Mission

JAGA’s aim is to help build a better society by conducting academic research on the public administration of the society in which we live from an accounting perspective and then conveying our findings to the public.JAGA’s efforts go beyond pursuing theoretical research on government accounting (accounting by the national and local governments) to include examining systems and practical operations under these systems, and then undertaking campaigns to disseminate the findings of these studies and embed the best practices.

More specifically, JAGA intends to engage in the following:

• Activities deemed necessary to establish a new local public accounting system and to popularize/embed this system into local public accounting
• Research to improve the national government’s accounting systems
• Research on accounting at non-government/non-profit organizations involved in public administration
• Research on audits/inspections connected with the above
• International comparative research on the above

JAGA is also planning to conduct the following awareness-building activities:

• Awareness-building activities that enable participants to experience and understand the importance of accounting in public administration
  Example: efforts such as the “Balance Sheet Expedition” being undertaken by the City of Narashino and Chiba University
• Awareness-building activities that enable participants to experience and understand the importance of accounting information
  Example: efforts that not only present ways of preparing/reading the accounting information needed by systems but that also highlight the usefulness of accounting in management
• Support activities to ensure the success of public accounting reforms
  Example: efforts to collect examples of organizations tackling reforms and then broadly share information on these

JAGA will be making extensive use of the Web as a sounding board for interacting with interested persons to ensure the success of the aforementioned research and awareness-building activities.

During Phase 1, JAGA has exchanged memoranda on collaboration with KAGA (Korean Association of Government Accounting) and AECA (Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas, i.e., Spanish Association of Accounting and Business Administration). In Phase 2, JAGA intends to exchange memoranda with Waseda University’s Public Service Research Institute and with the US, China, Vietnam and others, hoping through these exchanges to further boost research inside and outside Japan.

JAGA’s executives (see below) will be soliciting public input and offering recommendations to JAGA, so please contact one of our executives if you have any questions. For 2014, we will be setting aside our regular membership regulations and halving individual membership dues to 5,000 yen for members joining JAGA at any time during the year.

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