Finance & Accounting
Most Councils have a Section or Department responsible for Financial & Accounting. This section/department is typically responsible for a range of areas including:
- Commercial Finance
- Accounting & Reporting
- Revenue
- Strategic Financial Planning
Challenges
The following 'Finance & Accounting' related issues have been identified as challenges for some councils via the local government collaboration project survey.
- getting accountants to understand engineers.
If you have any thoughts on how to best meet these challenges, please feel free to share them below.
Related Pages
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- A Guide to Asset Accounting in Local Governments
- AAS 5
- AASB 1041
- AASB Glossary
- Accounting Standard and Regulation Compliance
- Accounting Standards
- Accrual
- Accrual Accounting
- Accrued Expense
- Accumulated Depreciation
- Addition
- Additions
- Annual Depreciation
- Annual Service Cost
- Asset Accounting
- Asset Accounting Policy
- Asset Capitalisation
- Asset Disposal
- Asset Reporting
- Asset Revaluation Reserve
- Asset Strategic Plan
- Asset Valuation
- Asset Valuation Framework
- Audit
- Audit Trail
- Auditor's Report
- Australian Accounting Standards Board
- Australian Infrastructure Financial Management Guidelines
- Blanket Purchase Order
- Brownfields Valuation
- Budget
- Budget Preparation
- Budgeting
- Budgeting and Reporting Framework
- Capital Replacement Value
- Capital Works Management System
- Capitalisation
- Carrying Amount
- Cashflow
- Condition-Based Depreciation
- Cost
- Cost of Government
- CPA Australia Valuation and Depreciation Guide
- Current Asset
- Current Replacement Cost
- Depreciable Amount
- Depreciated Replacement Cost
- Depreciation
- Depreciation Charge
- Desktop Revaluation
- Duplicate Asset
- Economic Value
- Expansion Expenditure
- Expenditure
- Expense
- Fair Value
- Finance Systems
- Financial Asset Register
- Financial Forecast
- Financial Management
- Financial Plan
- Financial Planning and Reporting Framework
- Financial Ratio
- Financial Report
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Reporting Council
- Financial Statement
- Financial Sustainability
- FinPro
- Fixed Asset
- Fixed Asset Register
- Found Asset
- Fully Funded Depreciation
- Funded Depreciation
- Future Economic Benefit
- Ghost Asset
- Greenfields Valuation
- Impairment
- Impairment Loss
- Income Statement
- Intangible Asset
- International Financial Reporting Standards
- Liquid Asset
- Local Government Accountants Association
- Local Government Accountants Association of Queensland
- Long-term Financial Forecast
- Long-Term Financial Plan
- Maintenance Expenditure
- Materiality
- National Sustainability Framework for Financial Planning & Reporting & Asset Planning & Management
- Net Present Value
- Non-Current Asset
- Non-Current Asset Policies for the Queensland Public Sector
- Operating Expenditure
- Operating Revenue
- Operational Expenditure
- P & L
- Partial Disposal
- Principles of Sound Financial Management
- Quadruple Bottom Line
- Qualification
- Quarterly Statement
- Queensland Local Government Finance Standard 2005
- Reconciliation
- Recoverable Amount
- Recurrent Expenditure
- Remaining Useful Life
- Renewal Expenditure
- Replacement Value
- Residual Value
- Revaluation
- Rolling Valuation
- RUL
- Service Level Costing
- Straight-line Depreciation
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Triple Bottom Line
- Unfunded Depreciation
- Unrecouped Depreciation
- Unspent Depreciation
- Upgrade Expenditure
- Valuation
- Victorian City Council Model Budget
- Western Australian Local Government Accounting Manual
- Work Order
- Write Off
- Written Down Value
- Zero-based Budgeting