A STUDY ON THE ACCOUNTING FACTORS INFLUENCING THE FIRJAN MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT INDEX (IFDM) IN BRAZILIAN CAPITALS
The impact of public spending on the development of a city can be considered a constant concern for those in charge. In that context, as citizens are obliged to contribute, through taxes, to maintain the municipal administrative structure, this structure takes particular interest in maximizing the h...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências Contábeis (Abracicon) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.repec.org.br:article/993 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.repec.org.br/repec/article/view/993 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Entidades Públicas Accountability IFDM Entidades Públicas. Accountability. IFDM. Public Entities |
| Sumario: | The impact of public spending on the development of a city can be considered a constant concern for those in charge. In that context, as citizens are obliged to contribute, through taxes, to maintain the municipal administrative structure, this structure takes particular interest in maximizing the human development of society, which can be measured with the help of the FIRJAN Municipal Development Index (IFDM). The aim in this study was to identify the accounting variables that condition the IFDM in Brazilian capitals, with a view to assessing the relevance of the accounting information in that index. Therefore, aspects of accountability and transparency in public management were addressed, as well as the role of accounting disclosure to reduce the information asymmetry that exists in the relation between citizens and elected managers. Concerning the methodological procedures, a panel data model was estimated by crossing the data from the Brazilian capitals’ IFDM, which is considered an important public management and democratic accountability tool, for the years 2005 till 2010, using data for 17 accounting variables. The results showed a statistically significant association between the variables Interest and Debt Charges, Capital Expense, Investments, spending on Culture and Social Assistance and Current Transfers on the one hand and the total IFDM of the selected public entities on the other, showing that accounting information is relevant to determine the IFDM of the capitals analyzed. This situation supports the theoretical assertion according to which governmental spending, as registered by accounting, affects city development. Hence, good public account management could culminate in a higher human development level of the cities studied over the years. |
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