Queensland government financial management improvement initiatives

"This paper will review the Financial Management Improvement Initiatives in the Queensland State Government from 1980 to present. Specific examples from the Queensland Local Government Department will be examined with a view to highlighting the reasons for the implementation of these initiatives. Further, the source of reform, and the deficiencies in the past/current financial management systems, targeted by the introduction of these Improvement Initiatives, will be examined. Problems of implementation and measuring the impact and success or otherwise of the results, will be critically discussed."--p. 1.