Corporate attempts at "managing" earnings have often involved the use of managerial judgment as to the appropriate event in the earnings cycle that is the critical one. In the municipal context, numerous opportunities exist to postpone or accelerate the outflow of liquid financial resources on a...

In this paper, we examine the value-relevance of local government accounting measures of financial condition from the perspective of the citizenry. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has identified citizens as a primary user group for governmental accounting information, albeit...