With more investment planned for public-private partnerships, PFI is not going to go away.
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Connaught won’t be the last private sector firm to go under following the dry up of public sector contracts, predict insolvency experts Carl Bowles and John Alexander.
Government spending cuts are having a knock-on effect on the private sector, with an increase in the number of supplier businesses going bust.
Budget cuts could have a negative impact on managers' ability to combat rising fraud in the public sector, warns a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Public sector professionals have so far enjoyed better pay and benefits and lower working hours than their private sector counterparts, but this will change in next week’s Budget, say experts.
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Finance professionals in the public sector are going to have to learn to do more with less as efficiency savings kick in, according to figures from CIPFA.
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Government spending cuts could see many accountants in the firing line over the coming months.
Both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have called for a reform of public sector pensions but cutting back on them will cost taxpayers £8bn, according to CIPFA’s Bob Summers.
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A post-election government of any stripe will find it difficult to sustain public sector pay freezes because both private sector wages and inflation rates are now picking up, reports our sister
