Each year, the editorial board of Financial Accountability & Management (FAM) awards the Perrin Prize for the best paper in the previous volume of FAM. This is in honour of FAM's founding Editor, John Perrin. The winning paper gets £1,000.
The Editorial Board judged the best paper published in FAM in 2022 to be "Performance measurement in the public sector: Mapping 20 years of survey research" by Berend van der Kolk.