 5. Audit and legislative oversight: developing country perspective. 6. Learning from civil society initiatives. 7. Media and audit. 8. Audit and evaluation : integrating politics and public involvement. 9. Governance and accountability : a legal approach to auditing. 10. History and evaluation of social accounting. 11. Social and environment auditing theory and practice. Bibliography. "Audit is one such initiative which is gaining ground and it encompasses all the three elements. With the enactment of the NREGA, the audit has become mandatory and is widely talked and written about. However, the audit is still an emerging and evolving concept and not much literature in terms of guidelines or handbook or manual is available for use by either the development functionaries or civil society organisations. It is a comprehensive work published for the first time in India, keeping in view the needs of syllabus of university level and higher education systems. It is earnestly hoped that planners, administrators in the field of auditing, finance management as well as the general public and the teachers and students will find this work extremely useful.