The long-standing collaboration between Public Money & Management (PMM) and the CIGAR Network has resulted in an important new initiative: this first CIGAR annual issue. The CIGAR Board has agreed with PMM’s editors and publisher to publish one issue per year presenting articles that had their origins in the conferences, workshops and debates organized by the CIGAR Network, and will therefore be fully devoted to the themes that CIGAR’s scholars are focusing on.In this editorial we discuss CIGAR and its main contributions, hot topics in research and the need to continue with with international governmental accounting research