Institutional capacity in the accounting reform process in Spanish local governments

In 2015, Spanish local governments began to apply a new accounting standard. The success achieved in its implementation is related with stimuli from outside the organization and with the institutional capacity – administrative and political – developed by it. Through an electronic questionnaire and...

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Autores: Fresneda Fuentes, Silvia, Hernández Borreguero, Julián
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/74521
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10201/74521
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Local government accounting standard
Reform
Local governments
Institutional capacity
Instrucción de contabilidad pública local
Reforma
Ayuntamientos
Capacidad institucional
CDU::6 - Ciencias aplicadas::65 - Gestión y organización. Administración y dirección de empresas. Publicidad. Relaciones públicas. Medios de comunicación de masas
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Sumario:In 2015, Spanish local governments began to apply a new accounting standard. The success achieved in its implementation is related with stimuli from outside the organization and with the institutional capacity – administrative and political – developed by it. Through an electronic questionnaire and several interviews carried out with municipal chief financial officers it has been shown that few actions to build the necessary institutional capacity were undertaken in the period prior to its implementation. The results show that the LGs did not attain the necessary institutional capacity and will have to continue allocating resources and time to improve it.