Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management is an outlet for rigorous conceptual and empirical works aimed at challenging and innovating the field of accounting, management and governance in organizations operating in the public sphere or public-private sphere.
Aims and scope
Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (JPBAFM), a double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal, publishes articles that focus on the advancement and dissemination of research in the field of public budgeting, accounting, auditing, and financial and performance management. JPBAFM is an interdisciplinary journal that reaches a wide audience of academics, politicians and policy-makers, consultants and advisors, practitioners, analysts, journalists, and students. The editors welcome contributions from different disciplines (accounting, public management, public finance, etc.) and a broad international perspective, which offer critical analyses or undertake comparative analyses.

JPBAFM’s editorial team is very diverse in terms of background, and expertise. The editors welcome manuscripts from both scholars and practitioners that reflect a plurality of theoretical frameworks (positivist, interpretative, critical), and research methods (qualitative studies, quantitative studies, comparative analysis), as far as they offer a clear contribution, provide new perspectives on traditional issues and interpret emerging and future issues.