New Trends in Public Sector Reporting

Francesca Manes Rossi is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she teaches and conducts research on accounting and auditing both in the private and public sectors. She has published articles and book with international editors and coordinates research activities in public sector accounting Rebecca Levy Orelli is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy. Her research interests lie in the field of accounting in the European public sector, value creation and performance management and measurement. She has extensively published her work in international journals and books.

Chapter 1. Contemporary challenges in the public sector reporting - James Guthrie and Ann Martin-Sardesai.- Chapter 2. The rise of Integrated Reporting in the Public Sector: An analysis of transnational governance interactions - Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan and Amanda Sonnerfeldt.- Chapter 3. Assessing universities' Global Reporting Initiative G4-Sustainability Reports in concurrence with Stakeholder Inclusiveness - Judith Frei, Melanie Lubinger, Dorothea Greiling.- Chapter 4. Public sector reporting: Lessons learnt from participatory budgeting - Peter C. Lorson and Ellen Haustein.- Chapter 5. New reporting tools at the central government level - experiences in light of a budgeting and accounting reform in Austria - Iris Saliterer and Sanja Korac.- Chapter 6. No longer only numbers: an exploratory analysis of the visual turn in reporting of public sector organisations- Pasquale Ruggiero.- Chapter 7. Are Romanian Higher Education Institutions prepared for an Integrated Reporting? The case of Babes-Bolyai University -  Adriana Tiron-Tudor, Gianluca Zanellato, Oprisor Tudor, Teodora Farcas.- Chapter 8. Determinants of Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting of Rail Companies: Does State Ownership Matter? - Ismail Çagri Özcan.- Chapter 9. Integrated reporting in municipally owned corporations: a case study in Italy. - Spiridione Lucio Dicorato, Chiara Di Gerio, Gloria Fiorani, Giuseppe Paciullo.- Chapter 10.  Reflections on new trends in Public Sector Reporting: Integrated Reporting and Beyond - Francesca Manes Rossi and Rebecca Levy Orelli.