Post Office: Auditing of Accounts and Systems of Financial Accounting and Compiling Statistics

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0813 POST 8 Series
Held at	: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/ ›
Full title	: Post Office: Auditing of Accounts and Systems of Financial Accounting and Compiling Statistics
Date(s)	: 1802-1991
Level of description	: Series
Extent	: 142 files and volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Post Office

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Post Office annual accounts, like those of other government departments, were liable to examination by the Public Accounts Audit Commissioners. One of the main duties of the accountant General was to superintend the making out and examining of the general accounts of Post Office revenue and to certify their validity before the Exchequer.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This series consists of records of the Public Accounts Audit Commissioners' checks on GPO annual accounts and the Accountant General's checks on accounts received from agents and postmasters in the first half of the 19th century. Also included are various reports and other papers relating to financial systems, methods of accounting and collecting, collating and presenting business statistics in the Post Office.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The material is arranged in chronological order within series.

Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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Allied Materials

Related material:

Records containing statistical data can be found in POST 9

Some pieces have been transferred to: POST 9, POST 19, POST 64, POST 76

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
EAD transfer validated May 2011