[wdmmg-discuss] Standards: public bodies publish spending

Thu May 27 11:51:00 UTC 2010

On 27 May 2010 12:11, Alistair Turnbull <apt1002 at goose.minworks.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010, CountCulture wrote:
>
>> Re standard classification, this (I think) was picking up from our
>> discussion at OKCON.
>
> Indeed. :-) But I'm not on the author list any more; Lisa and Rufus have
> taken this over.

Anyone can be on the author list -- who contributes! Editable document url is:

<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARkFVPcNaYlxZGNjOWg3YjZfNTZmc2djenRkaw>

>> It maybe that something suitable already exists (COFOG? Something by
>> CIPFA).
>
> COFOG is an excellent start, though perhaps not detailed enough. Also, we
> should consider making UK-specific customisations. HMRC have already
> slightly customised COFOG for things like the relationship with the EU, and
> the distinction between local authority debt and central government debt,
> and we should probably incorporate those changes.

I think this could go in an appendix. It would be nice to make this
relatively generic.

[snip]

Rufus