OSCAR
Functional Standards Common Glossary, published by the Cabinet Office, suggests that the: ‘Online System for Central Accounting and Reporting (OSCAR) supplies information for a wide range of users and uses: the HM Treasury’s planning and control of public spending; the HM Treasury’s monitoring and forecasting of spending against the fiscal framework; HM Treasury publications, such as Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses; operational publications, such as Main and Supplementary Estimates; departmental publications, such as the common core tables in Departmental Reports; ONS publications based on the National Accounts, including Public Sector Finances which contains information for the fiscal aggregates and; the input side of ONS’ measures of public sector productivity.’
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