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3 Sep 14
Fraud risks are becoming more challenging and complex yet much of the counter-fraud architecture has disappeared. Vivienne Russell reports on a CIPFA initiative to bridge the gap.
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3 Sep 14
Confidence makes a tremendous difference to performance, whether on the sports field or in the workplace, but you can’t touch it, hold it or buy it at the psychology shop. So how do you recover...
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3 Sep 14
Online voting, five-minute digital tax returns and births automatically registered in the cloud. The future of e-government services has arrived – and it’s so much cheaper in Tallinn, too
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27 Aug 14
Government policies have put a rocket under over-inflated house prices while social housing’s share of the total stock has steadily fallen. So how do you rebalance the market?
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19 Aug 14
New figures show that female bosses working in the public sector are still only earning three-quarters the salary of their male counterparts.
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13 Aug 14
CIPFA has been appointed as the exclusive provider of finance management tuition for the NHS Graduate Scheme, it has been announced today.
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11 Aug 14
A programme to develop civil servants’ project management skills has been established by the Cabinet Office as part of government moves to improve the performance of major taxpayer-funded schemes.
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8 Aug 14
Emergency services and local authorities have formed a group to ensure closer collaboration in their work and integration between services.
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1 Aug 14
Council spending will have fallen by nearly 30% by the end of the current parliament as a result of government funding reductions, an analysis of expenditure by CIPFA has found.
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24 Jul 14
Auditors are increasingly worried about the financial resilience of NHS trusts, with more issuing qualified conclusions on value for money arrangements and statutory reports to the health secretary,...
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18 Jul 14
CIPFA has hailed another strong set of results by students sitting its professional qualification examination.
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18 Jul 14
CIPFA has launched a new national Counter Fraud Centre to lead and co-ordinate the fight against fraud and corruption across the public sector.
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18 Jul 14
Proposed audit regulations for England’s 10,000 parish councils are overly complex and ‘close to impenetrable’, the Audit Commission has warned.
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14 Jul 14
Local authorities could be forced to publish the value of the council flats and houses that they own, under government plans unveiled by housing minister Kris Hopkins.
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10 Jul 14
Around one-fifth of NHS foundation trust hospitals have still to fully comply with Treasury rules restricting the use of off-payroll contractors, Monitor figures have revealed.
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10 Jul 14
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Rural Payments Agency have filed a clean set of accounts for the first time in six years, the National Audit Office confirmed today.
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8 Jul 14
The Pensions Regulator has issued guidance to help public service pension schemes comply with new governance standards.
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7 Jul 14
Attacks on computer networks of businesses and public bodies are well documented. But hacking is also affecting international relations, causing fears that cyber espionage will provoke military action
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4 Jul 14
Presentations can be terrifying experiences for the unprepared or the unconfident. But careful planning and an ability to ‘face your fears’ can turn a soporific speech into a peak performance. Angela...
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3 Jul 14
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has called for an examination into the future of public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission.
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3 Jul 14
There is little appetite among voters to pay higher taxes to support public services, and other options will be needed to pay for local government and the NHS in future, the CIPFA conference has...
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2 Jul 14
CIPFA and the International Federation of Accountants have launched a good governance framework for the public sector.
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2 Jul 14
Work on the social return on investment has secured this year’s CIPFA Sir Harry Page Merit Award.
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2 Jul 14
A £16m fund to help councils tackle fraud has been launched by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles at today’s CIPFA annual conference.
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2 Jul 14
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.
3 Sep 14Fraud risks are becoming more challenging and complex yet much of the counter-fraud architecture has disappeared. Vivienne Russell reports on a CIPFA initiative to bridge the gap.
3 Sep 14Confidence makes a tremendous difference to performance, whether on the sports field or in the workplace, but you can’t touch it, hold it or buy it at the psychology shop. So how do you recover...
3 Sep 14Online voting, five-minute digital tax returns and births automatically registered in the cloud. The future of e-government services has arrived – and it’s so much cheaper in Tallinn, too
27 Aug 14Government policies have put a rocket under over-inflated house prices while social housing’s share of the total stock has steadily fallen. So how do you rebalance the market?
19 Aug 14New figures show that female bosses working in the public sector are still only earning three-quarters the salary of their male counterparts.
1 Aug 14Council spending will have fallen by nearly 30% by the end of the current parliament as a result of government funding reductions, an analysis of expenditure by CIPFA has found.
24 Jul 14Auditors are increasingly worried about the financial resilience of NHS trusts, with more issuing qualified conclusions on value for money arrangements and statutory reports to the health secretary,...
18 Jul 14Proposed audit regulations for England’s 10,000 parish councils are overly complex and ‘close to impenetrable’, the Audit Commission has warned.
14 Jul 14Local authorities could be forced to publish the value of the council flats and houses that they own, under government plans unveiled by housing minister Kris Hopkins.
7 Jul 14Attacks on computer networks of businesses and public bodies are well documented. But hacking is also affecting international relations, causing fears that cyber espionage will provoke military action
4 Jul 14Presentations can be terrifying experiences for the unprepared or the unconfident. But careful planning and an ability to ‘face your fears’ can turn a soporific speech into a peak performance. Angela...
3 Jul 14The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has called for an examination into the future of public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission.
2 Jul 14A £16m fund to help councils tackle fraud has been launched by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles at today’s CIPFA annual conference.
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