Councillors' Guide to Understanding Local Authority Accounts

Event summary

This FAN workshop has been designed specifically to provide local authority elected and independent members with greater insight into the financial reporting requirements of their authority, giving them the knowledge and confidence to deliver effective engagement, scrutiny and challenge of the Statement of Accounts as part of their overall governance role, and to enhance understanding of the key messages contained within the accounting statements.

Date

18 June 2025
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 12:30

Location

online

Standard price

£195.00 excl VAT

Network Member Price

£165.00 excl VAT

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About this event

Who should attend?

Local authority elected/independent members (especially for those sitting on audit committees).

How will you benefit from attending?

The workshop will benefit all local authority elected and independent members charged with governance responsibilities for approving their authority’s accounting statements for 2024/25, regardless of the level of knowledge and previous experience in this role. It would also suit other elected members who may be interested in obtaining a broader knowledge and awareness of how to understand and interpret local authority financial statements.

CPD hours

This event carries 3 CPD hours.

Topics

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

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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