Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

Publications

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PUBCG008HBoard Governance Essentials: A Guide for Chairs and Boards of Public Bodies

This guide offers chairs and board members indispensible advice on the roles that they perform, in turn helping to make their time with the board as effective and fulfilling as possible.

Jointly produced with the Public Chairs’ Forum (PCF), it explores the components of effective chairs and boards in public bodies across four key areas:

For further details and to order your copies go to the CIPFA Shop.

PUBFM032HSustainability reporting: A public services perspective (2010)

Public service organisations frequently deal with activities that are strongly linked to sustainability, but do not always fully recognise sustainability as a key line of business. However, increasingly organisations are expected to show that they recognise the challenges that face them, and set out their strategies for dealing with these issues. This publication describes a public sector sustainability reporting approach, and provides the reader with practical information. For further details and to order your copies please visit the CIPFA Shop.

Guide to Central Government FinanceGuide to Central Government Finance and Financial Management (Fully Revised Second Edition 2006) (2006)

This guide provides a clear and concise explanation of the main features of central government financial management as it is today. It aims to give an overview of central government finance, enabling the reader to understand its main features and guiding principles. It gives the background to government accounting and the developments that have taken us to where we are now, and also outlines some of the changes still to come.


Role of the Finance ProfessionalThe Role of the Finance Professional in Central Government (2004)

The Central Government panel's latest publication The Role of the Finance Professional in Central Government is available now from the CIPFA shop. This new guide provides, in a single source, core advice and guidance to finance professionals in carrying out their strategic, policy, reporting and management roles across the whole of government - departments, agencies, NDPBs and other government-sponsored bodies. It will also be of keen interest to others with management responsibilities within central government who seek to understand the growing role of finance in the policy and decision-making of the organisation.