Million-Dollar Finance Systems or Fleet Spreadsheets? Local governments invest heavily in corporate finance systems—often running into the millions—to ensure financial integrity, auditability and compliance. These systems are designed to be the single source of truth for asset valuation, cost attribution, depreciation, and capital planning. Yet when it comes to fleet Read more
Introduction For ever and a day, council professionals have been responsible for service design and setting service standards. For services such as roads, water and drainage this continues to make sense because of the required technical input and minimum standards associated with delivery of some services. The risk associated with Read more
Increasingly the community voiced that it was no longer prepared to pay more for council services. A few years back we reached the tipping point where the community was making it clear it would consider reduction in levels of service rather than introduction of fees and charges or increases in Read more