Developments: Resource Accounting in Ireland

Francis McGeough

Public Money & Management, 1998, vol. 18, issue 4, 58-61

Abstract: The advocates of resource accounting see it as improving financial management and thereby improving the accountability of the organization, while critics see it as making the whole process of accounting more complicated than it should be. The Department of Public Enterprise in Ireland has published resource accounts for the past two years. While it has encountered many difficulties in making the accounts meaningful, the end result is a set of accounts comparable in standard to those of the private sector. This article explores the issues encountered by the Department and how it overcame these difficulties.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00142

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