Object codes list as per the Government-wide Chart of Accounts

This dataset contains the object code classification structure and the descriptions for each of the object codes. The object code is a field in the government-wide coding block. It identifies the types of goods or services acquired, the transfer payments made, the source of revenue or the cause of increases or decreases in assets and liabilities. The object code information provides:

• a structure for reporting the nature of transactions in the Estimates and in the Public Accounts of Canada

• a standard classification of transactions for internal departmental analysis and use by central management

• the basis used by Statistics Canada to more accurately determine and report the impact of government revenues and expenditures on the rest of the economy

In addition, the object coding allows the information to be useable at a government-wide level, which reduces the number of individual requests central agencies must make to departments and agencies.

Additional details can be found at official website of the Government-wide Chart of Accounts.