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Financial Accountability & Management

Edited by:
Irvine Lapsley


Financial Accountability & Management is a leading international academic journal, publishing new thinking and research in the financial accountability, accounting, and financial and resource management of all types of governmental and other non-profit organizations and services. Interdisciplinary in approach, the journal includes contributions from economics, political science, social and public administration, and management sciences, as well as accounting and finance.

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Rated as an "A" class journal in the Australian Business Dean Council ABDC Journal List. The Council seeks to list journals relevant to Australian business academics and group them into four categories (A*, A, B & C).

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT'S CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
Guest Editors: Tom Groot and Tjerk Budding

New Public Management's Current Issues and Future Prospects
Tom Groot and Tjerk Budding

Beyond New Public Management: Agencification and Regulatory Reform in Norway
Tom Christensen, Amund Lie and Per Lægreid

Recent and Future Management Changes in Local Government: Continuing Focus on Rationality and Efficiency?
Henk J. Ter Bogt

Accrual Accounting Reforms: Only for Businesslike (Parts of) Governments
Johan Christiaens and Jan Rommel

The Npm Agenda: Back to the Future
Irvine Lapsley


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Performance Measurement Myths in the Public Sector: A Research Note
Sven Modell

Developing Whole of Government Accounting in the UK: Grand Claims, Practical Complexities and a Suggested Future Research Agenda
Danny S.L. Chow, Christopher Humphrey, Jodie Moll

E-Government and its Influence on Managerial Effectiveness: A Survey of Florida and Texas City Managers
Christopher G. Reddick, Howard A. Frank

Assessing It as a Key Success Factor for Accrual Accounting Implementation in Greek Municipalities
Sandra Cohen, Efrosini Kaimenaki, Yannis Zorgios

Obstacles to Implementation of New Public Management in an Irish Hospital
Geraldine Robbins


Recent Special Issues

Performance Auditing and the Modernisation of the Public Sector
Guest edited by Linda English and Peter Skærbæk

 

TopEndorsements

The journal plays an important role in helping to bring research results to decision-makers in the public sector and to academic colleagues"
Andrew Likierman, HM Treasury & London Business School

"The subject material is of importance to academics and practitioners and the journal has managed to speak to both groups. "
Times Higher Education Supplement

"Financial Accountability & Management ought to become standard reading for accountants, administrators and economists in the public sector. "
Noel Hepworth, Director, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy