10 March 2010
The Codes of Audit Practice (the Codes) define the scope, nature and extent of local audit work.
24 February 2010
This report looks at the findings from the first year of Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA). It is published by the six inspectorates responsible for assessing local public services in England.
18 February 2010
Since 1996 the Audit Commission has run the National Fraud Initiative (NFI), a sophisticated data matching exercise which matches electronic data within and between participating audited bodies to prevent and detect fraud.
28 January 2010
We reviewed accident and emergency (A&E) data for Payment by Results (PbR) purposes in eight acute trusts to see if we should extend the PbR data assurance framework to cover A&E activity.
28 January 2010
We launched a consultation on the Payment by Results (PbR) data assurance framework for 2010/11 onwards in autumn 2009. We have now published the response to this consultation, PbR data assurance framework: response to consultation feedback
9 December 2009
Oneplace, the reporting website for Comprehensive Area Assessment, is now live. The site includes independent information about how councils, police, health services and others are tackling the major issues in every area in England.
11 November 2009
Key lines of enquiry (KLOEs) are detailed questions that help to inform our auditors' judgements when assessing the financial performance of NHS trusts.
12 May 2009
The Audit Commission's Trust Practice is the preferred provider of external audit and related professional services to foundation trusts and those aspiring to become foundation trusts.