Catalogue description Records of Accountancy Advice and successors

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Reference: Division within T
Title: Records of Accountancy Advice and successors
Description:

Records of Accountancy Advice and successors.

The records concern discussions on expenditure and policy for the following government functions: public services; social services; territorial provision; local government; accounts and purchasing; management policy and running costs.

Accountancy Adviser and Head of the Government Accountancy Service: Registered files MAT prefix (Management Accounting Topics), T 611.

Accountancy Services Management: Registered Files (ASU prefix), T 652.
Date: 1984-1996
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Treasury, 1667-

Treasury, Accountancy Advice, 1984-1994

Treasury, Accountancy Adviser and the Government Accountancy Service, 1986-1988

Treasury, Deputy Chief Accountancy Adviser and Director of the Government Accountancy Service Management Unit, 1989-1993

Treasury, Management Accounting Development Division, 1986-1988
Physical description: 3 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Treasury
Custodial history: Records were stored at HM Treasury at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1, to April 2012. Thereafter the records were stored at a third party contractor prior to transfer to The National Archives.
Administrative / biographical background:

Accountancy Advice was first formed in 1984, taking on functions from the disbanded Accountancy, Finance and Audit Division and the Management Accountancy and Purchasing Policy Division. In 1989 Accountancy Advice was placed under the Deputy Chief Accountancy Adviser and Director of the Government Accountancy Service Management Unit, which also included the Internal Audit Development Division.

Functions of Accountancy Advice include: management and accounting aspects of public expenditure; the commercial accounting aspects of Treasury business, the monitoring and creation of trading funds and standards of internal audit in government departments, including advice on financial management and accounting standards in the public sector and the formulation of policies generally.

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