California public school and community college district voters approved $20 billion of construction loans in 2022, with more passing in 2023, using the Proposition 39 financing capability. The ...

In one respect, the 2005 legislative session ended as it began: with the passage of performance audits. Long a priority of House Speaker Frank Chopp (who ushered performance-audit legislation through ...

The Herald editorial board’s call for independent performance audits of government agencies (“Time has finally come for performance audits,” Jan. 12) is a terrific idea. In fact, it’s such a great ...

EVERETT — Tim Eyman’s former right-hand woman is switching gears with a different kind of initiative. Rather than trying to cut taxes in response to taxpayers’ skepticism, Suzanne Karr, an Everett ...

The report lands as federal officials ramp up enforcement and scrutiny of how public funds are awarded.

Small business owners sometimes rely on performance audits to ascertain the effectiveness of their companies. To identify unprofitable practices, the performance audit might analyze the company as a ...

In a reform nearly half a century in the making, Washington state voters in November restored the state auditor’s authority to conduct independent and comprehensive performance audits of state and ...

Governments at all levels are looking to meet the needs of citizens while striving to be efficient and cost effective. There are many tools available to managers, directors and policymakers alike. One ...

Public colleges and universities across Ohio will be subject to more frequent performance audits, under a measure signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine. “It’s finding ways to do things better, faster, ...

The survey, of 300 C-suite executives and 100 audit committee members, found that nearly three-quarters of the top executives and 91 percent of the audit committee members polled said audits of ...

OLYMPIA — Washington’s audit teams are working on the first wave of 30 performance audits, with targets ranging from big-ticket agencies like education and transportation to more hidden facets of ...