2024/25 Accounts Closedown And Financial Reporting Workshops (English authorities)

Event summary

This closedown workshop will provide finance practitioners with the latest considerations and updates ready for the closure of the 2024/25 financial statements including the latest changes to the Code’s requirements (which include the mandated implementation of IFRS 16 Leases) and current developments in relation to local authority financial reporting.

Date

28 January 2025
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 16:30

Location

Bristol

Standard price

£375.00 excl VAT

Network Member Price

£315.00 excl VAT

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About this event

Who should attend?

The series is relevant to finance staff actively involved in the production of Code-compliant financial statements as well as those involved in supporting the accounts closedown process.

How will you benefit from attending?

The main benefits for you will be:

Improved understanding of the key considerations and accounting changes impacting on the preparation of the 2024/25 Statement of Accounts
Awareness of the practical preparation issues for implementation of IFRS 16 Leases
An opportunity to discuss and ask questions on topical accounting and financial reporting issues affecting both 2024/25 closedown and future financial reporting requirements

Networking and sharing knowledge and good practice amongst practitioner delegates and CIPFA advisors as part of supporting improved public financial management across the sector

CPD hours

This carries 5 CPD hours.

Topics

Accounting
/ Accounts closedown
/ Audit
/ Financial reporting
/ Local government
/ Police

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Speaker - David Ellis, FAN Advisor, CIPFA

David joined CIPFA in July 2012 as a FAN advisor, after a 30 year career in local government. He spent several years as chief accountant with key responsibilities for the statement of accounts.

David has an extensive technical knowledge and practical understanding of local authority financial statements and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)-based Code of Practice, and uses that wealth of knowledge and experience to provide support and guidance to practitioners across local government in his established role as FAN advisor. David qualified with CIPFA back in 1989 and uses his passion for understanding the evolving technical aspects of local authority accounting to provide support to finance staff at a practical level. As the pressures on local government funding and services continue to bite, CIPFA's FAN support is becoming an ever-important lifeline for busy practitioners in helping them prepare for and manage the changes in financial reporting and accounting required to comply with the code of practice.

Email: david.ellis@cipfa.org
Tel: 07879 665950

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Speaker - Jennifer Bevan, Finance Advisory Network Advisor, CIPFA

Jennifer joined CIPFA in 2022 after working for seven years in local government. She is a CIPFA-qualified accountant who, for the past five years, has been working at Bury Metropolitan Council where she started as a revenue advisor in Public Health and Adult Social Care. From there she joined the authority's closedown and capital teams, with a particular focus on fixed assets and closure of capital accounts.

Her experience also includes working on a number of special projects including transformation, levelling up and land and property disposals scheme. As a CIPFA member, Jennifer is also an active volunteer within the CIPFA North West Region.

Speaker - Mark Catlow

Mark joined CIPFA in 2022 after working for seven years in local government. Prior to this he worked for both Ernst & Young and the Audit Commission. He is a member of CIPFA and has extensive experience of the collection fund, treasury and statutory financial reporting.

Speaker - Rebecca Hewitt - Public Finance Technical Advisor, CIPFA

Rebecca joined the Public Financial Management team at CIPFA in 2023 as a technical advisor, following a 20-year career working in local government and for a treasury advisory company. A CIPFA-qualified accountant, she has experience across technical accounting, closedown of accounts, budgeting and financial management for different types of local authorities. Her main areas of expertise are capital and treasury management.