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Getting the most from your FAN subscription in 2025/26 – Your chance to get involved
Event summary
Join us for a lunch session where we’ll showcase the wide range of services we will provide over the next year. Whether you specialise in accounting or lead a team of accountants, join our interactive 30-minute event for an inside look at how we provide support through training and tailored advice.
This event is FREE to attend for subscribers to the FAN and AFEP networks.
Date
15 April 2025
Starts: 12:00
Ends: 12:30
Location
online
Standard price
£0.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
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About this event
Who should attend?
All finance professionals from organisations subscribed to FAN or AFEP. This session will explore FANs services and how to obtain maximum value from your network membership.
How will you benefit from attending?
- Shape our support - share your feedback and needs for the new year, helping to influence FAN offerings for the future.
- Discover new opportunities - gain insight into the broad range of services designed to support your growth and success, tailored for both subscribers and non-subscribers.
- It’s an opportunity to jumpstart your training plans for 2025.
Topics
- Capacity building
- / Financial management
- / Financial reporting
- / Local government
- / Professional development
Speaker - Florence Bastos, CIPFA Public Finance Advisor
Florence is a financial advisor in CIPFA’s Policy and Technical team. She joined CIPFA in 2023, bringing a wealth of experience from her private sector, NHS, and local authority background. Florence’s expertise lies in strategic financial management, which she leverages to improve organisational performance. She also provides financial and commercial insights that facilitate sound investment and contracting decisions in the public sector. Florence qualified as a Chartered Accountant while working in the tax practice at PwC.
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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
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.