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- La Convergencia De Las Realidades Económicas Como Motor Del Proceso De Armonización Internacional De La Contabilidad Pública: El Caso De Las Corporaciones Locales Europeas

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  • Manuel Illueca Muñoz

    (Universitat Jaume I)

  • María Teresa Balaguer-Coll

    (Universitat Jaume I)

Abstract

In view of the limited interest that external users have in financial reporting by local governments, the harmonization of their accounting standards will depend on the international convergence of their information requests for management. In that sense, this paper contributes to analyze whether the information needs of the European local governments have tended to converge during the last years. For this purpose, we have related information needs to several budget indicators associated with deficit, fiscal autonomy and the competencies of local governments. Our findings show that while a convergence process in deficit has taken place during the last years, the other indicators have not converged. This fact proves that there are still important differences in the information needs of European local governments, that will difficult the harmonization process in the future. Dado el escaso interés que muestran los usuarios externos por la información contable emanada de las CCLL, la armonización de sus normas de contabilidad dependerá de la convergencia a escala internacional de sus necesidades de información para la gestión. La aportación principal de este trabajo consiste en analizar hasta qué punto las necesidades de información han tendido a converger en los últimos años en las CCLL de los países de la Unión Europea. Para ello, hemos relacionado las necesidades de información con una serie de indicadores presupuestarios representativos del déficit, la autonomía y las competencias. Los resultados del trabajo ponen de manifiesto que en los últimos años se ha producido un proceso de convergencia en déficit, que no se ha observado en el resto de indicadores. Esta circunstancia revela que todavía persisten importantes diferencias en cuanto a las necesidades de información de las CCLL europeas, que condicionarán en el futuro un ulterior proceso de armonización.

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  • Manuel Illueca Muñoz & María Teresa Balaguer-Coll, 2000. "- La Convergencia De Las Realidades Económicas Como Motor Del Proceso De Armonización Internacional De La Contabilidad Pública: El Caso De Las Corporaciones Locales Europeas," Working Papers. Serie EC 2000-01, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:2000-01
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