Conference Accrual accounting for public management, do or don’t?

• What experiences do countries have with accrual accounting in the public sector?
• Is there information about the costs and gains of accrual accounting in the public sector?
• What are the reasons for countries not to work with accrual accounting?

The discussion concerning accrual accounting in the public sector in the Netherlands already exists for decades. The questions mentioned above keep coming back in this discussion. The discussion was picked up again because of a resolution of the member of Parliament Mastwijk. He asked the minister of Finance to examine international experiences with accrual accounting in the public sector.

This research has been performed last summer. Fourteen countries were sent a survey, four of those countries have been visited. The countries were questioned about there experiences. This has shown that there are many different experiences with accrual accounting and many several different ways of practice. These results will be presented in a report.

The Dutch Ministry of Finance organises a conference about accrual accounting in the public sector on March 5th 2010, prior to a OECD meeting in Paris. The location for the conference isthe National Academy for Finance and Economics.Goal of this conference is to facilitate an open debate about the opportunities and challenges accrual accounting brings for the public sector.

At the conference different points of view will be discussed. This assures that different angles will be considered during the day. In order to establish this, prominent international speakers, from different countries and working areas, will attend.

Target group of this conference are the Senior Budget Officials of the OECD, Dutch Financial Officials of the Government and the Dutch Court of Audit.

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I hope to welcome you at March 5th!

Kind regards,
Helmer Vossers
Director of Budget Affairs Directorate
Ministry of Finance, The Netherlands

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