{"id":1136,"date":"2025-10-16T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/?post_type=training&#038;p=1136"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:58:36","slug":"basic-finance-for-new-clerks-under-a-year","status":"publish","type":"training","link":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/?training=basic-finance-for-new-clerks-under-a-year","title":{"rendered":"New Clerk&#8217;s Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Tuesday, 24 November &#8217;26 \u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"time_span\">10am \u2013 11:30am<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Thursday, 28 January &#8217;27 \u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"time_span\">10am \u2013 11:30am<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This introductory session is for inexperienced clerks of councils in membership of HAPTC in their year and is designed to give them an overview of a council&#8217;s year, along with a basic understanding of the RFO&#8217;s role.<\/p>\n<p>If you have 9 month&#8217;s experience or more, this session is unlikely to cover anything you don&#8217;t already know. Please leave this session for very new clerks and book yourself onto the more detailed sessions on Budgeting, Internal Control, The Role of internal audit, Procurement, Year-end and VAT instead.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings by experience clerks may be removed without notice.<\/p>\n<p>Topics include:<br \/>\n\u2022 Roles and responsibilities<br \/>\n\u2022 Setting a budget and precept<br \/>\n\u2022 Internal control<br \/>\n\u2022 The Annual Governance &amp; Accountability Return<br \/>\n\u2022 Internal and external audit<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the session you will:<br \/>\n\u2022 Be aware of relevant legislation and sources of guidance<br \/>\n\u2022 Be able to describe the key financial activities in a year<br \/>\n\u2022 Be aware of how the council&#8217;s accounts must be prepared and audited<br \/>\n\u2022 Recognise the importance of internal controls<\/p>\n<p>Session leader: Steve Parkinson, The Parkinson Partnership LLP<br \/>\nSteve is a former Town Clerk &amp; an accountant with 30 years&#8217; experience in public sector finance, who specialises in advice &amp; training for the local council sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Tuesday, 24 November &#8217;26 \u00a0\u00a010am \u2013 11:30am \u00a0Thursday, 28 January &#8217;27 \u00a0\u00a010am \u2013 11:30am This introductory session is for inexperienced clerks of councils in membership of HAPTC in their year and is designed to give them an overview of a council&#8217;s year, along with a basic understanding of the RFO&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","training-tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-1136","training","type-training","status-publish","hentry","training-tags-finance","training-tags-webinar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/training\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/training"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/training"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"training-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haptc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftraining-tags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}