Investigate Obstacles Of Advances Public Sector Accounting In Iran From the perspective of academics

Progress and development in public sector management and accounting in developed countries and in developing countries has been highly regarded. Factors and multiple components and models to explain and predict these developments have been considered. Despite the change in public sector accounting and reporting at the global level, in Iran has not been much development in this sector.
This is a descriptive research and we use survey method. A questionnaire was used to collect data. This research is considered an academic community. The community consists of graduates of master's degree or higher in accounting at national universities. The questionnaire contains 30 questions to test the hypothesis. In order to test research hypothesis t-test and to ranking them Friedman test has been used. The results show that the broad dimensions such as educational, legal, political and accounting profession retardation influence in public sector accounting. Educational problems in public sector accounting, lack of expertise in this sector, the lack regulations, lack of public sector accounting standards and the lack of budgeting problem, accountability problem, lack of operational and financial communications at the international level, the unwillingness of the accounting profession in the public sector and centralize management in public sectors is 10 sub-categories that we test and confirm. Lack of public sector accounting standards and, the reluctance of the public sector to accountability and budgeting problems as the most important factors and obstacles to the development of public sector accounting.