Introduction to Police Finance 2024
Event summary
This course will provide delegates with a solid understanding of the complex structure and functions of the police finance system, including an understanding of the principles underpinning budgeting, financial accounting and reporting for police bodies and police collaboration, plus an overview of governance and audit considerations in the police context.
Date
30 April 2024
Starts: 10:00
Ends: 16:00
Location
Webinar
Standard price
£365.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
£310.00 excl VAT
Event booking is currently unavailable online. If you would like to book onto this event, please contact customerservices@cipfa.org or 020 7543 5600
About this event
Who should attend?
All those new to working in police, including those who are new to finance as a whole and those with finance experience from outside the sector who wish to gain an overview of how police finance works.
How will I benefit from attending?
By attending this course you will be provided with an understanding and awareness of:
- the legislative framework for the current police arrangements,
- police funding in England and Wales,
- the statutory requirements for preparation of local authority and police accounts,
- audit arrangements and the role of the audit committee,
- budgeting and estimating processes,
- the principles of accounting for capital, assets and links to treasury management,
- the definition of joint control and accounting for collaborative arrangements.
Course Testimonial
'I really enjoyed the course - I found it very helpful as I am new to Police Finance however not new to accountancy so it helped to unpick the methods and procedures individual to the Police.'
Emma Marks, Essex Police (2023)
CPD hours
Four and a half hours.
Topics
- Accounting
- / Capital finance
- / Financial management
- / Financial reporting
- / Governance
- / Police
Speaker - David Ellis, FAN Advisor, CIPFA
David joined CIPFA in July 2012 as a FAN advisor, after a 30 year career in local government. He spent several years as chief accountant with key responsibilities for the statement of accounts.
David has an extensive technical knowledge and practical understanding of local authority financial statements and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)-based Code of Practice, and uses that wealth of knowledge and experience to provide support and guidance to practitioners across local government in his established role as FAN advisor. David qualified with CIPFA back in 1989 and uses his passion for understanding the evolving technical aspects of local authority accounting to provide support to finance staff at a practical level. As the pressures on local government funding and services continue to bite, CIPFA's FAN support is becoming an ever-important lifeline for busy practitioners in helping them prepare for and manage the changes in financial reporting and accounting required to comply with the code of practice.
Email: david.ellis@cipfa.org
Tel: 07879 665950
Speaker - Alison Dewhirst, Police & Fire Associate Advisor
Alison has worked in and for policing for over 30 years since her first days as a researcher for City of London Police. Alison is passionate about the practical aspects of policy implementation, analysing how initiatives fit together in the bigger picture of policing as a whole.
During her 21 years working as the Police Advisor for CIPFA, she endeavoured to examine these issues and to share good practice being developed by forces and consider their application to other areas, through the CIPFA Police and Fire Network. More recently, she was also involved in the establishment and running of the Achieving Financial Excellence in Policing (AFEP) programme.
Alison was involved in the financial and governance aspects of police reform, including the introduction of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) in 2012 and legislation to allow PCCs to take on the governance of fire and rescue services in 2017. Alison has worked closely with the Home Office, HMICFRS, National Audit Office and Audit Wales over many years. Since leaving CIPFA in December 2021, Alison undertakes consultancy projects in policing and is a police and fire associate advisor for CIPFA.
Alison has an Honours degree in Economics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a Master’s degree in Politics (public policy) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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