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  • 151 BRIEF

    What's New?

  • Slough welcomes commitment that Office for Local Government ‘will not be a burden’

    June 30, 2022

  • Homes England agrees strategic partnership with two authorities

    June 29, 2022

  • Soaring inflation and pay pressures to add £3.6bn to council budgets

    June 28, 2022

  • Underfunded social care reforms could ‘exacerbate workforce pressures’

    June 27, 2022

  • Nottingham City Council leader labels proposed intervention as ‘disappointing’

    June 27, 2022

  • Government preparing to intervene in Nottingham City Council

    June 23, 2022

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  • LGPS
  • Development
  • 151 News
  • Blogs
    • David Green
    • Agent 151
    • Dan Bates
    • Richard Harbord
    • Stephen Sheen
    • James Bevan
    • Steve Bishop
    • Cllr John Clancy
    • David Crum
    • Graham Liddell
    • Ian O’Donnell
    • Jackie Shute
  • Interviews
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Graham Liddell

  • Ask the Auditor: School assets and your balance sheet 2
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell · Technical
    • — 27 Nov, 2014

    Ask the Auditor: School assets and your balance sheet

    Following CIPFA’s November local authority conferences, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP provides an updated assessment of the issues faced by local authorities  considering whether to recognise school buildings[…]

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    Ask the Auditor: Schools, subsidiaries, associates & JVs 0
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell · Technical
    • — 16 Oct, 2014

    Ask the Auditor: Schools, subsidiaries, associates & JVs

    The CIPFA/LASAAC Code of Practice on local authority accounting for 2014/15 includes some important changes from previous years. In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton[…]

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  • Auditing the completeness of s106 liabilities 0
    • in Graham Liddell · Technical
    • — 17 Jul, 2014

    Auditing the completeness of s106 liabilities

      In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP revisits two topics from previous blogs: s106 agreements and provisions for business rates.  To ask[…]

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    Ask the Auditor: Accounting estimates 0
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell · Technical
    • — 9 Jun, 2014

    Ask the Auditor: Accounting estimates

    In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP discusses the role of the CFO in making accounting estimates.  To ask Graham a technical query,[…]

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  • Top 10 issues for the 2013/14 closedown 0
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell
    • — 25 Apr, 2014

    Top 10 issues for the 2013/14 closedown

    In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP sets out ten areas for practitioners to consider as they close down their accounts for 2013/14. […]

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    Accounting for business rates retention/ police accounting update 0
    • in Graham Liddell
    • — 20 Mar, 2014

    Accounting for business rates retention/ police accounting update

    In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP comments on business rates retention, CIPFA’s LAAP bulletin on police accounting and major concerns raised by[…]

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  • Early pensions contributions update 0
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell
    • — 11 Feb, 2014

    Early pensions contributions update

    Following Graham’s recent post on the treatment of early pensions contributions, we’ve seen a number of responses and queries from local government. Graham has provided the following update to his[…]

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    Early pensions contributions, provisions for business rate appeals & property valuations 1
    • in Graham Liddell · Recent Posts
    • — 29 Jan, 2014

    Early pensions contributions, provisions for business rate appeals & property valuations

    In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP answers questions about prepaying pension costs, valuing property, plant and equipment and estimating provisions for appeals[…]

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  • Ask the Auditor’s New Year’s wish list 0
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell
    • — 19 Dec, 2013

    Ask the Auditor’s New Year’s wish list

    In our final Ask the Auditor of 2013, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP reflects upon the year and feedback from local authorities to set out his hopes and[…]

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    Improving the preparation and audit of your financial statement 2
    • in Blogs · Graham Liddell
    • — 22 Oct, 2013

    Improving the preparation and audit of your financial statement

    In our regular feature, Ask The Auditor, Graham Liddell from Grant Thornton UK LLP this month answers questions on learning from the preparation and audit of the 2012/13 financial statements[…]

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  • 151 BRIEFS – WHAT’s NEW?

    • Homes England agrees strategic partnership with two authorities
    • Soaring inflation and pay pressures to add £3.6bn to council budgets
    • Underfunded social care reforms could ‘exacerbate workforce pressures’
    • Nottingham City Council leader labels proposed intervention as ‘disappointing’
    • Government preparing to intervene in Nottingham City Council
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