Cover -- Editorial - a plea for changing directions of public sector accounting research in emerging economies -- Public sector financial management reforms in Ghana: insights from institutional theory -- Management accounting practices and efficiency in a Colombian multi-utility conglomerate --...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to trace the rise and fall of accruals in the Nepalese central government, contributing to the literature on accrual accounting by looking at the developments in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – The ideas of institutional theory have...

This volume aims to contribute to the substance of this debate by looking at how the NPM ideas have been conceptualised, implemented and affected the accounting, accountability and auditing practices in emerging economies characterised by different ideologies, economic, social and political...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine how indigenous accounting practices are mobilised in the daily life of a subaltern community, and how and why the members of that community have managed to preserve such practices over time despite external pressures for change. Design/methodology/approach...