The Commonwealth Accounts Service is a constituent organisation of the Statutory Services.
| Commonwealth Accounts Service | |
|---|---|
| Statutory service of the Ministry of Accounts | |
| Authority | Ministry of Accounts |
| Branches | Civil, defence, posts |
| Established | 1967 |
The Commonwealth Accounts Service is the statutory service of government accountants in the Commonwealth. Every ministry, parliament and large constituent organisation has a chief accounting officer from the service, and most bureaus have several. Its cadre authority is the Ministry of Accounts.
Although money is not used in the domestic commons, government is accounted for in detail. Government enterprises keep commercial accounts in reference values, bureaus account for labour hours and days of stock, and imports, exports, foreign missions and the federal levy are accounted in foreign currency. Officers of the service keep all of these accounts and certify them to the Ministry of Accounts each quarter.
The service has three branches, for civil, defence and postal accounts, which were separate services with separate examinations until they were merged in 1967. The defence branch keeps its own registry at the Ministry of Defence.