Some algebra of fiscal transparency : how accounting devices work and how to reveal them /

Accounting devices that artificially reduce the measured fiscal deficit can be analyzed as transactions involving unrecognized assets and liabilities. Different accounting systems recognize different sets of assets and liabilities and are thus vulnerable to different sets of devices. Some devices ca...

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Main Author: Irwin, Timothy C. (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/12/228.
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