Does Accrual Accounting Reduce Public Investment? Evidence from Three Recent Evaluation Studies

Abstract International organisations push for accrual accounting in the public sector. Accrual budgets should reveal the depreciation of public capital stocks and uncover implicit debt liabilities. Three recent studies evaluated the effect of accrual accounting in German local governments — with sur...

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Main Authors: Désirée I. Christofzik, Florian Dorn, Stefanie Gäbler, Christian Raffer, Felix Rösel
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Springer 2020-09-01
Series:Wirtschaftsdienst
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-020-2742-z