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9-685: The Navy Pay Office (NPO) was established in 1546, it was administered by the Treasurer of the Navy and existed until 1835 when all finance and accounting offices and departments of the Royal Navy were centralized into a single department under the Accountant-General of the Navy . The office was responsible processing naval finance including payments to flag officers, other commissioned officers and non-commissioned naval personnel and including

18-576: The Board of Admiralty from 1832 until 1869. In 1866 the accountant and his department became the immediate deputising function to the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty , it was then given a partial remit over control of naval estimating. The accountants department, however, had no authority to monitor and track expenditure or estimates of other departments. In January 1869

27-628: The Victualling Office . The work of its staff was divided into a number of branches with specific areas of responsibility, these were overseen by the paymaster of the navy, the inspector of seamen's wills and the captains comptrolling payments of ships at Portsmouth, Plymouth and the Nore. The Navy Pay Office (domain of the Treasurer of the Navy and the Paymaster of the Navy) was independent of

36-521: The Admiralty . The department consisted of a number of specialist accounting divisions with sub-branches that were administered by the Assistant Accountants-General of the Navy, see each divisions responsibilities in the relevant section below. Included: Included: Incomplete list included: Incomplete list included: Included: Primary source for this article is by * Lovell, Tony; Harley, Simon. " Accountant-General of

45-641: The Navy The Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy also known as Accountant-General's Department was the department charged by the British Government with reviewing all naval estimates, conducting naval audits and processing payments from 1829 to 1932. Prior to 1832 the navy did not have a specialist department for accounting purposes there existed only an office for administering naval widows pensions that

54-668: The Navy Board; though the board's commissioners were required to authorize payments, all funds transferred from HM Treasury were held and issued by the Navy Pay Office (which was also known as the Naval Treasury). The Navy Pay Office consisted of a number of specific departments and offices that included: Each branch within the Navy Pay Office was administered by a Chief Clerk each had a head cashier together with other supporting staff. Accountant-General of

63-672: The department was restructured with new reporting lines – that which made the Parliamentary Secretary , with the Civil Lord of the Admiralty as his assistant, now had overall responsibility for Naval Finance. As a result of the re-structuring, the stores accounts functions, for both naval and victualling, overseen by the Storekeeper-General and the Controller of Victualling, were transferred as part of

72-526: The new responsibilities of the department. The office of the Accountant-General was thus empowered to both review and critique these departments financially, further enlargement of the department took place in 1876 with traditional responsibilities added. The department continued in this role until 1932 when the office of Accountant-General and his staff were merged into the Department of the Secretary to

81-591: Was the domain of the Paymaster for Widows Pensions . The Accountant-General's Department was established when the Admiralty's civil departments were reorganized and the Navy Board was abolished in 1832, this new department took over the duties of the Navy Boards, Accountants Department and Navy Boards, Payments Department . The Accountant-General of the Navy was initially one of the new Principal Officers of

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