This article focuses on improving the existing problems in local government accounting systems. Despite the changes in environments of entities, the accounting systems do not accomodate these changes.
It suggests the local governements to adopt acru...
This article focuses on improving the existing problems in local government accounting systems. Despite the changes in environments of entities, the accounting systems do not accomodate these changes.
It suggests the local governements to adopt acrual basis oriented business accounting system in order to provide useful information to residents.
This adoption of new system is expected to bring following consequences.
1. It will fulfill the local resident's right to know
2. Double entrysystem with its internal checking function will prevent frauds and errors from dealing with mass affairs.
3. It will enforce the responsibilities of administration by stewardship accountability.
4. It will helps residents with their decision making task by providing the relevence accounting informations.
5. It will enhance efficiency in service production and allocation management.