Tarek Rana is an associate professor of accounting in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He teaches management accounting, forensic business investigation and data analytics. His research interests are in the areas of strategic management, management control systems, performance measurement, risk management and sustainability, with focus on the not-for-profit and public sector organisations.Lee Parker is a research professor in accounting at the University of Glasgow. His previous academic posts include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders, Adelaide, South Australia, Royal Holloway University of London, RMIT University Melbourne, an honorary professorship at the University of St Andrews, and visiting professorships in the USA, UK, Australasia, Asia and the Middle East.

• Part I: Public Management, Governance and Accountability   Chapter 1. Public Sector Accounting, Management Control and Risk Management: An Overview   Chapter 2. Public Management and Crisis: Lessons for Neoliberalism Drawn from a City-State   Chapter 3. Managing a grand challenge at the local level: The case of especially vulnerable neighborhoods in a Swedish city   Part II: Public Sector Accounting and Auditing Issues   Chapter 4. Institutional entrepreneurship in a Supreme Audit Institution: The National Audit Office and the use of data in financial audit   Chapter 5. Accounting change in the public sector: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?   Part III: Management Control, Innovation and Change   Chapter 6. Collaborative innovation and management control in times of crisis: tensions of a disrupted project in public health care   Chapter 7. Engaging Communities in Infrastructure Building: How Governments can Learn from Social Movements   Chapter 8. Strategic management accounting for change and flexibility   Chapter 9. Machine Learning algorithms and public decision-making: A conceptual overview   Part IV: Performance Management and Public Value   Chapter 10. The Performance Framework of the EU Budget: A Path to Public Value Creation?   Chapter 11. Reflecting on Public Value in Covid-19   Chapter 12. The use of performance measures in the UK’s Coronavirus crisis: Implications for stake-holder engagement and performance management   Part V: Risk Management and Disclosure   Chapter 13. Framing Risk Management within Management Control Systems   Chapter 14. Financial Vulnerability and Risk Disclosures in Australian Universities   Chapter 15. Public value accounting as an integrating mechanism between performance and risk   Chapter 16. New Realities of Risk Management in the Public Sector   Part VI: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Accountability   Chapter 17. Polycentric governance and SDG commitments: public sector responses in challenging times   Chapter 18. Accountability and Sustainability in the Public Sector: An Impression Management Perspective for Research   Chapter 19. Management Control Systems and Risk Management: Mapping Public Sector Accounting and Management Research Directions

"This edited volume provides a much-needed complement to similar, recent volumes exploring topical issues in public sector accounting, auditing and governance. It has a broad scope in terms of the topics covered, theories applied and geographical representation. The chapters are all written by established public sector accounting scholars and cover a range of burning issues that require attention from practitioners, policy-makers and researchers." Sven Modell, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester"This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth reflection on the most important and recent evolutions in public sector accounting scholarship and practices, offering international, plural perspectives on the challenges facing accountants and accounting systems in the public sphere. This is a fundamental reading to appreciate the scale and variety of such challenges, ranging, among others, from the widening of the scope of accounting to encompass public value and sustainability, to the strengthening the roles of control system to support change as well as risk management, to the rethinking of auditing, or the search for stronger community engagement." Ileana Steccolini, University of Essex and University of Bologna"Routledge Handbooks are marvelous assemblies of scholarship in a specialised field. I welcome this Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. The Handbook contains a smorgasbord of coverage by well-known scholars on public sector accounting. Also, the coverage is global, with contributions covering various regions, nation-states, and sectors. The Handbook highlights contemporary issues in public sector accounting, auditing and accountability." Emeritus Professor James Guthrie, Member of the Order (AM), Macquarie Business School, Australia

Tarek Rana is an associate professor of accounting in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He teaches management accounting, forensic business investigation and data analytics. His research interests are in the areas of strategic management, management control systems, performance measurement, risk management and sustainability, with focus on the not-for-profit and public sector organisations.Lee Parker is a research professor in accounting at the University of Glasgow. His previous academic posts include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders, Adelaide, South Australia, Royal Holloway University of London, RMIT University Melbourne, an honorary professorship at the University of St Andrews, and visiting professorships in the USA, UK, Australasia, Asia and the Middle East.

• Part I: Public Management, Governance and Accountability   Chapter 1. Public Sector Accounting, Management Control and Risk Management: An Overview   Chapter 2. Public Management and Crisis: Lessons for Neoliberalism Drawn from a City-State   Chapter 3. Managing a grand challenge at the local level: The case of especially vulnerable neighborhoods in a Swedish city   Part II: Public Sector Accounting and Auditing Issues   Chapter 4. Institutional entrepreneurship in a Supreme Audit Institution: The National Audit Office and the use of data in financial audit   Chapter 5. Accounting change in the public sector: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?   Part III: Management Control, Innovation and Change   Chapter 6. Collaborative innovation and management control in times of crisis: tensions of a disrupted project in public health care   Chapter 7. Engaging Communities in Infrastructure Building: How Governments can Learn from Social Movements   Chapter 8. Strategic management accounting for change and flexibility   Chapter 9. Machine Learning algorithms and public decision-making: A conceptual overview   Part IV: Performance Management and Public Value   Chapter 10. The Performance Framework of the EU Budget: A Path to Public Value Creation?   Chapter 11. Reflecting on Public Value in Covid-19   Chapter 12. The use of performance measures in the UK’s Coronavirus crisis: Implications for stake-holder engagement and performance management   Part V: Risk Management and Disclosure   Chapter 13. Framing Risk Management within Management Control Systems   Chapter 14. Financial Vulnerability and Risk Disclosures in Australian Universities   Chapter 15. Public value accounting as an integrating mechanism between performance and risk   Chapter 16. New Realities of Risk Management in the Public Sector   Part VI: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Accountability   Chapter 17. Polycentric governance and SDG commitments: public sector responses in challenging times   Chapter 18. Accountability and Sustainability in the Public Sector: An Impression Management Perspective for Research   Chapter 19. Management Control Systems and Risk Management: Mapping Public Sector Accounting and Management Research Directions

