public accounts
State financial records
Public accounts are the official financial records of a government, detailing revenues, expenditures, assets, and liabilities.
In parliamentary systems, a public accounts committee scrutinizes government spending to ensure funds were used as authorized: The public accounts revealed significant cost overruns in the defense ministry.
The term appears most often in British, Canadian, and Commonwealth contexts.
- financial statementsFormal records of transactions
- annual reportsPeriodic corporate financial disclosures
- government spendingState allocation of funds
- state budgetGovernment's financial allocation document
- oversight committeesBodies monitoring other institutions
taxpayer dollars · compliance checks · value for money · audit report · audit trails · risk assessments · budget proposals · balance sheets · fraud detection · income statements · deficit spending · comptroller · internal audits · whistleblower protections · internal audits
- local financecouncil tax, community banks, budgets, regional banks, state bonds
- oversightoversight committees, oversight board, review, auditors, supervisor
- public budgetbudget bill, budget deficit, budget surplus, budget vote, budget debate
- public financebudget deficit, tax revenue, budgets, expenditure, national budget
- public financestreasury bonds, treasury notes, exchequer, coffers, national debt
- treasuryUS Treasury, Treasury Department, treasury bonds, Exchequer, state treasury
public accountspersonal accounts
First-person experiential narratives
business accounts · household accounts · individual accounts
public, accounts, publicly, publics, publication, publish, publisher, publishing, publicize