Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the appropriateness of a general‐purpose financial reporting model derived from a “decision‐useful” framework for government departments. Design/methodology/approach – This research in this paper uses a survey methodology to access...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the appropriateness of a general-purpose financial reporting model derived from a “decision-useful” framework for government departments. Design/methodology/approach – This research in this paper uses a survey methodology to access...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the role and importance of the annual report as a source of information about public sector entities. Design/methodology/approach – This research uses a survey methodology to access users of public sector annual reports and is...