Barbara Cassani, business leader, entrepreneur and founder of Go Fly is the latest high-profile speaker to join the programme at CIPFA's Annual Conference 2015
Public finance professionals should be at the forefront of public service reform in a Scotland likely to remain dominated by Left-wing politicians with an ‘unthinking’ belief in a big public sector,...
The Barnett formula needs to be scrapped as part of moves to ensure an equitable and sustainable distribution of public funding across the UK, a CIPFA submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly has...
CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Centre is to work with BAE Systems to compile its global risk register and develop new ways for public bodies to detect cases of fraud.
The Scottish Government has revealed the membership of a 13-strong commission that will examine alternatives to the council tax, with members including Cosla president David O’Neill and head of CIPFA...
Groups of local authorities should be given complete control over council tax, including the value of bands and the timing of revaluations, the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has...
Public audit requires a different set of skills and experience from the private sector, writes Rob Whiteman. This is one of many issues that the new assurance arrangements fail to address
CIPFA members are being asked for their views on proposed changes to the institute’s governance structure, intended to reflect its increasingly global outlook.
CIPFA has welcomed a strong set of results by students sitting for both its professional qualification and the institute’s new public audit qualification.
The Department for Communities and Local Government’s new permanent secretary should ensure that mature debate should replace rhetoric and spin that can emanate from Whitehall
Councils face a 6% cut in spending power next year once ring-fenced funds and pooled resources are excluded from the Local Government Finance Settlement, an analysis by CIPFA has found.
Local authority chief finance officers are becoming less confident about the ability of their organisations to continue providing services amid government funding cuts, a CIPFA poll has revealed.
The Audit Commission’s controller of audit has raised concerns about transparency at Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority and the London Borough of Lambeth after they failed to publish their 2013/14...
Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement did not provide any explanation of how public services will be able to deliver cuts still to be made, CIPFA has said.
A former Scottish Government cabinet minister has called for a restructuring of Scottish local government and other public bodies in response to plans to devolve significant extra powers to Holyrood.
Councils should be given the right to set business rates and retain any growth in income, while Whitehall should lose its current redistribution powers, the Local Government Association has said.
CIPFA is to launch a Global Fraud Risk Register to help public sectors across the world improve efforts to tackle fraud threats, and to identify and react to emerging problems.
What does CIPFA want from the political parties come May 2015? Some honesty about the fiscal position, for starters – and realism about the hard choices to be made