In 1988 the New South Wales (NSW) Government was the first in Australia, and amongst the first in the world, to commit to implement accrual accounting for its General Government Sector. Subsequently, accrual accounting has been implemented by numerous governments, including all Australian governments. This thesis examines why the NSW Government decided to implement accrual accounting and the impact of this accounting change on decision making within a General Government Sector organisation. The historical account is derived from a combination of archival and oral data sources whilst an organisational learning theoretical frame is used in a single-site case study to understand the impact of accrual accounting on managerial decision making. The history of the NSW Government adoption of accrual accounting is characterised by five notable features. First, the whole-of-government initiative was implemented with remarkable speed. Second, the change was aided by the actions of an epistemic community, in which private sector consultants were most active. Third, the change was justified through expected improvements in accountability and management. Fourth, a period of resistance to the change was followed by an absence of critical discussion on the implications of the change as forces supportive of the change synergistically combined. Fifth, the change is explained by mimetic forces that initially coalesced around phantom images, presented by consultants, and subsequently recognised self-interest as an integral part of the change to accrual accounting. The impact of accrual accounting on management decision-making at an organisational level from has been mixed. Information acquisition has expanded in that new sets of accounting data are collected. However, information distribution has been unchanged by accrual accounting whilst information interpretation only marginally changed at a top management level with no discernible change at operational levels. Organisational memory has been altered by accrual accounting in that additional accounting skills and information are now held. However, use of that organisational memory is severely impeded by organisational objectives and constraints that effectively render accrual accounting information irrelevant to public sector managers’ concerns. Policy implications arising from this project are that an alternative model of accrual accounting is required together with the dual recognition that centrally imposed change may produce unpredicted change at an operational agency level and that accounting change needs to be matched to organisational characteristics. Additionally, improvements in asset management, as sought by advocates of accrual accounting, could have been delivered by non-accounting means and there is little prospect for improved managerial decision-making from the current model of accrual accounting. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1375063 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, Business School, 2009

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:39:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Armando Cesar Oka.pdf: 906064 bytes, checksum: be230dec20e823ef7d6c3f6d173ade7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-11 / This study, entitled Cash Flow Management by the Double Entry Bookkeeping System and Accrual Basis Accounting and conducted by Armando César Oka, aims at filling the existing gap on Cash Flow exposing the issue of its construction by applying the Double Entry Bookkeeping System and Accrual Basis Accounting under the hypothesis of a single electronic database for building Cash Flow, Balance Sheet and Income Statement for the year. It shows the accountants the Cash Flow as an object of study due to the importance given to this instrument by public and private entities as well as rescuing liquidity of the leading for profit accounting. Carrying on the academic work and the exploratory researches conducted by the researcher of this study, it exposes the reason for the application of the Double Entry Bookkeeping System and Accrual Basis Accounting to the Cash Flow and for its experiment in a legal entity, getting result by using the Cash Flow Statement. The experiment led the researcher to look for clarification, in the existing literature, regarding the results obtained in the Cash Flow Statement. It also led him to make a structural comparison to the Balance Sheet and Income Statement for the year due to the application of the Double Entry Bookkeeping System and Accrual Basis Accounting in the last two instruments. The conclusion of this study is that it is possible to apply the Double Entry Bookkeeping System and Accrual Basis Accounting in Cash Flow by getting an evidence with liquidity characteristics / Este estudo, efetuado por Armando César Oka, intitulado Fluxo de Caixa Gerencial pelo Método das Partidas Dobradas e Regime de Competência , tem como objetivo a pretensão de preencher a lacuna existente sobre o Fluxo de Caixa, expondo a questão de sua construção mediante a aplicação do Método das Partidas Dobradas e Regime de Competência, sob a hipótese de utilização de um só banco de dados eletrônico para a construção do Fluxo de Caixa, do Balanço Patrimonial e da Demonstração de Resultado do Exercício (DRE). Vem mostrar aos contadores o Fluxo de Caixa como objeto de estudo em virtude da importância dada para este instrumental pelas entidades públicas e privadas, resgatando a liquidez da preponderante contabilidade voltada ao lucro. Em continuidade ao trabalho de formação acadêmica e pesquisas exploratórias efetuadas por este pesquisador, expõe a razão da aplicação do Método das Partidas Dobradas e Regime de Competência ao Fluxo de Caixa e de seu experimento em uma entidade jurídica, obtendo o resultado mediante a Demonstração de Fluxo de Caixa. O experimento levou este pesquisador a buscar na literatura existente esclarecimentos dos resultados obtidos na Demonstração de Fluxo de Caixa e uma comparação estrutural ao Balanço Patrimonial e Demonstração do Resultado do Exercício em virtude da aplicação, nestes dois últimos instrumentais, do Método das Partidas Dobradas e Regime de Competência. A conclusão alcançada é que é possível aplicar o Método das Partidas Dobradas e Regime de Competência no Fluxo de Caixa, obtendo-se uma evidenciação com características voltadas à liquidez

This dissertation deals with the possibilities of using the teaching methods offered by the concept of teaching through problem solving in accounting education in business academies and economic lyceums. The main aim of this type of teaching should be above all the introduction of accounting as an important part of the students' economic thinking. The use of problem-based teaching is especially useful when explaining topics fundamental for the understanding of the basic principles of accounting. Accrual Basis Accounting being one of these topics, the thesis presents didactic material suited for problem-based teaching of this subject matter. It falls into the area of didactics of accounting, i.e. a scientific discipline deriving from the didactics of economic subjects.

Fair value accounting of biological assets in the public sector was introduced with the adoption of the public sector specific accounting standard, Generally Recognised Accounting Practice (GRAP) 101. The public sector currently uses different bases of accounting: public entities and municipalities must use accrual accounting and apply the principles of GRAP, while government departments report on the modified cash basis. Furthermore, public entities do not consistently apply the requirements of GRAP 101. This lack of a uniform basis of accounting has a negative effect on the comparability of financial information. This study identified the challenges facing the public sector in the application of GRAP 101, specifically regarding the fair value accounting of biological assets. The successful implementation of GRAP 101 by a public entity, AsgiSA-EC, was used as a case study to clarify the fair value accounting challenges in the reporting of biological assets in the sector. / Business Management / M. Accounting Science

Fair value accounting of biological assets in the public sector was introduced with the adoption of the public sector specific accounting standard, Generally Recognised Accounting Practice (GRAP) 101. The public sector currently uses different bases of accounting: public entities and municipalities must use accrual accounting and apply the principles of GRAP, while government departments report on the modified cash basis. Furthermore, public entities do not consistently apply the requirements of GRAP 101. This lack of a uniform basis of accounting has a negative effect on the comparability of financial information. This study identified the challenges facing the public sector in the application of GRAP 101, specifically regarding the fair value accounting of biological assets. The successful implementation of GRAP 101 by a public entity, AsgiSA-EC, was used as a case study to clarify the fair value accounting challenges in the reporting of biological assets in the sector. / Business Management / M. Accounting Science