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All You Want To Know About Local Authority Finance

‘All You Want to Know about Local Authority Finance’ is a useful 98-page introduction and companion to the complex and important subject of local authority finance. It covers every aspect of local authority finance in London Boroughs, Metropolitan and Unitary authorities, County Councils and District Councils. It covers Education, Social Services, Highways and Housing; looking at revenue expenditure and capital programmes and funding from Council Tax, Business Rates and the Revenue Support Grant. It also contains a summary of the conclusions of the Lyons report.

It is designed for people who are not experts in local authority finance, but who need to understand the basics and achieve an overview of what is going on. It is suitable for elected members, non-financial managers and finance staff who have limited experience of the local authority finance and others who realise that an understanding of local authority 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 local authority accounts or other returns.

What the guide has sections oncovers:

Introduction
General Fund Accounts
Revenue Support Grant Settlement 2007/08
Revenues
Capital Programmes
Sources of Capital Finance
Education
Social Services
Highways
Housing Revenue Account
Technical Issues
Comprehensive Spending Review and the Efficiency Agenda
Lyons Review of Local Government Finance
Glossary of Terms

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

The guide will be published in August 2006. 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 Local Authority Finance’. These include a session in London in October 2007 and a series of courses in the spring at various regional centres and in-house courses where local authorities 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.