Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karen I. Alaverdyan Author-Email: karen.alaverdyan@minfin.am Author-Workplace-Name: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan 0010, Armenia Author-Name: Raffi A. Aleksanyan Author-Email: raffi.aleksanyan@minfin.am Author-Workplace-Name: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan 0010, Armenia Author-Name: Svetlana A. Tabalina Author-Email: tabalina@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia Title: International Practice of Consolidated Financial Statements Presentation at Public Sector Abstract: The article discusses the international standard requirements to the public sector consolidated financial statements. The main international standards guides for the public sector statements are the Government Finance Statistics Manual (GFSM) and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). The article highlights that several countries use the approach to public sector financial statements that allows to comply both GFSM and IPSAS requirements. Most governments use step-by-step transfer to the consolidated financial statements presentation at the public sector. Classification-JEL: H83, M48 Keywords: consolidated financial statements, public sector, International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), public finance Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 103-114 Issue: 4 Year: 2018 Month: August DOI: 10.31107/2075-1990-2018-4-103-114 File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2018/4/statii_4/09_fm_2018_4.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:180409:p:103-114