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National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Finance Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: COAL 23
What's it about?
COAL 23
This series illustrates the work covered by the Finance Department and includes files covering the formulation of policy and advice as well as issues of administration, financial management and accounting.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- COAL 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Finance Department: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1918-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series illustrates the work covered by the Finance Department and includes files covering the formulation of policy and advice as well as issues of administration, financial management and accounting.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- British Coal Corporation, Finance Department, 1987-1987
- National Coal Board, Finance Department, 1947-1987
- National Coal Board, Secretarys Department, 1947-1987
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 777 files, flat sheets and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Coal
- Mining and quarrying
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- The files in this series have been selected to illustrate the work of the department and to demonstrate the rationale behind the main financial policy decisions.
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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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The Finance Department was responsible for all the financial aspects of the National Coal Board's policy and for providing financial advice at all levels of management. It protected the assets of the board and operated internal checks, and secured the availability of cash to enable the operations of the board to be carried out. It also maintained the accounts of the NCB and exercised control over the regional accounting offices. In the late 1950s it took over responsibility for superannuation accounts from the Secretary's Department while in 1975, the audit function was re-organised and a separate totally independent Audit Department established.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5271/
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National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Finance Department: Registered Files
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