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    Innovations in Accounting Information System in the Public Sector. Evidences from Italian Public Universities

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    The paper analyzes how the accounting information system supports the transition from the traditional public accounting to the accrual accounting and the new budgeting and reporting system in public universities, with a specific reference to the bookkeeping of research projects. The accounting treatment of the research projects is particularly interesting because of the relevance of this item in the university budget, the options indicated by the lawmaker for its valuation criteria and the effects the valuation criteria have on the economic and investment budget of the university. Therefore the configuration of the accounting information system is not a mere technical problem, but involves the whole management. The research is based on the case study method applied to the University of Genoa. The research method is based on in-depth description of the role of the accounting information system in supporting the various phases of the research project accounting

    Il patrimonio nel rendiconto dello Stato: dall'epoca post unitaria agli anni Sessanta

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    This article proposes an analysis of the evolution experienced in our country by the State General Assets Account (“Rendiconto patrimoniale dello Stato”) in the period from the unity of Italy (1861) to the year in which was issued the so called Curti Law (1964). This period of time (about a century) is particularly interesting because it is characterized not only by deep changes in the role played by the State in the Italian society (from a guarantee function towards a direct intervention in the economy), but also by the growing importance of the Accounting Theory (Villa, Cerboni, Besta) and the subsequent diffusion, since the second half of the twenties, of the theories of Zappa and his scholars. This study focuses, in particular, on the different contents of the State General Assets Account during these years, highlighting the thought of the main authors of public sector accounting of the period taken into consideration
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