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- Bracci, E., et al.
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Citizen-centered financial reporting translation: The preparers' perspective
- 2023
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Ingår i: Financial Accountability & Management. - : Wiley. - 0267-4424 .- 1468-0408. ; 39:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, the urge to make public sector organizations accountable has resulted in a wide range of citizen-centered financial reporting tools that aim to overcome the limits of traditional financial reporting. To date, the debate on these public accountability innovations has mainly focused on the reasons underpinning their adoption from the users' perspective, while how preparers affect accountability in the process of constructing such documents is empirically less investigated. By drawing on Callon's concept of translation, this paper aims to analyze how the preparers of citizens-centered financial reports perceive and translate public accountability into practice. In fact, localized translation of public accounting innovation may reveal divergences and ambiguity inherent in the public accountability principles shaped by concurring actors, events, and technologies. The research is qualitative and interpretative, through a longitudinal case study in a municipality, observing the process of construction of a citizen-centered financial reporting tool (i.e., Popular Financial Reporting-PFR). The originality of the paper lies in its contribution to the debate about how public accountability tools are translated into practice by providing evidence of the dynamics that lead an organization along the implementation path. Our findings confirm that the output of the process is the result of the interaction of different networks of interest. Consequently, the final document may vary consistently from the initial project and the general principles of the framework followed.
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- Kastberg Weichselberger, Gustaf, 1976, et al.
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Transforming social sector auditing - they audited more, but scrutinized less
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Ingår i: Financial Accountability & Management. - : Wiley. - 0267-4424. ; 33:3, s. 284-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The legitimacy of audit technologies is inevitably linked to a knowledge base. Even though it has been pointed out that the agreements on how to measure and verify certain operations are only temporal, empirical studies on change in audit are rare. This paper reports a detailed empirical study of change in performance audit within social services in Sweden. The paper complements previous research since this paper is not about making new things auditable but about challenging existing technologies within a field. We observe how the new 'sharp' control-based model - realized through measures of prioritizing, focusing and standardizing - was related to new demands on 'facts' about the audit object. The effect was that many things in this new situation became unauditable; they audited more, but actually scrutinized less. The paper also contributes to existing literature on the role of 'sharp' control-based audit in the social sector. With a 'soft' and 'fuzzy' object, as is often the case in many parts of the public sector, it is difficult to produce hard, convincing evidence that holds true in different settings.
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