Catalogue description National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Audit Department: Registered Files

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Reference: COAL 94
Title: National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Audit Department: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains audit reports, correspondence, investigation reports and minutes on all aspects of the Audit Department's work

Date: 1957-1997
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

British Coal Corporation, Audit Department, 1987-1997

National Coal Board, Audit Department, 1975-1987

Physical description: 403 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1998 British Coal Corporation

Accruals: No future accruals expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Audit Department was established in May 1975 to take over from the Finance Department the role of the internal Audit Branch. The department was responsible to an Audit Committee of the National Coal Board which was also formed in 1975. The committee was chaired by the board's chairman and comprised the board's deputy chairman, three full-time and four part-time board members. The main responsibilities of the Audit Department were to help management to improve results, help to ensure maximum revenue is obtained and report on compliance with board policy, the proper performance of standing instructions and statutory regulations.

Under a Director-General of Audit who headed the department, there were a Director of Audit (Accounting), a Director of Audit (Technical) and five Audit Managers, representing Northern, Yorkshire, Midlands, Western and Southern audit centres.

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