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of the Institute at the AGM in June and were the subject of
a postal vote in advance; all were passed by the requisite majorities.
View the breakdown at http://www.cipfa.org.uk/cpd/cipfa_agm_2003.ihtml.
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fill two vacancies on its Corporation Board. One vacancy would
ideally suit a senior Finance Director, who would join the Finance
and General Purposes committee, whilst the other calls for a
qualified accountant in practice, who would be a member of the
Audit Committee. Both posts are updaid and would require approximately
one day and one half-day attendance per term at the College.
For further information please telephone Robert Rendel on 01252
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This year's conference theme will be 'Communications'
and during a mixture of plenary sessions and practical workshops,
delegates will discuss how they might improve their communications
with members and students and raise their profile locally. Programme
details are now available on the website.
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/regions
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The Prudential Code Steering Group met on 8 July
to make recommendations for the finalisation of the Code through
CIPFA’s governance procedures. Details of this meeting, including
the Agenda, amendments to the Prudential Code draft and an analysis
of responses received to the Second Exposure Draft, can be viewed
on the Treasury Management Panel web pages.
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/panels/
treasury_management/prudential_code.ihtml
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The Sir Harry Page Award is made annually for an
outstanding piece of work or initiative focused on a particular
technical matter within the field of public service accountancy
and financial management.
CIPFA has awarded the 2003 Award to the Prudential Code Steering
Group (PCSG) for its work on the development of the Prudential
Code. Tony Knights, the Chairman of the Steering Group, accepted
the award from Roger Tabor on behalf of the PCSG at the President’s
dinner at the CIPFA annual conference in Harrogate.
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The Handbook containing professional, technical
and regulatory material was posted to all CPFAs and students in
the last week of June. If any member or student did not receive
their copy, please email sara.hackwood@cipfa.org
and a copy will be posted to you.
A summary note of conclusions reached by the CIPFA/LASAAC
Joint Committee Workshop is now available for download from the
website.
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pt/capitalreview.ihtml
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The Local Authority Accounting Panel have issued
this draft bulletin at the earliest opportunity so that practitioners
can consider the impact on local authority accounting statements
and financial systems. For more details and to download the bulletin
in full, visit http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pt/laap.ihtml.
The Education Panel's response to the DfES paper
'Implementing Consistent Financial Reporting' can now be downloaded
from the website.
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/panels/
education/show.ihtml?news_id=16627
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The online student Study Lounge is now live. New
features include the introduction of downloadable open learning
material, online discussion forums, information about the National
Student Forum and past papers available for download in Word and
PDF format.
To view the new Study Lounge, visit http://www.cipfa.net/eandt/studylounge
where you will need your eight digit contact number to gain access.
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Exam results for the June 2003 sitting will be
available on the CIPFA website from 8am onwards on Friday 1 August.
To access your results online, please have your eight digit contact
number and four digit candidate number ready. A telephone hotline
will be open from 9am for students without internet access.
For further details visit http://www.cipfa.org.uk/eandt/current/show_notice.ihtml?news_id=16808.
The June 2003 examination sitting went well, and
we are pleased to announce that P3 examiners are now supported
by a dedicated area of the CIPFA website: http://www.cipfa.org.uk/volunteers.
For more information on these password-protected web pages, contact
Susan Mueller on 020 7543 5652 or susan.mueller@cipfa.org.
On 25 and 26 June, the National Student Forum joined
with ACIPFAL (CIPFA’s academic community) and the South Wales
and West of England CIPFA Region to create a popular and successful
educational conference. The Cardiff-based event included sessions
on career planning and examination technique and opportunities
to share academic research.
On the second day, there was an open forum for debate, where the
NSF raised a number of issues on behalf of students. The conference
closed with the gala dinner, which included the presentation of
the ACIPFAL Award for Excellence in Education, sponsored this
year by Reed Accountancy: congratulations to the winner, Ian Bowler
of Nottingham Trent University.
http://www.acipfal.org.uk
CIPFA's Education and Training Centre (CETC) has
recently undergone its annual independent quality assurance review,
undertaken by Canterbury Business School at the University of
Kent. The review concluded that CETC 'continues to provide its
students with a high standard of education and training provision
and succeeds in achieving its principal objectives with regard
to the provision of professionally related training.'
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Many CIPFA members took the opportunity to meet
IPF consultants at the recent CIPFA Annual Conference in Harrogate.
The most common queries concerned the areas of support provided
by IPF. To further assist members, IPF Consultancy has recently
relaunched its website with details of current areas of activity:
Asset Management
CPA Consultancy
Financial Management
Governance and Scrutiny
People Management
Performance Management and Improvement
Procurement
Programme and Project Management
Social Care and Health
Visit the website at http://www.ipf.co.uk/consultancy.
