LIBRI DI LORIS LANDRIANI

Il libro sottolinea come i più recenti provvedimenti emessi (dal legislatore, dal Ministero per la pubblica amministrazione e la semplificazione e dall’ANAC) in materia di trasparenza ampliano il campo di applicazione soggettivo e oggettivo delle disposizioni previste dal D.Lgs. 33/2013, ritenendo che le società pubbliche debbano soggiacere “all’applicazione totale delle regole di trasparenza”, innestando quindi regole pubblicistiche in aziende organizzate in modo assai diverso rispetto alle amministrazioni pubbliche.

The federalist reform, recently launched in Italy, brought to the revision of the financing mechanisms of public institutions. These ones will no longer be based on the historical expense of public entities but on the calculation of specific standard costs, useful to define the standard financing needs of public institutions. In such a framework, this paper investigates the conditions for the applicability of standard costs methodology to local public transport companies, providing insights about its benefits and limitations in a context of crisis caused by the application of low fees. Beyond the difficulties to calculate the standard costs, the study seems to show the motivational effects produced by the standard costs methodology and the benefits coming from its use as a guideline for selecting providers.

In November 2006 the International Accounting Standards Board issued IFRS 8, which replaced IAS 14-Revised and became effective for the fiscal year beginning on or after 2009. IFRS 8 changed the items of information that companies have to disclose for each segment. The aim of the research is to examine the determinants of segment disclosures provided by Italian companies in both 2008 and 2009 using the framework of the proprietary costs theory. Moreover, the research investigates whether the implementation of IFRS 8 has brought companies operating in less competitive industries to adopt some opportunistic behaviors, reducing the level of segment disclosure provided in 2009, compared to that disclosed the previous year under IAS 14-R. The results show that higher levels of industry competition are associated with higher levels of segment disclosure. Moreover, we find that firms operating in less competitive industries decreased the items of information provided for each segment under IFRS 8, compared to those released the previous year.