Between 1978 and 1992, the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG) promoted and enforced sound financial management practices throughout the federal government through development of standards for internal financial controls, reporting structures, program review, evaluation, performance measurement and internal audit procedures in departments, and through independent effectiveness studies of departmental programs. The Comptroller General also had the responsibility for developing the official response to the Annual Report of the Auditor General. During the years, 1978-1992, the Treasury Board Secretariat was, in effect, divided in two, each half having the status of a separate department of government but both reporting to the President of the Treasury Board and both serving as elaborate secretariats for the Treasury Board as a Committee of Cabinet with a broad and expanding mandate to manage the material, financial and personnel resources of the Government of Canada. In 1992, the Office of the Comptroller General and the Treasury Board Secretariat were merged once again into a single Department of Government with the deputy head bearing the two titles, The records in this series document a limited set of administrative activities of the office including, organization, roles and respnsibilities, the minutes of senior management committee meetings.
