By Emma Rumney, includes "... Some of the most "surprising" results, Bergmann said, came in studies focused on the impact of accruals on users. He highlighted two: one that confirmed voters in Spanish municipalities took accrual fiscal information into account in elections; and another that showed accrual information is the most-used resource in Swiss media coverage of the government's public finances. Noting a challenge also outlined by other speakers during the day, however, Bergmann said that the evidence suggests politicians don't use the information provided by accruals accounting enough. ..."
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