Resource Accounting and Budgeting: Principles, Concepts and Practice-The MoD Case

Abstract

In 1998/99 resource accounting will be trialed in the final group of departments to which it is to apply. Prominent among these will be the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The huge size of the MoD’s asset base, and the difficulty of assessing much of its value, raises problems which will not have to be faced by other government departments.