Accounts and budget 2023/24

Budget and Accounts for 1/4/23 to 31/3/24
Final Accounts for the year

Guidance

Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance Pratitioners' Guide 2024

Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance Practioners' Guide 2024 - explanations of changes from 2023 document

Exercise of Public Rights

Each year the Parish Council prepares an Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR). The AGAR has been published with this notice.

Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the AGAR, the accounting records for the financial year to which it relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended 31 March 2024, these documents were available on reasonable notice from Monday 3rd June 2024 to Friday 12th July 2024 by application to:

Alison Gibson,Clerk, clerk@turlangtonparishcouncil.org.uk / 07763177707

56, Naseby Way, Great Glen, Leicester.

See the notice below:

Notification of Public Rights and publication of the AGAR 23/24

Accounts

Accounts reconciliation to 31/3/24 - final for year

List of payments arising on a regular basis to 31/3/24 - final for year

Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) form 2 23-24

This document includes:

Certificate of Exemption (P3)- see Practitioners' Guide P22, section 2.41
Annual Governance Statement (Section 1, Page 5) - see Practitioners' Guide pages 8-15 (Sections 1.8 to 1.46) and pages 34-47 (sections 5.8 to 5.124)
Accounting Statements (Section 2, Page 6) - see Practitioners' Guide pages 16-22 (sections 2.1-2.35) and pages 47-54 (sections 5.125 - 5.192)

Internal Auditor's Report

Accounts explanation of variances from 22/23 year

(External Auditor formatted document). Explanation of variances between 22/23 and 23/24 years. See Practitioners' Guide above Page 22 - 2.37 and Pages 55-56 - 5.197 - 5.203

Breakdown of Reserves at 31/3/24 - See JPAG Practitioners' Guide 2024 page 56, 5.204

Accounts reconciliations to 31/3/24 (External Auditor formatted document)

Budget 23/24

At the meeting on 17/1/23 it was resolved to adopt a budget of £11,062.74 and a precept of £10,026. This is a 2% increase on the precept from 22/23 year, 4.5% increase in Council Tax (for a Band D Property) from £88.72 to £92.75 (£4.03).

Budget agreed at meeting 17/1/23

Notes to budget agreed at meeting 17/1/23

Reserves Policy agreed at meeting 17/1/23

The budget was revised at the meeting 11/7/23 to take into account the actual figures carried over at 31/3/23

Revised budget 23/24 agreed at meeting 11/7/23

Notes to revised budget

Revised Reserves Policy agreed at meeing 11/7/23