I have a feeling my post Consensus Audit Guidelines Are Still Controls is not going to be popular in certain circles. While tidying the house this evening I came across my 2007 edition of the Economist's Pocket World in Figures. Flipping through the pages I found many examples of inputs (think "control-compliant") vs outputs (think "field-assessed").
I'd like to share some of them with you in an attempt to better communicate the ideas my last post.
- Business creativity and research
- Input(s): Total expenditures on research and development, % of GDP
- Output(s): Number of patents granted (per X people)
- Education
- Input(s): Education spending, % of GDP; school enrolment
- Output(s): Literacy rate
- Life expectancy, health, and related categories
- Input(s): Health spending, % of GDP; population per doctor; number of hospital beds per citizen; (also add in air quality, drinking and smoking rates, etc.)
- Output(s): Death rates; infant mortality; and so on...
- Crime and punishment
- Input(s): Total police per X population
- Output(s): Crime rate
Is this making sense?
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