"This edited volume provides a much-needed complement to similar, recent volumes exploring topical issues in public sector accounting, auditing and governance. It has a broad scope in terms of the topics covered, theories applied and geographical representation. The chapters are all written by established public sector accounting scholars and cover a range of burning issues that require attention from practitioners, policy-makers and researchers." Sven Modell, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester"This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth reflection on the most important and recent evolutions in public sector accounting scholarship and practices, offering international, plural perspectives on the challenges facing accountants and accounting systems in the public sphere. This is a fundamental reading to appreciate the scale and variety of such challenges, ranging, among others, from the widening of the scope of accounting to encompass public value and sustainability, to the strengthening the roles of control system to support change as well as risk management, to the rethinking of auditing, or the search for stronger community engagement." Ileana Steccolini, University of Essex and University of Bologna"Routledge Handbooks are marvelous assemblies of scholarship in a specialised field. I welcome this Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. The Handbook contains a smorgasbord of coverage by well-known scholars on public sector accounting. Also, the coverage is global, with contributions covering various regions, nation-states, and sectors. The Handbook highlights contemporary issues in public sector accounting, auditing and accountability." Emeritus Professor James Guthrie, Member of the Order (AM), Macquarie Business School, Australia

Tarek Rana is an associate professor of accounting in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He teaches management accounting, forensic business investigation and data analytics. His research interests are in the areas of strategic management, management control systems, performance measurement, risk management and sustainability, with focus on the not-for-profit and public sector organisations.Lee Parker is a research professor in accounting at the University of Glasgow. His previous academic posts include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders, Adelaide, South Australia, Royal Holloway University of London, RMIT University Melbourne, an honorary professorship at the University of St Andrews, and visiting professorships in the USA, UK, Australasia, Asia and the Middle East.

• Part I: Public Management, Governance and Accountability   Chapter 1. Public Sector Accounting, Management Control and Risk Management: An Overview   Chapter 2. Public Management and Crisis: Lessons for Neoliberalism Drawn from a City-State   Chapter 3. Managing a grand challenge at the local level: The case of especially vulnerable neighborhoods in a Swedish city   Part II: Public Sector Accounting and Auditing Issues   Chapter 4. Institutional entrepreneurship in a Supreme Audit Institution: The National Audit Office and the use of data in financial audit   Chapter 5. Accounting change in the public sector: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?   Part III: Management Control, Innovation and Change   Chapter 6. Collaborative innovation and management control in times of crisis: tensions of a disrupted project in public health care   Chapter 7. Engaging Communities in Infrastructure Building: How Governments can Learn from Social Movements   Chapter 8. Strategic management accounting for change and flexibility   Chapter 9. Machine Learning algorithms and public decision-making: A conceptual overview   Part IV: Performance Management and Public Value   Chapter 10. The Performance Framework of the EU Budget: A Path to Public Value Creation?   Chapter 11. Reflecting on Public Value in Covid-19   Chapter 12. The use of performance measures in the UK’s Coronavirus crisis: Implications for stake-holder engagement and performance management   Part V: Risk Management and Disclosure   Chapter 13. Framing Risk Management within Management Control Systems   Chapter 14. Financial Vulnerability and Risk Disclosures in Australian Universities   Chapter 15. Public value accounting as an integrating mechanism between performance and risk   Chapter 16. New Realities of Risk Management in the Public Sector   Part VI: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Accountability   Chapter 17. Polycentric governance and SDG commitments: public sector responses in challenging times   Chapter 18. Accountability and Sustainability in the Public Sector: An Impression Management Perspective for Research   Chapter 19. Management Control Systems and Risk Management: Mapping Public Sector Accounting and Management Research Directions

"This edited volume provides a much-needed complement to similar, recent volumes exploring topical issues in public sector accounting, auditing and governance. It has a broad scope in terms of the topics covered, theories applied and geographical representation. The chapters are all written by established public sector accounting scholars and cover a range of burning issues that require attention from practitioners, policy-makers and researchers." Sven Modell, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester"This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth reflection on the most important and recent evolutions in public sector accounting scholarship and practices, offering international, plural perspectives on the challenges facing accountants and accounting systems in the public sphere. This is a fundamental reading to appreciate the scale and variety of such challenges, ranging, among others, from the widening of the scope of accounting to encompass public value and sustainability, to the strengthening the roles of control system to support change as well as risk management, to the rethinking of auditing, or the search for stronger community engagement." Ileana Steccolini, University of Essex and University of Bologna"Routledge Handbooks are marvelous assemblies of scholarship in a specialised field. I welcome this Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. The Handbook contains a smorgasbord of coverage by well-known scholars on public sector accounting. Also, the coverage is global, with contributions covering various regions, nation-states, and sectors. The Handbook highlights contemporary issues in public sector accounting, auditing and accountability." Emeritus Professor James Guthrie, Member of the Order (AM), Macquarie Business School, Australia