‘‘All You Want to Know about Housing Association Finance’ is a useful 95-page introduction and companion to the complex and important subject of housing association finance.

It is designed for people who are not experts in housing association finance, but who need to understand the basics and achieve an overview of what is going on. It is suitable for housing managers, tenant representatives, board members and finance staff who have no experience of the housing association finance and others who realise that an understanding of housing association finance can place them at an advantage!

It is not a technical guide and neither does it provide step by step instructions for people who need to prepare housing association accounts or other returns.

The guide has sections on:

• Introduction
• Financial Framework
• Regulation and Governance
• Income and Expenditure Accounts
• Cash Flow Statements and Treasury Management
• Rents and Other Revenue Issues
• Capital Finance and Development
• Approved Development Programme
• Private Loans
• Comprehensive Spending Reviews and the Efficiency Agenda
• Business and Financial Planning and Mergers
• Large Scale Voluntary Transfers
• Conclusions
• Glossary of Terms

The guide is excellent value at £25 plus £2.95 postage and packing. The guide was published in 2007.

To order your copy, please download and complete this order form or contact Adrian Waite on 017683-52347 or 52165 or Adrian.Waite@awics.co.uk.

We also provide training courses that explain ‘All You Want to Know about Housing Association Finance’. These include a series of courses each spring at various regional centres and in-house courses where housing associations and others request them. For further information about courses, please click here.

There are also free briefing papers on housing finance posted on the ‘AWICS’ website. To view these click here and select the area you are interested in.