Professional accountants regularly search the FASB'S Accounting Standards Codification to find answers to financial accounting questions. Accounting educators know this and frequently use research cases in an attempt to help students begin developing this ability. But many students struggle with these cases because they have not been taught how to…

This document describes efforts to develop a planning-programing-budgeting system in a Kenosha, Wisconsin, school district of medium size. The PPBS is to be implemented in two phases: (1) an experimental program-oriented budget for the 1970-1971 school year, and (2) a 5-year plan to reevaluate and develop a program structure and program goals for…

This monograph presents a comprehensive but tentative matrix program structure and system of account codes that have been integrated to facilitate the implementation of PPB systems in local school districts. It is based on the results of an extensive analysis of K-12 public school district programs and management practices. In its entirety, the…

This paper provides a study of the evolution of the accounting system in the country of Columbia, South America, in light of the conflict between cultural values, other environmental factors, and the financial information generated. The paper begins with an overview of Colombia's political history as well as its economic and social changes during…