Local council governance : being accountable or merely ticking the box

Greg Jones; Anne Abraham; Phil Ross

Local council governance : being accountable or merely ticking the box

Greg Jones, Anne Abraham, Phil Ross

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Abstract

Local councils in NSW are required to report a variety of information to the Department of Local Government (DLG) including financial reports, annual reports, state of the environment reports, and equity and access statements. Additionally they have a range of governance recommendations provided by the DLG one of which is the establishment of an audit committee independent of the council. This paper assesses if councils provide these reports in a timely manner and are following DLG good governance recommendations, or whether the absence of legislative force means that councils only meet the accountability requirements of the state government and diminish accountability to other stakeholders.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2011 Public Sector Accounting Workshop: School of Accounting & Business Information Systems, ANU College of Business & Economics, 15 April 2011
Publisher	Australian National University
Number of pages	17
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	Public Sector Accounting Workshop - Duration: 15 Apr 2011 → …

Conference

Conference	Public Sector Accounting Workshop
Period	15/04/11 → …

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Local council governance : being accountable or merely ticking the box. / Jones, Greg; Abraham, Anne; Ross, Phil.
Proceedings of the 2011 Public Sector Accounting Workshop: School of Accounting & Business Information Systems, ANU College of Business & Economics, 15 April 2011. Australian National University, 2011.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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