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19 Oct 18
CIPFA’s work to improve public financial management, reporting and public audit around the world continues at pace. Bid and programme manager Sara Breen speaks to PF International about training...
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19 Oct 18
PF International caught up with bid and programme manager Sara Breen about progress on CIPFA's work to modernise the supreme audit institution in Tajikistan. ...
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25 Sep 18
Finance ministries around the world are still not getting to grips with reducing gender inequality through budging, CIPFA’s international conference heard.
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25 Sep 18
The world may never win the fight against corruption but governments must ensure they stay on top of issues, CIPFA’s head of counter fraud training has said.
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25 Sep 18
The public sector accountancy profession needs to be made more attractive to ensure that young talent stays and helps countries develop, an African Union director has said.
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24 Sep 18
Finance professionals should step out of their “technical bubble” if they want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, an Overseas Development Institute director has urged.
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24 Sep 18
Auditors need to be a driver for positive change and not seen as “merely a luxury” by governments around the world, the head of an umbrella group has said.
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13 Jul 18
The public sector is not widely adopting blockchain because of a lack of policies to support the technology, the director of a software company has told a conference.
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25 Jun 18
Public sector accountants play a “vital role” in pressuring governments around the world to reform their financial management systems amid global challenges, CIPFA’s president has said.
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11 Jun 18
Ireland’s biggest accountancy body is partnering with CIPFA to help accountants better manage public budgets in a fast-changing environment.
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8 May 18
Public and the private sector organisations need to be ‘well-aligned’ if partnerships between the two are to be successful, CIPFA’s president has said in Pakistan today.
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22 Mar 18
The government of Zimbabwe has reaffirmed its commitment to implementing as accruals based accounting system to enhance transparency and accountability.
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8 Feb 18
William Haley, a CIPFA member living in Australia, recently won an award for his work at Transport NSW, where he is an associate director. He talks to PF about moving abroad with the CIPFA...
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31 Jan 18
CIPFA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal to help boost public financial management in the Asian country.
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30 Jan 18
CIPFA and the Open University have teamed up to offer a free online introductory course on managing public money. Michaela Lavender completed the course last year and shares her thoughts about the...
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10 Nov 17
Accountants who qualify at the University of Malaya will now be exempt from certain exams to complete the CIPFA International Public Financial Management qualification.
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9 Nov 17
Accountants from across the globe consider grant misspending to be the top public sector fraud risk, according to research co-released by CIPFA today.
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2 Nov 17
Bangladesh’s public finances were already suffering because of poor economic management, political crises and corruption, when it took on the cost of its huge support to Rohingya refugees....
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29 Sep 17
Progress in financial accountability in different countries can be seen at a glance and compared using a new international index, says CIPFA's Steven Cain.
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29 Sep 17
It will be a case of one small step interspersed with the occasional burst of rapid progress for new chief finance officers getting to grips with complicated environments, says CIPFA's Claire Lake....
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27 Sep 17
A CIPFA-developed online platform aimed at helping global not-for-profit organisations get to grips with varying financial reporting methods has been launched today.
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26 Sep 17
In political turmoil and with an impoverished economy, Zimbabwe has struggled to feed its own people since 2000 and faced heavy sanctions from the EU and US. CIPFA fellow David Watkins led an...
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13 Jul 17
Negotiating and influencing abilities are increasingly important parts of senior public sector accountants’ skill set, Amsterdam’s chief financial officer told the CIPFA conference.
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30 May 17
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12 May 17
UK Aid’s chief civil servant and CIPFA member Sir Mark Lowcock has been appointed as the next head of the United Nation’s humanitarian operations.