This special issue focuses on the interactions between accounting, public sector organisations and the socio-economic and political environments in which they operate, with a specific focus on the critical analysis of policy and practice in the fight against corruption. The aim of the special...

Our earlier studies have reported on contemporary international developments in public sector accounting (PSA) within the reforms of New Public Management (NPM) and New Public Financial Management (NPFM). This paper focuses on what we consider to be the crucial change associated with NPFM, the...