{"id":2336,"date":"2026-07-06T08:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/?page_id=2336"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:00:22","slug":"almost-secret-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/?page_id=2336","title":{"rendered":"Good, Better, Best: A Guidebook for Performance Auditing – Second Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Available now from Lulu Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click to order your copy<\/a> – $32.99<\/strong> U.S. dollars
allow two weeks for printing and delivery<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy the Ebook version<\/strong><\/a> – $12.99<\/strong> U.S. dollars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn how performance auditing can produce the best results for the public. 
The guidebook offers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Concepts and methods for anyone interested in a performance auditing career.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Strategies to help audit leaders navigate through consequential findings<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Refinements in audit design and practice for auditors still learning their craft<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    What the professionals are saying:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Jerome Heer<\/strong>, retired Milwaukee County Auditor, former ALGA President:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cI would recommend this book to ANY auditor who wants to have impact. (And if they don\u2019t want to have impact they should get a different career!)<\/em>“<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Mark Funkhouser,<\/strong> former Kansas City Auditor, Kansas City Mayor, Publisher of Governing Magazine<\/em>; and now: President, Funkhouser & Assoc. Consulting; Chair, International Center for Performance Auditing; adjunct professor, Tulane University:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “I don\u2019t know of anyone who has the breadth of experience that Gary Blackmer has in performance auditing or who is a more creative and independent thinker, consistently turning out impactful performance audits. Nothing else out there comes close to <\/em>Good, Better, Best as a contribution to the performance auditing literature.<\/em>“<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Amanda Noble<\/strong>, City Auditor, City of Atlanta, former ALGA president, chair ALGA Advocacy Committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cGary brings a wealth of experience, practical tools, and humor to his helpful guide for performance auditors.  I can\u2019t recommend it enough.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Jenny Wong<\/strong>, former GAO auditor, City Auditor, City of Berkeley:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cFinally, a book in my profession that has been missing all these years. Gary\u2019s insightful approach helps break down how to apply the auditing standards in an easily accessible way for performance auditors of all levels<\/em>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Available now from Lulu Press Click to order your copy – $32.99 U.S. dollarsallow two weeks for printing and delivery Buy the Ebook version – $12.99 U.S. dollars What the professionals are saying: Jerome Heer, retired Milwaukee County Auditor, former ALGA President:   \u201cI would recommend this book to ANY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2336\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyblackmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}