Overview of the papers included in the Special Issue
| Article | SAI context | Methodology | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry et al. (2023) | 125 Full Members INTOSAI | Surveys, documentation review, and workshops | Audit and accountability arrangements of SAIs are influenced by INTOSAI's global voice, SAI organization, the regulatory context |
| Hancu-Budui and Zorio-Grima (2023) | 28 National SAIs and the ECA. | multidimensional scaling and regressive ordinary least square (OLS) and logistic models | Several distinct clusters of similar SAIs across Europe |
| Kontogeorga and Papapanagiotou (2023) | SAIs of the 37 OECD member states | Categorise SAIs into two groups: judicial and nonjudicial. Apply the Mann–Whitney U test to test for differences in the two categories | The control of corruption is stronger and the perceived level of corruption is lower in countries with the nonjudicial model SAIs. No significant difference in the confidence in national government between the two groups |
| Uman et al. (2023) | ECA from inception to 2019 | Visual Accounting Methodology | ECA positions itself as a social and human actor and opts for a social actorhood over a professional actorhood |
| Dionisijev et al. (2023) | The SAI in the Republic of North Macedonia | Surveys, and secondary data collected from the website of the SAO of the Republic of North Macedonia | The State Audit Office in the Republic of North Macedonia has grown substantially over the last 20 years. However, a considerable number of audit recommendations are not being implemented |
| Article | SAI context | Methodology | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| 125 Full Members INTOSAI | Surveys, documentation review, and workshops | Audit and accountability arrangements of SAIs are influenced by INTOSAI's global voice, SAI organization, the regulatory context | |
| 28 National SAIs and the ECA. | multidimensional scaling and regressive ordinary least square (OLS) and logistic models | Several distinct clusters of similar SAIs across Europe | |
| SAIs of the 37 OECD member states | Categorise SAIs into two groups: judicial and nonjudicial. Apply the Mann–Whitney U test to test for differences in the two categories | The control of corruption is stronger and the perceived level of corruption is lower in countries with the nonjudicial model SAIs. No significant difference in the confidence in national government between the two groups | |
| ECA from inception to 2019 | Visual Accounting Methodology | ECA positions itself as a social and human actor and opts for a social actorhood over a professional actorhood | |
| The SAI in the Republic of North Macedonia | Surveys, and secondary data collected from the website of the SAO of the Republic of North Macedonia | The State Audit Office in the Republic of North Macedonia has grown substantially over the last 20 years. However, a considerable number of audit recommendations are not being implemented |
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