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11 Oct 18
Northamptonshire Council’s incoming finance chief has told PF he is “looking forward” to the “biggest challenge” of his career.
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5 Oct 18
managing director of education and members at CIPFA
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21 Sep 18
The regulator has told NHS trusts to stop setting up controversial wholly owned subsidiaries until further guidance is issued.
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14 Sep 18
Public Sector Audit Appointments has named Tony Crawley as its new chief executive.
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12 Sep 18
The Ministry of Defence must rethink its recruitment process and address a growing skills gap, MPs have said.
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11 Sep 18
The NHS provider sector has plunged further into deficit while staffing problems have intensified, official figures have revealed.
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7 Sep 18
Huw Vaughan Thomas, former auditor general for Wales, talks to PF’s Vivienne Russell about how the Wales Audit Office has evolved and the implications of the country’s new fiscal...
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5 Sep 18
Consultations on changes to local authorities’ accounting code include a substantial change to practice around leases, says CIPFA's Sarah Sheen.
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4 Sep 18
A quarter of all student nurses in the UK quit their degrees last year before finishing their courses, a study has revealed.
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3 Sep 18
Ethics are the building blocks of professional practice. With financial probity hitting the headlines, CIPFA surveyed hundreds of staff, and found some alarming results. Vivienne Russell reports....
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29 Aug 18
Mentoring is a flexible, cost-effective way to improve staff skills and workplace wellbeing. Business school professor Max Neal gives some top tips to avoid tripping up.
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16 Aug 18
The lowest proportion of people were employed in the UK's public sector in March 2018 since comparable records began 13 years ago, ONS figures have shown.
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16 Aug 18
Stricken Northamptonshire County Council is looking for a new permanent finance director who will “roll their sleeves up” and is ready to make “hard decisions”.
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9 Aug 18
CIPFA has set out a number of key principles to define the role of section 151 officers in local enterprise partnerships.
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7 Aug 18
The number of female accountants in Ireland has gone up by 9% in the last ten years, figures from an independent regulator has revealed.
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6 Aug 18
Have you and your team recently achieved outstanding success or come up with an exceptional idea to drive public finance innovation?
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30 Jul 18
Local government must transform, innovate and work together to cope with the pressures of increased need for services with less central funding, according to two major accounting bodies.
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24 Jul 18
Public private partnerships need to be managed actively and effectively throughout the life of the contract if value is to be realised, says Morag Baird of the Global Infrastructure Hub
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13 Jul 18
Northamptonshire County Council has named its new chief executive as Theresa Grant.
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12 Jul 18
Almost two thirds of finance professionals say they have come under pressure to act in an unethical way at some point in their careers, according to early findings from CIPFA’s ethics survey revealed...
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11 Jul 18
Overlaying multiple data sets can ‘de-anonymise’ people leaving them vulnerable to abuse, an award-winning journalist has told the CIPFA conference.
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11 Jul 18
CIPFA has a great opportunity to “flip the negative narrative” and rebuild trust in public services, the institute’s new president said this morning.
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10 Jul 18
As the public sector enters a second wave of digital development, the impact on the finance profession – on working practices, the skills and roles required – is set to pose a significant challenge.
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9 Jul 18
A handful of simple guidelines can take the pain out of preparing and implementing the most wide-ranging transformation programme.
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5 Jul 18
Forecasting gets a bad rap, yet the future is more certain and settled than often assumed, says journalist and academic James Woudhuysen.