A university is calling for experts to contribute to a platform aimed at sparking debate over the challenges of providing services in the UK in the face of continuous spending cuts.
The chief financial officer is not just a number cruncher but should be the “seat of wisdom” in an organisation, the final session of the CIPFA conference was told yesterday.
A number of government projects should be sidelined to allow resources and manpower to be diverted to deal with Brexit, Bernard Jenkin told the CIPFA conference.
Negotiating and influencing abilities are increasingly important parts of senior public sector accountants’ skill set, Amsterdam’s chief financial officer told the CIPFA conference.
Local authority-run companies should avoid having too many council members on executive boards to ensure commercial success, CIPFA’s annual conference was told.
The finance directors of 2030 will need better people skills than their counterparts of today normally have, and be less focussed on technical accounting, a session at the CIPFA conference has heard.
The public sector must remain resilient as austerity looks likely to continue well into the next decade, the CIPFA president said in his opening address to conference this morning.
Local government faces greater uncertainty because of the current political situation after the general election last week, the head of CIPFA has said.
Accountants must be ready to adapt to the impact of technology on the profession in the years ahead, delegates at CIPFA conference were told yesterday.
Public Sector Audit Appointments expects to gain government approval to become a body through which local authorities can opt to have their auditors chosen, a workshop at the CIPFA conference has...
Securing a credit rating has helped Warrington Borough Council raise money for a regeneration project, its finance director Lynton Green told a CIPFA conference workshop.
City leaders must make the case for devolution to the new government if the programme is to continue under Theresa May’s administration, a leading localism expert has told CIPFA’s annual...