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Does public debt matter for human capital development? Evidence from Nigeria 公共债务对人力资本发展有影响吗？尼日利亚的证据

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2912

Ebele Stella Nwokoye, Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi, Favour Chidinma Onuoha, Chekwube Vitus Madichie

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Malnourished children? Child health disparities and its causes in Eastern India 儿童营养不良？印度东部儿童健康差异及其原因

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2913

Dhananjay Patra, Meghna Dutta

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Sustainability reporting: How consistency and interdependence in financial and managerial accounting enhance eco-controls 可持续性报告：财务会计和管理会计的一致性和相互依存性如何加强生态控制

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2910

Ashish Varma, Daniela Mancini, Shreya Kaushik

{"title":"Sustainability reporting: How consistency and interdependence in financial and managerial accounting enhance eco-controls","authors":"Ashish Varma, Daniela Mancini, Shreya Kaushik","doi":"10.1002/pa.2910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2910","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability reporting requires consistency and interdependency of financial accounting and managerial accounting. Accounting is closely entangled with the eco control (EC) in organisations. The quality of (sustainability) reporting and the disclosures is only as good as the quality and consistency of accounting data captured. Therefore, accounting choices and practises have an important role to play in sustainability reporting. This study explores the mechanism through which accounting informs EC. Through the independent and serial use of two levers, first ‘interdependency’ between financial accounting and management accounting and second, though the use of ‘digitalized information’ as a moderating variable, it is probed as to how EC are shaped. An empirical investigation is undertaken by carefully curating primary data, analysed through partial least squares structural equation modelling technique to inform broader debates in the ‘sustainability reporting’ literature concerning the mechanisms through which EC, are influenced by accounting mechanics, choices and disclosures. Sound EC contributes to sustainability accounting and governance to meet needs of the firms direct and indirect stakeholders without comprising the firm's ability to meet the needs of future stakeholders. The study established that the interdependency between the financial accountants and the management accountants output, mediates the effect of a consistent financial language on EC practises and this effect is independent of the firm size or the industry category. This article brings to the fore, the interplay of FA and MA in informing the environmental controls. The under researched perspective addressed by this study is that EC are highly interdependent with the consistency and comprehensiveness of accounting that informs it which in turn is effected by the cooperation and coordination (interdependency) between FA and MA information providers.","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139915645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Determinants of popular financial reporting: Evidence from Swedish municipalities 大众财务报告的决定因素：瑞典市政当局的证据

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2909

Pierre Donatella, Marco Bisogno

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Exploring the antecedents of local governments' sustainability disclosure: The role of the mayor 探索地方政府披露可持续发展信息的先决条件：市长的作用

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2908

Giuseppe Nicolò, Vitiana L'Abate, Nicola Raimo, Filippo Vitolla

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Do informal workers meet the consumption expenditure? A study from urban Odisha, India 非正规劳动者是否满足消费支出？印度奥迪沙城市研究

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2907

Suvendu Barik

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Corruption in Ukraine during the Ukrainian–Russian war: A decalogue of policies to combat it 乌俄战争期间乌克兰的腐败问题：打击腐败政策十诫

IF 2.6

Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2905

Javier Cifuentes-Faura

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Retraction: Principles of the Ukrainian social welfare system in the context of European integration 撤回：欧洲一体化背景下乌克兰社会福利制度的原则

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2906

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A recycling story: Developing recycling behavior in Turkey with social marketing program 循环利用的故事：通过社会营销计划在土耳其培养回收行为

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2900

Meftune Özbakır Umut, Meltem Nurtanış Velioğlu

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Retraction: Democracy and local political participation in Sumedang, Indonesia 撤回:印度尼西亚Sumedang的民主和地方政治参与

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2903

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