Division
Records of Accountancy Advice and successors
Catalogue reference: Division within T
What's it about?
Division within T
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;...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within T
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Accountancy Advice and successors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1984-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Treasury, 1667-1667
- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 series
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Treasury
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- 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.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13375057/
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Records of Accountancy Advice and successors