The objectives of this study are to analyze the use of accounting information by local politicians in electoral campaign of last municipal elections (2013) and to identify factors that potentially explain such use, taking as reference the municipalities of region of Trás os Montes and Alto Douro. The results indicate that local politicians tend to use accounting information for municipal campaign’s purposes. T...
Literature on the field highlights that the usefulness for decision-making, of financial reporting prepared and disclosed by public entities, depends on several factors contextual to entities. This paper tries to identify the explanatory factors (internal and external) of the usefulness of financial reporting for decision-making by internal decision-makers (political and technical) of the Portuguese municipalit...
The present study aims to understand and explain the different perceptions of internal users with respect to suitability of municipal financial reporting and to identify improvements of its content to make it more useful for decision-making. To achieving the proposed objectives we used qualitative research method, based on interviews conducted with internal decision-makers responsible for financial area of muni...
Este estudio tiene como objetivo entender el impacto que la implementación del “Sistema de Normalização Contabilística - Entidades do Setor Não Lucrativo” en los estados financieros de la “Santa Casa daMisericórdia do Porto”, en 2011. En concreto, se pretende evaluar los impactos de la im plementación del“Sistema de Normalização Contabilística - Entidades do Setor Não Lucrativo”, en las diferentes rubricas de l...
O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a divulgação da informação contabilística por parte dos políticos locaisna campanha eleitoral autárquica das últimas eleições (2013) e identificar os fatores que potencialmente explicam essa divulgação, tomando como referência o caso específico dos municípios de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro. Os resultados mostram que os políticos locais tendem a divulgar a informação ...
En la literatura se viene debatiendo sobre la utilidad de la información financiera en el sector público. La capacidad de los dirigentes para la toma de decisiones apropiadas depende de la calidad de la información. El control interno en el sector público es entendido como uno de los mecanismos importantes para la preparación y divulgación de información financiera fiable, entre otros, para permitir a las organ...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the perception of internal users regarding the usefulness of municipal financial reporting in the context of decision-making in Portuguese Local Administration. This research is quantitative and positive, based on a cross-section analysis through online application of a questionnaire to decision-makers (politicians and technicians) of the 308 Portuguese municipalities. Th...
A necessidade crescente, sentida pelos Governos na prestação de responsabilidades perante os órgãos legislativos e cidadãos em geral, levou a que a informação financeira passasse a assumir um papel preponderante na determinação do nível de responsabilidade e transparência da gestão das entidades públicas. Além disso, os desenvolvimentos mais recentes da Contabilidade Pública, a nível mundial, denotam uma preocu...
The aim of this study is to analyse the perceptions of internal users regarding the usefulness of financial reporting in the context of decision-making of Portuguese Local Administration. To do this, a survey questionnaire to all municipalities’ decision-makers (both technical and political) was carried out. The main findings suggest that usefulness of municipalities’ financial reporting, in its current form an...
The aim of this study is to analyse the perceptions of internal users regarding the usefulness of financial reporting in the context of decision-making of Portuguese Local Administration. To do this, a survey questionnaire to all municipalities' decision-makers (both technical and political) was carried out. The main findings suggest that usefulness of municipalities' financial reporting, in its current form an...
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