Sónia P. Nogueira is Associate Professor at the School of Public Management, Communication and Tourism, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB). Currently, she is lecturing Public Sector Accounting, Public Audit and Management, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, her research interests focus on Public Sector Accounting and Management, particularly on the Local Government area - Financial Reporting. Her main recent investigation touches issues such as usefulness of financial reporting in the context of decision-making of Portuguese Local Administration. She serves as a member of Program Board for some Scientific Committees of International Conferences and has collaborated as a reviewer with several journals. She was awarded her PhD in Economics and Business -Local Government Accounting (Business and Economic Sciences School, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) in 2012. She has been author of national and international communications on Public Sector Accounting, specifically on local government accounting. She serves as a member of Program Board for some Scientific Committees of International Conferences and has collaborated as a reviewer with several journals. She has received the award ‘Luiz Chaves de Almeida – 2010’, attributed in 2011, for the research ‘usefulness of financial information municipal for decision-making internal users: the case of the municipality of Bragança’ and the first awards by open concourse ‘Awards Accounting Luiz Chaves de Almeida’ - 2013 with the project title ‘The Financial Reporting in the Decision-Making of Political and Municipal Managers. Empirical Evidence for Portugal’, attributed in 2014.

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