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Background: For many years, performance indicators have served as a valid instrument for the evaluation of the public sector quality and efficiency in the majority of developed countries. Such measurements allow internal and external evaluation of the efficiency of the budget and public...
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, international financial reporting practices are referring to International Accounting Standards for the Public Sector (IPSAS). In … this paper we intend to present a parallel between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and IPSAS conjunction …
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of their fi nancial statements and major diff erences between IPSAS and IFRS/IAS. …
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In Spain, a new General Public Accounting Plan has been approved adapting Spanish accounting criteria to the IPSAS … IPSAS is the measurement bases used in accounting. Regardless of problems of reliability, the fair value (FV) accounting … proposed by the IPSAS aims to favour the understanding, efficiency assessments, timeliness of financial reports and to improve …
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reporting frame integrated at a European level – European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS). The main objective of … implementing EPSAS at EU’s level is to reduce the complexity of the methods and procedures used for transforming accounting …
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The reforms that have lately influenced the public sector determined several changes in the reporting system, causing the introduction of a new reporting practice in the public sector, namely the consolidated reports. These reports come to bring added value to the accounting and reporting...
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In recent years, transition to accrual accounting in the public sector in general and particularly in central government has been the major focus of policy makers and specialists. While there are some empirical studies that have investigated the success of the transition to accrual accounting in...
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In Romania the development of public sector accounting was initiated in 2002, and enlarged for all public sector entities in 2005, but the transition is a static process although there are many issues that should be changed. Based on Hepworth’s (2003) preconditions of success in adoption...
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New public financial management (or NPFM) doctrines advocate the introduction of commercial accounting practices such as accrual accounting and budgeting and meaningful performance measures and management. Within the new public management (NPM) paradigm, NPFM emphasizes financial accountability...
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This paper deals with efficiency in the public sector. It argues that the habit of relating efficiency to public spending, as is generally done, may give wrong results when, as is often the case, public institutions use public assets (land, buildings, etc.) without imputing a cost for that use....
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