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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Einzelbeitrag Nr. 3: Cui bono? Depicting the benefits of the new municipal budgeting and accounting regime in Germany
Author : Andreas Burth
Published in: Kommunale Haushaltssteuerung an der Schnittstelle von Doppik und Haushaltskonsolidierung
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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The municipal budgeting and accounting regime in Germany is facing a time of fundamental upheaval (Lüder 2001; Kettl 2000; Lüder/Jones 2003; Kiamann/Wielenberg 2010; Jagalla/Becker/Weber 2011). The majority of the approximately 12,500 municipalities in Germany are currently modernizing their traditional cameralistic budgeting and accounting system (cash-accounting) by switching to accrual budgeting and accounting (
Doppik
). While the Federal Government and most of Germany's federal states decided to innovate towards the so-called “extended cameralistic accounting” (
erweiterte Kameralistik
), four federal states (Hamburg, Bremen, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia) decided to adopt private sector accounting arrangements (Hilgers 2011; Jones/Lüder 2011).