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    • in Blogs · Funding · Treasury
    • — 8 Feb, 2022

    MRP consultation: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

    David Green calls on the government to listen to feedback on the Minimum Revenue Provision consultation and avoid unintended consequences. Local authorities can fund capital expenditure, but not revenue expenditure,[…]

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    • in Blogs · Development · Treasury
    • — 11 Jan, 2022

    Treasury looks forward to old issues with new challenges

    David Green scans the treasury landscape for the coming year and finds codes of practice, levelling up, new accounting standards and interest rate rises looming. Happy New Year to Room[…]

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    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 25 Nov, 2021

    Room151’s 10th Anniversary: A treasury decade that saw borrowing double and investments transformed

    Ten years on the treasury landscape has been reshaped, writes David Green, as borrowing, investments, interest rates, regulation and accounting rules have all gone through change. As Room 151 celebrates[…]

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    • — 13 Sep, 2021

    Complexity of treasury governance challenges for members and officers

    The governance of treasury management is a multi-faceted process governed by multiples agencies in many documents. David Green examines the benefits of simplification. I’m sometimes asked how local authorities go[…]

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    • in Blogs · David Green · Treasury
    • — 16 Jul, 2021

    David Green: CIPFA ‘softens edges’ of the new Prudential Code

    Following an updated process, the new Prudential Code is ready to come into force. David Green writes CIPFA listened to respondents. Following its consultation on changes to the Prudential Code[…]

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    • in Blogs · David Green · Treasury
    • — 14 May, 2021

    David Green: Sidestepping the pitfalls of accounting for council-owned companies

    Auditors are taking a close interest in the accounting for companies owned by councils. David Green looks at the elements that attract attention. Council-owned companies have been in the news[…]

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    • in Blogs · David Green
    • — 22 Mar, 2021

    David Green: Lessons from Germany’s Greensill debacle

    Collapse of the Bremen-based Greensill Bank has hurt a number of German local authorities. David Green argues their troubles deserve close attention. You may not have heard of Greensill Bank[…]

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    • in Blogs · David Green · Treasury
    • — 27 Jan, 2021

    PWLB changes and local authority creditworthiness

    David Green asks whether new borrowing rules should prompt lenders to reassess the risk of doing business with councils. There are two main reasons why an organisation might default on[…]

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    • in 151 News · Blogs · David Green · Treasury
    • — 25 Nov, 2020

    Statutory overrides: extend or make permanent, but do it soon

    David Green writes that the alternative to extending statutory overrides will be “no good for local or central government, nor their taxpayers”. Local authorities are drawing up their revenue budgets[…]

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    • in Blogs · David Green · Treasury
    • — 12 Oct, 2020

    David Green: Taking a ‘balanced view’ of borrowing

    Long-term fixed rate loans may be low risk but, argues David Green, the lowest risk comes with a portfolio including a “decent proportion” of short-term borrowing. A recent Room 151[…]

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