Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce and review the papers contained in the special issue on accounting and organizational change in the public sector and reflects on their key themes and findings - design, methodology and approach. The paper draws on general desk research and the...

Nonprofit organisations comprise a growing and important sector of the Australian economy. Moreover, this sector is being used by governments to an increasing extent for the delivery of services. The most common manner in which nonprofit organisations are funded by government departments is...

This historical study offers an historical narrative of the Australian Audit Office from its formation in 1901 until the end of the term of Australia's first Auditor-General in 1925. The Audit Office was created to assist the government in discharging and reporting on its accountability for the...

This article examines the political processes surrounding public sector accounting standard setting, in particular, the Australian decision to adopt sector-neutral International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It contends that the history of private and public sector involvement in the...

Significant agendas of reform have been implemented in the Australian public sector including the adoption of accrual accounting. The public sector general purpose financial reporting model, like the private sector, is grounded in a ?decision-useful? framework. This model is premised on the...

We examine the impact of continuous disclosure regulatory reform on the likelihood, frequency and qualitative characteristics of management earnings forecasts issued in New Zealand?s low private litigation environment. Using a sample of 720 earnings forecasts issued by 94 firms listed on the New...

This study seeks to examine the impact of the continuous disclosure regulatory reform on the likelihood, frequency and qualitative characteristics of management earnings forecasts in New Zealand where a low private litigation environment prevails. This provides a unique opportunity to study the...