Effective government accounting [[electronic resource] /] / A. Premchand

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451857603321
• Autore: Premchand A. <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, 1995
• ISBN: 1-4623-9162-1; 1-4552-8609-5; 1-283-53361-8; 9786613846068; 1-4552-7895-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 350.72/31
• Soggetti: Finance, Public - Accounting; Accounting; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-190).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction ""; ""Evolution""; ""Recent Changes ""; ""Objectives of Control""; ""Range of Process Controls""; ""From Fund Controls to Global Budgets""; ""From Cash Limits to Cash Management""; ""Policy Reviews""; ""Evaluation""; ""From Financial to Efficiency Audit""; ""Involvement of the Users""; ""Institutional Development ""; ""1 Payments Systems ""; ""Payment Stages ""; ""Release of Funds and Organizing Payments""; ""Commitment Stage""; ""Types of Payments Systems""; ""Method of Payment""; ""Security of Payments""; ""Relations with the Banking System""; ""Commercial Banking""""Financial Reporting""; ""Inter enterprise Arrears""; ""2 Morphology of Government Accounting""; ""Commercial and Government Accounting""; ""Single- and Double-Entry Bookkeeping""; ""Cash and Accrual""; ""Terms and Definitions""; ""Why Accrual Now?""; ""Budget and Accounts""; ""Dimensions of the Issue""; ""General Ledger System ""; ""Government Accounts and National Income Accounts""; ""Generational Accounts""; ""3 Cost Measurement, Accounting Standards, and Other Issues ""; ""Commercial Practices""; ; ""Government Approaches""; ""Relevance of Commercial Practices""; ""Capital Charge""""Foreign Aid Accounts""; ""Accounting Aspects of Privatization""; ""Accounting and Performance Indicators""; ""Other Issues""; ""Accounting Standards""; ""4 Liability Management""; ""Payables""; ""Other Funded Liabilities""; ""Contingent Liabilities""; ""Unfunded Liabilities""; ""Legislated Guarantees""; ""Liabilities from Legislative Changes""; ""Hidden Liabilities""; ""Termination of Contracts""; ""Environmental Liabilities""; ""Market Failure Liabilities""; ""Debt Management""; ""Developments""; ""Continuing Objectives""; ""Organization""; ""Role of Accounting 125""; ""5 Architecture of Government Financial Information""""Importance of Financial Information""; ""Public and Private Sectors Compared""; ""Principles of Reporting""; ""Legitimacy""; ""Understandability""; ""Reliability ""; ""Relevance""; ""Comparability""; ""Timeliness""; ""Consistency""; ""Usefulness""; ""Existing Information Systems""; ""Search for User Needs""; ""Information Pyramid""; ""Analytical Framework of Financial Reporting""; ""Purpose, Form, and Frequency""; ""Changes""; ""Departmental Report""; ""Annual Appropriation Accounts""; ""Users Within the Government""; ""Issues in Transforming Financial Information""""Design Issues""; ""Operational Issues""; ""6 Investing in Development: Implementation""; ""Design of Development""; ""Implementation Lessons and Dilemmas""; ""Political Support""; ""Integrated or Specific Reform""; ""Public Sector Reform or Financial Management Reform ""; ""Imperatives of Technology or High-Tech Dependency""; """"Big Bang"" or Gradualism""; ""External Assistance or Internal Resources""; ""Operational Issues""; ""Steps Toward Improvement ""; ""Bibliography""; ""Tables""; ""Diagrams""