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Checks and Balances

February 16, 2011
Volume 4: Engaging & Retaining Public Service Financial Officers

This research project aimed to better understand the issue of spirit at work and employee engagement within the public service from the perspective of ACFO-ACAF members.

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May 17, 2006
Volume 3: In pursuit of Balance

In response to a series of scandals and instances of fiscal mismanagement, successive governments have imposed new regulations and policy directives.

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October 03, 2004
Volume 2: Accountability and Liability under the Financial Administration Act

It is government policy that departments must exercise sound comptrollership. In 1997 the Treasury Board Secretariat established the Comptrollership Modernization Initiative in order to strengthen management capabilities and

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September 20, 2004
Volume 1: Rebalancing the Service and Control Features of the Government of Canada (GOC) Financial Control Framework

There are indications that the Canadian public is becoming increasingly concerned about the federal government’s seemingly poor management of taxpayers’ money.

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