Double Entry Bookkeeping in British Central Government, 1822-1856

Hugh Coombs, John R. Edwards, Hugh Greener

• BPP 1822, vi, 293 Report from the select committee on the public accounts of the United Kingdom, annually laid before Parliament, 31 July 1822, BPP 1829, vi, 1 Report of the comm1ss1oners (T.C. Brooksbank and S. Beltz) appointed to inquire into and to state the mode of keeping the official accounts in the principal departments connected with the receipts and expenditure for the public service, &c. 9 February 1829, BPP 1829, vi, 361 Reports made to the lords of the treasury by the third commissioner (P.H. Abbott) for investigating the mode of keeping the public accounts also, a memorial addressed by them (Brooksbank and Beltz) to him on the 28th February 1829, 12 June 1829, BPP 1830, xxix, 1 Letter from Mr. Abbott, late one of the commissioners, for inquiring into the state of the public accounts, addressed to the Right Honourable the lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury dated the 27th November 1829; together with the explanations and observations of Messrs. Brooksbank and Beltz thereupon, dated 18th Dec. 1829, BPP 1831, xiv, 289 Report of Messrs. Brooksbank and Beltz, on the progress made in the several public departments for carrying into effect the directions for a general system of book-keeping contained in t a minute of the board of treasury, dated 14th July 1829, BPP 1831, x, i First report of commissioners of public accounts. Report on the Exchequer, 10 October 1831, BPP 1837, vii, 305 Report from the select committee on the accounts of colonial receipt and expenditure; with the minutes of evidence, appendix and index, 13 July 1837, BPP 1844, xxxii, 703 A statement of the changes which have been introduced into the system of book-keeping in the public departments, since the report on the Exchequer made (by the commissioners of public accounts) in 1832*, BPP 1845, viii, 1 Report from the select committee on colonial accounts; together with minutes of evidence, appendix and index, 17 July 1845, BPP 1847, xxxvii, 609 Colonial returns, BPP 1851, vii, 735. Report from the select committee on army and ordnance expenditure; with the proceedings of the committee, 21 July 1851, BPP 1856, xxii, 361. First report of her majesty's civil service commissioners for conducting the examination of the young men so proposed to be appointed to any of the junior situations in the civil establishments; together with appendices, BPP 1857, session 2, ix, 495. Report from the select committee on public monies; with the proceedings of the committee, and appendix 18 August 1857, BPP 1868-9, xxxv. Public income and expenditure. Gross accounts of the United Kingdom, 29 July 1869