The Future of Public Sector Pensions
16 June 2011, University of Ulster

In this session Trevor Salmon will highlight the main issues affecting the future of pensions and the implications for public finances, spending by public bodies and individual working patterns.

Trevor is well known in the public finance community for his career in Local Government, as a past President of the Association of Accounting Technicians and as a member of CIPFA’s governing Council. Trevor is also Chair of the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers’ Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) as well as being a member of CIPFA’s Pension Panel of expert practitioners.

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Best Practice Procurement Update
9 September 2011, CIPFA Northern Ireland Offices, Belfast

Florence Gregg will give a update on latest practical and legal developments in public sector procurement. This session will be based on her experience of working with both contracting authorities developing and awarding contracts and private sector companies who are bidding to win public sector work.

Florence has over 25 years' procurement experience gained in the Northern Ireland Health Service and Higher Education sectors. She was Head of Purchasing at Queen's University Belfast from January 1998 to May 2004, where she managed change, implemented e-procurement solutions and developed a proactive, supportive procurement function working with the institution's decentralised part-time buyers. Since then, Florence has worked as a procurement consultant specialising in performance and efficiency measurement; competitive tendering guidance to both buyers and suppliers; the development and implementation of procurement strategies, policies and procedures; and the development and delivery of procurement related training.

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IFRS Update
14 October 2011, Queen's University, Belfast

This is the final event on the CIPFA Branch Lunchtime  series for 2011.

Through convergence with US GAAP and the UK Accounting Standards Board considering its own future, accounting standards development has rarely been as busy as it is now. Alan Bermingham from CIPFA will outline a number of key changes to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) currently under development by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Alan will also outline the timetable for adoption of these proposals and consider the impact on Public Sector Financial Reporting.

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IFRS - Lessons and Impact of NAO - Trigger Point One Audit