Local government is an economic and political unit as government organization, that provides public services to resident in order to fulfil the public needs that cannot be solved by private economy sector.
The function and role of local government gr...
Local government is an economic and political unit as government organization, that provides public services to resident in order to fulfil the public needs that cannot be solved by private economy sector.
The function and role of local government greatly come to be changed due to adopting local autonomy system from 1991, while it has been simply operated by government's instruction and control with supervision until this time. The circumstantial changes such like change of political system and extension of economic scale brought to increase the public needs and as a result the function and responsibility of local government come to be diversified.
The objectives of this study are ① to evaluate current local government accounting practices and procedures and ② to provide a "more effective and efficient" way in the local government accounting system in the new environment.
This study suggests the basic direction of useful information output through analysis of financial circumstances and financial accounting purposes of local government accounting.
The purpose of Financial Reporting of Local Government is to provide useful information for a decision making to the various interest parties. The useful information is defined as follows.
1) Information that can strive for sound operation and strict control of the finance of local government.
2) Information concerned with current assets and their flows.
3) Information on financial position and changes.
4) Information about efficiency and evaluation of organization management.
The current system is evaluated in terms of a degree of satisfaction or completion of the specified goals or objectives. The evaluation of the current system would be used to develop more effective and efficient governmental accounting system in a way that the new accounting system provides higher achievement of the specified goals objectives.
As a result of designing the accounting information model based on the basic view by using 1997 accounting data of Chejudo the model to produce useful information(operating statement) could be established.
Main contribution of this study would provide a theoretical summary and, thus, a theoretical direction for the development of more efficient and effective governmental accounting system based on the financial accounting postulate and objectives.