Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees

Tässä Pro Gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan kuntayhtiöiden läpinäkyvyyttä sekä niiden tarkastusta erityisesti kuntien tarkastuslautakuntien näkökulmasta. Tutkimus toteutettiin kvalitatiivisena eli laadullisena tutkimuksena. Tutkielmaa varten haastateltiin kymmentä tarkastuslautakunnan jäsentä kahdek...

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Main Author: Vaarnamo, Vilho
Other Authors: Kauppakorkeakoulu, School of Business and Economics, Taloustieteet, Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/75684
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description Tässä Pro Gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan kuntayhtiöiden läpinäkyvyyttä sekä niiden tarkastusta erityisesti kuntien tarkastuslautakuntien näkökulmasta. Tutkimus toteutettiin kvalitatiivisena eli laadullisena tutkimuksena. Tutkielmaa varten haastateltiin kymmentä tarkastuslautakunnan jäsentä kahdeksasta eri Suomen kunnasta. Haastattelut toteutettiin teemahaastatteluina, joiden tarkoituksena oli tutkia tarkastuslautakunnan jäsenten mielipiteitä liittyen kuntayhtiöiden tarkastukseen sekä lautakunnan toimivaltuuksiin. Kuntien julkista toimintaa on lisääntyvässä määrin yhtiöitetty niiden omistamille osakeyhtiöille. Kuntaomisteisten yritysten lukumäärä on moninkertaistunut kahdessakymmenessä vuodessa, ja samalla myös veroilla kerättyjä rahoja käytetään osakeyhtiöiden kautta yhä enemmän. Yhtiöittämisen tavoitteena on usein edistää kilpailua, turvata markkinaperusteinen hinnoittelu sekä parantaa kustannusrakenteen läpinäkyvyyttä, taloudellista tehokkuutta ja tuloksien vertailtavuutta. Corporate governance eli hyvä hallinnointitapa on tärkeä osa myös julkisen sektorin hallintojärjestelmää. Olennainen osa hyvää hallinnointitapaa on tilivelvollisuuden ja läpinäkyvyyden korostaminen julkisissa organisaatioissa. Kunnan salassa pidettäviin asiakirjoihin pääsee käsiksi vain tarkkaan rajattu joukko, kuten esimerkiksi kunnan tarkastuslautakunta. Haastatellut tarkastuslautakunnan jäsenet näkivät tarkastuslautakunnan roolin tärkeänä erityisesti kuntakonsernin toiminnantarkastuksessa. Monen haastatellun mielestä tiedonsaanti kuntayhtiöistä on tällä hetkellä haastavaa tarkastuslautakunnan jäsenenä. Merkittävimmät havaitut ongelmat kuntakonsernissa ja -yhtiöissä koskivat erityisesti virkamiesten ja luottamushenkilöiden kaksoisrooleja ja jääviyttä kuntakonsernin sisällä. Läpinäkyvyyden lisäämistä kuntayhtiöissä haastateltavat pitivät tavoiteltavana. Läpinäkyvyyttä voitaisiin lisätä esimerkiksi kunnan omistajaohjauksen kautta tai ulottamalla julkisuuslaki koskemaan myös kunnan omistamia yhtiöitä Ruotsin mallin mukaisesti. Osa haastatelluista piti kuitenkin liiallista julkisuutta haitallisena avoimilla markkinoilla toimiville kuntayhtiöille. Julkisuuslain ulottamisen vaikutuksista julkisomisteisten yhtiöiden toimintaan tulisikin tehdä selvitys. This Master’s thesis studied the transparency and accountability of Finnish municipal sector and specifically municipal limited liability companies from the local authority audit committees’ viewpoint. The study was conducted as qualitative research. The data of the empirical part of the study consists of 10 semi-structured interviews of members of the local authority audit committee of different medium to large size Finnish municipalities. Municipalities have incorporated many of their activities to publicly owned companies in the recent years. One of the main reasons for this is the revision of national laws in accordance with the laws of the European Union. Other reasons for incorporating include promoting competition, improving efficiency and comparability in addition to securing market-based pricing to ensure competition neutrality. Transparency of these public organisations and accountability of the public and elected officials are vital in successful public sector corporate governance. In this thesis, audit committee members were interviewed as they are among the rare few who have access to the confidential records of the municipality. The interviewed members of the audit committee saw their role as more focused on the performance audit while the auditors conduct the technical work. Many of the audit committee members thought that getting information from the municipal companies is challenging. The most significant problems observed in the municipal group and companies concerned the dou-ble roles and self-interest of elected and public officials. The interviewees considered in-creasing the transparency of municipal companies desirable. Transparency could be in-creased, for example, through municipal ownership control or by extending the Act on the Openness of Government Activities to municipal-owned companies in accordance with the Swedish model. However, some of the interviewees considered excessive publicity to be detrimental to municipal companies operating in the market. Further research could study the effects of extending the scope of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities to the municipal limited liability companies.
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title_full Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees
title_fullStr Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees
title_full_unstemmed Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees
title_short Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees
title_sort transparency of the finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees
title_txtP Transparency of the Finnish municipal companies from the viewpoint of the local authority audit committees
topic Laskentatoimi Accounting 20421 kunnalliset osakeyhtiöt läpinäkyvyys kunnat tarkastusvaliokunnat julkinen sektori laki viranomaisten toiminnan julkisuudesta kunnalliset liikelaitokset municipal joint-stock companies transparency municipalities audit committees public sector Act on the Openness of Government Activities municipal enterprises
topic_facet 20421 Accounting Act on the Openness of Government Activities Laskentatoimi audit committees julkinen sektori kunnalliset liikelaitokset kunnalliset osakeyhtiöt kunnat laki viranomaisten toiminnan julkisuudesta läpinäkyvyys municipal enterprises municipal joint-stock companies municipalities public sector tarkastusvaliokunnat transparency
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