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r=12566&c=2248244Ms Pacitti also outlined the challenges involved in striking an appropriate balance in developing a future strategy for the procurement and construction of new vessels and suggested that part of the solution lay in clearer communication of the reasoning behind specific decisions:
I accept that the challenge for us lies in articulating w...
The combinations of stick, carrot and love affair that you use depend on the issue at hand, so cases differ very much and are very context dependent. As an accountant, I assume that everybody other than accountants or economists is irrational.
You mentioned the difference between lawyers and accountants; the partnership SDLT rules are perhaps often not well known to accountants but they are encountered by lawyers and they do not work well in practice for everyday, regular partnerships.
That was the case for the pilot projects in which community councils were allocated resources to enable recovery in communities, and that lay at the heart of the work of the town centre regeneration fund into the bargain.A wider aspect of our work is encouraging communities to assume more responsibility for determining issues in their localities and using t...
The full economic cost per prisoner place is the average cost calculated on a resource accounting basis and takes account of running costs, prisoner-specific costs, overheads, depreciation, costs of capital and so on.
Secondly, paragraph 38 of the SPA report states: “A clear accountability framework exists”. I think that we accept that Iain Whyte is probably the expert on accountability as far as this situation is concerned.
The decision to move to a priority-based approach in Aberdeen was obviously required because of the somewhat cataclysmic report by the Accounts Commission about the authority’s finances between 2002 and 2006.