Study of the determinants of municipal financial condition

The aim of this book is to construct financial condition indicators for the municipalities of Minas Gerais using budgetary and accounting variables such as assets, liabilities and liquidated expenses, classifying them into cash solvency, budgetary solvency, long-term solvency and service solvency. In addition, the potential determinants of municipal financial condition were studied by means of social, economic and demographic variables using the regression statistical model. Based on the information contained in the Brazilian Public Sector Accounting and Fiscal Information System for 2018, 11 financial condition indicators were constructed based on the literature, with emphasis on the work of Wang, Dennis and Tu (2007) and Gonçalves (2018). The descriptive statistics of the indicators constructed evaluated possible behaviors related to the size of the municipalities and the mesoregion in which they are located and their distributions.