Local Authority Accounting: The CIPFA SORP and BVACOP Up-Date Days 2009
York 1 July
London 16 July
This conference offers local authority accounting practitioners a ‘must attend’ up-date on all the current major areas around both the Statement of Recommended Practice and the Best Value Accounting Code of Practice.  Given that this is the last year of the SORP as we know it, and with imminent the transition to IFRS and the new Code for local government, attendance is even more important that ever.

TMP Bulletin
Following the collapse of the Icelandic Banks, Local Authority treasury management has come under the spotlight. This Treasury Management Bulletin provides some interim advice to local authorities on treasury management practices in the light of the Icelandic Banks collapse and the continuing ‘credit crunch’.

Volunteer Feedback Survey
We are always eager to hear existing (and potential) panel members' views on how we can help support you better. The Volunteer Survey offers a formal mechanism for you to feed back your views to CIPFA.

New Discussion Paper on Risk Management – let us know your views
This new discussion document is aimed, firstly, at strengthening awareness of the issues involved, and, secondly, at providing an outline of the type of developments which the Treasury Management Panel would wish to encourage in the risk management area.

Click here to read the discussion paper and how to contribute your views.

Latest Panel Newsletter
The March 2008 Treasury Management Panel newsletter is now available. Click here to download the newsletter: Word | PDF

Background Paper on Councils Use of Interest Rate Swaps in the Mid 1990s
At its last meeting the Panel discussed the use of derivatives by local authorities. A number of Panel members expressed a desire to better understand the legal issues arising from interest rate swaps in the early nineties, especially the Hammersmith and Fulham Case. This paper provides the Panel with background information on those cases. Download: Word | PDF