Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the 2nd IPSASB Research Forum that will take place on June 17 2020 in the morning in the Campus Drammen of the University of South-Eastern Norway, in Norway hosted by the CIGAR Workshop 2020.

IMPORTANT UPDATE – WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

For the detailed programme of the CIGAR Workshop 2020 and the IPSASB 2^nd Research Forum -2020 click here.

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Due to the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation, both CIGAR Workshop and IPSASB Research Forum are organised online, whilst doctoral students are offered feedback personally by members of the organising committee.

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The Task Force (the CIGAR network, the EGPA PSG XII, and the Accounting and Accountability SIG of the IRSPM) has come up with a note proposing Eurostat and IPSASB to set guidelines to register COVID-19 effects on Government Financial Reporting. As this is an unprecedented crisis that hits simultaneously all Member States in Europe, we suggest that it would be beneficial to adopt homogeneous criteria to keep track of the costs of all the measures taken and policy actions to tackle it. This information would be used later on as a basis for setting fiscal targets towards achieving normality with a pace that better fits the characteristics of the different countries. For the treatment, presentation and disclosure of this information recommended guidelines from ESA 2010, and specifically for the Excessive deficit procedure as defined by the Manual on Government Deficit and Debt, seem to be needed. In addition, recommended guidelines from IPSASB especially in relation to IPSAS 1 seem necessary and timely at this point.

For the full text please click here

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to inform you about the CIGAR annual issue in PMM (for each of the next three years starting in 2021: PMM’s 41^st volume). This CIGAR annual issue will not have a specific theme—the aim is to present relevant empirical and theoretical research in public sector accounting. The annual issue will showcase CIGAR’s valuable papers and, by doing so, increase their contribution to practice and to academia. 

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Dear PSAAR friends,

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Performance Management is planning an Extraordinary special issue under the title:

«Stretching the Public Purse: Budgetary Responses to a Global Pandemic»

The Extraordinary special issue will include short viewpoint papers (up to 3,000-4,000 words).

The deadline for submission is July 15, 2020. Papers will be reviewed by the editorial team.

For the call for papers click  here or visit JPBAPM

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Dear PSAAR friends,

International Journal of Public Sector Management is planning a special issue under the title:

Public Sector Financial Management: Happy endings and Sucess Stories

The guest editors are Sandra Cohen, Francesca Manes Rossi, Isabel Brusca and Eugenio Caperchione.

This special issue aims at taking a positive stance in this sometimes grey landscape and discuss reforms, initiatives or innovations that have proved successful and operational. By synthesizing the lessons learnt, this special issue expects to provide a variety of experiences that reveal good combinations of tools, resources, governance and management to improve and streamline the public sector financial management.

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Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the call by the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) program (https://pefa.org/) for research proposals from interested public finance practitioners, scientists, researchers, and scholars to strengthen the understanding of the interplay of climate change and public financial management. 

The deadline for submission of completed applications is December 12, 2019.

A total price amount for the research competition is USD 150,000 which will be distributed between several winners.   

For more information, and the actual calls in English, French and Spanish, please visit:

https://pefa.org/news/pefa-call-research-proposals-interplay-climate-change-and-public-financial-management

For the call for papers in English click here