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REORGANISATION
Audit backlog hinders reorganisation
By Martin Ford | 06 September 2024
Backlogs of financial statements are hampering local government reorganisation, according to a re...
FINANCE
The art of squeezing better benefits from annual accounts
By Jonathan Flowers | 20 August 2024
Jonathan Flowers sets out the three things annual accounts need to provide assurance on, and says...
BIRMINGHAM
Questions raised over Brum's decision to issue s114
By William Eichler | 19 August 2024
A call has been made for an investigation into the issuing of Birmingham City Council’s section 114.
DIGITAL
Audit warning over councils' digital ambitions
By Martin Ford | 15 August 2024
Councils are taking risks as they turn to technology to ease financial pressures, Audit Wales has...
FINANCE
No decision on whether ARGA will cover local audit
By Dan Peters | 30 July 2024
The new Government has yet to make a decision on how it will fix local audit in the longer term, ...
AUDIT
Audit Wales tells councils to improve performance information
By Emily Twinch | 30 July 2024
Councils in Wales are not giving enough information to leaders about what their communities think...
AUDIT
Lessons from recent auditors' annual reports
By Guy Clifton | 24 July 2024
Guy Clifton looks at the lessons from nearly 100 recent auditor’s annual reports and highlights t...
FINANCE
Time for a frank debate on funding
By Heather Jameson | 23 July 2024
Heather Jameson talks to the new chief of CIPFA Owen Mapley about having hard things to say to t...
IMPROVEMENT
Intervention shift signalled with plans to boost watchdog
By By Heather Jameson | 18 July 2024
The new Government is to change its tone on local government intervention – with a possible push ...
FINANCE
'Nothing should be off the table' – CIPFA chief
By Heather Jameson | 18 July 2024
Abandoned Conservative policies for fixing local government finance should remain on the table, t...
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