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Catalogue description HM Treasury: Public Services (Sector): Accountancy Advice Treasury (AAT) file prefix: Registered Files
| Reference: | T 626 |
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| Title: | HM Treasury: Public Services (Sector): Accountancy Advice Treasury (AAT) file prefix: Registered Files |
| Description: |
The records in this series concern management accounting aspects of public finance, 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. |
| Date: | 1984 |
| Arrangement: |
The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | AAT |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Treasury, Public Services, 1983-1985 |
| Physical description: | 3 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 2015 Treasury |
| Accumulation dates: | 1984 to 1988 |
| Selection and destruction information: | Records Collection Policy s.3.1.1 - records that illustrate the government's role in the management of the UK economy. Only a few files have been selected from the total as the majority of records in this series were considered to be routine administrative rather than policy related. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Public Services Sector of Treasury was responsible for accountancy standards in government. Under this sector the Accountancy Advice Group was introduced in 1981 to administer advice and monitor standards. In 1984 the Expenditure Support Group took over this role. Under the sector and both successive groups the Accountancy, Finance and Audit Division was responsible for this work. |
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