Culture is the “biggest thing” that needs to change to empower internal auditors in the public sector to make positive contributions to their organisations, according to speakers at Public Finance...
Work to improve diversity and inclusion needs to be proactive and tackle the organisation’s culture rather than simply increase participation rates, Public Finance Live delegates were told.
Panellists at Public Finance Live agreed something needs to change to speed up audit opinions being issued on council accounts, but were unsure whether giving auditors a statutory deadline is the...
Public sector organisations – as well as businesses in general – must continually strive for greater inclusion if they are to better serve their communities and service-users.
Conservative leadership candidates risk missing the wider picture about the need to ‘level up’ the UK with their statements about tax cuts and shrinking the Whitehall wage bill, former education...
Former CIPFA president Tony Redmond will discuss his independent review into local authority audit and scrutiny at the annual Public Finance Live Conference in October, which is going online for the...
Addressing inequality across the public and private sectors is essential to restoring trust in public services, delegates at CIPFA’s annual conference – Public Finance Live 2019 – were told.
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.
