French revolution and German circumspection: reforming budgeting and accounting in national governments
Marine Portal,
Evelyne Lande,
Rowan Jones and
Klaus Lüder
Public Money & Management, 2012, vol. 32, issue 5, 357-361
Abstract:
In France in 2001, a revolutionary budgeting and accounting reform of the central government was begun and, in 2006, introduced—it is now almost complete. In 2006, the German federal government began a similarly revolutionary budgeting and accounting reform, but abandoned it in 2010. We identify the similarities in technique between the two countries' reforms but also significant differences. The authors conclude that, notwithstanding the importance of accrual accounting in the French revolution and in the abortive German revolution, the resilience of the traditional budgetary accounting systems is striking.
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2012.703421
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