Reform of Governmental Accounting as a Prerequisite of Economic Decisions Made by External Users of Municipality Financial Statements

This dissertation thesis analyzes gains of the governmental accounting reform in the Czech Republic in terms of increase in relevance, usability and accessibility of the economic data in the public sector of the Czech Republic, especially in municipalities. It identifies some risks that have arisen from this reform and offers some ways to eliminate them. The existence of the public sector itself is also explained as well as the existence of users of economic information of the public sector. It involves a comprehensive description of the reform of public sector financial reporting. A construction of a municipalities' financial health index is also included as a useful tool for increasing understandability and to become the decision making process of users (tax payers) at a higher level. This index is applied on 6 201 municipalities in the Czech Republic as of December 31, 2012