The Creed of Good Governance

Article Type: The Creed of Good Governance From: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 26, Issue 8

Improving accountability is a collective project

For the right reasons no one can object

What good governance makes possible

Our practice must make visible.

We have not only a task to perform

But also the public to inform

What relationships we strive to sustain

And from what practices we refrain.

If we want accountability problems to solve

Our professional competence should involve

New moral skills and capacities

Demanded by good governance responsibilities.

We should not allow incentives to crowd out

But supplement and never surmount

Our commitment to the social-benefit quest

With our custodial duty to preserve public interest.

The legitimacy of good governance

Depends on public acceptance

And widely shared sentiment

About our professional commitment.

Milorad Novicevic

University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA

Ashley Burrowes

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Corresponding author

Ashley Burrowes can be contacted at: ashleyburrowes@gamil.com