Performance Audit and the New Public Management (NPM) Reforms: Addressing the Public Sector Inefficiency in Nigeria

• Main Authors: Abubakar, Abdulkadir, Saidin, Siti Zabedah, Ahmi, Aidi
• Other Authors: Kadir, Nadhrah A
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: School of Social Sciences, USM 2017
• Subjects: H1-99 Social sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/40964/1/ART_71.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/40964/; http://www.sspis.usm.my

With the advent of NPM in the public sector, the auditing profession has been elaborately transformed to include many other classes of audit. NPM has been a guiding public sector reform template for over 25 years. Performance audit is one of the audit exercises promoted by the NPM regime. Over the y...