CIPFA’s annual Tom Sowerby award for outstanding service to student education has been won by Paul Simpson, director of finance and procurement at Nottinghamshire County Council.
CIPFA president Mike Owen has urged political parties to avoid tempting voters with short-term policies at next May’s general election, but instead plan and budget for the medium to long term.
Should public sector finance managers be more open with the public about the effects of cuts in services? Participants at a recent CIPFA roundtable debate on health and social care funding certainly...
The role of Whitehall finance directors could be expanded to help improve transparency and decision-making, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has suggested.
Comptroller and auditor general Amyas Morse received a knighthood in this year’s Birthday Honours, leading a distinguished list of public servants who were recognised.
The number of people working in the public sector has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years after the part-privatisation of Lloyds Banking Group led to nearly 100,000 posts being reclassified in the...
Employees need to be motivated and feel engaged in their work. If staff resign without good reason, it’s time to take a look at your employee benefits package and tailor an offer that helps hang on...
Stereotypes of men in grey suits poring over spreadsheets are out of date. Finance business partners are organisations ‘new’ critical friends’, helping them take decisions in a tough fiscal world
Grant Thornton has received CIPFA’s Cliff Nicholson Award in recognition of the firm’s work with Oldham Council to quicken the sign-off of the authority’s accounts
Julian Kelly has been appointed director general of public spending and finance in the Treasury after the post was created following the government’s Financial Management Review, it was announced...
A review of the Local Government Pension Scheme has ruled out mergers of the 89 funds in England, but has concluded that as much as £660m a year could be saved through greater use of common...
Council shared service initiatives saved more than £350m in the last year as more town halls agreed to work together in areas such as adult social care, school support and back-office functions,...
The chair of the Public Works Loan Board has stepped down after it was revealed that he had not declared a bankruptcy when he was being appointed to the role.
We need more clarity and brevity in financial statements if they are to meet the needs of users. But too often public bodies play safe and fail to consider the 'materiality' of the information...
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has sent an inspection team to examine allegations of governance failure, poor financial management and fraud at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Public sector productivity will need to improve to maintain services amid continuing government cuts, the head of the government finance profession has said.
There are currently ‘inexplicable’ differences in pay across the civil service that need to be examined as part of the government’s deficit reduction programme, a senior Treasury figure has said.