Could fair value accounting be useful, under NPM models, for users of financial information?

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 473-502

  Rodriguez Bolivar, Manuel Pedro ^a   Galera, Andrés Navarro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fair Value Accounting; Governmental accounting; NPM models; Public assets

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 34548657790     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: 14617226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020852307081153     Document Type: Article

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