Robert Hogg, James Martin, Charlotte Armstrong and
Karyn Jackson from IPF each walked 54 miles of the West Highland
Way during this year’s Caledonian Challenge.
In total the team raised £2,200 for the Scottish Community Foundation
which gives grants to smaller charities throughout Scotland to
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IPF's Statistical Information Service have launched
their first Statistical Research Bulletin. The bulletin, which
will be published twice a year, discusses recent and emerging
findings from the "CIPFA Statistics".
For a free copy of the Statistical Research Bulletin, e-mail srbulletin@ipf.co.uk
or download a copy from http://www.cipfastats.net.
Open training courses for board members of public
bodies are now being delivered by IPF in Northern Ireland and
Scotland and will be introduced in England and Wales in Autumn
2003. These one day training courses have been designed to complement
the CIPFA publication "'On Board' - A Guide for Board Members
of NDPBs in England". Topics covered include member roles and
responsibilities and issues of accountability and governance.
For further information, please contact Ian Fifield on 020 8667
1144 or e-mail ian.fifield@ipf.co.uk.
The Second Exposure Draft of CIPFA’s Prudential
Code was published in March and offers significant pointers as
to how local authorities will be required to operate their future
capital investment strategies. The event is aimed at senior finance
professionals and policy officers who may be involved in capital
investment planning.
http://www.ipf.co.uk/bestvalue/BVQ/
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This course provides an overview of the traditional method
of administering major building and engineering contracts
across the public services and examines methods of controlling
such contracts. It identifies the principal areas in which
public service organisations are most at risk of loss due
to fraud, error or inefficiency, and it outlines an audit
approach to assist the organisation in mitigating these
risks.
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For a limited period only,
buy any Audit or Financial Management title online
in the CIPFA Shop and save 20%! This offer is exclusive
to online purchases only. Sale ends at midnight on
31 August.
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/shop
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Each delegate attending this event will receive
a complimentary copy of the CIPFA publication 'The Financial
Management of Housing Benefit'.
This course will cover:
- Performance Standards implementation
- Effective Budgeting
- Dealing with fraud and error
- Running a Benefits Service: tips, traps
and
- preparing for the future
- Recovering subsidy from the DWP
- Simplified Benefit Schemes
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Publication of this major revision to the
consolidated guidance notes represents a major step forward
for the practitioner. In a single, convenient source you
will find all the help you are likely to need to ensure
your authority complies with the capital accounting requirements
of the 2002 and the (forthcoming) 2003 editions of the SORP.
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This course is an opportunity for RSL finance staff to catch
up on the relevant financial issues of the day. It is designed
to alert staff to new policy developments such as Supporting
People and to give guidance on best practice through mini
case-studies from RSLs.
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this course
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The CJC (Competitiveness Joint Committee) has followed up
its highly successful Guide to Partnerships & Partnering
with this new guide which addresses partnership vehicles
specifically. View the list of contents online:
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Health 2002 was rated by delegates as one of the best health
events they had attended: this year the Panel once again
promises a packed programme featuring the key issues facing
finance professionals in 2003. Speakers inlcude:
John Pienaar, Chief Political Correspondent,
BBC Peter Wilkinson, Director of Health,
The Audit Commission
Richard Douglas, Director of Finance & Performance,
NHS
Dame Deirdre Hine, Chairman, Commission for Health
Improvement
Phil Green, National Officer, Health Group, UNISON
Jane Harper-Smith, Director of Modernisation,
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust
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Providing good, reliable information in a
manner which captures and engages the public interest is
fundamental to a healthy relationship with public sector
stakeholders. The guide is able to draw on interesting and
informative examples from the 2002 CIPFA/PricewaterhouseCoopers
Public Reporting and Accountability Award. CIPFA hopes this
guide will encourage public services to try new reporting
methods, and to seek out their audiences in new ways.
Sneak Preview! Read the foreword, acknowledgement
and overview of this Guide online.
English Local Authority purchasers of this Guide will automatically
receive a free companion guide outlining the reporting demands
of English Local Authorities. Read more about the supplement
here.
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CIPFA's courses, conferences and
publications service will soon be launching
a free quarterly e-newsletter
promoting recently published titles, together
with forthcoming titles and events.
If you would like to receive this information
direct to your PC, please subscribe by simply
completing and submitting the online
form.
Please take the opportunity to subscribe to
this free briefing service from CIPFA.
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This publication seeks to encourage all those
involved in procurement to look outside their specific work
areas by considering the wider picture within their organisations.
It attempts to facilitate close working relationships between
procurement officers and their auditors, with a view to
removing the perceived obstacles to change.
Buy this title online and SAVE 10%!
Sneak preview! Read the authors' forewords,
introduction and list of contents on the Audit Panel website:
http://www.cipfa.org.uk/panels/
audit/publications.ihtml
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