Financial Statements 2016 for the City of Linz, Austria

Financial statements for the city of Linz, Austria, for the year 2016, structured according to the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV). The dataset compares assets, including fixed assets like land and buildings and current assets like receivables, against liabilities such as debts. It was published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal financial health based on the comparison of assets and liabilities described.
• Benchmark the asset composition of a city government based on categories like land, buildings, and receivables.
• Study the application of the VRV ordinance in structuring public financial disclosures.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a specific legal ordinance (VRV), providing a standardized framework.
• The dataset has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is from a single year (2016), limiting temporal analysis.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official municipal accounts.

Time Range

2016

Geography

Linz, Austria