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The Local Government Association has expressed disappointment that the government has not created a method of accurately compensating councils for losses resulting from business rate appeals. In a consultation released[…]
Tony Crawley describes the progress so far, and looks at the quality and costs of local authority audits. This year marks the beginning of Public Sector Audit Appointments Limted (PSAA)[…]
CIPFA’s new publication aimed at helping councils streamline needs to represent the first step in a much longer journey, writes consultant Peter Worth. Streamlining the Accounts: Guidance for Local Authorities[…]
Christian Wall gives his take on CIPFA’s new tool to compare councils’ financial performance Just before Christmas CIPFA summarised the initial findings of its Financial Resilience Index. The index as[…]
The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a report on local authority governance aimed at looking whether it provides local taxpayers and Parliament with the assurance that council spending achieves[…]
The Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy has produced new guidance to help council finance officers slash the length of annual accounts and reduce the amount of work needed[…]
The government has been urged to boost the resources available to councils by standardising the methodology used by Local Government Pension Scheme actuaries. Paul Jones, executive director of finance and[…]
Stephen Sheen takes a look at the changes that the new year will bring – aided by a curious money spider. It’s the time of year for getting the crystal[…]
Rob Whiteman reviews the dramatic changes over the past 12 months and looks ahead to the coming year. Just as the 1960s are retrospectively seen as a period of social[…]
David Green casts an eye over a year of numerous changes. 2018 was a big year for regulatory change in local authority treasury management. No sooner had the New Year’s[…]
