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Registered charity · London

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

  • 31 trustees
  • Income £31m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana and more
Website
www.cipfa.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£31m£28m
  • 2023£28m£28m
  • 2022£28m£27m
Earlier years
  • 2021£27m£23m
  • 2020£26m£24m
Charitable objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND OF ACCOUNTANCY AND COGNATE SUBJECTS AS APPLIED TO ALL OR ANY OF THE DUTIES IMPOSED UPON AND FUNCTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY PUBLIC SERVICE BODIES. B) TO PROMOTE PUBLIC EDUCATION THEREIN. C) TO PROMOTE AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF STUDIES AND RESEARCH WORK THEREIN AND IN RELATED SUBJECTS. D) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN ACCOUNTANCY BODIES IN ANY WAY; TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE ANY SCHEME OR SCHEMES (HOWSOEVER CONSTITUTED) WHICH, AS ONE OR MORE OF THEIR OBJECTS, REVIEWS, REGULATES OR SUPPLEMENTS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS BY, AND THE TRAINING, REGULATORY AND DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES OF, ANY ONE OR MORE ACCOUNTANCY BODIES.

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

31 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (27)

Portfolio (4)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 31Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£30.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.3 in 2020

211 from 219 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
12%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
231060
Status
Registered
Governing document
SUPPLEMENTAL ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 24TH OCTOBER 1973 (DATED OCTOBER 2003)
Contact on the register
02075435600 · customerservices@cipfa.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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