SCENES FROM A BUDGET: HELPING THE POLICE WITH THEIR ACCOUNTING ENQUIRIES

Accounting information, when used in organizations for decision-making purposes, joins with other types of information to help define and interpret situations. In an effort to portray the role played by accounting information and that of the Treasurer in the construction of the budget of an English Police Authority, this paper explores through a dramaturgical metaphor the events which led to the setting of the budget.