Public finance accounting

Originally published in 2010, this book covers the development of the mortgage market, the residential housing boom and bust that led to the subprime crisis, and the effect of this crisis on financial institutions as well as the stock market panic of 2008.

This book considers the theoretical and empirical claims of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in developed and developing countries.

Despite their broad scope and importance, publications related to public sector accounting and auditing have a limited framework, and do not account for the significant variances in public sector accounting and auditing systems between countries and different subsectors of government.

Southern Europe has been hit hard by the global economic crisis and, as such, their welfare states have come under acute strain.

This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best.

This book provides a comprehensive overview for various segments of the global credit default swap (CDS) markets, touching upon how they were affected by the recent financial turmoil.

China and the ASEAN region have risen rapidly to a position of immense economic significance in the global economy.

In this second edition of Privatization, Regulation and Deregulation, the author has updated and augmented the original material to take account of developments over the last 5 years.

Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience.

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system?

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels.

America is currently involved in one of the worst economic crises of modern times.

To what extent can governments supplement private venture capitalists and stimulate the economy by providing money to new entrepreneurs as well as existing enterprises?

Featuring high-level analysis of Islamic law, this book examines fintech in Islamic finance from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Appropriate laws and regulations are an essential tool to direct the action of procurers toward the public good and avoid corruption and misallocation of resources.

Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution is about a pervasive but little-studied phenomenon.

Despite their broad scope and importance, publications related to public sector accounting and auditing have a limited framework, and do not account for the significant variances in public sector accounting and auditing systems between countries and different subsectors of government.

Originally published in 1969.

The last decade has seen important changes taking place in the tax regimes of many European countries.

The financial issues of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have increased their importance in recent years, especially after the last global economic downturn.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), founded in 1930, works as the "e;Bank for Central Banks"e;.

Focusing on research that examines both individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research provides an in-depth analysis and exchange of peer-reviewed knowledge across all areas of accounting behavioral research and the development, discussion, and expansion of theories from psychology, sociology, and related disciplines.

In this time of acute financial pressure on public budgets, there is an increasing interest worldwide in alternative ways for governments to raise money, and how public authorities can develop the capacity to administer revenues efficiently and effectively.

In both the developed world and the third world public enterprise has come to assume considerable importance in the structure and development of national economies.

In recent times not only have traditional areas of public economics such as taxation, public expenditure, public sector pricing, benefit cost analysis, and fiscal federalism thrown up new challenges but entirely new areas of research and inquiry have emerged.

Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities.

We are bombarded with economic numbers: unemployment, retail sales, inflation, GDP-the list goes on and on.

Land Tax in Australia demonstrates how land tax operates and is administered across State and local governments in Australia.

Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as actuaries, this work, originally published in 1987, provides a thorough examination of the problems which had arisen, and those that seemed likely to arise, with regard to both public and private pension funds at the time.

This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis offers twenty-three chapters by invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress.

In this book, a historical analysis of the precedents of the euro is examined within the context of the current issues affecting the Eurozone and the long-term effects of the institutional changes implemented since 2010.

This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries, we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office-and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay.

Originally published in 2006, this book examines the collapse of the Enron Corp.

This book examines the origins and consequences of so-called pension fund capitalism, which has spread around the world since 1981, when the pension system was completely privatized in Chile.

Health systems across the world face multiple pressures.

Current inquiries into the political economy of financial policymaking in Malaysia tend to focus on the high-level drama of crisis politics or simply point to the limited impact of post-crisis financial reforms, given that politico-business relations have remained close.

Public budgets follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of public finance.

Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, economic historian and political figure.

Running public sector organizations requires specialist accounting and finance skills to overcome the unique challenges of the sector.

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event.

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Community activation; Awakening integral consciousness; and institutionalized Research.

This book provides an overview and assessment of infrastructure's legal and governance underpinnings.

Universities are important public institutions and are seen as key drivers for a country's economic and intellectual development.