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27 Jun 16
Whether you are starting out or experienced, it pays to enhance your profile to attract employers’ attention. There are plenty of tricks to make yourself more visible
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27 Jun 16
The public sector has much to gain through increasing the use of technology across professions such as accountancy, a leading academic has said.
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24 Jun 16
Medium term financial strategies are used to balance objectives against the resources available, so budgets can be set and outcomes delivered
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23 Jun 16
Plymouth council and the local CCG have set up an integrated finance system for wellbeing, covering a large range of services. This was no mean feat given they cover different areas, have different...
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22 Jun 16
Holding on to legacy IT systems becomes more expensive and risky with every year – and takes money away from innovation
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22 Jun 16
Brian Roberts, director of resources at Leicestershire County Council, takes on the CIPFA presidency this year. He talks about his priorities for the institute, defending services and how football...
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20 Jun 16
The skills accountants need to flourish in the charitable and public sectors are surprisingly similar. Colleagues thinking of making the move can be confident of success
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13 Jun 16
Westminster City Council has claimed to have produced the earliest ever set of public sector accounts after getting its books for 2015/16 to external auditors on 9 April, only nine days after the...
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13 Jun 16
Public sector managers need to be foxes, not hedgehogs, pursuing many different competing aims and outcomes
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13 Jun 16
Almost one in four board directors of UK financial services firms are women, although only one in seven executive committee members are female, research has revealed.
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26 May 16
Any grant-awarding body can be subject to fraud, which may damage service delivery and public trust. Putting safeguards in place can help to protect against this
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20 May 16
NHS providers in England ended 2015-16 with a £2.45bn deficit, the second successive year it has been plunged into the red, raising concerns that the Department of Health’s spending limit...
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19 May 16
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
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18 May 16
Fewer than half of women working in NHS finance think promotion processes are fair and based on merit, according to Future-Focused Finance.
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17 May 16
CIPFA’s revised guide on governance in local government takes account of social and economic changes and a plethora of legislative developments
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17 May 16
The public sector has a duty to ensure equality, yet few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are reaching the upper echelons of public finance. What can be done to change this?
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17 May 16
CIPFA has launched a renewed International Public Sector Accounting Standards training programme at a conference in Malaysia.
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4 May 16
Faith in the national NHS tariff is waning rapidly. It’s ripe for reform and a reappraisal of what it is trying to achieve
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3 May 16
LinkedIn is the world’s main professional social networking site, and there are several steps you can take to get the most out of it and improve your working life
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29 Apr 16
NHS Improvement has called on hospital finance chiefs to do more to help “get a grip” on agency spending as part of efforts to improve the financial sustainability of the health service.
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6 Apr 16
The last financial year was a bruising one for the NHS and this one looks to be tough as well. Here are five recollections of 2015/16 and five things to look out for in 2016/17
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29 Mar 16
The parlous state of the NHS finances requires answers to some difficult questions from the number of commissioners and providers to the role of the market
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17 Mar 16
Public finance professionals are uniquely placed to give organisations the leadership, strategy and hope they need to keep up morale in the face of continued austerity, CIPFA chief executive Rob...
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10 Mar 16
Paul Druckman, chief executive of the International Integrated Reporting Council, will be standing down from the role, it was announced today.
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2 Mar 16
Money laundering often presents itself as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. It’s only when the whole jigsaw is assembled that the picture becomes obvious