As Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Ewart Gladstone started significant changes of public money and Parliamentary responsibility. His 1866 Exchequer and Audit Departments Act required all offices, interestingly, to create yearly records, known as appointment accounts. The Act additionally settled the place of Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) and an Exchequer and Audit Department (E&AD) to give supporting staff from inside the common assistance. The C&AG was given two principle capacities - to approve the issue of public cash to government from the Bank of England, having fulfilled himself that this was inside the cutoff points Parliament had casted a ballot - and to review the records of all Government divisions and report to Parliament in like manner