The Financial Reporting Council has delivered its verdict on council audits but, writes Stephen Sheen, it falls short of recognising the “unique nature of local authority accounts”. Although the Financial[…]
The Redmond Review has made a series of recommendations for improving local government audit. Stephen Sheen argues it leaves many questions unaswered. The report of the Redmond Review into the[…]
The regulator’s efforts to upgrade audit is “piling up wreckage” in local government, according to Stephen Sheen.
An effort to reduce the accounts preparation burden on local authorities in the midst of coping with the Covid-19 crisis was recently abandoned. Stephen Sheen looks at the implications. This[…]
Its the time of year when finance teams focus on their statement of accounts. Stephen Sheen argues that pushing back the deadline for audited accounts is not enough. There is[…]
Local government audit failed to reach optimum performance levels this year: Deadlines were missed and key staff lost. Things will need to improve in 2020, says Stephen Sheen Well, that[…]
The pressure has been on external auditors this Summer. The first year of the new Public Sector Audit Appointments (PSAA) contracts, with fees cut by 23%, reshuffled appointments, and firms[…]
When the Prudential Code was being developed, there was no expectation that it was going to be a document that was going to change the world. Its function was largely[…]
Central government last week decided to allow Northamptonshire County Council to use capital receipts from the sale of its headquarters to balance its revenue budget. Stephen Sheen investigates the accounting[…]
Stephen Sheen looks at how a suite of new accounting standards will impact preparations for next year’s statements of accounts. As the ink dries on the 2017/18 statement of accounts,[…]
