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Briefings	Budgeting	Financial management
Financial planning	Insights	Publications
Statutory and management accounts	Toolkits

Briefings

Briefing - Bricking it

Consultation on the setting of guideline rents in Local Authority Housing Subsidy

Three star value for money

Budgeting

At your service: housing association rents and service charges for supported housing and housing for older people

Beyond budgeting - going beyond budgeting in the public sector

Beyond budgeting round table - driver based budgeting in the public sector

Draft HRA and HRA subsidy determinations 2006-07

0040 - AES Steve Partridge

	Financing council housing
	Audit Commission report calling for a review of the subsidy system

Rents, rent differentials and service charges for housing associations

Financial management

Association of Corporate Treasurers - Contingency planning for a downturn in the economy: A treasurer's checklist

Association of Corporate Treasurers - expanding the Horizon's of cash management

Association of Corporate Treasurers - UK Faster Payments Service

Bank of England - Credit Survey

Charity Commission – Risk and proportionality framework

CLG - Managing Risks in Asset Transfer: A Guide

Communities and Local Government - draft Housing Revenue Account (Item 8) and Draft Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Determinations 2008-2009

Credit crunch checklist

Fraud and the credit crunch - BDO Stoy Hayward

HM Customs and Excise - Construction Industry Tax amendment and explanatory memorandum

HM Treasury - embedding financial skills in Government (or any organisation)

HM Treasury - Money Laundering regulations 2007

HFexpert - management accounts budget monitor return

National Housing Federations - The future funding of care and support

Philanthropy capital – turning the tables in England: Putting English charities in control of reporting

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - corporate ethics and the chief financial officer

The Association of Corporate Treasurers - The Impact of the Companies Act 2006 on Loan Documentation

	The guides are aimed at housing association internal auditors and provide information and guidance in order to allow them to perform their work in a better and more efficient fashion.
	Complaints management

	The Housing Corporation and Housing Association Internal Audit Forum - Internal audit guides
	Performance management

	The Housing Corporation and Housing Association Internal Audit Forum - Internal audit guides
	Anti social behaviour

	The Housing Corporation and Housing Association Internal Audit Forum - Internal audit guides
	Equality and diversity

	The Housing Corporation and Housing Association Internal Audit Forum - Internal audit guides
	Gas safety

	The Housing Corporation and Housing Association Internal Audit Forum - Internal audit guides
	Resident involvement

	The Housing Corporation and Housing Association Internal Audit Forum - Internal audit guides
	Treasury management

	The Housing Corporation, internal audit guides
	New Business

	The Housing Corporation, internal audit guides
	Corporate Governance

	The Housing Corporation, internal audit guides
	Development

	The Housing Corporation, internal audit guides
	Business continuity

	The Housing Corporation, internal audit guides
	IT maintenance and insurance of IS equipment and software

	The Housing Corporation, internal audit guides
	Lettings

The Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Determination 2008-09 and the Item 8 Credit and Item 8 Debit (General) Determination 2008-09

Financial planning

CIMA – Apocalyptic demography? Putting longevity risk in perspective

CLG - Housing Private Finance Initiative: bidding guidance for Round 6

CLG Non-Housing Revenue Account Private Finance Initiative - cost of new build social rented housing

CLG – Handling of the HRA subsidy determination 2009-10 and 2010-11

Council of Mortgage lenders – FSA should oversee expansion of local authority lending

Good practice when choosing assumptions for defined benefit pension schemes - The Pensions Regulator (kindly reproduced by the Association of Corporate Treasurers)

Gypsies and Travellers financial toolkit for RSLs

HM Treasury mortgage finance markets

Self-financing of council housing services: Summary of findings of a modelling exercise

The Housing Corporation - Capacity model

The Housing Corporation - Independence and efficiency: mergers, groups and alliances

The Housing Corporation - Regional investment statements and scheme listings - April 2008

Insights

Zero-based budgeting

Publications

Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) - Cash Management

CCAB – Anti-money laundering guidance: August 2008

CIPFA, Best Value Accounting Code of Practice 2007 Consultation on the Definition of Total Cost

CIPFA, SORP 2008

CLG - Cost Analysis of The Code for Sustainable Homes: Final Report

CLG - The Pomeroy review of prospects for private sector shared equity

Dataspring - Guide to Local Rents Parts I, II and III

External audit - Housing Corporation, Circular 04/07: Requirement to submit external audit management letters and responses

External audit - Housing Corporation, Good Practice Note 7: External audit of housing associations

Further paper on choice in the audit market - Financial Reporting Council

Leaseholders - The Housing Corporation, Circular 03/07: The Housing (Service Charge Loans) Regulations 1992

Mechanism for setting guideline rents in housing revenue account subsidy 2008-2009 and 2009-2010: consultation, Communities and Local Government

National Housing Federation – Finance Policy Quarterly Update – September 2008

Probity - Housing Corporation, Good Practice Note 3: Maintaining standards of probity

Statutory and management accounts

Accounting practice board - 2008/3 The Auditor's statement on the summary financial statement in the United Kingdom

Accounting practice board - 2008/4 The Special Auditor's report on abbreviated accounts in the United Kingdom

Accounting practice board - 2008/5 Auditor's reports on revised accounts and reports, in the United Kingdom

Accounting practice board - 2008/6 The 'Senior Statutory Auditor' under the United Kingdom Companies Act 2006

Accounting Practice Board - Consultation Draft: Practice Note 11 'The audit of charities in the United Kingdom (Revised)'

Accounting Standards Board - The Financial Reporting of Pensions

Audit Practices Board - 'The Auditor's Report: A Time for Change?' A discussion paper

Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom – SORP – Invitation to Comment

External audit - Housing Corporation, Circular 04/07: Requirement to submit external audit management letters and responses

External audit - Housing Corporation, Good Practice Note 7: External audit of housing associations

Financial Reporting Council - Auditor Liability Limitation Agreements - Draft guidance

Financial reporting council - the audit quality framework

International financial reporting standards - principles or rules in the quest for a global reporting language: KPMG 24-8-07

0067 Leasehold sinking funds and KLOE 12

NHF - Annual reports: openness and accountability - a brief guide

Relevance of 'true and fair' concept confirmed - Financial Reporting Council

The Charity's Commission - the Reporting and Accounting Framework

The Financial Reporting Council - Approach to qualified accounts

The Housing Corporation - Good Practice Note 15: Demonstrating internal controls assurance in housing associations

The Professional Oversight board – Key facts and trends in the accountancy profession

Toolkits

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