Harmonisation and Emergence Concerning the Performance Audit of the EU Member States’ Public Sector. Romania’s Case

Cristina-Petrina Drăgușin (Trincu-Drăgușin), Ileana Cosmina Pitulice and Aurelia Ștefănescu
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Cristina-Petrina Drăgușin (Trincu-Drăgușin): Department of Accounting and Audit, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romana Square 6, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Ileana Cosmina Pitulice: Department of Accounting and Audit, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romana Square 6, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Aurelia Ștefănescu: Department of Accounting and Audit, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romana Square 6, 010374 Bucharest, Romania

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: The complexity of the public sector generated by the mobilisation and use of significant financial resources, national cultural factors, the heterogeneity of the provision of public services, the numerous interested parties, the increasing demand for the quality of public services, the information asymmetry, require an actor to provide credible assurance regarding the proper management of public financial resources. In this context, performance audits are the link between public sector entities and stakeholders. The research has two components: the first component analyzes the degree of harmonization of the regulations specific to the performance audit in Romania with the International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI); the second component analyses the degree of transparency of performance audit information by the SAIs of the EU Member States, through their official websites. In this regard, we have resorted to an in-depth longitudinal study, content analysis and disclosure index. The research results highlighted that the Romanian SAI has adopted in its normative framework the foremost ISSAI provisions on performance audit and the harmonization degree has systematically improved correlative with the regulatory revisions. The degree of disclosure for performance audit-specific information by the EU member state SAIs is high.

Keywords: performance audit; external public audit; supreme audit institutions; harmonisation; International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI); Romanian regulations; longitudinal analysis; public sector performance; content analysis; disclosure index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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