Public Governance and Financial Communication

Abstract

The economic-financial communication may be classified according to various benchmark parameters: the compulsory or voluntary nature of the content; the complementary or supplementary nature of the information in relation to the minimum content of the documents; stakeholders’ expectations. The main economic-financial communications tools that local entities use to support relations with their stakeholders, they can be classified within the three stages into which all the activities of the local public authorities can be grouped: programming; management and control; reporting.