Some Algebra of Fiscal Transparency : How Accounting Devices Work and How to Reveal Them.


Timothy. Irwin
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Omfang
1 online resource (20 pages)
Utgave
1st ed.
Opplysninger
Cover -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. One True Deficit -- A. Deficit Devices -- B. Debt -- III. Multiple Deficits -- A. Accounting Systems and the Devices They Allow -- B. Extended Fiscal Accounts -- C. Fiscal Sustainability -- IV. Dirty Deficits -- A. Components of Clean Surpluses -- B. Devices Revisited -- V. Conclusion -- Tables -- 1. Summary Extended Accounts, Clean Surpluses -- Figures -- 1. Sets of Assets and Liabilities Recognized in Differenct Accounting Systems -- References.. - Accounting devices that artificially reduce the measured fiscal deficit can be analyzed as transactions involving unrecognized assets and liabilities. Different accounting systems recognize different sets of assets and liabilities and are thus vulnerable to different sets of devices. Some devices can be revealed by moving progressively from cash accounting to modified accrual accounting to full accrual accounting. Revealing all would require the publication of extended fiscal accounts in which all future cash flows give rise to assets or liabilities.
Emner
Sjanger
Dewey
332
ISBN
9781475592443
ISBN(galt)

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