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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
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1 Mar 16
Interim management can provide a long-term career where you can fully exploit your ideas and expertise
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1 Mar 16
More NHS finance staff are working on financial management activities, a review by the Healthcare Financial Management Association has found.
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1 Mar 16
Finance professionals are working on a greater variety of activities and with more and more organisations as service provision becomes more complicated
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25 Feb 16
Ministry of Defence permanent secretary Jon Thompson is to take the helm as chief executive at Revenue & Customs in a leadership shake up.
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23 Feb 16
Departmental accounting officers have more incentives to keep ministers sweet than they do to raise concerns and safeguard taxpayers’ money, the National Audit Office has warned.
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19 Feb 16
An initiative to get NHS clinicians and finance teams working more closely together has been launched at an event at the King’s Fund in London.
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2 Feb 16
UK business leaders believe Britain is better off in the European Union, where it can push for a more effective, competitive and sustainable EU from within, according to research commissioned by UK...
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29 Jan 16
Greg Hands has said the Treasury is close to agreeing a single Finance Operating Model that will apply across all of Whitehall.
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26 Jan 16
Government finance professionals have gone from advising on protecting money to being policy advisers and leaders, involved in high-profile work, David Allen tells PF
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4 Jan 16
Lin Homer, the chief executive and permanent secretary at HM Revenue & Customs, has been made a dame in the New Year honours in recognition for her service to public finance.
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16 Dec 15
Can the government’s policy of mandating cross-agency collaboration really be the best way to provide efficient services at minimum cost?
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14 Dec 15
Despised by some, pitied by others, being a local authority finance director can sometimes be hard to bear in the current climate. What qualities are needed to see the job through?
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10 Dec 15
The next financial year is a “firebreak” year for the NHS in which it must get itself back into balance, the service’s finance managers have been told.
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28 Oct 15
Nominations are open - it’s time to tell us who belongs in the next Public Finance Top 50
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30 Sep 15
The ability to bounce back from failure can be learned, suggests Alex Davda. Make the most of existing strengths and master new skills to thrive in difficult situations
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4 Aug 15
Two-thirds (65%) of accountants in the UK say salary is their number one motivator when looking for a new job, according to a survey.
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24 Jul 15
CIPFA has welcomed the latest strong showing from its students after 77% passed the professional qualification in the June 2015 examinations.
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17 Jul 15
Steve Allen, the current managing director of finance at Transport for London, has been appointed the chief financial officer of the project to build the new High Speed 2 rail link.
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10 Jul 15
Counter-fraud professionals can for the first time join a chartered institute after CIPFA announced that its membership would be extended to include accredited counter-fraud practitioners.
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10 Jul 15
London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympics showed how the public sector can meet “huge challenges”, one of the key figures involved in the project told CIPFA’s annual...
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8 Jul 15
Sarah Howard has won this year’s Tom Sowerby award, presented at CIPFA’s annual conference in London.
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25 Jun 15
The 7% cut to the public health grant was a foolish mistake by national government. Local leaders need to move into the gap and develop prevention strategies of their own.
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23 Jun 15
Andrew Day on the challenges for managers in preventing or overcoming a ‘derailment’ in your department