UK Stewardship Code updated
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has responded to the criticisms of the UK Stewardship Code levelled by Sir John Kingman. The revised Code incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors for the first time, encouraging signatories to take material ESG issues, including climate change, into account when fulfilling their stewardship responsibilities.
Deterioration in quality of charity accounts
The Charity Commission has reported a continued deterioration in the quality of charity accounts.
CGPM is a boutique firm of chartered accountants specialising in corporate governance, risk management, finance and provision of assurance services to regulated sectors. Our clients range from charities, social housing, educational institutions and public sector bodies to pensions, asset management and banking firms.
CGPM Consulting LLP is a firm of Chartered Accountants registered at Companies House, registration number SO301891.
Our registered office is
CGPM Consulting LLP
40 Gilmerton Place
Edinburgh
EH17 8TP
We have aligned the typical services we provide to three principal lines of business across five business functions:
The three are not mutually exclusive and the boundaries are often blurred as in providing Supporting you services, we aim to ensure that we contribute to Improving resilience in your organisation. Similarly, Improving resilience services and Resolving issues services are similar except that Resolving issues serices tend to be stimulated by an adverse incident that requires intervention.
Supporting you services are those where you will outsource the provision or facilitation of a business function to us.
Improving resilience services seek to enhance your organisation and its ability to operate effectively, economically and efficiently.
Resolving issues services are looking to either prevent issues from happening or stopping them from happening again.
The five business functions across which we have developed these services are:
Every client is different, so why should every client receive the same product or service level; clients need what they need. So as well as being able offer you the routine basics, we tend work in a unique way; returning clients value us for that.
We meet (for coffee and a chat) with prospective clients to talk about you, not us, your challenges and needs. If we can help, we will; equally if an issue is outside our skillset we will tell you rather than waste your time and ruin our reputation by doing something we are not qualified to do and potentially causing you more problems in the process.
We can provide you with support on a particular issue, a functional strand or on a role-based basis - we are there to support you. We aim to give you some certainty around costs in advance of doing the work, though in certain assignments this is more difficult (e.g. investigations). We like to set out exactly what we are going to do, and when you are comfortable we do the work.
We tend to avoid cross-selling, we are there to do a job. All our work comes with risk-based recommendations for improvement; if you want us to help you you will ask us.
Though our focus is on regulated organisations, predominantly those with charitable registrations and related sectors, and pension fund assurance. But, we are able to deliver to any organisation that has a specific requirement for the services we offer.