Consultancy

Our specialist experience enables us to create highly effective teams to deliver complex consultancy projects to demanding timescales. Our teams include service area specialists, nationally recognised experts in public sector finance and accounting and former Directors of Finance.

Having delivered consultancy projects for a wide range of clients, examples of our work include:

• Strengthening financial capability in local authorities and central government departments through fundamental reviews of financial management, including the use of the ‘CIPFA Financial Management Model’
• Ensuring that finance and support services structures meet wider organisational needs through assessing existing arrangements and making recommendations for change
• Working with local authorities to improve Comprehensive Area Assessment Use of Resources scores, including the preparation of self-assessments and development of action plans
• Ensuring that charging arrangements are robust and income levels are maximised through undertaking detailed reviews of fees and charges
• Optimising take-up of services through the development of transparent and equitable pricing strategies
• Ensuring consistent Financial Management Standard in Schools (FMSiS) assessment outcomes by providing quality assurance for FMSiS external assessors
• Providing assurance that revenue and capital accounting arrangements are fully compliant, including advice on the SORP, IFRS and Prudential Framework for Capital Finance

Local Authority IFRS Conversion

Find out more about how we can support you in the conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), including training for finance professionals and elected members, undertaking an IFRS conversion health-check and providing tailored advice on the accounting, budgeting and decision making implications of IFRS.

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• IFRS Support.pdf

Value for Money Review

Find out more about our rapid strategic financial reviews for local authorities. These reviews enable us to quickly identify options for using your available resources in the most effective way; in particular, identifying sustainable savings to balance the budget over the medium term.

Downloads

• Value for Money Review.pdf

Fees & Charges

Find out more about how we could assist you in reviewing your fees and charges, ensuring that charging arrangements are robust and income levels are maximised.

Downloads

• Fees and Charges.pdf

"LG Futures provided expert independent and objective advice to DWP in interpreting the results of our review of financial management using the ‘CIPFA Financial Management Model’. They highlighted the direction of travel for the Department in strengthening our financial capability, which benefitted us in prioritising our existing programme of improvements."