CIGAR is a network of academics researching governmental accounting, whose primary purpose is to encourage comparison across national boundaries. In this, ‘governmental accounting’ is widely defined to include all governmental entities (at transnational, national, regional and local levels) and to cover budgeting, accounting, financial reporting and auditing.
To date, CIGAR has taken three specific forms. First, the network has held Biennial Conferences since 1987. These conferences are open to anyone to offer papers and attend, or to attend without offering a paper; the conferences have been a mix of academics and practitioners. Second, the network has held Biennial Workshops since 1992. The workshops are by invitation and are generally restricted to a small group of academics. Many of these conferences and workshops have produced collections of papers in the form of books and issues of academic journals. And third, the network has carried out a project to compare the government budgeting and accounting systems in nine European countries (Euro-CIGAR study), the product of which was an edited book.
CIGAR is managed by a Board, the chair of which is Eugenio Caperchione of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
The academics who have hosted previous conferences and workshops are: Aad Bac (University of Tilburg); Dietrich Budaeus (University of Hamburg); Ernst Buschor (then University of St. Gallen); Eugenio Caperchione (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia); James Chan (University of Illinois at Chicago); Rowan Jones (University of Birmingham); Susana Jorge (University of Coimbra); Evelyne Lande (University of Poitiers); Frode Mellemvik (Bodø Graduate School of Business); Norvald Monsen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration); Vicente Montesinos (University of Valencia); Riccardo Mussari (University of Siena); Salme Näsi (University of Tampere); Kuno Schedler (University of St. Gallen); Jean-Claude Scheid (Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers); José-Manuel Vela (then University of Valencia).
CIGAR was founded, de facto, in 1987 by James Chan, Rowan Jones and Klaus Lüder (University of Speyer). In 1999, we established a Chairman of the network, who was Klaus Lüder until he retired from his Speyer chair in 2003. Rowan Jones was chair 2003-2009.
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