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Some councils are failing to comply with revised investment code requirements on proportionality and minimum revenue provision (MRP), according to a senior government official. Speaking to a session at Room151’s[…]
Councils who think they won’t be subject to new accounting rules on leases are in for a rude awakening, says David Green. One of the first things anyone analysing financial[…]
Have downward cost pressures hit the quality of local government auditing? Mike Allen looks for clues in a recent report by the National Audit Office. The public sector auditing landscape[…]
Northampton Borough Council faces a large bill caused by delays to audit work on its 2016/17 accounts, which are still not formally signed off and contain an adverse value for[…]
The very future of public sector audit is at stake, says Paul Dossett. I have worked in public audit for 32 years. I started my career in the era of[…]
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[…]
