Mentoring women in the public sector: expectations and realities

The European Commission initiated a discussion on the expediency of using the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), based on the IAS/IFRS, as a common base for harmonizing the public sector accounting systems of the member states. However, literature suggests that accounting is not neutral with respect to the economic, social and political dimensions. In the perspective of evolution of the accounting regulation outlined, balanced between accountability, with the need to represent phenomena for reporting pur-poses, and decisionmaking issues, which concentrates on the quantitative importance of the values, the paper aims to analyse the effects of the application of different criteria for the definition of the reporting entity of the local government consolidated financial statements (CFS). The Italian PCA 4/4, the test of control and the financial accountability approaches are examined. The evidence that emerged from the case studies examined identifies several criticalities in the Italian PCA 4/4 and support the thesis that the financial accountability approach is more effective in providing a complete representation of the public resources entrusted to and managed by the group, whereas the control approach better approximates quantification of the group results in terms of central government surveillance. The analysis highlights the importance of the post implementation review period and the opportunity to contextualize the adoption of the consolidated financial statement in the broader spectrum of the accounting harmonization process, participating in the process of definition of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).

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The Relevance of Energy Service Contracts in the Budget Sphere

Light & Engineering ◽

10.33383/2018-096 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 64-68

Author(s):

George V. Boos ◽

Elena Yu. Matveeva

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Institutional Development ◽

The Public ◽

Debt Burden ◽

Comprehensive Plan ◽

Effective Implementation ◽

Service Contracts ◽

The Face ◽

Energy Service ◽

The Russian Federation

The problematic aspects related to the implementation of energy saving policy in the budget sphere are examined in the article. The factors hindering the mass and effective implementation of energysaving measures are highlighted in the article. Among these factors, there is the technical complexity of energysaving projects, the presence of innovative and investment risks, problems with the financial provision of costs in the face of increasing debt burden in most public budgets. The article concludes that in these circumstances only the energy service contract is a tool that allows implementing energysaving measures without the first participation of budgetary funds in financing and allows transferring the risks of making technically inefficient decisions directly to the investor. In the article, the authors substantiate the importance of the institutional development of energy services directly in the public sector and analyze the measures of the comprehensive plan to improve the energy efficiency of the economy of the Russian Federation aimed at expanding the scope of energy service contracts in the public sector.

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Quangos and the Structure of the Public Sector in Scotland

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.1999.0048 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 29 (First Serie (1) ◽

pp. 12-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Richard Parry

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

The Public

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