Heritage reporting by the Australian public sector
| Autor: | Bikram Chatterjee, Carolyn J. Cordery, Peir Peir Woon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Public sector Information needs Context (language use) 050201 accounting Public relations 0506 political science Identification (information) Originality New public management Accounting 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Quality (business) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 32:612-631 |
| ISSN: | 0951-3574 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/aaaj-03-2015-2008 |
| Popis: | Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the future development of heritage reporting in Australia. Public sector reporting of heritage has been a long-standing issue, due to shortcomings in (sector-neutral) for-profit-based financial reporting standards. Australia’s sector-neutral approach does not meet public sector users’ information needs. The authors develop a heritage reporting model to balance community and other stakeholders’ interests and address prior critiques. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews heritage reporting requirements in Anglo-Western Countries, and analyses commentaries and research publications. It evaluates the existing reporting requirements in the context of new public management (which focusses on information and efficiency) and new public governance (NPG) (focussing on balancing interests and quality). Findings The paper proposes an NPG-based heritage reporting model which includes indicators of performance on the five UNESCO (1972) dimensions and operational guidelines issued by UNESCO (2015). These are identification, presentation, protection, conservation and transmission. The proposed model is consistent with the notion of US SFFAS 29 (the standard for Federal entities). Not all heritage must be capitalised and hence attachment of monetary value, but detailed disclosures are necessary. Research limitations/implications The authors expect the proposed heritage reporting model to better serve users of heritage information compared to the present Australian Accounting Standards Board 116: Property, Plant and Equipment. Originality/value The authors’ proposed model of heritage reporting attempts to answer Carnegie and Wolnizer’s (1995, 1999) six questions, addresses decades of concerns raised in previous literature and provides a new perspective to heritage reporting based on NPG that should better serve users’ needs. |
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