During the last decade Italian local governments have undergone a reform process, involving deep changes in their accounting system. The purpose of our longitudinal study is to analyse the development path of accounting tools in an Italian LG body over a decade and to answer the following...

What is the actual role of Local Government annual report as an accountability medium? A survey conducted on a sample of Italian Local Governments and the analysis of their annual report's content show that annual reports do not seem to play the role of "general purpose" reports. They are rather...

Front Cover -- Governmental Financial Resilience: International Perspectives on How Local Governments Face Austerity -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributo rs -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Governments and Crises -- Studying crises and austerity in the public sector -- An alternative...

This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local governments have maintained financial resilience in the face of the significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an international perspective, it provides an enlightening and practical analysis of the different capacities...