| Abstract: | This paper examines the exclusion of two accounting standards from the commercialised public-sector accounting model in Australia. It locates the commercialisation in the wider context of the global neo-liberal reform ideology and argues that the selective commercialisation is a product of the neo-corporatist standard-setting process and policy networks that can be explained by public choice and agency theories. It is found that the exclusions have resulted in a significant erosion of public accountability. As implementing the excluded standards will constitute a contradiction in policy, abrogation of the commercialised accounting model might be feasible and appropriate |
