Public Money and Management (PMM) is planning a theme on the use of accounting information by politicians - a theme stricly connected to the next CIGAR Conference.

Questions that papers and articles might address include:

- How can political ways of reasoning and acting explain the way in which public sector financial documents are used by politicians?

- To what extent and how are politicians framing accounting information to suit their own political priorities?

- How do politicians cope with problems of information overload when prioritizing the use of information provided in financial documents?

- Does the accounting basis, especially cash-based versus accrual-based accounting, matter to politicians and does a possible preference differ for budgetary and accountability decisions?

- To what extent and how do financial experts in political parties spread their knowledge of financial information to their non-financial colleagues for collegial decision-making?

The guest editors are Jan van Helden, Daniela Argento, Eugenio Caperchione and Josette Caruana.

Interested researchers are invited to submit papers for consideration to Jan van Helden (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) before 1 November 2015.

The call for paper may be found here (DOI 10.1080/09540962.2015.1028736)