Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services
10:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
I think a key objective of a set of financial statements is to represent the activity in the year properly and accurately. That is the focus. We need to know what the costs of services are. So there is an argument that could be made that if it is charged on one account as opposed to the other, it is circular anyway, but in terms of identifying the cost of a service in a year, it is better that charges that are proper to that service in that year are properly accounted for in that year.