Financial Services Unit

The Financial Services Unit exists to manage the Council's financial resources as efficiently and effectively as possible, so that the Council achieves its aims and objectives in accordance with legislation and relevant Council policy.

The main responsibilities of the unit are:

• To provide the Council with leadership, advice and support on financial issues
• To enable the Council's service units to deliver services within agreed resources
• To support the Council in responding to external factors

The Financial Service Unit's main to link to EBC's Strategic Priorities Statement is to provide Value For Money in the use of resources, particularly with regard to the strategic management of the Council's finances and associated systems and and processes, so that the annual council tax increases continue to be at least 1% below inflation at the time of budget setting.  The unit also has a wider role to support the whole organisation in terms of delivering its services. The unit consists of 28 staff who provide accountancy, exchequer and internal audit services.

Each year, the unit publishes:

• A budget book, which sets out the Council's financial plans for the year for each service
• A statement of accounts and internal control which provides an audited account of the Council's finances and control arrangements for the year (this is published late September each year as it takes six months to close the accounts, have them audited and produce the statement)
• A summarised version of the statement of accounts to put the same information into a more user friendly format, aimed at members of the public (as opposed to the original statement which is in a prescribed format and generally only used by accountants and auditors)
• An audit inspection letter which is sent from the government appointed external auditors to the Council and contains the auditors opinion on the accounts and the Council's arrangements for financial control
• A forward looking and backward looking efficiency statement which sets out the Council's plans for making savings and then reports retrospectively on how well they were achieved

Each of the files below is available in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the files.  Download it for free if your computer does not have this programme.

2008-09

• Budget Book

Council Tax information:

• Hampshire County Council
• Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Hampshire Police Authority
• Eastleigh Borough Council
• Parish Councils

2007-08

• Budget Book

Council Tax information:

• Hampshire County Council
• Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Hampshire Police Authority
• Eastleigh Borough Council

• Statement of Accounts
• Summary of Statement of Accounts
• Forward Looking Efficiency Statement
• Backward Looking Efficiency Statement 

2006-07

• Budget Book

Council Tax information:

• Hampshire County Council
• Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Hampshire Police Authority (no link - information no longer on HPA website)
• Eastleigh Borough Council

• Statement of Accounts
• Audit Inspection Letter 
• Summary of Statement of Accounts
• Forward Looking Efficiency Statement

2005-06

• Statement of Accounts
• Audit Inspection Letter
• Forward Looking Efficiency Statement
• Backward Looking Efficiency Statement

2004-05

• Statement of Accounts
• Audit Inspection Letter
• Backward Looking Efficiency Statement

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