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RSS Meeting on Public Sector Classification Issues- Tea at 1630 for meeting
at 1700 hrs Monday 23rd September
Robin Lynch and Martin Kellaway, Office for National Statistics.
"Classifying the Public Sector : Network Rail, a case study".
The guiding principle for classifying institutions as public or private is
who exerts control. How does this principle apply to Network Rail? How is
the government support for financing scored - as contingent liabilities?
What process has the ONS in place to protect its independence and
integrity? What is the role of international institutions including
Eurostat in this process? How did the Mobile Phone licence payments debate
finish?
What other recent cases need the assurance of independence? How do the
principles relevant for Network Rail apply to other government
supported investments? What are the issues surrounding the classification
of tax credits? How is it possible for commercial accounting and national
accounting to arrive at different sets of accounts?
Discussant: Jean Shaoul, Department of Accounting, University of Manchester.
How to get the RSS? See:
http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html
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