LEADER 05835nam 22006375 450 001 9910838280503321 005 20240307121706.0 010 $a3-031-44343-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-44343-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31165067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31165067 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-44343-5 035 $a(CKB)30381536700041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930381536700041 100 $a20240215d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPublic Net Worth $eAccounting ? Government - Democracy /$fby Ian Ball, Willem Buiter, John Crompton, Dag Detter, Jacob Soll 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (349 pages) 311 $a3-031-44342-X 327 $aPART 1. PURPOSE AND PROLOGUE -- Chapter 1. Owning and Owing -- Chapter 2. From Warfare to Welfare in Three Generations -- PART 2. ACCOUNTING FOR GOVERNMENT -- Chapter 3. Why Government Accounting Matters -- Chapter 4. What Does the Government Balance Sheet Look Like? -- Chapter 5. Why Accrual Accounting Matters -- Chapter 6. Accrual Accounting ? How it Works in Practice -- Chapter 7. Central Banks and the Public Sector Balance Sheet -- Chapter 8. Looking to the Future: The Comprehensive Balance Sheet -- Chapter 9. Comparison of Public Sector Balance Sheets -- Chapter 10. Comparison of Comprehensive Balance Sheets -- Chapter 11. Review of Fiscal Rules -- PART 3. MANAGING PUBLIC COMMERCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES -- Chapter 12. Finding, Understanding and Valuing Public Commercial Assets -- Chapter 13. The Asset Map: A Shortcut to Understanding Property Holdings Better -- Chapter 14. Institutionalising Asset Management -- Chapter 15. What Should Governments Do with Public Commercial Assets? -- Chapter 16. Managing Assets Better: The Role of Public Wealth Funds -- Chapter 17. Pensions and Other Liabilities: The Benefits of Disclosure and Management -- PART 4. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE -- Chapter 18. Balance Sheets, Culture and National Achievement in Europe 1560 - 1834 -- Chapter 19. How Accounting Can Save Democracy -- Chapter 20. Implementing Change. 330 $aThis important book?is a call for sensible change. It should be answered. ?Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems ? from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing the required fi nances sustainably, is diffi cult ? and getting more so. But governments don?t provide ? or use ? basic fi nancial information that every business is required to maintain. They ignore the value of public assets and most liabilities. This leads to ineffi ciency and bad decision-making and piles up problems for the future. Governments need to create balance sheets that properly refl ect assets and liabilities, and to understand their future obligations and revenue prospects. Net Worth ? both today and for the future ? should be the measure of fi nancial strength and success. Only if this information is put at the centre of government fi nancial decision-making can the present challenges to public fi nances around the world be addressed effectively, and in a way that is fair to future generations. The good news is that there are ways to deal with these problems and make government fi nances more resilient and fairer to future generations. The facts, and the solutions, are non-partisan, and so is this book. Responsible leaders of any political persuasion need to understand the issues and the tools that can enable them to deliver policy within these constraints. Ian Ball a principal architect of the New Zealand Government?s fi nancial management reforms, initiator of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards and CEO of the International Federation of Accountants. Willem Buiter former Chief Economist at Citigroup and EBRD, professor of economics atthe LSE, Cambridge and Yale, and an original member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. John Crompton former investment banker with Morgan Stanley and HSBC in London, New York, and Hong Kong, as well as a Senior Corporate Finance Advisor at the HMT. Dag Detter Investment advisor to governments led the comprehensive restructuring of Sweden?s national portfolio of commercial assets and author of ?The Public Wealth of Nations?. Jacob Soll Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California and the author of The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. 606 $aMacroeconomics 606 $aPublic administration 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aAccounting 606 $aMacroeconomics and Monetary Economics 606 $aPublic Sector Studies 606 $aGovernance and Government 606 $aFinancial Accounting 615 0$aMacroeconomics. 615 0$aPublic administration. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aAccounting. 615 14$aMacroeconomics and Monetary Economics. 615 24$aPublic Sector Studies. 615 24$aGovernance and Government. 615 24$aFinancial Accounting. 676 $a339 700 $aBall$b Ian$01726347 701 $aBuiter$b Willem$088786 701 $aCrompton$b John$085122 701 $aDetter$b Dag$01726348 701 $aSoll$b Jacob$0474091 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838280503321 996 $aPublic Net Worth$94132058 997 $aUNINA