Finance & Accounting

All Councils will have a section, department or team(s) responsible for Finance & Accounting. This section/department/team is typically responsible for a range of areas including:

• Commercial Finance
• Accounting & Reporting
• Revenue
• Strategic Financial Planning

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Related Pages

• 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

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