Performance measurement, evaluation and accountability in public philanthropic foundations

Health giving patterns of philanthropic foundations.

Accountability and Performance Measurement: A Stakeholder Perspective

Accountability and management accounting have strong links, especially around performance reporting. Many approaches, such as the balanced scorecard and Ramanathan’s (1985) accountability framework, stem from management accounting research and practice. Accountability and performance measurement are linked inextricably; in fact, the interpretation of performance requires accountability as its r...

Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption

Accountability for Performance in a more Contractually Oriented Public Sector

The theme of this conference, ‘New Days, New Ways’ is very appropriate and timely given the nature of the challenges currently facing the Australian Public Service (APS). It could be argued that the APS has been steadily evolving towards a more private sector orientation over the last decade or so more so recently as a consequence of the momentum of the National Competition Policy reforms See I...

Performance Measurement and Evaluation

We consider performance measurement and evaluation for managed funds. Similarities and di¤erences both in econometric practice and in interpretation of outcomes of empirical tests between performance measurement and conventional asset pricing models are analyzed. We also discuss how inference on ‘skill’ is a¤ected when fund managers have market timing information. Performance testing based on p...