Catalogue description Treasury: Management Accounting and Purchasing Policy: Registered Files (2 MAP Series)

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Reference: T 367
Title: Treasury: Management Accounting and Purchasing Policy: Registered Files (2 MAP Series)
Description:

This series contains records concerning management accounting and purchasing policy, the continuation of the technical elements of management accounting, together with wider apects of public purchasing policy.

Date: 1969-1975
Arrangement:

Numerical by former file reference.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 2 MAP series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 67 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2006 Treasury

Accumulation dates: 1974-1975
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee on the Civil Service (the Fulton Committee) received evidence on and pressed in their recommendations, among other matters, for greater adoption of accountable units of management within departments, including new developments such as the identification of cost centres, and of hiving off, for blocks of executive work, and management by objectives for administrative work which was not amenable to quantitative performance measurement (Fulton report chapter five, Cmnd 3638, published 1968).

On the creation of the Civil Service Department (also a Fulton Committee recommendation), development of these approaches was split, the technical accounting element remaining in the Treasury, and the organisational element passing with Management Services branches to Civil Service Department.

In 1973 consideration of public purchasing policy was added to the Management Accounting Unit's functions.

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