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Other authors / contributors: | International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department.
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ISBN: | 1283565633 9781283565639 9781451920406 1451920407 1462374875 9781462374878 1452731861 9781452731865 9786613878083 6613878081 9781451875805 1451875800
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ISSN: | 2227-8885
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Notes: | Cover title. "December 2002"--Page [1]. At head of title: Fiscal Affairs Department. Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This paper reviews the role of accounting in budget system reform from the perspective of emerging economies who wish to adopt the OECD's performance budgeting reforms. While many OECD countries, pursuing the reforms associated with the New Public Management, have moved their accounting systems from a cash to an accrual basis, this paper argues that given the costs involved, such a move is perhaps only worthwhile in the context of adopting much wider public sector management reforms. Moreover, while recognizing that accrual accounting does support public expenditure management best practices, it is also argued that many of the objectives of performance-oriented budgeting can be attained by less than full accrual accounting, and that unless certain preconditions are met it is safer for countries to remain with, and improve, their cash-based accounting systems. For those countries with sound enough cash-based systems the paper describes a possible phased approach to the introduction of accruals, as well as the parallel stages of adopting the new international GFSM 2001 reporting requirements.
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Other form: | Print version: Diamond, Jack, 1946- Performance budgeting-- is accrual accounting required? [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2002
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Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781451920406.001
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