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Development Strategy to 2015

Helping us to help you

In 2001, and again in 2006, CIPFA published five year plans for the development of the Institute. These have helped us to steer a positive course and to make significant strides forward during a period of relentless change for both the public services and the accountancy profession – the Institute’s two principal spheres of interest and activity. Annual reports have kept members and students informed of our progress.

A further four years on we now need to review and refresh our strategy and to set a new course for the period to 2015. This must be ambitious to build on the successes and achievements of the past, and carefully tailored and grounded to address the distinctively difficult economic conditions which seem certain to endure over this period. The new strategy must try to strengthen CIPFA’s increasingly positive reputation as the pre-eminent institute for public financial management on the world stage, and assure delivery of practical, high quality services locally, supporting individual CIPFA members and students and their employers working on the frontline of vital public services. It must enable the Institute to meet the needs and expectations of a growing range of partners and stakeholders, and it must emphasise at all times our overriding duty to serve the public interest.

We hope that members and students will take pride in the Institute’s progress and a close and committed interest in its future development. CIPFA has long traditions of active participation by its members and students which has provided the inspiration and innovation to enable the Institute to punch above its weight. It is critically important that we carry those traditions and strengths forward to help combat the challenges which the future holds.

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