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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788340003321

Autore

Robinson Marc

Titolo

Accrual Budgeting and Fiscal Policy / / Marc Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-6183-8

1-4527-5612-0

1-4518-7231-3

9786612843044

1-282-84304-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Accrual basis accounting

Fiscal policy

Accounting

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Public Administration

Public Sector Accounting and Audits

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Fiscal Policy

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures

Other Public Investment and Capital Stock

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Public finance & taxation

Public finance accounting

Monetary economics

Macroeconomics

Accrual accounting

Currencies

Capital spending

Expenditure

Finance, Public

Money

Capital investments



Expenditures, Public

United Kingdom

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction and Objectives; II. What is Accrual Budgeting?; III. Fiscal Sustainability and Capital Expenditure Controls; Boxes; 1. Capital Expenditure Appropriation in Australia and Denmark; IV. The Accounting Basis of Key Fiscal Policy Aggregates; 2. Net Financial Debt; 3. Major Divergences Between Net Lending and the Cash Balance: Some Examples; 4. Netting off General Government Asset Sales Receipts?; V. Net Worth, the Operating Balance, and Fiscal Sustainability; 5. Net Worth as a Fiscal Sustainability Measure?; VI. Accrual Aggregate Expenditure

6. Accrual Aggregate Expenditure VII. Fiscal Policy for Macroeconomic Stabilization; 7. Accrual vs. Cash Measures of the Cost of Discretionary Fiscal Measures; VIII. Designing an Accrual Budgeting System to Support Accrual Fiscal Targets; 8. Net Capital Appropriations; IX. Targeting Cash Fiscal Aggregates under Accrual Budgeting; X. Controlling Budget Execution under Accrual Budgeting; 9. Net Lending vs. the Cash Balance; XI. Conclusion; References

Sommario/riassunto

Can an accrual budgeting system-a system in which budgetary spending authorizations to line ministries are formulated in accrual terms-serve the needs of good fiscal policy? If so, how must such a system be designed? What are the practical challenges which may arise in implementing sound fiscal policy under a budgeting system which is significantly more complex than traditional cash budgeting? These are the primary questions addressed in this paper. Because any budgeting system must support the control of key fiscal policy aggregates, the paper also considers the case for reformulating fiscal policy in terms of accrual rather than cash aggregates. The primary focus is on the potential fiscal policy role of net lending and net financial debt. However, the paper also considers whether net worth is an aggregate with major fiscal policy relevance.